marcus LL110 Match Day 15 -- Confirmation

drunk on the train back from the cricket at lords but did the quiz sober 

1. Named for Alexander of Aphrodisias, who described it around 200 CE, "Alexander's band" is the noticeably dark strip that appears between a primary and secondary example of what phenomenon, such as viewed by a weeping and joyful Paul "Bear" Vasquez in a viral video from 2010?
Correct Answer: RAINBOW
Your Answer: rainbow
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

toyed with aurora , wasn’t confident 

2. A ratio approximately equal to 1:1.618 appears in certain natural growth patterns, has long been associated with harmonious proportion in art and architecture, and has been argued by scholars to appear in works ranging from the Parthenon to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. This is best known as what "Ratio"?
Correct Answer: GOLDEN RATIO
Your Answer: golden
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

fibonacci gimme

3. In July 1917, in the midst of anti-German sentiment during World War I, "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" was changed by official proclamation to what new name?
Correct Answer: WINDSOR
Your Answer: windsor
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme for any brit 

4. In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter was named global ambassador for what premium professional hair-care brand, which is now owned by the L'Oréal Group and was founded in 1960 by hair-care pioneer Jheri Redding and business partner Paula Kent?
Correct Answer: REDKEN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

hmm

5. What is the last name of the British naval officer and polar explorer who achieved the historic feat of locating the North Magnetic Pole in 1831? Thanks to his later missions, his name is all over Antarctica, including the world's largest ice shelf, one of the continent's major seas, an enormous Southern Ocean gyre, and an island that is home to the active volcano Mount Erebus.
Correct Answer: (JAMES CLARK) ROSS
Your Answer: ross
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

ross ice shelf 

6. What character was created in 1939 by Robert L. May, a copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, which distributed millions of copies of a promotional children's booklet featuring the character before May's brother-in-law (songwriter Johnny Marks) wrote a song about him and Gene Autry made him a household name?
Correct Answer: RUDOLPH (THE RED-NOSED REINDEER)
Your Answer: rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

a guess