Marcus LL104 Match Day 5 -- Confirmation

5/6 had a shot at them all today

Player: BrowningM

1. The sturdy-heeled Deba, the versatile Santoku, the delicate Usuba, and the narrow Yanagiba are all different Japanese types of what?
Correct Answer: KNIVES
Your Answer: knife
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

My Deba has pride of place in my kitchen 

2. In a regular polyhedron, all faces are congruent regular polygons. There are five such solids: the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and what other?
Correct Answer: DODECAHEDRON
Your Answer: dodecahedron
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

3. What saturated fatty acid, a waxy solid commonly found in lard and beef tallow (its name comes from "tallow" in Greek) but also present in plant oils such as shea butter and cocoa butter, is widely used in the production of soaps and candles and has extensive pharmaceutical and industrial applications?
Correct Answer: STEARIC ACID
Your Answer: oleic
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Picked wrong one, stearic obv sounds a bit more like tallow so a bad miss

4. The nickname given by a stalker named Martha to her target named Donny is the title of what award-winning and critically lauded Netflix miniseries?
Correct Answer: BABY REINDEER
Your Answer: baby reindeer
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Even I heard of this 

5. In early 2002, the euro replaced the shilling, franc (three different ones), markka, deutschmark, drachma, pound, guilder, escudo, and peseta. One currency is missing from this list—what is its name?
Correct Answer: LIRA
Your Answer: (italian) lira
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

One of my best ever trades, I miss the old ITL

6. What term is used for the religious movements, primarily found in Melanesia since the late 1800s and during the period of Western colonization, in which adherents believe that the arrival of a supernatural shipment of goods sent by spirits will signal a new paradise?
Correct Answer: CARGO CULTS
Your Answer: cargo cult
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I first read about this in surely your joking mr Feynman when I was a teenager