Jesse Day 17

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1. On June 17, 1994, an estimated 95 million Americans watched live news coverage that largely centered on what vehicle (make and model required)?
Correct Answer: FORD BRONCO
Your Answer: Ford Bronco
Points Assigned: 0

It came to me pretty quickly. 

2. Wolframite is a principal ore of the metal with what name, given by Professor Torbern Bergman at the University of Uppsala in 1781?
Correct Answer: TUNGSTEN
Your Answer: Aluminum
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea, but I did consider Tungsten as a guess. 

3. Identify the American author who is a two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, for Salvage the Bones, her 2011 novel about a working-class family during the days surrounding Hurricane Katrina, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, her 2017 novel that blends realism and Southern gothic supernatural to explore race and poverty?
Correct Answer: JESMYN WARD
Your Answer: Davis
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

4. What four-word phrase (precisely, an adjectival phrase built around a prepositional phrase), from Act 1, Scene 4 of Hamlet, is now used to describe someone seemingly destined by privileged birth to adopt the genteel habits and tastes of the upper class?
Correct Answer: TO THE MANNER BORN
Your Answer: SIlver Spoon in Mouth
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. 

5. Tchaikovsky titled his Symphony No. 6 in B minor Патетическая , meaning "emotional" or "moving", but the work is best known by what French word, which is also used for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8?
Correct Answer: PATHÉTIQUE
Your Answer: Nocturn
Points Assigned: 1

Nope!

6. What song by English musician Kate Bush, from her 1985 LP Hounds of Love, reached the top of the charts in eight countries, and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2022?
Correct Answer: RUNNING UP THAT HILL
Your Answer: Running up the hill
Points Assigned: 1

Almost. I knew Stranger Things brought the song back into the consciousness, but I could not get the name right.