OT: General knowledge test #394A

[wire chief]

Time for thinking and grousing about the questions, but do no research
nor reprint questions please.

1..Jo Nesbo's series of Norwegian mysteries stars Harry ____.

2..RIP "Baroness".

3..First American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

4..Actor Christian Bale's ethnicity?

5..Painting, description, scene, picture: all can be translated to Italian word __a___.

6..Hitler's dream art showplace was to be in the city of ____.

7..Where is the Rome-inspired ancient city called Leptis Magna?

8.."I am_______: I am _______, but the _______ still remains."

9..The drug Gabapentin does what?

10..The once-popular series JAG stands for..?.

11.."To Our Children's _________ ________", "On the _________ of a Dream",
"In Search of the ____ _____".

12..Father ______ ________ starts Boys Town.

13..Iago's threat to Desdemona?

 

[geordi]

3. Teddy Roosevelt
7. Lybia
10 Judge Advocate General
12. Edward Flanagan

 

[pinotbear]

13. to accuse her of infidelity, if I recall correctly

 

[rbny1]

2. Actress Eleanor Parker, who played the baroness in the movie The Sound of Music, died this week.
6. Weimar?

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Eleanor Parker (Sound of Music)
4. English
10. Judge Advocate General
12. Flanagan
13. He would tell Othello she had been unfaithful.

 

[Zorro]

11.."To Our Children's children
s children", "On the threshold of a Dream",
"In Search of the lost chord". Moody Blues albums.

12..Father ______ ________ starts Boys Town.

13..Do you mean a face-to-face threat, or the threat that he represented? Or maybe the threat he made to her father? or...

 

[TXs N Os]

9. Helps with neuropathic pain and / or seizures

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. Judge Advocate General
12. ??? Flanagan
13. To expose her infidelity

 

[UConnChapette]

8. "I am leaving, I am leaving but the fighter still remains" - The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel

12. Father Edward Flanagan ( no self respecting Omahan would not know this!)

 

[wire chief]

1..You guys need to read more escapist fiction--Harry Hole

2..Yes, Eleanor Parker reached a ripe old age, reported by rbny.

3..Geordi is right about Teddy.

4..Does it help if I call Tom Jones a compatriot?

5..I just knew this was the time for K9's reappearance, so I included this
question. But she's being coy and making me do it. Paintings are quadri.

6..Rhymes with part of the head, plural.

7..Geordi uses dyslectic spelling, but deserves praise for this tidbit.

 

[pinotbear]

4. ..so, Welsh, then?

 

[wire chief]

8..Nice to hear from the Harry Chapin fan club leader once again, and she's on target
with The Boxer.

10..Geordi K9 & VAUC all with Judge Advocate General.

9..Like Tx writes, it works on nerves to lessen pain, like of arthritis.

11..See zorro, who is up on his Moody Blues history.

12..His full name, Edward Flanagan, is cited by Chap & geordi.

13..We're accurate but vague. How was Iago to carry out the threat convincingly?

 

[wire chief]

4. ..so, Welsh, then?

Glad to read that you did not Welsh on your duty to provide correct answers.

 

[wire chief]

6..Linz

13..Iago gets her compliance after threatening to kill her in bed, along with a slave, so that Othello
sees a scene of adultery avenged by the evil Iago.