Jesse Day 2

4/6

1. Circles with a radius of 15 feet (and thus a circumference of 30π feet), of which there are five in total, are a key component in the game play of what sport?
Correct Answer: ICE HOCKEY
Your Answer: Curling
Points Assigned: 3

Shoot, that was a terrible answer. I don't follow hockey, but now I recall the different circles. 

2. What adjective used to describe the city and civilization of Carthage is derived from the name of the Semitic civilization that originally founded Carthage as a colony?
Correct Answer: PUNIC
Your Answer: Punic
Points Assigned: 1

Punic wars

3. Also known as chapati, what is the name of the flatbread—very common in South Asian cuisines—that is made from whole wheat flour and is unleavened (one of the aspects that distinguishes it from naan)? The name comes from a Sanskrit word for bread.
Correct Answer: ROTI
Your Answer: Roti
Points Assigned: 2

I was just in India a few weeks ago. 

4. Año Nuevo, Día de la Constitución, Natalicio de Benito Juárez, Día del Trabajo, Día de la Independencia, Día de la Revolución, [BLANK]. What Spanish word completes this chronological list of Mexican días de asueto?
Correct Answer: NAVIDAD
Your Answer: Muerto
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

5. In the names of the classic American aircraft DC-8, DC-9, and DC-10 (and their so-named predecessors), the "C" stands for "Company". The "D" represents the name of this original company that merged with another aerospace manufacturer in 1967, and that combined company merged with Boeing in 1997. What does the "D" stand for?
Correct Answer: DOUGLAS
Your Answer: Douglas
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this. 

6. Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa portrays the fifteenth "official" version of a character from what popular television series?
Correct Answer: DOCTOR WHO
Your Answer: Dr. Who
Points Assigned: 0

I don't watch the show, but I think this is a gimmie.