Marcus Match Day 2 -- Confirmation

4/6 was much harder today 

Player: BrowningM

1. Throughout the 1980s, in millions of American homes one could find a handheld device on which was printed the name "Jerrold". What was this device?
Correct Answer: REMOTE CONTROL
Your Answer: tv remote control
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

A guess but couldn't think of anything else it could be

2. A 1642 group portrait of the militia company of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq and of Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch is best known today by what name?
Correct Answer: THE NIGHT WATCH
Your Answer: the night watch
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Last saw this after a very fine lunch with with some even finer wine on a very civilised stag weekend in Amsterdam. 

3. What term used to describe the cohort of women and men who came of age from around World War I to the Great Depression was reportedly coined by Gertrude Stein, and popularized via a frequently recounted conversation with Ernest Hemingway, whose own early works were prototypes for writers of this group?
Correct Answer: LOST GENERATION
Your Answer: the lost generation
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nearly fell into the greatest generation trap

4. "Ocean of wisdom" is a frequently cited colloquial translation for what Mongolian-language (or partially Mongolian) phrase, and person?
Correct Answer: DALAI LAMA
Your Answer: Kublai (khan)
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Struggled with this but was more gettable than I thought 

5. The dog who was recently banished from the White House after a series of biting incidents has a name that might suggest he is a member of a local sports team (though he isn't). What is this German Shepherd's name?
Correct Answer: COMMANDER
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

The news didn't make it to Britain 

6. According to one story in Greek mythology, what sprang from the body of Medusa upon her death at the hands of Perseus, and was later captured by Bellerophon, helping him defeat the hybrid Chimera? (Proper name required.)
Correct Answer: PEGASUS
Your Answer: pegasus
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I read all the Stephen Fry mythologies on holiday in Crete this summer.