Brian Day 7

 4/6

1) USMNT 1/1 Rare soccer get for me, it clicked right away for some reason. Was pretty sure both national teams got new coaches this year, and that the USWNT's coach was a woman

2) Wallace 2/2 no idea, and seeing the answer I still have no idea

3) Careless Whisper 2/1  gimme

4) Gibraltar 1/0 gimme, or at least easy to work out

5) U  3/2  Thought it might be U Thant-related

6) hyperbola 0/3  might not get paid, stupid mistake, depends how generous he's feeling

David S Day 7

 2/6 and no shot at the others. 

1. Inter :(, D30. I felt reasonably confident this is a team from Milan and also reasonably confident it would be incorrect. 
2. Smith :(, D12. No clue. 
3. No more boogie :(, D01. Perhaps the perfect question to be as far away from my wheelhouse as possible. 
4. Gibraltar :), D12. Gimme, and I suspect this plays easy, especially here. 
5. Vedic :(, D21. Nope!
6. Hyperbolic :), D23. Gimme, but probably a low get rate overall. 

Jesse Day 7

3/6

1. In September 2024, Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino was named the new head coach for a team widely known by what five-letter abbreviation/initialism?
Correct Answer: USMNT
Your Answer: Bocca
Points Assigned: 2

I do not follow soccer/football.

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., considered by many to be the finest biography ever written in the English language, is a work by what Scottish lawyer, who was himself the subject of a similarly titled 1999 biography? His work is so highly regarded that his surname has become a general term for a dedicated admirer and chronicler of another's life and deeds.
Correct Answer: JAMES BOSWELL
Your Answer: Haige
Points Assigned: 2

I was thinking of Hagiography. I have no idea what word they are referring to. 

3. What hit 1984 song begins with a memorable saxophone riff, followed by a softly delivered reflection of shame and sadness, and a subsequent chorus in which the singer asserts that he is never going to dance again in a certain way?
Correct Answer: CARELESS WHISPER
Your Answer: Careless Whispers
Points Assigned: 1

When I read the opening words careless whispers popped into my head. 

4. Identify the narrow peninsula that was settled by the Moors in 711, taken by Spain in 1462, and ceded to Great Britain in 1713.
Correct Answer: GIBRALTAR
Your Answer: Gibralter
Points Assigned: 0

I have been there and misspelled it.

5. What is the honorific in Sanskrit—rendered in the Devanagari script as श्री and perhaps familiar in a geographic context—that roughly corresponds to the English "Mr.", and is more accurately translated as "Honorable" or "Respected"?
Correct Answer: SRI
Your Answer: Sri
Points Assigned: 1

My first thought was Sir, but that made no sense geographically, so it led me to a guess of Sri. 

6. The abbreviations for trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan, etc.), when represented with an "h" at the end (sinh, cosh, tanh, etc.), become those for what other set of functions?
Correct Answer: HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS
Your Answer: Horizontal
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

Dave M day 7

3/6 which I was pleased with as I found today's questions very tough.

 

1 : ( USSOC. Like Marcus I got as far as US Soccer Team but no further, I prefer Marcus's answer though. D12

2 : ( Magnum. I thought I'd have heard of the correct answer but no. D31

3 : ) Careless Whisper. At the gimmeish end of pop music questions but it's the worst category of both my opponents. D23

4 : ) Gibraltar. At the gimmeish end of geography questions? D00

5 : ) Sri. I have seen it as a prefix to names before and the geographic context clue locked it in. D21

6 : ( Hypotenuse. At least I got as far as a word starting with H. D12

Marcus LL104 Match Day 7 -- Confirmation

4/6 again 

Player: BrowningM

1. In September 2024, Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino was named the new head coach for a team widely known by what five-letter abbreviation/initialism?
Correct Answer: USMNT
Your Answer: yanks
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know he manages the USA men's team but i had no idea 

2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., considered by many to be the finest biography ever written in the English language, is a work by what Scottish lawyer, who was himself the subject of a similarly titled 1999 biography? His work is so highly regarded that his surname has become a general term for a dedicated admirer and chronicler of another's life and deeds.
Correct Answer: JAMES BOSWELL
Your Answer: Boswell
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Hopefully a bit hard 

