Jesse Day 24

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1. Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, whose title character is a barker who participates in a robbery gone wrong, forms the basis for what 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
Correct Answer: CAROUSEL
Your Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I had no idea.

2. What baseball player finished his MLB career with 3,089 hits, ranking him 24th all-time despite making his major league debut in 2001 at the age of 27 (by which age future teammate Alex Rodriguez had already boasted nearly 1,300 hits)?
Correct Answer: ICHIRO SUZUKI
Your Answer: Ichiro Suzuki
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Easy baseball question.

3. Beginning in 1508, Martin Luther taught theology at the namesake university of what German city, whose name today is also that of a Lutheran-affiliated college in Ohio?
Correct Answer: WITTENBERG
Your Answer: Oberlin
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Oberlin sounds like a German city and is in Ohio. I've never hear of Wittenberg. 

4. Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, and Martin Kove reprise the roles they originated on the big screen in 1984 in an episodic series currently available on YouTube Premium. What is the name of this present-day series?
Correct Answer: COBRA KAI
Your Answer: Cobra Kai
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I saw a lot of adds for this on Youtube and was intrigued. Did not see it yet. 

5. Castries is the capital and largest city of what Caribbean nation, which sits in the Windward Islands between Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and is the only sovereign nation in the world named after a historical woman?
Correct Answer: SAINT LUCIA
Your Answer: Saint Lucia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I memorized all of the countries of the world so I just needed to go through my mental list. 

6. Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 101 in D Major, composed in 1794, has what nickname, after the rhythmic two-note sequence that repeats throughout the second movement?
Correct Answer: CLOCK SYMPHONY
Your Answer: March
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

This seems very gettable.