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1. The HBO Max drama series which reviewers often describe with words like "intense" and "gritty", and which won Outstanding Drama Series at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards (as well as individual acting awards for members of its cast), is set, per its double entendre title, in what U.S. city,?
Correct Answer: PITTSBURGH
Your Answer: Pittsburgh
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: PITTSBURGH
Your Answer: Pittsburgh
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
2. While Hausa communities are scattered throughout much of Africa, the ethnic group is primarily concentrated in two bordering countries. Identify either country.
Correct Answer: NIGERIA, NIGER
Your Answer: South Sudan
Points Assigned: 2
2. While Hausa communities are scattered throughout much of Africa, the ethnic group is primarily concentrated in two bordering countries. Identify either country.
Correct Answer: NIGERIA, NIGER
Your Answer: South Sudan
Points Assigned: 2
I have not been to this part of Africa.
3. The mechanical "screw" that pumps water uphill without valves, can work in reverse as a hydroelectric generator, is used in wastewater treatment plants, and can lift live fish safely upstream is named after what Sicilian-Greek polymath, even though it may have already existed in ancient Egypt?
Correct Answer: ARCHIMEDES
Your Answer: Archimedes
Points Assigned: 1
3. The mechanical "screw" that pumps water uphill without valves, can work in reverse as a hydroelectric generator, is used in wastewater treatment plants, and can lift live fish safely upstream is named after what Sicilian-Greek polymath, even though it may have already existed in ancient Egypt?
Correct Answer: ARCHIMEDES
Your Answer: Archimedes
Points Assigned: 1
When I think screw, I think Archimedes.
4. Pillars of "emo rap" in the late 2010s who all died prematurely at a young age include XXXTentacion, Lil Peep, and the artist born Jarad Anthony Higgins in Chicago in 1998, who had hits with "Lucid Dreams" and "Come & Go" (with Marshmello), and took his stage name in part from a 1992 crime thriller starring Omar Epps and Tupac Shakur. What is that stage name?
Correct Answer: JUICE WRLD
Your Answer: Boy in the Hood
Points Assigned: 1
4. Pillars of "emo rap" in the late 2010s who all died prematurely at a young age include XXXTentacion, Lil Peep, and the artist born Jarad Anthony Higgins in Chicago in 1998, who had hits with "Lucid Dreams" and "Come & Go" (with Marshmello), and took his stage name in part from a 1992 crime thriller starring Omar Epps and Tupac Shakur. What is that stage name?
Correct Answer: JUICE WRLD
Your Answer: Boy in the Hood
Points Assigned: 1
Oh, I remember Juice!
5. A spinning frame invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which helped fully mechanize the hand-spinning process, has what name, derived from the fact that it was a hybrid of two previous inventions (the spinning jenny and water frame)?
Correct Answer: MULE
Your Answer: Jenny Frame
Points Assigned: 3
5. A spinning frame invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which helped fully mechanize the hand-spinning process, has what name, derived from the fact that it was a hybrid of two previous inventions (the spinning jenny and water frame)?
Correct Answer: MULE
Your Answer: Jenny Frame
Points Assigned: 3
Nope!!!
6. Und zum Schluß bringt noch einen Gruß / Uns'rer lieben Donau, dem herrlichen Fluß! So begins the final stanza from the lyrics to the less popular choral version of what orchestral work, first performed in 1867?
Correct Answer: THE BLUE DANUBE
Your Answer: Blue Danube
Points Assigned: 2
6. Und zum Schluß bringt noch einen Gruß / Uns'rer lieben Donau, dem herrlichen Fluß! So begins the final stanza from the lyrics to the less popular choral version of what orchestral work, first performed in 1867?
Correct Answer: THE BLUE DANUBE
Your Answer: Blue Danube
Points Assigned: 2
From living in several cities on the Danube, I knew Donau meant Danube.
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