OT: General knowledge test #444A

[wire chief]

Ready for another jaw-clenching, teeth-rattling, proof of your adulthood?

No research nor reprinting questions please.

1..What large city on the Yumuna River usually has the world's dirtiest air?

2..Stroke seriousness has been correlated to low levels of which vitamin?

3..Recently there was the Westminster dog contest. About how many breeds were entered?

4..What city on the Vistula River was the start of WW2 and the home of Solidarity?

5..The 2 chief animals of India a Hindu can eat?

6..Historical significance of Edmund Pettis Bridge?

7..The European conger..? is the largest (to 10' and 240 lbs.).

8..A Smartphone accessory the ______, can detect HIV and syphilis.

9.."I only know I must be brave.
For I must face a man who hates me,..."

10..Yemen's gov't has been overthrown by H_____ rebels.

11..The Brit _______ was 4-to-a-penny and went out of circulation in 1956.

12..Doc Rivers has hired her(?) as a first.

13.."Carnal sinners who subordinate reason to desire" are in which of Dante's circles?

 

[pinotbear]

4. Gdansk?

 

[rbny1]

1. I read an article a couple of days ago that Delhi, India, has the worst air pollution in the world. I don't know if Delhi is on the Yumuna River, but I assume Delhi is the answer.
6. It's on the route of the legendary civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
9. "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling"

 

[Wink96]

9 ..Gary Cooper as the Sheriff in" HIGH NOON".

11.. Farthing.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Calcutta
1. New Delhi
2. Vitamin K
3. 173
4. Gdansk
5. Chicken and fish
6. The civil rights standoff in Selma, AL
7. Catfish
8. App
10. Hamas
11. sixpence
13. Certainly not his inner circle.

 

[TXs N Os]

12. Becky Hammon - first female to coach in NBA

 

[geordi]

6. It's he bridge in Selman,AL, from which MLK launched his march. Them archers were assaulted by the police on the bridge.
7. An eel
9. It's from het theme song from High Noon; sung by Tex Ritter
10 Houthi

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. I'll guess Beijing. (one day during my visit there, the horizontal visibility
was less than a mile).

 

[Wally East]

6. The National Voting Rights Museum now sits next to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. What a coincidence! ( )

 

[Rocket009]

4.Gdansk
5..Goat & Lamb
7..Eel
11..Farthing

 

[wire chief]

2..We always applaud VAUC's willingness to guess, so that his answer sees the light of day, though he is mistaken.

3..Ditto the above, though even more pooches were there.

8..Change one vowel in a verb that is the same as "hang" from a cliff.

12..Becky was not hired by Doc. You want Natalie ______, once a head coach for a men's pro team in Japan.

13..Not the inner circle, as VAUC rightly discounts, but actually the outermost (mildest punishment), which Dante labled..?.

 

[pinotbear]

2. vitamin D
3. 190-somethin' , I think. Ah, let's say 196

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny is grateful that he can get the right answer by reading instead of visiting Dehli (cough, cough, expectorate).

2..Pinot lays out, singing his fur.

3..Silly ol' is real close--192. He could have been on the nose, if 4 species of ursus had not been disqualified.

4..VAUC & 009 were tired of Pinot's exclusive ownership of correct answers and so join him with Gdansk.

5..Goat, lamb, chicken & fish are offered. My mouth's watering. PETA fanatics want these 4 to join the "sacred" list.

6..The geordi quartet offer similar versions of the battle for civil rights.

7..If you bet that no BYer would know anything about Euro eels, geordi & 009 prove you dead wrong.

8..Dongle...all you mugs apparently are walking around unprotected.

9..High Noon theme, DO NOT FORESAKE ME, OH MY DARLING. Rbny & dink (both indistinguishable from Gabby Hayes) score.

10..Geordi shows he's no little mind hobgoblin by pinpointing the Houthi.

11..Dink & 009 haven't got a ha'penny, but God bless them anyway. Farthing.

12..Natalie Nakase joined Doc for the Summer League.

13..First Circle

Best wishes to this legend on his 87th birthday.