Player: BrowningM
1. What French daily newspaper—the country's oldest national newspaper—is named after a sly and subversive character from two works by author Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (and from their subsequent operatic adaptations)?
Correct Answer: LE FIGARO
Your Answer: le figaro
Points Assigned: 1
2. A 1927 event that began on Long Island's Roosevelt Field and concluded the following evening at Le Bourget in Paris is the alleged source of the name for what dance craze, popular during the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s?
Correct Answer: LINDY HOP
Your Answer: lindy hop
Points Assigned: 2
Knew this and about the flight
3. Bern-born author Johann David Wyss's most famous work is an 1812 novel that describes the adventures of a family often mistaken to have what name (as it's their name in many of the book's adaptations, and is in the book's title)?
Correct Answer: ROBINSON
Your Answer: swiss famil robinson
Points Assigned: 0
Didn't really read the question but presumably this will be ok
4. The names of two cities—one in Montana, the other in Arizona—also denote two different geographical features that are distinguished only by their size. What are the names of these two cities?
Correct Answer: BUTTE, MESA
Your Answer: mountain hill
Points Assigned: 1
5. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget is remembered for his work and theories pertaining to what cohort, as referenced specifically by the missing last word in the title of his seminal work, The Origin of Intelligence in [BLANK]?
Correct Answer: CHILDREN
Your Answer: children
Points Assigned: 2
6. Groundbreaking artist and graphic designer Susan Kare first achieved fame in the 1980s in her work at what company, where she was responsible for many design elements and artifacts that remain popular today—including a dogcow named Clarus and a smiley-face graphic of the company's signature product (at the time)?
Correct Answer: APPLE COMPUTER
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
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