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1. There are presently two cable television providers in the United States with over 10 million subscribers (as of now at least): Comcast and Charter Communications. Name either of the two brands through which these companies market and offer cable TV service?
Correct Answer: XFINITY, SPECTRUM
Your Answer: Xfinity
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: XFINITY, SPECTRUM
Your Answer: Xfinity
Points Assigned: 1
I lived Philly, home of Comcast.
2. While other medicines in the category eventually surpassed it in sales, what is the brand name of the drug that was the first blockbuster in the category known as SSRIs after its approval in 1987, and remains today likely the best-known in the group due to its cultural impact in the 1990s?
Correct Answer: PROZAC
Your Answer: Prozac
Points Assigned: 0
2. While other medicines in the category eventually surpassed it in sales, what is the brand name of the drug that was the first blockbuster in the category known as SSRIs after its approval in 1987, and remains today likely the best-known in the group due to its cultural impact in the 1990s?
Correct Answer: PROZAC
Your Answer: Prozac
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie
3. Among the most technically sophisticated metal castings in world history are the "Bronzes" controversially held in large numbers by institutions including London's British Museum. Created by royal artists in what is now Nigeria, they are named for what kingdom, whose name is used today for a different West African nation?
Correct Answer: BENIN
Your Answer: Mali
Points Assigned: 2
3. Among the most technically sophisticated metal castings in world history are the "Bronzes" controversially held in large numbers by institutions including London's British Museum. Created by royal artists in what is now Nigeria, they are named for what kingdom, whose name is used today for a different West African nation?
Correct Answer: BENIN
Your Answer: Mali
Points Assigned: 2
Shoot.
4. What word, today defined generally as an overwhelmingly powerful, destructive, or unstoppable force, comes from a Sanskrit name of Krishna meaning "lord of the world", after exaggerated European accounts of devotees being crushed beneath the deity's enormous processional chariot?
Correct Answer: JUGGERNAUT
Your Answer: Juggernaut
Points Assigned: 1
4. What word, today defined generally as an overwhelmingly powerful, destructive, or unstoppable force, comes from a Sanskrit name of Krishna meaning "lord of the world", after exaggerated European accounts of devotees being crushed beneath the deity's enormous processional chariot?
Correct Answer: JUGGERNAUT
Your Answer: Juggernaut
Points Assigned: 1
I did not know the root, but that was the word that came to mind.
5. Name the city, the second-most populous in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy after Bologna, which sits on its namesake river and is famous for, among other things, its namesake ham (or prosciutto).
Correct Answer: PARMA
Your Answer: Parma
Points Assigned: 2
5. Name the city, the second-most populous in the region of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy after Bologna, which sits on its namesake river and is famous for, among other things, its namesake ham (or prosciutto).
Correct Answer: PARMA
Your Answer: Parma
Points Assigned: 2
Probably gave this too high a score.
6. Which is the most famous and notorious of the Îles du Salut, an archipelago off the coast of French Guiana that housed French penal colonies for about a century beginning in 1852? (English or French name acceptable.)
Correct Answer: DEVIL'S ISLAND/ILE DU DIABLE
Your Answer: Bastille
Points Assigned: 3
6. Which is the most famous and notorious of the Îles du Salut, an archipelago off the coast of French Guiana that housed French penal colonies for about a century beginning in 1852? (English or French name acceptable.)
Correct Answer: DEVIL'S ISLAND/ILE DU DIABLE
Your Answer: Bastille
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
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