Jesse day 25

5/6! Have a great Offseason!

1. The Spingarn Medal, which is awarded annually for outstanding achievement, was first given to cell biologist Ernest E. Just in 1915, and is presented by what American organization that was formed a few years prior?
Correct Answer: NAACP
Your Answer: Smithsonian
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. 

2. Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is considered to have the slowest surface, with its courts rated at a 1 ("slow", on a scale from 1 to 5) by the International Tennis Federation?
Correct Answer: FRENCH OPEN
Your Answer: French Open
Points Assigned: 0

It was that or Wimbleton.

3. Bughead, Barchie, Varchie, and Jeronica were some of the "ships" named by the fandom of what CW series, which wrapped up its seventh and final season in August 2023?
Correct Answer: RIVERDALE
Your Answer: Riverdale
Points Assigned: 1

I have never seen an episode. 

4. Old advertisements for what soap, widely cited as the first antibacterial soap (and today still the top brand of antibacterial bar soap, at least per its own marketing), promised to stop odor before it starts, keeping you fresh round the clock?
Correct Answer: DIAL
Your Answer: Dial
Points Assigned: 1

I figured it was the orange soap and it took me a few moments to come up with Dial. 

5. What dog breed takes its name from a strip of territory bordering the Adriatic Sea in Southwest Croatia, largely barren and mountainous and formerly a part of the Greek province of Illyria?
Correct Answer: DALMATIAN
Your Answer: Dalmation
Points Assigned: 2

I was about to give up when I remembered the Dalmatian coast. 

6. The title of an Ornette Coleman recording from 1960 subtitled A Collective Improvisation is a source for the name of what jazz style, which is mostly undefinable but is characterized by a lack of rules (or a breaking of rules) and a rejection of conventions (like chord progressions, harmony, and melody)?
Correct Answer: FREE JAZZ
Your Answer: Free Jazz
Points Assigned: 2

I used to listen to jazz, but never liked free jazz.