Jesse day 11

3/6

1. A steep 8,163-foot summit in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia and a similarly symmetrical 12,160-foot peak in California's High Sierra have names that include a word derived from the Greek roots for "equal" and "leg.". This word otherwise appears overwhelmingly most often as an adjective with a specific geometrical usage. What is that word?
Correct Answer: ISOSCELES
Your Answer: Isopod
Points Assigned: 1

Nope.

2. The Carolingian dynasty started (by some historians' measure) in 687 with a ruler who shared a name with a later ruler who was his grandson (by way of son Charles Martel), and this grandson was himself the father of Charlemagne. These two Carolingian rulers (identified as "II" and "the Short" respectively) shared what name?
Correct Answer: PEPIN/PIPPIN
Your Answer: Charles
Points Assigned: 2

I knew this, but blanked and am too busy at work to have this on my mind all day. 

3. Although it's associated with Christian Dior's "New Look" of the post-WWII era and also with Givenchy via Audrey Hepburn in 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's, the "little black dress" as an icon of fashion is considered to have originated in the 1920s, and specifically in a 1926 Vogue magazine feature, with a black dress designed by what French designer and fashion-label namesake?
Correct Answer: COCO CHANEL
Your Answer: Chanel
Points Assigned: 1

It was a guess and I got lucky. 

4. Among the works of art "repeated" by the American artist Sturtevant (Elaine Sturtevant) beginning in the 1960s were Andy Warhol's Cow, Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q., Joseph Beuys's Fat Chair, and what artist's Flag?
Correct Answer: JASPER JOHNS
Your Answer: Johns
Points Assigned: 3

Almost put down Jones. 

5. A broad, circular, slightly convex metal disk hung vertically and struck in the center with a soft-headed beater is a specific gong of indefinite pitch known by what repetitive name?
Correct Answer: TAM-TAM
Your Answer: Bong bong
Points Assigned: 2

I have heard of this retrospect. 

6. The NFL's Super Bowl LVIII, held on February 11, 2024, between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, is the most-watched television program in history, with an estimated 123.7 million viewers across its broadcasts on CBS, Univision, and what cable TV channel (which simulcast the game "live from Bikini Bottom")?
Correct Answer: NICKELODEON
Your Answer: Nickelodeon
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie for Americans?