Marcus LL108 Match Day 14 -- Confirmation

6 pack , first for a while

Player: BrowningM

1. What game for the original Wii console in 2006 served an equivalent role to the Atari 2600's Combat, the Intellivision's Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, the ColecoVision's Donkey Kong, the NES's Super Mario Bros., and the Sega Genesis's Altered Beast (and subsequently Sonic the Hedgehog)?
Correct Answer: WII SPORTS
Your Answer: wii sports
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Used to play this all the time when the kids were small

2. The limerick, it would appear, \ Is a verse form we owe [REDACTED]; \ Two long and two short \ Lines rhymed, as was taught, \ And a fifth just to bring up the rear. \ \ What is the full name (first and last) of the Book of Nonsense author redacted from the preceding verse?
Correct Answer: EDWARD LEAR
Your Answer: edward lear
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nice q

3. What is the most common and standard meteorological term for the temperature at which air becomes saturated with water vapor when cooled without any change in air pressure or moisture content?
Correct Answer: DEW POINT
Your Answer: dew point
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme ish

4. What instrument, found across numerous genres and distinctive for its pairs of "zills", has ancient origins but a modern name derived from French?
Correct Answer: TAMBOURINE
Your Answer: tambourine
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Took me a while , the pairs of things was my way in but I wasn't confident 

5. An organization of American Revolutionary War officers was named after a 5th-century BCE Roman farmer-general who briefly took power to save Rome and then returned to his farm. That organization in turn gave its name to what U.S. city?
Correct Answer: CINCINNATI
Your Answer: cincinattii
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Boris Johnson made a self agrandissing speech referencing Cincinnatus when he got booted out

6. What term was coined for high-capacity bombs used in WWII by the British Royal Air Force that were powerful enough to destroy a particularly large area of land, and was shortly thereafter adopted by Hollywood publicists and journalists as a metaphor for certain film productions (and remains in common use today)?
Correct Answer: BLOCKBUSTER
Your Answer: blockbuster
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Plenty of clues but I knew the bomb