Marcus LL109 Match Day 15 -- Confirmation

6 again , found it pretty easy today with no american questions and my age 

Player: BrowningM

1. P.L. Travers so despised Disney's adaptation of her debut 1934 novel that her battle with Walt Disney became the subject of its own film, 2013's Saving Mr. Banks. What is the name of this novel?
Correct Answer: MARY POPPINS
Your Answer: mary poppins
Points Assigned: 0
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sweet film 

2. What gemstone is famous for a shifting rainbow "play-of-color" caused by diffraction of light through an internal grid of microscopic silica spheres? Unlike nearly all other gemstones, it is amorphous rather than crystalline, and its name originates from a Sanskrit root meaning "precious stone".
Correct Answer: OPAL
Your Answer: opal
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

gimme

3. Before a stylistic shift that came later, what pop group with roots in both the UK and Australia had soft rock hits in the 1960s and early 70s including "Massachusetts," "To Love Somebody," and "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?"
Correct Answer: BEE GEES
Your Answer: bee gees
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Massachusetts is a good song 

4. The two main linguistic and cultural groups in present-day Belgium are the Dutch-speaking Flemings, who make up roughly 60% of the population, and what other group of French-speakers, who live primarily in the south?
Correct Answer: WALLOONS
Your Answer: walloons
Points Assigned: 1
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european gimme 

5. What word was coined by English writer Horace Walpole in the mid-18th century, deriving it from an old Arabic/Persian name for Sri Lanka and from the fairy tale set there whose three princes, he wrote, "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of"? Discoveries such as penicillin, X-rays, Teflon, and Post-it notes are often cited as examples of this phenomenon.
Correct Answer: SERENDIPITY
Your Answer: serendipidity
Points Assigned: 2
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i know the story 

6. Name the athlete who was 28 years old when she generated international publicity in 1989 by defecting from Romania to the United States via Hungary.
Correct Answer: NADIA COMANECI
Your Answer: comaneci
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


By far the most famous Romanian olympian and my era