4/6 Still in 1st place in Winward C. Looks like I am a lock for B.
1. The Wisconsin-based sausage company Johnsonville is the primary and title sponsor for the premier American league, founded in 2015, for what game?
Correct Answer: CORNHOLE
Your Answer: Cornhole
Points Assigned: 3
Correct Answer: CORNHOLE
Your Answer: Cornhole
Points Assigned: 3
Total guess, but I knew Cornhole was being taken seriously as a pro sport.
2. The highest mountain on Mars, which rises over 16 miles above the Martian surface and was long believed to be the highest mountain in the solar system, has the same name as what terrestrial mountain (with the Latin Mons replacing "Mount")?
Correct Answer: MOUNT OLYMPUS
Your Answer: Olympus
Points Assigned: 0
2. The highest mountain on Mars, which rises over 16 miles above the Martian surface and was long believed to be the highest mountain in the solar system, has the same name as what terrestrial mountain (with the Latin Mons replacing "Mount")?
Correct Answer: MOUNT OLYMPUS
Your Answer: Olympus
Points Assigned: 0
I think I knew this from reading the Kim Stanley Robinson trilogy Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars. I wonder if that holds up as an adult?
3. Composer Bill Conti won an Oscar for his score to 1983's The Right Stuff, but his signature work may be the inspirational theme song for what Oscar-winning film from the previous decade?
Correct Answer: ROCKY
Your Answer: Rocky
Points Assigned: 2
3. Composer Bill Conti won an Oscar for his score to 1983's The Right Stuff, but his signature work may be the inspirational theme song for what Oscar-winning film from the previous decade?
Correct Answer: ROCKY
Your Answer: Rocky
Points Assigned: 2
inspirational and 70s. Had to be the late-70s Rocky.
4. In 1861, Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay developed an industrial process, still in widespread use today, that uses brine (as a source of NaCl) and limestone (as a source of CaCO<sub>3</sub>) primarily to produce large quantities of what compound?
Correct Answer: SODIUM CARBONATE (WASHING SODA/SODA ASH/Na2CO3)
Your Answer: Fertilizer
Points Assigned: 1
4. In 1861, Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay developed an industrial process, still in widespread use today, that uses brine (as a source of NaCl) and limestone (as a source of CaCO<sub>3</sub>) primarily to produce large quantities of what compound?
Correct Answer: SODIUM CARBONATE (WASHING SODA/SODA ASH/Na2CO3)
Your Answer: Fertilizer
Points Assigned: 1
I took a shot in the dark.
5. Dom Pierre Pérignon was a Benedictine monk who lived for 47 years at the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers within what historical French province?
Correct Answer: CHAMPAGNE
Your Answer: Champagne
Points Assigned: 1
5. Dom Pierre Pérignon was a Benedictine monk who lived for 47 years at the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers within what historical French province?
Correct Answer: CHAMPAGNE
Your Answer: Champagne
Points Assigned: 1
Seems like a gimmie.
6. Though it was completed in 1937, it wasn't until the 1970s—well after the death of the author, impoverished and largely forgotten, in 1960—that the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God began to be recognized as an American classic. Who is this prolific author?
Correct Answer: ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Your Answer: Wells
Points Assigned: 2
6. Though it was completed in 1937, it wasn't until the 1970s—well after the death of the author, impoverished and largely forgotten, in 1960—that the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God began to be recognized as an American classic. Who is this prolific author?
Correct Answer: ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Your Answer: Wells
Points Assigned: 2
I have no idea who she is.
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