Jesse Day 4

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1. What is the name of the 36-mile-long river, flowing between Lakes Erie and Ontario, which forms part of the border between the state of New York and the province of Ontario?
Correct Answer: NIAGARA
Your Answer: Niagra
Points Assigned: 2

2. The Elders appoint a 12-year-old boy named Jonas as the Receiver of Memory near the beginning of what dystopian novel from 1993 by Lois Lowry?
Correct Answer: THE GIVER
Your Answer: The Mazerunner
Points Assigned: 2

3. In 1930, Mohandas Gandhi led a 200-plus-mile march of Indian nationalists from his ashram to the coastal city of Dandi, protesting British prohibition of the private manufacture of a particular product. What is this product, which the protestors produced at Dandi, and after which the march is often named?
Correct Answer: SALT
Your Answer: Salt
Points Assigned: 3

4. What is the term for the mechanism in an automobile that transmits the engine's power/torque to the wheels, allowing them to spin at unequal speeds? Its function is integrated with those of the transmission and axle in a transaxle.
Correct Answer: DIFFERENTIAL
Your Answer: Alternator
Points Assigned: 1

5. The name for what animal comes from the Greek terms for broad and foot, which is apt but perhaps not as distinctive as the fact that the animal lays eggs?
Correct Answer: PLATYPUS
Your Answer: Frog
Points Assigned: 0

6. Australian actor Chris Hemsworth has portrayed a certain character in eight different feature films. The two main leads of the 2001 comic-book adaptation Ghost World are (1) an individual named after Hemsworth's character (or, at least, the character's namesake), and (2) a costar of Hemsworth in half of those eight films. Name either of these other two performers.
Correct Answer: THORA BIRCH, SCARLETT JOHANSSON
Your Answer: Scarlet Johansson
Points Assigned: 1