OT: General knowledge test #300A

[wire chief]

Posters! The world wants to know whether 300 is a landmark, perhaps like the guy
who accumulates a world record in saving twine.

No research & no reprinting questions.

1..Maya commits a Depaul theft & calls TO. The last play?

2..Until 1669 this Englishman keeps a diary.

3..Bing Crosby's connection to Jane Austen?

4.."The smith, a mighty man is he, with..."?

5..The Dept of Labor begins in what decade.

6..A French phrase we use to indicate a collective gathering?

7..A 30's criminal(?) gives us an FBI nickname(?)

8..Mufasa is father of S____ in what?

9..It's awarded to a mystery novelist, The __g__.

10..The Continental Congress committee is charged with writing the Declaration of
Independence. Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman + 3 others(?).

11.."You're like a diamond, but she treats you like glass."

12..Oh wow! That's her(?) 10th block...but no.

13..Chopin is notable for this form ___d_.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. Ketia dribbles the length of the court and scores the winning basket.
(Actually , the last play was a heave by DePaul that hit the rim IIRC.)
2. Samuel Pepys
7. Baby face Nelson?, G-Man
13. Etude

 

[vtcwbuff]

300 - congrats on a milestone. I'm looking forward to #1000.

2. Samuel Pepys?
4. The Village Blacksmith - Longfellow
6. Millieu?
8. Simba the Lion King
9. Edgar
10. Jefferson, Adams and Franklin
12. Shuey?

 

[wire chief]

Do your ancestors,VTC, consistently live beyond 90?

 

[VAUConnFan]

DePaul inbounds under their basket and does not convert. UConn steals a game they really had no business winning due, in large part, to the play that, for me, defines the greatness of Maya Moore.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. DePaul inbounds under their basket and does not convert. UConn steals a game they really had no business winning due, in large part, to the play that, for me, defines the greatness of Maya Moore.
5. 1960's.
8. Simba in the Lion King
11. If I Was Your Woman - Gladys Knight & The Pips
12. Kelly Schumacher against Tennesse i the national championship game in 2000.

 

[poalo4343]

2..Samuel Pepys

4..The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7..G-Men

9..Edgar is what you want but since you did not say who was doing the awarding; the answer could just as well be the Nero.

11..If I was your woman, Alicia Keys

13..Chopin is notable for piano solos. I hope the word you want is a synonym for piano solos.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

5 - 1930's??
13 - I think Ed is correct with Etude.

 

[Zorro]

4. ,,,large and sinewy hands.

 

[geordi]

4. large and sinewy hands - The Village Blacksmith; Longfellow
6. rendezvous
8. Scar - The Lion King
9. Edgar
10. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams
13. Etude

 

[rbny1]

6. En masse

 

[meyers7]

5. 1930's???? I'm guessing with the New Deal???
7. G-Men. Don't know the criminal.
8. Simba. Lion King.

 

[k9fanatic]

5. During Woodrow Wilson's administration, so 1913-14?
8. Simba in the Lion King
9. Edgar award
11. If I Was Your Woman -- Gladys Knight
12. Kelly Schumaker getting gypped out of her 10th block during the national championship game by the ever-incompetent officials.

 

[k9fanatic]

11. As I now can't get the song out my head, I realize that it's "If I Were Your Woman" not "was". I'm already indebted to WC for my misspellings, don't want to push it

 

[wire chief]

11. As I now can't get the song out my head, I realize that it's "If I Were Your Woman" not "was". I'm already indebted to WC for my misspellings, don't want to push it

Poalo provided the cover version by Alicia Keys, where she forewent the subjunctive.
It's not a bad tune to have running through your head. I love Gladys.

 

[wire chief]

1..Oh, ed4, we don't give a hoot about what Depaul fruilessly tried. Anyway, you & VAUC.

2..Ed4, VTC & Poalo with Samuel Pepys.

3..Hope this helps


4..Geordi & zorro provide the line's end--large and sinewy hands.

5..Actually, K9, Taft signed the act as the door was hitting him in the ass, but Wilson fleshed out the personnel, etc.

6..All alone is rbny with en masse.

7..OK, 3 of you get G-men, but there's no truth to the rumor that the parents of our Indiana girl named her after this guy.

8..Simba--Lion King--Meyers + 3

9..No, Poalo, when I give you the "g", the answer can't be anything but "Edgar". And another 4 of you.

10..VTC & geordi with Ben, Thomas and John.

12..VTC, K9 & VAUC watched Kelly S. get robbed.

13..Ed4, Knights & geordi with etude. It is a piano solo, and more specifically, a piece designed for practice.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

7. OK, with the big hint, it's Machine Gun Kelly.

 

[wire chief]

7. OK, with the big hint, it's Machine Gun Kelly.

So, it is.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. I don't know, Wirechief. Friendly Persuasion and Persuasion? I move to throw out Question #3.

 

[wire chief]

3. I don't know, Wirechief. Friendly Persuasion and Persuasion? I move to throw out Question #3.

Do I hear a 2nd?

 

[Creaky]

I'm late to the party, but on #3, that is NOT Bing Crosby singing on the YouTube. (Maybe it's Frederick Wentworth.) Bing may have recorded it (I've never heard it if he did), but it certainly isn't a song he is in any way linked to.