OT: General knowledge test #280A

[wire chief]

There's just so many hours we can spend wondereing where Tiff is going, so...

There's no research allowed nor reprinting questions.

1..If you're Union Rags, what do you do?

2..What one English word has 3 doubled letters?

3..She(?) has hosted and starred in receent PBS mysteries, but her fame came in a 60's duo.

4..What nation leads the world in different languages (about 850)?

5..Jodi Picoult's claim to fame?

6..Either Gay or Foods.

7..In 1889 Alesandre Gustave..? was a prominent person.

8..What did Joe Cocker's "baby" do?

9..The Latin sentence that announces a new Pontiff?

10..Which nation of islands is projected to be the first casualty of rising seas?

11..The land animal with the largest eyes?

12..In 1860 Sacramento, Ca and St. Joseph, Mo had a new connection(?)

13.."There are things we could do. I could say I love you. But all I can say is..?"

Not doing anything different---still 12 more.

 

[vtcwbuff]

4. China?
7. Tower or statue? I'll guess the tower.
10. Micronesia?
12. Pony Express

 

[huskyblooz]

8. Wrote him a letter
11. giraffe

 

[geordi]

7. Eiffel - of Eiffel Tower fame
9. Habemos papa
10. Maldives
11 Ostrich
12. Cities between which the Pony Express rode

 

[geordi]

2. I don't believe I didn't get this one up front since I keep working with them - committee

 

[Bestiarius]

2. Bookkeeper

 

[pinotbear]

2. Tennessee (?)

 

[heavyhusky]

3) Diana Rigg (from The Avengers)

4) Papua New Guinea?

9) Habemus papam (We have a Pope)

10) Maldives

 

[crownfox2]

1. He will run in the Kentucky Derby

 

[wire chief]

I've been waiting for either VAUConn...or Godot to show up, but I wait no longer

5..Best selling..?

6..__s__Gay or __s__Foods

13..Early 60's hit from Carla Thomas

 

[pinotbear]

5. Novelist, I think.

 

[wire chief]

1..Crown is on hand, identifying a Derby hopeful.

2...Three of you with 3 different words, all valid.

3..Heavy remembers Diana Rigg

4..Heavy again with Papua, New Guinea.

5..Silly ol' bear recognizes a novelist.

6..Tyson Gay, a premiere US sprinter. Tyson Foods.

7..Geordi's got his last name, Eiffel.

8..Husky with, "Wrote( him) a letter".

9..Heavy has the translation and the proper spelling. The base word, "Papa" is used here as a direct object or accusative case. That requires the ending consonant "m".

10..The Maldives in the Indian Ocean--geordi & Heavy.

11..Geordi OK with the ostrich.

12..VTC & geordi with Pony Express.

13..Gee Whiz...you missed it.