Jesse day 13

2/6 Would have been 3/6 if I read the damn question

1. The Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River, completed in 1973, created Lake Assad, which is the largest lake in what country?
Correct Answer: SYRIA
Your Answer: Syria
Points Assigned: 1

Euphrates + Assad = Syria.

2. Name the baseball player who, in 2017, set records for most extra-base hits (8) and total bases (29) in a single World Series while tying the record for most home runs (5).
Correct Answer: GEORGE SPRINGER
Your Answer: Altuve
Points Assigned: 1

I remembered somebody got really hot, but couldn't recall his name so I put down Altuve instead.

3. Give the title of any one of the three films—from 1992, 1996, and 2001—that have come to be known as the "Red Curtain Trilogy." Although unrelated in terms of plot, they share the same director (his first three films) and lavishly incorporate traditional theatrical conventions and lush imagery.
Correct Answer: STRICTLY BALLROOM, ROMEO + JULIET, MOULIN ROUGE!
Your Answer: Luhrman
Points Assigned: 2

Read the question. Read the question. Read the question.

4. What portmanteau arose from a governor of Massachusetts during the 1810s and his partisan political activity that evoked a particular amphibian?
Correct Answer: GERRYMANDER
Your Answer: Gerrymander
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie for Americans

5. What is the name of the revolutionary literary movement of late-18th-century Germany, a short-lived and intensely emotional precursor to Romanticism named after a 1776 play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, which rejected classicism in favor of artistic creativity and subjective feeling?
Correct Answer: STURM UND DRANG
Your Answer: Jungspringa
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of it.

6. What is the name of the extract from the stomach of a young animal (particularly a calf or lamb) that contains an enzyme that causes the milk protein casein to curdle, and is therefore used in the manufacture of some cheeses?
Correct Answer: RENNET
Your Answer: Lactose
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!