Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Jesse day 16

3/6

1. What word is the comic counterpart to seria in the names of common genres of opera?

Correct Answer: BUFFA
Your Answer: tour
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea

2. What is the name of the jazz-tinged space Western anime series, set in the year 2071, which first aired in Japan in 1998, was popular upon its premiere in the US on Adult Swim in 2001, and was adapted into an unsuccessful live-action version on Netflix in 2021?
Correct Answer: COWBOY BEBOP
Your Answer: Cowboy Bebop
Points Assigned: 2

I have never seen either, but read about the Netflix show being canceled.

3. The present borders of the mainland United States were completed in 1854 upon the completion of the purchase of a strip of land, just under 30,000 square miles in area, negotiated by and named after what US Minister to Mexico?
Correct Answer: JAMES GADSDEN
Your Answer: Houston
Points Assigned: 2

I could not remember it. 

4. Billy Bob Thornton, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks, Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, Ted Danson, Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis, Chris Rock, Jason Schwartzman, Ben Whishaw, Juno Temple, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jon Hamm have all starred in the main cast of what TV series that premiered in 2014?
Correct Answer: FARGO
Your Answer: Fargo
Points Assigned: 0

I have seen all the seasons. I was pretty sure I knew the answer by the time I got to Colin Hanks and then Jesse Plemons sealed it. 

5. Real Madrid, Anadolu Efes, CSKA Moscow, Fenerbahçe, and Maccabi Tel Aviv are recent winners of the most prestigious European trophy in what sport?
Correct Answer: BASKETBALL
Your Answer: Soccer
Points Assigned: 1

I had soccer down and should have stuck with it. 

6. The large wide ring of tens of thousands of small celestial bodies thought to be composed of mostly ice that comprise the Kuiper Belt are referred to as KBOs ("Kuiper Belt Objects"). Alternatively, they are sometimes called TNOs—what does the "N" in TNO stand for?
Correct Answer: NEPTUNE/NEPTUNIAN
Your Answer: Neptune
Points Assigned: 1

It was the only N that made sense. 

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