OT: General knowledge test #243A

[wire chief]

Silky smooth Al Green croons for me while I type.

No reprinting questions please nor researching.

1..Polio is endemic yet in just 3 countries(?).

2..Provide the decade for the beginning of the US Weather Bureau.

3..A Croatian city...or a bowling result?

4..Who is Hagar the Horrible's dim-witted buddy?

5..How did the Prez honor Al Green last year?

6..Oft-quoted estimate of illegal immigrants here?

7..A huge Corinthian memorial for ________ ______'s defeat of Napolean.

8..Cupid, son of..?...and the 2 Greek equivalents?

9..What do Cherapunji, India and Lloro, Columbia have in common?

10..Sculptor Gutzon Borghum chooses what site?

11..In 1690 which colony first issues paper money to wage war vs. Quebec?

12..Dr. Carter G. Woodson begins the process that will evolve into _____
_______ ____.

13..What is Adrar des Ifoghas, and why is it in the news?

Sorry, it should read 342A, but one can't edit a title.

 

[geordi]

3. Split
4. Lucky Eddie
8. son of Venus - Amor or Eros
10. Mt. Rushmore
12. Black History Month

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Three ignorant, backward countries where militant muslims are murdering health care workers for administering polio vaccine. I think one is Pakistan and another is in Africa (Somalia?)
3. Split
6. 11 Million
11. Massachusetts Bay

 

[JRRRJ]

1..South Africa, China, India...guesses

2..1810's

3..Split

4..Lucky Eddie

6..11*10^6

8..Venus. Eros & Aphrodite for the Hellenes

10..The Black Hills for the Prezes. Someplace in Montana for Sitting Bull, I believe.

11..Massachusetts

 

[JRRRJ]

Someplace in Montana for Sitting Bull, I believe.

Wrong all around on that count. It's Crazy Horse, it's the Black Hills and it's Korczak Ziolkowski, one of the other sculptors on Rushmore who started it.

Forgot all about Stone Mountain for Borglum.

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. He sang "I'm so In Love With You" to Michelle.
6. 10 Million
9. sit on the same parallel.
11. New York
12. Black History Month

 

[wire chief]

1..Vtc is OK about Pakistan. And one is in Africa, but not Somalia;

2..JR is way too early, but at least he gave it a shot.

7..It wasn't a half-______, but a full one.

9..Think Dee Clark

13..Guys who like to chop hands off.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. The African country is Nigeria
2. 1930's
7. Admiral Nelson(Horatio Nelson)
9. Cities on the equator?

 

[wire chief]

1..And VAUC is correct that the African one is Nigeria. Afghanistan completes the trio.

2..1870

3..Credit is Split among geordi, vtc & JR.

4..Lucky Eddie works--geordi & JR

5..Well, VAUC, at least a snippet of the tune was sung. A Prez doesn't have time for the whole thing.

6..ElevenM is the figure usually given--vtc on the nose

7..VAUC has Horatio Nelson.

8..JR is most complete with Venus, and Eros & mommy Aphrodite for Greece.

9..Largest rainfall amounts--as much as 43 feet! per annum.

10..Mt. Rushmore, from geordi.

11..JR & vtc provide Mass.

12..Black History Month--VAUC & geordi.

13..Mountain range in northern Mali that now house the extreme Islamists
following their retreat from French invasion.