Jesse Day 19

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1. The Ravinia Festival has served as the official summer home and residency of what major orchestra since 1936?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Your Answer: New York Philharmonic
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of that festival or location.

2. The Nigerian visual artist Bolaji Badejo, who stood a slender 6'10", has a single acting credit, as the title character in what 1979 film (in which Badejo's face was never seen)?
Correct Answer: ALIEN
Your Answer: The Thin Man
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.

3. In ten-pin bowling, the ideal impact point between the one and three pins for right-handers (one and two pins for lefties) is most commonly referred to by what word? The term has other uses in sports such as American football, billiards, and curling.
Correct Answer: POCKET
Your Answer: Pocket
Points Assigned: 1

Pocket felt right. 

4. What word for the violent fragmentation of a larger region into smaller, mutually hostile states, which entered wide use in the aftermath of World War I, is drawn from the name of a peninsula whose own wars, fought in 1912-13, gave the term its original meaning?
Correct Answer: BALKANIZATION
Your Answer: Balkanization
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?

5. Identify the Dutch painter and Neoplasticist who deliberately limited many of his mature paintings to the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and three "non-colors" (black, gray, and white), believing this limited palette expressed universal visual harmony. His Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey from 1922 is a famous and prime example.
Correct Answer: PIET MONDRIAN
Your Answer: Modrian
Points Assigned: 3

I just knew this one. We used to have playing cards with different artists as the card back art.

6. The influencer, online streamer, and global phenomenon born Darren Watkins Jr. in Cincinnati in 2005 is better known by what handle (or its five-letter shortened form)?
Correct Answer: ISHOWSPEED/SPEED
Your Answer: Speed
Points Assigned: 2

Suprised my guess worked. I don't watch streamers generaly, but I do like Marques Brownlee because he is an ultimate player and does great tech reviews. He has been on some Mr. Beast things, Speed was there, and seemed prominent.