2/6
Correct Answer: BEL CANTO
Your Answer: Imprezario
Points Assigned: 1
I had no idea. Never heard of the answer.
2. As a result of a 1993 independence referendum that finished with 99.83% of voters in favor, what nation replaced Uganda as the world's most populous landlocked country?
Correct Answer: ETHIOPIA
Your Answer: Ethiopea
Points Assigned: 3
2. As a result of a 1993 independence referendum that finished with 99.83% of voters in favor, what nation replaced Uganda as the world's most populous landlocked country?
Correct Answer: ETHIOPIA
Your Answer: Ethiopea
Points Assigned: 3
My first thought was Ukraine, but that was independent in 1991. Then I thought about maybe the Czech Republic. But I knew Eritrea became a country around 1993 and then remembered that when it left Ethiopia it made it landlocked and Ethiopia has a lot of people. This was a hard one.
3. What name is shared by the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen from Greek legend, the saintly wife of Sicilian king Leontes in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, and (likely) literature's most prominent only child of English dentists?
Correct Answer: HERMIONE
Your Answer: Sophia
Points Assigned: 2
3. What name is shared by the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen from Greek legend, the saintly wife of Sicilian king Leontes in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale, and (likely) literature's most prominent only child of English dentists?
Correct Answer: HERMIONE
Your Answer: Sophia
Points Assigned: 2
Oh, the last one was a Harry Potter reference. Seems very gettable.
4. Following the retirement of Larry King from CNN in late 2010, what former newspaper editor hosted his own namesake talk show in King's timeslot until its cancellation due to very low ratings in 2014?
Correct Answer: PIERS MORGAN
Your Answer: Zakaria
Points Assigned: 1
4. Following the retirement of Larry King from CNN in late 2010, what former newspaper editor hosted his own namesake talk show in King's timeslot until its cancellation due to very low ratings in 2014?
Correct Answer: PIERS MORGAN
Your Answer: Zakaria
Points Assigned: 1
Totally forgot about him.
5. First proposed in August 1776 by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, what motto on the seal of the United States was not officially adopted until 1782, and first appeared in an official capacity on a New Jersey coin in 1786? The phrase was a de facto motto of the U.S. until a 1956 act of Congress made "In God We Trust" the country's official motto.
Correct Answer: E PLURIBUS UNUM
Your Answer: Out of many, one (E Pluribus Unum)
Points Assigned: 0
Possible gimmie for Americans.
6. The performance of what actress did Walter Kerr, writing for the New York Herald Tribune in a 1959 Broadway review, describe as a "brassy, brazen witch on a mortgaged broomstick, a steamroller with cleats, the very mastodon of all stage mothers"?
Correct Answer: ETHEL MERMAN
Your Answer: Bassy
Points Assigned: 2
5. First proposed in August 1776 by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, what motto on the seal of the United States was not officially adopted until 1782, and first appeared in an official capacity on a New Jersey coin in 1786? The phrase was a de facto motto of the U.S. until a 1956 act of Congress made "In God We Trust" the country's official motto.
Correct Answer: E PLURIBUS UNUM
Your Answer: Out of many, one (E Pluribus Unum)
Points Assigned: 0
Possible gimmie for Americans.
6. The performance of what actress did Walter Kerr, writing for the New York Herald Tribune in a 1959 Broadway review, describe as a "brassy, brazen witch on a mortgaged broomstick, a steamroller with cleats, the very mastodon of all stage mothers"?
Correct Answer: ETHEL MERMAN
Your Answer: Bassy
Points Assigned: 2
Seems very gettable.
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