Marcus LL109 Match Day 20 -- Confirmation

4 today 

Player: BrowningM

1. The Eureka Rebellion, a short-lived 1854 revolt by gold miners over licensing fees in a town called Ballarat, led to expanded suffrage and is considered an early foundational democratic event in the history of what modern-day nation?
Correct Answer: AUSTRALIA
Your Answer: australia
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

sounded  aussie 

2. The 1993 U.S. Senate hearings on video game violence, which directly resulted in the creation of the ESRB the next year, were triggered primarily by the home console releases of two games in that year. Name either game—one a Midway game that introduced the concept of "Fatality" finishing moves, the other a full-motion game for the Sega CD platform in which the player monitored security cameras at a slumber party to protect guests from vampire-like attackers called Augers.
Correct Answer: MORTAL KOMBAT, NIGHT TRAP
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

i know very little about video games 

3. Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay Das Unheimliche introduced the idea that something can be simultaneously familiar and deeply strange, producing a sense of unease. This concept has been linked to Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori's 1970 essay proposing that as robots become more human-like, people's emotional response to them grows more positive, up to a point after which it drops sharply. By what two-word term, used in the common English translation of Mori's essay, is this phenomenon known?
Correct Answer: UNCANNY VALLEY
Your Answer: uncanny valley
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

not sure how hard this is 

4. What name is used for a system of musical notation tailored to a particular instrument (or group of instruments) that indicates the keys, frets, etc. to be used, rather than the pitch to be sounded? It is used today for guitar and ukulele to provide a diagrammatic indication of where to place one's fingers.
Correct Answer: TABLATURE/TAB
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

nope

5. Though not mentioned in its title (not directly, at least), a giant marlin is a highly metaphorical and compelling antagonist in what literary work published in 1952?
Correct Answer: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
Your Answer: the old man and the sea
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

read most of hemmingway 

6. The pupa stage of an insect, during which the larval form is reorganized to produce the definitive adult form, is commonly a sessile stage during which the insect is enclosed in a silk cocoon, or (as in the case of butterflies) in a hard shell known by what word?
Correct Answer: CHRYSALIS
Your Answer: chrysillis
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme