Marcus LL110 Match Day 4 -- Confirmation

4 today without any idea on the other 2

Player: BrowningM

1. What general word for "effort" is a technical term in physics for the fractional change in the dimensions of an object subjected to stress, expressed as a number? "Linear", "volume", and "shear" are different types.
Correct Answer: STRAIN
Your Answer: strain
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

guessable but not a gimme unless you know some science 

2. The early-1950s invention of what footwear innovation, whose name comes from Italian for "little dagger", remains in dispute, with fashion historians citing Christian Dior collaborator Roger Vivier and Italian shoe designer and entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo as likely progenitors?
Correct Answer: STILETTO (HEEL)
Your Answer: stilleto
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

surely the gimme of the season so far ?

3. It's widely believed that at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, which catered to American expatriates during Prohibition, French bartender Fernand Petiot invented what cocktail possibly named after an English woman?
Correct Answer: BLOODY MARY
Your Answer: bloody mary
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

the only cocktail with a woman’s name in that came to mind altho no doubt there are many more. 

4. The first-person shooter game Half-Life was the first release from what video game studio, which was founded in 1996 by former Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington?
Correct Answer: VALVE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

nah

5. Commissioned by California governor Leland Stanford, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a set of trip-wire cameras in 1878 to settle a famous uncertainty about what animal, proving that artists had long depicted it incorrectly?
Correct Answer: HORSE
Your Answer: horse
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

v famous 

6. Name the 2025 New York Times bestseller by Allen Levi that tells the story of a mysterious 86-year-old Portuguese American artist (named in the title) who visits a small Southern U.S. town (also named in the title) and buys pencil portraits by a local artist to distribute to townspeople, gradually changing the town itself.
Correct Answer: THEO OF GOLDEN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

not at all famous ? to me anyway but sounds good