Jesse Day 24

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1. Chinese rhinoceros horn cups from around 1700, an archive of Boston baseball memorabilia from the 1870s, an 18th-century Qianlong jade collection from Qing Dynasty, and a mid-19th century Navajo Ute First Phase blanket are among the most valuable items ever to appear on what television series?
Correct Answer: ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
Your Answer: Antiques Roadshow
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I saw the Navajo blanket episode. 

2. Of the four major tournaments in professional tennis (a.k.a. "Grand Slam" tournaments), name all of those which are currently played on hard court surfaces.
Correct Answer: AUSTRALIAN OPEN, US OPEN
Your Answer: US Open, Australian Open
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I watched tennis with my dad when I was younger and still watch when Federer is in the mix. 

3. The potency of the longbow as a dominant weapon on the battlefields of Western Europe was established in August 1346 during what battle, a thorough and devastating victory for the English army led by King Edward III over King Philip VI's French forces?
Correct Answer: BATTLE OF CRÉCY
Your Answer: Battle of Agincourt
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never heard of it. 

4. After a three-year film absence, Tatum O'Neal received $350,000 and a percentage of the net profit—becoming the highest-paid child in film history—to play a reluctant tomboy in what 1976 comedy film?
Correct Answer: THE BAD NEWS BEARS
Your Answer: Bad new bears
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Hopefully my typo of Bad new bears and forgetting the "the" does not doom me. 

5. A Tony Award-winning play by Terrence McNally from the mid-1990s begins with the exclamation Love! Give either of the other two words in this play's title.
Correct Answer: VALOUR, COMPASSION
Your Answer: Hurt!
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Nope!!!

6. Name either the Spanish conquistador who, in 1508, began colonization of Puerto Rico, or the city on the island's southern coast that is named after this explorer's namesake great-grandson.
Correct Answer: JUAN PONCE DE LEÓN, PONCE
Your Answer: Ponce de Leon
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

I have been to Ponce and figured that was Ponce to Leon.