Jesse day 15

5/6

1. In a January 1973 speech describing the Paris Peace Accords of that month ending direct U.S. military combat in the war in Vietnam, President Richard M. Nixon, varying on a theme during his 1968 campaign, declared his goals for "peace with" what?
Correct Answer: HONOR
Your Answer: Honor
Points Assigned: 1

Had to decide between dignity and honor. Chose the right one. 

2. What major Pacific coast city developed around the massive natural harbor known as Port Jackson?
Correct Answer: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Your Answer: Sydney
Points Assigned: 3

I lived in Sydney for a year and half. 

3. In diving competitions, there are four possible official dive positions undertaken during the flight of the dive. Three are straight, tuck, and free—what is the fourth?
Correct Answer: PIKE
Your Answer: Pike
Points Assigned: 1

I am just glad that is the one they left out. I would have probably would have gotten tuck, but none of the others.

4. Although he had a long and successful career in popular music—both solo and with his wife Mary Ford—what guitarist has a greater legacy as a pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar, studio multitracking, electronic echo, and other modern recording techniques?
Correct Answer: LES PAUL
Your Answer: Gibson
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. 

5. The U.S. Department of Energy's national accelerator laboratory located in Batavia, Illinois, operated jointly by the University of Chicago and a not-for-profit research university consortium, is named after what nuclear physicist?
Correct Answer: ENRICO FERMI
Your Answer: Fermi
Points Assigned: 2

I had a professor that worked at Fermilab that discovered the top quark. They flew him once a week to Rochester to teach a Physics 100 class. I just checked and he is now Yale's physics department chair. 

6. What term is derived from the name of a Greek philosopher who declared that happiness and the absence of pain are the greatest goods and has come to mean, in the context of food and wine, a person of refined tastes?
Correct Answer: EPICURE/EPICUREAN
Your Answer: Epicurian
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie-ish

brad day14

3/6

1) lotte d2

knew bobby valentine coached chiba lotte

2) on stranger tides d1

my 2nd film answer in 2.5 seasons!

3) garibaldis glory d3

no idea

4) barbacoa d1

chipotle addict here

5) taster d2

no clue

6) microsoft d0

trading gimme

Ben Day 14

4/6. I should have a high OE because I surprised myself with a miss and a get.

1 :( Narita. I wrote Yokohma, which is totally inexcusable because of course I've heard of Tokto Narita. I didn't realiz Narita was the name of the city/town.

2 :) At World's End. A PotC trivia question was one of 3 that one my team (including MirkinD's brother) a $200 jackpot in Sydney one night.

3 :) Redshirts. Awesome guess.

4 :) barbacoa. I have Chipotle at least once a month, so I am quite familiar with this word.

5 :( No chance. I guessed antelope.

6 :) MSFT.

Jesse day 14

3/6

1. While Haneda Airport serves as the Tokyo base for Japan's main domestic airlines, the city's primary international airport is located in what city in Chiba Prefecture, after which the airport is named?
Correct Answer: NARITA
Your Answer: Narita
Points Assigned: 0

I run a travel company and send lots of people through Narita, plus I have been there myself. 

2. The fifth and most recent film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, released in May 2017, is subtitled Dead Men Tell No Tales, and the first in the series is subtitled The Curse of the Black Pearl. Give the subtitle of any one of the other three installments in the series.
Correct Answer: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, AT WORLD'S END, ON STRANGER TIDES
Your Answer: Ghost of Blackbeard
Points Assigned: 2

I have ignored the franchise, at my own peril. 

3. Volunteers who supported Giuseppe Garibaldi during the conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were known by what sanguine sartorial sobriquet?
Correct Answer: REDSHIRTS
Your Answer: Italians
Points Assigned: 2

Darn. Seems very gettable.

4. Among the six standard meat/tofu items on the menu at the Chipotle Mexican Grill chain, the slow-cooked, seasoned shredded beef option is listed as what term?
Correct Answer: BARBACOA
Your Answer: Barbacoa
Points Assigned: 1

I have eaten at Chipotle enough to get this one.

5. The artistic diversion, born from Surrealism, in which several people contribute to a drawing or text without seeing all of what the others have done is commonly known as "exquisite" what? It's named after an early example that allegedly produced "The exquisite [redacted] shall drink the new wine."
Correct Answer: CORPSE/CADAVER
Your Answer: multitudes
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea

6. Of the companies whose stocks make up the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, twenty-six are listed on the New York Stock Exchange while four are listed on the NASDAQ. Name any one of these latter four, all of which have joined the Dow within the last twenty years. 
Correct Answer: APPLE, CISCO SYSTEMS, INTEL, MICROSOFT
Your Answer: Apple
Points Assigned: 1

I have a bit of Apple stock. 

brad day13

disappointing 2/6 ... thought i had 4 when i submitted

1) we shall overcome d3

no idea

2) prince edward island d2

felt good about this one

3) jackson d1

and this one too

4) ironman triathalon d0

figured iron man wasnt going to count

5) janeway d2

trekkie gimme

6) variety d1

nope

Dave M day 13

My terrible run continues – now 2-10-0. 2 or 3/6 today and probably another loss.

 

1 :( Guess you know this or you don’t, D3

2 :) Simple geography question I suspect. D1

3 :( Also guessed Jackson and thought I had it. D0

4 :| Also went with Iron Man. Not sure whether this will be marked right or wrong. D1

5 :( Complete guess of Dominguez. D2

6 :) The only New York weekly that might be theater related. Never actually read it. D2

Jesse Day 13

Yikes. 1/6

1. "Till earth and heaven ring" is the second line of a famous poem by James Weldon Johnson that, once it was set to music, was adopted as the official song of the NAACP and is widely considered the "Black National Anthem." What is the poem's first line, which also serves as its title?
Correct Answer: LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
Your Answer: Lift up thee voices and sing
Points Assigned: 3

I was onto the right track just based on rhyming the word ring.

2. Cape Spear, the easternmost point in Canada, is located on the Avalon Peninsula of what large island?
Correct Answer: NEWFOUNDLAND
Your Answer: Newfoundland
Points Assigned: 1

Geography gimmie

3. The alleged "corrupt bargain" of 1824-1825 resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams as U.S. President by the House of Representatives and the appointment of what House speaker and Kentuckian as secretary of state?
Correct Answer: HENRY CLAY
Your Answer: Jackson
Points Assigned: 1

Damn, I thought I was right here.

4. In 1978, the 2.4-mile Waikiki Rough Water Swim, the 115-mile Around Oahu Bike Race, and the 26.2-mile Honolulu Marathon were combined to establish a new competition that introduced what novel two-word term?
Correct Answer: IRONMAN TRIATHLON
Your Answer: Iron Man
Points Assigned: 0

I am pretty sure I won't get credit for this. 

5. What surname goes in the blank in this otherwise complete and alphabetical (but not chronological) list: Archer, ________, Kirk, Picard, Sisko.
Correct Answer: JANEWAY
Your Answer: Beauregard
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I only knew Picard and Kirk. 

6. The Obie Awards, which honor theatre produced Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, are presented annually by the American Theatre Wing and what New York weekly publication, which originated the awards in 1955?
Correct Answer: THE VILLAGE VOICE
Your Answer: Playbill
Points Assigned: 2

Ah, very gettable. 

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