Jesse day 9

3/6

1. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and spawning three sequels of its own, what 1970 film (named generically for the setting where its plot unfolds) is often credited with launching the decade's disaster-movie craze?
Correct Answer: AIRPORT
Your Answer: The Towering Inferno
Points Assigned: 2

Nope

2. Early 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularized what term, commonly translated to English as "whimsical pictures" or "impromptu sketches", particularly via his 15-volume sketchbook series whose title included the word?
Correct Answer: MANGA
Your Answer: Totori
Points Assigned: 3

Shoot, very gettable.

3. The name of which month of the French Revolutionary calendar comes from a root relating to heat, fittingly as the month roughly covered late July through late August?
Correct Answer: THERMIDOR
Your Answer: Caldo
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

4. "Porkopolis" is a former nickname for what American city, reflecting the city's German immigrant influence and contributions to its sausage and meatpacking traditions (though pork and sausage are not common chili ingredients there)?
Correct Answer: CINCINNATI
Your Answer: Cincinnati
Points Assigned: 0

I know Cincinnati Chili. Otherwise, I would have gone with Milwaukee. 

5. What plant, whose extract has long been used as an astringent for skin care and was used medicinally for centuries by Native Americans before European settlement, has a name that likely comes in part from an Old English word meaning "bendable" and is unrelated to sorcery?
Correct Answer: WITCH HAZEL
Your Answer: Witch Hazel
Points Assigned: 1

First thing that came to mind.

6. Who is widely credited with establishing the tradition of the white wedding dress when she wore one at her enormous 1840 wedding (before then, European brides commonly married in dresses of many different colors)? The marriage ended with her husband's death, attributed to typhoid fever, in December 1861.
Correct Answer: QUEEN VICTORIA
Your Answer: Queen Victoria
Points Assigned: 1

I knew this piece of trivia.