Jesse day 3

2/6 Ouch

1. Excluding accent marks, exactly one independent continental South American country's common one-word name is spelled differently in English and its prevailing official language. What is that country?
Correct Answer: BRAZIL/BRASIL
Your Answer: Argentina
Points Assigned: 2

Ugh. I know the official name is Argentine Republic so I stopped thinking there and did not read the question properly. 

2. The 2003 book The Meaning of Everything, by London-born author Simon Winchester, tells the story of what other work, which was first published in 1884, and formally under its current title since 1933?
Correct Answer: OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (OED)
Your Answer: Oxford English Dictionary
Points Assigned: 0

It was my best guess given the clues. 

3. The retail establishment widely cited as the first legitimate department store opened its doors to provide a "good bargain" to local Parisians in 1838. What was the name of this store?
Correct Answer: BON MARCHÉ
Your Answer: Voila-mart
Points Assigned: 3

I lived in France in 2003, but sadly could not pull any department stores. Went for best wrong answer. 

4. Christian Slater played the title character of what television series that aired on the USA Network from 2015 to 2019, playing an enigmatic anarchist who leads a group of hacktivists aiming to take down the multinational "Evil Corp"?
Correct Answer: MR. ROBOT
Your Answer: Mr. Robot
Points Assigned: 1

I watched all of the episodes. 

5. A popular but surely false etymology for the name of what cut of beef, taken from between the lower ribs of the animal and the rump, regards England's King James I, who appreciated the cut so much he elevated it to knighthood?
Correct Answer: SIRLOIN
Your Answer: Prime Rib
Points Assigned: 2

My first thought was Sir, but somehow did not think of sirloin. 

6. What gland, named for its shape and located deep in the brain near the corpus callosum, synthesizes the hormone melatonin, and thus plays a significant role in biological rhythms such as the sleep-wake cycle?
Correct Answer: PINEAL GLAND
Your Answer: Pituitary
Points Assigned: 1

Nope!!!! I knew I had the wrong gland, but could not remember pineal.