Marcus LL99 Match Day 13 -- Confirmation



Player: BrowningM

1. In 1979, Providence College basketball coach Dave Gavitt led an effort to form what athletic conference, of which he would become the first commissioner in a role he held until 1990?
Correct Answer: BIG EAST CONFERENCE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

US sports is a graveyard for me

2. In what the BBC described as a "stunning comeback", who currently serves as the UK's secretary of state for foreign, commonwealth and development affairs (aka foreign secretary), having replaced James Cleverly (who himself replaced the dismissed Suella Braverman as home secretary)?
Correct Answer: DAVID CAMERON
Your Answer: david cameron
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Is this a gimme for Americans ?

3. What is the one-word scientific term for the liquid, high in vitamins, antibodies, and nitrogen, that is secreted from mammary glands immediately before and during the first few days after giving birth?
Correct Answer: COLOSTRUM
Your Answer: colostrum
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme for parents 

4. What did the television characters Willow Rosenberg, Samantha Stephens, and Sabrina Spellman, along with a set of sisters from San Francisco with the last name of Halliwell, have most notably in common?
Correct Answer: WITCHES
Your Answer: witches
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I'm now humming the theme to bewitched 

5. In 1989, after the departures of Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant, and Brown's replacement Johnny Gill, the remaining members of the vocal group New Edition formed what hip-hop trio, practitioners of new jack swing?
Correct Answer: BELL BIV DEVOE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I couldn't even come up with a guess

6. While there are smaller, lesser-known airline alliances across the globe (e.g., U-FLY Alliance, Value Alliance, Vanilla Alliance), three major alliances dominate the passenger aviation industry. The largest of these three is the Star Alliance. Name either of the other two.
Correct Answer: SKYTEAM, ONEWORLD
Your Answer: one world
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I have used my BA air-miles many times