Jesse Day 7

2/6 on what I thought was a hard day.

1. While "Duplicate" and "Chicago" are well-known forms of the game, likely the most prevalent variation of a particular game for its casual players is "Rubber", whose namesake achievement is reached when a pair of players wins two games. What is this card game?
Correct Answer: (CONTRACT) BRIDGE
Your Answer: Bridge
Points Assigned: 1

I know nearly nothing about Bridge, but it is one of the few card games I know of that involves pairs. It is widely played enough where variations seemed probable. 

2. American novelist and critic Mary McCarthy's 1957 autobiography, which details a nomadic childhood from convent schools to Vassar College marked by the tragic death of her parents in the influenza pandemic of 1918, is titled Memories of a ______ Girlhood. (Fill in the blank.)
Correct Answer: CATHOLIC
Your Answer: Disrupted
Points Assigned: 2

I have heard of this now that I see the answer.

3. Babies tucked between tulip petals, babies displayed as a bed of roses, and babies arranged as potted plants—these are all included in a 1996 collection titled Down In the Garden, by what photographer?
Correct Answer: ANNE GEDDES
Your Answer: Crawford
Points Assigned: 2

I could not pull her name out of my brain.

4. What is the specific term, borrowed from German, for the type of frozen precipitation—sometimes referred to as "snow pellets" and distinct from snow, sleet, freezing rain, or hail—which consists of soft, small ice pellets created when super-cooled water droplets coat a snowflake?
Correct Answer: GRAUPEL
Your Answer: Nope
Points Assigned: 1

Never heard of it. 

5. The 1980 concert film Divine Madness centered on a performance the year before at Pasadena's Civic Auditorium by what performer, whose nickname (dating to her early years as a bathhouse diva) is referenced in the title?
Correct Answer: BETTE MIDLER
Your Answer: Divine
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is largely credited for the reported increase of 65% in profits for what candy?
Correct Answer: REESE'S PIECES
Your Answer: Reese's Pieces
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie to me.