OT: General knowledge test #267

[wire chief]

Have you come down enough from the Duke victory to assess this with cold logic?

While assessing, don't research; don't reproduce questions please.

1..Why is North Carolina's Eugenics Board in the news?

2..Skeletal, cardiac and ______ muscle.

3..Based on recent events, who is arguably Belarus' most famous citizen?

4..The spin-off from All in the Family?

5..The decade of the Edwardian era?

6..A nation(?)'s businessmen once got publicity from ads reading,
"Office worker wanted; No inhibitions".

7..Once second only to Ms. America, the winner of this contest(?) wore a beer label.

8..Where is your trapezius?

9..Word play: When the last Beatles double album was sold, the store announced
a ________.

10..The world's smallest bear?

11..What is the debate over Vermont Yankee?

12..Greeks built their written language on mainly one(?) that long preceded it.

13..Name a comic actor sharing a surname with a recent Veep candidate.

Stay tuned for more.

 

[geordi]

4. Maude, then The Jeffersons
5. 1901 - 1910
8. in my gymnasius - oh, ok. the upper back
10 sun bear

 

[pinotbear]

4. Archie's Place too, I believe
9. White Sale
13. Michael Palin

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. The woman who beat Maria Sharapova to win the Australian Open. Is it Azarenka(sp?)?
4. There were a few; Maude, The Jeffersons, & Archie's Place.
7. Miss Rheingold?
8. Ear
9. White Sale
13. Palin, the Monty Python actor. I think he was the stutterer in A Fish Called Wanda.

 

[vtcwbuff]

2. Smooth
4. Jeffersons
5. 1910's?
8. Shoulder/back
11. State proposed closure
13. Micheal Palin

 

[JRRRJ]

2..Skeletal, cardiac and ______ muscle. Smooth? (the stuff in the digestive tract that powers peristalsis)
3..Maria Sharapova (?)
4..Fernwood 2nite
5..The first in the 20th century
6..A nation(?)'s businessmen once got publicity from ads reading,
8..On your back. Moves your shoulder blade.
9.."White" sale
10..The one in the grocery store with honey in it
12..cuneiform

 

[wire chief]

Guys, you can't have a white sale, if ya got nuttin' to sell.

 

[meyers7]

4. Archie's Place
8. Upper back, neck
9. White sale
10. griz, nooo, ice, nooo pinot, eh they're all the same.
11. VY wants to extend it's operating license (with NRC). State doesn't want them to. I believe in the latest, the courts ruled state doesn't have jurisdiction.

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. White Album Sale

 

[NCorBust]

1. A proposal to pay $50K to approximately 7,500 people each
…..whose sterilization was authorized by the North Carolina
…..Eugenics Board during 1930s through the 1970s.
2. Smooth muscle?
8. It is a back muscle which forms a rough triangle connecting
…..the neck, shoulder, and mid-back on both sides of the body.
…..It is built up by doing shoulder shrugs and rowing exercises.
10. Sun bear

 

[wire chief]

Now, 10 is tricky, 'cause the name of the beast does not include "bear".

 

[NCorBust]

Now, 10 is tricky, 'cause the name of the beast does not include "bear".

Perhaps its name does not include bear because it is not a bear.

 

[wire chief]

Some hints...

6...The nation's businessmen, just freed from a tyranny, were feeling powerful and wanted cheap sex.

9..Think "snow".

10..Ah, a doubting NCor. It's just as much a bear as is the giant panda.

11..And Meyers, can you state what the facility is?

12..We're looking for a sea-faring people from 3000 years ago.

 

[NCorBust]

Some hints...
10..Ah, a doubting NCor. It's just as much a bear as is the giant panda.
......Red Panda
12..We're looking for a sea-faring people from 3000 years ago.
......Phoenicians

 

[Bestiarius]

9. White out.?

 

[wire chief]

summing up...

1..See NCor's fine, detailed response. Luckily it did not happen to NCor's mom, so we are privileged to have him.

4..Several on top of this, offering Maude, Archie's Place & The Jeffersons. There is no truth to the rumor that "Meathead"
got his own show.

3..VAUC with (Viktoria) Azaranka, champ of the Aussie Open. I mean, who else could you possibly know from Belarus?

2..VTC starts 4 with "smooth".

5..The beginning of the 20thC until it dissipates with WWI, as offered by geordi, VTC & JR.

6..It happened in Russia.

7..VAUC has Miss Rheingold; somebody fill his glass.

8..Lots of you place this in the center, upper back.

9..A late, but correct entry from The Best, a "Whiteout".

10..The doubting NCor is no more; the assured one provides red panda.

11..Vermont Yankee is a nuclear facility. See Meyers for more.

12..NCor takes the hint and sails with it. Actually he types in the Phoenecians, who sailed with it.

13..Michael Palin of Monte Python will do nicely. Pinot starts a trio.

 

[meyers7]

11..And Meyers, can you state what the facility is?

Sorry just assumed that was known. Vermont Yankee, Connecticut Yankee, Maine Yankee all were nuclear plants. VY's the only one left now (along with Pilgrim and Millstone) here in the NE.

 

[NCorBust]

3..VAUC with (Viktoria) Azaranka, champ of the Aussie Open. I mean, who else could you possibly know from Belarus?
The master of clarity, Isaac Asimov, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Berlin, Chess Record's Leonard Chess (Czyz), Kirk Douglas, David Sarnoff, Mark Chagall, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Andrei Arlovski, Wayne Gretzky (OK! His parents), Olga Korbut, Alexander Medved, AND Maria Sharapova (AND you call yourself a tennis fan?).

 

[NCorBust]

10..The doubting NCor is no more; the assured one provides red panda
Still a doubter.

 

[wire chief]

10..The doubting NCor is no more; the assured one provides red panda
Still a doubter.

About what? Maria has long lived in the U.S, but announcers always refer to her as Russian.

 

[NCorBust]

About what? Maria has long lived in the U.S, but announcers always refer to her as Russian.

The red panda has been previously classified in the families Procyonidae (raccoons) and Ursidae (bears), but recent research has placed it in its own family Ailuridae, in superfamily Musteloidea along with Mustelidae and Procyonidae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/RedPanda/factsheet.cfm
http://redpandanetwork.org/red_panda/about-the-red-panda/