Jesse Day 17

3/6

1. The first-season finale/reunion episode in 2000 of what television series drew more than 51 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched non-sports broadcasts in American television history?
Correct Answer: SURVIVOR
Your Answer: Survivor
Points Assigned: 0

I missed that season, but have watched almost every season since. 

2. In a 1935 letter to the New York Times, Albert Einstein wrote: "In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein [REDACTED] was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began." What last name has been redacted, belonging to the mathematician whose theorem connecting symmetry and conservation laws became a cornerstone of modern physics?
Correct Answer: (EMMY) NOETHER
Your Answer: Curie
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of her. Sadly, the female I could come up with was Curie. 

3. Thanks to Nathan Apodaca, a.k.a. "Doggface208", who recorded himself casually cruising down a road in Idaho Falls on his longboard while enjoying Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry, the year 2020 saw a resurgence in popularity of a 1977 song by what band?
Correct Answer: FLEETWOOD MAC
Your Answer: Beach Boys
Points Assigned: 2

I must have missed this clip. I had no idea. Fleetwood Mac does seem to be everywhere these days.

4. Name the society, founded in December 1776 at the College of William & Mary in Virginia and still existing today, that set the precedent for collegiate societies in America naming themselves after the initial letters of a secret Greek motto.
Correct Answer: PHI BETA KAPPA
Your Answer: Alpha Omega
Points Assigned: 3

Oh, right. 

5. Author Daniel Handler maintained the conceit surrounding the narrator of his best-known children's book series so thoroughly that the character has an elaborate biography, published correspondence, and even in-character public appearances. What is the full name of this fictional author persona?
Correct Answer: LEMONY SNICKET
Your Answer: Lemonity Snickett
Points Assigned: 1

I watched a few minutes of one of the movies with my daughter and did not like the tone.

6. The name of Bolivia's official judicial and legal capital is, coincidentally, the French word for a substance known in English as what?
Correct Answer: SUGAR
Your Answer: Sugar
Points Assigned: 1

My company runs trips there, but I have yet to go.