Thursday, February 27, 2020

Jesse Day 7

2/6

1. An oscillator executing "simple harmonic motion" (SHM) generates a wave whose graph of y (vertical diameter) against x (time) is most commonly known by what term?
Correct Answer: SINE/SINUSOIDAL WAVE
Your Answer: consistent
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nope! 

2. Among the various types of rugs is one whose name comes from the French for "caterpillar" (which the fabric is meant to resemble). What is that name?
Correct Answer: CHENILLE
Your Answer: Shag
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nope! 

3. Eureka and Lisbon are the two most common varieties in the United States of what fruit crop, grown predominantly in California along with specialty varieties and hybrids such as Variegated Pink and Meyer?
Correct Answer: LEMON
Your Answer: Lemon
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I feel like meyer lemons are well known. 

4. What musical, which debuted at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in October 2008 with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, is the only Broadway musical with a cast composed entirely of teenagers—a cast that included Ariana Grande, who at the time was actually age fifteen?
Correct Answer: 13
Your Answer: Kids
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Never heard of it.

5. The name of a community in northern Spain is (or is included in) the names of the seat of Webb County, Texas, and the third-most populous city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, two cities that face each other across the Rio Grande. What is that name?
Correct Answer: LAREDO
Your Answer: Laredo
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew there were Laredo's on both sides of the border somehow. 

6. What fictional Wessex town provides the setting for the majority of the 1886 Thomas Hardy novel that begins with main character Michael Henchard's sale of his wife and daughter, details his business success and ascent in municipal politics, and ends with his ruin and death?
Correct Answer: CASTERBRIDGE
Your Answer: How to succeed in business by selling your family
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never heard of it. 

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