4/6 Have a great offseason!
1. A detailed analysis of newspaper front pages during the 1930s by Alfred Mosher Butts reportedly informed an integral element of what board game, which was trademarked under this current name in 1948?
Correct Answer: SCRABBLE
Your Answer: Risk
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: SCRABBLE
Your Answer: Risk
Points Assigned: 2
Shoot, I have heard this bit of trivia before.
2. The "Brent/WTI spread" is a term used for the price difference between two major benchmarks for what global commodity?
Correct Answer: (CRUDE) OIL
Your Answer: Crude Oil
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout are often cited as prototypical examples of a literary subgenre combining magical or supernatural settings with a central love story. Popularized through discussions on BookTok and Goodreads in the late 2010s and early 2020s, this subgenre is best known by what portmanteau name?
Correct Answer: ROMANTASY
Your Answer: Romantasy
Points Assigned: 1
Considered Romfan, but Romantasy sounded better.
4. The 15th-century arrival of chili peppers in North Africa led to the creation of what condiment, often compared to sriracha though typically thicker and less sweet, and made from rehydrated dried chilies blended with garlic, caraway, coriander, and olive oil? Popular across the region and its diaspora communities, it is widely considered the national condiment of Tunisia.
Correct Answer: HARISSA
Your Answer: Harisa
Points Assigned: 2
I have been to Tunisia! I do not like Harissa.
5. In an example of the occasional inscrutability of grammatical gender in the German language, what definite article is used for the singular noun Mädchen in the nominative case?
Correct Answer: DAS
Your Answer: Mutter
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
6. The cover of the 1941 debut issue of a comic created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon famously depicts Adolf Hitler getting massively punched by whom?
Correct Answer: CAPTAIN AMERICA
Your Answer: Captain America
Points Assigned: 1
2. The "Brent/WTI spread" is a term used for the price difference between two major benchmarks for what global commodity?
Correct Answer: (CRUDE) OIL
Your Answer: Crude Oil
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout are often cited as prototypical examples of a literary subgenre combining magical or supernatural settings with a central love story. Popularized through discussions on BookTok and Goodreads in the late 2010s and early 2020s, this subgenre is best known by what portmanteau name?
Correct Answer: ROMANTASY
Your Answer: Romantasy
Points Assigned: 1
Considered Romfan, but Romantasy sounded better.
4. The 15th-century arrival of chili peppers in North Africa led to the creation of what condiment, often compared to sriracha though typically thicker and less sweet, and made from rehydrated dried chilies blended with garlic, caraway, coriander, and olive oil? Popular across the region and its diaspora communities, it is widely considered the national condiment of Tunisia.
Correct Answer: HARISSA
Your Answer: Harisa
Points Assigned: 2
I have been to Tunisia! I do not like Harissa.
5. In an example of the occasional inscrutability of grammatical gender in the German language, what definite article is used for the singular noun Mädchen in the nominative case?
Correct Answer: DAS
Your Answer: Mutter
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
6. The cover of the 1941 debut issue of a comic created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon famously depicts Adolf Hitler getting massively punched by whom?
Correct Answer: CAPTAIN AMERICA
Your Answer: Captain America
Points Assigned: 1
It was that or Superman.
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