Jesse day 14

4/6

1. Li Ronghao, G.E.M., Eason Chan, JJ Lin, and Jay Chou are musical artists who achieved great success in what popular music genre (a subgenre and branch of C-Pop), of which the Taiwan-born Chou is frequently dubbed the "King"?
Correct Answer: MANDOPOP
Your Answer: T-Pop
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of the answer. 

2. A story from the Old Testament during which, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess the sins of the Israelites over a particular animal's head and then drive the animal into the wilderness, is the source for what word common today?
Correct Answer: SCAPEGOAT
Your Answer: Scapegoat
Points Assigned: 1

Feels like a gimmie.

3. According to some sources, what portmanteau was coined in the early 1900s as a synonym for "London particulate matter" (though it is not unique to that city)? It's a phenomenon with several serious proven health effects and has been reported as the possible cause for the deaths of thousands of individuals in Delhi, India, every year.
Correct Answer: SMOG
Your Answer: Smog
Points Assigned: 0

Feels easy unless you overthink it somehow. 

4. John Stuart Mill's influential 1859 essay, which asserts that the state may interfere with individual freedoms only to protect other individuals, is titled "On" what?
Correct Answer: LIBERTY
Your Answer: Liberty
Points Assigned: 2

This was a guess that I was not confident in.

5. What password, used in countless TV shows, movies, books, and other media, first appeared in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
Correct Answer: SWORDFISH
Your Answer: open sesame
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

6. Give the mathematical adjective most often used to describe scales of measurement, such as the decibel and pH scales, in which an increase of one unit represents a tenfold increase in the quantity measured.
Correct Answer: LOGARITHMIC
Your Answer: Logarithmic
Points Assigned: 1

I was pretty sure this was right even though I am bad with math.