Friday, August 27, 2021

Jesse Day 15

0 or 1/6. Ouch. 

1. The Third Amendment to the US Constitution, likely the least litigated of all amendments, uses a particular term to describe the billeting of soldiers in private homes without the homeowners' consent. What is that verb?
Correct Answer: QUARTER(ED)
Your Answer: Quatering
Points Assigned: 0

2. While working at a commercial art studio in Kansas City in 1919, a teenager named Ub Iwerks befriended a young fellow employee, with whom Ub would soon go into business and with whom he would be closely associated throughout his long and successful career. Who was this fellow illustrator and entrepreneur?
Correct Answer: WALT DISNEY
Your Answer: Stan Lee
Points Assigned: 1

3. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is divided into three parts. The first is Inferno—what are the names of the other two?
Correct Answer: PURGATORIO, PARADISO (PURGATORY, PARADISE)
Your Answer: Purgatory, Heaven
Points Assigned: 1

4. The famous altarpiece started by Hubert van Eyck and completed by his brother Jan in 1432, titled Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is housed at St. Bavo's Cathedral in what Belgian city (after which the altarpiece is better known)?
Correct Answer: GHENT
Your Answer: Antwerp
Points Assigned: 3

5. What capital innovation debuted in Paris's Place de Grève in April 1792?
Correct Answer: GUILLOTINE
Your Answer: Steam engine
Points Assigned: 2

6. What percussion instrument, with a keyboard-like arrangement of steel bars played with small hammers, has a name that translates to English as "bells play"?
Correct Answer: GLOCKENSPIEL
Your Answer: Xylaphone
Points Assigned: 2


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