OT: General knowledge test #446A

[wire chief]

1..According to Wolfgang, what happened to Seraglio?

2..In what recent year did B'way musicals go dark with a 4 day musicians strike?

3..Related to WW2 what was Operation Paperclip?

4..#1 killer of African teens?

5.."Flora or Hob in the Well"

6..Why are some considering ex- Red Soxer Curt Schilling a hero?

7.."Lonely days are gone; I'm-a goin' home. My baby...?".

8..Artemisinin is the chief drug vs. _______, but is losing effectiveness.

9..General Lucius ____ was a deputy to Ike.

10..Within 5 years when did the Supremes rule that there could be no religious instruction in public schools?

11..What is the place of Gideon in law?

12..When major social change begins to evolve, it will do so with a differernt pace in society's
various institutions (e.g. lots of women in college vs. few in board rooms). Sociologist call this
________ ___.

13..John Stockton played college ball at..?.

 

[rbny1]

1. There was an "Abduction from the Seraglio" in the opera of that name.
9. General Lucius Clay.

 

[johnnyc]

3. Bringing German scientists to USA
7. wrote me a letter
9. Clay
13. Gonzaga

 

[meyers7]

6. Well besides the bloody sock....he took to twitter and such to defend his daughter. Actually more than that, he tracked down a couple guys who made some rather rude comments about her, turned them in to their colleges/fraternities. She is gonna pitch softball somewhere.
7. my baby, she wrote me a letter.
13. I believe he was a Zag.

 

[pinotbear]

4. Aids?

 

[hoopingcrane]

7..wrote me a letter

8. malaria

9..clay

11..Gideon v. Wainwright established the principle that every person charged with a crime is entitled to a lawyer even if they can't afford one.

13.. Gonzaga

 

[k9fanatic]

4. HIV
6. Outed cyber bullies who tweeted crude comments about his teenaged daughter
7. She wrote me a letter -- Box Tops
13. Gonzaga

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. 2007(I'm going to make a guess)
4. Homicide
4. Genocide
7. She wrote me a letter; The Letter - originally by the Box Tops with Joe Cocker covering it brilliantly a couple of years later.
9. Clay?(yes, another guess, not that many others are not also_
10. 1933
13. Gonzaga

 

[wire chief]

5..In 1735 it is considered the 1st..? performed in the 13 colonies by Thomas Dogget.

10..Need another guess, of more recent vintage, beyond FDR.

12..The 2 words scrambled: lallatugruc.

 

[geordi]

3. Bringing Werner von Braun and the rest of the German rocket scientists to the US
9. Truscott???
10. 1964
13. Gonzaga

 

[Tidepool]

12. cultural lag (?)

 

[Tidepool]

10. 1956 (?) (I recall prayers in early elem. school)

 

[wire chief]

1..Bad doings at the Seraglio, rbny recalls an Abduction.

2..2003

3..JC & geordi tell us that German scientists, wholesome and not, were secreted to the US to prevent Russians getting their expertise.

4..HIV-AIDS would do it--K9 & Pinot.

5..Opera

6..He turned sterling sleuth, see meyers & K9

7..Why would anyone send mail to a box top? Sounds mentally ill. JC leads a quintet.

8..Hoop alone has malaria(no, he's not infected)

9..Henry Clay begets Red Clay who begets Lucius Clay who begets Cassius...Oh never mind. Rbny + 3.

10..1948

11..Hoop with a succinct description.

12..Tide's got it--cultural lag.

13..The VAUC quintet just knows too much about MEN'S college bball.