Brian Day 9

 3 or 4 today.  Thought I’d get somewhere between 0 and 5, had no confidence in any of my answers.  Stealing Jesse’s format for today 

1. What word for a certain type of body of water is a homonym for a pigment made by combining an organic dye with an inorganic, inert binder (typically an oxide, hydroxide, or salt)?
Correct Answer: LAKE
Your Answer: lagoon
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never heard of lake used that way.  I assumed I missed an obvious answer and went with too-low defense

2. Dallas's Trevon Diggs, Miami's Xavien Howard, New England's Stephon Gilmore, Kansas City's Marcus Peters, and Seattle's Richard Sherman are among the NFL players who have led the league at season's end over the last nine seasons in what statistical category?
Correct Answer: INTERCEPTIONS
Your Answer: sacks
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

The only name I knew was Sherman, and i only knew he was defense

3. The predominant international organization for the facilitation of financial transactions and payments between banks is known by what acronym, which is also an adjective that (probably not coincidentally) one might use to positively describe the transactions themselves?
Correct Answer: SWIFT
Your Answer: swift
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Had no idea until I thought of the Russia sanctions

4. The phrase "cult of personality" as it is defined today was coined during a 1956 "Secret Speech" denouncing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (who had died three years earlier) given by what man?
Correct Answer: NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
Your Answer: kruschchev
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

It being a secret speech made me think it could be Stalins successor. And a great song!

5. The P versus NP problem, the Hodge conjecture, the Poincaré conjecture, the Riemann hypothesis, the Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem, the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture: when this classic heptad was published by the Clay Mathematics Institute in May 2000, each of the problems was unsolved and each carried a $1 million award for its solution. This set is known collectively as what?
Correct Answer: MILLENNIUM (PRIZE) PROBLEMS
Your Answer: millenium prize
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Was panicking that after complaining and begging for more math, I had no idea. Then the 2000 date triggered it for me.  I think my answer pays.

6. According to the lyrics of a song released in 1999 by TLC, what term can be defined as a guy that thinks he's fly and is also known as a busta?
Correct Answer: SCRUB
Your Answer: scrub
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never got into this song, I was more about not chasing waterfalls, but I know it was a big hit and I hoped that was the reference.