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Correct Answer: SUGAR LAND
Your Answer: Sugar Heights
Points Assigned: 2
I have never been to Texas. Sugar land is familiar now that I see the answer.
2. What was the "ordinary" (and technically inaccurate) name of the English rock band popular in the 1980s—until and after their acrimonious 1987 break up—whose members' first names were Johnny, Andy, Mike, and Steven (though no one was allowed to call him Steven, and no one refers to him by that name, or any first name, today)?
Correct Answer: THE SMITHS
Your Answer: The Sex Pistols
Points Assigned: 2
2. What was the "ordinary" (and technically inaccurate) name of the English rock band popular in the 1980s—until and after their acrimonious 1987 break up—whose members' first names were Johnny, Andy, Mike, and Steven (though no one was allowed to call him Steven, and no one refers to him by that name, or any first name, today)?
Correct Answer: THE SMITHS
Your Answer: The Sex Pistols
Points Assigned: 2
I was never into the Smith or The Sex Pistols. I figured the Johnny they were referring to was Johnny Rotten.
3. What was the last name of the Paris-born German engineer whose name lives on today due to his construction of a "rational heat motor" in 1897, which demonstrated the first compression-ignition engine?
Correct Answer: (RUDOLF) DIESEL
Your Answer: Bessimer
Points Assigned: 1
3. What was the last name of the Paris-born German engineer whose name lives on today due to his construction of a "rational heat motor" in 1897, which demonstrated the first compression-ignition engine?
Correct Answer: (RUDOLF) DIESEL
Your Answer: Bessimer
Points Assigned: 1
Oh, well shoot.
4. Identify the biblical character, presented in Genesis as the nephew of Abraham, who is remembered in association with his wife (unnamed in the Bible), who herself became a pillar of salt.
Correct Answer: LOT/LUT
Your Answer: Lot
Points Assigned: 1
4. Identify the biblical character, presented in Genesis as the nephew of Abraham, who is remembered in association with his wife (unnamed in the Bible), who herself became a pillar of salt.
Correct Answer: LOT/LUT
Your Answer: Lot
Points Assigned: 1
This feels relatively easy.
5. Three Crystal Gems—Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl—live in an ancient temple in the town of Beach City with a quirky, young, half-human, half-Gem boy, as they protect Earth and help the boy learn to control his own powers on what animated TV series?
Correct Answer: STEVEN UNIVERSE
Your Answer: Gemboy
Points Assigned: 3
5. Three Crystal Gems—Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl—live in an ancient temple in the town of Beach City with a quirky, young, half-human, half-Gem boy, as they protect Earth and help the boy learn to control his own powers on what animated TV series?
Correct Answer: STEVEN UNIVERSE
Your Answer: Gemboy
Points Assigned: 3
I have heard of it, but never seen it.
6. The slalom, giant slalom, and downhill are among the events in skiing categorized as Alpine skiing. Cross-country races and ski-jumping events, conversely, are typically categorized by what other term?
Correct Answer: NORDIC SKIING
Your Answer: Nordic
Points Assigned: 0
6. The slalom, giant slalom, and downhill are among the events in skiing categorized as Alpine skiing. Cross-country races and ski-jumping events, conversely, are typically categorized by what other term?
Correct Answer: NORDIC SKIING
Your Answer: Nordic
Points Assigned: 0
Feels like a gimmie.
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