Jesse Day 15

5/6

1. Roughly equivalent to "congressional districts" in the United States, what is the standard term used in the United Kingdom for the 650 electoral areas through which members of the House of Commons (MPs) are elected?
Correct Answer: CONSTITUENCIES
Your Answer: Counties
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

2. What class of warship originated with the French navy in the 17th century, was later copied by the British Navy as "sloops", and has a name which since 1953 has been familiar in the world of American automobiles?
Correct Answer: CORVETTE
Your Answer: Corvette
Points Assigned: 1

I feel like this question was asked before. 

3. A talking corvid in Charles Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty inspired a famous 1845 poem by whom?
Correct Answer: EDGAR ALLAN POE
Your Answer: Poe
Points Assigned: 0

Seems pretty easy. 

4. A small primate species of the genus Galago, the act of clearing a path through thick woods, and lawbreaking Australian bandits such as Captain Thunderbolt and Ned Kelly: All of these are different compound words that contain the same word within them. What is that shared word?
Correct Answer: BUSH
Your Answer: Bush
Points Assigned: 2

My first thought was George W Bush clearing bush. I then thought bush baby. And then thought that Ned Kelly was probably something like a bush bandit. 

5. In the 2018 sequel to the 2012 hit film Wreck-It Ralph, what does Ralph break, per the title?
Correct Answer: THE INTERNET
Your Answer: The internet
Points Assigned: 1

Never saw it, but I remember it being advertised. 

6. Numerous fossils found at the Zhoukoudian cave complex are of a homo erectus subspecies known colloquially as a "Man" named after what city?
Correct Answer: PEKING (BEIJING)
Your Answer: Peking
Points Assigned: 3

Zhoukoudian did not sound African, British or German. It did sound Armenian, but I was in Armenia, went to their national history museum and don't remember any special "Yerevan" man. I gave up and entered Peking Man and got lucky.