OT: General knowledge test #443A

[wire chief]

Yes, your indefatigable testmeister is at it again.

Please do no research nor reprint questions.

1..What has been the major complaint about Alibaba?

2..What is "Tommy John" surgery?

3..The KGB was to Russia as..? was to E. Germany.

4..In what nation are there 2.2M meth addicts and 9 of 10 executions for drug smuggling?

5.."So if I call you, don't make a fuss. Don't tell your friends about the 2 of us."

6..Who am I, if I'm badder than ol' King Kong; meaner than a ________ ___?

7..Before running in '52 & '56 Adlai was governor of..?.

8..For a few seasons now we've seen Honeysuckle Weeks where?

9..The French are stern that their political system is built on "laicite"(?).

10..He(?) changed his name to Kwame Toure.

11..Prominent university(?) just banned professor/undergraduate hanky-panky.

12..Congress has decided to set aside 9/24 to host whom?

13..What are Josefina Vidal and Roberta Jacobson discussing?

 

[pinotbear]

1. He hangs out with a disreputable crowd - upwards of 40 thieves.
2. Essentially, a transplant of a - tendon? (might be ligament) - in a pitcher's throwing arm, replacing the damaged one from his arm with a healthy one from elsewhere in his body. Named after former pitcher, Tommy John, who was the first player to have notable success with the procedure.
6. Leroy Brown
11. Harvard
12. Netanyahu (sp?)

 

[wire chief]

1. He hangs out with a disreputable crowd - upwards of 40 thieves.
2. Essentially, a transplant of a - tendon? (might be ligament) - in a pitcher's throwing arm, replacing the damaged one from his arm with a healthy one from elsewhere in his body. Named after former pitcher, Tommy John, who was the first player to have notable success with the procedure.
6. Leroy Brown
11. Harvard
12. Netanyahu (sp?)

1..The lack of a space between Ali and baba means you must search elsewhere.
12..Nah, he's coming sooner.

 

[rbny1]

3. Stasi
6. "meaner than a junkyard dog"
7. Illinois

 

[RegisteredUconn]

2. Elbow surgery featuring a transplanted cadaver tendon.
3. Stasi.
6. Leroy Brown/junkyard dog.
7. Illinois.
12. Netanyahu.

 

[Waquoit]

5. I'm Not in Love, 10cc
8. She's Sam, in Foyle's War. Best mystery show of all time.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Elbow surgery famously performed on pitcher, Tommy John, that enabled him to continue his career. IMO, the surgery may have been responsible for the movement on his slow but ridiculously effective fastball. the surgery itself, though, involves taking tendons from another part of the body and grafting it to the elbow.
6. You would be Bad Bad Leroy Brown and you would be meaner than a junkyard dog.
7. Illinois
10. Stokely Carmichael
12. Benjamin Netanyahou

 

[VAUConnFan]

12. The Pope

 

[geordi]

2. It's a graft of a tendon from another part of the body to replace the ligament in the pitcher's elbow.
3. Stasi
6. Leroy Brown
7. Illinois

 

[wire chief]

3. Stasi
6. "meaner than a junkyard dog"
7. Illinois

Rbny, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! You know a pop tune. I'm aghast!

 

[rbny1]

Rbny, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! You know a pop tune. I'm aghast!

It's not that I don't know any pop music. I do know about one millionth of one percent of it. The phrase "meaner than a junkyard dog" is hard not to know. I also know "Eleanor Rigby died..."; I just don't know what words come next.

 

[meyers7]

2. Elbow surgery for pitchers. Though I suppose it could be for anyone. First performed on Tommy John, pitcher for the Dodgers.
6. meaner than a Junkyard Dog. One Leroy Brown from the southside of Chicago. Though not as bad as a jealous man.
7. Mr Stevenson was from my home state of Illinois. And as all other democrats from there was corrupt, inept and ultimately a loser.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - not exclusively for pitchers as everyone touts, although that is most famous. I think I recently heard of a quarter-back (or possibly NBA'er) having Tommy John surgery.
6 - Bad Bad Leroy Brown was made famous by the late Jim Croce, I assume among others.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2 - not exclusively for pitchers as everyone touts, although that is most famous. I think I recently heard of a quarter-back (or possibly NBA'er) having Tommy John surgery.
6 - Bad Bad Leroy Brown was made famous by the late Jim Croce, I assume among others.

You might be thinking about Richard Sherman.

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot tries thievery, but the company is Chinese version of Amazon.com, if that helps.

2..You take the reight one out; you put the left one in. You do the Hokey-P...oh, never mind.
Pinot & 3 others are most complete.

3..Rbny, Reg & geordi say "Stasi". Wasn't that an actor named Keach? I could be confused.

4..Still reluctant to guess, huh.? The Knesset thinks it most likely to blow them up.

5..Waq insists it's just infatuation, a phase he's going through, so he took 2 aspirin...10cc with I'M NOT IN LOVE.

6..I hate to be the one who tells rbny, but Father Mckensie gave the eulogy and NOBODY CAME.
Anyway, the rbny 5, often acting piecemeal, tell us it's Jim Croce singing of Leroy Brown, that junkyard dog facsimile.

7..Now meyers, acting like the spokesperson of those to the far right of the Tea Party, throws a bunch of dead Democrats under the bus.
His quartet indicate Illinois.

8..Waq has good taste, both for Sam and the show. This season it's on Acorn TV.

9..Pick a word that sort of the opposite of "theocracy".

10..VAUC enlightens us to Stokely's identity shift.

11..Pinot tends to be our resident go-to about all things New Englandy--Harvard.

12..Yup, its the well-traveled Papa, writes VAUC.

13..They represent 2 countries(?) chatting about changing their current status.

 

[wire chief]

I forgot to summarize. There's 4 here that need work.

 

[meyers7]

7..Now meyers, acting like the spokesperson of those to the far right of the Tea Party, throws a bunch of dead Democrats under the bus.
His quartet indicate Illinois.

They're not all dead, lot of them are in jail.

 

[DriveLH]

It's not that I don't know any pop music. I do know about one millionth of one percent of it. The phrase "meaner than a junkyard dog" is hard not to know. I also know "Eleanor Rigby died..."; I just don't know what words come next.

".. in the church and was buried along with her name."

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Meritocracy

 

[wire chief]

9. Meritocracy

That's a worthy guess, but no.

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Atheistocracy
9. Agnosticracy
9. Democracy
9. Aristocracy
It is quite possible the fist two guesses do not exist as words in our language; Highly probable even.

 

[wire chief]

9. Atheistocracy
9. Agnosticracy
9. Democracy
9. Aristocracy
It is quite possible the fist two guesses do not exist as words in our language; Highly probable even.

You seem like a fellow who needs to be put out of his misery--SECULARISM

 

[wire chief]

1..Fake goods

4..Iran

13..Cuba & US