OT: General knowledge test #281A

[wire chief]

Angel and Tiff; Angel and Tiff
Smooth as an Allman Brothers riff.

No research please and don't reprint questions.

1..What was physically unusual about WWII Oscars?

2..It is said that the world's worst weather is in a place(?) not that far from Storrs.

3..Some Euro countries require non-Euro visitors to have an IDP. A what?

4..If you have a fear of heights, you may not want to watch this actor(?)'s
Silent Screen endeavors.

5..Joyce Bande just became the 1st female Prez in all of southern Africa. Her country?

6..In what nation is the "Easter Bilby" being promoted?

7..In 1917 what happened on Black Tom Island of NY Harbor?

8..Thought to be in the same niche: Corolla, Civic, Elantra, Chevy ____e.

9..The Canadian version of the Oscars?

10..Whose currency is the Zloty?

11..Charles & Frank Duryea do what in 1892?

12..At age 14 she reached the semis of the 1990 French Open. Who?

13..Who had a hit record citing Kilimanjaro & the Serengeti?

Yes, there's still a part B.

 

[UConnChapette]

2. Mount Washington, NH

3. International Driving Permit

10. Poland

13. Toto

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. Harold Lloyd.
7. Big explosion blamed on German saboteurs.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

6 - Australia, IIRC over-run by the usual Easter symbol.

 

[huskyblooz]

2. the Yukon
9. the JUNOs
12. capriati

 

[Bestiarius]

8. Chevette
11. Made automobiles in Springfield, MA (not so far from Storrs).

 

[geordi]

1. weren't made of metal??
2. Mt Washington
6. sounds Australian to me
10 Poland
11 built cars

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Made of wood like the bumpers on Clemenza's Cadillac
3. International Data Profile
4. Harold Lloyd - who performed his stunts with one hand after having blown off the other one in an accident
5. Cameroon
5. Malawi
12. Traci Austin

 

[meyers7]

2. Mt Washington is not too far away. And it get really cold and windy there.
4. Prolly that guy who hangs from the clock.....but I don't know his name.
12. Tracy Austin
13. Toto. Africa.

 

[k9fanatic]

5. Itty bitty Malawi
6. Australia
12. Tracy Austin?
13. Toto

 

[wire chief]

1..Yes VAUC, our patriotic Hollywooders used holly wood. (OK I'm taking a little license here).

2..Mt. Washington will do fine. Meyers, Chap & geordi.

3..Chap scores with International Driving Permit.

4..Yeah, Harold Lloyd scenes are hard for me to take. VAUC & ed4.

5..K9 offers the itsy bitsy, teeny-weenie, yellow polka---OK, no she didn't, but she has Malawi right. So too VAUC.

6..Australia, a bunny-hating republic. The bilby is a native marsupial. K9 & geordi & Knights

7..See the steady Ed4.

8..A few too many letters, Best. Cruze.

9..The Genies

10..Chap & geordi give us Poland.

11..They were into cars. Offered a prototype that year. Geordi & Best accurate here.

12..Jennifer Capriati...and smoked a little weed too. Who would have thought that should be added to
one's regimen for success? Good for you, husky.

13..Meyers invites us to listen. Toto's Africa. K9 & Chap also.

I've said all I have to say. Good night Mrs. Calabash wherever you are.

 

[huskyblooz]

9. yes, the JUNOs are their grammys.