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1. What is the most common name of the organization in Naples and the Italian region of Campania that is roughly parallel to the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Mafia/Cosa Nostra in Sicily?
Correct Answer: CAMORRA
Your Answer: Amalfia Coasta Nostra
Points Assigned: 3
Correct Answer: CAMORRA
Your Answer: Amalfia Coasta Nostra
Points Assigned: 3
My attempt at best wrong answer.
2. The number of tablespoons in one gallon is what perfect square?
Correct Answer: 256
Your Answer: 144
Points Assigned: 2
2. The number of tablespoons in one gallon is what perfect square?
Correct Answer: 256
Your Answer: 144
Points Assigned: 2
I had no idea.
3. A vehicle that in Britain might be referred to as an estate car would most likely be called what in the United States?
Correct Answer: STATION WAGON
Your Answer: Station Wagon
Points Assigned: 2
3. A vehicle that in Britain might be referred to as an estate car would most likely be called what in the United States?
Correct Answer: STATION WAGON
Your Answer: Station Wagon
Points Assigned: 2
I remembered this from somewhere, possibly from when I lived in Australia.
4. Blues-rock guitarist Peter Green was a co-founder and principal songwriter for what band (which was actually named after the band's drummer and bass guitarist) until his departure in 1970, a few years before the group's commercial peak?
Correct Answer: FLEETWOOD MAC
Your Answer: Fleetwood Mac
Points Assigned: 1
4. Blues-rock guitarist Peter Green was a co-founder and principal songwriter for what band (which was actually named after the band's drummer and bass guitarist) until his departure in 1970, a few years before the group's commercial peak?
Correct Answer: FLEETWOOD MAC
Your Answer: Fleetwood Mac
Points Assigned: 1
This is a band named after the drummer and bassist
5. What is the three-word name of the fashion industry trade journal, founded in 1910 by Edmund Fairchild and today the flagship of Fairchild Media, which (despite its name) also covers men's fashions, and (despite its name) switched to a weekly print format in 2015 before moving to mostly digital-only in February 2017?
Correct Answer: WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
Your Answer: Women's Fashion Monthly
Points Assigned: 1
5. What is the three-word name of the fashion industry trade journal, founded in 1910 by Edmund Fairchild and today the flagship of Fairchild Media, which (despite its name) also covers men's fashions, and (despite its name) switched to a weekly print format in 2015 before moving to mostly digital-only in February 2017?
Correct Answer: WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
Your Answer: Women's Fashion Monthly
Points Assigned: 1
Nope
6. Much of the crop diversification in the American South in the early 20th century, away from soil-depleting cotton to alternatives such as sweet potatoes and peanuts, is credited to what man, who served as director of agricultural research at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute from 1896 to 1943?
Correct Answer: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Your Answer: George Washington Carver
Points Assigned: 0
6. Much of the crop diversification in the American South in the early 20th century, away from soil-depleting cotton to alternatives such as sweet potatoes and peanuts, is credited to what man, who served as director of agricultural research at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute from 1896 to 1943?
Correct Answer: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Your Answer: George Washington Carver
Points Assigned: 0
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