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1. "CHECK YOUR EGO AT THE DOOR" was posted by producer Quincy Jones on a sign at the studio entrance in Los Angeles for the artists recording what song in 1985?
Correct Answer: WE ARE THE WORLD
Your Answer: We Are The World
Points Assigned: 0
Correct Answer: WE ARE THE WORLD
Your Answer: We Are The World
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie for anyone who is at least 45?
2. Petrochemicals are commonly divided into two major families. One is the olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, named for their historical description as "oil-forming". What name for the other family, which includes benzene, toluene, and xylenes, reflects the distinctive odors of many compounds originally placed in the group?
Correct Answer: AROMATICS
Your Answer: No Idea
Points Assigned: 3
2. Petrochemicals are commonly divided into two major families. One is the olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, named for their historical description as "oil-forming". What name for the other family, which includes benzene, toluene, and xylenes, reflects the distinctive odors of many compounds originally placed in the group?
Correct Answer: AROMATICS
Your Answer: No Idea
Points Assigned: 3
Damn, I was thinking something like aromatics, but I assumed it would be something more technical.
3. SAMO© was the tag under which two teenage graffiti writers spray-painted cryptic aphorisms around lower Manhattan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One was Al Diaz; who was the other, who by his mid-twenties was selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars before dying of a heroin overdose in 1988?
Correct Answer: JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Your Answer: Basquiet
Points Assigned: 2
3. SAMO© was the tag under which two teenage graffiti writers spray-painted cryptic aphorisms around lower Manhattan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One was Al Diaz; who was the other, who by his mid-twenties was selling paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars before dying of a heroin overdose in 1988?
Correct Answer: JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Your Answer: Basquiet
Points Assigned: 2
Misspelled, but I think this will be accepted.
4. In the 1920s, Milanese baker Angelo Motta reinvented the recipe for what centuries-old Christmas bread by introducing a triple-leavening process and a tall paper mold called a pirottino, which forced the dough upward into its now-signature dome shape?
Correct Answer: PANETTONE
Your Answer: Panatone
Points Assigned: 1
4. In the 1920s, Milanese baker Angelo Motta reinvented the recipe for what centuries-old Christmas bread by introducing a triple-leavening process and a tall paper mold called a pirottino, which forced the dough upward into its now-signature dome shape?
Correct Answer: PANETTONE
Your Answer: Panatone
Points Assigned: 1
Misspelled, but I think this will be accepted. I lived near an Italian supermarket that had lots of Panettone at Christmas time.
5. In addition to introducing the word "pandemonium" and popularizing numerous other terms and phrases, John Milton's Paradise Lost included the famous quote: "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a x of y, a y of x." What words (in either order) replace x and y in this quote?
Correct Answer: HEAVEN, HELL
Your Answer: Right, wrong
Points Assigned: 2
5. In addition to introducing the word "pandemonium" and popularizing numerous other terms and phrases, John Milton's Paradise Lost included the famous quote: "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a x of y, a y of x." What words (in either order) replace x and y in this quote?
Correct Answer: HEAVEN, HELL
Your Answer: Right, wrong
Points Assigned: 2
I never read Paradise Lost.
6. While it was originally a company's name (and before that, in its original spelling, a figure from Greek mythology), what word became a generic broadcasting term for a text graphic appearing at the bottom of a television screen?
Correct Answer: CHYRON
Your Answer: Chyron
Points Assigned: 1
6. While it was originally a company's name (and before that, in its original spelling, a figure from Greek mythology), what word became a generic broadcasting term for a text graphic appearing at the bottom of a television screen?
Correct Answer: CHYRON
Your Answer: Chyron
Points Assigned: 1
Gimmie?
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