Jesse Day 19

4/6 

1. The four most popular series of casual games developed by the digital entertainment company King have three-word names, and begin with Candy Crush, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue, and Farm Heroes. What single word concludes the names of all of these series?
Correct Answer: SAGA
Your Answer: Saga
Points Assigned: 1

The only reason I know this is the podcast The New Abnormal for the past few weeks has run really obnoxious ads from Candy Crush Saga where the hosts debase themselves by talking about it enthusiastically. 

2. Used commonly to add flavor to potato, stuffing, chicken, and turkey dishes, among many others, what herb has a name derived from the Latin for "dew of the sea" (and not from any particular woman, as might be supposed)?
Correct Answer: ROSEMARY
Your Answer: Rosemary
Points Assigned: 0

I questioned the root of the word, but it does go great with all those dishes.

3. Aeroporto Internazionale Federico Fellini is the primary airport serving visitors to what country (although it is not located in that country)?
Correct Answer: SAN MARINO
Your Answer: San Marino
Points Assigned: 2

I wonder how hard this will play. I've been to San Marino, but got there by train. Never heard of the airport, but it is Italian and what other country doesn't have its own airport so close to Italy other than the Vatican, which is served by DaVinci and Ciampionoe (I used to live in Rome). I guess Monaco might be some guesses. 

4. A sudden forte drumbeat in the piece's second movement gives Franz Joseph Haydn's Symphony in G Major, No. 94, what common nickname in English?
Correct Answer: SURPRISE SYMPHONY
Your Answer: Fireworks
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.

5. Identify the author of the 1849 novel Shirley, whose setting is the Yorkshire wool industry at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and whose titular character is modeled after the author's sister, Emily?
Correct Answer: CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Your Answer: Charlotte Bronte
Points Assigned: 1

Never heard of the book, but Emily was a Bronte sister. 

6. Mexico's 2018 presidential election was won in a landslide by a center-left populist who is commonly referred to by what initials?
Correct Answer: AMLO
Your Answer: JK
Points Assigned: 3

I have not followed Mexican politics for a while now.