Jesse Day 1

3/6 Welcome back all!

1. The large (541,000-square-mile) peninsula known in the Inuktitut language as Nunatsuak gives its more common name to what popular British dog breed?
Correct Answer: LABRADOR (RETRIEVER)
Your Answer: Labrador
Points Assigned: 1

It was the first thing that came to mind and could not think of a better answer. 

2. The Latin phrase orbis non sufficit appears on the crest of the arms of the family of what fictional character of literature and film?
Correct Answer: JAMES BOND
Your Answer: Quixote
Points Assigned: 3

Oh, ok.

3. What is the common term for the numerical measure of the concentration (or "potential") of hydrogen ions (i.e., protons) in a substance, devised by Danish biochemist Søren P. L. Sørensen in 1909?
Correct Answer: pH
Your Answer: The Søren Limit
Points Assigned: 1

Nope

4. While Willis Ward was the team's leading scorer and a second-team All-American, what other player, a center, was voted the Most Valuable Player for the (woeful) 1934 University of Michigan Wolverines football team? He would go on to win other elections in his lifetime, though he acceded to his most prestigious role via other means.
Correct Answer: GERALD R. FORD (LESLIE LYNCH KING, JR.)
Your Answer: Gerald Ford
Points Assigned: 0

I knew Ford was a football player at U Mich. 

5. An estimated 10,000 tons of garbage, with some piles nearly seven feet high, were strewn about the streets of what city by late March 2023, after a strike by the city's sanitation workers that began on the sixth of that month?
Correct Answer: PARIS
Your Answer: Paris
Points Assigned: 2

I thought I remembered seeing this in the news. 

6. The central family of the Rugrats TV and film series (which includes Tommy, Angelica, Dil, Stu, Didi, et al.) has what uncommon, food-related last name?
Correct Answer: PICKLES
Your Answer: Macaroni
Points Assigned: 2

I have never seen Rugrats.