4/6, again
1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s.
Correct Answer: SEAN DUFFY
Your Answer: Duffy
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: SEAN DUFFY
Your Answer: Duffy
Points Assigned: 2
That fucking idiot.
2. What word completes the title of Dario Fo's 1970 play Accidental Death of an [BLANK] (Morte accidentale di un [VUOTO])? In the play, the missing word refers to Giuseppe Pinelli, but it could also be used to describe Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, or maybe Johnny Rotten.
Correct Answer: ANARCHIST (ANARCHICO)
Your Answer: Anarchist
Points Assigned: 2
2. What word completes the title of Dario Fo's 1970 play Accidental Death of an [BLANK] (Morte accidentale di un [VUOTO])? In the play, the missing word refers to Giuseppe Pinelli, but it could also be used to describe Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, or maybe Johnny Rotten.
Correct Answer: ANARCHIST (ANARCHICO)
Your Answer: Anarchist
Points Assigned: 2
I got it through Johnny Rotten, Anarchy in the UK.
3. What textbook first published in London in 1858 gave its name (though not precisely) to a popular television series that premiered in 2005?
Correct Answer: GRAY'S ANATOMY
Your Answer: Gray's Anatomy
Points Assigned: 1
3. What textbook first published in London in 1858 gave its name (though not precisely) to a popular television series that premiered in 2005?
Correct Answer: GRAY'S ANATOMY
Your Answer: Gray's Anatomy
Points Assigned: 1
It took a while to get this as I did not watch this show.
4. A cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, associated in legend with the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus there, gave its name to what ancient Roman festival of purification and fertility? The name of the month during which this festival was held (February) comes from the purification objects (februa) used in this festival.
Correct Answer: LUPERCALIA
Your Answer: Stalactite
Points Assigned: 3
4. A cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, associated in legend with the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus there, gave its name to what ancient Roman festival of purification and fertility? The name of the month during which this festival was held (February) comes from the purification objects (februa) used in this festival.
Correct Answer: LUPERCALIA
Your Answer: Stalactite
Points Assigned: 3
I had no idea.
5. What laboratory technique, which is used to separate a mixture into its individual components and has a name that refers to "color writing," was pioneered in the early 1900s by a Russian botanist with the last name of Tsvet ("color"), while separating colored plant pigments?
Correct Answer: CHROMATOGRAPHY
Your Answer: Mass spectrometry
Points Assigned: 1
5. What laboratory technique, which is used to separate a mixture into its individual components and has a name that refers to "color writing," was pioneered in the early 1900s by a Russian botanist with the last name of Tsvet ("color"), while separating colored plant pigments?
Correct Answer: CHROMATOGRAPHY
Your Answer: Mass spectrometry
Points Assigned: 1
Nope. I figured I was wrong, but have never heard the word Chromatography.
6. Of the seven countries that make up Central America, which is the only one without a Pacific coast?
Correct Answer: BELIZE
Your Answer: Belize
Points Assigned: 0
6. Of the seven countries that make up Central America, which is the only one without a Pacific coast?
Correct Answer: BELIZE
Your Answer: Belize
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie? I've been!
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