Jesse Day 22

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1. The Gutenberg discontinuity and the MohoroviÄ ić discontinuity are significant in geology as the inner and outer boundaries, respectively, of what?
Correct Answer: (EARTH'S) MANTLE
Your Answer: Mantle
Points Assigned: 2

It was a guess based on the wording. 

2. In statistics, the t-distribution is used to estimate population parameters in samples that have an unknown variance or are small in size. The distribution's name is often preceded by what word, a pseudonym used by Guinness Brewery chemist William Sealy Gosset in a 1908 paper that describes the distribution?
Correct Answer: STUDENT/STUDENT'S
Your Answer: Pint
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

3. What is the world's most populous Muslim-majority country? It has roughly the same population as Egypt, Iran, and the entire Arabian Peninsula combined.
Correct Answer: INDONESIA
Your Answer: Indonesia
Points Assigned: 1

Fun bit of trivia. 

4. According to a 1924 statement by the poet André Breton, the aim of what artistic and literary movement (associated with Brauner, Dalí, Ernst, Kahlo, Magritte, Miró, et al.) was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality"?
Correct Answer: SURREALISM
Your Answer: Surrealism
Points Assigned: 0

I feel like this is easy for an art question. 

5. "Slowly" is the English translation of the title of what pop song, a version of which landed at the #2 spot on Billboard magazine's 2017 Year-End Hot 100 chart (behind Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You")?
Correct Answer: DESPACITO
Your Answer: Despacito
Points Assigned: 1

When I read "translation" and the time period, Despacito came to mind. My Spanish is mostly long forgotten, but Despactio seemed like it could be slowly. 

6. In an endless runner video game popular on Android and iOS devices since its release in 2012 (and reportedly the most-downloaded mobile game of the 2010s), the playable character, per the game's title, surfs through what environment?
Correct Answer: SUBWAY
Your Answer: Temple
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of a Subway runner. I thought Temple Run was the famous version, but the surfing made no sense in the clue.