Jesse Day 8

3 or 4/6

1. What muscle in the human body is actually a muscle group, consisting of the rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and vastus intermedius?
Correct Answer: QUADRICEPS (FEMORIS)
Your Answer: Hamstring
Points Assigned: 2

Ah, quad=four. I didn't make that leap. I was trying to decide between heart and hamstring, which I think is the biggest muscle. 

2. A Slav tribe gave its name to a region around the River Oder bordering the Baltic Sea, which was settled in the 5th century and enjoyed independence from the 11th to the 17th centuries, and the region in turn gave its name to a thickly coated toy dog breed. What is that region's name?
Correct Answer: POMERANIA
Your Answer: Pomeranian
Points Assigned: 2

Shoot, not sure I will get this. I had thought of the breed, but I forgot to translate that back to the region that the question was actually asking about. 

3. The first (and still only) mother to become Wimbledon ladies' singles champion in the open era appeared as the now-quite-anachronistic "Mrs. R. Cawley" on the scoreboard in the 1980 final against Chris Evert-Lloyd ("Mrs. J.M. Lloyd"). This Australian tennis star is more associated with—and achieved the majority of her success under—what other last name, her maiden name?
Correct Answer: GOOLAGONG
Your Answer: Roberts
Points Assigned: 3

Nope! Never heard of her. 

4. An Ottoman viceroy and pasha of Egypt from 1805 to 1849, the Indian religious scholar and author of 1936's monumental The Religion of Islam, and the man for whom the airport in Louisville, Kentucky, is officially named all share what name? (Two-word answer required.)
Correct Answer: MUHAMMAD ALI
Your Answer: Muhammad Ali
Points Assigned: 1

I got it through the Louisville reference. Otherwise, I would have had no chance. 

5. In an enduringly popular book from 1969, a voracious creature burrows through the pages of a book consuming an increasing volume of delicacies. What type of creature is he (through most of the story, at least)?
Correct Answer: CATERPILLAR
Your Answer: Catterpillar
Points Assigned: 0

I read it many times to my daughter. 

6. Atlanta natives William Guest, Merald "Bubba" Knight, and Edward Patten were long-time members of what successful R&B and soul music backing group, who were (along with their leader) inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996?
Correct Answer: THE PIPS
Your Answer: Pips
Points Assigned: 1

Total guess, but it felt right.