Marcus Match Day 8 -- Confirmation

4/6 a good result for a Brit ..

Player: BrowningM

1. Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks were allegedly the original basis for the characters Rob Petrie and Buddy Sorrell on what classic television sitcom?
Correct Answer: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
Your Answer: the odd couple
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Thought my guess has half a chance but was never going to get this 

2. What is the three-letter name of the "kid tested, mother approved" General Mills breakfast cereal that was introduced in 1937 and is still produced today? It likely reached its peak popularity in the 1980s—coincidentally around the same time that an unrelated glam metal band of the same name reached its own peak of success.
Correct Answer: KIX
Your Answer: kix
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Had this on holiday as a kid in the states 

3. Soulful alto Alison Moyet and former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke formed what electronic music duo in the 1980s? (Either their full name, by which they were known in their native England, or their shortened name, by which they were known in the United States, is acceptable.)
Correct Answer: YAZOO/YAZ
Your Answer: yazoo
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

One of my faves 

4. A 1968 ABC television adaptation of what 1937 novel starred George Segal as George, Nicol Williamson as Lennie, and Joey Heatherton as Curly's wife?
Correct Answer: OF MICE AND MEN
Your Answer: of mice and men
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

This was the gcse text for my kids 

5. What last name—also coincidentally the name of a city—currently comes at the end of this ongoing chronological list? ...Ogwumike, Loyd, Stewart, Plum, Wilson, Young, Ionescu, Collier, Howard, [BLANK].
Correct Answer: BOSTON
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Even with the answer I am none the wiser 

6. A cultural, artistic, and religious center from around 100 to 1000 CE, the vast city and ceremonial site known as Tiahuanaco (or Tiwanaku) was located in the western part of modern-day Bolivia near what lake?
Correct Answer: LAKE TITICACA
Your Answer: lake titicaca
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I can name precisely 1 lake in Bolivia …