Jesse Day 8

3/6

1. A satellite television service was launched by Rupert Murdochâ€"owned News International in 1989, merged with British Satellite Broadcasting in the early 1990s, evolved to become Europe's largest media company and pay-television broadcaster, and is now owned by American media conglomerate Comcast. What is the trade name of this company, headquartered in the London Borough of Hounslow?
Correct Answer: SKY
Your Answer: Sky
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie.

2. Two tiny roles—a complaining customer in a grocery store and a bank employee—are filled by the only women with speaking roles in what exceedingly popular (and exceedingly male-dominated) 1994 movie?
Correct Answer: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Your Answer: Shawshank Redemption
Points Assigned: 1

My initial though was Reservoir Dogs, but I figured that was 1992 and not overwhelmingly popular.  Shawshank is one of, if not the most popular film according to many audience rating websites and the timing was right. I should have put the The there. 

3. What word, from the Greek for "one's own" or "personal" and "suffering", is used in medicine to describe a disease or condition that arose spontaneously or has no identifiable cause?
Correct Answer: IDIOPATHIC
Your Answer: Hystopathic
Points Assigned: 2

I got it half right. 

4. A pâte brisée filled with egg custard and cooked bacon, onion, and cheese is a dish named after what region now in Northeastern France, where it originated?
Correct Answer: LORRAINE
Your Answer: Lorraine
Points Assigned: 1

I am familiar with the dish. 

5. What Olympic sport is also well-known by an onomatopoeic name that was trademarked by English sports companies Jacques of London and Hamley Bros. in 1900, with US naming rights acquired by Parker Brothers shortly thereafter and owned since the 1970s by a company called Escalade Sports?
Correct Answer: TABLE TENNIS/PING-PONG
Your Answer: Squash
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

6. What one name is missing from this chronological list: Koizumi, [BLANK], Fukuda, AsÅ , Hatoyama, Kan, Noda, [BLANK], Suga, Kishida?
Correct Answer: ABE
Your Answer: Tetsuo
Points Assigned: 3

I should have gotten this.