Finally a 6, lots of medium difficulty questions that suited me
1. What Japanese pinball game takes its name from the sound of the steel balls bouncing off the machine's little brass pins?
Correct Answer: PACHINKO
Your Answer: pachinko
Points Assigned: 0
2. Among English playwright Peter Shaffer's numerous theatrical successes are two plays, from 1973 and 1979, that were later adapted to film and that both, coincidentally, have titles in Latin. What is the title of either of these plays?
Correct Answer: EQUUS, AMADEUS
Your Answer: equus
Points Assigned: 3
Wham!3. A panel from a June 1963 issue of a comic book titled Secret Hearts and illustrated by John Romita, Sr., was adapted later that year into a painting titled Crying Girl, one of the two works with that title by what American artist?
Correct Answer: ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Your Answer: roy lichenstein
Points Assigned: 2
4. Identify the French fashion-goods company named after the racecourse in Paris that hosts the annual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe thoroughbred race.
Correct Answer: LONGCHAMP
Your Answer: longchamps
Points Assigned: 1
5. The Soviet-dominated regimes of the Warsaw Pact were toppled during the Eastern Bloc revolutions of 1989—peacefully, except for one. What country, whose Marxist government was the last to fall and whose leader was violently overthrown and executed, was the exception?
Correct Answer: ROMANIA
Your Answer: romania
Points Assigned: 1
6. "Old Kinderhook" was the nickname of what US president, who took office during the financial panic of 1837 and (perhaps as a result) was defeated resoundingly in his reelection attempt?
Correct Answer: MARTIN VAN BUREN
Your Answer: van buren
Points Assigned: 2
He came up in a radio programme I listened to about Hamilton.s federalist papers as a big opponent
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