Jesse Days 4 and 5

Back to back 3/6 

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once, Civil War, Uncut Gems, and Lady Bird are among the top-grossing films of what independent film and television production company, whose alphanumeric name derives from an Italian motorway?
Correct Answer: A24
Your Answer: 4Q
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea even though I have seen all four films. 

2. A small, silvery commercial fish of the herring family found in the North Atlantic has a name that is also the surname of a lipophobic nursery rhyme character. What is that fish?
Correct Answer: SPRAT
Your Answer: Anchovie
Points Assigned: 2

Nope! I don't know this nursery rhyme. 

3. In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the "exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light. This third factor is known as what?
Correct Answer: ISO/FILM SPEED
Your Answer: ISO
Points Assigned: 3

I was a professional photographer very early in my career. 

4. Carl and the Passions was reportedly an early name for what band, which later released an album by that name? Despite that name, it's likely that most fans would credit Brian as the group's creative leader.
Correct Answer: THE BEACH BOYS
Your Answer: The Beach Boys
Points Assigned: 0

I figured Brian was likely Brian Wilson. Karl and the Passions also felt of that age. 

5. Name either of the teams that officially joined the Southeastern Conference for the 2024 college football season.
Correct Answer: TEXAS, OKLAHOMA
Your Answer: Georgia
Points Assigned: 2

I do not pay attention to college football at all. 

6. Tenth-century Anglo-Saxon king Æthelstan is usually regarded as the first king of a unified England, but what earlier king—his grandfather—claimed kingship over all Anglo-Saxons and thus may also have some claim to the title? He is (so far) the only native English monarch known as "The Great".
Correct Answer: ALFRED
Your Answer: Alfred
Points Assigned: 1

I just listened to a many-part series on English history on The Rest is History podcast.

1. Which of the 24 official languages of the European Union is unique for being in the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family (the other 23 are Indo-European or Uralic), though it's written in the Latin alphabet and heavily influenced by English and Italian?
Correct Answer: MALTESE
Your Answer: Maltese
Points Assigned: 2

I tried to think of countries that have heavy English influence and Malta made the most sense. I have been there and felt this would play hard. 

2. "Times Gone By" is an idiomatic translation of the Scots-language title of what poem by Robert Burns, written in 1788 and popularized in a new context by Guy Lombardo in the 1920s?
Correct Answer: AULD LANG SYNE
Your Answer: Auld Lang Syne
Points Assigned: 1

I was happy guessing this. And had no idea who Guy Lombardo was. I thought of time and Auld Lang Syne came to me. 

3. The greatest success of American poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters's was a series of monologues, spoken by deceased residents of a fictional small Midwestern town and compiled as an Anthology named after the town. What is the name of that town (or the waterway the town's named after)?
Correct Answer: SPOON RIVER
Your Answer: Allegheny
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.  Never heard of this. 

4. Allegheny, Augusta, Vandalia, and Kanawha were among the names considered (and discarded) for what US state, which eventually became the 35th to be admitted to the union in 1863?
Correct Answer: WEST VIRGINIA
Your Answer: Minnesota
Points Assigned: 1

I feel like an idiot. I know the Allegheny river goes between Ohio and PA, but PA was an original 13 and Ohio was one the earliest states after the 13, so I looked west. I just watched a youtube video two days ago about how West Virginia's first capital was pretty much due West of Pittsburgh and there is a panhandle. Ugh, bad miss. 

5. The symbol used for a certain mathematical concept was introduced by Leibniz in the 1680s and is based on the long "s" in Latin script, resembling the phonetic symbol for the "esh" sound. By what word is this mathematical concept most commonly known?
Correct Answer: INTEGRAL
Your Answer: Prime
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

6. For good reasons, the word RELENTS will likely never be the solution in the Bonus Round of what game show that debuted on NBC in 1975?
Correct Answer: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Your Answer: Wheel of fortune
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?