Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Jesse Day 3

2/6

1. Serengeti National Park and the adjoining Ngorongoro Conservation Area together cover nearly 9,000 square miles (roughly 23,000 km^2</sup> or 5.7 million acres, larger than the state of New Jersey), in what country?
Correct Answer: TANZANIA
Your Answer: Tanzania
Points Assigned: 1

I have never been, but my company runs Tanzania trips often. 

2. The 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson—the largest corporate merger in U.S. history at the time and an effort to compete with the "Big Three" car manufacturers—begat what new automaker, later a buyer of Kaiser Jeep in 1970 and itself acquired by Chrysler in 1987?
Correct Answer: AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION (AMC)
Your Answer: Dodge
Points Assigned: 1

Shoot, I thought I had gotten it.

3. Four of the "Five Civilized Tribes" (a historical term for certain Native American nations forcibly moved to Oklahoma in the 1800s) had names beginning with "C": Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee. What was the fifth tribe, a heterogeneous group formed in Spanish Florida from various other tribes a few decades earlier?
Correct Answer: SEMINOLE
Your Answer: Chawnee
Points Assigned: 2

I should have read the clue more closely. 

4. The affable-looking anthropomorphic dog created by American artist Phillip Banks, who wears a grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans, and red Converse sneakers, and who lowkey DGAF, has what two-word name?
Correct Answer: CHILL GUY
Your Answer: Spuds McKenzie
Points Assigned: 2

Never heard of him. 

5. In June 2025, activists unfurled a newsworthy 30-square-foot banner reading, "If you can rent [REDACTED] for your wedding, you can pay more tax." What city was named on the banner?
Correct Answer: VENICE
Your Answer: Venice
Points Assigned: 0

I saw news coverage of the Bezos wedding. 

6. The Good Soldier (1915) and the Parade's End tetralogy (1924-28) are works from what British novelist, a founder and first editor of the English Review whose middle name was Madox and whose first and last names were the same?
Correct Answer: FORD MADOX FORD
Your Answer: Bruce Madox Bruce
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of him. 

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