OT: General knowledge test #454A

[wire chief]

Our players may have earned a rest, but not us. Here's 25 things left to do.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..Seventies hit song: on a breezy day Buffy smites another.

2..Captain William Bligh is set adrift. Who played him against Clark Gable?

3..What is the Grover Norquist pledge?

4..Why is the American Psychological Association on the hot seat?

5..Within 20 years when did England/Scotland become "Britain"?

6..Four Alaska cities rank highest in US land area. Name them.

7..Explain Marilyn J Mosby as a recent newsmaker.

8..Who was once Kunta Kinte?

9.."Lord, you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way." And group?

10..In 1670 what king charters the Hudson Bay Co?

11..Wheels appear independently in several cultures about how many years ago?

12..And speaking of wheels, what are the 5 other simple machines?

13..In 1921 what state legislates the 1st sales tax?

 

[geordi]

2. Victor MacLaughlin, I think
3. repeal taxes
6. Nome, Anchorage, Ketchican, Juneau
8. LaVar Burton (hell, I can't miss this one, can I)
10. Charles II of England

 

[hoopingcrane]

2.. Charles Laughton

3..Don't vote for tax increases

4..worked on torture techniques during Bush years

5..1700

7..Baltimore district attorney indicted police officers

8..Levar Burton

10..Charles II

11..5500

12..lever, pulley, wedge, screw and ?

 

[johnnyc]

9. Blue Sky - Allman Brothers

 

[OneTrickPony]

2..Charles Laughton...

3..Never to raise taxes...

5..Just after the beginning of the 18th Century...1705-10 or thereabouts...

8..Levar Burton and John Amos...

9..Allman Brothers...

10..Charles II...England, of course...

12..Screw, lever and fulcrum, inclined plane, wedge, and pulley...although I like to think of the screw and the wedge as just applications of the inclined plane...

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. No more taxes.
7. She is the Baltimore County prosecutor
8. Toby in Roots who begat Kizzy who begat Chicken George who begat Tom the blacksmith who begat
Cynthia who begat Bertha who begat Alex Haley who wrote Roots, IMO, his second best book.
11. 2500
13. New Jersey

 

[VAUConnFan]

8. If you are looking for the actors who played Toby/Kunta Kinte they would be LeVar Burton and John Amos.

 

[wire chief]

1..What form does a vampire take when staked?

6..Anchorage & Juneau work--2 more please, W & S.

13.."Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye."

 

[OneTrickPony]

13.."Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye."...West Virginia, then...

 

[ed4ourgirls]

5. Act of Union 1707.
11. I'll guess 5000.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Chief, if yer lookin' for "Dust in the Wind", by Kansas .. well, that's a bit of a stretch!
6. Fairbanks and Seward?

 

[SoCalCanine]

13. West Virginia (I can take a hint!)

 

[SoCalCanine]

1. "Another One Bites The Dust"?

 

[wire chief]

1.. SoCal's contribution does not reflect breeziness, but I like it anyway.
Now Pinot uses perspicacity, sagacity, and mendacity to come up with the Kansas tune, then a silly ol' bear
sadly undermines his alter ego's genius. A correct gleaning can't be a stretch, by definition, if it is figured out.

2..Hoop and pony finger the overweight Brit.

3..It's a geordi 4some who correctly note the guy's against taxes. He better take care, or he'll wind up
similar to Wesley Snipes. That goes for the 4 of you, too.

4..Hoop writes that the APA turned rather unacademic.

5..Ed4 is damn accurate. If only he could balance his checkbook that well. Pony & hoop are OK also.

6..Wrangell & Sitka.

7..Now VAUC, that someone is a prosecutor is not, by itself, newsworthy.
Hoop's got it.

8..Loads of you have not turned your backs on your Roots.

9..JC is most complete, despite his rainy-day personality.

10..Pony & hoop pinpoint the guy who said, "A ship, a ship, my kingdom for a ship!" Um, I may have that wrong.

11..Yes to 55oo, and old-timer hoop was there. Incidently, so was Fats Domino, who sang, "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday". Ed4 found that his application for a patent came 500 years too late.

12..Hoop's parents always berated him. "You'll never get anywhere in life, if you don't use your fulcrum."
Pony had no such problems, besides independent thinking, which caused the Internationl Fans of
Albert Einstein to roundly and soundly condemn him.

13..SoCal & pony exploit my clever hint.