A solid 5
Hard for Americans I suspectPlayer: BrowningM
1. In the British 1971 short film Granny Gets the Point, a young boy helps his grandmother prepare for what the film dubs "D-Day" on February 15 of that year. What does the D of this particular D-Day stand for?
Correct Answer: DECIMALISATION
Your Answer: decimilisation
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
2. Although all golf clubs are fundamentally examples of mechanical devices known as simple machines, which type of club has a name which is the same as that of one of the six classic simple machines?
Correct Answer: WEDGE
Your Answer: wedge
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Well it's not a driver …
3. The gradual and relentless subduction of the tectonic plate known as the Nazca Plate is largely responsible for the creation of what mountain system?
Correct Answer: ANDES MOUNTAINS
Your Answer: andes
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
4. The name of what popular parlor game comes from 18th-century France, where it originated as a riddle-based game that was rather different from its current version?
Correct Answer: CHARADES
Your Answer: charades
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme
5. Nora Helmer, now a successful feminist novelist, returns home after fifteen years to finalize her divorce from Torvald in Lucas Hnath's 2017 Part 2 of what play that premiered in 1879?
Correct Answer: A DOLL'S HOUSE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
That's a stinker
6. What nickname is given to Harry Angstrom, a former high school basketball star who abandons his wife and child in a 1960 novel by John Updike?
Correct Answer: RABBIT
Your Answer: rabbit
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
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