Jesse day 15

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1. Jātaka is the name for any of numerous popular tales of virtue illustrating the former lives of what individual?
Correct Answer: GAUTAMA/SIDDHARTHA BUDDHA
Your Answer: The Budhha
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Pretty sure my answer will be accepted. Jātaka looked to be a word of the region and virtue would tie into the Buddha. Considered putting down Siddhartha Gautama.

2. Who appeared in 31 films from 1956 to 1969, first as "Clint Reno" and finally as "Dr. John Carpenter," with "Pacer Burton," "Tulsa McLean," "Chad Gates," "Steve Grayson, " and "Lucky Jackson" among the roles in between?
Correct Answer: ELVIS PRESLEY
Your Answer: McQueen
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Ohhhh, yeah, that was very gettable. I figured Steve McQueen was a decade later, but just couldn't come up with a better answer. Even though I was a film major I have never seen an Elvis movie. 

3. What is the current name of the music hall on West 125th Street in New York's Harlem neighborhood that opened in 1914 as the whites-only Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater?
Correct Answer: APOLLO THEATER
Your Answer: Apollo
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimmie-ish for people of my age from the NYC area. 

4. What is the common, Romanized four-letter name of the "Empress Dowager" who rose from the position of third-rank concubine of Emperor Xianfeng to essentially rule China, autocratically and ruthlessly. for most of 47 years beginning in 1861? (Please note that correct spelling is required for this question.)
Correct Answer: CIXI
Your Answer: Rose
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I have been to a non-usable luxury boat she had built at the summer palace in Beijing, but I could not recall her name.  

5. The subjects in what famous painting are often assumed to be husband and wife, but were meant by the artist to represent a father and daughter, and were in reality the artist's sister and dentist?
Correct Answer: AMERICAN GOTHIC
Your Answer: American Gothic
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

First thing that popped into my mind. Guessing this was an easy one.

6. The twin children on the televison series Black-ish are named after the subjects of a song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in October 1982. What are their names?
Correct Answer: JACK AND DIANE
Your Answer: Ebony and Ivory
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had no idea. Never seen the show.