Marcus LL107 Match Day 8 -- Confirmation

5 as long as I am not penalised for my appalling schoolboy Latin error…

Player: BrowningM

1. Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
Correct Answer: LUNAR MARIA/SEAS OF THE MOON
Your Answer: lunar mares
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Mare is neuter of course so the plural should be Maria not Mares…

2. What stage name was adopted by the musician who had hit songs in the early 1970s with lyrics referencing West Virginia and Colorado, and who was actually born in 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico?
Correct Answer: JOHN DENVER
Your Answer: john denver
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

3. The "multiplicative inverse" of a real number is more commonly known by what name?
Correct Answer: RECIPROCAL
Your Answer: reciprocal
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Gimme

4. What four-letter Scottish term, from Scottish Gaelic meaning "valley", is used as a prefix in the names of dozens of Scotch whiskies?
Correct Answer: GLEN
Your Answer: glen
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

5. Legends of an indigenous ruler in northwest South America who ritually coated his body in gold dust and plunged into a sacred lake gave rise to the belief in what mythical land?
Correct Answer: EL DORADO
Your Answer: el dorado
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Gimme

6. Edna Garrett, the Drummond family's housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes, left their Manhattan penthouse to become a housemother on what successful 1979 spinoff?
Correct Answer: THE FACTS OF LIFE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme strength …not sure this one ever made it to the uk