OT: General knowledge test #390A

[wire chief]

The team is exhausted, but your adrenaline is still running. Apply it here, but w/o research
or reprinting the questions.

1.."____ _____, my home is over Jordan."

2..In 1910 Francisco Madero starts a revolution in what nation?

3..Link Col. Tom Parker to "O Solo Mio".

4..The Ville-Marie Tunnel runs under what city?

5..Otto Dix' occupation?

6..In what year does Yale go coed?

7..The 1st predecessor of the IPod, way back?

8..Two states(?) have a LEGOLAND.

9..Some dismissed the New Deal as digging holes, then..?

10..Which of the Seven Sisters Colleges are no longer women only?

11..Lily, ________ and the Jack of Hearts.

12..Bing Crosby's co-star in The Bells of St. Mary's?

13..Born in 1868 and known as the King of Ragtime?

 

[geordi]

2. Mexico
5. painter
8. You should know there is one in Florida; They are talking about building another here in Virginia
12. Ingrid Bergman
13. I'm confused! Isn't Seville already the capital of Andalusia???

 

[wire chief]

2. Mexico
5. painter
8. You should know there is one in Florida; They are talking about building another here in Virginia
12. Ingrid Bergman
13. I'm confused! Isn't Seville already the capital of Andalusia???

13..I'm putting in a substitute question, for I obviously had a brain freeze when typing.

 

[terif831]

3. Col. Parker was Elvis Presley's manager. Elvis sang "It's Now or Never," same tune as "O Solo Mio."

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

11 - Rosemary (can't place the song)
13 - Scott Joplin

 

[meyers7]

3. Colonel Parker was Elvis' manager/owner. The Elvis tune, It's Now or Never had the same tune as O Solo Mio. Done more as a Rumba though. At least to my ear. Yea, I had Elvis records as a kid.
4. Sounds French. Paris??
9. I assume "filling them up".
13. Scott Joplin?? No idea of when he was born, but when I think of Ragtime, that's the first name I come up with.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Colonel Parker was Elvis Presley's manager. Elvis took the melody of O Solo Mio and recorded It's Now or Never.
13. Scott Joplin

 

[wire chief]

1..Standard hymn, D___ R____

4..This continent.

6..Three years after Eve of Destruction.

8..Yes to Florida, and the other state is consistent about these things.

10..One's in Poughkeepsie and one merged with Harvard.

 

[Zorro]

The team is exhausted, but your adrenaline is still running. Apply it here, but w/o research
or reprinting the questions.

1.."DeepRiver, my home is over Jordan."

2..Mexico


7..Walkman?

12, Barry Fitzgerald

 

[Rayvin56]

7. the Walkman for radio, then tape, then cd; the Rio was the first to play mp3.

 

[geordi]

4. Well, if Meyer thinks it's French and it's this continent, how about Montreal.

8. California????

 

[geordi]

4. Well, if meyer thinks it's French and it's on this continent, Montreal???

8. California????

10. Vassar is in Poughkeepsie, isn't it??? The other, Smith????

 

[wire chief]

1..Zorro up on his religious repertory with Deep River.

2..Geordi & zorro with Mexico.

3..Terif, Meyers & VAUC give us Parker-Elvis-Now or Never-O Solo Mio 3rd
degree of kinship.

4..It is under downtown Montreal, and geordi seems to want Meyers to get an assist.

5..He is with brush and palette and canvas, and geordi is over his shoulder.

 

[wire chief]

6..1968

7..Yes to Walkman, but to be complete, one should add "Sony". The incomplete Ray & zorro.

8..Yes geordi to Cal.

9..Meyers cleverly filling holes.

 

[meyers7]

9..Meyers cleverly filling holes.

Make work. My dad did that for my brothers and I all the time. (we didn't get paid though) (but he did give us a roof, clothes and food )

 

[wire chief]

10..Vassar is identified by geordi; Radcliffe merges with Harvard.

11..Knights is OK with Rosemary, and never uses parsley, sage or thyme. BTW it is a Dylan song.

12..Yes to Ingrid, in an unrevealing costume. Thanks to our resident Leprechaun.

13..Scott Joplin works fine, as Meyers and Knights and VAUC testify.

 

[Rayvin56]

6..1968

7..Yes to Walkman, but to be complete, one should add "Sony". The incomplete Ray & zorro.

Actually, since the iPod was/is strictly a digital format player and the walkman wasn't, the Rio was actually the first digital personal audio player.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

11..Knights is OK with Rosemary, and never uses parsley, sage or thyme. BTW it is a Dylan song.

After answering the question, I looked it up - the version I knew was sung by Joan Baez (crediting Dylan) on a live album she did. Many, many years ago I had the album and loved the song, although it was a tad long. The Baez version is on Youtube.

 

[wire chief]

Actually, since the iPod was/is strictly a digital format player and the walkman wasn't, the Rio was actually the first digital personal audio player.

Agreed, though I used the phrase "way back" to steer you to the first mobile walking with earphones device

 

[wire chief]

After answering the question, I looked it up - the version I knew was sung by Joan Baez (crediting Dylan) on a live album she did. Many, many years ago I had the album and loved the song, although it was a tad long. The Baez version is on Youtube.

There are several youtube versions, but the master himself is blocked.