OT: General knowledge test #251

[JRRRJ]

1..A (taste?) most sweet
2..Excellent, fair and eh! apples
3..outlanders
5..Tibet
7..Thailand
9..Northwest Territories
10..Art is long, life is short. Excelsior!
11.....When I'm feeling bad..." My Favorite Things
12..amygdala, seat of emotion

 

[JRRRJ]

15..Dept Of Justice
16..made, world, little, better
17..even
20..pocket veto
22..news kiosk-ette?

Well, if you're giving clues:
23..Cape Buffalo
24..Proverbs

 

[wire chief]

..Parcheesi!!...oh, it's been ages.

2..Apples...which prompted variety voting. VAUC plus 4.

1..A little, but slowly (or haltingly). "Softly" seems vague. VAUC.

3..Several of you with non-Greeks, foreigners, outlanders.

4..VAUC weighs in again with New Orleans.

5..NCor alone with India.

6..Fats Domino; a trio, including geordi.

7..Cambodian temple complex, Heavy plus 3.

8..NCor with Warner Bros.

9..Moose joins us with Nflnd and Lab. And yes, that's just one province.

10..Art is Long??? Talk about unimaginative translations.

11..JR & Pinot among a quintet with My Favorite Things (when I'm feeling sad)

12..Heavy, NCor & JR with the amygdala.

13..Moose is back, jumping a Hurdle to get it right.

Das ist genug fur jetzt.

 

[wire chief]

Hier bin ich wieder.

14..VAUC's 1985 works for Regis & Kathie Lee, but he's been broadcasting since '62.

15..Fair has the Viet Memorial.

16..UPink (who just came home finally) with The Old Lamplighter "He made the night a little brighter".

17..Evening, nightfall, dusk, twilight, getting dark...shall I go on?

18..(Yakov)Smirnoff, heavy, fair, VAUC.

19..Rbny and 2 others with stere.

20..Pinot among a trio with pocket veto.

21..NCor with the Reeve's Tale.

22..Several with kiosk, and yes, there are photography kiosks.

23..Why are you surprised, JR? I'm known for clue-generosity. Cape buffalo is big and mean.

24..And JR also gives us Proverbs.

25..Fair, NCor & geordi complete us with Daniel Dafoe.

Auf wiedersehen

 

[vtcwbuff]

A nit to pick

#9 Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949 as Newfoundland not Newfoundland and Labrador. The name was changed to Newfoundland and Labrador just recently.

 

[Moose]

A nit to pick

#9 Newfoundland entered the Canadian Confederation in 1949 as Newfoundland not Newfoundland and Labrador. The name was changed to Newfoundland and Labrador just recently.

Okay, you win - I just went there, and the locals like to respect often-forgotten Labrador so I like to give Labrador a shoutout when I can too. Incidently, the moose own Newfoundland. I liked the question, wirechief: given my recent trip + my handle!