Jesse Day 9

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1. What is the term, which originated in a 1938 article in Variety magazine and is associated historically with disc jockeys, for a secret or indirect transfer of funds for a commercial favor (such as the promotion of a particular record)?
Correct Answer: PAYOLA
Your Answer: Shineola
Points Assigned: 0

Shoot, Shinola came to mind right away and I did not think any further. Apparently it was a shoe polish company that is now a luxury watchmaker. 

2. The Good Fight, Star Trek: Picard, Why Women Kill, and Tooning Out the News are all original television series created for what subscription-based streaming video service?
Correct Answer: CBS ALL ACCESS
Your Answer: CBS All Access
Points Assigned: 1

I looked at what they had to offer and knew right away that I did not need this streaming service in my life. 

3. English fashion designer Sarah Burton, who was the CFDA's International Designer of the Year in 2019 and designed Catherine Middleton's dress for her 2011 wedding, is currently the creative director for what fashion brand, whose namesake "hooligan of English fashion" died in 2010 at age 40?
Correct Answer: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN
Your Answer: Alexander Mcqueen
Points Assigned: 2

I remember he committed suicide. 

4. While there is now an official SI unit for luminous intensity, that photometric quantity was formerly expressed in terms of the "power" of what type of object?
Correct Answer: CANDLE
Your Answer: Candles
Points Assigned: 2

Candles seemed right. Candelas? 

5. In finance, an accounting measure sometimes used as an alternative to net income, to show a company's overall profitability, reports earnings before interest expenses, amortization, depreciation, and taxes are subtracted out. By what six-letter acronym is this measure most commonly known?
Correct Answer: EBITDA
Your Answer: NIBTAX
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

6. While New Caledonia is a group of islands in the South Pacific administered by France, the original Caledonia was a land, just beyond the Roman Empire's frontier, that is roughly coterminous with what in the modern day?
Correct Answer: SCOTLAND
Your Answer: Ireland
Points Assigned: 1

Shoot.