2/6
Correct Answer: BERMUDA
Your Answer: Bermuda
Points Assigned: 0
This feels like a gimmie.
2. Cuisses de grenouille is the name of a French culinary delicacy known in English as what?
Correct Answer: FROG LEGS
Your Answer: Cincinnati-style Chili
Points Assigned: 2
2. Cuisses de grenouille is the name of a French culinary delicacy known in English as what?
Correct Answer: FROG LEGS
Your Answer: Cincinnati-style Chili
Points Assigned: 2
I could not translate any of those words using my rusty beginner-level Spanish.
3. Although it is derived from an Arabic term referring to camels, howdah is the name of an object that is probably more often associated with what other animal?
Correct Answer: ELEPHANT
Your Answer: Horse
Points Assigned: 1
3. Although it is derived from an Arabic term referring to camels, howdah is the name of an object that is probably more often associated with what other animal?
Correct Answer: ELEPHANT
Your Answer: Horse
Points Assigned: 1
I have been on Howdahs before the travel industry acknowledged that Elephants should not be a part of tourism. I did not know that is what they were called.
4. On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine others during an antiwar rally on the campus of Kent State University. Later that same month, law enforcement officers fired dozens of rounds at a dormitory on the campus of what southern HBCU, killing two and injuring twelve?
Correct Answer: JACKSON STATE
Your Answer: Tuskeegee Institute
Points Assigned: 2
4. On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine others during an antiwar rally on the campus of Kent State University. Later that same month, law enforcement officers fired dozens of rounds at a dormitory on the campus of what southern HBCU, killing two and injuring twelve?
Correct Answer: JACKSON STATE
Your Answer: Tuskeegee Institute
Points Assigned: 2
I could not pull it.
5. A certain 1955 song played with a five-accent hambone rhythm (dun--dun--dun---dun-dun---) was recorded by Buddy Holly. This song's writer, who originally recorded the song, had the same name as the song, as well as the beat itself (which became his signature). What is the name shared by that song, beat, and rock and roll pioneer?
Correct Answer: BO DIDDLEY
Your Answer: Peggy Sue
Points Assigned: 1
5. A certain 1955 song played with a five-accent hambone rhythm (dun--dun--dun---dun-dun---) was recorded by Buddy Holly. This song's writer, who originally recorded the song, had the same name as the song, as well as the beat itself (which became his signature). What is the name shared by that song, beat, and rock and roll pioneer?
Correct Answer: BO DIDDLEY
Your Answer: Peggy Sue
Points Assigned: 1
I did not know Buddy Holly had a song called Bo Diddly.
6. Though it can apply to elements in various machines, the term "escapement" is most often used for a necessary mechanism in what type of device (a standard mechanical version of the device, at least)?
Correct Answer: CLOCK/WATCH
Your Answer: Watch
Points Assigned: 3
6. Though it can apply to elements in various machines, the term "escapement" is most often used for a necessary mechanism in what type of device (a standard mechanical version of the device, at least)?
Correct Answer: CLOCK/WATCH
Your Answer: Watch
Points Assigned: 3
Luck guess. "Mechanical version" was how I got there.
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