Marcus LL99 Match Day 6 -- Confirmation

3/6 which was a good result for me on the most US centric day I can remember 

Player: BrowningM

1. The 1996 essay collection Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions and the 1999 novel Those Bones Are Not My Child were posthumous works edited by Toni Morrison and written by what other American author, with whom Morrison shared a friendship and a first name?
Correct Answer: TONI CADE BAMBARA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

No idea

2. The 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki (also known as the Treaty of Maguan) resulted in the independence of what former tributary state of China?
Correct Answer: KOREA
Your Answer: korea
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Educated guess

3. Johann Christian Schickhardt's L'alphabet de la musique, which contains 24 sonatas in all keys for violin or flute and continuo, is similar (but inferior) to what contemporaneous masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach, whose work (as evidenced by its name) applies the same concept to stringed keyboard pieces?
Correct Answer: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER
Your Answer: well tempered clavier
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Hope this play hard but i love Bach 

4. Products that have been featured on advertisements on Saturday Night Live include Colon Blow, The Love Toilet, Mom Jeans, and a "toy sensation" that was produced by Wacky Products Incorporated and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited. It contains a liquid core that, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at, and includes an unknown glowing substance that fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. What is the three-word name of this toy, which is not to be taunted?
Correct Answer: HAPPY FUN BALL
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme for Americans ?

5. The yet-to-be-completed bridge known during its early development as the Detroit River International Crossing, which should become the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America upon its completion (expected in 2025), is officially named after what sports hero, who passed away in 2016 (and was immensely popular on both sides of the bridge)?
Correct Answer: GORDIE HOWE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nah

6. An apartment building at 125 West Ninth Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village (an address that doesn't actually exist) is the setting—and the only setting—for what 1954 film classic, which is based on the Cornell Woolrich story "It Had to Be Murder"?
Correct Answer: REAR WINDOW
Your Answer: rear window
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

It's a good film 

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