Jesse Day 2

3 or 4/6

1. HD 114762 b, which is over 125 light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and was discovered in 1989, is believed to be one of the first (if not the very first) celestial body of its type to be detected. Since then, over 4,000 more have been discovered, mostly via NASA's Kepler space telescope. What is the common name for this type of celestial body?
Correct Answer: EXOPLANET/EXTRASOLAR PLANET
Your Answer: Planet
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Not sure if Planet will score. I thought this was so obvious that I didn't think to add on the Exo. 

2. One (in 1948-58), 57 (1954-58), 5-B (1989), and 60 (2006-07)—per titles of different television series, these are all numbers of what?
Correct Answer: STUDIOS
Your Answer: Studio
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

This may have been harder than I scored it in retrospect. I first tried to think of tv shows from 2006 to 2007 with a number in it. I did watch Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip so that came to mind. Studio 57 fit the pattern and that was enough for me. 

3. What is the term, which translates to "holding truth", that was coined by Mahatma Gandhi for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance?
Correct Answer: SATYAGRAHA
Your Answer: Dharma
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea. 

4. A flirtatious young innocent from Schenectady who dies young in Rome of malaria and a wealthy young woman from Louisville who perpetrates a vehicular hit-and-run are two separate literary characters that go by what name?
Correct Answer: DAISY
Your Answer: Lolita
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Never heard of the first one and the second clue didn't spark the answer for me. 

5. What American businessman co-founded, with Henry Wells and others, the company that would eventually form American Express? He later served as the Civil War-era Mayor of Buffalo (and namesake of a city 920 miles to the west).
Correct Answer: WILLIAM FARGO
Your Answer: Fargo
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Well Fargo made this pretty easy. 

6. What is the portmanteau term, allegedly coined in 2000 during a game of Carcassonne, for a human-shaped piece used in that game and others such as Agricola, Pillars of the Earth, and Stone Age?
Correct Answer: MEEPLE
Your Answer: Meeple
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I play a lot of German board games, including Carcassonne. Not sure if my opponents do.