OT: General knowledge test #428A

[wire chief]

A day for vets, also including the folks who keep our pets safe.

Kindly refrain from research and reprinting questions.

1..What was the most important result of Rosetta Stone analysis?

2..As soccer teams square off, they are not called contests nor games, but called..?

3..What was the gist of TV's Joan of Arcadia?

4..First Lenin had to defeat..? Then had to send a rival(?) off.

5..Mark Felt's nickname?

6..One judicial decision means that 4 states(?) may keep the ban on gay marriage.

7..Pickett's Charge is part of what battle?

8..Identify Stephan Harper.

9..The pop star who is so fond of Renaissance music that he cut an album of it.

10..Explain the ongoing plight of the Rohingya.

11..Craigellachie, B.C. has fame for an event, comparable to something that happened in Utah.
Explain.

12..Jimmy Page leaves ____i___ for ___ _____i_.

13..Where is our Prez today?

 

[pinotbear]

2. match, I think
5. Deep Throat
7. Gettysburg
11. Guessing the connection of the trans-Canadian railroad

 

[DriveLH]

12. Yardbirds Led Zepplin

 

[crownfox2]

1. Decyphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Text was in two languages; Egyptian and Greek which was known.
4. First had to defeat the white army and then had to deal with Trotsky who fled to Mexico
6.Appelate decision in Ohio

 

[crownfox2]

6. decision concerned Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Michigan

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Match
3. If I remember correctly, she was a seemingly normal teen who had spiritual/religious visions? Cast consisted of Amber Tamblyn (I think) as Joan, Joe Montagna and Mary Steenburgen as the parents and John Ritter's son as the handicapped brother.
5. Deep Throat
8. Prime minister of Canada, right?
12. Yardbirds for Led Zeppelin
13. China

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

9. Probably the fellow from Jethro Tull, maybe Ian something?, the name totally escapes me.

 

[meyers7]

2. It's a match.
7. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863.
12. Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton) to Led Zeppelin (with Robert Plant, but not for a billion dollars)
13. Looks like he's in space. But I believe it's China.

 

[johnnyc]

2. match
7. Gettysburg
12. Yardbirds - Led Zeppelin

 

[Rocket009]

9. Sting

 

[Rocket009]

2. Match or Fixture - at least in the UK.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Egyptian hieroglyphics could be translated
5. Deep Throat
7. Gettysburg
12. the Yardbirds for Led Zeppelin
13. In China

 

[wire chief]

1..Crown & VAUC indicate the solving of hieroglyphics, thanks to the Greek on the stone.

2..Put your hands together for Rckt, our newest participant, who is in a foursome with "match".

3..You're smirking, aren't you K9?

4..Crown needs the name "Kerensky", otherwise he's spot on.

5..Pinot, K9, & VAUC are in fine voice with Deep Throat.

6..Crown has all 4.

7..Meyers enjoys membership in fourplay with Gettysburg.

8..K9 knows the Canadian PM.

9..Rckt names Sting.

10..A Muslim minority in Myanmar, terribly treated by radical Buddhists(I know, whoever heard of such a group)
and the gov't.

11..And Pinot, you're guessing right...to be precise, the Canadian Pacific.

12..JhnyC & 4 others are up on their pop/rock history.

13..Meyers, VAUC & K9 put the guy in China.