OT: General knowledge test #459A

[wire chief]

As the WNBA begins, we dedicate this to Kiah and Kaleena's success.

Please do no research nor reprint questions.

1..Emanuel Leutze gave us what famous painting?

2..In 1922 who dedicates the Lincoln Memorial?

3..A discontinued car named for a Spanish explorer?

4..In 1982 Spain becomes the 16th member of..?

5..Johnny Mathis' 1st hit?

6..The ringgit is whose money?

7..What animal kills the most humans?

8..California and some other states have a "gang enhancement law"(?).

9..No major city is as far from its capital as is..?

10..What was the LAD OF SUNNYBANK series?

11..On the Chesapeake, he(?) is dying and says, "Don't give up the ship".

12..What 2 states enter the Union on June 1st, 4 years apart?

13..Describe Sunny's eyes when she gets blue.

 

[Gus Mahler]

3. De Soto

 

[johnnyc]

5. Chances Are?
11. Captain James Lawrence

 

[Rocket009]

4..The EU/EEC

 

[reno tony]

2. President Harding
4. NATO
5. A triple
7. world is the mosquito US is deer

 

[Zorro]

3..DeSoto

4..NATO

5..Unchained Melody?

7. Human beings.

10; Albert Payson Terhune writing true(?) biographies of some of the collies he had had at Sunnybank Farms. Lad, Wolf, Buff and many more. My sister and I read them all when we were kids.l

11..Cpt. Lawrence.

13..Grey and cloudy.

 

[rbny1]

1. Washington Crossing the Delaware

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. Washington Crossing the Delaware.
6. Malaysia

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Warren g. Harding
3. De Soto
4. European Union
5. Wonderful Wonderful
7. Dogs
9. San Diego is from Sacramento
11. John Paul Jones

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - Washington Crossing the Deleware
3 - De Soto
4- EU
11 - Lawrence

OK - I don't like to re-answer when others have, but I was so excited reading the questions - I knew some. Lately, Herr Testmeister has been way, way beyond me.

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny, ed4 & Knight are shipshape with Washington foolishly standing.

2..Actually, not a Prez, but one with substantial weight nonetheless.

3..The Zorro Quintet ride off into the sunset in the De Soto.

4..Reno & zorro type in NATO.

5..VAUC alone is just doubly Wonderful...like Lawrence Welk.

6..How can anyone know Malaysian money? Ed4, champion of the really obscure.

7..Reno has the welts and the malaria and the yellow fever and...to prove it.

8..Refers to holding gang members responsible for acts that lead to crime. E. g. A Crips
paints a anti-Bloods mural that leads to a shoot out. The painter, not on the scene, is charged anyway.

9..We're thinking worldwide. The capital is Moscow, and thousands of miles east is..?

10..See zorro as to why he didn't get enough sun.

11..JohnnyC, zorro, & Knight provide Capt. James Lawrence.

12..Both border Virginia.

13..Zorro seems to provide a weather forecast.

Fix 2, 9 & 12 please.

 

[pinotbear]

9. Svestapol?

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. William H. Taft
9. Vladivastok
12. North Carolina and Tennessee

 

[hoopingcrane]

9..St. Petersburg

12..Kentucky and the state that must not be mentioned

 

[wire chief]

VAUC is reliable with 2 and 9. Sevastopol? St. Petersburg? Thousands of miles east? Sheesh

For 12 I like hoop's wording.

And that's 12 of 13.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

. . . 6..How can anyone know Malaysian money? Ed4, champion of the really obscure. . .

I collect world banknotes .