Jesse Day 1

4/6. Good way to start off. 

1. The common term for the larva of the insect order Lepidoptera is also the name of what Fortune 100 corporation?
Correct Answer: CATERPILLAR
Your Answer: Catepillar
Points Assigned: 0

I spelled it wrong, but this immediately came to mind. I knew Lepidoptera was a butterfly. 

2. The lyrics to the chart-topping debut single by Olivia Rodrigo from January 2021 begin with her recent acquisition of what?
Correct Answer: DRIVER'S LICENSE
Your Answer: Certificate in HVAC Repair
Points Assigned: 2

I don't listen to much music. I had no idea. 

3. In the 1970s, rowing machines were developed that provide a simulation of a rowing stroke as well as a means to measure and compare the amount of work done. Thus, to this day, these machines are also commonly referred to by what term?
Correct Answer: ERGOMETER/ERG
Your Answer: Index machines
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. I don't work out. 

4. Bush balladeer Andrew Barton Paterson, Australia's most popular poet at the turn of the 20th century and author of "Waltzing Matilda", is best-known by what instrumental nickname?
Correct Answer: BANJO
Your Answer: Banjo
Points Assigned: 3

Total guess, but for some reason banjo came to my mind. 

5. Identify (by name) the ambitious innovation that was tested in 1969, placed into regular service in 1976, the cause of 113 deaths in July 2000, and ultimately withdrawn from service in 2003.
Correct Answer: CONCORDE
Your Answer: The Concorde
Points Assigned: 1

I watched a NOVA episode on the Concorde, but I think I still would have gotten this otherwise. 

6. A stone structure whose construction began in May 1891 on a thoroughfare known as Ulitsa Aleutskaya remains today best-known as a terminus of what?
Correct Answer: TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY
Your Answer: Trans-Siberian Railroad
Points Assigned: 1

I took the Trans-Mongolian Railway from Beijing to Moscow in 2006. Ulitsa Aleutskaya definitely sounds Russian so that plus terminus added up to the Trans-Siberian,