Marcus LL108 Match Day 24 -- Confirmation

4 v David S , could be close 

Player: BrowningM

1. An influential journal founded in Paris in 1951 which helped develop a critical theory known as politique des auteurs has the title Cahiers du [BLANK]. Cahiers means "Notebooks" in English; what word fills in the blank in the title—and also names the journal's subject matter?
Correct Answer: CINÉMA (CINEMA)
Your Answer: theatre
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

i was very confident but wrong !

2. More than half of the world's known reserves of what element are found in a "Triangle" of high-altitude salt flats spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, though Australia is currently the world's largest producer for a global market projected to grow up to forty-fold by 2040 (if EV adoption targets are met)?
Correct Answer: LITHIUM
Your Answer: lithium
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Plenty of clues 

3. One of the fastest urbanization processes in recorded history occurred in Brazil after 1950, resulting in enormous growth of informal, self-built, and largely unregulated urban settlements known by what Brazilian Portuguese name?
Correct Answer: FAVELA
Your Answer: favella
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme

4. Euler's formula V − E + F = 2 helps show that there are exactly five regular convex polyhedra: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. These solids are commonly named after what author of Timaeus, in which they were described?
Correct Answer: PLATO
Your Answer: plato
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Seif knows this im sure 

5. One of the greatest-selling novels in Japanese literary history is Osamu Dazai's harrowing 1948 first-person account of alienation and postwar despair, published shortly after Dazai's death in a double suicide by drowning at the age of 38. Its title Ningen Shikkaku is commonly translated to English as No Longer what?
Correct Answer: HUMAN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

nope, didn't have a clue 

6. Seinfeld's "The Chinese Restaurant" (where Jerry, Elaine, and George wait for a table), Breaking Bad's "Fly" (where Walt and Jesse spend the episode in the lab with a pesky fly), and Community's "Cooperative Calligraphy" (where the gang is stuck in a study room arguing over a pen) are examples of a type of episode usually made to save money by using minimal locations, few sets, and only the regular cast. What is the term for this type of episode, a term that the often-meta Community actually uses within the episode itself?
Correct Answer: BOTTLE EPISODE
Your Answer: bottle
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

my kids are always banging on about bottle episodes