Jesse Day 19

4/6

1. What is the middle name of 25-year-old model and socialite Kendall Jenner, given to her in honor of her mother's close friend who died just over a year before Kendall was born?
Correct Answer: NICOLE
Your Answer: Nicole
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea so I put down Nicole thinking it would ironic if they were referring to Nicole Brown Simpson. I was surprised to get this right. 

2. The public condemnation of heretics conducted by the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, which is today often associated with its most extreme punishment of burning at the stake, is known by what three-word (or hyphenated three-part) phrase?
Correct Answer: AUTO DA FE/AUTO-DA-FE
Your Answer: Nobody-expect-the
Points Assigned: 3

I have never heard of this. 

3. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is a bestselling coming-of-age memoir by what author, comedian, and television host?
Correct Answer: TREVOR NOAH
Your Answer: Trevor Noah
Points Assigned: 0

My wife just read it. 

4. Name the desert, located mostly on Northern Chile's Pacific coast, that is widely regarded as the driest place on Earth. In some locations, no rain has ever been recorded in human history.
Correct Answer: ATACAMA
Your Answer: Atacama
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this. I have been to Chile, but mostly down in the far south. 

5. The Khoisan language families are distinctive among languages of the world for their extensive use of certain consonants that linguists—and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—describe using what word?
Correct Answer: CLICK
Your Answer: Clicks
Points Assigned: 1

I was hoping that was technical enough. 

6. Though it is typically dark brown, what mammal, native to northern Asia and related to the weasel, has a name which is synonymous with the word "black"?
Correct Answer: SABLE
Your Answer: Mink
Points Assigned: 2

Oh, sable.