Jesse Day 18

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1. The Epson MX-80 was an example of what type of printer (the most commonly used in the 1970s and 80s in home and personal computing but now largely obsolete, save for various specialized applications), which created characters by striking an ink ribbon with pins?
Correct Answer: DOT MATRIX
Your Answer: Dot Matrix
Points Assigned: 1

Feels like a gimmie

2. The name of what object of anatomy comes from a classical Greek term for "raise" or "lift", which conveys its function of raising or lifting blood?
Correct Answer: AORTA/ARTERY
Your Answer: Heart
Points Assigned: 3

Damn.

3. The History Channel miniseries The Men Who Built America focuses on the stories of five American industrialists and business magnates. Two of these industrialists share last names with the men who would later become beneficiaries of Section 2 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution. Give either last name.
Correct Answer: FORD, ROCKEFELLER
Your Answer: Ford
Points Assigned: 0

I thought of industrialists and Ford had to be toward the top of the list. I wasn't sure what the 25th Amendment, Section 2 was, but figured it likely was what led to Gerald Ford becoming president. 

4. In August 2023, a team at the University of Nebraska broke the unofficial world record for the largest ever attendance at a women's sporting event, when more than 92,000 fans watched the Cornhuskers defeat the University of Nebraska-Omaha in what sport (in which Nebraska is a five-time NCAA champion)?
Correct Answer: VOLLEYBALL
Your Answer: Soccer
Points Assigned: 2

I had entered Vollyball, but then last minute changed it to soccer.

5. The British bank HSBC, which is Europe's largest as measured by total assets, got its start in 1865 in what (at the time) crown colony?
Correct Answer: HONG KONG
Your Answer: Hong Kong
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this. 

6. [BLANK] in August (1932) by William Faulkner, The [BLANK] That Failed (1890) by Rudyard Kipling, The [BLANK] We Lost (2017) by Jill Santopolo—what one word fills the blank in all three of these novels' titles?
Correct Answer: LIGHT
Your Answer: Hope
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!