Jesse Day 18

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1. The term derived from the name of the late 18th/early 19th-century German physician Franz Mesmer has been broadly usurped in the English vernacular (thanks to a Scottish doctor named James Braid) by what now much more common synonym, a word that itself is derived from ancient Greek?
Correct Answer: HYPNOTISM/HYPNOSIS
Your Answer: Hypnosis
Points Assigned: 1

Mesmer = Mesmerism, which means hypnosis. 

2. The original version of the game Wii Sports that shipped with the Nintendo Wii in 2006 had five different game options. Three were golf, baseball, and tennis. Name either of the other two.
Correct Answer: BOXING, BOWLING
Your Answer: Bowling
Points Assigned: 0

I played a lot of Wii Sports. 

3. Santa Ana, San Diego, Santa Monica, Antelope Valley, Ventura, Hollywood, Harbor, Ronald Reagan, Golden State, and Glenn M. Anderson (or Century) are all names in Southern California of what, precisely (per their respective full names)?
Correct Answer: FREEWAYS
Your Answer: Boulevards
Points Assigned: 2

I have spent very little time in Southern California. I knew there was a Hollywood Boulevard and Ventura Boulevard. Oh well. 

4. Ernest J. Gaines's 1971 historical narrative of a former enslaved woman who lives to see the inception of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was published as a fictional woman's "Autobiography". What was her name, which was also used for the Emmy-winning television adaptation starring Cicely Tyson?
Correct Answer: (MISS) JANE PITTMAN
Your Answer: Jones
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

5. "A wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom" (or something along those lines) is a lyric to one of the most seminal songs in rock and roll history (almost surely one of the most seminal with a non-English title). What is that song, recorded by Little Richard in 1955?
Correct Answer: TUTTI FRUTTI
Your Answer: Tutti Frutti
Points Assigned: 1

Feels like a gimmie. 

6. What base unit defined by the International System of Units (SI) is equal to 6.24x10<SUP>18</SUP> electrons per second (or one coulomb per second)?
Correct Answer: AMP/AMPERE
Your Answer: Mole
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.