4/6 and I was relieved after Brian's "clarification" that Twaingate didn't effect the result of my match.
Player: BrowningM
1. What word links the name of the Grand Ole Opry comic who wore the $1.98 hat and the name of a band who waged a costly, years-long feud with Ticketmaster beginning in the 1990s?
Correct Answer: PEARL
Your Answer: stones
Points Assigned: 3
Not heard of either
2. The expression "too big to fail", associated with the theory that some institutions are so large and interconnected with the economy that their failure would have outsized impacts on the economic system, was coined in the 1980s, but during the 2008 financial crisis, it was commonly used to describe several entities—and especially the actual collapse and bankruptcy of what financial-services firm, which was founded in 1850 and was (prior to its failure) the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States?
Correct Answer: LEHMAN BROTHERS
Your Answer: lehman brothers
Points Assigned: 0
3. Proposed legislation in New York State titled the Bird Safe Buildings Act, and retroactively renamed the "Feathered Lives Also Count" Act, has received renewed energy after the untimely death of a Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from the Central Park Zoo and perished after colliding into a residential building. What was this owl's name?
Correct Answer: FLACO
Your Answer: flaco
Points Assigned: 2
Famous for glass and 19th century personal adds..4. The plateau of Bohemia and the lowland of Moravia are two regions that constitute the majority of the area of what country?
Correct Answer: CZECHIA/CZECH REPUBLIC
Your Answer: czech republic
Points Assigned: 1
5. What Paul Newman film character, preternaturally talented at egg eating, earned his moniker via a prison poker game, in which the character bluffs his way to the pot?
Correct Answer: COOL HAND LUKE
Your Answer: cool hand luke
Points Assigned: 1
Great film
Not a clue6. Allegedly originating during the Depression era, a type of hamburger served "Oklahoma" style is a smashburger served on a bun with cheese, optional condiments, and what other necessary ingredient?
Correct Answer: (FRIED) ONIONS
Your Answer: egg
Points Assigned: 2
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