Marcus LL100 Match Day 4 -- Confirmation

5/6 …strange days 5 almost gimmes and one nearly impossible…

Player: BrowningM

1. A 1982 book written by Myra Williams (formerly Myra Lewis, second-cousin and former 13-year-old wife of Jerry Lee Lewis) and a 1987 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic starring Dennis Quaid both had what four-word title, which was first popularized as a phrase by Jerry Lee himself in 1958?
Correct Answer: GREAT BALLS OF FIRE
Your Answer: great balls of fire
Points Assigned: 0

What else could it be?

2. Balkhash, Athabasca, Ladoga, Eyre, Kivu, and Poopó are all names, most prominently, of what?
Correct Answer: LAKES
Your Answer: lakes
Points Assigned: 1

Donald Campbell did 400 miles an hour on lake Eyre (it was dry at the time)

3. The men who won the Pulitzer Prizes in Music in 2003 (for On the Transmigration of Souls) and in 2014 (for Become Ocean) are American composers who share what first and last name? Their middle names are Coolidge and Luther, not to be confused with a third similarly named composer with the middle name of Clement.
Correct Answer: JOHN ADAMS
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3

Never in a million years 

4. What is the essential Greek equivalent of the Turkish döner kebab, the Middle Eastern shawarma, and the Mexican al pastor?
Correct Answer: GYRO
Your Answer: gyros
Points Assigned: 2

Kids go to on our trips to Crete 

5. In August 2020, an estimated 300,000 people were left homeless and over 200 lost their lives after an explosion of a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate in what city?
Correct Answer: BEIRUT
Your Answer: beirut
Points Assigned: 1

Not a very uplifting tale all round altho easily forgotten in the current Middle East conflagration 

6. What colorless, flammable hydrocarbon is the fifth member of the alkane series?
Correct Answer: PENTANE
Your Answer: pentane
Points Assigned: 2

I have a chemistry degree ..