Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Marcus LL106 Match Day 17 -- Confirmation

Maintaining my 5 groove, no guesses and no clue on the one I didnt get.
Player: BrowningM

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
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0


Even easy for a Brit 
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: Tungsten
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Classic chemistry trivia 
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: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3


Nope 
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: to the manner born
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


I know Hamlet well so didn't have to wade through the grammatical soup
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: pathetique
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

In my wheelhouse 

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 that hill
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp:1

Huge in the news here and I saw her and Donald Sutherland filming the cloudbusting video at the Uffington white horse while out cycling with some friends so I've always had a soft spot for her.

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