Jesse day 13

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1. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." This line, a quintessential example of iambic pentameter, is the 70th and final line in a poem written in 1833 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, on the subject of what restless hero?
Correct Answer: ULYSSES (ODYSSEUS)
Your Answer: Odyseus
Points Assigned: 2

This was a guess, but Odysseus is the most famous restless hero that I could think of. I considered King Arthur too. 

2. What language, an isolate not related to any other existing spoken language, is, with roughly 750,000 native speakers, the only surviving Pre-Indo-European language in Western Europe?
Correct Answer: BASQUE
Your Answer: Basque
Points Assigned: 0

I think this is a well-known piece of trivia. 

3. Donald "DeVanté Swing" DeGrate, Dalvin "Mr. Dalvin" DeGrate, Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, and Joel "JoJo" Hailey were the four members of what eponymous R&B quartet popular in the early 1990s?
Correct Answer: JODECI
Your Answer: Boys 2 Men
Points Assigned: 2

Never heard of them. 

4. What is the nine-letter word often used for the lowest classification of female singing voice in operatic and classical singing, with a range from F below middle C to the second F above middle C?
Correct Answer: CONTRALTO
Your Answer: Baritonet
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

5. What is the title of the subversive 1987 graphic novel by Alan Moore that was the basis of a television series of the same name that premiered on HBO in 2019?
Correct Answer: WATCHMEN
Your Answer: Watchmen
Points Assigned: 1

I watched the TV series. 

6. "You don't have [REDACTED] to kick around anymore. Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." This fantastically false statement was made in Beverly Hills, California, in November 1962, by whom?
Correct Answer: RICHARD NIXON
Your Answer: Nixon
Points Assigned: 1

I was guessing it was a politician and it seemed too early for Reagan, plus he would never turn down a press conference. Nixon made sense with him being from CA and having that kind of prickliness.