Jesse Day 14

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1. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published the first map using what name for the New World? The name was chosen in honor of the explorer who had described a Mundus Novus back in 1504.
Correct Answer: AMERICA
Your Answer: America
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie unless you overthink it. 

2. In the geographical mnemonic HOMES, what does the "H" stand for?
Correct Answer: HURON
Your Answer: Huron
Points Assigned: 1

It took me a bit, but I was able to figure it out. 

3. The word "Sparrow" often appears in the names of social clubs organized around what game, as its name roughly translates to sparrow in English and the sounds of the game are said to evoke the birds' sounds?
Correct Answer: MAHJONG
Your Answer: Darts
Points Assigned: 3

Nope!

4. According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get?
Correct Answer: LOW
Your Answer: A grill
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

5. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded in 2025 to Percival Everett for his reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of the book's central enslaved character. What proper name provides the one-word title of this novel?
Correct Answer: JAMES
Your Answer: Jim
Points Assigned: 2

I remembered his name, but that wasn't enough. 

6. Simone Leigh's 16-foot-tall sculpture Brick House, depicting a Black woman whose torso merges into a clay house structure, was the inaugural display on Manhattan's High Line in 2019, and stood on a square block base known as a what? This term denotes a support that is low, broad, and horizontal, unlike a taller and narrower pedestal.
Correct Answer: PLINTH
Your Answer: Podium
Points Assigned: 1

Nope!