Jesse Day 8

3/6

1. The body part in humans (and some other animals) that in ancient Rome would have been referred to as pollex would today, in modern Rome, be called il pollice, and in English would most commonly be called what?
Correct Answer: THUMB
Your Answer: Thumb
Points Assigned: 2

The only thing I could think of is a body part that is mostly unique to humans is the thumb. 

2. With all twenty-two of its US-released singles reaching the Billboard Top 40 and five consecutive albums reaching #1 (with a sixth reaching #2), what band was one of the most successful rock acts of the 1970s (but not the most successful of its leader's career)?
Correct Answer: (PAUL MCCARTNEY AND) WINGS
Your Answer: Jackson 5
Points Assigned: 2

I feel terrible about this miss. I thought the Jackson 5 were more pop than rock, but I just did not put enough time into this. 

3. The largest accession of territory by the United States was the roughly 827,000-square-mile Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Second-largest, sixty-four years later, was over 586,000 square miles of territory formally known by what name?
Correct Answer: ALASKA (RUSSIAN AMERICA)
Your Answer: Alaska
Points Assigned: 0

I just put together a classroom presentation for my non-profit's new teacher trip to Alaska. 

4. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-mandated bar of steel tubing that is installed on the rear underside of tractor-trailers to prevent "underride" collisions is known as an underride guard, ICC bar, or DOT bumper. However, it's perhaps best known by a name referencing what Hollywood star because of a tragic event in June 1967?
Correct Answer: JAYNE MANSFIELD
Your Answer: Dean
Points Assigned: 1

I knew I was wrong, but went with Dean anyway. I wasn't going to pull Mansfield. 

5. Per the sitcom's sixth episode in 1974, a TV character—whose real name was Warren Weber—received, from his mom, his nickname that referenced that he liked to make things with clay. What was that nickname?
Correct Answer: POTSIE
Your Answer: Potsy
Points Assigned: 1

This was a satisfying get. 

6. What obsolete medical term completes the title of Ben Jonson's Every Man in His ______, a comedy in which each of the four main characters is stereotyped with one ruling temperament (sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic)?
Correct Answer: HUMOUR
Your Answer: Genus
Points Assigned: 3

Ohh. Makes sense.