OT: General knowledge test #447A

[wire chief]

Tonight will be the 1st night that Hartford will be above freezing(possibly since Amelia Earhardt's disappearence), but still 14 degrees lower than Fargo.
Why in heaven's name do you inhabit such a place? What? Home games. Well, OK.

Please DO NOT HIT "REPLY" in responding, nor do research.

1..S. Korea Supremes just negated its 1953 felony law on ________.

2.."It may be factual; it may be cruel."

3..In 1815 Napolean escapes from..?

4..Ocean water freezes at what temp?

5..K___________, the smallest of antelopes.

6.."Black-roof country, no gold pavements"

7..In 1854 50 abolitionists meet in Wisc. and create the..?

8..What are the Patagonian, Weichselion & Laurentide?

9..It(?) balances sodium, potassium, & phosphuous, as well as processes Vit D.

10..Who tells us of 15 tons of monkey chow?

11..In 1827 what railroad gets the 1st US charter?

12..Today is the once-a-century "Pi" Day. Explain.

13..In what musical declaration of affection is a stone involved?

 

[OneTrickPony]

2. The pride of New Orleans, Aaron Neville..."Everybody Plays the Fool"...truer words were never spoken...
3. The isle of Elba
4. At below 0 degrees C. because of the salt and other things in solution. The exact temperature varies with the amount of contaminants. -4 degrees C. is a decent approximation, but it can be forced much lower..
5. The day with the designation 3.14.15 and so on representing the transcendental mathematical number...
7. Those crazy wingnuts, the GOP...

 

[rbny1]

1. Adultery, which is no longer a crime.
11. Baltimore & Ohio?
12. Today is 3/14/15, the first five digits of pi.

 

[AndyCT]

12. Today is 3/14/15, the first five digits of pi.

Actually what makes this one special is that 9:27 am (rounded) is the once-a-century 3/14/15 9:26:53 (3.141592653).

By the way this only works in the US where we put the month in front of the day i.e. 3/14; in the military and most of the rest the world the day precedes the month (or year comes first), and neither the 3rd day of the 14th month, nor the 31st day of the 4th month are possible.

The original π day and the one "celebrated" in the rest of the world is actually July 22nd; which in day before month is 22/7, and 22 divided by 7 is the mathematical approximation of pi.


Pi Day is also Albert Einstein's birthday.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
3. Elba
3. Sardinnia
4. 28 degrees Fahrenheit
5. Kiplinger
8. Areas of Spain
9. The soil
9. The skin
12. 31415. Pi is measured at 3.14*******. this is the only day this century when the date reflects so many digits that constitute pi and at a certain time today it runs out to double digits.
13. Heart of Stone

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10. Harry Chapin, he left those bananas on the hill leading into Scranton, PA.

 

[geordi]

2. Everybody plays the fool, sometimes...
3. Elba
8. glaciers
12. Today is March (3), 14th, 2015. The value of pi is 3.14.15. Actually the exact time for pi is today at 9:26 and 53 seconds.
(Pi day doesn't exist in the rest of the world because they consider the date 14 March 2014

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. After he saw Elba he was no longer able.

 

[TXs N Os]

9. Chloride

 

[Atleast5char]

2..Everybody Plays the Fool

3..Elba

7..Underground railroad?

9. Calcium

12.. 3-14-15 first 5 digits of pi, plus at 9:26:18 a.m. (or thereabouts) we get the next 5 digits.

13.. Loves Me Like a Rock

 

[wire chief]

6..Our posters are the cream of the crop, but sometimes their minds are stuck in a room.

9..And it also produces red blood cells.

8..Geordi, et al, can you expand on the significance?

13..Neither the Stones' Heart of Stone, nor the 50's hit "Hearts Made of Stone (doo di wa doo di wa) will never break"
capture a romance. For that you need the odd wording of a 70's r&b group who had style.

 

[Atleast5char]

13. How about Stone in Love with You?

 

[DriveLH]

9. bone marrow?

 

[geordi]

6..Our posters are the cream of the crop, but sometimes their minds are stuck in a room.

9..And it also produces red blood cells.

8..Geordi, et al, can you expand on the significance?

13..Neither the Stones' Heart of Stone, nor the 50's hit "Hearts Made of Stone (doo di wa doo di wa) will never break"
capture a romance. For that you need the odd wording of a 70's r&b group who had style.

Not really! I just kinda remember from a trip to Alaska that someone was saying that the current glaciers up there were the remnants of the Laurentian glacier that was much bigger at some point. I assume the other two were something similar.

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny is right that citizens can explore all the hanky-panky they want without fear of cops in the bedroom.

2..The Pony Quartet playing the fool, recorded by the Main Ingredient & later Aaron Neville.

3..VAUC in another 4some with Elba.

4..With Pony's addition to pay attention to contaminents, 28.4F is the approximation, with VAUC on target.

5..VAUC turns the Klipspringer into a follower of Rudyard.

6..Well, Pony, we don't see the Republicans of Abe's time as wingnuts, but nowadays, phew.

7..Cream, with Eric Clapton sing "White Room".

8..The 3 are the far reaching sheets from the last ice age, geordi being helpful.

9..Our kidneys.

10..Knight says it's Harry Chapin. The tune is "30,000 pounds of bananas".

11..Yes, the B & O, as rbny provides.

12..See the string of numbers offered by ATl, VAUC & geordi.

13..A late, post-hint accuracy by Atl with the Stylistics song.