Marcus LL107 Match Day 7 -- Confirmation

5 with a couple of guesses I was very pleased with 

Player: BrowningM

1. What two-word Latin term, seven letters in total, is used in business and finance (and elsewhere) to denote a proportionate allocation according to one's share of the whole? One example is in the distribution of dividends to shareholders.
Correct Answer: PRO RATA
Your Answer: pro rata
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

2. The smash 2025 hit Wilds is the fastest-selling entry in what Capcom action RPG series, surpassing 2018's World and 2021's Rise?
Correct Answer: MONSTER HUNTER
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Where's my teenage son when I need him?

3. In 1877, one of the first telephones in a private residence, and reportedly the first phone line outside the United States, was installed at a summer palace in a town called Petrópolis, for an enthusiastic supporter of science and technology who was emperor of what country?
Correct Answer: BRAZIL
Your Answer: brazil
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for Persia but they had a Shah and Greece had a king and it sounded plausibly Portuguese. I didn't really know that Brazil had an emperor 

4. The "Deep Note", a distinctive synthesized and deeply resonant crescendo that glissandos from a low rumble to a high pitch, was composed in 1983 by Lucasfilm sound engineer Dr. James A. Moorer. It serves as the audio trademark for what three-letter sound system certification?
Correct Answer: THX
Your Answer: thx
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Can can see and hear it now 

5. Makura no Sōshi, a miscellaneous literary collection detailing court life in 10th-century Japan by lady-in-waiting Sei Shōnagon, is most often translated as The [REDACTED] Book, indicating its origin as a personal bedside book, like a diary. What word is redacted?
Correct Answer: PILLOW
Your Answer: pillow
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Mariko in Shogun uses pillowing as a euphemism for sex and I wondered if it was derived from this so seemed a good guess.

6. What location with roughly 6,500 permanent residents is the functional American institutional equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst and France's Saint-Cyr?
Correct Answer: WEST POINT
Your Answer: west point
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I used to drive thro sandhurst every week to pick my eldest up from school