Jesse Day 4

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1. A mammoth, seven-volume 20th-century work, sometimes referred to as La Recherche in its native French, is usually known by one of two titles in English. Give either of these English titles.
Correct Answer: IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME/REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
Your Answer: The Memories
Points Assigned: 2

I don't speak French, but Recherche seemed like it could be memories. I have never heard of these books. 

2. Identify the car company founder who achieved auto racing immortality with his innovation of placing the car's engine at the rear of the chassis. Despite that, he (and his name) may be more closely associated with his role in developing a performance version of the British Motor Corporation's Mini in the early 1960s.
Correct Answer: JOHN COOPER
Your Answer: Alston
Points Assigned: 2

Ugh. Stupid miss.  I was thinking of the Austin Mini, but wrote Alston, and of course, it is a mini Cooper. 

3. Name the artist who released the song "Ojos Así", from her 1998 album Dónde Están los Ladrones?, and recorded its English adaptation "Eyes Like Yours" for 2001's Laundry Service (her first English-language studio album).
Correct Answer: SHAKIRA
Your Answer: Shakira
Points Assigned: 1

I wish I could have written the answer in the Papyrus font. 

4. What memorable 1993 movie was shot in what were (accordant with its setting) often frigid conditions, but in Woodstock, Illinois—near the home of its star actor—and not in the movie's real-life Pennsylvania location?
Correct Answer: GROUNDHOG DAY
Your Answer: Groundhog Day
Points Assigned: 0

One of my favorites. 

5. King of Scots Malcolm III, aka Malcolm Canmore, conquered southern Scotland in the mid-11th century but did not become king until 1057, when he defeated and killed what previous ruler, who himself may be best known today as a theatrical character?
Correct Answer: MACBETH
Your Answer: Macbeth
Points Assigned: 1

I had to think to myself, was Macbeth a real person? I didn't have a better answer.  

6. While it had formal use in older classification systems, the term mycota is often used today in a general sense as a synonym for what taxononomic kingdom in biology?
Correct Answer: FUNGI
Your Answer: Worms
Points Assigned: 3

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