OT: General knowledge test #499A

[wire chief]

While we do not know our next opponent, let's see what you do know.

Please do not hit "reply" nor do research.

1..Geno says that we don't win the last Olympics without..?.

2..Worldwide more women of reproductive age die from..? than any other single cause.

3..Explain FBI vs. Apple.

4..What's the largest English speaking country in the Caribbean?

5..In 1986 the first poet Laureate was named. Who?

6..Michael Punke is associated with what blockbuster of last year?

7..What did the 22nd Amendment do?

8..John Wesley's religion today is called.

9.."And a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Plays in the street as the cold wind blows.

10..Thirteen million Americans have an Alzheimers-like disease called "dementia with____ ______.

11..The first black(?) is honored as a best supporting actress.

12..The 1st Playboy Club opens in what city in 1960?

13..This character in the funnies works at Foofram & Co.

 

[rbny1]

8. Methodism
11. The wonderful Hattie McDaniel for Gone With the Wind

 

[meyers7]

1. Asjha Jones
3. FBI is trying to treat cell phones they same way they already treat personal computers. Being able to get into them to help in investigations. Funny that so many people are perturbed by this but don't feel the same about computers.
8. Methodism which is associated with Methodists, Wesleyan, Nazarene, Church of God (Anderson), Missionary Alliance. He (and Charles) was Arminian in beliefs.
9. In the Ghetto. Elvis Presley had the most famous version.
12. IIRC, Hugh's from Chicago, so Chicago??

 

[pinotbear]

13. Hi Flagston, of "Hi and Lois"

 

[DishNSwish]

6. I think he wrote The Revenant (the book)

 

[k9fanatic]

3. FBI wants Apple to write code which would allow them to access emails of the San Bernardino shooters.
4. Jamaica
7. Limits POTUS to two terms
9. "In the Ghetto" by Elvis
11. Hattie MacDaniels for her role as Mammy (and not knowing nothin' about birthing babies) in Gone With the Wind.

 

[Wink96]

1.D.T.
3. Privacy
8.Wesleyan Methodism
11. Hatty McDaniels

 

[Wink96]

3. FBI wants Apple to write code which would allow them to access emails of the San Bernardino shooters.
4. Jamaica
7. Limits POTUS to two terms
9. "In the Ghetto" by Elvis
11. Hattie MacDaniels for her role as Mammy (and not knowing nothin' about birthing babies) in Gone With the Wind.

She didn't say nothin Babies it was the house maid --Sisy??

 

[k9fanatic]

She didn't say nothin Babies it was the house maid --Sisy??

My bad.

 

[Zorro]

Butterfly McQueen.

 

[lne001]

2.. Child Birth

3.. FBI wants Apple to unlock iphone decription

4.. Barbados

8.. Methodism

10.. Lewy Bodies

11.. Hattie McDaniel

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Ovarian Cancer
3. The FBI wants Apple to break into the encrypted iphone technology of the San Bernardino terrororists. Apple feels that it is an invasion of privacy and helping the FBI would lead to a bad precedent.
4. Jamaica
5. Maya Angelou
7. Prohibition
8. Methodist
11. Hattie McDaniel
12. Chicago

 

[wire chief]

2..A very big problem here in the 70's and beyond. Less so now.

5..Robert Penn ______(like a former Chief Justice).

 

[lne001]

5. Warren

 

[wire chief]

1..Yes, Meyers, it's you and Ms Jones got a thing going on.

2..AIDS

3..VAUC is most thorough here.

4..The Vguy again, along with K9, sunning themselves in Jamaica.

5..Ine tells us where rabbits live.

6..Dish, usually a busy guy, stops to help with Revenant.

7..K9 alone kicks the Prez out.

8..Rbny leads a quintet with Methodism.

9..Meyers and K9 recall Elvis.

10..Ine is in favor of Lewy bodies, when most of us prefer the hourglass shape.

11..Another Fivesome, with dink singing lead for Hattie.

12..Meyers & VAUC put us in Chicago.

13..Pinot takes his head out of the newspaper to help here.