OT: General knowledge test #298A

[wire chief]

Summer heat seems to be getting to me more than last year on the tennis court. What can one say about advancing years?

Meanwhile show your age right here, but do no research & don't repeat the questions please.

1..Aren't you glad you use ____? Don't you wish everybody did?

2..Either he played opposite Brooke Shields or wrote a diet book.

3..Dennis L. Rader once pled guilty to 10 murders. His nickname?

4..A naturalized American(?) from Kenya hopes to win the Olympics 5000m.

5..A house divided against itself cannot stand.

6..The lady in an Austen title?

7..She claimed 30 years ago that she loved rock & roll.

8..The main campus of Ariz St U is where?

9..The decade we annexed Hawaii?

10..An ignoble label for a 1920's woman, ___o_i_.

11..Das Lied von der Erde.

12..A 4-letter 1982 cyberspace film?

13..In 1812 the Louisiana Territory was renamed to what?

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Dial
5. Candidate Lincoln
6. Jane Eyre
7. Joan Jett
8. Phoenix
9. 1890's
12. Tron
13. Missouri Territory

 

[Kibitzer]

2. Atkins

11. Mahler composition

 

[wire chief]

1. Dial
5. Candidate Lincoln
6. Jane Eyre
7. Joan Jett
8. Phoenix
9. 1890's
12. Tron
13. Missouri Territory

2 grievous (OK strike that) errors.

 

[TXs N Os]

8. Tempe
9. 1950's

 

[poalo4343]

1..Dial
3..BTK
5..Abraham Lincoln’s acceptance speech for the Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. senator from the state of Illinois
7..Joan Jett
8..Phoenix
9..1890
12..TRON
13..Missouri Territory

 

[rbny1]

9. Specific year: 1898. I was just reading an article about this.
12. "The Song of the Earth" by Mahler.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. Bernard Legat
6. Emma
11. Mahler's 8th symphony

 

[frankenclyde8]

2. Christopher Atkins
3. BTK
6. Emma
8. Tempe

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

5 - used by Lincoln, from, IIRC, the Bible. He was not predicting war, as opponents suggested, only indicating that, in the end, the country would be either all one thing, or all the other (slave or free).
8 - Tempe
9 - 1890's

 

[meyers7]

1. Dial (as in soap)
2. Atkins (wasn't a very good movie though. But I saw they are making a remake, really?? )
4. That guy in that commercial.
5. Lincoln and Jesus
7. Joan Jett
8. Tempe
10. I guess "flapper" doesn't fit.

 

[wire chief]

1..VTC, Poalo & Meyers smell sweet with Dial (soap).

2..Christopher Atkins or Dr. Atkins--credit to Kib, Meyers & Frank.

3..BTK, rightly cited by Poalo & Frank.

4..Ed4 can't run with him but still knows Bernard Legat.

5..Abe, being biblically inspired, known by VTC, Knights, Meyers & Poalo.

6..Ed4 & Frank with Emma. Jane Eyre was a Bronte work.

7..VTC, Poalo & Meyers cite Joan Jett.

8..Welcome TXs; you and 3 with Tempe. Two others think Tempe, Scottsdale & Mesa are just sections of Phoenix.

9..Rbny (and apparently 3 other posters) was doing some serious reading about the 1890's.

10.."Flapper" wasn't derogatory. Try "Floozie", though some may remember as "Floozy" and were thrown off.

11..Kib, Ed4, & rbny give us Gustav Mahler.

12..Poalo & VTC identify TRON.

13..VTC & Poalo with Missouri

 

[vtcwbuff]

Scootsdale is a city separate from Phoenix with it's own government. It's like saying Alexandria is just a part of Washington.

 

[wire chief]

I know that; I was just teasing the 2 of you who selected Phoenix.

 

[geordi]

1. Dial
3. BTK Killer - Bind, torture, Kill --- sicko
5. Lincoln, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 I think
6. Emma
8. Tempe
9. 1890s ??
12 Tron