Thursday, March 13, 2025

Jesse Day 23

5/6

1. According to the lyrics of a song that currently shares the record for most weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "There's a party downtown near 5th Street, everybody at the bar" doing what?
Correct Answer: GETTIN' TIPSY
Your Answer: Kung Fu Fighting
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea. I know nothing about current music. 

2. The 1973 agreement among North and South Vietnam and the United States was officially named the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam, but is colloquially better known as "Peace Accords" named after what city, where the agreement was signed?
Correct Answer: PARIS
Your Answer: Paris
Points Assigned: 2

I thought it was Paris, then thought that would not be a neutral location. Considered bangkok and then went back to Paris because I have neve heard of any Bangkok Peace Accrods. 

3. The prefix "petro-", used in words such as petroleum and petrology, comes from Latin and earlier Ancient Greek words for what?
Correct Answer: STONE/ROCK
Your Answer: Rock
Points Assigned: 3

I knew the name for Petra came from rock. 

4. What is the last name of the sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Correct Answer: BENNET
Your Answer: Bennet
Points Assigned: 1

I haven't read them in a while.  I knew it started with B and then spent 10 minutes trying to get the name Bowers out of me head. 

5. Remains of a subspecies of Homo erectus found in northern China starting in the 1920s are known as what "Man", a term now often used for all Homo erectus fossils from China?
Correct Answer: PEKING MAN
Your Answer: Peking
Points Assigned: 2

Gimmie?

6. Mario, Pikachu, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Sonic, Ryu, Sora, Link, Pac-Man, and Wii Fit Trainer are among the characters that have appeared in what Nintendo fighting game series?
Correct Answer: SUPER SMASH BROS.
Your Answer: Smash Brothers
Points Assigned: 0

I think leaving of Super should be OK. I have never played it.

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