Jesse Day 5

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1. What city, founded in its present location in 1519 by Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez, was originally located on its country's south coast, and was the site of a disputed event that triggered a war in 1898?
Correct Answer: HAVANA, CUBA
Your Answer: Havanna
Points Assigned: 2

I figured this was the Spanish American War they were referring to, so that would mean Havana. Havana is on the North Coast. It was easy to rule out Santo DOmino as that is on the Southern Coast already. 

2. "Players may choose from 1 to 10 numbers between 1 and 80, in hopes that some or all will be randomly selected by the centralized computer." This is a quote from the Rhode Island Lottery for what game, which is also popular in casinos (especially to the casinos themselves, given the game's huge house edge)?
Correct Answer: KENO
Your Answer: Roulette
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea and knew roulette could not be right. I have heard of Keno, but was not going to pull it. 

3. Various versions of a certain African American spiritual include lines such as "Gonna lay down my sword and shield", "Gonna put on my golden shoes", and "Gonna meet my dear old mother". What line, sung three times, follows each of these preceding lines, is a common title of the spiritual, and is the location where these activities will take place?
Correct Answer: DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
Your Answer: Down by the Riverside
Points Assigned: 1

I sang this in elementary music class. It feels like a gimmie, but that is the American in me. 

4. What type of dog, whose three breeds are "Standard", "Miniature", and "Giant", has a German name which colloquially means "mustache"—rather appropriate, given the dog's distinctive facial appearance?
Correct Answer: SCHNAUZER
Your Answer: Schnauzer
Points Assigned: 1

Schnauzers have the stache. 

5. Of the fifteen current sovereign states that were republics of the Soviet Union, identify the one whose national flag has three equal horizontal stripes of white, blue, and red (from top to bottom).
Correct Answer: RUSSIA
Your Answer: Russia
Points Assigned: 0

I was worried the answer was too obvious and that there was another former soviet country that had the three colors in a different order. 

6. Five-year-old Margarita, the daughter of King Phillip IV of Spain, is surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting as they visit the atelier of the Spanish Court painter Diego Velázquez. This is the scene for a complex, influential, and variously interpreted painting from 1656 with what name (which translates to "The Maids-of-Honor")?
Correct Answer: LAS MENINAS
Your Answer: Honore del Senoritas
Points Assigned: 3

I have never heard of it.