OT: General knowledge 388A

[wire chief]

While we await the overmatched Philly squad...

Please answer without hitting 'REPLY" AND DON'T RESEARCH.

1..Within 2 years when was Daylight ST institutionalized cross country?

2..The birthstone of this month?

3..Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country. An African country(?) is 2nd.

4..An American(?) & 2 Russians were 1st residents of the International Space Station.

5..In the 90's Dr. Death(?) went to jail. Who played him in YOU DON'T KNOW JACK?

6..The cousins of the xylophone?

7..Studies show regular walking cuts the risk of ________ 40%.

8..Why did the Austin area make the news a few days ago?

9..What was code named IVY MIKE?

10..What is a Bersa product?

11..An island nation of 315,000, basically Lutheran?

12..Twin actresses Tia & Tamera _______.

13..."Every beat of my heart keeps crying out, 'I love you so', ____ ___ ____."

 

[pinotbear]

3. Chad? Jeremy?
7. Heart attack

 

[Zorro]

6..Marimba, glockenspeil, vibraphone. A second cousin, once removed, would be "pan", as in steel drums.

7..Heart attack?

8..Flooding; 14 inches of rain overnight in some areas.

13. "Don't you know." Della Reese, from La Boheme, Puccini.

 

[Vowelguy]

5) al Pacino
12) mowry
2) topaz?
11) Iceland?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - Topaz (yellow) traditionally; something like blue citrine has been marketed more recently. I stick with the yellow.
7 - Heart Attack

 

[JRRRJ]

1..Within 2 years when was Daylight ST institutionalized cross country?
2..Sapphire
3..Tunisia
6..Marimba, glockenspiel
7..Stroke by
8..A U.S. district judge suspended the new state law requiring that physicians performing abortions have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles
11..Iceland

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Topaz
3. Mauritania
5. Al Pacino
7. Type 2 diabetes
11. Iceland

 

[wire chief]

7..Nope to all of you.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. 1790
1.. 1906
2. Opal
3. Chad
6. Vibraphone, mallets
7. Stroke
7. Obesity
8. The abortion restrictions were reinstated by a court ruling
12. Mowery

 

[wire chief]

5..It seems you are overlooking the 1st part.

 

[k9fanatic]

5. Jack Kevorkian

 

[wire chief]

9..1.00794 u

 

[wire chief]

3.. Kalihari..Head for that.

 

[wire chief]

7..forget the body

 

[pinotbear]

7. dementia?

 

[Zorro]

7. Alzheimers, mebbe?

 

[wire chief]

Let's get out of town before tip-off.

1..1966

2..Vowel, knights & K9 with topaz.

3..Namibia with 2.3M.

4..Bill Shepherd

5..K9 says "oops" forgot the 1st part--Jack Kevorkian. She & vowel provide Al Pacino.

6..Happily, no one wrote "kazoo". Lots of you with offerings. Zorro's is most interesting.

7..Pinot comes through in the last stages. No, no, not of his disease, but the test.
Dementia

 

[wire chief]

8..Flooding singles out the Austin area, and zorro knew that. Special mention of JR
& VAUC for being up-to-date on a statewide political thingy.

9..First hydrogen bomb (my hint was the atomic weight of hydrogen, but it blew right past you).

10..Makes guns

11..JR, K9 & vowel have Iceland.

12..VAUC rightly types Mowry.

13..Della Reese' hit DON'T YOU KNOW, provided by zorro.

This is not your best results, sorry to say. And I'm not yet on part B.

 

[Vowelguy]

12..VAUC rightly types Mowry.

EXCUSE ME????

12. Mowery

12) mowry

 

[wire chief]

No, no vowel, there are no excuses for you...nor for me in this oversight.