2/6 I think.
1. Named for a small town in Indonesia, what term is used to designate a small variety or miniature strain of a conventional breed of poultry?
Correct Answer: BANTAM
Your Answer: Bity
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
1. Named for a small town in Indonesia, what term is used to designate a small variety or miniature strain of a conventional breed of poultry?
Correct Answer: BANTAM
Your Answer: Bity
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
That is a cool bit of trivia. I had no idea.
2. What avant-garde American writer's Paris home was a salon during the interwar period for prominent artists and writers, who were drawn in by her literary reputation (and also the cooking of Alice B. Toklas)?
Correct Answer: GERTRUDE STEIN
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. What avant-garde American writer's Paris home was a salon during the interwar period for prominent artists and writers, who were drawn in by her literary reputation (and also the cooking of Alice B. Toklas)?
Correct Answer: GERTRUDE STEIN
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Seems very gettable. I just didn't know.
3. The Rurikids were its country's first ruling dynasty, in power until the Time of Troubles in 1598. What was the name of this particular country's second (and final) dynasty, which ruled from 1613?
Correct Answer: ROMANOV
Your Answer: Ukraine
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
3. The Rurikids were its country's first ruling dynasty, in power until the Time of Troubles in 1598. What was the name of this particular country's second (and final) dynasty, which ruled from 1613?
Correct Answer: ROMANOV
Your Answer: Ukraine
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Shoot, I misread the question and would have been wrong anyway.
4. Per its name, what type of activities was the committee formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May 1938 created to investigate? The committee outlasted similar efforts in the Senate led by Joseph McCarthy, was renamed the Committee on Internal Security in 1969, and finally abolished in 1975.
Correct Answer: UN-AMERICAN
Your Answer: Anti-American Activities
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
4. Per its name, what type of activities was the committee formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May 1938 created to investigate? The committee outlasted similar efforts in the Senate led by Joseph McCarthy, was renamed the Committee on Internal Security in 1969, and finally abolished in 1975.
Correct Answer: UN-AMERICAN
Your Answer: Anti-American Activities
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
I think my answer should be accepted.
5. The English biologist and anatomist Richard Owen is widely credited today for coining what term, a compound of two Greek words, in his review on British reptiles published in an 1841 issue of the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science?
Correct Answer: DINOSAUR
Your Answer: Dinosaur
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. The English biologist and anatomist Richard Owen is widely credited today for coining what term, a compound of two Greek words, in his review on British reptiles published in an 1841 issue of the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science?
Correct Answer: DINOSAUR
Your Answer: Dinosaur
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Only thing that made sense.
6. Numerous paintings with the title Ecce Homo depict a scene which itself is known as Ecce Homo (from the Gospel of John), and which always includes Jesus Christ. These scenes often include what other individual, to whom the phrase "ecce homo" is attributed?
Correct Answer: PONTIUS PILATE
Your Answer: John
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. Numerous paintings with the title Ecce Homo depict a scene which itself is known as Ecce Homo (from the Gospel of John), and which always includes Jesus Christ. These scenes often include what other individual, to whom the phrase "ecce homo" is attributed?
Correct Answer: PONTIUS PILATE
Your Answer: John
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I had no idea. Took a guess.
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