4/6?
1. Prospero Lambertini, Giacomo della Chiesa, and Joseph Alois Ratzinger have all been known more familiarly by what other proper first name?
Correct Answer: BENEDICT
Your Answer: Benedict
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: BENEDICT
Your Answer: Benedict
Points Assigned: 1
Easy enough
2. An incident from 1810 in which a student accused two headmistresses of a Scottish boarding school of having a lesbian relationship, along with the ensuing scandal and libel case, was the basis for the play The Children's Hour, a drama from 1934 by what American playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist?
Correct Answer: LILLIAN HELLMAN
Your Answer: Simon
Points Assigned: 2
2. An incident from 1810 in which a student accused two headmistresses of a Scottish boarding school of having a lesbian relationship, along with the ensuing scandal and libel case, was the basis for the play The Children's Hour, a drama from 1934 by what American playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist?
Correct Answer: LILLIAN HELLMAN
Your Answer: Simon
Points Assigned: 2
Never heard of them.
3. What 1898 novel, famous in its own right, is also famous for its presentation in the October 30, 1938 installment of the CBS radio series "Mercury Theater on the Air"?
Correct Answer: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Your Answer: War of the Worlds
Points Assigned: 1
3. What 1898 novel, famous in its own right, is also famous for its presentation in the October 30, 1938 installment of the CBS radio series "Mercury Theater on the Air"?
Correct Answer: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Your Answer: War of the Worlds
Points Assigned: 1
I hope I don't get dinged fr missing the "the".
4. Early-19th-century New Orleans apothecary Antoine Amédée Peychaud is remembered (and widely appreciated) today by tipplers for his development of what aromatic product?
Correct Answer: BITTERS (PEYCHAUD'S BITTERS)
Your Answer: Bitters
Points Assigned: 2
4. Early-19th-century New Orleans apothecary Antoine Amédée Peychaud is remembered (and widely appreciated) today by tipplers for his development of what aromatic product?
Correct Answer: BITTERS (PEYCHAUD'S BITTERS)
Your Answer: Bitters
Points Assigned: 2
This was a guess. I don't drink spirits, so wasn't sure if bitters were aromatic, but couldn't think of anything better.
5. "SDCIWC" is an initialism common to many players of the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Per the game's original 1974 rules, the first four letters stand for Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, and Intelligence. What do either of the final two letters stand for?
Correct Answer: WISDOM, CHARISMA
Your Answer: Charisma
Points Assigned: 0
5. "SDCIWC" is an initialism common to many players of the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Per the game's original 1974 rules, the first four letters stand for Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, and Intelligence. What do either of the final two letters stand for?
Correct Answer: WISDOM, CHARISMA
Your Answer: Charisma
Points Assigned: 0
I play DnD.
6. What word, German for "shape" or "form", is defined in English as something that, as a whole, has qualities greater than the sum of its parts? The word is used in psychology to name a type of psychotherapy in which individuals are best viewed as whole entities and best understood in terms of their own perspective on what is happening in their lives at the current moment (vs. what happened in the past).
Correct Answer: GESTALT
Your Answer: Cognitive
Points Assigned: 3
6. What word, German for "shape" or "form", is defined in English as something that, as a whole, has qualities greater than the sum of its parts? The word is used in psychology to name a type of psychotherapy in which individuals are best viewed as whole entities and best understood in terms of their own perspective on what is happening in their lives at the current moment (vs. what happened in the past).
Correct Answer: GESTALT
Your Answer: Cognitive
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea. This feels very gettable.
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