OT: General knowledge Test # 460A

[wire chief]

Once again we are making efforts to ward off dementia.

Please do not reprint questions or do research.

1..Some Afghan cops have received a 1 year jail sentence for failing to protect a girl from a mob's execution.
What was her supposed crime?

2..Gerry Adams and Prince Charles shake hands. Why is this monumental?

3..The Han Chinese make life miserable for a Muslim group(?).

4..The Greeks and the Turks sometimes uneasily share this nation.

5..Why is no-knock gas being phased out worldwide?

6.."Ain't a town and it ain't a city, but oh how they..?

7..What is a hostile takeover in business?

8..The new flic "Love and Mercy" depicts a pop group(?).

9..This US territory is 1st in permitting gay marriage.

10..In 1783 what do Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier do?

11.."Will you stay with me? Will you be my love among the fields of barley?"

12..What's notable about Belleau Wood?

13..Charon, Styx, Nix, Hydra & Kerberos

 

[pinotbear]

1. poisoning her husband, I believe. If it's the case I'm thinking of, it was an arranged marriage, where she was something like 14 years old, and he was latter 30's.
2. well, Gerry Adams is former IRA, and Prince Charles is who he is.
12. First major WW1 conflict involving US troops.
13. Moons of Jupiter?

 

[hoopingcrane]

2..Reputed former head of IRA which killed his great uncle, Lord Mountbatten.

3..Uighurs

4..Cyprus

5..contains lead

7..Buying/taking control of a company that doesn't want to be bought

9. Guam

10..Played golf in Paris

12..WWI first battle with U.S. Troops

 

[rbny1]

10. Invented the first hot air balloon and flew it somewhere in France -- I'm not sure exactly where.

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Head of the Irish Republican Army and the heir to the British throne -- what the IRA was revolting against.
8. Beach Boys
9. Guam
11. Fields of Gold -- Sting (my fave!)

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Gerry Adams is the head of Sinn Fein the political arm of the Northern Ireland resistance against British rule.
4. Cypress
5. it's high octane is achieved with the use of lead.
7. When a person or persons with tons of money buy up a majority position in a publicly owned company without the consent of the companies offices and board. A takeover without any previous agreement.
9. Guam
10. Created a lighter than air vessel

 

[Zorro]

6..The town would be Doo Wah Ditty, but what they do there????
10..Go way up in the air in a balloon, mebbe?
13..Well, the Styx is the river between the world and the underworld that people must cross when they die, Charon is the boatman who ferries them across, the Hydra lurk in the waters, Kerberos (or usually Cerberus) is the three headed dog that stands guard to prevent the dead from escaping, but you've got me on Nix.

 

[Zorro]

 

[ed4ourgirls]

13. I don't know who Nix is mythologically, but Charon and Nix are
both satellites of Pluto.

 

[wire chief]

1..It's centered on fire.

2..Hoop's got a 4-some who knows the history.

3..Hoop's alone this time trekking in far western China.

4..According to VAUC, the Greeks have the lower limbs and the Turks the upper branches, and they throw twigs at each other.
See hoop for a more refined spelling.

5..It would be helpful, if SOMEONE were more apropo of the question. How hard can it be to point out that lead is dangerous
to children and animals and all living things.

6..Co-written by Bo Diddly, zorro has Diddy Wah Diddy.

7..VAUC & hoop give us the scoop. These 2 are taking over this test and zorro feel hostile about it.

8..Highly rated flic about the Beach Boys, and K9 probably loves the hermit-like "In My Room".

9..Hoop & VAUC AGAIN! Shees.

10..Rbny, zorro & VAUC are just filled with hot air.

11..K9 implores all of you to send Sting to her door. Failing that, she will accept the Hollies or Air Supply.

12..Pinot & hoop show their WW1 competence.

13..We must Nix the idea that we're strictly speaking of Greek mythology, but zorro an ed4 combine to (sort of)
provide Pluto's moons.

Review #1 please.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Witchcraft

 

[wire chief]

1..The young lady was seen burning paper, to which a bystander publicly accused her of burning the Koran (a serious sin). With no evidence
the mob killed her, and nearby cops did not help her.