Jesse Day 8

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1. What was the last name of the brothers who operated a haberdashery for many years on the corner of 49th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, in a building they would come to own for decades (and name after themselves), and which would become a locus for American popular music?
Correct Answer: BRILL
Your Answer: Brooks
Points Assigned: 3

I have heard of this, but there is no way I would have gotten this answer. 

2. The October 1986 summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which defied expectations by nearly ending the Cold War arms race and bringing about nuclear disarmament, took place in what European capital city?
Correct Answer: REYKJAVIK
Your Answer: Vienna
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. Vienna was a cold war city border city, so that was my best guess. 

3. Until October 2018, the name of a famous bridge (originally the Narrows Bridge) was officially misspelled for more than fifty years due to a typo in a construction contract (as it properly has two double letters, not just one). What was this misspelled word (correct spelling not required)?
Correct Answer: VERRAZZANO
Your Answer: Verazzano
Points Assigned: 1

We went over it many times and I drove over its replacement a month ago to go to a wedding. 

4. The best-selling American football video game is known by the shorthand "Madden"; the best-selling basketball series is "2K'; baseball's is "MLB the Show". What is the common short name for the best-selling soccer video game series of all time (and by far the biggest for any sport)?
Correct Answer: FIFA
Your Answer: FIFA
Points Assigned: 1

I have never played it. I was sure if it was FIFA or FIFA World Cup, but guessed right. 

5. What is the meteorological term for a brief, sudden, violent windstorm, lasting longer than a gust (at least a minute) but shorter than a sustained wind? (It is derived etymologically from a Nordic term—perhaps nautical, perhaps meaning to "cry out"—and is at the center of a 1996 Ridley Scott box office disappointment.)
Correct Answer: SQUALL
Your Answer: Squall
Points Assigned: 0

I went between gale and squall and got lucky. 

6. The Nadine Gordimer novels The Late Bourgeois World (1966), Burger's Daughter (1979), and July's People (1981) were set in, and banned in, what country?
Correct Answer: SOUTH AFRICA
Your Answer: Iran
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I have heard of her and probably included one of her books on one of my companies book lists for traveling to South Africa.