Monday, November 13, 2023

Marcus day 1

It's nice to have it back I'd been missing it.

5/6

Player: BrowningM

1. The name of what strongman completes a list that also includes Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael?
Correct Answer: TITO
Your Answer: Tito
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Didn't really get the strongman reference but tried not to overthink it.


2. The ideal of humanity found in Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, when translated into English, is the title of an unrelated movie from 1978. What is that word, which also appears in the titles of numerous other works in film and other media?
Correct Answer: SUPERMAN/ÜBERMENSCH
Your Answer: superman
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme
3. Audio, The Complex, and THREE are music albums by what ultramarine performance art ensemble, which has been resident off-Broadway in New York since 1991?
Correct Answer: BLUE MAN GROUP
Your Answer: blue man group
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Pretty big clue
4. Now commonly used to mean waste or something old, discarded, or of poor quality, what word also once referred to a type of Chinese sailing ship that—belying the current definition—included the most sophisticated and seaworthy ships in the world in the 15th century?
Correct Answer: JUNK
Your Answer: junk
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme
5. What is the name (or abbreviation) of the unit for measuring heat in which the temperature of one pound of water is raised by one degree Fahrenheit?
Correct Answer: BRITISH THERMAL UNIT (BTU)
Your Answer: BTU
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Hope this is is difficult but I've been a slapdash as ever with my defensive points.
6. Today, the Big Three automakers in the United States are Ford, General Motors, and what other company, the result of a 2021 merger between the PSA Group (aka Peugeot) and the Fiat Chrysler conglomerate?
Correct Answer: STELLANTIS
Your Answer: fiat chrysler
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I have never heard of this, I don't know how much that is due to British ignorance and how much is due to it not being well known..


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