Jesse Day 14

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1. Who are the title characters in the George Gershwin opera set in Depression-era Charleston, South Carolina, and first produced in 1935?
Correct Answer: PORGY AND BESS
Your Answer: Porgy and Bess
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

It was the first thing that came to my mind. I am familiar with by way of Miles Davis. Also, my daughter's name is Bess. 

2. What man, along with his family, was an occupant of a Washington, DC residence known as Blair House from 1948 until 1952?
Correct Answer: HARRY S TRUMAN
Your Answer: Truman
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I figured it was the President or the VP. I wasn't sure who the VP was, so I went with the president. 

3. The Motion Picture, The Wrath of X, The Search for Y, The Voyage Home—what two words have been replaced by 'X' and 'Y' in this sequence?
Correct Answer: KHAN, SPOCK
Your Answer: Khan and Spock
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I am not a trekkie, but this was easy. 

4. What was the pseudonym of Italian painter Guido di Pietro, a Dominican friar who, through the patronage of Cosimo de' Medici, produced a well-known series of frescoes for the monastery of San Marco in Florence?
Correct Answer: FRA ANGELICO
Your Answer: El Greco
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Nope!

5. The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award, which was presented annually to the best relief pitcher in each league in Major League Baseball (as determined by the magazine) until the award's retirement in 2010, was established in 1960 with a name that referenced what occupation, once popularly associated with a team's top reliever?
Correct Answer: FIREMAN
Your Answer: Fireman
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Pretty easy for someone that follows baseball. At first, glance I thought it was going to be a question with Rolaids as the answer. 

6. The ensemble cast of what currently running television series includes a New Kid on the Block and a former member of the National Rifle Association board of directors?
Correct Answer: BLUE BLOODS
Your Answer: Coach 2
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Never seen it. Never will.