Marcus LL105 Match Day 5 -- Confirmation

4 today with more questionable defence 

Player: BrowningM

1. Which of the 24 official languages of the European Union is unique for being in the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family (the other 23 are Indo-European or Uralic), though it's written in the Latin alphabet and heavily influenced by English and Italian?
Correct Answer: MALTESE
Your Answer: Hungarian
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I thought I had it 

2. "Times Gone By" is an idiomatic translation of the Scots-language title of what poem by Robert Burns, written in 1788 and popularized in a new context by Guy Lombardo in the 1920s?
Correct Answer: AULD LANG SYNE
Your Answer: auld lang syne
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Surely a gimme

3. The greatest success of American poet and novelist Edgar Lee Masters's was a series of monologues, spoken by deceased residents of a fictional small Midwestern town and compiled as an Anthology named after the town. What is the name of that town (or the waterway the town's named after)?
Correct Answer: SPOON RIVER
Your Answer: st lawrence
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Impossible for a Brit 

4. Allegheny, Augusta, Vandalia, and Kanawha were among the names considered (and discarded) for what US state, which eventually became the 35th to be admitted to the union in 1863?
Correct Answer: WEST VIRGINIA
Your Answer: west virginia
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Got it from the mountains 

5. The symbol used for a certain mathematical concept was introduced by Leibniz in the 1680s and is based on the long "s" in Latin script, resembling the phonetic symbol for the "esh" sound. By what word is this mathematical concept most commonly known?
Correct Answer: INTEGRAL
Your Answer: integral
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Maths gimme 

6. For good reasons, the word RELENTS will likely never be the solution in the Bonus Round of what game show that debuted on NBC in 1975?
Correct Answer: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Your Answer: wheel of fortune
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

There was a U.K. version on briefly