Jesse Day 24

4/6

1. What dynamic and charismatic entertainer was featured wearing an eyepatch on the cover of his debut album released in 1955, after a car accident the previous year resulted in the loss of his left eye?
Correct Answer: SAMMY DAVIS JR.
Your Answer: Sammy Davis Jr
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew this answer instantly. 

2. What, according to the title of Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece first published in 1953, is "A Good Man"?
Correct Answer: HARD TO FIND
Your Answer: Pious
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Oh, that is very gettable.

3. The narrow, five-to-seven-kilometer wide Isthmus of Perekop connects what peninsula to the mainland of Eastern Europe?
Correct Answer: CRIMEA
Your Answer: Crimea
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Slavic sounding word, Eastern Europe, peninsula... Crimea. 

4. What is the common name of the flowering plant Salvia hispanica, a species of the mint family native to central and southern Mexico, whose seeds were popular for a time in the 1980s (and still sold today) as "pets"?
Correct Answer: CHIA
Your Answer: Chia
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I just had some chia seeds sprinkled on my salad. 

5. An important figure in La Navidad has a name that is a near-homonym for dark lowland plains (note plural) on the Moon. What is either name?
Correct Answer: MARÍA/MARIA
Your Answer: Seas
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I could not pull it.

6. The PGA Tour's championship trophy, first won in 2007 by Tiger Woods, is a "Cup" that has, since its inauguration, been sponsored by (and named after) what corporation?
Correct Answer: FEDEX
Your Answer: Fedex
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

I knew this was the Fedex cup.