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1. Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley were the fictional station president and station manager of what television "network", which moved to NBC in 1981, and featured such programs as "Mel's Rock Pile", "The Happy Wanderers", and "Great White North"?
Correct Answer: SCTV
Your Answer: SCTV
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Great White North is Canada and SCTV fit the time and description of a fictional station. I have only seen a few clips over the years.
2. During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson became a national hero for commanding U.S. forces that repelled a British attempt to seize what city in 1815, two weeks after the signing of a peace treaty at Ghent?
Correct Answer: NEW ORLEANS
Your Answer: New York
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Shoot, now I remember. Too late.
3. What word, used colloquially to refer to a person's nose, is the scientific term for the trunk of an elephant as well as for the elongated feeding and sucking organ of some invertebrates?
Correct Answer: PROBOSCIS
Your Answer: Proboscis
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson became a national hero for commanding U.S. forces that repelled a British attempt to seize what city in 1815, two weeks after the signing of a peace treaty at Ghent?
Correct Answer: NEW ORLEANS
Your Answer: New York
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Shoot, now I remember. Too late.
3. What word, used colloquially to refer to a person's nose, is the scientific term for the trunk of an elephant as well as for the elongated feeding and sucking organ of some invertebrates?
Correct Answer: PROBOSCIS
Your Answer: Proboscis
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
I just knew this.
4. In architecture, the Greek term for structural supports taking the place of columns or pillars that are sculpted in the form of a man is atlantes. What is the equivalent Greek term for these supports sculpted in the shape of a woman?
Correct Answer: CARYATIDS
Your Answer: Carythids
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. In architecture, the Greek term for structural supports taking the place of columns or pillars that are sculpted in the form of a man is atlantes. What is the equivalent Greek term for these supports sculpted in the shape of a woman?
Correct Answer: CARYATIDS
Your Answer: Carythids
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
I got this from the Porch of Carytids in the Acropolis in Athens.
5. The Israeli actor Topol, who portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film version of Fiddler on the Roof, also played Dr. Zarkov in what other film, whose main hero at one point only had fourteen hours to save the earth?
Correct Answer: FLASH GORDON
Your Answer: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. The Israeli actor Topol, who portrayed Tevye in the 1971 film version of Fiddler on the Roof, also played Dr. Zarkov in what other film, whose main hero at one point only had fourteen hours to save the earth?
Correct Answer: FLASH GORDON
Your Answer: The Day The Earth Stood Still
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I have not seen that movie since I was a kid.
6. The interbank market is the money market in which banks borrow or lend among themselves. One interest rate at which funds are offered to first-class banks is called LIBOR. What does the "L" in this abbreviation stand for?
Correct Answer: LONDON
Your Answer: Lending
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. The interbank market is the money market in which banks borrow or lend among themselves. One interest rate at which funds are offered to first-class banks is called LIBOR. What does the "L" in this abbreviation stand for?
Correct Answer: LONDON
Your Answer: Lending
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I heard this on a podcast, but forgot the answer.
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