Jesse Day 6

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1. In September 1925, what 18-year-old suffered multiple serious injuries while riding a bus that slammed into a speeding electric trolley car, and revisited the setting in 1929's The Bus, a painting currently housed at the Museo Dolores Olmedo.
Correct Answer: FRIDA KAHLO
Your Answer: Frida Kahlo
Points Assigned: 0

I saw the movie, but also recently went to a Kahlo museum in Playa Del Carmen.

2. What is the name for the type of musical composition, such as famous works by Frederic Chopin and John Field, that are often languid, meditative, and lyrical, evoking the period of time after which they are named?
Correct Answer: NOCTURNE
Your Answer: Nocturnes
Points Assigned: 2

I am glad this came to me.

3. In 1972, Atari released an arcade version of a simple game similar to one originally invented by William Higinbotham, an Instrumentation Head at Brookhaven National Laboratory who (maybe foolishly) did not patent it when he created it 14 years earlier. What was the name of this revolutionary and lucrative Atari game, which was even more directly inspired by a similar game on the Magnavox Odyssey?
Correct Answer: PONG
Your Answer: Pong
Points Assigned: 1

I considered Breakout, but figured it had to be Pong. 

4. What chemical element, in the halogen group on the periodic table just below chlorine and above iodine, is notable for being one of only two elements that is liquid at room temperature (along with mercury), and for having a particularly sharp and unpleasant odor (its name comes from the Greek for "stench")?
Correct Answer: BROMINE
Your Answer: Sulpher
Points Assigned: 3

Nope! I knew Sulpher was a solid at room temperature, but have barely heard of bromine. 

5. Despite holding his current rank since his introduction in 1963, what seafaring brand mascot with disembodied eyebrows only began wearing sleeves with the appropriate four bars in July 2023?
Correct Answer: CAP'N CRUNCH
Your Answer: Cap'n Crunch
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

6. Marshall McLuhan, the 20th-century media theorist and author of The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, is credited with coining in the first chapter of that latter work the expression "the medium is the [BLANK]" (fill in the blank).
Correct Answer: MESSAGE
Your Answer: message
Points Assigned: 2

I never read any of his books, but I knew the phrase.