Marcus LL103 Match Day 24 -- Confirmation

4/6 and 4 yesterday as well

Player: BrowningM

1. The fictionalized and anachronistic Hulu comedy-drama series The Great is based on the rise of what long-reigning 18th-century monarch?
Correct Answer: CATHERINE (THE GREAT)/CATHERINE II
Your Answer: Catherine the great
Points Assigned: 0

Gimme 

2. The Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond ever discovered at more than 3,100 carats, is the source of one of the largest cut diamonds in the world—the 530-carat Star of what (referring to the location of the Cullinan's discovery)?
Correct Answer: AFRICA
Your Answer: Africa
Points Assigned: 1

Gimme

3. A British linguist renowned for his work in phonetics and the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a Welsh composer and contemporary of Dylan Thomas who composed thirteen symphonies, and a North Carolina native and recent New York Giant all share what first and last name?
Correct Answer: DANIEL JONES
Your Answer: Daniel Jones
Points Assigned: 2

I got it from the Welsh composer ! 

4. The 18th-century Spanish province of Las Californias was split in 1804 into two new Californias—Baja California, which is coterminous with the modern Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, and what other "opposite" California, which included all of the present-day US states of California, Nevada, and Utah, as well as parts of Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado?
Correct Answer: ALTA (CALIFORNIA)
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1

My Spanish isn't up to it

5. "Energy and Atmosphere", "Water Efficiency", and "Materials and Resources" are among the categories assessed in a framework for the certification of sustainable and environmentally responsible buildings, which is recognized internationally and managed by the US Green Building Council. This certification is commonly known by what four letters?
Correct Answer: LEED
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2

Impossible, I've not been to the states for a while

6. What Latin word was first used in a physics context by Johannes Kepler in 1617 and defined in principle by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion toward the end of that century?
Correct Answer: INERTIA
Your Answer: inertia
Points Assigned: 3

Hard for non scientists