Jesse day 10

3/6... Ugh this will be a loss.

1. Give any common name for the first item in an ordered list that is followed by Chhogori, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, and Dhaulagiri?
Correct Answer: MOUNT EVEREST/SAGARMATHA/CHOMOLUNGMA
Your Answer: Mt Everest
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I've seen Everest with my own eyes on a trek.

2. Name the rock guitarist who has been called the Space Cowboy, the Gangster of Love, and Maurice (for some odd reason), and has helmed his namesake band since 1966.
Correct Answer: STEVE MILLER
Your Answer: Steve Miller
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Seems like a gimmie, but that might just be my age. 

3. Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven and Ralph Vaughan Williams were given titles that are also the name for a literary genre which includes Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, John Milton's Lycidas, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs. What is that title/genre?
Correct Answer: PASTORAL
Your Answer: Romantic
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea. 

4. Offred, Ofglen (Ofstephen/Ofjoseph), and Ofwarren (Ofdaniel) are names of characters from what current television series? 
Correct Answer: THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Your Answer: The Handmaiden's Tale
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

This one kills me. I watched the first season and a half. Pretty sure I won't be given credit for this. 

5. What is the term for the force (or effect) that causes winds to deviate to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere? It is named after the French engineer who described the physical phenomenon in 1835.
Correct Answer: CORIOLIS FORCE
Your Answer: Coriolis
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Only effect that sounded french that I could think of. 

6. The plot of a certain sexually provocative 1973 novel involves its protagonist Isadora Wing's literal and metaphorical fear of what?
Correct Answer: FLYING
Your Answer: Rabbit
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I thought flying, but then charged my mind. Terrible. Last name Wing. Duh.