5/6 with a very dopey answer but may be a zero pointer
Player: BrowningM
1. American scientist John McCarthy, in a 1955 proposal for a Dartmouth Summer Research Project co-authored with Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, coined what now-common phrase, which has largely displaced earlier terms such as "cybernetics" and "automata theory"?
Correct Answer: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Your Answer: robotics
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
2. What word meaning "to bully or domineer" comes from the Trojan hero, son of Priam and husband of Andromache, who encouraged his fellow Trojans to stand and fight against Greece (but eventually succumbed to Achilles)?
Correct Answer: HECTOR
Your Answer: Hector
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
3. Margarine takes its name from the Greek word for "pearl", and originally had that name with what prefix, referring to one of the primary ingredients with which it has been made?
Correct Answer: OLEO
Your Answer: Oleo
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Not a nice name
4. Jigme Wangchuk served as the monarch (Druk Gyalpo) of what Asian country beginning in 1926, until succeeded by Jigme Dorji Wangchuk in 1952, who was in turn succeeded by Jigme Singye Wangchuk in 1972 and then Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk in 2006?
Correct Answer: BHUTAN
Your Answer: Bhutan
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. The Neumann U87, Shure SM7B, AKG C414, and Blue Yeti are all various models of what type of device? Ronco sold a "Mr." one in the late 1970s.
Correct Answer: MICROPHONE
Your Answer: microphone
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. The Red Vineyard, from 1888, was the only painting sold through an official exhibition by what artist during his lifetime, for about 400 francs?
Correct Answer: VINCENT VAN GOGH
Your Answer: van gogh
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme
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