Jesse day 11

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1. What microstate is notable for having Europe's highest capital city in elevation, for having no airport or railway station, and for being the only country in the world to have Catalan as its sole official language?
Correct Answer: ANDORRA
Your Answer: Andora
Points Assigned: 0

I am planning on visiting Andorra over Thanksgiving break this year. 

2. Sticks of dough that are fried, coated in sugar, and sometimes dipped in chocolate — this describes numerous desserts all over the world, but in Spain and Latin America, they're often known by what name, purportedly after a breed of Spanish sheep with ridged horns?
Correct Answer: CHURROS
Your Answer: Churos
Points Assigned: 1

I have mostly only had Churros in Mexico, so was concerned there was a different name for them elsewhere. 

3. In 1977, it was the second single released from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours LP; in 1986, the second single during Van Halen's Sammy Hagar era; and in 1992, the debut single by the Irish band The Cranberries. What is this one-word title?
Correct Answer: DREAMS
Your Answer: Dreams
Points Assigned: 2

I was pretty sure Fleetwood Mac never had a song named Zombie. Linger neither. And then Dreams came into my head for both artists. I don't know Van Halen all that well. 

4. What was the name of the committee of the US House of Representatives established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty and subversion among federal government employees, before finally being abolished in 1975? (Full name or common 4-letter abbreviation acceptable.)
Correct Answer: UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE (HUAC)
Your Answer: NCUB
Points Assigned: 1

I gut Un-American as one word and Committee. My opponent is very good at American history. 

5. The period of Roman literature during which Virgil, Ovid, and Horace flourished, and an era of English literature with which Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Dryden are associated, are both known as what "Age"?
Correct Answer: AUGUSTAN
Your Answer: Romantic
Points Assigned: 2

Nope!

6. In competitive platform and springboard diving, there are diving positions based on four distinct shapes of the body, categorized by the letters A through D. A is "Straight" position and D is "Free" position—what positions do B and C represent? (Two answers required, in either order.)
Correct Answer: PIKE, TUCK
Your Answer: Tuck, Pike
Points Assigned: 3

Those were two words that came to mind.