Jesse Day 6

3/6

1. In sheet music, the F clef is nearly always placed on the fourth line of the staff (second line from the top), where it is known as the "bass clef". When the F clef is placed on the third line, what other name is it known by?
Correct Answer: BARITONE CLEF
Your Answer: Alto Clef
Points Assigned: 2

I just took a guess. 

2. Identify the animated film whose plot centers on a 13-year-old witch who takes a job in the fictional Japanese oceanside city of Koriko transporting goods to customers of a local bakery.
Correct Answer: KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
Your Answer: Spirited Away
Points Assigned: 3

I have heard of it, but never saw it. 

3. What is the name of the creamy paste made from toasted ground sesame seeds that is used extensively in Eastern Mediterranean and North African cuisines—both as a dip and as a primary ingredient in such dishes as baba ghanoush, Lebanese tarator, and hummus?
Correct Answer: TAHINI
Your Answer: Thahini
Points Assigned: 0

Spelled it wrong, but this feels pretty easy to this Jew. 

4. From 1942 to 1967, the National Hockey League operated with six franchises. Five were the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. What was the sixth (full team name required)?
Correct Answer: DETROIT RED WINGS
Your Answer: Detroit Red Wings
Points Assigned: 1

I don't follow hockey, but I knew this.

5. Beheading was a frequent thematic element in the works of what late-16th/early-17th-century Italian Baroque artist, with St. John the Baptist, Medusa, Goliath, and Holofernes among those losing (or having recently lost) their heads?
Correct Answer: CARAVAGGIO
Your Answer: Carvaggio
Points Assigned: 1

This was also a guess, but it felt right to me. I was still surprised it was right. 

6. Like many other people in the particular rural areas of the United States where she was born into slavery around 1797, the preacher, women's rights activist, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was a native speaker of what language, whose accent she retained as she learned fluent English later in life?
Correct Answer: DUTCH
Your Answer: French
Points Assigned: 2

Nope! I would not have guessed Dutch.