Jesse Day 24

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1. What name for a signature beverage of the protagonist from a 1998 comedy film could perhaps evoke a resident of Minsk and environs?
Correct Answer: WHITE RUSSIAN
Your Answer: White Russian
Points Assigned: 0

I got it through geography.

2. With regard to digital graphics, vector files are images created using mathematical formulas, relying on lines, curves, and anchor points positioned on a grid to define shapes and structures. What other term, associated and often used synonymously with "bitmap" and borrowed from a CRT scan process, refers to graphics represented as a two-dimensional grid of pixels?
Correct Answer: RASTER
Your Answer: JPEG
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

3. The formation in 1901 of United States Steel Corporation, regarded as the world's first billion-dollar company, was orchestrated primarily by what powerful American financier?
Correct Answer: J.P. MORGAN
Your Answer: Morgan
Points Assigned: 2

A good guess. I nearly put down Carnegie, but thought he built a steel company, didn't buy one as a financier.

4. What is the onomatopoetic name for the style of improvisational singing mastered by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, and Cab Calloway, the latter of whom exhibited it extensively in Minnie the Moocher?
Correct Answer: SCAT
Your Answer: Skat
Points Assigned: 1

Hiedi, hiedi, hiedi, ho.

5. "What I Did for Love" in A Chorus Line, "Being Alive" in Company, and "Memory" in Cats are examples of emotional solo showstoppers that occur late in Act II of Broadway musicals. They are known by what term, based on around when they would occur in old Broadway scheduling?
Correct Answer: 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER
Your Answer: No idea
Points Assigned: 2

Never heard the term. Spent a while on this. 

6. The 2021 British documentary series subtitled Get Back climaxes with a performance on 3 Savile Row in central London, which housed the headquarters of what company?
Correct Answer: APPLE (CORPS)
Your Answer: Apple Records
Points Assigned: 1

I am guessing this should be fine.