Friday, June 7, 2024

Jesse Day 14

3/6 I was lucky to come away with three today. 

1. The 1940 play My Sister Eileen tells the story of two Ohio sisters who move into an apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in the 1930s to become a famous writer (Ruth) and actress (Eileen). This play was adapted into what 1953 musical?

Correct Answer: WONDERFUL TOWN
Your Answer: A Star is Born
Points Assigned: 1

I have never heard of this play. My opponent is really good at theatre. 

2. The municipality of Teterboro, New Jersey (2020 population: 61) is best known for being the home of what type of facility?
Correct Answer: AIRPORT
Your Answer: Airport
Points Assigned: 0

Easy for someone from Northern NJ/NYC. Unfortunately, my opponent lives in Brooklyn. 

3. Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle's 1662 law states that what two characteristics of a given amount of gas are inversely proportional (in a closed system with temperature unchanged)?
Correct Answer: PRESSURE, VOLUME
Your Answer: Volume and Pressure
Points Assigned: 2

This was a guess.

4. When the word Furioso is removed from the title of a 16th-century romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto, it becomes the title of a 1928 fantasy novel by Virginia Woolf as well as the name of the hero in Shakespeare's As You Like It. What is that name?
Correct Answer: ORLANDO
Your Answer: Doug
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. If Thorsten had added in that it is also the name of an American city with a population of roughly X I still would not have gotten it. 

5. Finnish record producer and DJ Darude is best known for what 1999 single—played frequently at sporting events and referred to often in internet memes—whose title might evoke a dust devil or haboob?
Correct Answer: SANDSTORM
Your Answer: Sand Storm
Points Assigned: 1

Total guess based on descritption. I had no idea there was a song named sandstorm. 

6. Psycwave, Everseer, Blazestone, Tradewind, Stormicide, Gamma Jack, and Macroburst are among the entries in the Kronos database in what 2004 film?
Correct Answer: THE INCREDIBLES
Your Answer: World of Warcraft
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

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