Marcus LL108 Match Day 21 -- Confirmation

5 vs Dave M and i'm prob easy to defend so let's see

Player: BrowningM

1. In medieval musical notation, notes were often written as dots. This gave rise to what musical term, for the practice of combining two or more independent melodic lines "against" each other so that they sound harmonious together?
Correct Answer: COUNTERPOINT
Your Answer: counterpoint
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I love a bit of Bach and Dave hasn't scored well in classical music 

2. While 1969's Easy Rider famously used only pre-existing songs in place of an original score, what film two years earlier had already pioneered that novel approach in a non-musical, with over half its soundtrack drawn from the era's most popular musical duo?
Correct Answer: THE GRADUATE
Your Answer: the graduate
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

love the film 

3. What legendary football coach, who was actually born over in Brooklyn, belongs on a geographical list that includes Thomas Edison, Molly Pitcher, James Fenimore Cooper, Joyce Kilmer, and Richard Stockton?
Correct Answer: VINCE LOMBARDI
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

i've heard of him but i didn't understand the clue

4. What Netflix series, based on a 1989 novel and a 1990 British series of the same name, follows a manipulative congressman and his equally strategic wife as they scheme their way to the top of American politics? It was Netflix's first major original production and the first streaming show to win a major Emmy.
Correct Answer: HOUSE OF CARDS
Your Answer: house of cards
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

surely a gimme 

5. The name of what extremely contagious vaccine-preventable disease comes from an obsolete word for "grimace", as it causes swelling of salivary glands on the sides of the face and painful swallowing that affect the victim's facial expressions?
Correct Answer: MUMPS
Your Answer: mumps
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

everyone got mumps when i was a kid 

6. What word refers to the Christian doctrine regarding the "last things", i.e., the final consummation of God's creation and final destiny of humanity? It's not to be confused with the scientific study of feces.
Correct Answer: ESCHATOLOGY
Your Answer: eschatology
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

good clue and i'm quite good on religion for an atheist