Jesse day 22

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1. "Hot spices" is an English translation of the name for what combination of aromatic spices used in Indian cooking, which may include cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cardamom pods, peppercorns, cinnamon, and cloves?
Correct Answer: GARAM MASALA
Your Answer: Curry
Points Assigned: 1

I don't eat spicy stuff. 

2. Peel My Love like an Onion, Humboldt's Gift, The Time Traveler's Wife, Sister Carrie, Native Son, The Man with the Golden Arm, and The Jungle are all works of literature set in what city?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO
Your Answer: Chicago
Points Assigned: 1

I was pretty sure The Jungle was set in the meatpacking district of Chicago. Otherwise I had no idea.

3. In October 2021, a US Senate commerce subcommittee heard testimony from Frances Haugen, who had leaked thousands of internal documents to the Wall Street Journal and Congress and revealed her identity on CBS's 60 Minutes two days prior to her testimony. Haugen was a former product manager for what company, whose parent company rebranded later in that month?
Correct Answer: FACEBOOK/META
Your Answer: Facebook
Points Assigned: 0

I sort of remembered this story, but the timing of the Meta transition clinched it for me. 

4. In 1917, three children reported apparitions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in a city in Central Portugal that itself shares a name with the daughter of the prophet Muhammad. What is that name, which is now (due to these apparitions) a Catholic title for Mary ("Our Lady of ____")?
Correct Answer: FATIMA
Your Answer: Fatima
Points Assigned: 2

I just knew this right away.

5. While it has been referred to by many exotic names throughout history by its neighbors, including "Hidden Holy Land", "Lotus Garden of the Gods", and "The Southern Valley of Medicinal Herbs", what country has for centuries been known natively as Druk Yul ("The Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon")?
Correct Answer: BHUTAN
Your Answer: Bhutan
Points Assigned: 3

I am going to Bhutan this summer. The only sobriquet I knew was Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon.

6. Identify the town in the district of Cornwall, in Southwest England, that was popular in the 1880s as a tranquil resort destination, contrary to its contemporaneous (and contemporary) association with comic piracy.
Correct Answer: PENZANCE
Your Answer: Pezance
Points Assigned: 2

I am shocked this was right. I saw the word piracy and immediately thought of the Pirates of Penzance. I know nothing beyond the name and didn't know Penzance was in England but it was better than my other guess, which would be Brighton.