Player: BrowningM
1. What city in northern Alabama, today musically associated with its eponymous "sound" and famous music studios, was named (according to one story) after a feature of the adjacent Tennessee River that was once bountiful with a certain mollusk?
Correct Answer: MUSCLE SHOALS
Your Answer: Muscle shoals
Points Assigned: 2
2. What word does Pizza Hut use to identify (and describe) its menu item which is a pizza topped with beef, pork, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, and green peppers? It becomes "Super" with the addition of Italian sausage, ham, and black olives.
Correct Answer: SUPREME
Your Answer: meat feast
Points Assigned: 1
3. In stock trading, a simple order to buy or sell a security immediately at the best available price is called a "market order", while an order to buy or sell at a specified price (or better) is best known as what?
Correct Answer: LIMIT ORDER
Your Answer: limit order
Points Assigned: 1
4. One of the important routes for settlers moving west during the frontier expansion of the United States ran from Franklin (and later from Independence), Missouri, to what current state capital city (after which the trail is named)?
Correct Answer: SANTA FE
Your Answer: topeka
Points Assigned: 2
5. The equation y^2</sup> = 4ax represents what type of conic section, lying symmetrically about the x-axis with its vertex at the origin, the directrix at the line x = -a, the focus at (a, 0), and a latus rectum length of 4a?
Correct Answer: PARABOLA
Your Answer: parabola
Points Assigned: 0
6. What English word for a particular type of dwelling or house comes from a Hindi word meaning "belonging to [a particular redacted region of the Indian subcontinent]" (a region where this type of home was common and climate-appropriate)?
Correct Answer: BUNGALOW
Your Answer: bungalow
Points Assigned: 3
Easy for Brits hopefully harder for yanks
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