OT: General knowedge test #543A

[wire chief]

Please avoid politics, no research, no hitting "reply".

1..ID Zugspitze.

2..Marian Anderson's Met debut was in what opera?

3..What does Joni Mitchell recall, and what doesn't she know?

4..What happens to Congress' bill on D.C. black suffrage in 1867.

5..What did Ramzi Yousef do of note?

6..The "protected status" for persons of what country ends 9/9/19.

7..We associate Oliver North with..?

8..Thomas Payne's famous pamphlet of 1776?

9..In 1984 we established full diplomatic relations with..? for the 1sr time in 100 years.

10..Three artists who sang SO FAR AWAY as 3 different songs.

11..In 1990 F. L Douglas Wilder becomes 1st to..?

12..Puerto Rico achieves birthright citizenship in 1912, 1921, 1934, 1941 or 1950?

13..The US (Tennis) Open announces the intent to create a statue in honor of whom?

 

[Rocket009]

5..One of the World Trade Center bombers (the parking lot bombing not the plane jacking)

7..The Iran/Contras arms deal.

13..Althea Gibson

 

[Puppy Love]

3. Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel...does not know we clouds/life at all.

Clouds illusions or something like that.

 

[Puppy Love]

8. Civil disobedience ?

 

[MSGRET]

9..Great Britain

13..Arthur Ashe

 

[Puppy Love]

13. Arthur Ashe?

 

[Gamecockfan77]

7. Iran Contra scandal. Or I suppose ... Crossfire?
8. Common Sense
11. First African American Governor of Virginia

 

[SVCBeercats]

4..It passes.
5..911 and flight 434
7.. Iran–Contra affair
8..Thomas Paine did author Common Sense.
13.. Althea Gibson

 

[k9fanatic]

7. Iran-Contra and Fawn Hall
8. Common Sense
10. One is Carole King
11. First black elected governor in the country (Virginia)
13. Arthur Ashe

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Vetoed by president Johnson, then overridden by Congress.
5. 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator
6. Haiti
6. Nicaragua
7. Iran Contra, sold guns to Iran, an embargoed country, to raise cash for the Contras in Nicaragua.
11. First black governor of Virginia
12. 1950 as a means to bolster the US labor force
13. Serena Williams

 

[Bigboote]

3..She recalls illusions (clouds', love's, life's) but she really doesn't know the real (same) things.
4..vetoed?
5..Bombed the World Trade Center
6..Haiti
7..Iran Contra
8..Common Sense
10..Carole King, Dire Straits, . . .
11..First black governor in the US

 

[wire chief]

12..1950 doesn't work.

10...Missing is a doo wop group that also had a hit with BEEN SO LONG.

9..Chief likes a white beany.

6..A title for Jesus

2..Un Bello __ ________

1..Tallest peak in..?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - Österreich?
9 - With your clue - The Vatican?

 

[Rocket009]

1..Tallest peak in..? Germany

 

[wire chief]

1..Ja, es ist in Deutschland.

8..The K9 Quartet reporting on that rarity among respondents.

3..He's a trifle wordy, but Big's got it, though we can't say he has no other illusions.

4..VAUC reports accurately on the bill's career.

5..VAUC again, along with Rocket and Big, finger the terrorist.

2..Un Ballo in Maschera_(Sorry if I threw anyone by hinting "Bello" , and not Ballo")

7..I do appreciate long-time player VAUC. who knows to spell out the essentials.

9..Knights says he's not clueless...at least not this time.

10..The Pastels

11..The Va. winner was also the 1st elected black gov. in all of US.

12..1941

13..SVC & Rocket pick Althea. Go with that.

Doing this during commercials. Now back to Venus' match full time.