OT: General knowledge test #439A

[wire chief]

So I take a few minutes off from Australian Open tennis. Such a busy time!

No reprinting questions and no research please.

1..Identify Martha Dandridge Costis.

2..Within 5 years state when the March of Dimes began?

3..When an adult gives a pint, what % of the blood stream is left?

4..Audience participation: Where's your duckkin' neck?"

5..What was the tragedy of Frances Farmer?

6..Who first spotted 4 of Jupiter's moons?

7..Meir Kahane's group and politics?

8..The last defeat of the British in 1815 was where?

9..Harbing and Lane provided what 1947 musical fantasy?

10..What's the problem over General Petreus' mistress?

11..Je suis Charlie has been borrowed by the Germans, worded as..?

12..If we get the 2024 Olympics, what will be the host city?

13..A possible Prez candidate with a Mexican wife?

 

[Wally East]

2. 1907
3. 88%
6. Galileo
8. New Orleans
12. Boston

 

[OneTrickPony]

5. Lobotomized...mental illness destroying a promising acting career...
6. Gallileo Gallilei
8. The Battle of New Orleans after a peace treaty was already signed...
10. He may have leaked secrets trivially, and that fact can be used for a political prosecution...
13. Jeb Bush...

 

[meyers7]

2. New York
4. I believe Rocky Horror Picture Show
12. Boston with that Dirty Water.
13. Jeb Bush

 

[geordi]

1. Don't you mean Custis? George Washington's wife?
2. @ 1938
5. She was a movie star. Tragedy??? Idunno
8. They fired them guns and the British kept a-comin'...New Orleans
10. He was married
12. Boston
13. Jeb Bush

 

[pinotbear]

4. As Meyers says, the narrator from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Actor also played a Bond villain - Bloefeld?(sp) - in one of the Roger Moore portrayals, I think.

 

[rbny1]

7. The Jewish Defense League. I don't know about his politics except that he was often portrayed in the media as a radical who fought antisemitism by any and all means.
9. I think you mean Skip Harburg. Finian's Rainbow.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. She eventually became Ms George Washington
2. 1880
3. 92%
6. Copernicus
7. Jewish Defense League: Are you looking for two answers here?
8. Yorktown
10. He may have shared confidential information with her.
12. Boston

 

[k9fanatic]

1. George Washington's wife.
6. Galileo Galilei
7. Jewish rabbi and founder of the Jewish Defense League
10. He's suspected of having shared confidential information with her.
12. Boston
13. Jeb Bush

 

[ed4ourgirls]

11. Ich bin Charlie?

 

[wire chief]

On #1 & 9 there's an intense, disruptive, onging struggle between my handwriting and my cataracts for responsibility for my mistakes,
not to be settled soon, I fear. Anyway geordi, VAUC and K9 are not fooled, The 1st 1st Lady.

2..Geordi, locked into a depression mentality, still only gives dimes, though a year earlier than he was asked.

3..88% is all that Wally has now...VAUC always stops before the nurse can take a full pint.

4..Meyers and Pinot are right that the setting is the RHPS, BUT the line is hollered by the moviegoers at the once-
frequent midnight showings.

5..Poor Frances was forced into a mental hospital, almost purely on the basis of being outspoken in defense of her
life choices, which displeased her mother et al. Pony sympathizes.

6..Kp, pony, & Wally squealed to the Pope,"It is Galileo! Lock him up!"

7..Meir Kahane (and henchmen) once followed Russian diplomats in NYC, giving them an earful to, "Let my people go!"
Rbny VAUC & K9

8.."And they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles..." Wally, geordi(who's in excellent voice), pony.

9..Rbny, reading through my fractured spelling, gives us FINIAN'S RAINBOW.

10..Pony, VAUC & K9 write that he may have gone all Ed Snowden on her.

11..Ed4 (et al.), Die Deutche use the plural. Was hast du?

12..Meyers channels the Doobies' "Oh Black Water" to describe the home of the cod. He leads a quartet.

13..Pony leads a foursome with still-another-Bush.

 

[meyers7]

12..Meyers channels the Doobies' "Oh Black Water" to describe the home of the cod. He leads a quartet.

No Doobies here Chief. You don't remember the Standells??