Jesse day 2

3/6. My 5/6 yesterday lost to a 6/6

1. Of the six Mexican states that share a border with the United States, Chihuahua has the longest, stretching from near the New Mexico/Arizona border in the west to Big Bend National Park in the east. Name any one of the other five Mexican states that border the U.S.
Correct Answer: BAJA CALIFORNIA, SONORA, COAHUILA, NUEVO LEON, TAMAULIPAS
Your Answer: Baja California
Points Assigned: 1

I drove all the way down Baja California. That is the only one I could come up with. 

2. What word has been redacted from this box? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/478y59ncrtvy4.jpg
Correct Answer: GNOCCHI
Your Answer: Gnocchi
Points Assigned: 0

Mmmm. Gimmie?

3. Fill in the either blank in this list that, based on the distinction all of the items share, is complete and chronological: The Roosters, Casey Jones and His Engineers, The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Glands, _______, The Powerhouse, Winston Legthigh and the Dirty Mac, _______, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, The Plastic Ono Band, Derek & The Dominos, Legends.
Correct Answer: CREAM, BLIND FAITH
Your Answer: Eric Clapton
Points Assigned: 3

I just slapped my head. I had the one one Blind faith Album and best of Cream growing up. I can't believe I missed this one. I knew it was Clapton, but for some reason I couldn't think of the names of his other pre-solo bands. 

4. In Arabic, what is the patronym—meaning "son of"—which is the basic equivalent of the English "-son", the Scottish Gaelic and Irish "Mac", the Spanish "-ez", and the Russian "-ovich"/"-evich"/"ich"?
Correct Answer: IBN/BIN
Your Answer: Bin
Points Assigned: 1

I just thought of Osama and that Ben in Hebrew is son of. 

5. The first child of English parents to be born in America was named Virginia (after the Virginia Colony) and was born on August 18, 1587, on Roanoke Island. What was Virginia's last name?
Correct Answer: DARE
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 2

Oh yeah, now I remember. 

6. Carina is Latin for the keel of a ship, puppis is the poop deck, and vela are a ship's sails. Those three Latin terms are also names for three individual what, having collectively been a part of Argo Navis (Ship Argo) until a breakup that was suggested in the mid-18th century and formalized in 1930?
Correct Answer: CONSTELLATIONS
Your Answer: Islands
Points Assigned: 2

That makes sense. 

Dave M day 1

Nice to be back in the quiz and in the same rundle as Jesse, Steiny and Carr for the first time a while – matches on days 12 14 and 15.

 

Looks like I’m in the middle of the group today with 4/6

 

1 :) Spent a couple of minutes trying to work out whether this was St Moritz before the crushingly obvious correct answer became apparent. D2

2 :) Remember writing about the Kims and their titles in high school D1

3 :) Could only be Ledger. D1

4 :( I also never thought about sports. I had no idea so went with the Branch Dravidians. Well, those that were left anyway… D3

5 :( No idea, guessed cortex against an opponent with good marks in Science. D0

6 :) A London institution. D2

Ben Day 1

4/6. In Australia for the first 2 weeks of this season so may be tough to post.  Nice to be back in C where I have >10% chance of winning a given match. No match-up against Steiny this season despite being in the same rundle.

1 :) Davos.

2 :| I wrote Kim Il Sun. Left out the G. I think I'll get the marks

3 :) Ledger. Steiny: I didn't recall that conversation when answering this question. Not sue I would have remembered the year!

4 :( Was also thinking political. I guessed Planned Parenthood.

5 :) Occipital. First read of that question I had nothing. Came back later and my brain had produced it.

6 :( I wrote Thomas Cook because he sounded British. I thought of Lloyds more as an auction house than an insurer.

Gideon LL72 Day 1

Hey all, welcome back!
6/6 Today

1 D1
2 D1
3 D2
4 D3 - Hey, I got a sports question!
5 D0 - I know my lobes.
6 D2

Jesse Day 1, LL 72

Hi all. 5/6 Good start to season on what seems like an easy day. I was against some that graduated from a school of medicine so I 0ed what I thought was the hardest question.

1. Tavau is the local Romansh name for what fashionable resort town and geopolitical destination in the Rhaetian Alps?
Correct Answer: DAVOS
Your Answer: Davos
Points Assigned: 2

I knew Romansh was a Swiss language and Davos was the only geopolitical resort town that I could think of in Switzerland.

2. What is the full name of the man who assumed the position of Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in September 1998, despite having died four years prior?
Correct Answer: KIM IL-SUNG
Your Answer: Kim Il Sung
Points Assigned:2

I wrote them all out and wasn't sure if it was Kim Il Sun or Sung and went for Sung fortunately.

3. What actor died in 2008 during the filming of the Terry Gilliam fantasy film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was completed with parts of the actor's role played by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell?
Correct Answer: HEATH LEDGER
Your Answer: Heath Ledger
Points Assigned: 1

I knew who it was right away, but took me a while to recall his name. 

4. In 1832, Sam Houston, formerly a governor of Tennessee, settled in what would become the state of Texas, where he would also become governor. Unrelatedly, in 1997, a well-known organization made a highly publicized reverse trip of sorts, migrating from Texas to Tennessee. What is the current name of that organization?
Correct Answer: TENNESSEE TITANS
Your Answer: Titans
Points Assigned: 1

Right away I figured out it was a sports team and had to decide between the Titans and Grizzlies. I knew the Grizzlies were from Vancouver so I figured it was the Titans. 

5. The mammalian brain is typically classified anatomically into six lobes. Five are the frontal, parietal, temporal, limbic, and insular. What is the sixth?
Correct Answer: OCCIPITAL
Your Answer: pre-frontal
Points Assigned: 0

I have heard of this lobe, but there was no way I was going to think of it. 

6. A coffee house on London's Tower Street was the birthplace in 1688 of a namesake center of shipping intelligence and marine insurance market that has evolved into a giant and diverse general insurance marketplace. What is that shared name?
Correct Answer: LLOYD'S
Your Answer: Llyod's
Points Assigned: 3

I just heard a podcast (50 things that made the modern economy) about this last week. I think I may have gotten it anyway, but that made it easy. 

Brad Day 1

Good to be back

2/6 ... disappointing effort on a pretty straightforward day

1)  davos  D1
Boondoggle all over cnbc for a week straight, hoping i get a low d on this one as not obviously a biz question

2) kim il sung.  D0
Not to be confused with dear leader 2 or 3

3) walker d2
Thinking too recent on this one

4) nra d2
Yup, makes sense.  Good question.

5) exterior d1
Nope

6) prudential d3
Think of a british insurer ... think of a british insurer ... nope ...

Steiny Day 1

Welcome back y'all...got 4 but should have had 5

1.  :) The geopolitical refernce and Alps made it clear it was davos

2. :( Guessed Kim Jung-An

3. :) TIming made sense (Ben knows that I now remember the year heath ledger died from a much discussed pub trivia question a few weeks ago)

4. :( Kept trying to think of a political organization and couldn't...sports never crossed my mind. I wrote Houston Sams.  So frustrating i did not think of sports

5. :) Occipital immediately came to my mind, have no idea what it is, but the phrase occpital lobe sounded right so I went with it

6. :) lloyds is fairly obvious here