Fwd: LL108 Match Day 8 -- Confirmation

5 yesterday and only 3 today vs Dave M by pressing send without checking 

Player: BrowningM

1. The HBO Max drama series which reviewers often describe with words like "intense" and "gritty", and which won Outstanding Drama Series at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards (as well as individual acting awards for members of its cast), is set, per its double entendre title, in what U.S. city,?
Correct Answer: PITTSBURGH
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Not a clue 

2. While Hausa communities are scattered throughout much of Africa, the ethnic group is primarily concentrated in two bordering countries. Identify either country.
Correct Answer: NIGERIA, NIGER
Your Answer: nigeria
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Should be the go to guess even if you don't know 

3. The mechanical "screw" that pumps water uphill without valves, can work in reverse as a hydroelectric generator, is used in wastewater treatment plants, and can lift live fish safely upstream is named after what Sicilian-Greek polymath, even though it may have already existed in ancient Egypt?
Correct Answer: ARCHIMEDES
Your Answer: archimedes
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

4. Pillars of "emo rap" in the late 2010s who all tragically died at a young age include XXXTentacion, Lil Peep, and the artist born Jarad Anthony Higgins in Chicago in 1998, who had hits with "Lucid Dreams" and "Come & Go" (with Marshmello), and took his stage name in part from a 1992 crime thriller starring Omar Epps and Tupac Shakur. What is that stage name?
Correct Answer: JUICE WRLD
Your Answer: juice
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew the film is that not enough? Feels harsh

5. A spinning frame invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which helped fully mechanize the hand-spinning process, has what name, derived from the fact that it was a hybrid of two previous inventions (the spinning jenny and water frame)?
Correct Answer: MULE
Your Answer: mule
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Back to my school history days 

6. Und zum Schluß bringt noch einen Gruß / Uns'rer lieben Donau, dem herrlichen Fluß! So begins the final stanza from the lyrics to the less popular choral version of what orchestral work, first performed in 1867?
Correct Answer: THE BLUE DANUBE
Your Answer: danube
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp3

OMG worked it out knew it was the blue Danube and was patting myself on the back and then only wrote down Danube !!