Friday, November 17, 2023

Jesse day 5

3/6

1. What distinctive (or maybe not-so-distinctive) bespectacled literary character (of sorts) and world traveler first appeared in print in 1987, in the center of a busy, unnamed town? (British or American name is acceptable.)

Correct Answer: WALLY/WALDO
Your Answer: Waldo
Points Assigned: 0

Feel like a gimmie.

2. The US space program that consisted of a series of lunar spacecraft missions designed to obtain images and data of the moon's surface, prior to the Apollo manned landings, had what name, befitting its mandate of exploring freely over a large area?
Correct Answer: RANGER PROGRAM
Your Answer: Eagle
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

3. In the 2000s, teams from what country (specifically, two teams) have won nearly half (11 of 24) of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, with the most recent win in May 2022 (on a 59th-minute goal by Brazilian left winger Vinícius Júnior)?
Correct Answer: SPAIN
Your Answer: Spain
Points Assigned: 1

I don't follow the sport, but still know this, so it should play easy. 

4. A dish widely recognized as the "national dish of Mexico" is a mole that originated in and is named after what Mexican state (as is the pepper that provides a main ingredient)? The state's capital city is a settlement that sits on Mexican Federal Highway 150D between Mexico City and the Atlantic port of Veracruz. Note, name the state (or the capital city, which has the same name).
Correct Answer: PUEBLA
Your Answer: Oaxaca
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.  I have been to Mexico a few times, but not Puebla. 

5. Name the English artist who released his seventh solo album, titled CHOBA B CCCP (roughly "Back in the USSR") in 1988, consisting of covers of rock oldies and distributed on the Soviet Melodiya label.
Correct Answer: PAUL MCCARTNEY
Your Answer: McCartney
Points Assigned: 1

Seems like the most logical guess. 

6. In the grand unified theory, which describes the behavior of matter at temperatures existing only within the fraction of a second after the big bang, three fundamental forces of physics are unified: the strong force, weak force, and what third?
Correct Answer: ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE
Your Answer: Gravity
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

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