Marcus LL101 Match Day 7 -- Confirmation

5/6 I've been scoring well but doing badly in league 

Player: BrowningM

1. What was the name of the moderate "minority" faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party of the early 20th century, which (unlike their "majority" counterparts) favored a slower and more progressive transformation of society (which, in fact, is not what turned out to occur)?
Correct Answer: MENSHEVIKS
Your Answer: mensheviks
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Happy with my spelling 

2. Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Ricky Hatton, Lennox Lewis, Joe Calzaghe, Anthony Joshua, and Tyson Fury are all boxers who have what in common, most notably? They share this commonality with the golfers Luke Donald and Paul Lawrie and basketball player OG Anunoby.
Correct Answer: BRITISH
Your Answer: all british
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme for a Brit

3. Carson McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" are quintessential examples of what two-word literary subgenre, whose name reflects the stories' geography and their aesthetic of horror, eccentricity, ruin and decay, and the supernatural?
Correct Answer: SOUTHERN GOTHIC
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Couldn't get anywhere near this 

4. In macroeconomics, Okun's law (named after American economist Art Okun) asserts a negative relationship between output (GDP) and a certain rate, whereas the Phillips curve (after New Zealander Bill Phillips) summarizes a negative relation between inflation and a certain rate. In both instances, this certain rate is the same—what is the name of this rate?
Correct Answer: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
Your Answer: unemployment
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Agonised briefly between employment and unemployment, drew a quick graph..

5. The following could be used to indicate the title of what Cold War–era Netflix series? \ \ 1.d4 d5 \ 2.c4
Correct Answer: THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT
Your Answer: the queens gambit
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Surely a gimme

6. The Spanish word llanos translates to "plains", and the name "Los Llanos" refers to a specific region of savanna and grasslands. Identify either of the two countries that are home to Los Llanos or the primary river that shapes the ecology of the region.
Correct Answer: COLOMBIA/VENEZUELA, ORINOCO
Your Answer: orinocco
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I guessed South America and the Amazon prob too easy, plus they had Orinoco last season  or season before too on a similar type of q 

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