Monday, May 19, 2025

Jesse Day 6

5/6

1. The West Indies are generally considered to include three island groups: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago. The Lucayan Archipelago, located north of the Greater Antilles, includes the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the islands of what independent country?
Correct Answer: THE BAHAMAS
Your Answer: The Bahamas
Points Assigned: 0

I wasn't positive, but I have been to The Bahamas.

2. In classical architecture, a caryatid is a support column sculpted in the shape of what, in contrast to forms such as a telamon?
Correct Answer: FEMALE FIGURE/WOMAN
Your Answer: Woman
Points Assigned: 1

I know this from the Parthenon. 

3. Organic compounds containing the −SH group known as thiols, which are also called mercaptans, are found widely in nature, including in their relation to what animal in the family Mephitidae with which they're most closely associated?
Correct Answer: SKUNK
Your Answer: Skunks
Points Assigned: 3

Total guess, but seems very guessable. 

4. Name the two individuals who served as speaker of the United States House of Representatives during Donald Trump's first term as president.
Correct Answer: PAUL RYAN, NANCY PELOSI
Your Answer: Boener, McCarthy
Points Assigned: 2

For some reason my brain read it as the two republicans who were speakers, and even then, I was wrong. 

5. Spent brewer's yeast, a byproduct of beer production, has a number of applications, including nutritional supplements, livestock feed and pet food, soil fertilizer, cosmetics, biofuel, and what food product manufactured by Australia's Bega Group?
Correct Answer: VEGEMITE
Your Answer: Vegemite
Points Assigned: 2

I used to live in Australia. 

6. In the Middle Ages, this term referred generally to townspeople who were neither peasants nor nobles, while in Marxism it refers specifically to individuals who control the means of production, and do not live directly by the sale of their labor. What is this term?
Correct Answer: BOURGEOISIE
Your Answer: Bourgeois
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

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