Welcome back, all! If Steiny starts posting again, I'll move back to "Seif" in my headers, but for now I'm going to join Dave Mirkin in using my first name and last initial.
5/6. Good day to start out the season with lots of good guesses.
1. Olmec :(, D33. I knew this was wrong. I had a couple of other ideas, but I knew they were also wrong. So I just picked one of my wrong answers and put it down. I'm thinking this may play as one of the hardest questions of the season, though I do realize that there are 149 questions to go.
2. Margarine :), D21. No idea how hard this plays. The key for me was that I knew that "margaret" is the Greek word for pearl. Given that, it wasn't too hard to get to margarine as an educated guess.
3. Ramadan :), D22. Sweet! I actually arrived at this from the wrong perspective. I guessed that these might be a list of sequential Islamic holidays, but it turns out it was a list of months. Still arrived at Ramadan as the answer.
4. Calf :), D12. Only thing I could think of that was both a human body part and a different type of animal.
5. Israel :), D00. Hmmm, a country that vaccinated people quickly and is also considered "controversial"? Well, I can't recall ever hearing about any controversy surrounding Israel, but I felt the need to guess it anyway.
6. Embezzlement :), D11. I've never heard of the court case, but it's a textbook definition of embezzlement.
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