Jesse Day 18

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1. The first American spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011 launched in a nonpiloted test flight from Cape Canaveral in March 2019. This vessel, known as Crew Dragon, was designed and manufactured by what private company?
Correct Answer: SPACEX (SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.)
Your Answer: SpaceX
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I follow space exploration somewhat closely. 

2. What American-born rock star, who primarily sang and played bass guitar on her solo hits from the early 1970s (including "Can the Can" and "Devil Gate Drive"), also played Leather Tuscadero on the television series Happy Days? Her surname derives from an Italian name meaning "four eyes" that was shortened when her paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States.
Correct Answer: SUZI QUATRO
Your Answer: Quatrojo
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I knew Quatro was four from Quatro formaggia and stagiano pizza. Ojos is eyes in Spanish. That was my reasoning for my guess. 

3. Identify the type of tea, traditionally a black tea flavored with bergamot, whose recipe was (according to probably fictional lore) given as a gift from a grateful Chinese official to a future British prime minister in the early 1800s?
Correct Answer: EARL GREY
Your Answer: Earl Grey
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Tea gimmie.

4. What Haruki Murakami novel's title, first published in Japan in 1987 with an English translation released outside Japan in 2000, was taken from the title of a song—a favorite of a character named Naoko— by The Beatles, off the Rubber Soul LP?
Correct Answer: NORWEGIAN WOOD
Your Answer: Norwegian Wood
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I have been planning on reading this book. 

5. Untitled Film Stills, Rear Screen Projections, Disasters, and Fairy Tales are among the series of photographic tableaux staged by, directed by, shot by, and starring (often heavily disguised) what American artist?
Correct Answer: CINDY SHERMAN
Your Answer: Ono
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Never heard of her. My opponent in LL almost never misses art questions. 

6. The Dutch Revolts, which occurred off and on beginning in 1567, were a struggle by the Netherlands to achieve independence from what other nation, with independence finally recognized formally at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?
Correct Answer: SPAIN
Your Answer: Spain
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I remembered that the Netherlands was part of the Spanish empire, through royal marriage I think.