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1. One U.S. state has a two-letter postal abbreviation that is the same as the official postal abbreviation of an Australian state. Name the U.S. state.
Correct Answer: WASHINGTON
Your Answer: Washington
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: WASHINGTON
Your Answer: Washington
Points Assigned: 1
Western Australia was the first state that came to mind.
2. Modernist artists and authors who violated accepted conventions to create new artistic forms and styles, and to address unorthodox subject matter, were often described using what term, a French military metaphor used famously in an essay by art critic Clement Greenberg that remains in broad use today?
Correct Answer: AVANT-GARDE
Your Answer: Vanguard
Points Assigned: 1
2. Modernist artists and authors who violated accepted conventions to create new artistic forms and styles, and to address unorthodox subject matter, were often described using what term, a French military metaphor used famously in an essay by art critic Clement Greenberg that remains in broad use today?
Correct Answer: AVANT-GARDE
Your Answer: Vanguard
Points Assigned: 1
This one hurts.
3. Forbes magazine's 2024 list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women began with four non-American governmental officials (Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, Giorgia Meloni, and Claudia Sheinbaum), with the next three spots held by American CEOs (Mary Barra, Abigail Johnson, and Julie Sweet). Name any one of the three companies led by these latter three women.
Correct Answer: GENERAL MOTORS, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, ACCENTURE
Your Answer: Ford
Points Assigned: 2
3. Forbes magazine's 2024 list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women began with four non-American governmental officials (Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, Giorgia Meloni, and Claudia Sheinbaum), with the next three spots held by American CEOs (Mary Barra, Abigail Johnson, and Julie Sweet). Name any one of the three companies led by these latter three women.
Correct Answer: GENERAL MOTORS, FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, ACCENTURE
Your Answer: Ford
Points Assigned: 2
I thought ZI recalled their was a female CEO and one of the US auto manufacturers. I picked the wrong one. Funnily enough, my main credit card and work retirement plan are with Fidelity.
4. The unorthodox golf swing characterized by a running approach before striking the ball, somewhat reminiscent of a slap shot in ice hockey, is commonly named after what 1996 comedy film that popularized it?
Correct Answer: HAPPY GILMORE
Your Answer: Happy Gilmore
Points Assigned: 0
4. The unorthodox golf swing characterized by a running approach before striking the ball, somewhat reminiscent of a slap shot in ice hockey, is commonly named after what 1996 comedy film that popularized it?
Correct Answer: HAPPY GILMORE
Your Answer: Happy Gilmore
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
5. What television series, which ended four of its six seasons ranked #1, is generally credited as the first sitcom filmed with a multi-camera setup in front of a live studio audience?
Correct Answer: I LOVE LUCY
Your Answer: All in the Family
Points Assigned: 2
5. What television series, which ended four of its six seasons ranked #1, is generally credited as the first sitcom filmed with a multi-camera setup in front of a live studio audience?
Correct Answer: I LOVE LUCY
Your Answer: All in the Family
Points Assigned: 2
I was thinking I Love Lucy, but chose poorly.
6. What is the word—uncommon in the 1850s but common today—that Walt Whitman used in the first line (and thus title) of his nine-section poem from Leaves of Grass in which he "sings" a celebration of physicality and the human "body"?
Correct Answer: ELECTRIC
Your Answer: Swole
Points Assigned: 3
6. What is the word—uncommon in the 1850s but common today—that Walt Whitman used in the first line (and thus title) of his nine-section poem from Leaves of Grass in which he "sings" a celebration of physicality and the human "body"?
Correct Answer: ELECTRIC
Your Answer: Swole
Points Assigned: 3
Oh, damn.
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