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1. The gentleman pictured here is a citizen of—and is representing—what nation? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/98656tiorgtuioh.jpg
Correct Answer: TONGA
Your Answer: Tonga
Points Assigned: 0
1. The gentleman pictured here is a citizen of—and is representing—what nation? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/
Correct Answer: TONGA
Your Answer: Tonga
Points Assigned: 0
I watched a copious amount of both the summer and winter Olympics. That guy cross country skied.
2. What is the botanical term—often used as a synonym of "stone fruit"—for a one-seeded fruit with a hardened innermost layer (endocarp or "pit," "stone," etc.), a fleshy middle layer (mesocarp), and thin skin (exocarp)? Examples include peaches, plums, cherries, mangoes, olives, and almonds.
Correct Answer: DRUPE
Your Answer: Pitted
Points Assigned: 1
Could not think of the word.
3. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has a dozen primary Field Offices in the United States, but not one in either of the cities that provide the primary settings for spinoffs of the TV series NCIS (though the cities are served by the Southwest and Southeast Field Offices, respectively). What are those two cities?
Correct Answer: LOS ANGELES, NEW ORLEANS
Your Answer: Miami and New Orleans
Points Assigned: 2
3. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has a dozen primary Field Offices in the United States, but not one in either of the cities that provide the primary settings for spinoffs of the TV series NCIS (though the cities are served by the Southwest and Southeast Field Offices, respectively). What are those two cities?
Correct Answer: LOS ANGELES, NEW ORLEANS
Your Answer: Miami and New Orleans
Points Assigned: 2
I thought it was LA and New Orleans, but I do not think of New Orleans being Southeast.
4. A trick-taking card game played by four people with a deck from which the 8s, 9s, and 10s have been removed, whose peak popularity sits chronologically between Ombre and Whist in the 18th and 19th centuries, shares a name with a ballroom dance of roughly the same era performed by four couples in a square formation. What is that name?
Correct Answer: QUADRILLE
Your Answer: Euchre
Points Assigned: 2
4. A trick-taking card game played by four people with a deck from which the 8s, 9s, and 10s have been removed, whose peak popularity sits chronologically between Ombre and Whist in the 18th and 19th centuries, shares a name with a ballroom dance of roughly the same era performed by four couples in a square formation. What is that name?
Correct Answer: QUADRILLE
Your Answer: Euchre
Points Assigned: 2
Nope!
5. Name the man who served for the longest period as prime minister of Israel between Benjamin Netanyahu's first term of office (which ended in 1999) and his second (and current) term?
Correct Answer: ARIEL SHARON
Your Answer: Ehud Olmert
Points Assigned: 3
5. Name the man who served for the longest period as prime minister of Israel between Benjamin Netanyahu's first term of office (which ended in 1999) and his second (and current) term?
Correct Answer: ARIEL SHARON
Your Answer: Ehud Olmert
Points Assigned: 3
This one hurts. Should have gotten it, but I messed up Sharon's dates in my head.
6. A gastronomic society for the promotion of a particular dish, a cornmeal preparation that is a basic dish of northern Italy, has a motto that exclaims, "Per Patria Prima Per [this] Poi!" ("First for homeland, then for [this]!") What is this dish?
Correct Answer: POLENTA
Your Answer: Polenta
Points Assigned: 1
6. A gastronomic society for the promotion of a particular dish, a cornmeal preparation that is a basic dish of northern Italy, has a motto that exclaims, "Per Patria Prima Per [this] Poi!" ("First for homeland, then for [this]!") What is this dish?
Correct Answer: POLENTA
Your Answer: Polenta
Points Assigned: 1
Cornmeal based Italian dish, easy.
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