Jesse day 5

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1. The sturdy-heeled Deba, the versatile Santoku, the delicate Usuba, and the narrow Yanagiba are all different Japanese types of what?
Correct Answer: KNIVES
Your Answer: Knives
Points Assigned: 2

I have a Santoku knife.

2. In a regular polyhedron, all faces are congruent regular polygons. There are five such solids: the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and what other?
Correct Answer: DODECAHEDRON
Your Answer: dodecahedran
Points Assigned: 1

I don't know why I know it, but I do. 

3. What saturated fatty acid, a waxy solid commonly found in lard and beef tallow (its name comes from "tallow" in Greek) but also present in plant oils such as shea butter and cocoa butter, is widely used in the production of soaps and candles and has extensive pharmaceutical and industrial applications?
Correct Answer: STEARIC ACID
Your Answer: Folic Acid
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.

4. The nickname given by a stalker named Martha to her target named Donny is the title of what award-winning and critically lauded Netflix miniseries?
Correct Answer: BABY REINDEER
Your Answer: Sweet Reindeer
Points Assigned: 0

Shoot, I did not watch it and got it mangled with Sweetooth, another deer-based show I did not watch. 

5. In early 2002, the euro replaced the schilling, franc (three different ones), markka, deutschmark, drachma, pound, guilder, escudo, and peseta. One currency is missing from this list—what is its name?
Correct Answer: LIRA
Your Answer: Lira
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

6. What term is used for the religious movements, primarily found in Melanesia since the late 1800s and during the period of Western colonization, in which adherents believe that the arrival of a supernatural shipment of goods sent by spirits will signal a new paradise?
Correct Answer: CARGO CULTS
Your Answer: Pre-consumermystism
Points Assigned: 3

Damn, I have heard of it.