Jesse day 11

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1. What four-word phrase, which was popularized by Horace Greeley in an 1865 editorial about opportunities on the American frontier and became his slogan, was originally coined by J. B. L. Soule in 1851?
Correct Answer: GO WEST, YOUNG MAN
Your Answer: Go west young man
Points Assigned: 1

It took me a minute to get my brain to stop trying to break Manifest Destiny down into four words. 

2. What term introduced by Nielsen Media Research in the 1950s refers to the period when local TV markets were surveyed by the company, with the resulting data used by stations and cable channels to set advertising rates and establish their programming schedules?
Correct Answer: SWEEPS
Your Answer: Sweeps week
Points Assigned: 2

Gimmie for my age, but someone in their 30s or younger might have trouble. Also, it will be difficult for non-Americans.

3. Goldbach's conjecture states that every even integer greater than two is the sum of two what?
Correct Answer: PRIME NUMBERS
Your Answer: Whole numbers
Points Assigned: 2

I thought that might be the answer. I am terrible at math. 

4. Bodensee, a lake on the Rhine River that borders Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, is known in English by what other name, which derives from the city that sits on the lake's western end?
Correct Answer: LAKE CONSTANCE
Your Answer: Lake Constance
Points Assigned: 3

For a month in 2003 I lived in Rorschach, a town on Lake Constance. 

5. In William Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 18, he declares that "thou art more lovely and more temperate" than what?
Correct Answer: A SUMMER'S DAY
Your Answer: a spring day
Points Assigned: 1

I blame global warming. Summer is no longer temperate. 

6. Although it was founded in 1971, on Piccadilly near Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, what chain began its themed décor motif in 1979, by way of gifts from Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend?
Correct Answer: HARD ROCK CAFÉ
Your Answer: The Hard Rock Cafe
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?