OT: General knowedge test #362A

[wire chief]

Storrs isn't alone as "cow country"; we got lots in Florida too.

Anyway no reprinting questions and no research please.

1..Alicia Keys is being criticized for a planned concert in..?

2..A well-publicized trial vs. whom started yesterday?

3.."Let me come home if you miss me. I would even let ____ ______ ___ ___ ____ __."

4..The 2 contiguous states admitted on June 1, 4 years apart.

5.."Blue skies up above, everyone's in love, __ _ ____ _____ with me."

6..The 3 main Iraqi groups?

7..The # of Fed Agencies: 101, 137, 192, 237, 292, or 328?

8..A version of "Atta boy!" to celebrate this founder(?) of one particular modern state.

9..Last week 4 fireman died and several injured in a fire in this city.

10..Sixty years ago Tenzing Norgay partners with whom?

11.. In mid-America they are the Chippewas.

12..A book called Eleven Rings by..?

13..The Archimedean Screw does what?

 

[huskyblooz]

2. Blade-Runner
5. Come on baby dance
9. Houston
11. Central Michigan Univ.

 

[pinotbear]

3. "let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me" "Hello Muddah, hello Faddah", by the late, great Alan Sherman.

 

[DishNSwish]

4. Tennessee and Kentucky.....why I know this, I have no idea....

 

[meyers7]

2. the Olympic dude with the blades. Pontis, potoris??? something like that. Never really liked him. Always seemed like a jerk to me. Even when everyone was cheering for him.
6. you mean like sunnis and shi'ites? and some other third one?
7. I'll guess the biggest one, 328

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

8 - Attaturk? as in Kemal, I think. If this isn't what you have in mind, its too deep for me.

 

[rbny1]

10. Edmund Hillary. Hillary and Norgay were the first to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest.

 

[pinotbear]

2. the Olympic dude with the blades. Pontis, potoris??? something like that. Never really liked him. Always seemed like a jerk to me. Even when everyone was cheering for him.
6. you mean like sunnis and shi'ites? and some other third one?
7. I'll guess the biggest one, 328

6. Sunnis and shi'ites, and bears, Oh MY! or ba'ahis, or somethin'...

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Israel
9. Houston
12. The ever-smug Phil Jackson

 

[DriveLH]

5. up a lazy river.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

6. Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Kurds.
13. Moves water up or along.

 

[Zorro]

6. Sunni, Shia, Kurds
5. Up a lazy river
8. Attaturk
13. Moves liquid through a pipe

 

[wire chief]

2.. The "blade runner" guy will go to trial in August. You need the fellow linked to the
other fellow who is currently holed up in the Ecuador embassy in England.

7..Need a different guess here.

 

[meyers7]

7..Need a different guess here.

292?

 

[rbny1]

2. Bradley Manning, accused of providing government secrets to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Cuba
2. Bradley Manning
6. Sunni, Shiite, ???
7. 137
11. Central Michigan

 

[wire chief]

1..K9 has sent Alicia an e-mail urging her to forego Israel and sing at Rutgers instead.

2..Rbny & VAUC know Pfc Bradley Manning has leaked Rutgers AD search
documents to Howard Stern.

3..Pinot was himself hugged by Aunt Bertha, just before her interview for recess coordinator at Rutgers.

4..Nobody knows either how Dish knows what he knows, it's probably the result of his epistemology lessons in New Brunswick.

 

[wire chief]

5..Drive is channeling his time goofing off on the banks of the old Raritan.

6..Ed4's got them all and reveals that Scarlet Knights have been eradicated there.

7..Smarty pants knows the 292 figure because he has been harassed and investigated
by nearly all of them(and you thought you'd find still another Rutgers link here. Ha Ha).

8..Knights and zorro see through my inane link and reveal Kamal Ataturk, afterwards he moved
the campuses at Camden & Newark to Ankara.

 

[wire chief]

9..K9 receives a message, "Houston, we have a problem". Mike Rice has been seen with matches.

10..Rbny knows that Edmund Hillary is no relation to Bill's wife, but does again want to be in rarefied air in seeking to be athletic director at you-know-where.

11..Central Michigan caused a flap when it tried to change its name to "The State University
of New Jersey".

12..When Phil Jackson tries to add Rutgers president to his resume, K9's "ever-smug"
moniker will derail his chances.

13..Julie Hermann has no memory of anything, except she knows how to make water
go uphill. At least that's what she told zorro & Ed4.