Jesse day 20

3/6

1. An international custody battle, a media phenomenon, and political chaos originated with the discovery in 1999 of a five-year-old boy floating on a makeshift raft three miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This boy, now a grown man and Cuban citizen, has what first name?
Correct Answer: ELIÁN (GONZALEZ)
Your Answer: Elian
Points Assigned: 1

I knew it right away. This will be nearly impossible for someone significantly younger than me. 

2. The 2000 novel White Teeth was the widely acclaimed debut of what 24-year-old English author, whose subsequent novels include On Beauty (2005) and NW (2012)?
Correct Answer: ZADIE SMITH
Your Answer: Mcarthy
Points Assigned: 1

I have never heard of them. 

3. Name either of the characters (a girl and a squirrel, respectively) that form the title of the 2013 Kate DiCamillo superhero novel that was adapted into a film released on Disney+ in February 2021.
Correct Answer: FLORA & ULYSSES
Your Answer: Nuts
Points Assigned: 3

I am sure my daughter will watch this and possibly has already.

4. The 13th-century mathematician Leonardo of Pisa was posthumously given a name by which he is best-known today, after the name's alleged 1838 inventor Guillaume Libri shared it (maybe?) with two people, who then shared it with three people, who then shared it with five people, who then shared it with eight people, and so on, and so on. What is this name?
Correct Answer: FIBONACCI
Your Answer: Fibonacci
Points Assigned: 2

I recognized that it was Fibonacci's sequence. 

5. Maximilien Robespierre and Jean-Paul Marat are among the 18th-century Frenchmen associated with the "Society of the Friends of the Constitution" (Société des amis de la Constitution), a club that was best known informally by what name, taken from the monastery which was the club's frequent meeting place during the early 1790s?
Correct Answer: JACOBIN
Your Answer: Moulin Rogues?
Points Assigned: 2

I could not come up with the answer. 

6. Caprica, a planet in the Cyrannus star system, provided the setting for some of the episodes of what sci-fi drama series, as well as the title for the show's spinoff prequel?
Correct Answer: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
Your Answer: Battlestar Gallactica
Points Assigned: 0

I watched both shows.