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1. Spanish is one of the official languages of Bilbao, a port city on the Bay of Biscay. What is the other, which is not related to Spanish (or any other European language)?
Correct Answer: BASQUE/EUSKARA
Your Answer: Basque
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: BASQUE/EUSKARA
Your Answer: Basque
Points Assigned: 0
I used to work in Spain for an advertising agency owned by a Basque man. This was an easy question for me, but I wonder how it will play for everyone else.
2. Within the four largest North American professional sports leagues (the NFL, MLB, the NBA, and the NHL), which is the only team that is named after a literary talking bird? (Both the team's location and its name are required.)
Correct Answer: BALTIMORE RAVENS
Your Answer: Baltimore Ravens
Points Assigned: 2
2. Within the four largest North American professional sports leagues (the NFL, MLB, the NBA, and the NHL), which is the only team that is named after a literary talking bird? (Both the team's location and its name are required.)
Correct Answer: BALTIMORE RAVENS
Your Answer: Baltimore Ravens
Points Assigned: 2
Ravens came to me right away. I am glad I didn't have to grind this one out.
3. The particles that carry cholesterol through the human bloodstream to the cells are known most commonly by what name? They are divided into two main groups—"high density" (HDL) and "low density" (LDL).
Correct Answer: LIPOPROTEINS
Your Answer: Lipomenes
Points Assigned: 3
3. The particles that carry cholesterol through the human bloodstream to the cells are known most commonly by what name? They are divided into two main groups—"high density" (HDL) and "low density" (LDL).
Correct Answer: LIPOPROTEINS
Your Answer: Lipomenes
Points Assigned: 3
I have high cholesterol, so should know this, and was very confident in my answer.
4. Russian smetana (a typical ingredient of beef Stroganoff) and Polish śmietana (commonly served as a salad dressing or with pierogi) are most closely equivalent to a food known in English by what name?
Correct Answer: SOUR CREAM
Your Answer: Sour Cream
Points Assigned: 2
4. Russian smetana (a typical ingredient of beef Stroganoff) and Polish śmietana (commonly served as a salad dressing or with pierogi) are most closely equivalent to a food known in English by what name?
Correct Answer: SOUR CREAM
Your Answer: Sour Cream
Points Assigned: 2
You put sour cream on pierogis.
5. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870â€"71 was provoked by a telegram (and Otto von Bismarck's alteration thereof) that was sent by the Prussian king Wilhelm. What is the three-letter name of this telegram, based on the Prussian spa town from which the king sent Bismarck the "Dispatch"?
Correct Answer: EMS
Your Answer: SPA
Points Assigned: 1
5. The Franco-Prussian war of 1870â€"71 was provoked by a telegram (and Otto von Bismarck's alteration thereof) that was sent by the Prussian king Wilhelm. What is the three-letter name of this telegram, based on the Prussian spa town from which the king sent Bismarck the "Dispatch"?
Correct Answer: EMS
Your Answer: SPA
Points Assigned: 1
I had heard of those, but I had no chance of pulling it.
6. What hard-rock band did the musicians born Chaim Witz, Stanley Eisen, and Peter Criscoula form in New York in 1972, before adding a guitarist later that year to complete the group's original (and most iconic) lineup?
Correct Answer: KISS
Your Answer: KISS
Points Assigned: 1
6. What hard-rock band did the musicians born Chaim Witz, Stanley Eisen, and Peter Criscoula form in New York in 1972, before adding a guitarist later that year to complete the group's original (and most iconic) lineup?
Correct Answer: KISS
Your Answer: KISS
Points Assigned: 1
I knew the lead singer of KISS had a very Jewish-sounding name.
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