Jesse Day 23

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1. What author claims to begin writing every single new book strictly on January 8th as a superstition and tribute to the exact date she started her letter to her grandfather that became the best-selling 1982 novel La casa de los espíritus?
Correct Answer: ISABEL ALLENDE
Your Answer: Diaz
Points Assigned: 2

I had know idea. I have heard of Allende.

2. The documentary film When We Were Kings, which was finally released to the public in 1996, chronicles a "rumble" that took place in 1974 in what country?
Correct Answer: ZAIRE (DR CONGO)
Your Answer: Uganda
Points Assigned: 2

I was unconfident for a good reason. 

3. In 1950, a company called Aladdin Industries used the image of cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy on an everyday item to create a sales craze that is generally credited with launching what major American children's product category in the mid-20th century (likely to the joy of the American steel industry)?
Correct Answer: LUNCH BOXES
Your Answer: Toy guns
Points Assigned: 1

Oh! I never think of lunch boxes as being steel. 

4. In the 1960s, Los Angeles Rams Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones coined what now-common football term that became an official individual statistic in 1982, equating its feeling with that of plundering a city?
Correct Answer: SACK
Your Answer: Sack
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

5. While Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland, one may not realize that if their understanding of the earth's land masses was based on the most famous work of what Flemish cartographer, introduced in 1569 and still common on classroom walls today?
Correct Answer: GERARDUS MERCATOR
Your Answer: Mercator
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?

6. What agency's famous "meatball" logo dates back to 1959, though the logo was replaced in 1975 by a futuristic and iconic "worm" logo before the restoration of the "meatball" as the official logo in 1992?
Correct Answer: NASA
Your Answer: MCann Ericson
Points Assigned: 3

I just could not think of an agency that made sense. NASA never came to my mind when going through government agencies.