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1. An October 1731 fire at (the unfortunately named) Ashburnham House near Westminster Abbey, which housed the private library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, damaged numerous important historical documents. One such document is known as the Nowell Codex, which contains the only known manuscript of what Old English poem?
Correct Answer: BEOWULF
Your Answer: Beowulf
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: BEOWULF
Your Answer: Beowulf
Points Assigned: 1
The only answer I could come up with.
2. In a standard two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal distance (the x-coordinate) is formally termed the abscissa, while the vertical distance (the y-coordinate) has what other name, which is credited to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late 17th century?
Correct Answer: ORDINATE
Your Answer: Leibcissa
Points Assigned: 3
2. In a standard two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal distance (the x-coordinate) is formally termed the abscissa, while the vertical distance (the y-coordinate) has what other name, which is credited to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late 17th century?
Correct Answer: ORDINATE
Your Answer: Leibcissa
Points Assigned: 3
I had no chance of getting this.
3. The emblem for the International Committee of the Red Cross was adopted in 1863 in part to honor Henry Dunant, a businessman and humanitarian who helped found the movement after witnessing the carnage of the Battle of Solferino. What country was Dunant from?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: Switzerland
Points Assigned: 0
3. The emblem for the International Committee of the Red Cross was adopted in 1863 in part to honor Henry Dunant, a businessman and humanitarian who helped found the movement after witnessing the carnage of the Battle of Solferino. What country was Dunant from?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: Switzerland
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
4. Long before the discovery that vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, the British Navy used citrus juice (often mixed into grog) to cure and prevent the disease, which in turn led to the use of what word, now an antiquated insult, for British sailors?
Correct Answer: LIMEY
Your Answer: Limeys
Points Assigned: 1
4. Long before the discovery that vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, the British Navy used citrus juice (often mixed into grog) to cure and prevent the disease, which in turn led to the use of what word, now an antiquated insult, for British sailors?
Correct Answer: LIMEY
Your Answer: Limeys
Points Assigned: 1
Gimmie?
5. What was the name of the series of camera models produced by Eastman Kodak beginning in 1900 that is widely credited with popularizing snapshot photography? It was invented by company designer and "father of the modern camera" Frank A. Brownell, but actually named after comic characters popular at the time.
Correct Answer: BROWNIE
Your Answer: Brownie
Points Assigned: 2
5. What was the name of the series of camera models produced by Eastman Kodak beginning in 1900 that is widely credited with popularizing snapshot photography? It was invented by company designer and "father of the modern camera" Frank A. Brownell, but actually named after comic characters popular at the time.
Correct Answer: BROWNIE
Your Answer: Brownie
Points Assigned: 2
I was a film major at the University of Rochester and interned at the George Eastman House for a semester. Easy for me.
6. The 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass tells the story of the rise and fall of what retail record chain, which was founded in Sacramento in 1960, opened its flagship on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in 1970 and its Greenwich Village flagship in 1983, and closed its last U.S. location in 2006?
Correct Answer: TOWER RECORDS
Your Answer: Sam Goodys
Points Assigned: 2
6. The 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass tells the story of the rise and fall of what retail record chain, which was founded in Sacramento in 1960, opened its flagship on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in 1970 and its Greenwich Village flagship in 1983, and closed its last U.S. location in 2006?
Correct Answer: TOWER RECORDS
Your Answer: Sam Goodys
Points Assigned: 2
Damn, I shopped at both when I was young. Sam Goodys came to my mind first.
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