Jesse Day 23

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1. A meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, of world leaders and individuals hostile to the United States (Fidel Castro, Idi Amin, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pahpshmir, et al.) is disrupted by a Los Angeles police lieutenant at the beginning of what 1988 movie?
Correct Answer: THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD!
Your Answer: Naked Gun
Points Assigned: 1

It has been a while since I saw The Naked Gun, but I knew Frank Drevan was an LA police officer and the scene was too ludicrous for other LA cop films such as Beverly Hills Cop and Lethal Weapon

2. In a musical story from 1871, Radamès, a captain in the Egyptian Army, is the love interest of both the king's daughter, Amneris, and what enslaved Ethiopian princess?
Correct Answer: AIDA
Your Answer: Suleme
Points Assigned: 1

Shoot, that is what I was trying to think of. 

3. Between the atmosphere above and the asthenosphere (the part of the mantle "without strength") below are the solid, outermost layers of the Earth—the rigid, upper part of the mantle, and the crust. This firm planetary shell is known by what name, derived in part from the Greek for "stone"?
Correct Answer: LITHOSPHERE
Your Answer: Troposhpere
Points Assigned: 2

Nope

4. The "Beginner Books" series, published by Random House beginning in 1957, had contributions from Helen Palmer, P.D. Eastman (the series' art director), and Bennett Cerf, but is most associated with the works of what other author?
Correct Answer: DR. SEUSS (THEODOR GEISEL)
Your Answer: Hardy
Points Assigned: 2

Damnit, I have looked at the "beginner book series" label a ton of time when reading these books with my daughter. She is 9 now, so it has been a few years. 

5. Sakuntala, The Mature Age, and The Waltz are among the popular works by what late-19th/early-20th-century French sculptor? She was not famous in her own time, but posthumously gained acclaim for her works and talent later in the 20th century, especially via numerous biographies and films about her life that were produced beginning in the 1980s (and which often focused on her association with Auguste Rodin and her mental health struggles later in life).
Correct Answer: CAMILLE CLAUDEL
Your Answer: Cassat
Points Assigned: 3

Nope.

6. From Susan Rice, beginning in 2009, to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, currently in the role, the last five individuals to hold the office of Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Nations (on a non-interim basis) have been women. Name any one of the three women who served in the position on a permanent basis between Ambassadors Rice and Thomas-Greenfield.
Correct Answer: SAMANTHA POWER, NIKKI HALEY, KELLY CRAFT
Your Answer: Nikki Haley
Points Assigned: 0

The only one I could remember was Haley.