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Player: BrowningM
1. What legend of history and drama, mormaer of Moray, became king after slaying Duncan I in battle near Elgin in 1040, before his defeat and death at the hands of Duncan's son in 1057?
Correct Answer: MACBETH
Your Answer: Macbeth
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. A popular sandwich was reportedly invented in New Orleans in 1929 by restaurant owners and former streetcar workers Bennie and Clovis Martin, who served it free of charge to striking streetcar workers who were low on funds. What name is used for this sandwich (influenced by the strikers themselves)?
Correct Answer: PO' BOY
Your Answer: pourboy
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. An 1895 novel by H.G. Wells introduced (and in fact used in its title) a term that later became commonplace in science fiction and fantasy. Identify this two-word term.
Correct Answer: TIME MACHINE
Your Answer: time machine
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. What is the fitting name of the largest island in the archipelago known as the Balearic Islands?
Correct Answer: MALLORCA/MAJORCA
Your Answer: majorca
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Worked it out fro the clue5. The Ugandan academic and commentator who is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York, and is known for his influential post-9/11 book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, has the first name of Mahmood. What is his last name—a name which has emerged from relative obscurity in the past year?
Correct Answer: MAMDANI
Your Answer: Mamdani
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
6. The Japanese characters 津波 refer to what natural phenomenon, which is often preceded by an event known as a "withdrawal" or "drawdown"?
Correct Answer: TSUNAMI
Your Answer: tsunami
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Gimme
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