4/6.
Player: BrowningM
1. The IMF and World Bank were both conceived in July 1944 (the former to address short-term balance-of-payments crises, the latter to promote long-term development) at a conference held at the Mount Washington Hotel in Carroll, New Hampshire, in what resort area?
Correct Answer: BRETTON WOODS
Your Answer: Bretton Woods
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
a few clues to help
2. Influenced by Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the Chicano Art Movement of the 1960s and 70s embraced what art form, whose name derives from the Spanish word for its customary setting, as a vehicle for political activism and cultural identity?
Correct Answer: MURALS
Your Answer: Murals
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. While clearly influenced by French New Wave cinema and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, director Arthur Penn claimed that his 1967 film was the first in mainstream American cinema to depict graphic violence using slow motion and rapid, convulsive editing, most famously in its climactic final death scene. What is that film?
Correct Answer: BONNIE AND CLYDE
Your Answer: Bonnie and Clyde
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
i guess the pork made Reuben quite a poor guess!4. Ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard (and sometimes salami) on pressed bread: This is a quintessential recipe for what sandwich? Though its origins are unknown, the sandwich's name also very likely describes the individual who made the first one.
Correct Answer: CUBANO
Your Answer: Reuben
Points Assigned: 0
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my defending about as good as Brazil’s as this may be hard for americans5. One of the least consequential goals in FIFA World Cup history came in the 90th minute of the July 8, 2014 semifinal, when Brazil's Oscar scored to avoid a shutout against what country, which by that point had already scored seven?
Correct Answer: GERMANY
Your Answer: Germany
Points Assigned: 1
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6. In a 1933 ruling and milestone in the history of literary censorship, Judge John Munro Woolsey of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York wrote that "whilst in many places the effect of [REDACTED] on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic, nowhere does it tend to be an aphrodisiac." This ruling allowed for the publication in the U.S. of what Irish novel, first published by Sylvia Beach at Paris's Shakespeare and Company in 1922?
Correct Answer: ULYSSES
Your Answer: Ulysses
Points Assigned: 2
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A fine tang of faintly scented urine is the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast.
4/6
1) Torque 1/1 gimme
2) Reebok 2/2 I think this is well-known, but had to use my 0 and 1s elsewhere
3) Ballmer 1/3 Knew this was wrong, had absolutely no idea, and I have never heard of the answer
4) Divergent 3/0 See comment #3
5) lightsaber 0/2 I am looking at a wampa (that's the snow beast from Empire for you heathens) action figure as I type this. Just a little bit of a gimme
6) Apple 2/1 Got it from the French: potato is pomme de terre, fruit of the earth, and pomme is apple. Plus pomegranate. (great minds, Mirkin!)
Weak 2/6. Back down to earth for me the last couple of days and a crushing defeat today against Dave M.
5/6 again today – same as Marcus – though these questions seem a good fit for Seif too so not sure who wins between us.
1 : ) Torque. A guess but a confident one. D01
2 : ) Reebok. I remember seeing a diagram of antelopes in high school and suddenly realizing Reebok the shoe brand must be named after one of them. D10
3 : ) Kroenke. Got the spelling right too. Like Marcus this came from Arsenal. D11
4 : ( Fire. No idea but my word was close thematically. D33
5 : ) Light Saber. Had to be Star Wars and it was between Light Saber and Death Star. Figured Light Saber was more of a prop. D22
6 : ) Apple. Chosen because in French “Apple” appears in other food stuffs like their word for Potato. D22
science gimmePlayer: BrowningM
1. In mechanics, what term (also called "moment") describes the tendency of a force to cause rotation, equal to the product of the force and the perpendicular distance from the axis of rotation to the force's line of action?
Correct Answer: TORQUE
Your Answer: torque
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
2. An Afrikaans name for a type of antelope was chosen for what shoe company at its founding in the UK in 1958, in the English city of Bolton?
Correct Answer: REEBOK
Your Answer: reebok
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
without Arsenal i would have had no clue3. What American billionaire and real estate magnate is well known as the owner of multiple professional sports franchises and facilities through his namesake company, including the Los Angeles Rams, Arsenal F.C. and Arsenal W.F.C., and the Colorado Avalanche (and their home venues)? He is also the largest private landowner in the United States, with holdings of about 2.7 million acres, approaching the size of the state of Connecticut.
Correct Answer: STAN KROENKE
Your Answer: kroenke
Points Assigned: 2
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4. A teenage girl named Cassia lives in a rigidly controlled dystopian state where Officials from the Society determine citizens' jobs, spouses, and death dates. Cassia is paired with one boy but begins to develop feelings for another, which threatens the system's foundations. This is the premise of what 2010 YA novel by Ally Condie?
Correct Answer: MATCHED
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
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5. In 1977, film sound designer Ben Burtt combined the hum of an idling film projector with interference buzz picked up when a microphone cable passed too close to a television's CRT to create the iconic drone of what famous cinematic prop?
Correct Answer: LIGHTSABER
Your Answer: light sabre
Points Assigned: 1
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6. While today it refers to a specific fruit, what word in Old and Middle English (and many cognates in other languages) once referred to fruit more generally?
Correct Answer: APPLE
Your Answer: apple
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
the apple themed questions continue
