OT: General knowledge test #461A

[wire chief]

When insomnia hits, at least I have this...and the rest of Sunday's NY Times..

Kindly refrain from research and reprinting questions.

1..What TV station is searching for Ancient Astronauts?

2..Country of birth of Marc Chagall?

3..Whose character is Emma Bovary?

4..In June 1898 it(?) declared its independence from Spain.

5..Discounting island nations, how many countries on mainland Africa?

6..What is MERS? Where did it begin? What far-from-the-source nation is having trouble with it now?

7..A crossover hit more than a half-century ago was sometime referred to as "Little Jimmy Brown",
but better known as...? RIP Little Jimmy who died this past week.

8..Provide 2 songs whose title contain a dwelling word. E.g. Neil Young's (There is a) Mansion on the Hill.

9..An American politico breaks his leg in France. Who?

10.."Of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."

11..When did Elmer's Glue hit the market?

12..Ashley, Merlin and Maty-Kate.

13..Pioneer 10 was launched in '72. How long did it take to get beyond Pluto?

 

[pinotbear]

4. Cuba?
8. Gordon Lightfoot's "The House You Live In".
9. John Kerry
12. Olsens all

 

[terif831]

3. Gustave Flaubert.
8. My Old Kentucky Home
Our House in the Middle of Our Street
Hotel California
A Shanty in Old Shanty Town
Sugar Shack

 

[rbny1]

1. History Channel
2. Russia

 

[rvwsleep]

1. History Channel (pseudo history)
4. The Philippines (That's real history and should be on the History Channel)
6. Virus. Middle East. South Korea
13. The early 80's. I'm guessing 10 years

 

[geordi]

1. The History Channel
3. Flaubert
4. Philippines
7. I think the title was Bells. That's all I know, but I remember the song. "All the chapel bells were ringing..."
9. John Kerry
10 john Greenleaf Whittier

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..History Channel

2..Russia

3..Flaubert

4..Philipines

6. Respitory illness; ?; South Korea

8..Burning down the house- Talking Heads; Our House- CSNY

9..John Kerry

13..43 years

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Russia
5. 47 (give or take a Burundi or Djibouti)?
8. House of the Rising Sun (Animals), Our House (Crosby Stills et al)
9. John Kerry, bike riding
12. Olsens

 

[johnnyc]

8. Love Shack - B 52s
Psychedelic Shack - Temptations

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Jane Austen
4. The Phillipines
5. 37
6. It is a respiratory virus that is devastating south Korea right now. While it's origin is known in all probability, it is unknown to me.
8. Our House - CSN&Y,
His House and Me - Eloise Laws


11. 1965
13. 35 years

 

[terif831]

7. Is that the one that was originally in French, by Edith Piaf - "Les Trois Cloches"? About "Little Jimmy Brown" in the English version, "Jean Francois Nicot" in the French, if I'm thinking of the right one. I don't know what the other title in English was.

 

[wire chief]

2..You are correct that Marc was born in the Russian Empire, but can you narrow it down post '89?

11..VAUC's entry is too recent.

 

[meyers7]

1. History Channel, I assume.
6. some kind of virus. Respiratory I think. somewhere in Asia??? I guess I really don't know.
8. The Basement Song - Adam Ezra Group
Tones of Home - Blind Melon
Family Tree - Kings of Leon
Hotel California - Eagles or even better Gipsy Kings
Battleship Chains - The Georgia Satellites
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Cave - Mumford and Sons
The House is a Rockin' - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
I'm Going Home - Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Our House - Madness
Mansion Builder - 2nd Chapter of Acts
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis
House of the Rising Sun - Animals
Home on the Range - Every cowboy that ever lived?
12. Olsen's. And Merlin is no relation to the twins, at all. He was a Fearsome Father.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. The same channel that has brought us "Ice Road Truckers" and other
drek that has absolutely nothing to do with History.

 

[MJL243]

7. The Three Bells - by the Browns.

 

[MJL243]

12. Maty-Kate? Don't tell Kibitzer.

 

[wire chief]

1..Now, now, all you grumblers, I find Ancient Astronauts fascinating, not at all in the same drekhole as ice road truckers.

2..Hoop & K9, it would be Belarus today.

3..Terif has his full name. Geordi & hoop get some credit.

4..The Sleepy Foursome pick the Philippines.

5..K9 takes a stab at 47, being guided by her waist size.

6..It is a respritory disease that sometimes kills, beginning in Saudi Arabia and now giving S. Korea some heartache.
Sleep is closest.

7..Terif, your cloches is translated directly as The 3 Bells. MJL has it too. Geordi can't count to 3, cause of all the bats in his...

8..I must signal out the frustrated DJ that Meyers is. Dwellingdiarrhea is his latest disease.

9..John Kerry's ignoble bike mishap, which Pinot's quartet provide.

10..A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. which geordi often buries his nose into escape his wife's demands to
clean out the attic.

11.The glue that is Elmer and Elsie's relationship originated in 1947.

12..Pinot, Meyers & Pinot write Olsens all.

13..Sleep is doggone close, 11 years.

#11 is your only problem.

 

[k9fanatic]

5..K9 takes a stab at 47, being guided by her waist size.

Seriously? That's really mean.

 

[wire chief]

 

[meyers7]

8..I must signal out the frustrated DJ that Meyers is. Dwellingdiarrhea is his latest disease.

I suppose it's better than Industrial Disease.