Jesse Day 3

2/6. Playing Ben in LLL

1. Henk van Os, Ronald de Leeuw, Wim Pijbes, and Taco Dibbits are the four most recent directors of a national art institution best known both locally and internationally by what name?
Correct Answer: RIJKSMUSEUM
Your Answer: Van Gogh Museum
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I was sure I was right with all of those Dutch names, but I wasn't. I am pretty sure I went to the Rijksmuseum.

2. The liquid part of blood (i.e., blood minus the blood cells) is plasma. What is the term for blood plasma from which fibrinogens and clotting factors have been removed?
Correct Answer: SERUM
Your Answer: Hemoglobin
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I had no idea. 

3. Julius Nyerere served from 1962 to 1964 as president of what African nation, during which time he successfully negotiated a union with Zanzibar (and subsequently served in the same role in the new state of Tanzania until 1985)?
Correct Answer: TANGANYIKA
Your Answer: Tanzanika
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had a word in my head, but it wasn't quite right. 

4. What was the name of the offshore drilling rig operated by BP that exploded off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010, ultimately resulting in what some reports estimated at 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico?
Correct Answer: DEEPWATER HORIZON
Your Answer: Deepwater Horizon
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Initially I put Deep Horizon, but then thought on it and corrected it before submitting. 

5. The two oldest teams in the National Football League that have not relocated to another state have met at least once (and usually twice) every year but two since 1921. They are scheduled to meet for the 200th time on December 15, with that game's home team holding a 98-95-6 lead in the series and a 16-4 lead since 2010. Name either of these two teams, whose founders and looong-time coaches were charter members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
Correct Answer: CHICAGO BEARS, GREEN BAY PACKERS
Your Answer: Green Bay Packers
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I was sure it was the Packers and figured it was the Bears or Lions as the second one. 

6. The block of Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue has an alternate honorific name celebrating what 1989 film, which was shot in its entirety on that block during the previous summer?
Correct Answer: DO THE RIGHT THING
Your Answer: Spikeville
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

I knew the film was Do The Right Thing, but that makes no sense for a name of a place, so I went with Spikeville. Nope.