General knowlege test #437A

[wire chief]

Subtract Tulsa from SMU and you get 25.

Please no reprinting questions nor research.

1..Roberta Flack and Bad Company each has a 4-word title(?) about snuggling.

2..The Yarlung River changes its names a few times as it flows through which 3 nations?

3..What is Seattle's problem with "Bertha"?

4..Verdi's 1871 premiere of Aida celebrated what?

5..What style of building introduces the flying buttress?

6..What prefix totally changes "10", in that it has nothing to do with numerals?

7..Five Golden Gloves and a career of .338. Who?

8..By what logic does Denmark compete with Canada & Russia in claiming oil rights in the Arctic?

9..Why was Aceh Province in the news a decade ago?

10..The 1st Veep to resign? And under whom?

11..Cohiba, Montechristo & Partagis.

12.."We drank a toast of innocence"

13..The "Reclining Buddha" is the world's longest at 270 ft. Where?

 

[rbny1]

4. The opening of the Suez Canal
5. Gothic cathedral
8. Greenland, a territory of Denmark, reaches well into the Arctic.

 

[mr006]

12. "same old lang syne", dan fogelberg

 

[meyers7]

1. Feel Like Making Love (along with Kid Rock)
12. Danny Fogelberg (the leader of the band's son) 's old lang syne song.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10 - It is probably wrong, but Agnew under Nixon, which gave us Ford, FWIW. I scanned the memory banks and know a number of Veeps didn't serve a full term, but I think they all died in office. Agnew did resign.

 

[Dove]

2. Russia, Mongolia and...China?
3. Bertha is busted.
9. Tsunami?
11. Counts?

 

[crownfox2]

11. Cuban cigars

 

[wire chief]

3..Dove, give us some more.

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. A cathedral
6. Soften
7. Willie Mays
7. Tony Gwynn
10. Spiro Agnew under President Nixon
11. the Three Musketeers
13. Tibet

 

[wire chief]

2..If we go with Tibet as part of China(VAUC & Dove), then that's where the river begins, but Dove's other answers are wrong.

10..Long before Spiro, go back to the 7th Veep who differed with the Prez and wanted to fill the vacant Senate seat in his home state.

3..What was Bertha's function?

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. John C. Calhoun(huge guess because I am not even sure he was ever a VP).

 

[wire chief]

10. John C. Calhoun(huge guess because I am not even sure he was ever a VP).

Yes, under Andrew Jackson

 

[Dove]

3. Bertha is huge-ass tunnel borer that can't do its job.

 

[OneTrickPony]

5. Cathedrals...

 

[wire chief]

1..Meyers constant entreaty to Mrs. Meyers, to no avail.

2..South to India & Bangla Desh

3..As Dove writes, this big-ass machine has been stuck for ages and responds to no therapy.

4..Rbny thought the Suez Canal should have linked to Yemen, but did anybody listen?

5..Rbny provides Gothic. Was that then an Evanescence creation?

6..VAUC gives it a try and rightly offers "soften". Removing the "s" would work too, but only I thought of that.

7..VAUC couldn't give us a "final answer", but that's OK--Tony Gwynn.

8..Rbny is up on leftover colonial powers. Greenland is the rationale.

9..They lost the most folks from the tsunami that took nearly 1/4 million. Credit Dove.

11..Big fat Cuban cheroots; crown never believed he'd get cancer of the wisdom tooth, but look at him now.

12..Meyers and 006 ring in the new year.

13..VAUC gives it a good stab, but it's Burma.

I assign you 23 1/3 correct, meaning posters are above average this time.