4/6. Have a good off-season.
1. Name the French Benedictine monk of the 17th and 18th centuries who remains known today by virtue of the essential improvements he introduced to the méthode champenoise style of wine production?
Correct Answer: DOM PIERRE PÉRIGNON
Your Answer: Perignon
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
1. Name the French Benedictine monk of the 17th and 18th centuries who remains known today by virtue of the essential improvements he introduced to the méthode champenoise style of wine production?
Correct Answer: DOM PIERRE PÉRIGNON
Your Answer: Perignon
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Total guess, but I was pretty sure Dom meant monk.
2. An invention in the 1740s of a means to store static electricity, which permitted experiments with more powerful charges (and was used shortly thereafter by Benjamin Franklin), was what type of "jar," named for the Dutch city where it was discovered by Pieter van Musschenbroek?
Correct Answer: LEYDEN
Your Answer: Utrecht
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. An invention in the 1740s of a means to store static electricity, which permitted experiments with more powerful charges (and was used shortly thereafter by Benjamin Franklin), was what type of "jar," named for the Dutch city where it was discovered by Pieter van Musschenbroek?
Correct Answer: LEYDEN
Your Answer: Utrecht
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Shoot, seeing the answer now I should have known this.
3. What is the two-word phrase for the genre of art whose masters through history have included Louise Moillon, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne—numerous works from the latter of whom include the phrase in their titles?
Correct Answer: STILL LIFE
Your Answer: Still Life
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. What is the two-word phrase for the genre of art whose masters through history have included Louise Moillon, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne—numerous works from the latter of whom include the phrase in their titles?
Correct Answer: STILL LIFE
Your Answer: Still Life
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I knew Cezanne produced a lot of still lifes.
4. Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, The Blue Angel, Dishonored, The Scarlet Empress, Blonde Venus, and Witness for the Prosecution are all films which featured what Hollywood star?
Correct Answer: MARLENE DIETRICH
Your Answer: Deitricht
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, The Blue Angel, Dishonored, The Scarlet Empress, Blonde Venus, and Witness for the Prosecution are all films which featured what Hollywood star?
Correct Answer: MARLENE DIETRICH
Your Answer: Deitricht
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I knew this from The Blue Angel and Blonde venus.
5. There are four poetic feet in classical meter which are disyllabic (i.e., the feet are each made up of two syllables). They are most commonly known as iamb, trochee, pyrrhus, and what fourth?
Correct Answer: SPONDEE
Your Answer: gangsta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
5. There are four poetic feet in classical meter which are disyllabic (i.e., the feet are each made up of two syllables). They are most commonly known as iamb, trochee, pyrrhus, and what fourth?
Correct Answer: SPONDEE
Your Answer: gangsta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Never heard of it.
6. What was the name used for the enormous traveling caravan combining a circus, menagerie, and collection of freaks presented by P. T. Barnum beginning in 1871? The term was borrowed and altered slightly to describe the NFL's St. Louis Rams teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Correct Answer: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Your Answer: Greatest show on Earth
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
6. What was the name used for the enormous traveling caravan combining a circus, menagerie, and collection of freaks presented by P. T. Barnum beginning in 1871? The term was borrowed and altered slightly to describe the NFL's St. Louis Rams teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Correct Answer: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Your Answer: Greatest show on Earth
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
I got this by way of the greatest show on Turf.
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