Jesse Day 3

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1. Ruby and tawny are two styles of what after-dinner dessert wine, made exclusively in the western region of the Douro river valley on the Iberian peninsula?

Correct Answer: PORT
Your Answer: Port
Points Assigned: 2

I used to work for a wine magazine and the publishers opened up a very old port wine bottle that the said was the best wine they ever tasted. I thought it tasted like port wine. 

2. "Jumping genes" (a.k.a. transposons), which move along a chromosome and can alter a cell's genetic identity, were the discovery of what botanist and geneticist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983? She became the first woman to win that prize unshared and the first American woman to win any Nobel science Prize unshared.
Correct Answer: BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
Your Answer: Bradshaw
Points Assigned: 3

I have heard of her, but I could not pull the name. 

3. The head of the Coptic Chuch, known commonly as the Coptic Pope, presides from an Orthodox cathedral in what country, in which a plurality of the world's Coptic Christians resides?
Correct Answer: EGYPT
Your Answer: Egypt
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this. 

4. The television program Football Night in America, which has aired on NBC before the network's Sunday-night NFL broadcasts since 2006, gets its titular inspiration from another, similar program that began on radio in the 1930s. What is that other program, which is still going strong today?
Correct Answer: HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA
Your Answer: Hockey Night in Canada
Points Assigned: 0

I had heard of Hockey Night in Canada but was surprised it came to me as I have certainly never seen it. My opponent lives in Canada, so this was easily defended as a 0. 

5. Floating Cloud, Dancing Girl, Snow Country, Naomi, and A Personal Matter are all English titles of novels that were originally written in what language?
Correct Answer: JAPANESE
Your Answer: Japanese
Points Assigned: 1

I haven't read any of these books, but Japanese seemed right to me. I considered Icelandic too. 

6. A 2011 film starring Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, Jodie Foster, and John C. Reilly—the adaptation of an English-language version of a play by Yasmina Reza that debuted on Broadway in 2009—has what one-word title? Not only is that word the final word of the play's English title, it's also the final word (following Le Dieu de) of the play's French title.
Correct Answer: CARNAGE
Your Answer: Liason
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. Tried to think of a French word we use in English.