MarcusLL103 Match Day 14 -- Confirmation









6 pack, first for a while I don't think it was particularly easy today but questions all in my wheelhouse 

Player: BrowningM

1. The battle in 31 BCE that ended the Roman Republic, led to Octavian's ascension to the title of Augustus and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was followed shortly thereafter by the deaths of Mark Antony and Cleopatra by suicide, was a naval engagement fought near what Greek city, after which the battle is named?
Correct Answer: ACTIUM
Your Answer: actium
Points Assigned: 3

Thanks to Bill the Bard 

2. The sixth millennium BCE eruption of Mount Mazama in the southern Cascade Range, a blast estimated to have been over 40 times greater than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, created the deepest body of fresh water in the US, which is named what?
Correct Answer: CRATER LAKE
Your Answer: crater lake
Points Assigned: 1

I'd love to go there 

3. Much of the groundwork for human understanding of geometry and mathematical logic was laid in a book written by Euclid around 300 BCE. What is that book's name (in English)?
Correct Answer: ELEMENTS
Your Answer: elements
Points Assigned: 2

It is an astonishing piece of work and just says remarkable things about the civilisation 

4. Name the man who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1974 for The Sting, in 1981 for Ordinary People, and in 1995 for Quiz Show.
Correct Answer: ROBERT REDFORD
Your Answer: robert redford
Points Assigned: 0

Gimme

5. In elections held in October 2024, the Liberal Democratic Party coalition in what country lost its majority in the 465-seat lower house, ending the party's nearly uninterrupted 69-year rule?
Correct Answer: JAPAN
Your Answer: japan
Points Assigned: 2

Gimme given my job

6. An iconic and famous 1932 photograph, once credited to Charles C. Ebbets but now attributed to "unknown" by the Rockefeller Archive, captures, as its title suggests, a group of workers eating "Lunch atop a" what (a relatively new word in that particular context)?
Correct Answer: SKYSCRAPER
Your Answer: skyscraper
Points Assigned: 1

I know the photo 

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