Jesse Day 6

3/6 I don't think that will do on a day where all the questions are pretty gettable. 

1. The disease caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted by the tick Ixodes scapularis was first identified in 1975 in and around what New England town?
Correct Answer: LYME
Your Answer: Lyme
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Seems like gimmie, at least from the Northeast US. 

2. The 15th-century French poet and satirist Olivier Basselin was famous for his bawdy drinking songs, which were known by a name—derived from his birthplace—that was later adapted into a term for a theatrical genre that became popular in North America. What is that genre?
Correct Answer: VAUDEVILLE
Your Answer: Caberet
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Makes sense. 

3. An Australian soap opera set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a 1990s sitcom set in suburban Detroit, and the first program to air on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim all have titles that contain what word?
Correct Answer: HOME
Your Answer: Home
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

It was either Home, Away or Neighbors based on my limited knowledge of Australian soaps. I guessed right. 

4. Umoja (unity), nia (purpose), and imani (faith) are among the principles promoted by activist and academic Maulana Karenga's 1966 creation that has what name?
Correct Answer: KWANZAA
Your Answer: Umbuntu
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

This is very gettable. I immediately thought of the Celtics teams under Doc Rivers and didn't think any further. 

5. According to legend (and almost certainly false), a man named Robert Johnson sat on the courthouse steps in Salem, New Jersey, in September 1820, and ate what food? It shocked the crowd who had gathered to watch him die a painful death, as Americans at the time (allegedly) considered the now-ubiquitous produce item—beloved in Jersey and its state vegetable— to be poisonous?
Correct Answer: TOMATO
Your Answer: Tomato
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know Tomato is a fruit, but it is ubiquitous in NJ unlike any other vegetable and is in the nightshade family. 

6. Whose Elements (Στοιχεῖα) postulated, among other things, that it's possible to draw a straight line from any point to any other point, that it's possible to describe a circle with any center and radius, and that all right angles are equal to one another?
Correct Answer: EUCLID
Your Answer: Pythagorous
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Well damn.