4/6
Correct Answer: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (U.A.R.)
Your Answer: United Arab Republic
Points Assigned: 2
This was a bit of a guess, but I think I had it hanging around in my brain somewhere.
2. Trainwreck is the title of a three-part Netflix docuseries from 2022 that depicts the unruliness and violent chaos that occurred at a music festival that was also the subject—and the primary title—of a separate HBO documentary subtitled Peace, Love, and Rage. What was the name of that festival (and the HBO documentary)?
Correct Answer: WOODSTOCK 99
Your Answer: Woodstock 2
Points Assigned: 1
2. Trainwreck is the title of a three-part Netflix docuseries from 2022 that depicts the unruliness and violent chaos that occurred at a music festival that was also the subject—and the primary title—of a separate HBO documentary subtitled Peace, Love, and Rage. What was the name of that festival (and the HBO documentary)?
Correct Answer: WOODSTOCK 99
Your Answer: Woodstock 2
Points Assigned: 1
Close.
3. What word, defined generally as an aristocrat or person of high birth, dates from the Roman Republic and the ruling members of the Senate, who controlled all aspects of government and society?
Correct Answer: PATRICIAN
Your Answer: Gentry
Points Assigned: 3
3. What word, defined generally as an aristocrat or person of high birth, dates from the Roman Republic and the ruling members of the Senate, who controlled all aspects of government and society?
Correct Answer: PATRICIAN
Your Answer: Gentry
Points Assigned: 3
Oh, I had no idea.
4. The literary character Jean Louise Finch, who is first introduced in a novel published in 1960, is better known by what nickname?
Correct Answer: SCOUT
Your Answer: Scout
Points Assigned: 2
4. The literary character Jean Louise Finch, who is first introduced in a novel published in 1960, is better known by what nickname?
Correct Answer: SCOUT
Your Answer: Scout
Points Assigned: 2
Wasn't sure how to score this one.
5. Of the US state capital cities named after US presidents, which one is located the farthest west?
Correct Answer: LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Your Answer: Lincoln, Nebraska
Points Assigned: 1
5. Of the US state capital cities named after US presidents, which one is located the farthest west?
Correct Answer: LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Your Answer: Lincoln, Nebraska
Points Assigned: 1
My opponent is good at geography, so I think they may come up with this.
6. Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli proposed an experiment demonstrating that atmospheric pressure determines the height to which a fluid will rise in a tube when it's inverted over a saucer of the same liquid. This notion led directly to the development of what scientific measuring instrument (with which Torricelli is associated today)?
Correct Answer: BAROMETER
Your Answer: Barometer
Points Assigned: 0
6. Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli proposed an experiment demonstrating that atmospheric pressure determines the height to which a fluid will rise in a tube when it's inverted over a saucer of the same liquid. This notion led directly to the development of what scientific measuring instrument (with which Torricelli is associated today)?
Correct Answer: BAROMETER
Your Answer: Barometer
Points Assigned: 0
This feels like the easiest question of the day.
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