Jesse Day 4

4/6, I think.

1. "En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor." So begins what novel?
Correct Answer: DON QUIXOTE
Your Answer: Don Quixote
Points Assigned: 0

The only musical I ever saw was Man of La Mancha starring Sheena Easton and Raoul Julia. 

2. Hypokalemia is the name for a condition when the blood serum contains a low level of what mineral?
Correct Answer: POTASSIUM
Your Answer: Iron
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea. 

3. Laurel, Mississippi, provides the primary setting (and indirectly, the title) for what HGTV renovation series starring local husband-and-wife team Ben and Erin Napier?
Correct Answer: HOME TOWN
Your Answer: Plantation Renovation
Points Assigned: 1

That is a terrible name. I prefer mine, even with its troubled connotations. 

4. In typography, a symbol called a "pilcrow" indicates what?
Correct Answer: PARAGRAPH (BREAK)
Your Answer: New paragraph
Points Assigned: 3

I think I get credit for this. This was total guess. 

5. What misnamed musical instrument (actually a woodwind from Central Europe) has a slightly conical bore, a double reed, and a bulb-shaped bell—effectively an alto oboe?
Correct Answer: COR ANGLAIS/ENGLISH HORN
Your Answer: English Horn
Points Assigned: 2

This was an educated guess. 

6. The Christian belief that the Virgin Mary was taken up to heaven, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life provides the name for which South American capital city?
Correct Answer: ASUNCIÓN
Your Answer: Asuncion
Points Assigned: 2

I knew it right away. I have been to Paraguay, but not Asuncion.