Jesse Day 13

3/6 Brother battle in the LLL!

1. The longest river in the United States flows into the second-longest river in the United States just a few miles north of what major city?
Correct Answer: ST. LOUIS
Your Answer: St Louis
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

This was a guess, but it seemed right to me. 

2. The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose; Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life; and What I Know for Sure are books by what author, who is probably better known for her success in other media?
Correct Answer: OPRAH WINFREY
Your Answer: Sandberg
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was going to guess Winfrey, but that seemed too obvious. I don't know why Sheryl Sandberg was a good guess, but it wasn't. 

3. From its early days in the 18th century, through the formation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and into the present day, the House of Saud has maintained an allegiance to a Sunni Islam sect best known by what name, after the theologian and native of Central Arabia who founded it in the 1740s?
Correct Answer: WAHHABISM/WAHHABI
Your Answer: Wahhabi
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Seems like a gimmie.

4. What was the title of Kanye West's 2004 debut studio album, which he named (in part) in reference to his withdrawal from Chicago State University six years earlier?
Correct Answer: THE COLLEGE DROPOUT
Your Answer: Flunky
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea.

5. In chemistry, this term refers to a continuous solid phase in which particles are embedded; in geology, it's a fine-grained rock in which coarser-grained material is embedded; in mathematics, it's a set of quantities in a rectangular array. What is the word in question?
Correct Answer: MATRIX
Your Answer: Igneous
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nope

6. According to the work's popular title, what was the name of the person for whom Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor for Piano in 1810?
Correct Answer: ELISE
Your Answer: Elise
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

I know this because my friend Ethan recorded this ragtime version of Fur Elise at the Ragtime Piano world championships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTxr-BM70CA