Jesse Day 6

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1. Among the vast contributions to American culture and cuisine by Jewish immigrants from Romania in the 19th century is what spiced, smoked, and steamed delicacy and delicatessen staple, whose name comes from the Romanian verb for "to preserve"?
Correct Answer: PASTRAMI
Your Answer: Pastrami
Points Assigned: 1

My father is from Romania and I had no idea Pastrami was Romanian. I was able to guess it because nothing else came close to the description. 

2. Point guard and NBA All-Star Richie Guerin led the visiting New York Knicks with 39 points in a high-scoring affair played in the Hershey Sports Arena on March 2, 1962. What Warrior led all scorers that night?
Correct Answer: WILT CHAMBERLAIN
Your Answer: Wilt Chamberlin
Points Assigned: 0

That is the 100 point game. 

3. The Best Actor winner for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Best Years of Our Lives, the director of The Heartbreak Kid and Ishtar, and the writer/director of Me and You and Everyone We Know and Kajillionaire—these three individuals have last names that share what distinction, most notably?
Correct Answer: MONTHS
Your Answer: Brands of Hot Dogs
Points Assigned: 2

The only one of those films I saw was Me and You and Everyone We Know, and I loved it, but could not remember Miranda July's name. 

4. One of the first American magazines targeted toward women (in 1884) and the first American magazine of any kind to reach one million subscribers ceased monthly print publication in 2014, with its last newsstand issue published in 2016. What was the three-word name of this "Seven Sisters" periodical?
Correct Answer: LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
Your Answer: Ladie's Home Journal
Points Assigned: 1

I feel this came up in recent years in LL. That was the only way I could have known it. 

5. The Chinese nationalist party founded and led by Sun Yat-Sen shortly after the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, and still today a prominent party in the politics of Taiwan, is often referred to in the west by what three-letter abbreviation?
Correct Answer: KMT
Your Answer: TDP
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

6. The two-empire system of biological classification divided all cellular life into prokaryota and eukaryota. The more current and prevailing three-domain system retains eukaryote and splits prokaryota into two domains. Name either of these two.
Correct Answer: BACTERIA, ARCHAEA
Your Answer: Fungi
Points Assigned: 3

Nope.