OT: General knowledge test #475A

[wire chief]

I assure you I am not tempted to set off your alarm clocks, when I post these in the middle of the night.
I can wait.

Please do not research nor reprint questions.

1..It is now official that we will refer to it(?) with the Athabascan term.

2..Eventually the Titanic was found 400 miles off the coast of..?

3..Ladysmith Black _______, brought to our attention primarily by whom?

4..The naïve Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 did what?

5..Where in the funnies does this repeatedly show up? "You're so party; let's go dancey."

6..Theodore Geisel is better known as..?

7..In 1883 what natural phenomenon had worldwide consequences?

8..Measure _____; ___ once. Whose creed?

9..In 1862 it was the 2nd Battle 0f____ ___ or ________.

10..In 1939 the 1st Marvel Comic came out, featuring the H_____ T____.

11..Several critics did not like the '50's Broadway musical Kismet, but that didn't discourage turnout.
Why?

12..This large nation's word for its money now is the same as another large country's prior to
the euro. Name both.

13.."Let me make your broken heart like new." And act?

 

[johnnyc]

2. Newfoundland
9. Bull Run/Manassas

 

[pinotbear]

1. Mt. McKinley/Denali
4. ban chemical weapons?
6. Dr. Seuss
7. explosion of Krakatoa?

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Greenland
2. Newfoundland
3. Mozambo, Paul Simon
4. Prevented Germany from maintaining an army.
6. Dr. Seuss
9. Bull Run, Manassas
13. Hey There Loney Girl - Eddie Holman

 

[CajunHusky]

1. Denali
2. Newfoundland
6.Dr Seuss
7. Krakatoa
8. measure twice, cut once ... carpenter

 

[meyers7]

1. Mt. Denali, formally Mt McKinley and the Ohioans are hopping made.
3. Mambazo, by me in one of the music threads. They were also on Graceland with Paul Simon, but who can remember that?
6. Dr Seuss. From right across the river in Springfield. Mulberry St.
8. measure twice, cut once. carpenters
9. Bull Run, Manassas. Union didn't do very well in either one.

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Denali, the mountain formerly known as Mt. McKinley.
2. Newfoundland
4. Agreed not to use war/violence to settle conflicts between countries
6. Dr. Seuss
8. Measure twice, cut once -- every handyman that ever lived
10. Human Torch?

 

[hoopingcrane]

4..Nations agreed not to go to war.

5..Sally Forth

7..Explosion of the Krakatoa volcano

9..Bull run/Manassas

10.Human Torch

12..Turkey and Italy- the old Turkish lira is the official betting currency of the Boneyard- I'l bet you 2 million.

 

[Zorro]

1..Mt. Denali?


3..Mombazo, Ry Cooder

6. Dr. Seuss

9. Bull Run, Manassas

11. Newspaper strike?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

11. Because all the Alexander Borodin fans wanted to see (hear) it?

 

[geordi]

1. Denali
2. Newfoundland
5. Sally Forth. It's the title of a song that Hillary wrote for her garage band
6. Dr. Suess
7. eruption of Krakatoa in the South Pacific. Caused ash clouds around the world'
8. Measure twice; cut once. Carpentes
9. Bull Run in the North; Manassas in the South. The North always named battles after geography; the south after the nearest city

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot and everyone under the sun finger Denali. Ohioans want McKinley. Italian-Americans want Cannoli.

2..The Cajun Quartet on the Bayou all pick Newfoundland.

3..Yes, Meyers already offered the Ladysmith video, but if I didn't include it, I agonized that he'd get nothing right as usual.

4.."If God is on our side, He'll stop the next war."

5..Hoop and geordi have the kind of knowledge that shows why people don't take them seriously.

6..Seven of you, including Meyers , all out for breakfast eating gteen...well, you know.

7..Some detail from geordi explains how Catholics first started celebrating Ash Wednesday.

8..K9 +3 quote the Carpenters. "Why haven't you cut yet?"
"We must measure first, and 'We've Only Just Begun.'"

9..JC and a wagonload of you do the Bull Run/Manassas thing.

10..K9 & hoop put out the fire.

11..Zorro asks the asking man, and yeah, a newspaper strike kept negative info from showgoers.

12..All those Italians, busy eating pasta, attending opera, sashaying through museums...hoop knows the Turks slipped in
and grabbed their lira.

13..Pop song devotee VAUC is alone with this one.

YOU ARE PERFECT...Geno says it's not possible, but you showed him.

 

[geordi]

4.."If God is on our side, He'll stop the next war."

You really ARE as old as me. Phil Ochs. Late 60s. "With God on our side."

 

[wire chief]

You really ARE as old as me. Phil Ochs. Late 60s. "With God on our side."

You can enjoy Phil all you want, but it's a '63 composition by (who else) Bob Dylan.