OT: General knowledge test #484A

[wire chief]

Yes, another day where this accompanies your am coffee.

No reprinting questions please nor research.

1..Oxybenzone in sun screen is now known to kill..?.

2..Kevin Spacey marries Sandra Dee. Well, sort of. Explain.

3..He's shot on a farm in E. Liverpool, Ohio in 1934. Who?

4..Atomic #10(?) lights up our night.

5..The Yenisei(y) River is the world's 6th longest. Where is it?

6..The world's 2 largest monoliths(?) are both in Australia.

7..Victoria amazonica is the largest _____ ____.

8..Who has nothing but a fine tooth comb? How did that happen?

9..Identify Hankvah.

10..Composer and production? O Mio Babbino Caro.

11..The Chinese government is trying to get its people to change how they do funerals. How so?

12..If you're a..?, you can have large testacles or a really deep, projecting voice, but not both.

13.."It Might Get Loud" is a documentary featuring 3 guitarists(?) of different generations.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Pretty Boy Floyd
3. Alvin Karpis
4. Neon
8. Bill Bailey; Got thrown out of his house

 

[rbny1]

6. Ayers Rock is one of them. I don't know the other.
10. From the opera Gianni Schicchi by Puccini.

 

[pinotbear]

1. coral
12. Howler monkey, I think

 

[johnnyc]

2. Kevin Spacey played Bobby Darin in the film Beyond the Sea. In real life Bobby Darin was married to Sandra Dee.
13. Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White

 

[k9fanatic]

3. Pretty Boy Floyd
4. Neon
5. Russia
10. Puccini

 

[wire chief]

6..The 2nd wears the name of a Caesar, Mt. ________.

7..Where a frog hangs out.

9..The national anthem of an ally.

11..A direct response to its population and the shortage of space.

 

[VAUConnFan]

6. Augustus
7. lily pond
9. Isreal's national anthem
11. By suggesting cremation as opposed to burials
11. By stacking coffins in graves

 

[wire chief]

7..VAUC, you're on track, but we're not looking for a body of water.

11..Even beyond those acts.

 

[pinotbear]

7. Pond lily?

 

[Rocket009]

7. Largest lilly pad
11. Recently made burial illegal

 

[wire chief]

1..Yes, Pinot, it bleaches coral white.

2..See JC, doing our Hollywood gossip segment.

3..VAUC and K9, sitting Pretty.

4..The same 2 posters with neon.

5..It rises in Mongolia and winds up in the Arctic, passing, as K9 writes, mostly through Russia.

6..Ayers Rock is rbny's entrant; VAUC provides Mt. Augustus.

7..Rocket unscrambles previous suggestions to pinpoint a lily pad.

8..Ah yes, VAUC, but now she wants him home. Donna e mobile.

9..VAUC gives us Israel.

10..K9 cites the lovely melody by the lovely-melody master, Puccini. Additionally rbny provides the opera.

11..Not instituting law, but encouraging families to scatter ashes. This is not sitting well, thus far.

12..Pinot identifies with one of the 2 populations of howler monkeys, but has asked to keep it secret.

13..JC, who himself can get loud, knows the 3.