3. What hit 1984 song begins with a memorable saxophone riff, followed by a softly delivered reflection of shame and sadness, and a subsequent chorus in which the singer asserts that he is never going to dance again in a certain way?
Correct Answer: CARELESS WHISPER
Your Answer: careless whisper
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

4. Identify the narrow peninsula that was settled by the Moors in 711, taken by Spain in 1462, and ceded to Great Britain in 1713.
Correct Answer: GIBRALTAR
Your Answer: gibraltar
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

5. What is the honorific in Sanskrit—rendered in the Devanagari script as श्री and perhaps familiar in a geographic context—that roughly corresponds to the English "Mr.", and is more accurately translated as "Honorable" or "Respected"?
Correct Answer: SRI
Your Answer: saab
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Thought I had a chance 

6. The abbreviations for trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan, etc.), when represented with an "h" at the end (sinh, cosh, tanh, etc.), become those for what other set of functions?
Correct Answer: HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS
Your Answer: hyperbolic
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Maths is my opponents worst subject hence 3

Brian Day 6

 4/6 is terrific when my three worst categories show up

1) Picasso 1/2 Worst category but I still should've gotten this, I knew the date was wrong but I locked in on Spain and didn't consider Mexico

2) Pastorale 2/1  Second worst category but another I should've been able to guess, frustrating

3) Pong 1/1  Nothing else it could be, though I didn't know the origin.  Brookhaven is very interesting, I assume it related to detecting particles

4) Bromine 2/3  I happen to know this, but didn't know the unpleasant odor angle. I wonder if anyone will make the connection between stench and brimstone.   

5) Captain Crunch 0/0 one of my favorites growing up.  Seif, I agree we'll get paid

6) Message 3/2 Third worst category and I got it at the last second. Had 'story' entered and was ready to submit when message popped into my head

Jesse Day 6

5/6

1. In September 1925, what 18-year-old suffered multiple serious injuries while riding a bus that slammed into a speeding electric trolley car, and revisited the setting in 1929's The Bus, a painting currently housed at the Museo Dolores Olmedo.
Correct Answer: FRIDA KAHLO
Your Answer: Frida Kahlo
Points Assigned: 0

I saw the movie, but also recently went to a Kahlo museum in Playa Del Carmen.

2. What is the name for the type of musical composition, such as famous works by Frederic Chopin and John Field, that are often languid, meditative, and lyrical, evoking the period of time after which they are named?
Correct Answer: NOCTURNE
Your Answer: Nocturnes
Points Assigned: 2

I am glad this came to me.

3. In 1972, Atari released an arcade version of a simple game similar to one originally invented by William Higinbotham, an Instrumentation Head at Brookhaven National Laboratory who (maybe foolishly) did not patent it when he created it 14 years earlier. What was the name of this revolutionary and lucrative Atari game, which was even more directly inspired by a similar game on the Magnavox Odyssey?
Correct Answer: PONG
Your Answer: Pong
Points Assigned: 1

I considered Breakout, but figured it had to be Pong. 

4. What chemical element, in the halogen group on the periodic table just below chlorine and above iodine, is notable for being one of only two elements that is liquid at room temperature (along with mercury), and for having a particularly sharp and unpleasant odor (its name comes from the Greek for "stench")?
Correct Answer: BROMINE
Your Answer: Sulpher
Points Assigned: 3

Nope! I knew Sulpher was a solid at room temperature, but have barely heard of bromine. 

5. Despite holding his current rank since his introduction in 1963, what seafaring brand mascot with disembodied eyebrows only began wearing sleeves with the appropriate four bars in July 2023?
Correct Answer: CAP'N CRUNCH
Your Answer: Cap'n Crunch
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

6. Marshall McLuhan, the 20th-century media theorist and author of The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, is credited with coining in the first chapter of that latter work the expression "the medium is the [BLANK]" (fill in the blank).
Correct Answer: MESSAGE
Your Answer: message
Points Assigned: 2

I never read any of his books, but I knew the phrase.