Marcus day 4

6/6 very happy

Player: BrowningM

1. The culinary technique of crimping or making slashes, grooves, or decorative marks on vegetables or pastries shares a name with both a long, French, baguette-like crusty bread stick and a musical instrument. What is that name?
Correct Answer: FLUTE
Your Answer: flute /fluting
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Is this badly worded? I was worried it was wrong cos the grammar in the question is so bad.

2. A 1952 coup led by General Mohamed Naguib forced the abdication and ended the reign of the last king of what country?
Correct Answer: EGYPT
Your Answer: egypt
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I'm pretty good at 20century history and 

3. Due to his Expressionist work completed in New York in 1962, Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen will likely forever be associated most closely with what airline?
Correct Answer: TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES (TWA)
Your Answer: TWA
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for Pan Am but managed to avoid the trap.

4. In particle physics (and in common terminology), a lepton with a rest mass of 9.1093897(54) x 10^-31</sup>kg and a negative charge of 1.60217733(49) x 10^-19</sup> coulombs is best known by what term?
Correct Answer: ELECTRON
Your Answer: electron
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Simples…now had it been a muon or a tau…

5. What is the name used for the formal equestrian discipline—either its own competition or part of a larger, three-day event—that tests the horse's obedience skills via a series of movements at walk, trot, and canter?
Correct Answer: DRESSAGE
Your Answer: dressage
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

6. The Walt Whitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" was written to commemorate the death of whom (the poem's Captain, who has "fallen cold and dead")?
Correct Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Your Answer: abe lincoln
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew but it's very guessable too so only gave 1 point 

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