5/6 on day full of gimmies to end the season. I am currently fifth in B, my best finish ever, but just outside of promotion.
1. What two-word term, now a standard academic phrase in literature, was coined by literary critic Wayne C. Booth in his influential 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction, and has since been used to describe such misleading storytellers as Holden Caulfield, Humbert Humbert, Patrick Bateman, Pi Patel, and numerous Edgar Allan Poe characters (especially the protagonist of "The Tell-Tale Heart")?
Correct Answer: UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
Your Answer: Unreliable Narrator
Points Assigned: 2
Correct Answer: UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
Your Answer: Unreliable Narrator
Points Assigned: 2
Gimmie?
2. Sergei Belov, Oscar Schmidt, Dražen Petrović, Charles H. Taylor, and Dick Bavetta are all individuals who are inductees into the hall of fame of what sport?
Correct Answer: BASKETBALL
Your Answer: Basketball
Points Assigned: 2
2. Sergei Belov, Oscar Schmidt, Dražen Petrović, Charles H. Taylor, and Dick Bavetta are all individuals who are inductees into the hall of fame of what sport?
Correct Answer: BASKETBALL
Your Answer: Basketball
Points Assigned: 2
I could have gotten this with any of the clues other than Sergei Belov.
3. The violin was likely invented sometime in the 16th century, making a famous and inflammatory saying regarding what individual in 64 CE purely a myth?
Correct Answer: NERO
Your Answer: Nero
Points Assigned: 1
3. The violin was likely invented sometime in the 16th century, making a famous and inflammatory saying regarding what individual in 64 CE purely a myth?
Correct Answer: NERO
Your Answer: Nero
Points Assigned: 1
Gimmie?
4. Three groups are widely regarded as the founding cornerstones of a legendary hip-hop collective formed in New York during the late 1980s known as the Native Tongues. One was the Jungle Brothers; name either of the other two, whose full-length debuts 3 Feet High and Rising and People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm were released in 1989 and 1990, respectively.
Correct Answer: DE LA SOUL, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Your Answer: Sugar Hill Gang
Points Assigned: 3
4. Three groups are widely regarded as the founding cornerstones of a legendary hip-hop collective formed in New York during the late 1980s known as the Native Tongues. One was the Jungle Brothers; name either of the other two, whose full-length debuts 3 Feet High and Rising and People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm were released in 1989 and 1990, respectively.
Correct Answer: DE LA SOUL, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Your Answer: Sugar Hill Gang
Points Assigned: 3
Very gettable, but this isn't my music genre.
5. "Crisp cookies with caramel, coconut, and chocolaty stripes"—to some members of the GSUSA, this describes a Caramel deLite, but to others, it's known as what?
Correct Answer: SAMOA
Your Answer: Samoa
Points Assigned: 0
5. "Crisp cookies with caramel, coconut, and chocolaty stripes"—to some members of the GSUSA, this describes a Caramel deLite, but to others, it's known as what?
Correct Answer: SAMOA
Your Answer: Samoa
Points Assigned: 0
Gimme for an American whose favorite cookie is the Samoa.
6. The tusk or "horn" of what animal is actually an elongated tooth, usually the left canine, which erupts through the upper lip and grows in a spiral up to ten feet long, making it plausible for collection and sale in medieval Europe as a unicorn horn?
Correct Answer: NARWHAL
Your Answer: Narwhal
Points Assigned: 1
6. The tusk or "horn" of what animal is actually an elongated tooth, usually the left canine, which erupts through the upper lip and grows in a spiral up to ten feet long, making it plausible for collection and sale in medieval Europe as a unicorn horn?
Correct Answer: NARWHAL
Your Answer: Narwhal
Points Assigned: 1
Gimme?
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