OT: General knowledge test #448A

[wire chief]

The season ends, so now we get to the important stuff.

Please do not hit "reply" for your answers, and do no research.

1..In "Bus Stop" who wins Marilyn Monroe?

2..What is the occupation called "charring"?

3..In the NY Lantern in 1852 what does Frank Bellew do?

4..Ten years apart Montgomery Clift and Sidney Poitier are soaking up rays. Explain.

5.."I can't recall who said it. I know I never read it."

6..C'est la guerre.

7..Where is the ice sheet shrinking 5x faster than 20 years ago?

8..Fourteen years later Serena witnesses a changed community. Explain.

9..From where does Columbus depart for Spain on his 2nd trip?

10..What country recently withdrew its application for the 28 member Euro Union?

11..Copenhagen NY has this distinction.

12..Where does an abandoned hurricane turn up in song?

13..Flibanserin, which doesn't have FDA approval yet, has been in the news. Its function?

 

[pinotbear]

1. Clark Gable?
6. Such is war.
7. Greenland

 

[rbny1]

1. My memory is a little fuzzy on this, but I believe it was Don Murray.
4. Monty in the movie A Place in the Sun, Sidney in the movie A Raisin in the Sun.
5. Lyrics from the song "They Say That Falling in Love Is Wonderful," from the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin.
8. She withdrew from a tennis tournament in Palm Springs, CA, 14 years ago because of racist taunts from some spectators. She refused to play there again until recently (who can blame her). This time she was greeted with cheers.

 

[johnnyc]

1. Don Murray

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. They starred in a Place in the Sun and A Raisin in the Sun respectively.
6. Such is War.
7. In the Arctic
7. In the Antarctic
8. In 2001 she was roundly booed and criticized for bowing out of a tennis tournament in Indian Wells prompting her and Venus to vow never to play there again. 14 years later, all is forgiven and she is back.
9. Puerto Rico
11. It is nothing like its namesake overseas

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2. Maybe being a maid or a housekeeper? I'm associating it with "char-woman" but I'm vague what she was.

 

[wire chief]

3..A cartoonist who gave us a lasting impression.

9..Yes to the Caribbean, but from a place bigger that Puerto Rico.

10..An island.

11..Based on 256 inches.

12.."He rides the sky like an eagle in the eye of..?" and artist?

13..A supposed complement to Viagra.

 

[geordi]

3. He created the Uncle Sam cartoon.
9. Puerto Rico
10. Iceland
13. Isn't that the female version of Viagra?

 

[wire chief]

12..I simply cannot accept that you mugs don't know this song. Try, "Ain't it foggy outside; all the planes have been grounded.
Ain't the fire inside? Let's all go stand around it."

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Cuba
10. Greece
10. Iceland
10. Cypress
11. It's where Bob Lanier, owner of the biggest "feets" in basketball, is from
13. An orally ingested cure for priapism as opposed to the current method of a saline injection.

 

[Purduke]

2. Producing casks or wine\spirits production.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

9. Santo Domingo

 

[VAUConnFan]

11. Highest US average annual snowfall.

 

[wire chief]

1..Don Murray turns away rbny and JC's attempts to get at Marilyn.

2..Of Brit origins and emphasizes the cleaning of burned stuff, but, as Knight says, a housekeeper. There's no truth to
the rumor that Knight kept his shackled and underfed.

3..Geordi urged Frank to call him "Uncle Max", to no avail.

4..Rbny & VAUC both got skin rashes after seeing those flics.

5..The always ancient rbny does it again in a most comprehensive way.

6..Pinot & VAUC, who meet annually for the toy soldiers convention, would easily know this.

7..Pinot hones in on the soggy, shrinking Greenland.

8..Rbny claims he wasn't one who booed, nonetheless knows what happened.

9..Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. That's ed4 waving to Chris from the shore.

10..Geordi is 1st with Iceland. VAUC too, but if anyone ever demands VAUC's "final answer", he's in big trouble.

11..Yes, VAUC, it's the town with the US greatest snow amounts. Didn't you tell me that you lost 2 vehicles, a wife
and a French poodle there?

12..

13..Geordi begs his wife to find it on the black market.