Marcus LL107 Match Day 22 -- Confirmation

4 today 

Player: BrowningM

1. "Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered." For decades, these sentences have been the sign-off that concludes episodes of what game show?
Correct Answer: THE PRICE IS RIGHT
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Not easy for a Brit 

2. In July 2021, what sun-drenched city was awarded hosting rights for the 2032 Summer Olympics, becoming the third city in its country to host the Summer Games?
Correct Answer: BRISBANE
Your Answer: Brisbane
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Have to know 

3. The name of the band that bluegrass impresario Alison Krauss joined in 1987 at age 16 is shared by transportation facilities in Chicago, Toronto, Washington, Los Angeles, and many other cities. What is that name?
Correct Answer: UNION STATION
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Not my thing 

4. The Walt Disney Company made two especially notable acquisitions in the 2010s: the 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, and the 2019 completion of a $71.3 billion transaction involving key assets from another media and entertainment giant, which itself had spun off from News Corporation in 2013. Give the precise name of this latter acquisition target (as the name appeared in its logo) at the time of the deal.
Correct Answer: 21ST CENTURY FOX
Your Answer: 21st century fox
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

The 20/21 issue gave me pause for thought 

5. Japanese Bunraku, French Guignol, Russian Petrushka, Indonesian Wayang, and Turkish Karagöz are all theatre traditions that are distinctive for their use of what props?
Correct Answer: PUPPETS
Your Answer: puppets
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

6. The Manhattan skyscraper that stood as the world's tallest from 1913, when it surpassed the Met Life Tower, until 1930, when it was overtaken by 40 Wall Street, was built as the 60-story headquarters of what retail store chain?
Correct Answer: F. W. WOOLWORTH COMPANY
Your Answer: woolworths
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I lived in NY for a year back in the day

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