Jesse day 5

4/6 Easy day, could have gotten more if I didn't rush. 

1. What African-American spiritual, written by Wallace Willis in the mid-1800s and recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Louis Armstrong, and Eric Clapton, is frequently cited not simply as a celebration of release into heaven, but also of the aspiration (or plan) to be "carried home" to freedom via the Underground Railroad?
Correct Answer: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT
Your Answer: What a wonderful world
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I can hear the Clapton version in my head. 

2. An Anglo-Saxon god of war, the chief god of Norse mythology, a Norse god of thunder, the foremost goddess of Norse mythology, and a Roman god of agriculture are among a group that give their names to what septet?
Correct Answer: DAYS OF THE WEEK
Your Answer: The Avengers
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Oh boy, this wasn't that hard. I knew the Avengers was very wrong, but didn't think it through. 

3. What is the English translation of the French Les Nymphéas, which is the title given to a series of around 250 oil paintings by Claude Monet?
Correct Answer: WATER LILIES
Your Answer: The Waterlillies
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I saw many of them at exhibition somewhere, uh, the Met? 

4. The Congo River and a remote trading post deep in the jungles of central Africa run by a corrupted ivory trader provide settings for the flashback story told in what brisk, 80-page 1899 novella?
Correct Answer: HEART OF DARKNESS
Your Answer: Heart of Darkness
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I read it a while back. 

5. Until the announcement in May that Norah O'Donnell had been named anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, the anchor news desks at the "big three" broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) were occupied by three men with one-syllable last names. Give any one of those three names.
Correct Answer: GLOR, HOLT, MUIR
Your Answer: Holt
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never heard of the others, but I know of Lestor Holt.

6. Currently, there are two administrative divisions of China known formally as "special administrative regions", formed in 1997 and 1999 pursuant to declarations signed in the previous decade. What are the names of these two SARs?
Correct Answer: HONG KONG, MACAU
Your Answer: Hong Kong and Macau
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

Not sure if this hard or not.