Jesse Day 5

A battle against Amelia, one of my friends I referred. 3/6 on what I though was a hard day.

1. What term from philosophy is today an emphasis on the special position of persons in the greater scheme, their value and agency, and—per a third Manifesto in 2003—that "knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis"? It has been applied to schools of thought in contrast to "theism" and to an Ancient Greek doctrine (represented by Protagoras's decree that "man is the measure of all things") in contrast to "absolutism." 
Correct Answer: HUMANISM
Your Answer: Humanism
Points Assigned: 1

This was a guess. Only thing I could think of. 

2. Negotiations in 1988 led by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar brought about an armistice in a prolonged border war that began in 1980 between what two foes?
Correct Answer: IRAN, IRAQ
Your Answer: Iraq and Iran
Points Assigned: 0

My first thought was Falklands, but that wasn't a border war. Then I thought about India and Pakistan and had put it down, but then at the last minute switched to Iraq and Iran for the correct answer.

3. An August 2009 fundraiser "Pickin' for the Record" sought the world record for most guitar players gathered at one time to play, with an official count of 1,868 players—1,865 more than the reported population of the central Texas community where the event was held. What is the name of that town, which is the subject of the 1977 Waylon Jennings song the group played?
Correct Answer: LUCKENBACH
Your Answer: Solo
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of it. 

4. First proposed in the 1860s and controversial at the time, the scientific laws known as the law of segregation, the law of independent assortment, and the law of dominance are known collectively as a set of laws named after what Augustinian friar?
Correct Answer: GREGOR MENDEL
Your Answer: Paul
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I have heard of this, but there is no way I could pull it from my brain. 

5. The first novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the story of a cynical failed wizard named Rincewind, is The Colour of what?
Correct Answer: MAGIC
Your Answer: Sound
Points Assigned: 1

I considered reading this series, but never got to it. 

6. In addition to his appearances on Cheers and Frasier, Kelsey Grammer earned an Emmy nomination for portraying Frasier Crane on what other NBC comedy, for an episode in which Frasier and his wife Lilith fly to Nantucket to conduct a self-esteem workshop?
Correct Answer: WINGS
Your Answer: Wings
Points Assigned: 2

I think Amelia is too young to have seen Wings. I tried to think of a show set in Nantucket and then I thought maybe that airplane TV show was set there. The podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me occasionally mention Wings so the name of the show was still in my memory.