Jesse day 24

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1. What voracious, predatory, and aggressive South American flesh-eater was the inspiration (and namesake) for a horror film series that began in 1978?
Correct Answer: PIRANHA
Your Answer: Pihrana
Points Assigned: 0

It was the only answer that made sense. 

2. Novelists Anne Tyler and Laura Lippmann are most closely associated with what US city, which provides the setting for the majority of their respective novels as well as Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
Correct Answer: BALTIMORE
Your Answer: Montgomery
Points Assigned: 1

I should have gotten this through the Johns Hopkins connection. 

3. What citrus, an orange hybrid developed in France in the late 18th century and possibly named for a city in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, has a rind that produces an essential oil used in pharmaceuticals, perfumes, confectionery, and Earl Grey tea?
Correct Answer: BERGAMOT
Your Answer: Etrog
Points Assigned: 1

I could not pull the word out of my brain. 

4. The American-born singer Selena, who died tragically in Corpus Christi at the age of 23, has been called the "Queen of" what music style, which is also associated with the music of Grupo Mazz, Emilio Navaira, Ramón Ayala, and Freddy Fender, and whose trademark sound draws from norteño (a musical style of Northern Mexico) and brass music of Czech and German immigrants?
Correct Answer: TEJANO
Your Answer: Mexican Soul
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

5. What is the word missing from the following Cockney expression, which was used in the title of a beloved British sitcom that debuted in the early 80s: "Only fools and [BLANK] work."?
Correct Answer: HORSES
Your Answer: suckers
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

6. Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Kish, Eridu, and Nippur were all city-states located within an ancient, historical, pre-Akkadian, pre-Babylonian region of southern Mesopotamia known by what name?
Correct Answer: SUMER
Your Answer: Assirians
Points Assigned: 3

Nope