Jesse Day 16

Another 5/6

1. The first US president to travel outside of the United States on official business during his term in office did so for the purpose of inspecting a major construction project. Identify either the president or the project.
Correct Answer: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PANAMA CANAL
Your Answer: Panama Canal
Points Assigned: 1

I was pretty sure of my answer and would have gotten the president too.

2. The Berkeley Breathed comic strip Outland was a spin-off of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Bloom County and featured many of the same characters, including a penguin named Opus and a cat named what?
Correct Answer: BILL
Your Answer: Bill
Points Assigned: 1

I have Opus and Bill the Cat dolls in my basement that Gideon collected in high school. He was a big fan. 

3. The administrative headquarters of the nine-member Commonwealth of Independent States (created following the dissolution of the Soviet Union) are not located in Moscow, nor any other city in Russia, but rather in what other national capital city, a roughly 450-mile drive west-southwest from Moscow?
Correct Answer: MINSK
Your Answer: Minsk
Points Assigned: 2

I've never been to Minsk, but the distance seemed right. 

4. The 1928 Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. was named after a song that was also featured (along with "Turkey in the Straw") in another film that same year, starring what character?
Correct Answer: MICKEY MOUSE
Your Answer: Mickey Mouse
Points Assigned: 0

Steamboat Micky!

5. The oldest surviving of a certain type of hole still in use in the United States is widely believed to be in the West Virginia town of White Sulphur Springs, and dates from 1884. What type of hole is it?
Correct Answer: GOLF HOLE
Your Answer: Oil bore hole
Points Assigned: 3

Very gettable. I just didn't think of it. 

6. What English word, borrowed directly from Latin and very common in physics and particularly in its namesake branch of physics, can be defined as a discrete, indivisible manifestation of a physical property?
Correct Answer: QUANTUM
Your Answer: Quantum
Points Assigned: 2

I thought of different branches of physics and Quantum was the second one that came to mind and it fit.