Jesse day 1, LL 100

6/6 to start the season! I started back in season 59.

1. Clothing retailers Zara, H&M, Shein, ASOS, and Forever 21 are examples of companies that employ what business model, a two-word term the New York Times used in 1990 to describe Zara's ability to proceed in 15 days from an item's design idea to hanging the item on a store rack?
Correct Answer: FAST FASHION
Your Answer: Fast Fashion
Points Assigned: 2

I know the term from it being bad for the environment. 

2. "The Magnificent" and "The Lawgiver" were sobriquets applied to what 16th-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, during whose rule the empire reached its fullest extent with conquests of Belgrade, Rhodes, Iraq, Tripoli, and Hungary?
Correct Answer: SULEIMAN
Your Answer: Suleiman
Points Assigned: 1

I either know this from Civ, from reading a book about the history of the Ottoman empire a few years back, or just general background knowledge. 

3. Arab mathematician and astronomer Muhammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, who compiled early works on arithmetic and astronomical tables, introduced algebraic concepts to Western mathematics as a result of his work's translation into Latin. In fact, it is from the Latinization of his name that what common word in mathematics is derived?
Correct Answer: ALGORITHM
Your Answer: Algorithm
Points Assigned: 2

When I was in Uzbekistan, I saw a sculpture in his honor, as this is where he was born when it was part of the Persian empire. I know he was the person behind Algebra, but that was in the clue, so I had to guess Algorithm. 

4. Name the multiparadigm programming language first released in 1995 and designed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, who named the language after a colleague's birthstone.
Correct Answer: RUBY
Your Answer: Ruby
Points Assigned: 3

My company's first website was designed in Ruby on Rails. That is the only way I knew this. 

5. A red 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder plays a prominent role in the plot of what 1986 film?
Correct Answer: FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF
Your Answer: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie to anyone of my age or older.

6. "Appeal", "associate", "brethren", "broker", "chamber", "client", "confession", "litigators", "partner", "racketeer", "rainmaker", "reckoning", "summons", "testament"—all of these words appear in titles of what novelist's works, which are perennial bestsellers?
Correct Answer: JOHN GRISHAM
Your Answer: John Grisham
Points Assigned: 1

Pretty easy literature question.