Jesse day 2

4/6

1. Titles of different songs from the late 1970s by the Bee Gees, Leo Sayer, ABBA, and Andy Gibb all contain what word—an activity appropriate for the era (or really any era)?
Correct Answer: DANCING
Your Answer: Dancing
Points Assigned: 0

My first thought was Love, but couldn't think of a famous ABBA song with love in it. Dancing made more sense with You should be dancing and Dancing Queen.

2. The hexadecimal number 2A, when converted to decimal, becomes a number historically associated in baseball most closely with what player?
Correct Answer: JACKIE ROBINSON
Your Answer: Jackie Robinson
Points Assigned: 2

On Jackie Robinson Day everyone in the league wears number 42. In that way it has become one of the most famous player numbers. The only one rivaling it could be Mantle with number 7. I went with Robinson. One day I will try to learn Hexadecimals. 

3. Identify the cheese, the most popular of the Italian blue cheeses, which is among the earliest of all veined cheeses (having been introduced to the Po Valley in the 9th century) and is named after a village outside Milan.
Correct Answer: GORGONZOLA
Your Answer: Gorgonzola
Points Assigned: 1

Only Italian blue cheese I could think of. 

4. Herbaceous plants whose scientific name is trifolium ("trefoil"), referring to the most common (but not exclusive) appearance of their leaves, are best-known by what familiar name?
Correct Answer: CLOVER
Your Answer: Mint
Points Assigned: 3

Damn. I had no idea. I didn't think of clover of herbacious, but it is edible. I may have given this too many points. 

5. Sixteenth-century Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator is remembered today for his namesake cylindrical projection of the Earth's surface (with its major distortion at the polar regions), but he also coined what titanic neologism used commonly today for a collection of maps?
Correct Answer: ATLAS
Your Answer: Atlas
Points Assigned: 1

That is an Atlas. I had no idea the word was made up by Mercator. 

 
6. Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy, and Alton were the seven towns that famously hosted large crowds (reportedly upwards of 18,000 in Galesburg) that gathered to watch what duo?
Correct Answer: STEPHEN DOUGLAS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Your Answer: Simon and Garfunkle
Points Assigned: 2

Oh.