Jesse Day 14

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1. Although the role existed previously, a now-common term for this role was not used in the television context until 1952, applied by a CBS news executive (the actual executive is subject to debate) to a colleague during the network's coverage of that year's political nominating conventions. What is the term?
Correct Answer: ANCHOR
Your Answer: Anchor
Points Assigned: 1

It was the first answer that came to me and I tried to come up with something more election focused. Nothing seemed right so I stuck with anchor expecting it to be wrong. 

2. Ex-Exodus guitarist Kirk Hammett, ex-Flotsam and Jetsam bassist Jason Newsted, and ex-Suicidal Tendencies bassist Robert Trujillo are among the past and present non-original members of what band?
Correct Answer: METALLICA
Your Answer: Led Zeppelin
Points Assigned: 2

Not up my alley. 

3. Steve McQueen played a titular self-made millionaire in a 1968 film that was remade in 1999 with Pierce Brosnan in the role of the self-made billionaire (having been adjusted for inflation, presumably). What is the name of this character?
Correct Answer: THOMAS CROWN
Your Answer: Thomas Crown
Points Assigned: 1

I loved the 1999 version. Nina Simone's Sinnerman immediately comes to mind, which is now being used in the closing credits of Lovecraft Country.

4. From the election of 1964 onward, there have been two individuals elected Vice President of the United States who were primarily affiliated with the state of Indiana (Dan Quayle and Mike Pence). What is the only other state that can claim this distinction within this time period?
Correct Answer: MINNESOTA
Your Answer: Texas
Points Assigned: 3

I had Mondale as Minnesota, but I had forgotten about Humphry. 

5. What is the name for the instrument of war—a small box filled with gunpowder and used as a bomb to blast through a gate or barricade—that appears in a famous quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, in reference to how Claudius was hoist with one of his own making?
Correct Answer: PETARD
Your Answer: Petard
Points Assigned: 0

I didn't even need the hoist clue. I suspect this will be a gimmie. 

6. The subject of a classic, large-scale Renaissance painting is being blown ashore by the wind gods Zephyr and Aura, while a nymph heralding the arrival of spring greets the subject with a cloak. Who is the subject of this work?
Correct Answer: VENUS
Your Answer: Odysseus
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.