OT: General knowledge test #480A

[wire chief]

At 5am I performed a central Florida ritual, i.e, I opened my windows for the 1st time since late May, as our projected dawn temp was 69 degrees. Finally!

My weather may have changed but not our rules. No reprinting questions and no research please.

1..Link Elizabeth Taylor to Paul Simon.

2..Johan Sebastian's keyboard had an outstanding personality. Say what?

3..Account for dentist William Morton's fame after 1846.

4..The Chicago Bulls' center has a dad who won a Slam. Explain.

5.."Let's kill him(?) boldly, but not wrathfully.
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods." Speaker?

6..Whose museum does one visit in Winsted, Ct?

7..In Oracle, Az in the early '90's, 4 men & 4 women take part in an experiment. Explain.

8..The film with the very 1st NC-17 rating?

9..What was the Meuse-Argonne offensive?

10..Heather Whitestone, Miss America 1994 had a distinctive feature(?).

11..In 1965 NBC initiated 2 blockbuster comedy series(?).

12..Our 1st Attorney General?

13.."The dog that didn't bark."

 

[johnnyc]

1. They both starred in the film 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
9. It was the American section of a larger offensive in World War 1.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Liz was once married to Carrie Fisher's father. The question now is whose marriage lasted longer, Simon's to Ms Fisher or Taylor's to Eddie Fisher.
2. Believed in magic?
4. Joachim Noah's father is Yannick Noah who won the French Open in ???
5. Jeffrey Dahmer
5. Hannibal Lector
8. Midnight Cowboy
11. I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart

 

[johnnyc]

1. They both starred in the film 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

whoops.....scratch that.....wrong Paul.....just saw Cat On A Hot Tin Roof recently.

 

[pinotbear]

7. Biodome living experiment, where they were trying to live 100% contained and sustainable.

 

[rbny1]

5. Brutus speaking of his plan to assassinate Caesar in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
6. Ralph Nader plans to open (has already opened? I'm not sure) a museum of the history of tort law in Winsted, his hometown. The museum will sing the praises of famous tort cases and will display a Chevy Corvair, "unsafe at any speed."

 

[UcMiami]

9. follow on to jonnyc - it was the beginning of the final offensive in WWI.
13. It is a device in many mystery stories - either because the assumed time of the murder is incorrect, or because the 'stranger' is actually known to the dog. Was it used in Hounds of the Baskervilles? (I know I am forgetting a signficant work here! Very frustrating!)
(It is also a term for a bad line of inquiry - referring to a dead end, as in 'that dog won't bark' - a hunting dog that has no scent.)

 

[Atleast5char]

1..Elizabeth was married to Eddie Fisher, who is Carrie Fisher's father, and Carrie was married to Paul Simon.

10..She was deaf?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

7 - actually, Biosphere II is the name of the location in Oracle. It is still in research use, I believe, and tours are available. In the experiment queried, Pinotbear has it.

12 - Edmund Randolph, IIRC. It was an original cabinet position.

13 - UcMiami has it, a "clue" in the mystery is that the dog didn't bark when it ought to have. Goes back to Sherlock Holmes, although I'm not sure the Hound of the Baskervilles is the right story.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. I think he may have been the first dentist to use chloroform.

13. I think the relevant Holmes story is "Silver Blaze".

 

[wire chief]

2..Let's take this in baby steps. What's Johan's last name? What was his keyboard?
What famous series comes from that?

8..Involving author Henry Miller.

 

[UcMiami]

2..Let's take this in baby steps. What's Johan's last name? What was his keyboard?
What famous series comes from that?

8..Involving author Henry Miller.

8. Tropic of Cancer

 

[geordi]

4. Joakim Noah. His father, Yannick, won the French Open.
5. Caesar. From Act II Shakespeare IIRC
7. Been there. Really cool. It was originally an experiment in communal living that lasted for 2 or three years, I think. The people were sealed in and had to be self sufficient. Now, it belongs to the Univ of AZ, and is in use as a Biosphere studying ecology, Temperature, etc. effects on plants from various areas of the world. Has a rain forest, a desert , a jungle, etc. in sections within it.
9. The Battle of the Bulge

 

[Zorro]

3. I think he may have been the first dentist to use chloroform.

13. I think the relevant Holmes story is "Silver Blaze".

Yup. "The strange behavior of the dog in the nighttime."

 

[wire chief]

1..VAUC & Atl, who called off their wedding plans, after being traumatized by all the divorces going around.

2..Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.

3..Ed4 mixes up his drugs, no wonder he has trouble with the simplest tasks of everyday life; it was ether.

4..Geordi & VAUC at least know stuff about sports.

5..Ol' Willie originates "a dish fit for the gods"; rbny & geordi wish they would eat better.

6..Rbny identifies Ralph Nader and is finally motivated to donate his Corvair.

7..You can still hear geordi screaming to be let out. A grinning Pinot's got the keys.

8..Henry and June--you mugs need to see more sleazy flics.

9..JC & UcM love to tell war stories.

10..Atl has conspicuous problems in life being certain of what she knows, but the self-described lassie is OK here.

11..Stuck-in-the-sixties VAUC has them both.

12..Nobody knows more useless trivia than Knight, though I suspect he's incompetent at
Wheel of Fortune..

13..To UcM, if you've seen one hound, you've seen 'em all, but then 3 posters rightfully bite him.