OT: General knowledge test #455A

[wire chief]

Tennis in Roma; questions in Storrs

Kindly refrain from research and don't hit "reply" for your answers.

1..Dix ans plus tard.

2..When it's noon in Anchorage, most of Greenland is at..? o'clock.

3..What % of nations drive on the left?

4..Only 5% of this major US city are black, yet constitute 50% of inmates.

5..What is the significance of 661 in MLB?

8.."He rides in the sun 'til the days work is done, singing.."? And singer?

9..The 2 major consumer complaints about Obamacare?

10..This notorious US prison has 85% of inmates awaiting trial.

11..Emma, Olivia, Sophia.

12..Aricept, Namenda are used to treat..?

13..What's the dispute between the IRS and legal pot growers?

 

[rvwsleep]

5. Arod hit his 661st home run to move past Willie Mays into 4th place on the all time list.
8. Cattle Call. Eddy Arnold ? ( What happened to questions 6 & 7 ? )
11. 3 most popular girls names currently
12. Dementia
13. Only allowed cash transactions.

 

[wire chief]

Sorry...

6..Lake Titicaca is South America's largest and is in what country?

7..Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton makes a lasting invention many decades ago. What?

 

[rbny1]

10. Guantanamo?
13. The IRS doesn't allow them to deduct most of their business expenses, such as rent and payroll, under a law aimed at penalizing illegal drug dealers. As a result, the pot growers end up paying income tax on their gross receipts.

 

[k9fanatic]

5. ARod hit the 661th homer to pass Willie Mays.
6. Peru
11. Three most popular girls' names
12. Alzheimer's

 

[rvwsleep]

6. Bolivia and Peru border

 

[meyers7]

3. Not a huge number. Maybe 25%. United Kingdom, India, Australia, New Zealand are the big ones, with some African and Caribbean nations. (ones that were part of the UK at one time)
5. ARod just passed Mays on the all-time Homer list.

 

[TXs N Os]

4. Phoenix

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. 6:00pm
3. 25%
4. Minneapolis
5. It is the point at which Alex Rodriguez passes Willie Mays's all time HR total at which point he Yankees will owe him a ton of money that they do not want to pay.
10. Guantanamo

 

[geordi]

5. Willie Mays Home Run total - Rodriguez just surpassed it.
6. Coke. (Not the snorting kind. The drinking kind.)
8. Cattle Call. Eddie Arnold

 

[wire chief]

1..Let's say some event takes place in 2005, and now it's ___ _____ _____.

2..VAUC has a timely response (most unusual cause he's usually sooooo late) with 6pm.

3..VAUC & meyers forging through traffic and surprisingly no one rams them, 25% is dead on.
Meyers gives some examples, and it may surprise you to learn that Japan is one of them also.

4..Think Bill Russell

5..Sleep has a scintillating quintet, all knowing that ARod surpasses Willie Mays, though perhaps not in character.

6..K9 is accurate with Peru, but sleep notes more precisely that it is shared by Bolivia.

7..Geordi makes an important distinction, otherwise his dealer will bring the wrong stuff.

8..Sleep & geordi from their rodeo days. It's a good thing the board doesn't show images of broken bones and bruises.

9..2 kinds of inaccuracies.

10..A fairly new mayor has been pledging to stop police and prison guard excesses that the former billionaire mayor let happen.

11..You'd think this is Italy, with all 3 popular names ending in "a". K9 & sleep hoping for 3 more kids to gain respectability.

12..Sleep types "dementia", though he doesn't remember doing it.

13..See rbny.

Don't be impatient about test B, as it's time to prepare lentils with diced veggies and salad.

 

[meyers7]

4..Think Bill Russell

I don't think Boston, but maybe San Francisco?

 

[terif831]

1. Ten years later. [I thought it was a trick question but couldn't figure out what the trick was!]

 

[wire chief]

1..Terif sees subterfuge under every bush, but here he has one lucid moment.

4..Does meyers have a heart to leave there? Tony wants to know.

 

[VAUConnFan]

Re #7: Was there not a time when one of its ingredients was the base of what is referred to here as the snorting kind, thus it's name?

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Too expensive, and too much government involvement

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. If you are referring to Mayor DeBlasio of New York and, in turn, to Riker's Island, therein lies the conundrum because Riker's Island is a jail not a prison.

 

[wire chief]

Re #7: Was there not a time when one of its ingredients was the base of what is referred to here as the snorting kind, thus it's name?

Ayup

And I don't care what they call it, it functions as a blackhole prison.

9,,Erroneous doctor list plus surprises about stuff not covered.