MarcusMatch Day 3 -- Confirmation

4/6 presuming gradient plays

Player: BrowningM

1. A now-famous October 6, 1978, episode of The Mike Douglas Show featured Bob Hope hitting golf balls with what two-year-old?
Correct Answer: TIGER WOODS
Your Answer: tiger woods
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

2. The prefix "hydro-" pertains to water, as in the words "hydrophobic", "hydrothermal", "hydroelectric", etc. What other prefix pertains more generally to "wetness" or "moisture", such as in the word for an instrument that measures humidity?
Correct Answer: HYGRO-
Your Answer: hygro
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I've got a hygrometer in my damp basement 

3. What was the popular name given to the anti-immigrant American Party of the mid-19th century, so named from the response its members were instructed to give upon questioning?
Correct Answer: KNOW-NOTHING
Your Answer: no comment
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was quite pleased with my incorrect guess

4. Of the various geographical entities across the world whose names begin with "New", which one is a territory in the South Pacific Ocean named after most of the land area that is now the country of Scotland?
Correct Answer: NEW CALEDONIA
Your Answer: new caledonia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Is this easier for Brits ?

5. In the linear equation with the general form y = mx + b, what word is typically used to indicate what is represented by "m"?
Correct Answer: SLOPE
Your Answer: gradient
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gradient is obviously correct so hop it plays 

6. Between the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the US House of Representatives on October 3, 2023, and the nomination of Mike Johnson to the role later in the month, House Republicans nominated but failed to confirm three other men for the position. Give any one of the three states that are home to the Congressional districts represented by these three men.
Correct Answer: LOUISIANA, OHIO, MINNESOTA
Your Answer: texas
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 

No clue