OT: General knowledge test #280B

[wire chief]

14..Coalhouse Walker is a character in what '70's work?

15..For most of the 20thC, France forbade the liquor, ___in___.

16..Gordon MacRae & Doris Day: __the_____ __ the _______ ____.

17..Who were Klaus Fuchs and Harry Gold?

18..The double cocoanut tree has the world's largest..?

19..The collective for crows? For doves?

20..Mark Wahlberg hosts..?

21..If it barks, it may be a C___ __r__.

22.M.L. King wrote, "No other person has been more eloquent and passionate about getting this idea
(noncooperation with evil) across than..?"

23..Twice within this hit single(?), the artist announces that he is about to play his sax.

24..What actors are FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS?

25..The Pope just visited 2 Western Hemisphere nations(?)

There's now nothing more I need do.

 

[vtcwbuff]

15. Absynthe
19. Murder of crows
25. Mexico and ?

 

[huskyblooz]

18. trunk

 

[geordi]

15 absinthe
17 spies
19 Murder of crows/flight of doves
20 Antique Roadshow
22. Ghandi
25. Cuba was one.

 

[wire chief]

15 absinthe
17 spies
19 Murder of crows/flight of doves
20 Antique Roadshow
22. Ghandi
25. Cuba was one.

Ghandi logical; Ghandi wrong. Otherwise you % is waaaaay up there.

 

[Bestiarius]

22. Thoreau
15. I don't think it's absinthe because that's not a liquor.

 

[heavyhusky]

14) E. L. Doctorow's "Ragtime"

15) It was absinthe.

17) Klaus Fuchs was the Los Alamos physicist who gave the Russians the secrets to the atomic bomb. He roomed with my physics prof there. He was NOT a spy, but he was a traitor.

 

[wire chief]

16..By the Light...

18..It weighs as much as 44 lbs.

19..An ex________of doves

21...An Italian breed (I rely on geordi for all things Italian), Cane..?

23..A late 60's tune by Junior Walker and the All-Stars, "What ____ __ ____?"

24..Mila_____ & Justin __________.

Carry on.

 

[pinotbear]

16..of the Silvery Moon.
18. Nut?

 

[geordi]

21...An Italian breed (I rely on geordi for all things Italian), Cane..?

Sorry, I'm no help

 

[vtcwbuff]

24. Post hint - Kunis (?) and Timberlake

 

[Bestiarius]

18. Is that the tree that has the big seeds/nut that looks like Dairyair's avitar?

 

[wire chief]

14..Heavy has Doctorow's RAGTIME.

15..Absinthe, as 4 said, and it is a liquor, a potent one at that.

16..Can't you just hear Pinot singing, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon. I want to Spoon...

`17..Two traitors, selling secrets around the same time.

18..Seed

`19..Geordi & VTC good with murder of crows. Doves fly in an exaltation.

20..Geordi, a man of culture, with Antique Roadshow.

21..Cane Corso

22..Excellence by Best with Henry David Thoreau.

23..Sound familiar?


24..VTC has Kunis and Timberlake

25..To complete this we need a duet. VTC with Mexico; geordi with Cuba.