Question 1.
I did know about steemmonsters before and I was actually one of the lore writers for steemmonsters,
But unfortunately my team didn't finish our story in time so we got disqualified.

As much as I know about steemmonsters right now it's a game where you can collect cards and in future you can battle with your cards against other players and earn steem/sbd from it.

Also there will be tournaments with huge prizes