Marcus final day

A disappointing 3/6 as I struggled with the US biased questions 

Player: BrowningM

1. The Spingarn Medal, which is awarded annually for outstanding achievement, was first given to cell biologist Ernest E. Just in 1915, and is presented by what American organization that was formed a few years prior?
Correct Answer: NAACP
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I was never getting this 

2. Which Grand Slam tennis tournament is considered to have the slowest surface, with its courts rated at a 1 ("slow", on a scale from 1 to 5) by the International Tennis Federation?
Correct Answer: FRENCH OPEN
Your Answer: french open
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme 

3. Bughead, Barchie, Varchie, and Jeronica were some of the "ships" named by the fandom of what CW series, which wrapped up its seventh and final season in August 2023?
Correct Answer: RIVERDALE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

My kids would have thought this was a gimme 

4. Old advertisements for what soap, widely cited as the first antibacterial soap (and today still the top brand of antibacterial bar soap, at least per its own marketing), promised to stop odor before it starts, keeping you fresh round the clock?
Correct Answer: DIAL
Your Answer: lifebuoy
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Nice clue but I've never heard of it 

5. What dog breed takes its name from a strip of territory bordering the Adriatic Sea in Southwest Croatia, largely barren and mountainous and formerly a part of the Greek province of Illyria?
Correct Answer: DALMATIAN
Your Answer: dalmation
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

6. The title of an Ornette Coleman recording from 1960 subtitled A Collective Improvisation is a source for the name of what jazz style, which is mostly undefinable but is characterized by a lack of rules (or a breaking of rules) and a rejection of conventions (like chord progressions, harmony, and melody)?
Correct Answer: FREE JAZZ
Your Answer: free jazz
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for freestyle but pleased to get it right 

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