Jesse Day 3

4/6

1. What campy 1989 Patrick Swayze movie, perhaps remembered for its ridiculous fight scenes, was remade into an equally brawly 2024 version with Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role?
Correct Answer: ROAD HOUSE
Your Answer: Road House
Points Assigned: 1

I did not see either, but am familiar with them. 

2. In the lyrics of the 1971 song "Imagine", John Lennon invites listeners to imagine that certain things, ideas, etc., do not exist. What is the first thing he says to imagine there isn't?
Correct Answer: HEAVEN
Your Answer: Heaven
Points Assigned: 0

Possible gimmie.

3. What is the name of the hard, black variety of lignite—a lightweight and carvable gemstone capable of being highly polished—that can be found in North America and continental Europe but is sourced chiefly from Yorkshire, England? Its name is possibly more familiar via an expression used to describe something extremely dark in color.
Correct Answer: JET
Your Answer: Obsidian
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I went down the wrong path.

4. What name for a type of wind would also fit on a list that includes coho, chum, pink, and sockeye?
Correct Answer: CHINOOK
Your Answer: Chinook
Points Assigned: 2

Whenever I hear Chinook winds I think of the salmon and vice versa. 

5. What word, which in English can be defined as an introductory proposal, took on a new meaning in the mid-seventeenth century for a particular type of musical piece for instruments?
Correct Answer: OVERTURE
Your Answer: Motion
Points Assigned: 3

Nope

6. Nations and territories that have undergone partition (legally or effectively) in modern history include Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, Vietnam, and what other island country, a member of the European Union since 2004?
Correct Answer: CYPRUS
Your Answer: Cyprus
Points Assigned: 1

Pretty easy geography question.