LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD8 (February 28, 2020)

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on February 28, 2020.

1. Which rock band, which takes its name from the protagonist of Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon, is probably most known for their song "Punk Rock Girl?"

2. Africa, an epic poem which recounts the exploits of Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War, is a work by which Renaissance author?

3. Bobby Darin stayed in the Ambassador Hotel in June 1968 while working for which man, with whom that date and location are more tragically associated?

4. Which Oklahoma alumnus and first overall NFL draft pick won the Heisman trophy in 2019?

5. Although it has a Medical Center in Jackson, the main campus of the University of Mississippi is in which college town?

6. Famously resolved by Planck's Law, the so-called "ultraviolet catastrophe" was a problem in physics concerning the radiation spectrum of which alliteratively named idealistic physical concept, which absorbs all electromagnetic radiation?

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