Fwd: LL99 Match Day 16 -- Confirmation

6 pack boom!

Player: BrowningM

1. Who decreed a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu, per the opening of a poem published in 1816?
Correct Answer: KUBLA KHAN
Your Answer: kublai khan
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I like Keats and his odes but Coleridge was the man! Who can disagree with Laudanam trips interrupted by a man of porlock..

2. Identify the Tuscan of the 12th–13th centuries who learned of the "new" Arabic numerals during travels in North Africa and the Middle East, and helped popularize their use in Europe via a historic 1202 book describing the numeral system?
Correct Answer: FIBONACCI
Your Answer: fibonacci
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for Marco Polo cos kublai khan polluted my mind 

3. In a famous 1904 play and related works, Londoners George and Mary Darling are minor characters who have three children: sons John and Michael, and a daughter with what rare-at-the-time name?
Correct Answer: WENDY
Your Answer: wendy
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Simples 

4. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 a commemoration day with a name by which it was known from 1938, when Congress made it a federal holiday, until 1954, when it received its current name. What was this holiday's original name?
Correct Answer: ARMISTICE DAY
Your Answer: armistuce day
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I guessed the British name a rare advantage for a Brit 

5. What geographical term for a long and gradual curvature in a shoreline that forms a large, open bay is used in the name of the "Great Australian" one formed by that land mass's southern coastline?
Correct Answer: BIGHT
Your Answer: bight
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Good bless the BBC and the shipping forecast …

6. A "light-emitting" type is a well-known example of what device, a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current in one direction but not the other?
Correct Answer: DIODE
Your Answer: diode
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme 

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