marcus Brian addendum

many apologies brian i didn't get the response back as the wifi was on the blink at work and i didn't realise i was up against you …so more fulsome below

1. "B-Band" and "Saliers and Ray" were early names for what musical act, a folk rock duo who had adopted their current and more colorful name before the release of their debut album Strange Fire in 1987?
Correct Answer: INDIGO GIRLS
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
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not a scooby 

2. While Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen considered 1873's Kejser og Galilaer (Emperor and Galilean) his masterpiece, his international fame was secured by two social plays that followed, titled Et Dukkehjem (1879) and Gengangere (1881). The former is known in English as A Doll's House; give the common English translation of the latter.
Correct Answer: GHOSTS
Your Answer: ghosts
Points Assigned: 3
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there has been a full season of Ibsen on BBC 4 this month and my wife has watched as homework , the fact that syphillis doesn't travel doe the male line was a debate we had and she said it was a dramatic device and i was a know it all

3. A 2012 event dubbed the "Miracle at Medinah" has nothing to do with Islam, but rather with a dramatic turn of events in late September of that year that occurred seven miles west of Chicago's O'Hare Airport in what game?
Correct Answer: GOLF (RYDER CUP)
Your Answer: golf
Points Assigned: 1
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the postman delivered , i love the ryder cup even tho im rubbish at gold

4. In quantum mechanics, the fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties can be simultaneously known—or put another way, Δx · Δp ≥ ℏ/2—is attributed to what German physicist?
Correct Answer: WERNER HEISENBERG
Your Answer: Heiseneberg
Points Assigned: 2
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delta E, delta T is another more exciting expression given virtual particles and maybe the whole universe from a thermodynamic angle. penrose cycles of time is the go to 

5. Despite having a population of only about 500,000, a U.S. territory was split into two then admitted to the union as two separate states in 1889, in a successful ploy by the Republican Party to gain four additional seats in the Senate. If the states had theoretically been re-joined for the 2020 census, the newly combined state would still just rank #40 in population among all U.S. states. What was the name of this territory?
Correct Answer: DAKOTA TERRITORY
Your Answer: Dakota
Points Assigned: 0
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it had to be north and south and i know no one lives there 

6. What city and gastronomic capital, which sits at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers about 65 miles from the Swiss border, is France's third-most populous city and the hub of the country's second-most populous metropolitan area?
Correct Answer: LYON
Your Answer: Lyon
Points Assigned: 2
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i've ridden my bike up many a big mountain in the vicinity and i apologise for showing off but i've has a few glasses of cote du rhone ce soir!