Marcus day 3

5/6 a couple of good guesses so happy with that

Player: BrowningM

1. Mukbang is a term for a special type of video that shows its subject engaged in what activity (in fact, the word itself combines the Korean words for this activity and "broadcast")?
Correct Answer: EATING
Your Answer: singing
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Had no idea, is this at all well known?

2. A German named Johann Bayer invented a system, which was published in the early 1600s and primarily used Greek letters and Latin names in the genitive case, for the naming of what?
Correct Answer: STARS
Your Answer: stars
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Worked this one out 

3. The Nose and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk are operas by what composer, whose fifteen symphonies include his WWII-era seventh known as the Leningrad?
Correct Answer: DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Your Answer: shostakovich
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

A guess based on it being 20th century and probably a Russian

4. Although numerous cities have hosted multiple Olympic Games, only one city has hosted both a Summer and a Winter Games (both in this century). What is that city?
Correct Answer: BEIJING
Your Answer: beijing
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

The easiest of some quite hard questions today

5. Although the evidence is wildly varied and hotly disputed, some historians suggest that as much as 60%–70% of the total population of what country perished during a catastrophic 1864–70 war that is sometimes called the War of the Triple Alliance? The deaths suffered by the triumphant "Triple Alliance" of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina were significant but far fewer.
Correct Answer: PARAGUAY
Your Answer: paraguay
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I read about this years ago, truly shocking, almost all the Paraguayan men died.

6. The Indian city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan state, has been known since 1876 as the "[BLANK] City" because Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had buildings of the city painted this color—at the time deemed the "color of hospitality"—in preparation for a visit by Albert, the Prince of Wales. (Fill in the blank.)
Correct Answer: PINK
Your Answer: pink
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I knew this but hope most didn't …