Marcus LL99 Match Day 15 -- Confirmation

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From: Marcus Browning <marcusjbrowning@me.com>
Date: 6 December 2023 at 09:10:16 GMT
To: Marcus Browning <Marcus.Browning@brevanhoward.com>
Subject: Marcus  LL99 Match Day 15 -- Confirmation

4/6 today and was very generously given the points yesterday typos not withstanding.

Player: BrowningM

1. A hendiadys is the expression of an idea using two independent words connected by "and" (e.g., "sick and tired", "nice and warm"). What hendiadys is used for a brand of candy-coated licorice cylinders—believed to be the oldest continuously produced branded candy in the United States?
Correct Answer: GOOD & PLENTY
Your Answer: glazed and confused
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

A half hearted attempt at best wrong answer

2. The Russian folk song "Korobeiniki" is the basis for the theme song of what massively popular video game, which was created by Alexei Pajitnov while he worked for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1989, and is the subject of the 2011 documentary Ecstasy of Order?
Correct Answer: TETRIS
Your Answer: tetris
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

3. The international meeting known as the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, held at the namesake estate in Washington DC's Georgetown neighborhood, is remembered today largely for its role in the planning and formation of what?
Correct Answer: UNITED NATIONS
Your Answer: united nations
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Not sure how hard this plays only gave 1

4. What Fox sitcom from the 1990s had a title character with the last name of Payne and starred an actor with the last name of Lawrence (who played other characters as well, including his mother Edna, a security guard named Otis, a hippie named Jerome, and a neighbor named Shenehneh)?
Correct Answer: MARTIN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Not a clue

5. "X is Y, Y X—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." What words (in order) are represented by X and Y in this quote from John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn?
Correct Answer: BEAUTY, TRUTH
Your Answer: beauty and truth
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I prefer his mists and mellow fruitfulness but this is still a good one

6. Composer Modest Mussorgsky's one complete opera is an intense and grim work about (and named after) what Russian tsar of the 16th–17th centuries? A certain cartoon villain has a name that is a pun on this tsar's name.
Correct Answer: BORIS GODUNOV
Your Answer: boris gudonov
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Hope this plays hard