Looks like they may have made all the questions easier after the first half stats cos today was the easiest 6 I ever got .
Player: BrowningM
1. Elizabeth, the wife of Henry VII of England, and the biblical Judith are among the possible inspirations for what suited, two-dimensional figure, who was also a character in an 1865 children's novel?
Correct Answer: QUEEN OF HEARTS
Your Answer: the queen of hearts
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
2. New York's Richmond County is coextensive with an area better known by what name?
Correct Answer: STATEN ISLAND
Your Answer: staten island
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Easy if you know anything about NY
3. Albanian, Ukrainian, Irish, English, Greek, Hindi, Persian, French, Icelandic, and Katë are all languages descended from a reconstructed language known as PIE. What do the letters in PIE stand for?
Correct Answer: PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
Your Answer: proto indo european
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. In 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen and English astronomer Norman Lockyer independently discovered what element on the Sun, long before it was isolated on Earth 27 years later?
Correct Answer: HELIUM
Your Answer: helium
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. A U.S. Senate aide, who prepares Lewis Strauss for his confirmation hearing in 1959 as Secretary of Commerce under President Eisenhower, is purportedly the only invented character in what critically acclaimed and award-winning biopic?
Correct Answer: OPPENHEIMER
Your Answer: oppenheimer
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Very guessable
6. The "oceanic pole of inaccessibility", the spot on the earth farthest from any land (often nearer to astronauts on the ISS than to any humans on the earth's surface), is a Point named fittingly after a character from 1870s adventure novels who traveled in a submarine for a distance two times Earth's circumference. What is his name?
Correct Answer: NEMO
Your Answer: nemo
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Nice clue but very easy
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