OT: General knowledge test #458A

[wire chief]

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming, emphasizing the diversity of topics.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..The non-human primate which has the longest childhood?

2..This common biological process comes from the Greek, "Putting together with light".

3..Within 10 years when did the NY Stock Exchange begin?

4..Twenty-five million ________ are in the process of being killed in Iowa because of..?

5..In 1937 FDR pushes a button that signals travelers may now use..?

6..The opah is the only known fish that is totally..?

7.."The road is long." Name 2 songs, with artists, that use this statement.

8..Four % of our energy comes from..?

9..In 1993 93 nillion were on hand for..?

10..She was ever "Large" and in time became "Happy". Explain.

11..Clarify: You can't step in the same river twice.

12..Pew research claims 10, 16, 24, 29, 33, or 40% of Americans change their religion.

13..In 1971 Eric Ryback became the 1st to..?

 

[rvwsleep]

1) Chimpanzees ?
2) Photosynthesis
3) 1810 ?
4) Chickens - Bird flu
5) Golden Gate Bridge
6) Warm blooded (saw that on the weather channel on line just the other day)
8) Wind farms ?
12) 29% ? (Most of those that do change affiliations do so within Christian denominations, I believe)


You jump started my brain this morning. Thank You

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Orangutan
2. Photosythesis
3. 1829
4. Chickens, bird flu
7. He Aint Heavy - The Hollies, ???
8. The sun

 

[rbny1]

3. It depends what you mean. The Buttonwood Agreement to which the exchange traces its origins: 1792. Founding of the New York Stock & Exchange Board: 1817. The New York Stock & Exchange Board becomes the New York Stock Exchange: 1863. I know these details because I've done some writing about the exchange.

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. Free Ride - Either Johnathan or Edgar Winter

 

[geordi]

1. Boneyard posters
2. Photosynthesis
6. Warm blooded
8. Wind ???
10 Wasn't Happy Rockefeller's maiden name 'Large' ??
11 Water moves. With each movement the river has changed
12. 40% ???

 

[Wally East]

11. The conditions you encounter the first time you enter a river will not be the same conditions you encounter when entering the same river a second time, and so it is in life. No two situations are the same, even if one appears to duplicate one you have already encountered.

 

[watanabe]

1. Aardvaark. No, wait that's the longest.... never mind.

 

[wire chief]

9..How soon you forget...You were among those millions in front of the TV, and Massachusetts was never the same.

13..And Reese did it in the movies last year.

 

[Wally East]

9. The finale of Cheers
13. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail end-to-end.

 

[wire chief]

1..VAUC's got the big swinging ape from southeast Asia.

2..Green, green, green, sleep, VAUC & geordi say on the far side of the hill. Oh, wait, that's another answer.

3..Rbny is right on the Button(wood) with far more info than I knew.

4..While other posters chicken out, VAUC and sleep contract avian flu.

5..Yes, it's the Golden Gate, and boy does sleep keep proving he knows how to wake up. My tests are better than coffee.

6..Sleep & geordi, both reportedly warm-blooded, though, say their wives, you couldn't tell it in bed.

7..VAUC alone is 1/2 way there. Try this: "The road is long; there are mountains in our way", by Joe & Jen.

8..Sleep & geordi show they're full of hot (and cool) air.

9..Wally rounds the far turn in last place but raises his glass and says...

10..Why is geordi asking me? He's supposed to be ANSWERING.

11..Oh geordi, REALLY? What are you, smarter than a fifth-grader?
You want depth, then see Wally.

12..Sleep & geordi surround it--1/3.

13..Again Wally rises to the hint.

 

[wire chief]

7..I ain't waiting for eternity here. Jennifer Warnes & Joe Cocker, UP WHERE WE BELONG.