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1. Name the cocktail that gets its name simply from its appearance and ingredients, and is not related to supporters of the Tsarist regime who fought against the Soviet Red Army during the late 1910s and early 1920s (as one might reasonably suppose).
Correct Answer: WHITE RUSSIAN
Your Answer: White Russian
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: WHITE RUSSIAN
Your Answer: White Russian
Points Assigned: 0
Pretty easy
2. A Negro League baseball star who is actually an alien; an EMT who can regenerate body parts and subsists on cancerous tumors; eugenically developed identical girls created as supersoldiers by the U.S. military: These are among the storylines from what TV series?
Correct Answer: THE X-FILES
Your Answer: X-Files
Points Assigned: 1
2. A Negro League baseball star who is actually an alien; an EMT who can regenerate body parts and subsists on cancerous tumors; eugenically developed identical girls created as supersoldiers by the U.S. military: These are among the storylines from what TV series?
Correct Answer: THE X-FILES
Your Answer: X-Files
Points Assigned: 1
Hopefully I don't get dinged for missing the The
3. Any statuette of the Late Stone Age period depicting a woman—such as those found in Willendorf, Austria; the Hohle Fels cave in Germany; Brassempouy, France; Lespugue, France; and Moravany nad VĂ¡hom, Slovakia, has typically been given what name upon its discovery?
Correct Answer: VENUS
Your Answer: Eve
Points Assigned: 2
3. Any statuette of the Late Stone Age period depicting a woman—such as those found in Willendorf, Austria; the Hohle Fels cave in Germany; Brassempouy, France; Lespugue, France; and Moravany nad VĂ¡hom, Slovakia, has typically been given what name upon its discovery?
Correct Answer: VENUS
Your Answer: Eve
Points Assigned: 2
Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
4. The "slave narrative" was a popular form of literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, and probably the most widely read work of the form was Narrative of the Life of what man, who wrote it in 1845 (while technically still a fugitive) and subsequently founded the abolitionist journal the North Star?
Correct Answer: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Your Answer: Frederick Douglas
Points Assigned: 1
4. The "slave narrative" was a popular form of literature in the 18th and 19th centuries, and probably the most widely read work of the form was Narrative of the Life of what man, who wrote it in 1845 (while technically still a fugitive) and subsequently founded the abolitionist journal the North Star?
Correct Answer: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Your Answer: Frederick Douglas
Points Assigned: 1
I went to college in Rochester, which is where he started the North Star.
5. Whereas placental mammals have separate digestive and urogenital openings, the majority of vertebrates—including most reptiles, amphibians, and birds—have a single posterior chamber into which the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts all enter. What is the term for this orifice?
Correct Answer: CLOACA
Your Answer: Trump Cabinet
Points Assigned: 3
5. Whereas placental mammals have separate digestive and urogenital openings, the majority of vertebrates—including most reptiles, amphibians, and birds—have a single posterior chamber into which the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts all enter. What is the term for this orifice?
Correct Answer: CLOACA
Your Answer: Trump Cabinet
Points Assigned: 3
I knew that I had heard the answer but was not going to pull it. That said, my answer is pretty close to being right.
6. What pop music group scored hits in the United States during the 1970s with "Saturday Night," "Money Honey," and "You Made Me Believe in Magic"? They were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh" and not from a place like San Francisco, Tampa, Norfolk, Monterey, Mobile, or the like (though they were named after a small city in Michigan—apparently randomly).
Correct Answer: BAY CITY ROLLERS
Your Answer: Kalamazoo
Points Assigned: 2
6. What pop music group scored hits in the United States during the 1970s with "Saturday Night," "Money Honey," and "You Made Me Believe in Magic"? They were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh" and not from a place like San Francisco, Tampa, Norfolk, Monterey, Mobile, or the like (though they were named after a small city in Michigan—apparently randomly).
Correct Answer: BAY CITY ROLLERS
Your Answer: Kalamazoo
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea. I have heard of them, but there is no way I would pull this.
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