OT: General Knowledge Test #414A

[wire chief]

I have my cursor under improved control, so we continue.

Please don't repeat questions (DONT' hit "reply"), and do no research.

1..Where did Gerald Ford play college football?

2..The 2nd most deadly communicable disease(?) kills 1.3 million a year.

3..In the 70's "Tania"(?) is arrested for bank robbery.

4..The Statue of Liberty "changes" islands. Explain.

5..The bard provides a romp in the woods, where 2 noble brothers reconcile, and many marriages ensue.

6..Fido is a dog AND a Latin phrase(?).

7..Who gave us Pudd'nhead Wilson?

8..In 1825 Bolivia declares independence from..?

9..Six o'clock! Dinner time, __ ____ __ ____ dessert.

10..Explain the '60's-'80's fame of Andre of Rockport, Me.

11..If you can keep your..?..and blaming it on you.

12..What 2 sisters in the 70's asked What About Love?

13..Why have followers of Zoroaster been in the news?

 

[Waquoit]

1. Michigan
3. Patty Hearst
5. Twelfth Night
7. Paul Winchell
12. Heart

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - Michigan
4 - I think it changed names, if that's what you mean. It was Liberty Island last I heard, but long ago something else, maybe Bellows?
7 - Mark Twain

We have missed you, master Tester.

 

[k9fanatic]

1. University of Michigan
2. TB?
3. Patti Heart's name while being held by the SLA
8. Peru
10. Andre was a seal that would come back to Maine every summer and sun itself on the rocks off Rockport.
12. Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart

 

[meyers7]

Finally.
1. Michigan. Go Blue!
3. I believe that was one Patricia Hearst with the SLA
8. Probably Spain
12. Wilson sisters based out of Canada of Heart.

 

[rbny1]

4. The statue was on Bedloe's Island, which was later (in the 1940s? 1950s? 1960s?) renamed Liberty Island.

 

[Zorro]

I have my cursor under improved control, so we continue.

Please don't repeat questions (DONT' hit "reply"), and do no research.

1..Michigan

3..Patty Hearst

5..Twelth Night.

7..Ol Sam Clemons

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Michigan
2 Ebola
3. Patty Hurst
4. The name was changed from Bedloe Island to Liberty Island
6. Loyal
8. Spain

 

[ballhawk]

13. Yazidis who are fleeing from ISIS in Iraq.

 

[geordi]

Welcome back.

1. Michigan played tackle I think.
2. probably diarrhea
3. Patty Hurst's was renamed Tania by the SLA
5. Twelfth Night
6. Fido in Latin means faithful. Semper fideles means always faithful???

 

[wire chief]

1..Yes to Michigan, and a boatload of you have it.

2..K9 coughs it up--TB.

3..Patti Hearst, who sarcastically thanked the jury for understanding her situation. Meyers + 4.

4..Rbny & VAUC most accurate--Bedloe to Liberty.

5..All you 12th Nighters better not quit your day jobs. Another way to say it--whatever floats your boat.

6..Some of you capture the sense, but in Latin Fido is a whole sentence.

7..Knights provides Mark Twain.

8..K9 is correct; Bolivia breaks from Peru.

9..Same folks who discovered you buy Jello and let it sit in the cabinet "Put a Jello out tonight", sang the commercial

10..K9 remembers...Andre the seal entertained many.

11.."You'll be a man, my son."

12..Only K9 comes up with first names, Ann & Nancy.

13..Welcome, Ballhawk, you name the Yazidi, stuck on an Iraqi mountain.

Now, 5, 6, 9, & 11, por favor

 

[Waquoit]

5. As You Like It?

 

[wire chief]

5. As You Like It?

That works.

 

[Waquoit]

That works.

I like it!

 

[wire chief]

6..I am faithful.

9..too late to make

11..You surprised me here; I thought these lines were pretty well known.
"your head about you, while all around you are losing theirs and..."

And we are done.