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1. In 2021, two competing election technology companies have filed suit against former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and others related to their promotion of theories around election fraud. Name either company.
Correct Answer: SMARTMATIC, DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS
Your Answer: Dominion
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: SMARTMATIC, DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS
Your Answer: Dominion
Points Assigned: 2
Glad he didn't ask for both.
2. Give the last name of either of the public figures prominent during the 1980s who had nicknames that referenced the synthetic fluoropolymer polytetrafluoroethylene.
Correct Answer: (RONALD) REAGAN, (JOHN) GOTTI
Your Answer: Reagan
Points Assigned: 1
I knew both. Wonder how this will play for my Canadian competitor.
3. A leading role in the most profitable movie musical ever (at the time) and the release of her provocative album Totally Hot (both in 1978) announced a shift in the career of what artist, whose early US success was in country music (including a Grammy for Best Country Vocal and, somewhat controversially, the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year)?
Correct Answer: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
Your Answer: Olivia Newton-John
Points Assigned: 1
2. Give the last name of either of the public figures prominent during the 1980s who had nicknames that referenced the synthetic fluoropolymer polytetrafluoroethylene.
Correct Answer: (RONALD) REAGAN, (JOHN) GOTTI
Your Answer: Reagan
Points Assigned: 1
I knew both. Wonder how this will play for my Canadian competitor.
3. A leading role in the most profitable movie musical ever (at the time) and the release of her provocative album Totally Hot (both in 1978) announced a shift in the career of what artist, whose early US success was in country music (including a Grammy for Best Country Vocal and, somewhat controversially, the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year)?
Correct Answer: OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
Your Answer: Olivia Newton-John
Points Assigned: 1
Grease seemed to be the right musical, unless there was something Dolly Parton related that I was aware of.
4. The 1930 mystery novel The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart was one of the first instances of a murder committed by what now-clichéd perpetrator?
Correct Answer: BUTLER
Your Answer: The Butler
Points Assigned: 0
4. The 1930 mystery novel The Door by Mary Roberts Rinehart was one of the first instances of a murder committed by what now-clichéd perpetrator?
Correct Answer: BUTLER
Your Answer: The Butler
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie
5. Identify the system for visual communication whose name comes from the Greek words for "signal" and "bearer", and fittingly so.
Correct Answer: SEMAPHORE
Your Answer: Relay
Points Assigned: 3
5. Identify the system for visual communication whose name comes from the Greek words for "signal" and "bearer", and fittingly so.
Correct Answer: SEMAPHORE
Your Answer: Relay
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea. I figured it was some kind of fire pyre relay system.
6. CMG is, in a particular and specific context, an abbreviation for an entity that shares what name with a smoke-dried ripe Capsicum annuum?
Correct Answer: CHIPOTLE
Your Answer: Chipotle
Points Assigned: 2
6. CMG is, in a particular and specific context, an abbreviation for an entity that shares what name with a smoke-dried ripe Capsicum annuum?
Correct Answer: CHIPOTLE
Your Answer: Chipotle
Points Assigned: 2
I first had paprika, but that made no-sense with CMG, which I figured was a stock name. Then I figured it out.
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