Jesse Day 5

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1. An Italian American named Leo Castelli, who died in 1999 at age 91 having spent most of his life in New York, is considered a visionary in the development of what type of commercial establishment?
Correct Answer: ART GALLERY
Your Answer: Electronics store
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

2. The Soviet secret police agency responsible from 1934 for state security and the Gulag system, eventually subsumed under the KGB, was known by an abbreviation of the Russian for "People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs". In the Latin alphabet, what is that four-letter initialism (of which none of the letters are P, C, I, or A)?
Correct Answer: NKVD
Your Answer: NOPE
Points Assigned: 3

I have heard of this, but could not recall it. 

3. While it covers a breadth of sporting topics (particularly women in sports), the podcast On the Bus with Cammi & AJ is hosted by Cammi Granato and AJ Mleczko, who are Olympic gold medalists in what sport (in which both women also have full-time jobs)?
Correct Answer: ICE HOCKEY
Your Answer: Volleyball
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

4. "My Favorite Orkan" (a play on the title of the 1960s sitcom My Favorite Martian) was a 1978 episode of the television series Happy Days, and spawned what other sitcom which debuted later that year?
Correct Answer: MORK AND MINDY
Your Answer: Mork and Mindy
Points Assigned: 0

Easy if you are in your 40s or older. 

5. Lil Nas X's 2021 hit single "Montero" has a subtitle taken from the title of a gay romance novel from 2007 (and its successful 2017 film adaptation). What is that subtitle?
Correct Answer: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Your Answer: Nope
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.

6. After a nearly two-week delay, neurosurgeon Ariel Henry was sworn in on July 20, 2021, as the new prime minister of what country?
Correct Answer: HAITI
Your Answer: Haiti
Points Assigned: 1

I used to do some work involving Haiti so followed this.