Marcus LL107 Match Day 12 -- Confirmation

4 gimmes and 2 impossibles for me today

Player: BrowningM

1. In Earth's atmospheric circulation system, wind belts run from each pole to the equator in a repeating pattern: polar high, polar easterlies, subpolar low, westerlies, subtropical high, [REDACTED], and the intertropical convergence zone. Between roughly 0° and 30° latitude sits the wind belt (redacted in this list) with what two-word name, coming from their historical importance to merchant sailing routes?
Correct Answer: TRADE WINDS
Your Answer: trade winds
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

2. Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, and Ivy Queen are among the pioneers of what musical style, built around the "dembow" rhythm and emerging in Puerto Rico as a fusion of Jamaican dancehall, hip hop, Panamanian reggae en español, and other Latin Caribbean sounds?
Correct Answer: REGGAETON
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Not a clue 

3. While Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel became known as "Johnny Football", what longtime player for the New York Yankees from the 1980s and 1990s was given a moniker with the surname "Baseball"?
Correct Answer: DON MATTINGLY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Impossible for Brits 

4. In physics and mathematics, the minimum number of independent coordinates needed to describe the position of a body relative to a frame of reference is known as its "degrees of" what? A particle moving in a straight line has one such degree.
Correct Answer: FREEDOM
Your Answer: freedom
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Maths gimme

5. The 2020 Disney+ short Once Upon a Snowman tells the origin story of a character first introduced in what 2013 film?
Correct Answer: FROZEN
Your Answer: frozen
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I now have let it go spinning around my head

6. In England, the two years of study following the GCSE exams during which students prepare for A-levels are known as what "form"?
Correct Answer: SIXTH FORM
Your Answer: 6th
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp:2

My youngest is currently in the 6th form