Jesse day 2

3/6

1. The title of the video game Doom comes from a line in what 1986 film, when Tom Cruise's character Vincent Lauria responds to a question about what's in his long velvet-covered case with that word ("Doom").
Correct Answer: THE COLOR OF MONEY
Your Answer: The Color of Money
Points Assigned: 1

This is one of my favorite films of all time. 

2. An advertising campaign beginning in February 2020 saw a popular food brand, established in 1958, wade into a polarizing debate regarding looping animations. What is that brand?
Correct Answer: JIF PEANUT BUTTER
Your Answer: JIF
Points Assigned: 0

I did not see the campaign, but the answer came to me right away. 

3. What element was first detected as an unexpected line in the spectrum of the Sun in 1868, and discovered on Earth in 1895 (in the uranium mineral cleveite)?
Correct Answer: HELIUM
Your Answer: Plutonium
Points Assigned: 2

Shoot, I had heard this somewhere but got thrown off by the Uranium. 

4. As they relate specifically to the religions' central figures, what is the Christian equivalent of the Islamic Mawlid an-Nabi?
Correct Answer: CHRISTMAS
Your Answer: Christmas
Points Assigned: 1

Total guess.

5. The man who served as the First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings within the government of the United Kingdom from 1855 to 1858, who was believed to be upwards of 6'7" in height, had the last name of Hall, and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Llanover in 1859. What was his first name?
Correct Answer: BENJAMIN (BEN)
Your Answer: Tajma
Points Assigned: 3

I have never heard of him. 

6. Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to \ me still, \ But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on \ a lonely hill. \ These lines from "The Lonely Hunter", by a Scottish poet writing under the pseudonym Fiona MacLeod, are the origin of the title of what American novelist's 1940 debut?
Correct Answer: CARSON MCCULLERS
Your Answer: Hemmingway
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.