Marcus LL109 Match Day 2 -- Confirmation

5 again with a couple of good guesses 

Player: BrowningM

1. What imperial and U.S. customary unit is equal to 258.9988 hectares?
Correct Answer: SQUARE MILE
Your Answer: square mile
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme 

2. What man was the last of the five U.S. Civil War combat veterans (all Union) to serve as president, having enlisted in June 1861 at age 18 in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and ultimately reaching the rank of Brevet Major?
Correct Answer: WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Your Answer: McKinley
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

just went off plausible dates 

3. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the 2016 Nobel Prize for their work on phases of matter related to what branch of mathematics concerned with properties that survive continuous deformation (stretching, bending, etc.)? Its name comes from Greek for "study of place", and it is distinct from the similarly named field meaning "description of place" that deals with the representation of the Earth's surface features.
Correct Answer: TOPOLOGY
Your Answer: Topology
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

gimme but my opponent bad at maths 

4. The Diomede Islands are shared by two countries, with 2.4 miles separating Big Diomede to the west (or perhaps technically, far far east) from Little Diomede. These islands serve as the closest points between what two countries?
Correct Answer: RUSSIA, UNITED STATES
Your Answer: US and Russia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

i guess there is enough of a clue if you don’t know. David S does the order matter here cos i was a bit slap dash and only considered after ?

5. While shows like The Hitchhiker and 1st & Ten existed previously, what series is widely considered HBO's first true dramatic television series, debuting in July 1997 with the tagline "It's no place like home"?
Correct Answer: OZ
Your Answer: sopranos
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

nope

6. Dr. Samuel W. Francis of Rhode Island received U.S. patent 147,119 on February 3, 1874, for what hybrid, whose common name was trademarked by Hyde W. Ballard in 1951 and the Van Brode Milling Company in 1970, and which was popularized in large part by KFC beginning in the 1970s?
Correct Answer: SPORK
Your Answer: spork
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1


came to me in a toy story flash