Brian Day 24

4/6 heading into the weekend.  Welcome back to the blog, Debbie!

1) Piranha 0/1  I've seen the original, there were a bunch of Jaws-inspired movies such as this an Orca at the time.  i think it's prob gettable from the science angle too

2) Atlanta 2/2 No clue

3) bergamot 1/0  Earl Grey is my favorite tea

4) Tejano 3/2  I hadn't heard of Selena or this music until JLo got famous for portraying her.  After fighting off the urge to submit salsa, it eventually came to me.

5) bobbies 2/1 no clue

6) Sumer 1/3 I let this simmer in the back of my mind all day, then when I looked at the questions again it came to me right away.

Re: Debbie Day 21

Might as well post as the season comes to a close!  3 I hope.

1 :) piranha.  originally had chupacabra and overwrote. didn;t know this was a movie  D2

2 :( New Orleans.   Doh! was thinking Anne Rice, not Tyler. D2

3: ( tangerine. Also had no idea bergamot was a fruit  D2

4: ) Tejana. Hope this counts? D3

5 :( wankers.  haha.  D1

6 :) Sumer. Recently thought about and looked this up when telling my daughter about a 6th grade project I did on their irrigation canals  D1

Jesse day 24

1/6

1. What voracious, predatory, and aggressive South American flesh-eater was the inspiration (and namesake) for a horror film series that began in 1978?
Correct Answer: PIRANHA
Your Answer: Pihrana
Points Assigned: 0

It was the only answer that made sense. 

2. Novelists Anne Tyler and Laura Lippmann are most closely associated with what US city, which provides the setting for the majority of their respective novels as well as Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
Correct Answer: BALTIMORE
Your Answer: Montgomery
Points Assigned: 1

I should have gotten this through the Johns Hopkins connection. 

3. What citrus, an orange hybrid developed in France in the late 18th century and possibly named for a city in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, has a rind that produces an essential oil used in pharmaceuticals, perfumes, confectionery, and Earl Grey tea?
Correct Answer: BERGAMOT
Your Answer: Etrog
Points Assigned: 1

I could not pull the word out of my brain. 

4. The American-born singer Selena, who died tragically in Corpus Christi at the age of 23, has been called the "Queen of" what music style, which is also associated with the music of Grupo Mazz, Emilio Navaira, Ramón Ayala, and Freddy Fender, and whose trademark sound draws from norteño (a musical style of Northern Mexico) and brass music of Czech and German immigrants?
Correct Answer: TEJANO
Your Answer: Mexican Soul
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

5. What is the word missing from the following Cockney expression, which was used in the title of a beloved British sitcom that debuted in the early 80s: "Only fools and [BLANK] work."?
Correct Answer: HORSES
Your Answer: suckers
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

6. Uruk, Ur, Lagash, Kish, Eridu, and Nippur were all city-states located within an ancient, historical, pre-Akkadian, pre-Babylonian region of southern Mesopotamia known by what name?
Correct Answer: SUMER
Your Answer: Assirians
Points Assigned: 3

Nope

Dave M day 24 v Brad LLL

3/6 today in a Texas- and UK- friendly question list, which is enough to easily clear Brad, 0(1) – 4(3).

 

1 : ) Piranha. Don't know the movie but could only be one creature. Easy D00

2 : ( Chicago. No idea. D33

3 : ( Milan Orange. Racked my brain for a citrus and in the end just went with a big city in Lombardy. Never knew Bergamot was a citrus. D21

4 : ) Tejano. Selena remains big in Dallas. There's an annual Tejano music festival here in her honor. D12

5 : ) Horses. A big gimme for anyone from the UK. D12

6 : ( Assyria. It felt too modern, but couldn't think of anything else. D21

brad day24

1/6 vs mirkin

1) piranha d0/0

never heard of movie, but what else could this be

2) new orleans d2/3

nope

3) clementine d1/1

makes sense now, gettable

4) latin soul d2/2

no idea

5) dogs d3/2

nope

6) canaan d1/1

also gettable, but i figured was biblical

David S Day 24

2/6, and I honestly thought I only had 1. This season has been a killer for me. 

1. Piranha :), D22. Pure guess, though admittedly an obvious one. 
2. Chicago :(, D32. No idea. 
3. Juniper :(, D11. No chance here. 
4. Salsa :(, D23. Thought I’d at least recognize the answer when I saw it, but I’d never heard of this. 
5. Royals :(, D11. Nope!
6. Sumeria :), D00. Gimme for me. 

Jesse day 23

6/6. Boom goes the dynamite. 

1. The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, located in the western South Pacific Ocean, is scheduled to become independent by 2027 from what country, which itself gained autonomy from Australia in 1975?
Correct Answer: PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Your Answer: Papua New Guinea
Points Assigned: 3

This was a guess, but the timing seemed right. I did not know at all about Bougainville. 

2. Name the location in Greece which is the basic equivalent in Greek mythology to the Norse Asgard.
Correct Answer: MOUNT OLYMPUS
Your Answer: Mt Olympus
Points Assigned: 2

Seems pretty easy

3. While it may evoke an abstract representation of the sun, or a flower, or an asterisk, the six yellow dashes on what company's logo are meant, per that company, to represent a spark (with each of the six parts called a "sparklet")?
Correct Answer: WALMART
Your Answer: Walmart
Points Assigned: 1

It was the first logo that came to mind.

4. Who was declared legally dead in January 1939 in a probate court in Los Angeles, California, probably over 4,000 miles from the actual location where the death sadly occurred?
Correct Answer: AMELIA EARHART
Your Answer: Earhart
Points Assigned: 1

First person that came to mind. 

5. In 1967, Birmingham, England teenagers John Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Terry Butler, and Bill Ward formed a band named the Polka Tulk Blues Band. The band was renamed Earth and then ultimately named what (after one of their songs, which would also be their debut album title)? The foursome would go on to release eight albums in the 1970s with this original lineup.
Correct Answer: BLACK SABBATH
Your Answer: Black Sabbath
Points Assigned: 2

John Osbourne is Ozzy Osbource. 

6. Liberty City, San Fierro, and Vice City are fictional cities (based on New York, San Francisco, and Miami, respectively) that appear as settings in what series of games?
Correct Answer: GRAND THEFT AUTO (GTA)
Your Answer: Grand Theft Auto
Points Assigned: 0

Seems like a gimmie. They advertise everywhere. Whenever I tried to play I would get serious motion sickness.