OT: General knowledge test #416A

[wire chief]

To celebrate the US Open (and Tiff's fine game yesterday), we offer this.

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..Dave ______ Mann. (before & after)

2..In 1787 John Fitch demonstrates his ? to Continental Congress members.

3..Paolo Veronese' occupation and time period?

4..Diana ____ swims from Bahamas to Florida.

5..Haider al- Abad is the new..?

6..Groucho Marx' death is seen as underreported, cause it was 3 days after another's(?).

7..The group that drove Mexicans from Santa Fe in 1680?

8.._________ in Alsace is the seat of the European Parliament.

9..Dung Gate is the entrance to..?

10..Russia just shut down all four of which American business in Moscow?

11..The Peshmerga are fighters for what ethnic group?

12.."Please hear my cry, and let your arrow fly' Who?

13.."Les Contes d'Hoffman" composer?

 

[rbny1]

10. McDonald's
13. Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann is a wonderfully melodic opera.

 

[Waquoit]

1. Thomas
4. Nyad
2. Cupid

 

[wire chief]

1. Thomas
4. Nyad
2. Cupid

12.. the artist, please?

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Nyad
10. McDonald's
11. Kurds

 

[JRRRJ]

2..Steamboat on the Hudson.
4..Naiad(sp?) Women hold many of the long-distance swimming records.

 

[Zorro]

To celebrate the US Open (and Tiff's fine game yesterday), we offer this.

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..Manfred, mebbe?

5. Caliph, bad cess to him!

11. Kurds, may they prosper.

13.Jacques Offenbach

 

[DriveLH]

12. Sam Cook

 

[geordi]

1. Manfred
3. Painter , renaissance. 1500s
4. Nyad
9. Jerusalem
12. Cupid, draw back your bow

 

[k9fanatic]

3. Renaissance artist / painter
4. Nyad
6. Elvis
12. Cupid -- Sam Cooke with others following

 

[Waquoit]

12.. the artist, please?

The Spinners

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Strassbourg

 

[wire chief]

The Spinners

a decade before the Spinners

 

[Zorro]

There was a very nice little Broadway musical called The Happiest Girl in the World, which was loosely based on Lysistrata and had lyrics set to music from Tales of Hoffman.

 

[wire chief]

1..Waq has the founder of Wendys and the German writer.

2..True, JR, a nice river adventure for an early steamboat.

3..16thC painter, so say K9 & grordi

4..So many remember the swimmer; the VAUC 4 with Nyad.

5..He replaces Maliki, where?(Caliph doesn't do it.)

6..K9 scores with Elvis.

7..The Pueblo Indians

8..Ed4 gives us Strasbourg.

9..Jewish Quarter of old Jerusalem--thanks to geordi.

10..Rbny knows they are Golden Arches.

11..Zorro & VAUC mind their Kurds and whey.

12..Ya gotta mention Sam Cooke, as do Drive & K9.

13..Can't fool rbny on serious music.