Jesse Day 2

5/6

1. What doting mother is the only female character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne?
Correct Answer: KANGA
Your Answer: Kanga
Points Assigned: 0

I read my daughter all of the Winnie the Pooh books last year. 

2. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles wrote in 1908 that, in landscapes painted by Georges Braque and shown at Paris's Galerie Kahnweiler, the artist had reduced "everything...to geometric schemas, to" what—thereby naming a new and key movement in modern art?
Correct Answer: CUBES/CUBISM
Your Answer: Cubism
Points Assigned: 2

I knew Braque was a cubist. 

3. Professional hockey goaltenders Martin Jones and Connor Hellebuyck play for teams whose names, completely unrelatedly, are important to the plot of a 1957 Broadway musical and its 1961 film adaptation. What is the name shared by that musical and subsequent film?
Correct Answer: WEST SIDE STORY
Your Answer: West Side Story
Points Assigned: 1

It took me a while to recall the name if the musical, but I knew right away they were referring to the Jets and Sharks. 

4. Among the reviews for the 2021 HBO series Mare of Easttown were kudos for South East England-born Kate Winslet's proficiency with the accent of what city (and its surrounding area)—an accent which is considered challenging to master and thus not frequently used in TV and film?
Correct Answer: PHILADELPHIA
Your Answer: Philadelphia
Points Assigned: 1

I live in Delaware County PA where that show is set. But the nice side. People have been talking about how she did nail the accent. I watched the first 30 minutes of the first episode and it was bumming me out. 

5. The first automobile factory was built in Detroit, Michigan, in 1899, by what man, after whom was named a major automotive brand (until it was discontinued in 2004) as well as a certain Speed Wagon?
Correct Answer: RANSOM E. OLDS
Your Answer: Olds
Points Assigned: 2

I did not realize Olds was a name, but it was the only answer that made sense. 

6. Whereas "hardrock" or "lode" mining extracts precious minerals from solid rock, what term describes mining which involves separating minerals from sand or gravel, such as in a stream bed? The term became known during the California Gold Rush, and in fact it's used in the name of a city 40 miles east of Sacramento that has also been referred to historically as "Hangtown", and also as the name of a nearby California county.
Correct Answer: PLACER
Your Answer: Panning
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.