Jesse day 18

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1. What singer/songwriter's first hit on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart was in 1967, with the at-most-half-correct "Dumb Blonde"?
Correct Answer: DOLLY PARTON
Your Answer: Tammy Wynette
Points Assigned: 2

Dolly Parton seemed to be the easy answer for people who don't know anything about country music, which would include me, but I knew Tammy Wynette sang stand by your man around that time. Oh well. 

2. In music, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian are among certain types of scales that are best known by what term?
Correct Answer: MODES
Your Answer: Greek scales
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.

3. The name for what makeshift weapon originated with Finnish soldiers, who used it as an anti-tank armament during the Winter War of 1939–40 against the USSR?
Correct Answer: MOLOTOV COCKTAIL
Your Answer: Molotov Cocktail
Points Assigned: 0

It was the only answer that made sense to me. 

4. Members of the taxonomic genus Drosophila, common in many high school biology classrooms, are best known by what alliterative two-word name?
Correct Answer: FRUIT FLIES
Your Answer: Fire Flies
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea and was surprised to get that close to the right answer. 

5. "What do you do when you're not sure?" This line, uttered by Father Brendan Flynn (Brían F. O'Byrne in the 2005 Broadway premiere), opens what Pulitzer-winning play?
Correct Answer: DOUBT
Your Answer: In the Heights
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

6. What word for "immensely large in size" comes from the name of the grotesquely esurient giant in a 16th-century work by François Rabelais?
Correct Answer: GARGANTUAN
Your Answer: Enormous
Points Assigned: 1

Nope.