4/6 I think...
1. Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar had unexpectedly melted in his pocket in 1945 while at work, and this (perhaps slightly embellished) observation led directly to the development of what now-common apparatus?
Correct Answer: MICROWAVE OVEN (RADARANGE)
Your Answer: Microwave
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: MICROWAVE OVEN (RADARANGE)
Your Answer: Microwave
Points Assigned: 0
I knew this story.
2. A holiday celebrated on 1 July, named Dominion Day beginning in 1879, has been officially known by what other name since 1982 (English or French name acceptable)?
Correct Answer: CANADA DAY/FÊTE DU CANADA
Your Answer: Canada Day
Points Assigned: 2
2. A holiday celebrated on 1 July, named Dominion Day beginning in 1879, has been officially known by what other name since 1982 (English or French name acceptable)?
Correct Answer: CANADA DAY/FÊTE DU CANADA
Your Answer: Canada Day
Points Assigned: 2
My company is partnered with a Canadian company, so I have gotten familiar with Canadian holidays.
3. One of the biggest corporate failures of the 2020s (so far) occurred in 2022, with the spectacular collapse from a peak valuation earlier that year of around $32 billion of what Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange founded by Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried?
Correct Answer: FTX
Your Answer: FTX
Points Assigned: 1
3. One of the biggest corporate failures of the 2020s (so far) occurred in 2022, with the spectacular collapse from a peak valuation earlier that year of around $32 billion of what Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange founded by Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried?
Correct Answer: FTX
Your Answer: FTX
Points Assigned: 1
It took me a few minutes to recall the three letters.
4. In his Ars Poetica, written around 19 BCE, Horace praises Homer for beginning his epics in the middle of the action rather than at the story's beginning. In doing so, Horace used what precise three-word Latin phrase, now a common literary term, for this starting in the middle of things?
Correct Answer: IN MEDIAS RES
Your Answer: Nope!
Points Assigned: 2
4. In his Ars Poetica, written around 19 BCE, Horace praises Homer for beginning his epics in the middle of the action rather than at the story's beginning. In doing so, Horace used what precise three-word Latin phrase, now a common literary term, for this starting in the middle of things?
Correct Answer: IN MEDIAS RES
Your Answer: Nope!
Points Assigned: 2
Never heard of this.
5. The original Thomasites were a group of about 500 American teachers who set sail from San Francisco in July 1901 aboard the U.S. Army transport ship USAT Thomas with the aim of establishing a new public school system in what at-the-time American colony?
Correct Answer: PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Your Answer: Philippines
Points Assigned: 1
5. The original Thomasites were a group of about 500 American teachers who set sail from San Francisco in July 1901 aboard the U.S. Army transport ship USAT Thomas with the aim of establishing a new public school system in what at-the-time American colony?
Correct Answer: PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Your Answer: Philippines
Points Assigned: 1
I am guessing this will be marked correct.
6. Due to the primary work by which he is known, 19th-century Austrian Ludwig Ritter von Köchel will forever be inextricably linked with what 18th-century countryman?
Correct Answer: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Your Answer: Becht
Points Assigned: 3
6. Due to the primary work by which he is known, 19th-century Austrian Ludwig Ritter von Köchel will forever be inextricably linked with what 18th-century countryman?
Correct Answer: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Your Answer: Becht
Points Assigned: 3
Nope!
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