Ot: General Knowledge Test #245

[wire chief]

On a wet morning I take my brisk walk in Wal-Mart Superstore and then conveniently shop.

No research and just answers please..

1..What earlier decision did Brown vs. Bd of Ed overturn?

3..What's the distinctive uniqueness about almost all the Negro Spirituals on piano?

4..What nation offers sei-krok plau nehm among its haute cuisine?

5..The atacama is the world's driest desert. Where?

6..NeoStem has a surprising new relationship with..? about harvesting adult stem cells.

7..How many of the NFL's teams are east of the Miss. River?

8..Nest month's birthstone?

9..Thanksgiving is an appropriate time to define the SNOOD.

10..In 1982 Reagan authorizes the invading of..?

11..Where was the unique 5300 year-old "iceman" found?

12..Estimate the USA's annual homiicide count.

13..About what did "Baby Fae" garner fame in 1984?

This is not done; stay tuned.

 

[wire chief]

Part 2; same rules.

14..Two items with scales and keys?

15..She's got the #1 album for 13 straight weeks, called "21". Who?

16..There's a fixed time(?) of year for Canada's Thanksgiving too.

17 The 787 __________ is a new plane made from lightweight carbon materials.

18...The last chemical weapons housed at Umatilla on the border of 2 states(?)
has been destroyed.

19..In 1950's Disneyland TV, Spin pairs with _____.

20..State the new record earned respectively by Dominique Davis and Case Keenum.

21..What is a "skeg"?

22..Shortly following Katrina, Hurricane____ devastated points west of Katrina.

23..The name for the distance of roughly 3 miles.

24..A "Jeopardy" category, _o__o____.

25..Whose signature tune is "Freebird"?

 

[Kibitzer]

16. Canadian Thanksgiving falls on a Monday (2nd?) in October. I tell Mrs. Kibitzer's Canadian family members that here in America we observe Canadian Thanksgiving by having some people parade in NYC wearing red-white-green sashes. They know we're nuts.

 

[pap49cba]

17. Dreamliner

25. Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 - Separate But Equal
2. ???
3. They use just the black keys.
5. Mongolia
7. 18
10. Grenada
12. 26000

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Whatever decision said separate but equal education was OK.
2. MIA???
4. Thailand?
5. South America/Chile
7. 9?
10. Grenada
11. Alps
12. 20K?
17. Boeing Dreamliner - I just saw a review - many new comforts same cramped seating.
18. Oregon and Idaho?
21. The keel on an outboard engine
23. League
24. Potporri

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Music and maps
15. Adele
17. Dreamliner
21. Artificial marijuana
23. A long walk
24. Hodgepodge
24. Potent potables(second guess)

 

[mr006]

7. 20 are entirely east; the river runs through two more of the cities, so unless you refer to the stadium sites themselves...

22. Hurricane Rita

 

[geordi]

No # 2 ??? Does that mean that any answer is correct?

4. Vietnamese ?
5. Chile
7. 21, I think. Minnesota and St Louis stadia are on the west side, NO is on the east side
9. It's a turkey's flap of skin over the beak that hangs down
10 Granada ? There were so many 3rd world countries I can't remember them all.
11. The Austrian Alps
16. It's in October, I think.
18 Washington and Oregon
21. part of the hull of a boat
25. Charlie Bird ??

 

[wire chief]

Sorry...I left out
#2 Playmate of the Year, Kathy ______, did several films, Including Tennessee buck II.

And VAUC, get rid of the questions, please.

i

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Plessey v. Ferguson
8. topaz
10. Grenada
15. test tube baby
22. Hurricane Rita
25. Lynard Skynard

 

[Bezzz]

19. Spin and Marty

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

8. Topaz (traditionally). They currently use something different (maybe Citrene??). My birthstone ring is topaz.

22. I can't remember the name but I drove through some of those areas a few years back, and, like Katrina, damage remains - much almost unbelievable.

 

[Bobanozz]

#2 Kathy Shower
#23 League?

