Jesse Day 23

5/6

1. In economics, seigniorage is defined as the profits made by a ruler or government from the production of what?
Correct Answer: CURRENCY/MONEY/COINAGE
Your Answer: Money/Currency
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew the term.

2. Most traditional water softeners remove hardness from water by replacing harmful calcium and magnesium ions with ions from what alkali metal element? 
Correct Answer: SODIUM
Your Answer: Zinc
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I did not know sodium was a "alkali metal element"

3. Following the cancellation of the sitcom Roseanne in May 2018, ABC ordered what spinoff series, featuring the same cast of characters (sans Roseanne) who are left to deal with the character Roseanne's death due to a drug overdose?
Correct Answer: THE CONNERS
Your Answer: The Conners
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I never watched it, but it was in the news.

4. Events that occurred in the evening of October 20, 1973, involving Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshaus, Robert Bork, Archibald Cox, and others, quickly thereafter became known by what three-word phrase?
Correct Answer: SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE
Your Answer: Saturday Night Massacre
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew about this from different sources, but it was fresh in my mind over all the Trump scandals.

5. German butcher Johann Georg Lahner produced the all-pork sausages named after his hometown of Frankfurt before moving, in 1798, to a new city, where he began to make similar sausages made from a mixture of beef and pork (which quickly became popular in their own right). To what city did he move?
Correct Answer: VIENNA
Your Answer: Vienna
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Wiener schnitzel. It was the only other city named sausage I could think of off the top of my head outside of Italy. 

6. A conflict began in early 2015 and is still ongoing between an armed insurgency movement known as Houthi and the government of what country, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi?
Correct Answer: YEMEN
Your Answer: Yemen
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

It is in the news.