Jesse Day 5

5/6

1. The IMF and World Bank were both conceived in July 1944 (the former to address short-term balance-of-payments crises, the latter to promote long-term development) at a conference held at the Mount Washington Hotel in Carroll, New Hampshire, in what resort area?
Correct Answer: BRETTON WOODS
Your Answer: Bretton Woods
Points Assigned: 1

In my head I always thought of Bretton Woods being in France. Either way, I got it. 

2. Influenced by Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the Chicano Art Movement of the 1960s and 70s embraced what art form, whose name derives from the Spanish word for its customary setting, as a vehicle for political activism and cultural identity?
Correct Answer: MURALS
Your Answer: Murals
Points Assigned: 0

I knew this one.

3. While clearly influenced by French New Wave cinema and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, director Arthur Penn claimed that his 1967 film was the first in mainstream American cinema to depict graphic violence using slow motion and rapid, convulsive editing, most famously in its climactic final death scene. What is that film?
Correct Answer: BONNIE AND CLYDE
Your Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
Points Assigned: 3

I was a film major and this is one of my favorite films.

4. Ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard (and sometimes salami) on pressed bread: This is a quintessential recipe for what sandwich? Though its origins are unknown, the sandwich's name also very likely describes the individual who made the first one.
Correct Answer: CUBANO
Your Answer: Cuban
Points Assigned: 1

I think Cuban will be accepted.

5. One of the least consequential goals in FIFA World Cup history came in the 90th minute of the July 8, 2014 semifinal, when Brazil's Oscar scored to avoid a shutout against what country, which by that point had already scored seven?
Correct Answer: GERMANY
Your Answer: France
Points Assigned: 2

I could not pull it. 

6. In a 1933 ruling and milestone in the history of literary censorship, Judge John Munro Woolsey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote that "whilst in many places the effect of [REDACTED] on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." This ruling allowed for the publication in the U.S. of what Irish novel, first published by Sylvia Beach at Paris's Shakespeare and Company in 1922?
Correct Answer: ULYSSES
Your Answer: Ullyses
Points Assigned: 2

One of the few Irish novels I know of and the timing seemed right. I have not read it.