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1. What everyday object, a compound machine consisting of two wedges connected by two levers, appears in the titles of a fantasy film from 1990 and a 2006 cinematic memoir, and was also central to the plot of the 1991 thriller Dead Again?
Correct Answer: SCISSORS
Your Answer: Scissors
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Correct Answer: SCISSORS
Your Answer: Scissors
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
It took me a while to picture it but finally thought of scissors, then thought of Edward Scissor hands.
2. Shockley, Fairchild, Cypress, National, and Lattice are partial names of companies that were (or are) in the business of developing and/or manufacturing what specific product? The product in question is contained in the full name of each corporation.
Correct Answer: SEMICONDUCTOR
Your Answer: Paper
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
2. Shockley, Fairchild, Cypress, National, and Lattice are partial names of companies that were (or are) in the business of developing and/or manufacturing what specific product? The product in question is contained in the full name of each corporation.
Correct Answer: SEMICONDUCTOR
Your Answer: Paper
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Nope!
3. Who appeared onstage to perform the opening theme's closing note during regular episodes of the television series The Muppet Show?
Correct Answer: GONZO (THE GREAT)
Your Answer: Animal
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. Who appeared onstage to perform the opening theme's closing note during regular episodes of the television series The Muppet Show?
Correct Answer: GONZO (THE GREAT)
Your Answer: Animal
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I haven't seen this show since I was a kid.
4. A British dish consisting of savory cheese sauce poured over toast and served hot has what name, a misnomer of sorts as there is nothing evidently leporine about it?
Correct Answer: WELSH RABBIT (RAREBIT)
Your Answer: Cat's Breakfast
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. A British dish consisting of savory cheese sauce poured over toast and served hot has what name, a misnomer of sorts as there is nothing evidently leporine about it?
Correct Answer: WELSH RABBIT (RAREBIT)
Your Answer: Cat's Breakfast
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
I had no idea.
5. A valuable slab of black basalt was found by a French soldier during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt in 1799 at Fort Julien, which is located on the west bank of the Nile about 3 miles northwest of what small Egyptian port city?
Correct Answer: ROSETTA
Your Answer: Rosetta
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
5. A valuable slab of black basalt was found by a French soldier during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt in 1799 at Fort Julien, which is located on the west bank of the Nile about 3 miles northwest of what small Egyptian port city?
Correct Answer: ROSETTA
Your Answer: Rosetta
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Seems like the only gimmie of the day
6. What musician was a member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets (and gave up his seat to The Big Bopper on the fatal 1959 plane crash that also killed his boss and Ritchie Valens) before becoming a part of the "Outlaws" country music clique in the mid-1970s and The Highwaymen supergroup in the 1980s?
Correct Answer: WAYLON JENNINGS
Your Answer: Willie Nelson
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
6. What musician was a member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets (and gave up his seat to The Big Bopper on the fatal 1959 plane crash that also killed his boss and Ritchie Valens) before becoming a part of the "Outlaws" country music clique in the mid-1970s and The Highwaymen supergroup in the 1980s?
Correct Answer: WAYLON JENNINGS
Your Answer: Willie Nelson
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
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