Jesse Day 10

Possible 6/6. Maybe 5/6

1. The title of what 1986 Walter Hill-directed film is taken from the location where, according to legend, Mississippi Delta Bluesman Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for mastery of the blues guitar?
Correct Answer: CROSSROADS
Your Answer: The Crossroads
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I knew the Eric Clapton song was related to this place. I am unfamiliar with the film. Not sure if "The" will go against me. 

2. The 1979 autobiography A Time to Heal was written by what politician, who was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1948 and served on the Warren Commission after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963?
Correct Answer: GERALD R. FORD
Your Answer: Ford
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I figured it was either a former or future president. I knew it wasn't Reagen or Carter. I figured Nixon would not be on the Warren commission given his rivalry with Kennedy. Ford made the most sense. 

3. American author O. Henry coined what term in the story "The Admiral", from his 1904 book Cabbages and Kings, describing the country of Honduras (which he fictionalized as "Anchuria"), where he lived for six months in the late 1890s?
Correct Answer: BANANA REPUBLIC
Your Answer: Banana Republic
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

 I did know the context, but it was the first thing that came to mind. 

4. The Grand National, held at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool annually beginning in 1839, is a National Hunt race that is what specific type of horse race, a term derived in part from the feature that was once used to mark the finish line in such races?
Correct Answer: STEEPLECHASE
Your Answer: Steeple Chase
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Total guess, but it was the first thing that came to mind and a church steeple could mark a finish line I guess. 

5. A masterpiece of classical antiquity originally sculpted in bronze by Myron around 450 BCE portrays its subject in the midst of what athletic activity?
Correct Answer: DISCUS THROWING
Your Answer: Discus
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I had an old high school Ultimate Frisbee jersey with this image captioned "Sport of the Gods" 

6. Identify the television series where, in a 2007 fourth-season episode titled "You Don't Want to Know", a stage magician has a cardiac event while submerged during a Chinese Water Torture Cell act, with his diagnosis ultimately determined to be lupus!
Correct Answer: HOUSE (M.D.)
Your Answer: House
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never watched the show, but I have mild Lupus and whenever mention people always quote the show, saying it is never Lupus.