Jesse day 4

4/6. I am somehow 3-0 and in first place in B even though I feel like I have left a lot of gettable answers out on the table. 

1. 2007's My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, which included its creator's signature room-sized black paper silhouettes, was the first full-scale museum survey for an acclaimed American artist. What name is (coincidentally) both the last name of this prolific artist and the name of the Minneapolis art center where her work was featured?
Correct Answer: WALKER
Your Answer: Target
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea, so went with a well-known business from Minnesota. 

2. Viktor Chernomyrdin, who served as Prime Minister of Russia under Boris Yeltsin (and 23 hours as Acting President during Yeltsin's heart surgery in 1996), was the leader of the Ministry of Gas Industry in 1989 when it transformed into the country's first state-corporate enterprise, under what name?
Correct Answer: GAZPROM
Your Answer: Gazprom
Points Assigned: 2

I first put down Lukoil, but then changed it to Gazprom. 

3. Nathan "Nearest" Green, the first known African-American master distiller in the United States, was a pioneer of the "Lincoln County Process", which produces whiskey using the same process as Kentucky bourbon with an added final step of filtering it through thick chips of sugar maple charcoal before bottling. The resulting whiskey is a type named after (and closely associated with) what other location?
Correct Answer: TENNESSEE
Your Answer: Tennessee
Points Assigned: 0

The only other American whisky that can be associated with a state that I know about. 

4. What is the popular ground cover of the dogbane family, in the genus Vinca and also known as creeping myrtle, that gives its name to the shade of lavender-blue that matches a common color of its flowers?
Correct Answer: PERIWINKLE
Your Answer: Perywinckle
Points Assigned: 1

No idea how to spell it, but I added ground cover to part of our front yard and periwinkle was in consideration. I knew periwinkle was a shade of purple. 

5. What eponymous adjective describes a certain cantus firmus attributed to a man from the 6th/7th century, as well as a modification (introduced by a similar man) that caused, two belated centuries later in England, Wednesday, September 2, 1752, to be followed immediately by Thursday, September 14?
Correct Answer: GREGORIAN
Your Answer: Gregorian
Points Assigned: 1

I got it from the second part. 

6. A group of writers in and around New York in the first half of the 19th century took its name from Washington Irving's fictional Dutch historian and "author" of A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. What was that character's last name (and that writers' group's name, and a current New York group's name)?
Correct Answer: KNICKERBOCKER
Your Answer: Crane
Points Assigned: 2

Shoot, this was very gettable.