Jesse Day 1

Hey all! 5 or 4/6 to start the season.

1. Mike Brady, Elyse Keaton, Ted Mosby, and "Art Vandelay" are all television characters who had what occupation?
Correct Answer: ARCHITECT
Your Answer: Architect
Points Assigned: 2

My first instinct was importer/exporter because of Art Vandelay, but that didn't seem right because I thought Mike Brady was an architect. Then I recalled that Art Vandelay was used several times and had different occupations.

2. The English physicist Robert Hooke, namesake of Hooke's law of elasticity and an innovator of the compound microscope, used this microscope in 1665 to study cork tissues, where he saw "little boxes" that he dubbed what?
Correct Answer: CELLS
Your Answer: Cells
Points Assigned: 0

First thing that popped in my head. 

3. The "blockbuster era" of Hollywood film is widely considered to have begun in 1975, with the June release of a movie that established summer as the season of the action blockbuster. What was this record-breaking film, the highest-grossing of the year and, for a while, of all time?
Correct Answer: JAWS
Your Answer: Jaws
Points Assigned: 2

I was a film major, so this is basic knowledge, but it seems to have been a gimmie for most of you. 

4. Among the many cities in India that have been officially respelled or renamed since the end of the British Raj in 1947 are Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta), Puducherry (Pondicherry), Bengaluru (Bangalore), and Chennai, which was called what until 1996?
Correct Answer: MADRAS
Your Answer: Madras
Points Assigned: 1

I stare at maps often and have been to India twice. Heading there for a third time later this year. 

5. US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), currently the senior member of the majority party in the Senate, serves in what constitutionally mandated role, presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice president?
Correct Answer: PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE
Your Answer: Pro Tempore
Points Assigned: 1

Not sure this will count. 

6. In 1987, the newly formed activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) acquired the rights to an iconic poster that had a solid black background, a pink triangle in the center, and a simple phrase expressed as an equation in bold print at the bottom. What were the two words in this phrase, one on each side of the equal sign?
Correct Answer: SILENCE, DEATH
Your Answer: Denial Death
Points Assigned: 3

I knew the sentiment, but could not recall it completely.