Jesse Day 12

3/6 against Steiny

1. For many years, the school of economic thought most closely associated with monetarism was named after what American university, the home of noted monetarist Milton Friedman from 1946 to 1977?
Correct Answer: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Your Answer: University of Chicago
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I read the economist for many years. 

2. "Now this is your last chance. If one piece of candy gets past you and into the packing room unwrapped...you're fired!" This quote, uttered by a stern factory supervisor, kicks off a classic scene in sitcom history from what television series?
Correct Answer: I LOVE LUCY
Your Answer: Laverne and Shirly
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Darn, they said factory and my first though Laverne and Shirley even though they did not work in a candy factory. 

3. What character, likely opera's most famous valet, was on the staff of philandering 18th-century Spanish Count Almaviva, as was his beloved wife Susanna (as the Countess's maid)?
Correct Answer: FIGARO
Your Answer: Don Giovanni
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea.

4. The Saga of an American Family is the subtitle of what 1976 historical fiction Pulitzer Prize-winning runaway best seller?
Correct Answer: ROOTS
Your Answer: Roots
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

First put Godfather but figured that was too late, then Roots struck me. 

5. Name the object that traveled approximately 43 million miles from October 4, 1957, until January 4, 1958, much of that time at around 18,000 miles per hour.
Correct Answer: SPUTNIK (SPUTNIK 1)
Your Answer: Sputnik
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimmie-ish.

6. The echidnas and platypus of Australia and New Guinea, who lay eggs and have a single opening for reproduction and elimination of waste, are the only living members of the most primitive of three conventional groups of mammals (in comparison to placentals and marsupials). This group is known as—and is categorized within the mammalian taxonomic order of—what? 
Correct Answer: MONOTREMES
Your Answer: Opus
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew a knew the answer, but I am going on a road trip today so didn't have time to pull it out of my brain.