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1. Debby Applegate's 2007 Pulitzer-winning The Most Famous Man in America is a biography of what 19th-century clergyman, abolitionist, and adulterous opportunist? It is possible both that the book's title was once accurate and that he is less remembered today than his sister.
Correct Answer: HENRY WARD BEECHER
Your Answer: Stowe
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: HENRY WARD BEECHER
Your Answer: Stowe
Points Assigned: 2
I guessed correctly that Harriet Beecher Stowe was the sister. I debated using the middle name but made the wrong choice.
2. Dyn-o-mite! is a 2012 memoir by an actor and comic who achieved superstar status while appearing on what television series in the 1970s?
Correct Answer: GOOD TIMES
Your Answer: Good Times
Points Assigned: 1
2. Dyn-o-mite! is a 2012 memoir by an actor and comic who achieved superstar status while appearing on what television series in the 1970s?
Correct Answer: GOOD TIMES
Your Answer: Good Times
Points Assigned: 1
Almost put down What's Happening, but it did not feel right. Then I recalled it was Good Times.
3. Originally known as water ballet, the sport officially named "artistic swimming" by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) was known, until a formal name change in 2017, by what other name (by which it is still widely known today)?
Correct Answer: SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
Your Answer: Synchronized Swimming
Points Assigned: 0
3. Originally known as water ballet, the sport officially named "artistic swimming" by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) was known, until a formal name change in 2017, by what other name (by which it is still widely known today)?
Correct Answer: SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING
Your Answer: Synchronized Swimming
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
4. Travelers making the 130-mile trip southbound from Rome to Capua during the 3rd century BCE very likely took what thoroughfare, named after the Roman magistrate who began it in 312 BCE?
Correct Answer: APPIAN WAY (VIA APPIA)
Your Answer: Via Augustus
Points Assigned: 3
4. Travelers making the 130-mile trip southbound from Rome to Capua during the 3rd century BCE very likely took what thoroughfare, named after the Roman magistrate who began it in 312 BCE?
Correct Answer: APPIAN WAY (VIA APPIA)
Your Answer: Via Augustus
Points Assigned: 3
I knew it started with an A, but could not pull it from my brain.
5. In the sciences, the term "katabatic", which is derived from the Greek for "downward", is most often used to describe what phenomenon?
Correct Answer: WIND
Your Answer: Water freezing
Points Assigned: 1
5. In the sciences, the term "katabatic", which is derived from the Greek for "downward", is most often used to describe what phenomenon?
Correct Answer: WIND
Your Answer: Water freezing
Points Assigned: 1
This was a bad miss. So gettable.
6. In most European nations, the country's most populous city is its capital. Excluding transcontinental countries like Turkey, there are four exceptions: Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, and—by far the biggest of the four—what Central European country, whose major global financial center is three times larger than its de facto capital?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: Switzerland
Points Assigned: 2
6. In most European nations, the country's most populous city is its capital. Excluding transcontinental countries like Turkey, there are four exceptions: Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, and—by far the biggest of the four—what Central European country, whose major global financial center is three times larger than its de facto capital?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: Switzerland
Points Assigned: 2
Financial center made me think of Switzerland right away and I knew Bern was their capital.
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