Jesse Day 2

4/6

1. No Depression magazine—widely considered the bible of the alt-country movement—took its name from the 1990 debut studio album by what band, widely considered pioneers of alt-country? They formed in 1987 outside St. Louis (despite their name), and their 1994 split spawned the other influential acts Wilco and Son Volt.
Correct Answer: UNCLE TUPELO
Your Answer: Nashville Suburbs
Points Assigned: 1

I have heard of them, and do like what I have heard from Wilco, but this isn't a genre I follow. 

2. Superstitious theater folk cite incidents during the performance of what play that include a 17th-century production in which an actor supposedly killed a fellow performer with a real dagger, Laurence Olivier's near-miss with a falling stage weight in 1937, and Charlton Heston suffering burns when his costume caught fire in 1953?
Correct Answer: MACBETH (THE SCOTTISH PLAY)
Your Answer: Macbeth
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?

3. The characteristic tangy flavor associated with sourdough bread comes primarily from the accumulation of what acid, produced when probiotic bacteria coexist with wild yeast and also responsible for the sourness of yogurt?
Correct Answer: LACTIC ACID
Your Answer: Acidophilis
Points Assigned: 2

I ruled out lactic acid because I figured there would be some reference to it building up in muscles. I associate the word Acidophilis with yogurt. 

4. Among the first overseas military conflicts fought by the United States after independence were wars against corsairs from what Coast, which gives these wars their name?
Correct Answer: BARBARY COAST
Your Answer: Barbary Coast
Points Assigned: 1

I was just talking about the Barbary pirates the other day. 

5. While there are relatively few technology giants on European public markets compared to the United States, a notable exception is what German enterprise software company whose name is also its ticker symbol on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, where it is one of the 40 members of the DAX?
Correct Answer: SAP
Your Answer: SAP
Points Assigned: 3

I know this because I worked for European marketing agencies in the past. I think this will play difficult. 

6. In a certain set of five geographical features in Greek mythology, the four lesser-known are Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Lethe. What is the fifth?
Correct Answer: STYX
Your Answer: Styx
Points Assigned: 2

Got it from Lethe and playing the Hades video games.