OT: General knowledge test #377A

[wire chief]

Early in the morning I'm not concerned with watching tennis, so you can have this.

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..Christians are called by bells. Jews? Muslims?

2..In 1916 this(?) becomes part of Dept. of Interior.

3..You're on your special island with altered consciousness because of whom?

4..La Cara Oculta

5..Identify Karla Homolka.

6..Who's a Kiwi?

7..Model for Anthony Perkins in "Psycho"?

8..What's memorable about a 1939 Reds at Dodgers game?

9..The Latin American gov't that's on the verge of getting into the marijuana game?

10..Anton spent 3 years in the new world.

11..Laser pulses are measured in ____seconds.

12..The business of Mears Corp?

13..Alexander Godunov defected here. His former employer?

 

[terif831]

3. Captain Jack, courtesy of Billy Joel.

 

[rbny1]

8. First baseball game to be televised.
10. Antonin Dvorak -- He wrote his New World Symphony while he was here. The $15,000-a-year contract that brought him to the U.S. was just discovered in someone's attic or file cabinet or someplace like that (I forget exactly what the newspaper article said).

 

[k9fanatic]

5. Wasn't she involved with the murder of a couple of people along with her husband/boyfriend? I don't think it was in the U.S. though.

6. Native New Zealander

13. Bolshoi Ballet Company.

 

[JRRRJ]

1..Don't know for Jews. Imams for Muslims.
2..Bureau of Indian Affairs
4..Hidden Face??
6..New Zealanders
9..Venezuela
10..Mr. Chekhov
11..Femtoseconds these days, attoseconds to come soon
13..Moscow ballet

Edit: removed unanswered Qs

 

[geordi]

1. Muslims = adhan
4. A movie I think
6. New Zealanders

 

[meyers7]

1. Jews? sunlight or rather sundown???
3. Captain Jack (but Joel, not Sparrow)
6. Burt Munro, they made a movie about him. Also my old boss was from New Zealand too. You probably don't know him though.
8. first night game???

 

[crownfox2]

1. Jews- rams horn Muslim - Imam
7. Ed Gein

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Wasn't that the first night game?

 

[heavyhusky]

1) Jews -- shofar (ram's horn) Muslims -- muezzin

 

[wire chief]

1..In keeping with the comparison, we look for "source of sound", that would be
ram's horn (heavy & crown) and "voice" for Muslims.

2..Still needed...Would have to do with Yellowstone, e.g.

3..From Billy Joel's Captain Jack, provided by Meyers & Terif.

 

[wire chief]

4..Like JR says, "The Hidden Face", an excellent Spanish flic.

5..Right, K9, it was in Canada. A very disturbed person who provided her sister for her hubby's enjoyment, dying from a drug overdose.

6..New Zealanders, as the geordi quartet so typed.

 

[wire chief]

7..Serial killer Ed Gein, thanks here to crown.

8..Rbny knows it was 1st televised game.

9..Think Jose Mujica

 

[wire chief]

10..Dvorak, that is, composer of the New World Symphony--Rbny, of course.

11..JR, predicating the future--attaseconds.

12..Git around, Git around, I git around.

13..Bolshoi Ballet, K9 here.

 

[SoCalCanine]

2. Bureau of Land Management????

 

[wire chief]

2. Bureau of Land Management????

No, that's not it.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. The Coast Guard

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. The National Park Service

 

[wire chief]

2..Nat'l Park S. is a winner

12..Mears Transportation

9..Uruguay--The Prez wants it. Soon the legislature will probably pass it. Mary Jane for everybody at competitive pricing.