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1. French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse is famous for writing and directing the classic 1956 short film Le Ballon rouge, and for creating what game a year later, which he originally titled La Conquête du monde?
Correct Answer: RISK
Your Answer: Risk
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: RISK
Your Answer: Risk
Points Assigned: 2
Total guess based on how old I thought Risk was.
2. What city, now a U.S. state capital, was founded in 1610, a decade before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock?
Correct Answer: SANTA FE
Your Answer: Providence
Points Assigned: 0
2. What city, now a U.S. state capital, was founded in 1610, a decade before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock?
Correct Answer: SANTA FE
Your Answer: Providence
Points Assigned: 0
I did not think hard enough on this one.
3. The "hypermarket" retailing model, combining a supermarket and department store under one roof, was pioneered and popularized by what French retailer, which opened its first hypermarket in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois outside Paris in 1963 and had opened its first supermarket in 1960 at the crossroads of Avenue Parmelan and Avenue André Theuriet in the Alpine city of Annecy?
Correct Answer: CARREFOUR
Your Answer: Carrefour
Points Assigned: 1
3. The "hypermarket" retailing model, combining a supermarket and department store under one roof, was pioneered and popularized by what French retailer, which opened its first hypermarket in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois outside Paris in 1963 and had opened its first supermarket in 1960 at the crossroads of Avenue Parmelan and Avenue André Theuriet in the Alpine city of Annecy?
Correct Answer: CARREFOUR
Your Answer: Carrefour
Points Assigned: 1
Only French hypermarket I know of.
4. "Poor Little Fool", the first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 overall when the chart debuted in August 1958, was a hit for what teenage star, who had scored pre-Hot 100 hits including a cover of "I'm Walkin'" and had debuted on his family's radio (and later TV) series in 1949?
Correct Answer: RICKY NELSON
Your Answer: Valley
Points Assigned: 3
4. "Poor Little Fool", the first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 overall when the chart debuted in August 1958, was a hit for what teenage star, who had scored pre-Hot 100 hits including a cover of "I'm Walkin'" and had debuted on his family's radio (and later TV) series in 1949?
Correct Answer: RICKY NELSON
Your Answer: Valley
Points Assigned: 3
I could not pull it.
5. Eggs, Pecorino Romano, cured pork such as guanciale or pancetta, and black pepper are typical ingredients of what dish, believed to have originated in Italy's Lazio region (though there was never really much coal mining in Lazio, which debunks one of the dish's popular etymologies)?
Correct Answer: CARBONARA
Your Answer: Carbonara
Points Assigned: 1
5. Eggs, Pecorino Romano, cured pork such as guanciale or pancetta, and black pepper are typical ingredients of what dish, believed to have originated in Italy's Lazio region (though there was never really much coal mining in Lazio, which debunks one of the dish's popular etymologies)?
Correct Answer: CARBONARA
Your Answer: Carbonara
Points Assigned: 1
Gimmie?
6. Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, in which unchecked population growth has devastated society and a small affluent class hoards the remaining resources, is the basis for what 1973 film (though the novel does not contain the film's cannibalistic twist and other plot elements)?
Correct Answer: SOYLENT GREEN
Your Answer: Soylent Green
Points Assigned: 2
6. Harry Harrison's 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, in which unchecked population growth has devastated society and a small affluent class hoards the remaining resources, is the basis for what 1973 film (though the novel does not contain the film's cannibalistic twist and other plot elements)?
Correct Answer: SOYLENT GREEN
Your Answer: Soylent Green
Points Assigned: 2
Soylent Green is people.
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