Marcus LL106 Match Day 4 -- Confirmation

5, stymied by US popular culture as usual

Player: BrowningM

1. "En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor." So begins what novel?
Correct Answer: DON QUIXOTE
Your Answer: don quixote
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

2. Hypokalemia is the name for a condition when the blood serum contains a low level of what mineral?
Correct Answer: POTASSIUM
Your Answer: potasssium
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Prob gave too many points for this 

3. Laurel, Mississippi, provides the primary setting (and indirectly, the title) for what HGTV renovation series starring local husband-and-wife team Ben and Erin Napier?
Correct Answer: HOME TOWN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nah

4. In typography, a symbol called a "pilcrow" indicates what?
Correct Answer: PARAGRAPH (BREAK)
Your Answer: paragraph
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Not sure how hard this plays 

5. What misnamed musical instrument (actually a woodwind from Central Europe) has a slightly conical bore, a double reed, and a bulb-shaped bell—effectively an alto oboe?
Correct Answer: COR ANGLAIS/ENGLISH HORN
Your Answer: cor anglais
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Hard to guess but easy if you know ..

6. The Christian belief that the Virgin Mary was taken up to heaven, body and soul, at the end of her earthly life provides the name for which South American capital city?
Correct Answer: ASUNCIÓN
Your Answer: asuncion
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I was happy with my spelling