OT: General knowledge test #279A

[wire chief]

And what better way to spend a Tuesday afternoon?

Kindly refrain from research and reprinting questions.

1..Civil Warfare included Ft. Stedman in what state?

2..The home of vaudeville, the ______ Theater, opens in 1913.

3..Which First Lady begins DC's tradition of Japanese cherry trees?

4..Why did the 1834 Senate censure Andrew Jackson?

5..The stories of Sheherazade are found within..?

6..Who composed the 1930's golf triumvirate?

7..Easter is always on the ..? Sunday after the 1st..? following the ______ _______.

8..The flower specie of April is _____ ____.

9..Titles of 3 "rain" songs by Lovin' Spoonful, B.J. Thomas & the Carpenters?

10..Spanish explorer _____ de Balboa.

11..The markka used to be the currency of..?

12..Origin of "knock on wood"?

13..Who sought the Republican presidential nominee status 9 different times?

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Virginia - part of the final Battle of Petersburg
5. One Thousand and One Nights
6. Nelson, Hogan and Snead?
9. Rain Drops . . . B. J Thomas
Rainy Days and Mondays The Carpenters
10. Vasco

 

[rbny1]

6. As vtcwbuff notes, the answer is Nelson, Hogan and Snead. For those who love golf, there is a new book about them, American Triumvirate, that got an excellent review a week or so ago in the New York Times.
13. Harold Stassen

 

[vtcwbuff]

6. As vtcwbuff notes, the answer is Nelson, Hogan and Snead. For those who love golf, there is a new book about them, American Triumvirate, that got an excellent review a week or so ago in the New York Times.
13. Harold Stassen

Indeed. Kindle Version $14.99 and a must read if you love the game. Written by James Dodson.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

7. ? Sunday following the 1st Full Moon . . . vernal equinox?

Painful quiz - so many answers on the tip of my brain. Usually I'm just completely clueless.

 

[k9fanatic]

3. Helen Taft
9. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head -- B.J. Thomas; Rainy Days and Monday -- Carpenters; Don't know the LS song
10. Vasco
11. Finland

 

[pinotbear]

9. missing Lovin' Spoonful song is "Rain on the Roof"

 

[ed4ourgirls]

6. I always associated Nelson, Hogan, and Snead with the 1940's and 50's.
For the 30's, how about Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, and maybe Gene Sarazen.

 

[wire chief]

6. As vtcwbuff notes, the answer is Nelson, Hogan and Snead. For those who love golf, there is a new book about them, American Triumvirate, that got an excellent review a week or so ago in the New York Times.
13. Harold Stassen

That review spurred on said question.

 

[wire chief]

7. ? Sunday following the 1st Full Moon . . . vernal equinox?

Painful quiz - so many answers on the tip of my brain. Usually I'm just completely clueless.

Well, sounds like a promising newness.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Ziegfeld(might be Ziegfield)
3. Mrs. Roosevelt
3. Mrs. Taft (there is a science/arboretum/nature/research concern in DC that clones the orginal trees so that there will always be replacements. Even sent a few back to Japan. There are times such as these when one wishes better command of the facts similar to Spencer Reed as opposed to Cliff Klaiben)
4. Being drunk? Cockfighting. Riding a horse through the Senate chambers. Not taking his hat off indoors. (all wold guesses)
5. 1001 Arabian Nights
6. Bobby Jones, Francis Oulmet, Harry Vardon
7. The first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox(this might be a repeat question)
9. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, Rainy Days and Mondays, (can't come up witht he Spoonful song. Was it a hit, or would I have had to listen to the album?)
10. I went to public school. They never taught us his first name. I never knew he had a first name until you asked the question.
12. Eddie Floyd sang it, then Otis & Carla, then covered by Amy Stewart

 

[wire chief]

2..A vaudevillean's home is his...

4...It had to do with US Bank money.

8..A Popeye character

12..VAUC took the road not advertised, and a valid one. But do not let him distract you
from the intended road. Actually when you learn of this, you will say, "I could have thought
of that".

 

[pap49cba]

6. People are off base here. Hogan & Nelson played in the 40's and 50's. In the 30's it was Hagen, Sarazen and Jones (although Jones retired after winning the Grand Slam in 1930).

 

[meyers7]

12. Amii Stewart

 

[geordi]

1. here in Virginia, Petersburg
4. AJ wouldn't give the Senate what he considered confidential papers
5. 1001 Arabian Nights
6. Hagan, Sarazen, and Snead
7. First...Spring Equinox
11. Ferdinand

 

[vtcwbuff]

6. I always associated Nelson, Hogan, and Snead with the 1940's and 50's.
For the 30's, how about Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, and maybe Gene Sarazen.

My thoughts too but I'm not sure of the decade when Hogan, Snead and Nelson were dubbed "The American Triumverate." I looked up their PGA tour stats and While Snead and Nelson won nearly 30 tournaments in the 30's, Hogan won but one.

 

[wire chief]

Enough with the golf bickering, for it's time to finish.

1..VTC & geordi carry us back to ol' Virginny.

2..Palace Theater

3..You're not daft picking Helen Taft. This applies to K9 & VAUC.

4..Jackson refused to OK the renewal of the national bank. Then he refused to turn over a paper to the senate
which he had read to his cabinet. Henry Clay. leader of the opposition, said those actions were worthy of censure.
Geordi is part way home.

5..VTC leads 3 with 1001 Arabian Nights.

6...See rbny above with a reference.

7..First, full moon, vernal equinox. VAUC has the whole bloody thing, with Knights a close 2nd.

8..Sweet pea.

9..This necessitated some snuggling among you--Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head. Check
Rainy Days & Mondays. Check And you need the silly ol' bear to supply Rain on the Roof.

10..VAUC, I too remember Balboa as a one-word-only lesson. It took until the 70's before I
learned of Rocky Balboa.
Now why did they always say Vasco de Gama, but not Vasco de Balboa?
VTC & K9 had superior teachers.

11..K9 says Finland; K9 is fantastic.

12..Not too complicated--people used to be big on tree spirits. Knocking on the tree asked for protection, good luck.
I'm not sure that today's tree huggers are accorded similar defense.

13..Listen to rbny; he says Harold Stassen.

You're a solid enough 10 of 13.

 

[VAUConnFan]

8. Sweet Pea

 

[geordi]

OK. So I've gotta pick a nit or two here. Technically, Hogan, Nelson, and Snead did play in the 30s, and they played very well indeed. A case could be made for Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen as more dominant than they, but that's small change. However, if you look at the record, Hogan (1), Nelson (10), and Snead (17) won a total of 28 tournaments in the 1930s. They were clearly dominant later, and especially in the 40s. From 1940 on, the three of them won a total of 160 tournaments with Nelson winning 18 alone in 1945. They were absolutely a 'triumvirate' in thew 1940s.

 

[wire chief]

Geordi, I don't doubt your stats, and since I don't care a fig for golf, I would be in poor position anyway for a
debate. Like rbny offered, I read the review and borrowed the '30's terminology (triumvirate). It's possible that the author or reviewer used the term in a more collective way to include the 40's & 50's, as well as the years before.