Jesse Day 5

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1. Avellaneda, Olivos, San Isidro, Tigre, and La Boca are neighborhoods or suburbs of what city, once capital of the Spanish viceroyalty of La Plata?
Correct Answer: BUENOS AIRES
Your Answer: Buenos Aires
Points Assigned: 2

La Boca is where the most important futbol team has their stadium. I remember having a really nice sausage outside the stadium. 

2. What is the one-word job title shared (though not necessarily in the same capacity) by the television characters Dwayne Schneider, Nathan Bookman, and Gary Chalmers?
Correct Answer: SUPERINTENDENT
Your Answer: Doctor
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.

3. The works of Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov include Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and what 1896 play, his first major work, which, despite its title, is actually set somewhere inland in present-day central Russia or Ukraine?
Correct Answer: THE SEAGULL
Your Answer: The Sea
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.

4. What is the common name of the wild, arching, thorny shrub which is the source of dewberries, raspberries, and blackberries (and in some countries is used as a name for the common blackberry itself)?
Correct Answer: BRAMBLE
Your Answer: Bramble
Points Assigned: 0

I was able to think of Brambleberries because of the children's book Jamberry

5. What are the most famous and most remembered four words spoken from the steps of West Germany's Rathaus Schöneberg in June 1963?
Correct Answer: ICH BIN EIN BERLINER
Your Answer: Ich bien ein Berliner
Points Assigned: 1

I think some people will have trouble with the first three words. 

6. Name the Italian engineer and inventor, born in 1903, whose name lives on today via the hydrotherapeutic pump he developed to alleviate the arthritis pain suffered by his infant son.
Correct Answer: CANDIDO JACUZZI
Your Answer: Gauss
Points Assigned: 3

Damn.... I had heard this bit of trivia before but it did not click with me.