Marcus LL104 Match Day 7 -- Confirmation

4/6 again 

Player: BrowningM

1. In September 2024, Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino was named the new head coach for a team widely known by what five-letter abbreviation/initialism?
Correct Answer: USMNT
Your Answer: yanks
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know he manages the USA men's team but i had no idea 

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., considered by many to be the finest biography ever written in the English language, is a work by what Scottish lawyer, who was himself the subject of a similarly titled 1999 biography? His work is so highly regarded that his surname has become a general term for a dedicated admirer and chronicler of another's life and deeds.
Correct Answer: JAMES BOSWELL
Your Answer: Boswell
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Hopefully a bit hard 

3. What hit 1984 song begins with a memorable saxophone riff, followed by a softly delivered reflection of shame and sadness, and a subsequent chorus in which the singer asserts that he is never going to dance again in a certain way?
Correct Answer: CARELESS WHISPER
Your Answer: careless whisper
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

4. Identify the narrow peninsula that was settled by the Moors in 711, taken by Spain in 1462, and ceded to Great Britain in 1713.
Correct Answer: GIBRALTAR
Your Answer: gibraltar
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

5. What is the honorific in Sanskrit—rendered in the Devanagari script as श्री and perhaps familiar in a geographic context—that roughly corresponds to the English "Mr.", and is more accurately translated as "Honorable" or "Respected"?
Correct Answer: SRI
Your Answer: saab
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Thought I had a chance 

6. The abbreviations for trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan, etc.), when represented with an "h" at the end (sinh, cosh, tanh, etc.), become those for what other set of functions?
Correct Answer: HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS
Your Answer: hyperbolic
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Maths is my opponents worst subject hence 3