Jesse Day 12

5/6- Easiest day in a while. My opponent is 9/9 for classical music, so a bad day for that to be the seemingly hardest question. 

1. At 5,525 miles, the longest international land border in the world between two countries separates Canada and the United States. What two countries are separated by the longest land border in South America, at nearly 3,300 miles?
Correct Answer: ARGENTINA, CHILE
Your Answer: Chile and Argentina
Points Assigned: 1

Feels like a gimmie, but maybe that is just me. 

2. "Mars, the Bringer of War" and "Venus, the Bringer of Peace" are the names of movements in an orchestral suite completed in 1917 by what English composer?
Correct Answer: GUSTAV HOLST
Your Answer: WIlliams
Points Assigned: 0

I had no idea.

3. Abalone, Aggravation, Ker-Plunk, and Wahoo are all board games that customarily use what as game pieces?
Correct Answer: MARBLES
Your Answer: Marbles
Points Assigned: 2

Got this through Ker-Plunk. Otherwise, I would have been in trouble. 

4. Emily Henry's 2021 rom-com novel People We Meet on Vacation could be described as a certain kind of "read" which is, coincidentally, the title of Henry's bestseller from 2020. What is the two-word title of that earlier book—a book which was probably consumed by readers while on vacation?
Correct Answer: BEACH READ
Your Answer: Beach read
Points Assigned: 1

I know of the term.

5. The 1975 Damiano Damiani film A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (Un genio, due compari, un pollo), which stars Terence Hill as a con man scheming against a Monument Valley backdrop, is considered one of the last films in a cinematic subgenre most often referred to by what name?
Correct Answer: SPAGHETTI WESTERN
Your Answer: Spaghetti Western
Points Assigned: 2

Monument Valley and Italian was a pretty strong clue. 

6. What drug was named by its discoverer, Friedrich Sertürner, after the Greek god of dreams, due to its tendency to induce sleep?
Correct Answer: MORPHINE
Your Answer: Morphine
Points Assigned: 3

Morpheus is the god of sleep.