Player: BrowningM
1. An October 1731 fire at (the unfortunately named) Ashburnham House near Westminster Abbey, which housed the private library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, damaged numerous important historical documents. One such document is known as the Nowell Codex, which contains the only known manuscript of what Old English poem?
Correct Answer: BEOWULF
Your Answer: beowoulf
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
2. In a standard two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal distance (the x-coordinate) is formally termed the abscissa, while the vertical distance (the y-coordinate) has what other name, which is credited to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late 17th century?
Correct Answer: ORDINATE
Your Answer: ordinate
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
3. The emblem for the International Committee of the Red Cross was adopted in 1863 in part to honor Henry Dunant, a businessman and humanitarian who helped found the movement after witnessing the carnage of the Battle of Solferino. What country was Dunant from?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: switzerland
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
gimme4. Long before the discovery that vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy, the British Navy used citrus juice (often mixed into grog) to cure and prevent the disease, which in turn led to the use of what word, now an antiquated insult, for British sailors?
Correct Answer: LIMEY
Your Answer: limey
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
5. What was the name of the series of camera models produced by Eastman Kodak beginning in 1900 that is widely credited with popularizing snapshot photography? It was invented by company designer and "father of the modern camera" Frank A. Brownell, but actually named after comic characters popular at the time.
Correct Answer: BROWNIE
Your Answer: brownie
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. The 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass tells the story of the rise and fall of what retail record chain, which was founded in Sacramento in 1960, opened its flagship on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in 1970 and its Greenwich Village flagship in 1983, and closed its last U.S. location in 2006?
Correct Answer: TOWER RECORDS
Your Answer: tower records
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Made no difference to the defence tho as we both D3’d the hard one
5/6 on what should be an easy day for Marcus... Managed a 6(5)-6(5) tie.
1) Welsh 2/2 I just read about this a few weeks ago. Wasn't 100% but I remembered it was in the southern UK.
2) Psycho 1/2 early plot twist, legendary director
3) yolkolo 3/3 I've heard of ocarina but never knew what it was
4) gold 2/1 Rare art get for me because of The Kiss
5) Billy Elliott 1/0 Tom Holland on the brain b/c Spider-Man.... David S, you were closer than you think, Tom Holland, the current Spider-Man, began his career as Billy Elliott. I was surprised he wasn't one of the actors named in the question, I guess he took over soon after.
6) Midway 0/1 better answer than Bikini
4/6. Unlike yesterday, I thought I’d done worse today.
Player: BrowningM
1. The village with a name translated to English as "Saint Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio by the Red Cave" is famous for its full single-word name in its native language. What is that language?
Correct Answer: WELSH (CYMRAEG)
Your Answer: welsh
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. The legendary director of what 1960 film instructed theaters not to admit latecomers, in order to protect the film's famous plot twist and ending? This policy helped establish now-universal scheduled showtimes, replacing the earlier continuous-loop model.
Correct Answer: PSYCHO
Your Answer: psycho
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
hmmm nah3. What small and simple egg-shaped musical instrument belonging to the flute family, made from terracotta and featuring a protruding mouthpiece with multiple finger and thumb holes, was a central element in a popular video game released in 1998?
Correct Answer: OCARINA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, looted by the Nazis from a Jewish family, was returned to the family's heir in 2006 after a long legal battle and later sold for $135 million. This story inspired the film Woman in [BLANK]—what color, strongly associated with Klimt's work especially from 1901 to 1909, fills in the blank?
Correct Answer: GOLD
Your Answer: gold
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. Teenagers David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish shared the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, splitting the physically grueling, near-constant demands of one particular role among them. What is the full name of that character?
Correct Answer: BILLY ELLIOT
Your Answer: billy elliot
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. The sunken Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu are associated with what Pacific atoll and wildlife refuge?
Correct Answer: MIDWAY
Your Answer: midway
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
history gimme
