3/6 against fellow Carrbenite SteinbergD.
1. What 19-year-old Ontarian pop star, whose recent hit singles include "Stitches," "Treat You Better," and "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back," first gained popularity in the summer of 2013 via cover videos uploaded to the now-defunct sharing service Vine?
Correct Answer: SHAWN MENDES
Your Answer: Lil' Trouble
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
2. With terrain dominated by mountains and arid desert, Balochistan is the largest province by area, and the smallest province by population (both by a significant margin) of what Asian nation?
Correct Answer: PAKISTAN
Your Answer: Pakistan
Points Assigned: 0
2. With terrain dominated by mountains and arid desert, Balochistan is the largest province by area, and the smallest province by population (both by a significant margin) of what Asian nation?
Correct Answer: PAKISTAN
Your Answer: Pakistan
Points Assigned: 0
I knew this one and guessed it could be easily guessed.
3. This is a screenshot from what 1956 film? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/3489598cyn0t9.jpg
Correct Answer: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Your Answer: Invasion of the body snatchers
Points Assigned: 2
3. This is a screenshot from what 1956 film? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Your Answer: Invasion of the body snatchers
Points Assigned: 2
I saw the pods in the back of the trucks and knew pod people were from Invasion of the Body Snatchers from film school. Never seen the film though.
4. Given his noted thriftiness and unadorned reticence, The Autobiography of ___________ is the fittingly titled (and at a brisk 246 pages, fittingly terse) 1929 autobiography of what American (whose name fills in the blank)?
Correct Answer: CALVIN COOLIDGE
Your Answer: Henry Ford
Points Assigned: 1
4. Given his noted thriftiness and unadorned reticence, The Autobiography of ___________ is the fittingly titled (and at a brisk 246 pages, fittingly terse) 1929 autobiography of what American (whose name fills in the blank)?
Correct Answer: CALVIN COOLIDGE
Your Answer: Henry Ford
Points Assigned: 1
I was sure it was one of the tycoons of the age. This was harder than I would have thought.
5. Old Tom Morris, a Scotsman who was born in St Andrews in 1821 and died there in 1908, is widely recognized as the first formal architect of a certain type of facility, although the honor is also bestowed upon a student of Morris, an American named Charles B. Macdonald (including by Macdonald himself). What is that facility?
Correct Answer: GOLF COURSE
Your Answer: Golf Course
Points Assigned: 1
5. Old Tom Morris, a Scotsman who was born in St Andrews in 1821 and died there in 1908, is widely recognized as the first formal architect of a certain type of facility, although the honor is also bestowed upon a student of Morris, an American named Charles B. Macdonald (including by Macdonald himself). What is that facility?
Correct Answer: GOLF COURSE
Your Answer: Golf Course
Points Assigned: 1
St Andrews and "facility" were enough for me.
6. What is the anagrammatical title (nearly but not quite a semordnilap) of a satirical Utopian novel by English author Samuel Butler first published anonymously in 1872?
Correct Answer: EREWHON
Your Answer: Paradise
Points Assigned: 3
6. What is the anagrammatical title (nearly but not quite a semordnilap) of a satirical Utopian novel by English author Samuel Butler first published anonymously in 1872?
Correct Answer: EREWHON
Your Answer: Paradise
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea, but I have seen this question before in the past somewhere.
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