Marcus Match Day 14 -- Confirmation

5/6 as long as Sparta plays

Player: BrowningM

1. A sad episode in the South West England village of Kilmersdon, in which a young local woman became pregnant, and perished during childbirth after the man believed to be the father had died in a falling rock incident, is one of the darker possible origin stories for what nursery rhyme?
Correct Answer: JACK AND JILL
Your Answer: jack and jill
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

A fun question! 

2. The term "laconic" comes from Laconia, the name of a Greek region that was home in ancient times to a group of people closely associated today with laconism (and similar characteristics). What is the name of those people?
Correct Answer: SPARTANS
Your Answer: sparta
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Didn't read it properly but hopefully Sparta gets the point 

3. A hit mockumentary from 2022 features a character named Marcel who dreams of reuniting with his community and meets his hero (60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl), who helps him fulfill that goal. What, per the movie's title, is Marcel?
Correct Answer: SHELL (WITH SHOES ON)
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

No idea 

4. Though she (like perhaps most artists) rejected labels, the artist Joan Mitchell is most closely associated with an art movement known by what name? This term—sometimes used synonymously with the New York School or "action painting"— was first applied to American art in the 1940s and is a distinctly American movement, but it actually first appeared in Germany's Der Sturm in the 1910s in reference to works such as those by Wassily Kandinsky.
Correct Answer: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Your Answer: abstract impressionism
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme 

5. The scientific adjective "dizygotic" is most often used as a descriptor for a person (or set of people) more commonly referred to in this regard by what two-word phrase?
Correct Answer: FRATERNAL TWIN
Your Answer: fraternal twins
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Hopefully fraternal catches a few out

6. A certain award won in 2018 by Luka Modrić and in 2022 by Karim Benzema has been won every other year since 2008 by one of two other men. Identify either of these men.
Correct Answer: LIONEL MESSI, CRISTIANO RONALDO
Your Answer: messi
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Football gimme 

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