Jesse Day 5

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1. Per the guidelines initially set forth by the International Telecommunication Union and its predecessors (and still in place today in nearly all cases), the country dialing codes for European countries should begin with one of two digits. What are those two digits?
Correct Answer: 3, 4
Your Answer: 3, 4
Points Assigned: 1

I worked in 12 different countries in Europe in my twenties and 90% of my time was spent making phone calls. 

2. In banking, the fraudulent activity of depositing and drawing checks between accounts at two or more banks, to take advantage of the time it takes checks to clear (the "float"), is known by what term, evocative of the activity of keeping the transaction from landing?
Correct Answer: KITING
Your Answer: Circling
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

3. Ain't Misbehavin' is a Broadway musical tribute to (and named after a song by) what bandleader and virtuoso of the stride piano?
Correct Answer: FATS WALLER
Your Answer: Duke Ellington
Points Assigned: 3

Nope! I know enough about Jazz to know this was going to be very difficult. 

4. A class of chemical compounds that contain an oxygen-oxygen single bond, often indicated as —O—O—, are known as what (i.e., compounds that contain this bond have this word in their names)?
Correct Answer: PEROXIDES
Your Answer: Oxide
Points Assigned: 1

Nope

5. The American patriotic vow known as the "Pledge of Allegiance", which is recited at certain ceremonies such as those for new citizens, includes a phrase that was added in 1954 (more than 60 years after its original publication date) and has engendered controversy with respect to the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution's First Amendment. What is that phrase?
Correct Answer: UNDER GOD
Your Answer: Under God
Points Assigned: 0

Very, very easy for Americans. 

6. In 1871, to celebrate the opening of the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Isma'il Pasha commissioned what opera, for 150,000 francs?
Correct Answer: AIDA
Your Answer: Cleopatra
Points Assigned: 2

I knew it was Aida, but the name escaped me.