OT: General knowledge test #417A

[wire chief]

Leisurely day of tennis and football, and commercials always leave time for typing.

Please don't repeat questions nor do research.

1..How did Stevie Ray Vaughn die?

2..The first state with an operating oil well(1859)?

3..Where is Mt. Etna?

4..Link Romberg, Lanza. Purdom.

5..In 1776 General ? defeats George Washington in Long Island.

6..The New Mexico town which is the seat of the Navajo nation?

7..A Flock __ ________ made 80's music.

8..Describe Spain's Tomatina Festival.

9..For Lessons in Love, one needs Level ?.

10..Ancient MessoAmerican people who influenced the Maya & Aztec, the ___e_.

11..The original Monday Night Football broadcasting trio?

12..East Asian leaders object to Prime Minister Abe's domestic visits to..?

13..Describe Andy Capp.

 

[pinotbear]

2. Pennsylvania
3. Sicily
7. Of Seagulls. The also made a mess of my car, in the Misquamicutt parking lot.
8. tomatoes. tomatoes everywhere, including in your hair and under your fingernails

 

[rugbymate]

11 merideth , gifford cossell

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Plane crash?
3. Near Catania, Sicily
4. I'm going to say music. Mario Lanza was an opera singer and Romberg was a conductor, so I'm going to guess that Purdom was also somehow connected to music.
7. A Flock of Seagulls -- and they ran too.
8. Once a year they round up overly ripe tomatoes and throw them at each other. Messy, but looks like it could be fun.
11. Howard Cosell, Don Meredith and Frank Gifford.
13. Comic strip character that spends an awful lot of time sitting on a bar stool.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. Sigmund Romberg composed the music for "The Student Prince". Mario Lanza
was to play the lead in the film version, but was too fat to appear. However his singing
voice was used, as the new lead actor, Edmund Purdom, lip synched Lanza's singing.

5. William Howe.

10. Olmec

 

[Zorro]

1. Just like Buddy Hollly, theBig Bopper and Richie Valens; crash of private plane.

2..Pa.

3..Italy

4..Student Prince

5..Howe

6.Clovis, mebbe?

7..A Flock of Seagulls made 80's music.

8..It is like a snowball fight only with tomatoes.



10..Olmec

11..Don Merideth, Howard Cosell, ??

12..

13..British cartoon character, wears big cap, football fanatic and cynic.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. You mean to tell me Stevie Ray is dead!
2. Pennsylvania
3. Sicily
6. Gallup
11. Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, Howard Cosell
13. British cartoon pub crawler who often flirts with other women only to get caught and hit upside the head with a rolling pin by his always suspicious wife.

 

[FairView]

Leisurely day of tennis and football, and commercials always leave time for typing.

Please don't repeat questions nor do research.

1..Helicopter crash

2..Guessing West Virginia

3..Italy

7..A Flock of Seagulls

8..People run through the streets throwing overripe tomatoes at each other.

11..I know Gifford wasn't there the first year, so Howard Cosell, Dandy Don and somebody else.

13..British, no job, big hat, naps on couch, likes to drink, ignores wife, comic strip.

 

[UconnWBB]

no. 9..level 42

 

[wire chief]

1..After decades on milk cartons, Fairview returns with Helicopter crash. VAUC in mourning...
and knows he must get out more.

2..Pinot, zorro & VAUC, oily critters all, place it in Pa.

3..Italy is politically correct, but we'll single out VAUC & K9 for the specific pointing to Sicily. Besides, both they and the mount have
been blowing their tops lately. ( Remember how heated K9 gets when hearing Air Supply.)

4..Ed4 is very helpful. Now the story goes that AFTER Lanza laid down the tracks, the studio (not wanting him on film) engineered a contract dispute that caused Mario to stalk off.

5..Zorro & ed4, closet Tories who often dined with Benedict Arnold, applauded Gen Howe.

6..Sorry, it's Window Rock, and it actually straddles the state line with Az. Given that Pinot lives close, he let us down here. And where is Knights?

7..K9 leaves a cryptic addendum(say what?), as she, zorro & Pinot gave up backyard barbeques, due to Seagulls dive bombing.

