Jesse Day 18

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1. A current list of seven members includes Philip Jefferson, Michelle Bowman, Christopher Waller, Lisa Cook, Michael Barr, and Stephen Miran, with what name missing?
Correct Answer: JEROME POWELL
Your Answer: Jerome Powell
Points Assigned: 2

The names were familiar, but then Lisa Cook brought it home for me. 

2. What 2025 film was the 13th collaboration between producer Jerry Bruckheimer and composer Hans Zimmer, a movie thematically similar to their first collaboration, 1990's Days of Thunder?
Correct Answer: F1: THE MOVIE
Your Answer: F1
Points Assigned: 0

I think F1 will be accepted. I have not watched it yet. 

3. What word belongs on a certain list that also includes lead pipe and rope, and also belongs on a certain list that includes A Hard Day's Night and Help!?
Correct Answer: REVOLVER
Your Answer: Revolver
Points Assigned: 2

Good question! 

4. On a unit circle — a circle with a radius of 1 centered at the origin — the x and y coordinates of a point represent, respectively, what two functions of θ?
Correct Answer: COSINE, SINE
Your Answer: 0, 1
Points Assigned: 1

Nope.

5. Numerous (perhaps hundreds) of Nazi war criminals, including Josef Mengele, were given refuge in what country, during (and thanks to) the 35-year rule of dictator Alfredo Stroessner?
Correct Answer: PARAGUAY
Your Answer: Paraguay
Points Assigned: 3

I got this because years ago my friend Graeme wrote an article about Nazi's in Paraguay: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/07/a-paradise-haunted-land/21496/

6. A possibly apocryphal 1807 story by English journalist William Cobbett about using a pungent fish to divert hunting hounds is widely credited (and widely questioned) as the source for the name of what literary device?
Correct Answer: RED HERRING
Your Answer: Red Herring
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?