Marcus LL107 Match Day 9 -- Confirmation

5 and I think today was quite hard

Player: BrowningM

1. In horse racing, an exacta is a bet on two horses to finish first and second in that exact order. What less common wager also involves two horses, paying out if the two horses finish first and second in either order, despite its name confusingly seeming to suggest the number five?
Correct Answer: QUINELLA
Your Answer: quinta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Never heard of it 

2. "I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent." This 1973 quote came from what leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement, who at age 65 was finally receiving her first solo New York museum exhibition, at the Whitney Museum of American Art?
Correct Answer: LEE KRASNER
Your Answer: lee krasner
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I couldn't name another female abstract expressionist 

3. What word links Franz Liszt's famous set of nineteen piano works beginning in 1846, George Gershwin's Jazz Age classic from 1924, and the UK's top-selling single and legendary rock epic from 1975?
Correct Answer: RHAPSODY
Your Answer: rhapsody
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

4. The historical Duchy of Schleswig (locally Herzogtum Schleswig or Hertugdømmet Slesvig), formally established in the 15th century, covered territory that now lies across the modern border between what two present-day countries?
Correct Answer: DENMARK, GERMANY
Your Answer: germany denmark
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."

5. What is the name of the titular "Foundling" in Henry Fielding's comic picaresque novel and social satire from 1749, which was adapted to a Best Picture-winning 1963 film starring Albert Finney?
Correct Answer: TOM JONES
Your Answer: tom jones
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
 

Read this at school

6. A #1 instrumental hit by The Tornados and a late-1970s game console by Coleco were named after the first active communications satellite, launched in July 1962 and silent since February 1963 though still orbiting Earth. What portmanteau name do they share?
Correct Answer: TELSTAR
Your Answer: telstar
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Humming the tune