Jesse Day 6

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1. What is the name of the most populous city in the United States that borders a city with the same name in another state?
Correct Answer: KANSAS CITY
Your Answer: Kansas City
Points Assigned: 0

I wondered whether this was too obvious and could not think of another example. 

2. One of the most decisive defeats of a European army by an African force in history occurred in 1896, when Italian troops were routed at the Battle of Adwa by Emperor Menelik II's army from what country?
Correct Answer: ETHIOPIA/ABYSSINIA
Your Answer: Ethiopia
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie

3. "Little Mo" was the nickname of what American tennis champion, who in 1953 became the first woman to win all four major singles titles in one year?
Correct Answer: MAUREEN CONNOLLY
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. Tried Smith, hoping to get lucky. 

4. The British accent often regarded as the most socially prestigious, and sometimes associated with the "King's (or Queen's) English", is known to linguists by the abbreviation RP. What does RP stand for?
Correct Answer: RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION
Your Answer: Royal Pronunciation
Points Assigned: 3

I have never heard of RP. 

5. Whether the fourth tooth from the front on each side of the lower jaw is visible when the jaws are closed is a key differentiator between two otherwise very similar animals. Name either one.
Correct Answer: ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE
Your Answer: Baboon
Points Assigned: 2

Nope! I thought maybe it was Mandrill v Baboon. 

6. IMDb's synopsis for the 1997 neo-noir classic L.A. Confidential (now fossilized across the internet) describes three of the film's central policemen as "one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy". Guy Pearce plays the strait-laced Ed Exley; what actor plays the brutal Bud White?
Correct Answer: RUSSELL CROWE
Your Answer: Crowe
Points Assigned: 1

I had to think about this for a while.