OT: General knowledge test #479A

[wire chief]

Leftover stuff: Q1..Stephanie Plumbago(a plant); Q25..Cowboy Junkies

Please do not reprint questions nor research them.

1..One who is qualified only on small planes or part of some stoves.

2..The 1st flic in Cinemascope?

3..What was William Durant doing in 1908?

4..The line nobody could understand: Blinded by the Light...

5..Ellen Mackay marries a songwriter(?).

6..The line in My Last Duchess that is reminiscent of Madame Bovary?

7..Jerry ________spaniel

8..Our Prez nominates Eric Fanning for..?

9..Agamemnon's family?

10..One word term in everyday language for "cognitive dissonance"?

11..What kind of man was Boaz before he married(but not afterwards)?

12..What famous actor began with 1915's "Pool Sharks"?

13..In 1777 the Brits beat us at..? The next month we return the favor.

 

[johnnyc]

5. Irving Berlin
11. Ruthless
13. Saratoga

 

[pinotbear]

4. I always heard it as "wrapped up like a , another runner in the night" - my understanding is that a is some sort of Scottish ghost or spirit.
7. Jerry Springer Spaniel

 

[rbny1]

3. William Crapo (how do you like that for a middle name?) Durant founded General Motors that year.
8. He nominated Fanning for secretary of the army. If confirmed, Fanning would be the first openly gay person to head one of the nation's armed services.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Pilot
3. Designing the Titanic
4. .....In the middle of the night
7. Springer
8. Secretary of the Army

 

[OneTrickPony]

3. Durant formed General Motors in a roll-up attempt in the automotive industry. Widely thought to be the first move of its kind in manufacturing, he was actually emulating EI Dupont de Nemours roll-up of the dynamite industry a century earlier.

9. Brother-in-law to the first Kardashian (Helen, I think her name was)...married to Clytemnestra, father to Iphigenia and brother to Menelaus the Lucky...

10. Politics...

 

[wire chief]

1. Pilot
3. Designing the Titanic
4. .....In the middle of the night
7. Springer
8. Secretary of the Army

1..You're halfway home.

 

[UcMiami]

1. Pilot Light (didn't bother adding it to an individual post, but if you insist! )

 

[ed4ourgirls]

2. The Robe.

 

[Zorro]

9. Clytemnestra his wife, Electra and Ephigenia, daughters, Orestes, son, Menelaus, brother, Helen, sister in law..

 

[wire chief]

6.."She had a heart--how shall I say_ too soon made glad. Too easily impressed."
Take it from there, me buckos.

10.. The state of Nervous Norvis' corpsuckles(sic).

12..Preferred death to being in Philadelphia, it is said.

 

[hoopingcrane]

12..W.C. Fields

 

[meyers7]

4. Wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night. (like a little deuce coupe) Blinded By the Light (Bruce Springsteen) (but most know it as done by Manfred Mann)

 

[wire chief]

1..UcM was to leave VAUC hanging off the wing, but, on prodding, decided to cease holding back. Freud would have labeled him "anal retentive".

2..Ed4 gives his Robe, probably to the Salvation Army.

3..Rbny & Pony are our resident motorheads.

4..I was mistaken, in that 3 of you knew the unfathomable line.

5..JC throws rice.

6..The easily impressed Madame Bovary messed around.

7..Pinot & VAUC are up on sleazy TV hosts and other breeds.

8..VAUC & rbny tell us he's likely the next boss of the army and pledges to draft only gays.

9..Pony & zorro show us that he had a big family, although they left out Tiny Tim and Soupy Sales.

10..Cognitive dissonance is holding belief A, which is then confronted by evidence of a contradictory belief B, simply a state of CONFUSION.

11..JC says before marrying Ruth, he was, of course, ruthless. One of those bible jokes people like to tell. Yuk, yuk.

12..Hoop knows what it feels like to be dead instead of being in Philadelphia.

13..JC's back talking about a famous race track, once the setting for pugnaciousness.

 

[ndmb]

4. Revved up like a deuce

 

[meyers7]

4..I was mistaken, in that 3 of you knew the unfathomable line.

Crap, we all missed it. Heard it today, "Let loose like a Deuce, another runner in the night".

 

[wire chief]

Crap, we all missed it. Heard it today, "Let loose like a Deuce, another runner in the night".

No, n0."Blinded by the light,
Make me feel real loose
Like a long-necked goose
Oh, baby, hit me with a deuce,
Another runner in the night.
That's what I like!"

 

[VAUConnFan]

No, n0."Blinded by the light,
Make me feel real loose
Like a long-necked goose
Oh, baby, hit me with a deuce,
Another runner in the night.
That's what I like!"

There's a guy singer who died in a BE35 that crashed in an Iowa cornfield turning over in his grave right now.

 

[wire chief]

There's a guy singer who died in a BE35 that crashed in an Iowa cornfield turning over in his grave right now.

And may God have mercy on his rotating soul.