Marcus LL102 Match Day 3 -- Confirmation

3/6 vs Seif , had a nightmare. Didn't read one q properly and gave up immediately on the football and country music and suspect my defence is terrible too


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From: notifications@learnedleague.com
Date: 28 August 2024 at 11:09:48 BST
To: marcusjbrowning@me.com
Subject: LL102 Match Day 3 -- Confirmation
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Player: BrowningM

1. In mathematics, the sum of a real number and an imaginary number, expressed typically as x + iy or a + bi, is referred to most often as what kind of number?
Correct Answer: COMPLEX NUMBER
Your Answer: complex
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

2. What word, defined as a large trunk or suitcase used for traveling, is perhaps better known in its newer, literary sense, as coined and utilized frequently by Lewis Carroll?
Correct Answer: PORTMANTEAU
Your Answer: portmanteau
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nice question he chortled 

3. Lisa Turtle on Saved by the Bell, The Cheetah Girls' Galleria Garibaldi, Buttercup in The Princess Bride, Det. Tony Costas in the straight-to-video Collision Course, and Margaret White in the 1976 film Carrie—all of these roles were portrayed by actors who have first names with what commonality?
Correct Answer: NAMES OF BIRDS
Your Answer: robin
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Read the bloody question !

4. Four teams in college football's highest-level Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) took in zero players through the transfer portal in 2024. One of the four was Clemson. Name any one of the other three, all of which share a particular and unique distinction among FBS teams.
Correct Answer: ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE
Your Answer: notre dame
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Is this easy for Americans ? I didn't have a clue but looks like it could be 

5. What type of object appears in Claude Monet's The Gare Saint-Lazare (quite fittingly) as well as René Magritte's Time Transfixed (much less so)?
Correct Answer: TRAIN/LOCOMOTIVE
Your Answer: train
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

6. Traveller (2015), From a Room: Volume 1 (2017), and Starting Over (2021), all of which won the Academy of Country Music Awards Album of the Year, the Country Music Association Awards Album of the Year, and the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, are releases by what artist?
Correct Answer: CHRIS STAPLETON
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Not my genre 

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