Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Jesse day 21

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1. Befitting a cold-weather sport played in the Sunshine State, the punny name of the minor-league ice hockey team in Orlando imagines the existence of what fanciful ursine species?
Correct Answer: SOLAR BEARS
Your Answer: Fairy Bears
Points Assigned: 3

I had Sun Bears, but those are real. Considered Gummy bears too. 

2. What WWII icon had previously made her acting debut at age 12 as an uncredited chorus girl in the 1929 film Happy Days before later starring in Pigskin Parade (1936) and Million Dollar Legs (1939)?
Correct Answer: BETTY GRABLE
Your Answer: Davis
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. Wrong Betty. 

3. What is the name (not abbreviation) for the short-range two-way radio communication system that originated in the US in the 1940s and remains associated most closely with long-distance truck drivers, who were primary users of the system?
Correct Answer: CITIZENS BAND RADIO
Your Answer: Channel Broadcaster
Points Assigned: 1

Nope.

4. Drive to Survive is the subtitle of what popular and acclaimed series that launched on Netflix in 2019 and starred Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, and Lewis Hamilton, among others?
Correct Answer: FORMULA 1
Your Answer: Formula 1
Points Assigned: 0

I watched the first few episodes and enjoyed it. 

5. Identify the lyrical mush made from yellow legumes that has been consumed (and liked) in Britain for centuries whether hot, cold, or in the pot over a week old.
Correct Answer: PEASE PORRIDGE/PEASE PUDDING
Your Answer: Mushy Peas
Points Assigned: 1

Never heard of it.

6. There are three poles and several discs of different sizes, all initially on one of the poles in size order with the smallest at the top. The object is to transfer the discs to one of the other poles by moving them individually, with a disc never placed above a smaller one. This is a mathematical toy commonly named a "Tower of" what Asian city?
Correct Answer: HANOI
Your Answer: Singapore
Points Assigned: 2

Nope

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