OT: General knowledge test #256A

[wire chief]

Same 2-part format as last time. And don't repeat questions and no research please.
Go Tiff.

1..After Oxford & Cambridge the oldest in Britain is..?

2..The Pre________ Era constitutes 80% of Earth's history.

3..The decade that NYC's Penn Station opened?

4..In 1939 a play opens that later becomes a Bogie & Becall vehicle.

5..Mostly a combo of "i's", ""y's", & "t's" is this 4 word '60's folk group.

6..Caterina Riario Sforza de ______.

7..Muncie, Ind. becomes __________ in this famous 1929 sociological community study.

8..In science correlation does not imply..?

9..A Giant Panda ____-____ joins the D.C. Zoo in '72.

10..Identify Ronnie Van Zant.

11..Director(?) of WOMEN IN LOVE and TOMMY has passed at 84.

12..Whose 74 game winning streak is stopped by Nancy Zerg?

13.."And when the morning light comes streaming in, I'll get up and do it again, Amen."

I love it that you have much to look forward to.

 

[vtcwbuff]

2. Pre Cambrian
6. Milano
9. Ling Ling
10. Lynrd Skynrd lead singer

 

[pap49cba]

10. Lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[Tidepool]

8. Causation

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. probably Key Largo. That's largely a one set movie.
5. The New Christy Minstrels?
7. Middletown

 

[crownfox2]

6. Medici
11. Ken Russel

 

[DishNSwish]

11 Ken Russell
13 The Pretender by Jackson Browne

 

[Ruffian75]

1 Eton

3 Gay 90s

7 Our Town

10 overrated southern cracker

12 Martina Lieberman

13 The man who beat Darryl Hannah

 

[SoCalCanine]

5. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

 

[SoCalCanine]

1. Eton?

 

[NCorBust]

NCorBust
2. Precambrian
7. Middletown
8. Causation
9. Ling Ling

Upink
5. Ian and Sylvia Tyson
10. Co-founder and lead singer of Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. The “Pretender” by Jackson Browne; not to be confused with the Platters’ “The Great Pretender”

 

[wire chief]

1..Stay with the ones of higher education...and outside England proper.

3..Oh, take a guess.

12..We're talking Jeopardy.

Otherwise you are golden.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Historic
3. 1910's. Built at the same time and designed by the same architect as the post office across the street. Its demolition led to the creation of the Landmarks Preservation ???(can't look it up. Help!)
5. The Christy Minstrels?
7. Centerville(I actually want to say the population center of the country, but it was probably much farther east in 1929. Plus, you are looking for a one word answer)
8. Causation
10. He's a musician, probably a guitarist, probably distantly related to Stephen Van Zandt(I am angling for partial credit).

 

[VAUConnFan]

12. Jennings

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. St. Andrews

 

[crownfox2]

1. Glasgow

 

[vtcwbuff]

UConn

Most useless poster in season - Wire Chief every other day

UConner - Wirechief is a long time and respected member of the Boneyard community. I don't understand why you have a problem with him. If the quiz posts annoy you why not just ignore them?

 

[meyers7]

1. London's gotta be pretty old.
8. causation
10. identify him? in a line up? He played/sang with/for/founded Lynyrd Skynyrd (and was one of his pupils)
13. can't remember the song title, but Jackson Brown's voice is in my head.

 

[DishNSwish]

1..Stay with the ones of higher education...and outside England proper.

3..Oh, take a guess.

12..We're talking Jeopardy.

Otherwise you are golden.

Ken Jennings?

 

[wire chief]

1..Good, VAUC, St. Andrews up in Scotland.

2..VTC & NCor with PreCambrian. The 2 of them are a lot older than I thought.

3..VAUC gives us a little story about Penn Station in 1910.

4..Ed4 makes a good guess--Key Largo

5..Who's got more i's, t's, & y's than the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band? SoCal says, "No one".

6..Crownfox was once romanticly paired with Ms. Medici, but the Pope intervened.

7..The study was called simply MIDDLETOWN, in which ed4 & Ncor were interviewees 19 & 44.

8..Four of you, including Meyers & Tidepool with "causation".

9..VTC & NCor have a fling with Ling-Ling.

10..Dead Lynyrd Skynyrd guy, like pap49 & 3 others attest.

11..Dish & crownfox score with Ken Russell.

12..Yes to Ken Jennings for VAUC & Dish.

13..Don't fret, UPink, I was not confused. The Jackson B. song starts, "Oh-oh yes, I'm the Great Pretender."
And does it take one Ruffian to know another?
Meyers plagued by the song running all through his brain. Let him replace it with
"Gus on a bus got a seat without fuss".

And so ends part A.