Monday, June 17, 2024

Marcus LL101 Match Day 20 -- Confirmation



4/6 never getting the other 2


Player: BrowningM

1. A legendary July 1985 event in London's Wembley Stadium provides the climax for what 2018 film?
Correct Answer: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Your Answer: Bohemian Rhapsody
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme 
2. "In [BLANK] art the idea or [BLANK] is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a [BLANK] form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair." In this quote, from a 1967 article by American artist Sol LeWitt, a form of the same word fills in all three blanks. What is that word (in adjective or noun form)?
Correct Answer: CONCEPTUAL/CONCEPT
Your Answer: conceptual
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3


I've got a set of very limited edition Lewitt prints on my wall.
3. What university has won NCAA Division I softball's Women's College World Series (WCWS) eight times since the year 2000, including seven times since 2013 and all four years from 2021 to 2024?
Correct Answer: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Your Answer: boston college
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme a break
4. The year 2020 marked the 60th anniversary of what British soap opera, which centers on the lives of residents on a cobbled thoroughfare in the fictional Greater Manchester town of Weatherfield?
Correct Answer: CORONATION STREET
Your Answer: coronation street
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1


This is such a gimme for Brits
5. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), whose purview includes the development and control of uncrewed spacecraft, is managed for the agency by what university?
Correct Answer: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CALTECH)
Your Answer: caltech
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


In the middle of my comfort zone.

6. Jerry Byrd, Pete Drake, Buddy Emmons, Lloyd Green, Shot Jackson, Ralph Mooney, and Buck West were all members of a broad and legendary "Nashville A-Team" of musicians that performed on hundreds of hit country albums over the decades. They were all elite players of what instrument, which is most closely associated with country music as well as Hawaiian music?
Correct Answer: STEEL GUITAR
Your Answer: ukulele
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


All I could think of was Elivs strumming a ukulele in an Hawaiian shirt 



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