Jesse day 11

3/6

1. Give the names of the two men who previously held the position that has been held since 2014 by engineer and business executive Satya Nadella.
Correct Answer: BILL GATES, STEVE BALLMER
Your Answer: Bill Gates, Steve Balmer
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I was pretty sure she was the CEO of Microsoft and knew Gates and Balmer were in the past. 

2. A 1946 book by John Hersey, initially published as a full-issue article in an August 1946 issue of the New Yorker magazine, describes the harrowing experiences of six individuals the previous year in what city, after which the book is named?
Correct Answer: HIROSHIMA
Your Answer: Stalingrad
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was on the right track with WW2, did not stick the landing.

3. After the defeat of Cassius and Brutus at the Battle of Philippi in 42 BCE, the Roman Republic was primarily ruled by two men—Octavian in the west, and what other man in the east? This arrangement lasted until the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, and Octavian's subsequent supremacy (and eventual ascension as the first Roman Emperor).
Correct Answer: MARK ANTONY
Your Answer: Anthony
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I have seen enough tv shows set in this period to know he battled Mark Antony. Did not get the spelling right. 

4. For three consecutive years in the 1980s, players from what Major League Baseball team won the American League Rookie of the Year Award (José Canseco in 1986, Mark McGwire in 1987, and Walt Weiss in 1988)?
Correct Answer: OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Your Answer: Oakland A's
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Easy baseball question

5. The work of art formally titled La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) is a painting of (but, according to its included text, not actually) what object?
Correct Answer: PIPE
Your Answer: Violin
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea.

6. Veins in the human body carry deoxygenated blood, with two exceptions. One exception is the umbilical vein, which is present during prenatal development and transports oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus. What is the other exception—the only vein (actually four in number under normal conditions) that carries oxygenated blood and is present in all humans?
Correct Answer: PULMONARY VEIN
Your Answer: Arteries
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had no idea.