OT: General knowledge test #441A

[wire chief]

As I type, Bette Midler reminds me that, "God is watching us from a distance". You'll find
here that I don't flirt with the 7 Deadly Sins.

Make sure you do so too by not researching nor reprinting questions.

1..Link Peter, Paul & Mary with Paul Simon on the matter of a workbench tool.

2..A Jean Brillat-Saverin book from the 19thC is considered the bible for..?

3..Anthony D. Romero is exec director of..?

4..In 2013 the Supreme court kills DOMA(?).

5.."Eminent Domain" in Nebraska is in the news. Explain.

6..The 1st American city to pass a preservation ordinance to protect an historic district.

7..The Little Muddy River flows into the larger..?.

8..What are the disciplines Sam Cooke, "Don't know much about"?

9..Meaning of "clearing leather"?

10..After Bogart she(?) marries..?.

11..Stars in Milky Way: 10M, 100M, 3B, 30B, 300B, 1/2T?

12..If Romney hadn't changed his mind, he may have been viewed as the reincarnation of
Harold Stassen. Explain.

13..What is "natal homing"?

 

[geordi]

1. PPM had a hammer and Paul Simon nailed it ??
5. They want to take public and private property for the Alaska pipeline
7. Missouri River
8, history, trigonometry, algebra, slide rules
9. Drawing a gun (from a holster, of course)
13. Spawning - like salmon

 

[Waquoit]

1. Hammer (PP&M-If I Had a Hammer, PS-El Condor Pasa)
2. Cooking
4. Defense of Marriage Act
5. Keystone Pipeline would require the taking of much land in the state
8. History, Biology, French, Trigonometry
12. 3-time losing candidate for President

 

[wire chief]

Both geordi and Waq, some of your responses are just too frugal.

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..both would rather have a hammer

3..ACLU

4..Defense of Marriage Act.

5..Proposed to be used to take land for Keystone pipeline

7.. Missouri

8..biology, science, history

12..Perennial candidate for President.

 

[crownfox2]

10. Jason Robards

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. If I had a hammer, I 'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
4. Overturned a state law in one of the states that chose to adopt such a law(obviously just shooting for partial credit here)
6. New York
8. History, biology, trigonometry, science books, the French he took
11. 300 billion and counting
13. One would imagine(or in my case, guess) the instinct found in certain species that enable them to return to their birthplace; An instinct found n carrier pigeons, salmon, sea turtles...

 

[VAUConnFan]

Both geordi and Waq, some of your responses are just too frugal.

In defense of frugal answers(DOFA), speaking for myself, there are often so few answers about which we can respond, we need natal homing to navigate the little muddy rivers that are your challenging knowledge tests. But, like Harold Stassen, we do not let defeat deter us as we gaze skyward toward the many(?) stars that comprise the Milky Way.

 

[meyers7]

4. long story short, an English/language problem. Congress and Clinton had passed a law (DOMA) to codify the definition of marriage as to what it has always been throughout history. The Supreme Court came in and said no you can't define words. Anybody can define them anyway they want. I figure people will eventually figure out that now one (or a minority) can redefine a word to mean whatever they want. Words like murder, rape, robbery, domestic abuse, racism, will be redefined to mean something else. Hence no one will get in trouble anymore.
6. I'll guess Philly
7. Where I grew up, the Little Muddy goes into the Big Muddy, which goes into the Mississippi.
8. history, biology, French, and maybe a couple others I can't remember

 

[k9fanatic]

4. Defense of Marriage Act
8. History, biology, science, French
10. Jason Robards

 

[crownfox2]

10. re-read question....Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards

 

[geordi]

Both geordi and Waq, some of your responses are just too frugal.

Not sure which one you meant.
5. relates to the Keystone pipeline that the Repubs vow to get through Congress - likely over Obama's objection.
13. Spawning - salmon return to the stream where they were born to spawn, then they die (if not beforehand in the jaws of a bear) returning home to procreate???

 

[wire chief]

1..VAUC & Waq with the most complete responses; others hammer out lazier replies.

2..Yes to Waq, among the mouth-watering foodies who follow the guru.

3..Hooping sends his donations faithfully to the ACLU.

4..Meyers has an interesting take here, though one subject to the I CAN'T HELP MYSELF FROM TAKING IDEOLOGICAL POSITIONS stance. Waq & Hooping also cite Defense of Marriage Act.

5..Yeah, several farmers/ranchers don't want industry poking under their land with a pipeline. Geordi quartet enlightens us.

6..A 1920's dance craze.

7..The wiiiiiide Missouri works--meyers, giordi, hooping.

8..Among the K9 quintet you got it covered, even to the slide rule, which, I imagine, has fallen away from the ken of all of us.

9..Giordi has been sent to us from the old West to explain drawing your gun from your leather holster.

10..Crown rereads and scores, but all forget he was a Jr.

11..Can you picture VAUC in his back yard, looking up, pointing and reciting, "1, 2, 3, 4,..?

12..Waq & hoop remember the long ago candidate who did not know when to quit.

13..Sea turtles, pigeons, salmon, all with the calming voice on their dashboards--geordi & VAUC.

 

[VAUConnFan]

6. Charleston