Jesse LL109, Day 1,

5/6 and I missed the answer for the question that I thought would play as the easiest. 

1. Pitched metal bars that are laid out in a keyboard arrangement and struck with a mallet comprise what musical instrument, which is also sometimes known simply as "bells" (and in fact is named from the German for "play" and "bells")?
Correct Answer: GLOCKENSPIEL
Your Answer: Glockenspiel
Points Assigned: 1

I knew xylophones were wooden. I then tried to think of a German-sounding xylophone, and a glockenspiel came to mind pretty quickly. 

2. Mammals are divided into three groups: placental mammals, whose young develop inside the mother's womb; marsupials, whose young are born at an early stage and continue developing in a pouch; and a third group known by what word, whose young hatch from eggs outside the mother's body?
Correct Answer: MONOTREMES
Your Answer: Monotremes
Points Assigned: 3

This came to me right away. 

3. By most historical GDP-per-capita estimates, what country ranked among the 10–15 wealthiest in the world at the turn of the 20th century—rivaling Germany and France and by far the richest in Latin America—before a century-long decline marked by political instability, repeated economic crises, and multiple sovereign defaults, including its 2001 default on about $100 billion in debt?
Correct Answer: ARGENTINA
Your Answer: Argentina
Points Assigned: 2

It had to be Argentina. 

4. The original Apple Computer logo, designed by company co-founder Ronald Wayne in 1976, featured an illustration of what individual?
Correct Answer: SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Your Answer: Newton
Points Assigned: 1

It was a guess, but he is the person most associated with an Apple.

5. Early 20th-century magazines such as The Crisis, Opportunity, Fire!!, and The Messenger, some short-lived and most now defunct, are all associated with what cultural and artistic Renaissance?
Correct Answer: HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Your Answer: Harlem Renaissance
Points Assigned: 2

I did not know any of those magazines, but the timing sounded like the Harlem Renaissance.  

6. What act, featuring Americans Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, premiered as the interval performance at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin (the act's name evoking the Liffey), later expanded into a full-length stage show, and eventually toured internationally for decades with extended runs on Broadway and the West End?
Correct Answer: RIVERDANCE
Your Answer: Lord of the Dance
Points Assigned: 0

Damnit. I put my answer in too quickly. He is the Lord of the Dance, but the show is Riverdance.