Jesse LL87 Match Day 1

3/6. I am drained from last night. 

1. Thanks in part to its inclusion in popular (at the time) recipes such as Under-the-Sea Salad, Sunshine Salad, and Crown Jewel Dessert, sales of what product peaked in the United States in the late 1960s at four boxes per person per year?
Correct Answer: JELL-O
Your Answer: Jello
Points Assigned: 0

Seems like a gimmie.

2. Mo'ai is a word meaning "statue" in what language, which shares its name with the indigenous name of the location where the language is spoken and the ethnicity of most of its speakers?
Correct Answer: RAPA NUI
Your Answer: Polynesian
Points Assigned: 2

I knew it was Easter Island, I just couldn't recall the word Rapa Nui.

3. On a standard US edition Monopoly board, there are two spaces that are adjacent and include in their names states which are themselves physically adjacent (i.e., they share a border). What are those two states?
Correct Answer: ILLINOIS, INDIANA
Your Answer: Connecticut and Massachusetts
Points Assigned: 1

I haven't played Monopoly in a long time. 

4. The component of a computer that connects the various other parts of the computer together—such as CPU, hard drives, memory, optical drives, video and sound cards, etc.—is often known by what familial term?
Correct Answer: MOTHERBOARD
Your Answer: Mother Board
Points Assigned: 1

Seems relatively easy. 

5. The name of a small body of water near Lancaster, South Carolina, when its two words are transposed, becomes the name of a popular, husky-voiced actor from the 1940s born Constance Frances Ockelman in 1922. What is that name (either the body of water or the woman)?
Correct Answer: LAKE VERONICA/VERONICA LAKE
Your Answer: Veronica
Points Assigned: 2

I was proud of myself for pulling this one. I knew her last name was lake. I was trying to decide between Vicky and Veronica, but decided Vicky Lake was my brain getting confused with Ricki Lake. 

6. The Chilean independence leader who served as that country's first Head of State in 1818 was a member of what Irish noble family?
Correct Answer: O'HIGGINS
Your Answer: Dublin
Points Assigned: 3

I was just in Chile two years ago and there were a bunch of things named after him, including the main road in Santiago. I just could not pull the name. 



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