5/6 I was certain of the ones I got and certain I could never get the other.
Player: BrowningM
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: pass
Points Assigned: 3
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
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
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
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: swordfish
Points Assigned: 1
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: log (arthimiic) scale
Points Assigned: 2
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