Jesse day 1

4/6... Still super busy with work so will be keeping my posts short.

1. The luminous and sometimes audible electric discharge projecting from the end of a pointed object (e.g., the wing of an airplane, spire, or mast of a ship) during an electrical storm is a phenomenon most commonly named after what individual, the patron saint of sailors?
Correct Answer: ST. ELMO
Your Answer: St Elmo
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Got this from the movie. 

2. What was the first and is still the only NFL team to appear in four consecutive Super Bowl games? The team did not appear in any Super Bowls before the streak and has not appeared in any since the streak ended.
Correct Answer: BUFFALO BILLS
Your Answer: Buffalo Bills
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I watched these Super Bowls

3. The three-age system of epochs, as established by Danish antiquarian Christian Jürgensen Thomsen and still common today for the division of prehistory into discrete periods, names these periods based on the materials used for tools and weapons during each time. What are these three materials, in order from earliest to most recent?
Correct Answer: STONE, BRONZE, IRON
Your Answer: Stone, Bronze, Iron
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Seems gimmie-ish. 

4. During what television series' opening credits does the main character sometimes pratfall over an ottoman and other times step around it with a satisfied grin?
Correct Answer: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
Your Answer: Family Matters
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had no idea. I pictured Urkle tripping over an ottoman and figured that was an OK guess.

5. The "Four Asian Tigers" rose to prominence in the 1960s with high growth economies focused on exportation, rapid industrialization, and high rates of savings, and today remain among the world's most advanced economies. Name any one of these Four Asian Tigers.
Correct Answer: HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN
Your Answer: Singapore
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew all four. 

6. Identify the prolific American writer, dubbed by Booker T. Washington in 1909 as "the first representative poet of my race" and his race's "poet laureate," who published numerous books of poetry, short story collections, and novels (including The Sport of the Gods and Lyrics of Lowly Life) before his death from tuberculosis in 1906 at age 33.
Correct Answer: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Your Answer: Hughes
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I went with Langston Hughes. I have heard of Dunbar, but there is no way I could pull that.