 

[NCorBust]

1. Plesy vs. Ferguson
2. 23.8 x 10-7 (Now tell me I am wrong!)
3. Finger snapping, foot stomping, body swaying, arms akimbo good!
6. China
9. It is a net like head cover that covers a woman’s hair. Typically the woman’s hair is in a bun. Seems I saw the Mennonite servers at the Good and Plenty restaurant around Lancaster, PA wearing them. Which is a real trick since I am in Denver.
10. Grenada
11. In ice, like a glacier or was it in my 6th Dewars on the rocks?
12. 17,500

 

[NCorBust]

14. Music and Nemo the locksmith
16. Second Monday of October (BURNED into my memory! Schedule a simple, little convention during the second week of October and you will be set upon by very angry Jewish people, government and banking employees, and Canadians … who knew there was a Canadian Thanksgiving?! I didn’t! Rosh what? Columbo’s birthday? Huh?!)
17 Dreamliner (The dream part is appropriate)
21. An ilk my parents wouldn’t let date
23. 20,000 leagues on top of the land minus 19,999 (I probably should not be drinking while doing this quiz)
25. Charlie Parker!

 

[wire chief]

1..We start with a trio, VAUC, K9 and a soused NCor, with Plessy vs. Ferguson.

2..The missing question, but Bob, with an appreciation of pulchritude, names Kathy Shower.

3..Such songs, like Amazing Grace, are black keys only, so singeth VAUC.

4..A dish of northern Argentina.

5..Geordi gives us Chile.

6..The Pope.

7..Mr006 is precise with 20 of 32.

8..And I think it was a Hitchkock movie, TOPAZ. K9 & Knight know their gems.

9..Geordi has the turkey's skin flap.

10..Five of you specify Grenada. Sinatra had a good version, though for the Spanish, listen to Jose Carreras.

11..Just over the border from Austria, in the Italian Alps.

12..Twenty thousand are killed by others, and VTC has it.

13..She was given a baboon heart, but did not live long.

More to follow.

 

[wire chief]

Glad you're still with me.

14..Music & maps offers VAUC. NCor is amusing here, as the inebriated sometimes are.

15..Adele--VAUC is our only up-to-date music listener.

16..Kibitzer & NCor with additional exposition about the 2nd Monday in October.

17..Pap starts 4 of you Dream Lovers...wait, no that was a Bobby Darin song.
Maybe Dream Catcher--no, no, that's an Native American item. Aaaa, I give up.

18..VAUC has Ore. & Wash.

19..Bezzz with the singular offering of Spin & Marty, a Disney serial.

20..Case with NCAA total yards; Dominique with 26 completed passes in a row.

21..A skeg is a surfboard or boat fin. NCor confuses this with "skank". Geordi is not confused.

22..K9 & mr006 rightly name Rita.

23..VTC & Bob (Just ignore NCor. When UPink is not there, he forgets his meds) with "league".

24..Potpourri works, as VTC (who's inclined to jump off the sofa and shout his response) well knows.

25..Pap and K9 identify Lynyrd Skynard. My spelling is a compromise between the 2 posters.

Pleasure doing business.

 

[VAUConnFan]

The credit for correctly answering #18 belongs to Geordi.

Number 7 is intriguing. Can we list the 20 NFL cities east of the Mississippi?

Thanx for the memory jog with Baby Fae. I might be alone in my firm belief that HIV and AIDS are the result of experiments with cross species organ transplants and blood transfusions.

 

[vtcwbuff]

WC - A skeg is also a boat keel extension and the lower end of an outboard motor. I know about the outboard thing because I've had to replace a couple.
A snood is also a woman's head covering as another suggested.

 

[FairView]

1. Segrated schools
2. Grant
8..Citrine (my wife's)
10..Grenada?
13..Gave her an animal heart

 

[FairView]

14..Piano and can of sardines
15..Adele
17 Dreamliner
24..Potpourri
25..Lynard Skynard

 

[FairView]

I gotta stop wasting my time puttering around the house on Saturday morning so I can get online and answer these things before they close out.

 

[geordi]

The credit for correctly answering #18 belongs to Geordi.

Number 7 is intriguing. Can we list the 20 NFL cities east of the Mississippi?

Thanx for the memory jog with Baby Fae. I might be alone in my firm belief that HIV and AIDS are the result of experiments with cross species organ transplants and blood transfusions.

Here's what I had. NE, NY, NY, BUF, PHIL, BAL, WAS, CAR, ATL, JAX, MIA, TB, TENN, PIT, CLEV, CIN. DET INDY, CHI, GB, NO (Superdome is on the East side of the river). That's how I got 21.

 

[wire chief]

The credit for correctly answering #18 belongs to Geordi.

Number 7 is intriguing. Can we list the 20 NFL cities east of the Mississippi?

Thanx for the memory jog with Baby Fae. I might be alone in my firm belief that HIV and AIDS are the result of experiments with cross species organ transplants and blood transfusions.

Sorry, geordi...my goof.
Sure VAUC, go ahead and list them.