Jesse Day 16

4/6

1. Of Athenian dramatist Sophocles's 123 plays, only seven remain intact, including three relating to Oedipus and his children: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and what third, named after and centered on Oedipus and Jocasta's daughter?
Correct Answer: ANTIGONE
Your Answer: Oedipus Rex
Points Assigned: 1

I was really confident this would be right even though I haven't read any Sophocles since high school. 

2. 1950's "Rollin' Stone" was the first single on the Chicago-based Chess record label by what artist, who was born McKinley Morganfield in (or around) 1915 and raised near Clarksdale, MS?
Correct Answer: MUDDY WATERS
Your Answer: Muddy Waters
Points Assigned: 3

I have a three-disc Muddy Waters box set I bought in college. 

3. According to on-screen text that opens the film, what 1999 movie is based on found footage shot five years prior by three student documentary filmmakers?
Correct Answer: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Your Answer: The Blair Witch Project
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie

4. The policy with respect to Latin America during the early Franklin D. Roosevelt administration had what popular name, which today may be more associated with State Farm Insurance, but in the 1930s reflected America's intended hands-off approach and military withdrawal from the region?
Correct Answer: GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY
Your Answer: Good Neighbor Policy
Points Assigned: 2

Good clue. I would not have gotten it without State Farm.

5. A border crisis and humanitarian crisis erupted in the summer of 2021 as tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, attempted to enter the European Union from what country, in an orchestrated act by that country in retaliation for the EU's economic sanctions against it?
Correct Answer: BELARUS
Your Answer: Belarus
Points Assigned: 1

I followed this in the news. 

6. Leland McKenzie, Douglas Brackman, Ann Kelsey, Arnie Becker, and Stuart Markowitz were among the large cast of characters on what acclaimed ensemble drama, which aired Thursday nights at 10:00 pm (ET) on NBC from 1986 to 1994?
Correct Answer: L.A. LAW
Your Answer: Hill Street Blues
Points Assigned: 2

I am just a bit too young to have had any interest in LA Law