Jesse Day 1

3/6 to start the season

1. Who directed the 1983 film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, a master's thesis project at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts that won a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
Correct Answer: SPIKE LEE
Your Answer: Spike Lee
Points Assigned: 1

I am surprised I never heard of this, but it was an easy guess for me. 

2. A literary comedy by Aristophanes, produced in 405 BCE, depicts Dionysus descending into Hades to bring Euripides back to improve the quality of Athenian tragedy, but instead he brings back Aeschylus. This play was titled Batrachoi, which translates into English as what animals?
Correct Answer: FROGS
Your Answer: Dogs
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea, I still have no idea.

3. What 1905 novel by E.M. Forster has a title taken from a line in Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" that begins, "Fools rush in..."?
Correct Answer: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
Your Answer: whilst the wise take their time.
Points Assigned: 3

I could not remember the line. 

4. The city of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is a national administrative capital and a suburb of what other city?
Correct Answer: COLOMBO
Your Answer: Colombo
Points Assigned: 0

I have been to Colombo, but have never heard of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. The "Sri" should make this an easy get. 

5. In 2000, researchers confirmed the existence of a fifth taste known by a word first proposed for this usage in the early twentieth century by the chemist Kikunae Ikeda. What is this word?
Correct Answer: UMAMI
Your Answer: Umami
Points Assigned: 1

This was a gimmie for me. 

6. The women's professional golf tournament known as the Chevron Championship, one of the LPGA Tour's major championships, is sometimes referred to by the name of what late television personality—who co-founded the event in 1972 and whose name was included in the tournament's official name until 2000?
Correct Answer: DINAH SHORE
Your Answer: Hope
Points Assigned: 2

Oh, this should play hard