Jesse Day 4

4/6

1. Binky, Bongo, Akbar, and Jeff are among the characters in what comic strip and Simpsons precursor created by Matt Groening in the late 1970s? Compilations published in book form have titles with the same last word, and switch out the strip's first word with "Love", "Work", "School", and others.
Correct Answer: LIFE IN HELL
Your Answer: Life in Hell
Points Assigned: 3

My brother had one of the anthologies. 

2. Because of the way they eat their food and the food itself, and perhaps also somewhat due to a general resemblance in appearance and size, manatees and dugongs are sometimes referred to as "sea" versions of what landlubber animal?
Correct Answer: COW
Your Answer: Cow
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie? I saw a few in the wild last time I was in Florida.

3. What is the name of the fairy, both in Irish folklore as well as that of Scotland's West Highlands, who shrieks and wails when a death is imminent in the family to which she is attached?
Correct Answer: BANSHEE
Your Answer: Banshee
Points Assigned: 1

Banshees be shrieking. 

4. Joy, Triangle, Resurrection, Trial by Fire, Never Too Late, Only the Brave, and Upside Down are 2024 novels by what prolific writer of romance, whose massive oeuvre of over 200 books includes about two dozen that have been adapted into TV movies or miniseries?
Correct Answer: DANIELLE STEEL
Your Answer: Collins
Points Assigned: 2

Ugh. 

5. Name the man who famously and floridly mocked opponents of US involvement in the Vietnam War as "an effete corps of impudent snobs" and "nattering nabobs of negativism", only to later plead no contest to a charge of income tax evasion, subsequently withdrawing from office and public life.
Correct Answer: SPIRO AGNEW
Your Answer: McCarthy
Points Assigned: 2

I drew a blank

6. A standard deck of 108 Uno cards contains five different types of "special action" cards: Skip, Draw Two, Wild, Wild Draw Four, and what other?
Correct Answer: REVERSE
Your Answer: Reverse
Points Assigned: 1

I used to play often when I was a kid.