Fwd: LL99 Match Day 19 -- Confirmation

Player: BrowningM

1. In the geographic region known as the Horn of Africa, what country occupies the tip of the "horn" (i.e., its easternmost area)?
Correct Answer: SOMALIA
Your Answer: somalia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

What a tragic mess Somalia is

2. "The Baroness with a Brush" was a phrase used to describe what Polish-born 20th-century Art Deco painter, whose 1932 Portrait of Marjorie Ferry—one of the most expensive paintings ever produced by a woman artist—sold in February 2020 for $21.2 million?
Correct Answer: TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
Your Answer: lempicka
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I would have enjoyed a night out with her

3. In the early 19th century, the French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel developed an innovation that, while commonly used in various applications today, was first created for use in a specific type of building and has been referred to as an "invention that saved a million [BLANK]." Identify either the type of building in question, or the word that fills the blank in the quote.
Correct Answer: LIGHTHOUSE, SHIPS
Your Answer: lives
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Omg I was too lazy to write lighthouse and assumed lives was the other, I know all about Fresnel lenses 

4. The events of Wyoming's bloody 1892 Johnson County War are the subject of what 1980 cinematic megaflop, which starred Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, and Isabelle Huppert, was directed by Michael Cimino, and is often cited as a cause for the collapse of the production company United Artists?
Correct Answer: HEAVEN'S GATE
Your Answer: heaven's gate
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Cinema gimme

5. What later political party was named after the revolutionary who, until his assassination in 1934, led resistance forces against the US occupation of Nicaragua?
Correct Answer: SANDINISTA (FSLN)
Your Answer: shining path
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Should have got doh!

6. According to a famous quote attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras, what "is the measure of all things"?
Correct Answer: MAN
Your Answer: man
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Guesable