8..FOOD FIGHT!!! with Pinot, K9 , zorro & John Belushi.

9..So UCONNWBB, tell us how you scored that handle before anyone else. Anyway we thank you
for id'ing Level 42 and bid you "welcome".

11..Frank Gifford joined in Year 2; he replaced an established college football announcing guy in KJ. And we'll take
a moment to greet rugbymate.

10..Credit ed4 & zorro for Olmec.

12..Abe is Japan's leader. Whenever he visits the war-dead cemetery, his neighbors bristle for that nation's WW2
aggression.

13..K9, zorro & VAUC all have a sense of him, all having encountered him in sleazy joints.

OK, you are 10 & 2/3 here.

 

[DriveLH]

11. Kieth Jackson

 

[wire chief]

11. Kieth Jackson

That works...and let's all pause while Dandy Don sings, "The party's over".

 

[FairView]

Unfortunately, some of my answers are obscured in the window. That's what happens when a guy doesn't play for a while … he forgets how to do things.

 

[wire chief]

Unfortunately, some of my answers are obscured in the window. That's what happens when a guy doesn't play for a while … he forgets how to do things.

Nonetheless. good to have you.

 

[UconnWBB]

1..After decades on milk cartons, Fairview returns with Helicopter crash. VAUC in mourning...
and knows he must get out more.

2..Pinot, zorro & VAUC, oily critters all, place it in Pa.

3..Italy is politically correct, but we'll single out VAUC & K9 for the specific pointing to Sicily. Besides, both they and the mount have
been blowing their tops lately. ( Remember how heated K9 gets when hearing Air Supply.)

4..Ed4 is very helpful. Now the story goes that AFTER Lanza laid down the tracks, the studio (not wanting him on film) engineered a contract dispute that caused Mario to stalk off.

5..Zorro & ed4, closet Tories who often dined with Benedict Arnold, applauded Gen Howe.

6..Sorry, it's Window Rock, and it actually straddles the state line with Az. Given that Pinot lives close, he let us down here. And where is Knights?

7..K9 leaves a cryptic addendum(say what?), as she, zorro & Pinot gave up backyard barbeques, due to Seagulls dive bombing.

8..FOOD FIGHT!!! with Pinot, K9 , zorro & John Belushi.

9..So UCONNWBB, tell us how you scored that handle before anyone else. Anyway we thank you
for id'ing Level 42 and bid you "welcome".

11..Frank Gifford joined in Year 2; he replaced an established college football announcing guy in KJ. And we'll take
a moment to greet rugbymate.

10..Credit ed4 & zorro for Olmec.

12..Abe is Japan's leader. Whenever he visits the war-dead cemetery, his neighbors bristle for that nation's WW2
aggression.

13..K9, zorro & VAUC all have a sense of him, all having encountered him in sleazy joints.

OK, you are 10 & 2/3 here.

Thank you...it just so happens I have the song on my ipod, and remember watching the video on MTV (when they actually played videos)!

 

[k9fanatic]

7..K9 leaves a cryptic addendum(say what?), as she, zorro & Pinot gave up backyard barbeques, due to Seagulls dive bombing.

Flock of Seagulls' biggest (only?) hit was I Ran. And here I thought I was being so clever...

 

[wire chief]

Flock of Seagulls' biggest (only?) hit was I Ran. And here I thought I was being so clever...

Cleverness can be pearls before swine...I don't know the song.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

As to the Navajo, they are far from where I live. We have the Tohono O'odham Nation as a very large reservation to the Southwest of Tucson. Currently in the news because they have permission to build a casino on property they bought in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb that is home to the NFL's Cardinals and the next Super Bowl. Which has lots of politicos and several other Indian Tribes / Nations that already operate casinos up there in arms.

And I avoided the Monday Night Football crew because I knew one of the "classic" group didn't come till year 2, but I didn't remember which or who they replaced. I can't imagine Keith Jackson teamed up with Meredith, the thought sends shivers.

 

[wire chief]

Good to hear you are alive, kicking & paying attention to importantstuff. See you next time.