Marcus LL110 Match Day 23 -- Confirmation

4 today , struggled on the american questions 

Player: BrowningM

1. What author claims to begin writing every single new book strictly on January 8th as a superstition and tribute to the exact date she started her letter to her grandfather that became the best-selling 1982 novel La casa de los espíritus?
Correct Answer: ISABEL ALLENDE
Your Answer: allende
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Read it 30 plus years ago 

2. The documentary film When We Were Kings, which was finally released to the public in 1996, chronicles a "rumble" that took place in 1974 in what country?
Correct Answer: ZAIRE (DR CONGO)
Your Answer: zaire / DRC
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

agree with Dave S only Zaire should play

3. In 1950, a company called Aladdin Industries used the image of cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy on an everyday item to create a sales craze that is generally credited with launching what major American children's product category in the mid-20th century (likely to the joy of the American steel industry)?
Correct Answer: LUNCH BOXES
Your Answer: toy guns
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

now i see the answer i remeber i had a flask when i was young but never getting it 

4. In the 1960s, Los Angeles Rams Hall of Fame defensive end Deacon Jones coined what now-common football term that became an official individual statistic in 1982, equating its feeling with that of plundering a city?
Correct Answer: SACK
Your Answer: sack
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

took me ages 

5. While Africa is about 14 times larger than Greenland, one may not realize that if their understanding of the earth's land masses was based on the most famous work of what Flemish cartographer, introduced in 1569 and still common on classroom walls today?
Correct Answer: GERARDUS MERCATOR
Your Answer: mercator
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

gimme for most here im sure 

6. What agency's famous "meatball" logo dates back to 1959, though the logo was replaced in 1975 by a futuristic and iconic "worm" logo before the restoration of the "meatball" as the official logo in 1992?
Correct Answer: NASA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

nowhere on this