OT: General knowledge test #271A

[wire chief]

Stick with the rules--no research; no reprinting questions please.

1..About how many folks in the world die each week?

2..Identify Martin Dempsey.

3..Alaska winter collisions killed 600 plus _____ this year, when its usually about 270.

4.."Soubirous" is the family name of this notable 19thC French lass.

5..He(?) called his studio Black Maria.

6..The Panther who's Soul was on Ice?

7..One out of every..? people in the world live in the Americas.

8..What are the participants doing in a "cabalgata?

9..Under what Prez were voting machines first deployed?

10..Tom _____'s group(?) is the antithesis of Valentine's Day.

11..What king transformed a hunting lodge into the ornate Versailles Palace?

12..The White Nile begins in Lake Victoria; the Blue Nile in Lake____.

13..The lone female Taxi driver?

 

[pap49cba]

10. Petty - The Heartbreakers

 

[vtcwbuff]

2. Chairman Joint Chiefs
3. Moose
5. Edison
6. Cleaver
7. 5?
11. Louis XVI ?
12. Lake Tana

 

[meyers7]

1. Not enough? (oh wait, did I say that outloud?) I mean too many. I'd guess 4,200,000 that would be a turnover of about .01% a day (based on 6 bil).
3. deer?
7. 5?
10 Petty and the Heartbreakers
11. Louis XIV?
13. Elaine Nardo, Marilu Henner (the poop lady)

 

[NCorBust]

1. 4.6M
2. Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
6. Eldridge Cleaver
7. 20
9. Grover Cleveland
11. Louis the something (12,13,14,15 … etc.)
12. Lake Pontchartrain (on Frenchmen Street)
13. The lone female Taxi driver in Cairo, Egypt

 

[geordi]

2. Chair of the Joint Chiefs - my son knows him pretty well
3. Moose
5. well, the Green Hornet's car was the Black Maria, that's sort of a studio
8. Marching - it's a Spanish Christmas parade
12. Nasser

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. 10 million
4. Marie Antoinette?
5. George Lucas
6. Eldridge Cleaver
7. 1 of 5
9. Grover Cleveland
10. Petty(the Heartbrakers)
11. Louis XIV (Louis Quatorze)
12. Lake Tanganyika
13. Elaine Nardo portrayed by Marilu Henner

 

[wire chief]

And so we come to an accounting.

1...About a million.

2..VTC, NCor & geordi are up-to-date on military matters--Chair of JCS.

3..We're talking wildlife here. Extra heavy snow has driven the poor moose onto roads. VTC & geordi.

4..Bernadette, famous for puported multi visits from Jesus' mom.

5..Listen to VTC when he talks--Thomas Edison.

6..VTC, NCor & VAUC with Eldridge Cleaver

7..It's 1 of 7.

8..And geordi, can you say what is emphasized in this parade, given the 1st 5 letters?

9..The answer would come to you, should you be receptive to the ether at Denali.

10 & 14...Pap returns from a long absence, while he has undertaken the quest of searching
out Links for our benefit. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
and Legend of a Mind.
The rest I shall provide in part B.

 

[vtcwbuff]

9. Post hint - McKinley

 

[wire chief]

9. Post hint - McKinley

Ay yup