OT: General knowledge test #450A

[wire chief]

We dedicate this to Tina & Kiah soon swatting ill-advised shots.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..In 1634 who sends colonists to Maryland?

2..Who is predicted to be, "Screaming at the servants day and night"?

3..What ancient ruin is Jordan's biggest tourist attraction.

4..What assassinated El Salvador cleric has just been beatified?

5.."And what about Naomi?"

6.."Book him, Danno."

7..Mozart's comic opera, CFT?

8..Who refuses to accept his Oscar in '73?

9..What branch oversees the Article 32 hearing?

10..In what city did Beethoven die?

11..Since the 30's 19 states allowed this kind of racing, but 12 eventually did away with it.

12..The South American countries which don't have a border with Brazil?

13..In 1824 the Louisiana Purchase is divided into..?

 

[johnnyc]

4. Archbishop Oscar Romero
8. Marlon Brando

 

[rbny1]

7. Cosi Fan Tutte
10. Bonn?
11. Dog racing?

 

[Wally East]

6. What Steve said on Hawaii-50 when arresting someone

10. Salzburg

12. Chile is one of them.

 

[heavyhusky]

1) Lord Baltimore ?
3) Petra
4) Romero
6) Steve (Jack Lord's character) in Hawaii 5-0
7) Cosi Fan Tutte
8) Brando

 

[pinotbear]

2. Tevyev's wife, "If [he] were a rich man".

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. King William
6. Hawaii 5-0, what McGarret often said to his cohort Danny Williams.
8. Marlon Brando; A woman named Sasheen Littlefeather accepted for him. I do not recall the fallout, but it was substantial.
10. London
11. Dog racing
12. Chile, Columbia

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - Tevye's wife in Fiddler on the Roof. A local actor / singer included "If I were a Rich Man" in his show last Monday.
6 - as others said, from Hawaii 5-0
11 - dog racing? We have it in AZ, I think, but it isn't popular.

 

[crownfox2]

1. French Hugenots

 

[k9fanatic]

3. Petra
6. What Steve McGarret says to Det. Danny Williams when making an arrest on Hawaii Five-O
8. Marlon Brando -- to protest Hollywood's portrayal of Native Americans.
9. Military court, so I'm guessing executive branch?
10. Vienna
12. Chile and Ecuador

 

[wire chief]

1..An apparently Heavy question, as only one of you got Lord Baltimore.

2..Pinot & Knight would be pleased for their respective wives also, but alas.

3..Hopefully ISIS doesn't destroy Petra, for heavy & K9 have the camel franchise there.

4..You don't often get an Oscar without a Felix, but JC & heavy say so here.

5..If your yunguns stayed in front of the TV after Sesame Street in the '70's, they were treated to The Electric
Company, wherein this question was constantly asked as a non-sequitur.

6..The Wally Quartet exclaim, "Praise the Lord, for he smote the sinners".

7..Rbny and heavy and Mozart practice their Italian. K9 knows Italian but flubbed this one.

8..K9 & VAUC offer added details. Heavy is lazier.

9..Sarah and Harm's group(?)

11..Hey, c'mon, it's greyhound racing, not just any dog.

10..In Wien..say what? OK, K9 has it.

12..K9's gottem both, Ecuador & Chile.

13..City of Orleans, District of Louisiana.

 

[pinotbear]

9. ah, JAG. Cool.

 

[wire chief]

And JAG finds you innocent of all charges.