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1. In February 2016, Swiss-born attorney Gianni Infantino was elected president of what international association, winning re-election in 2019 and 2023?
Correct Answer: FIFA
Your Answer: FIFA
Points Assigned: 1
Correct Answer: FIFA
Your Answer: FIFA
Points Assigned: 1
I was following the latest corruption scandals surrounding FIFA.
2. What legal drama, which originally aired on USA Network from 2011–19, became a streaming phenomenon in 2023, breaking the Nielsen record set by The Office three years earlier for the most viewing minutes in a year?
Correct Answer: SUITS
Your Answer: Suits
Points Assigned: 1
2. What legal drama, which originally aired on USA Network from 2011–19, became a streaming phenomenon in 2023, breaking the Nielsen record set by The Office three years earlier for the most viewing minutes in a year?
Correct Answer: SUITS
Your Answer: Suits
Points Assigned: 1
I had heard that it was super popular on Netflix. I've never seen an episode.
3. Name the American athlete who lost to West Germany's Harald Schmid in the 400-meter hurdles on August 26, 1977, and did not lose again in that event until June 4, 1987 (a span of 122 consecutive races).
Correct Answer: EDWIN MOSES
Your Answer: Lewis
Points Assigned: 3
3. Name the American athlete who lost to West Germany's Harald Schmid in the 400-meter hurdles on August 26, 1977, and did not lose again in that event until June 4, 1987 (a span of 122 consecutive races).
Correct Answer: EDWIN MOSES
Your Answer: Lewis
Points Assigned: 3
I knew Carl Lewis was not the answer, but Edwin Moses is before my time even though I have heard his name.
4. The rival English royal houses of Lancaster and York were continuations of what other royal dynasty, which began with Henry II in 1154 and was traditionally said to have been named after Henry II's father Geoffrey (and the sprig of broom he sported in his cap)?
Correct Answer: PLANTAGENET
Your Answer: Plantagenet
Points Assigned: 2
4. The rival English royal houses of Lancaster and York were continuations of what other royal dynasty, which began with Henry II in 1154 and was traditionally said to have been named after Henry II's father Geoffrey (and the sprig of broom he sported in his cap)?
Correct Answer: PLANTAGENET
Your Answer: Plantagenet
Points Assigned: 2
I can't believe I spelled this correctly! Biggest surprise of the season for me.
5. Predating the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault's 1697 version of what fairy tale is a morality tale involving a straightforward metaphor for sexual predation, makes no mention of a woodsman, and ends in the lupine devouring of two humans?
Correct Answer: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Your Answer: Little Red Riding Hood
Points Assigned: 0
5. Predating the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault's 1697 version of what fairy tale is a morality tale involving a straightforward metaphor for sexual predation, makes no mention of a woodsman, and ends in the lupine devouring of two humans?
Correct Answer: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Your Answer: Little Red Riding Hood
Points Assigned: 0
Gimmie?
6. Formed in Dublin in 1962 by uilleann piper Paddy Moloney, and arguably the most internationally famous traditional Irish instrumental group, what band took its name, suggested by poet and short-story writer John Montague, from his then-forthcoming 1964 collection Death of a [REDACTED]? (Note: the band name is a pluralized form of the redacted word.)
Correct Answer: THE CHIEFTAINS
Your Answer: The Pogues
Points Assigned: 2
6. Formed in Dublin in 1962 by uilleann piper Paddy Moloney, and arguably the most internationally famous traditional Irish instrumental group, what band took its name, suggested by poet and short-story writer John Montague, from his then-forthcoming 1964 collection Death of a [REDACTED]? (Note: the band name is a pluralized form of the redacted word.)
Correct Answer: THE CHIEFTAINS
Your Answer: The Pogues
Points Assigned: 2
I knew the Pogues were defiently not correct, but I could not pull the Cheiftans.
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