OT: General knowledge test #303A

[wire chief]

With high heat all over America, this is a cool alternative.

Don't research nor reprint questions
please.

1..Who named Victoria Falls?

2..A U. of Chicago study names what nation as most God-believing?

3..Song: Body jewelry aids wireless romance

4..During the 1980's this Euro 1st lady hinted to other nations that when she visited, she wanted to receive honorary doctorates.

5..Polio is still endemic in 3 countries(?).

6..Christian Grey seems to be descended from Marquis de Sade. Explain.

7..The Big Ben Clock Tower is undergoing a change(?).

8..For what did Bill Buchnar gain ignobility in '86?

9.."You're the poet in my heart, never change, never stop."

10..Battling prime ministers in 1860's London?

11..What put the Stonewall Inn in the news 43 years ago?

12..The decade Boston & NYC are linked by telegraph?

13..An American Grande Dame(?) will join the Downton Abbey cast.

 

[pap49cba]

9. One of my favs.... Fleetwood Mac - Sara

7. Believe the name is being changed but to what, I can't recall...

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10. Gladstone & Disraili (sp)? But later than the 1860's, I thought. Lord Palmerston was PM during American Civil War IIRC.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Bill Buchnar? I assume you mean Bill Buckner who let a ground ball
go through his legs resulting in a Mets win in the 86 world series.

11. Wasn't that the site of a protest by homosexual men against the
harassment and abuse by NYC police? Something like that?

 

[rbny1]

11. Stonewall Inn was (and still is, I believe) a gay bar in Greenwich Village. When police raided the place, the patrons fought back and rioted. The riot is considered to mark the start of the gay rights movement in the U.S.

 

[Bestiarius]

1. Livingstone
2 Philippines
7. Name change to Elizabeth Tower
8. Do you mean the Buckner bobble?
11. Gay bar police riot
12. 1830s

 

[frankenclyde8]

6. 50 Shades of Grey (semi)protagonist Christian Grey has rather interesting sexual appetites. I admit, I read it.
13. Shirley Maclaine

 

[wire chief]

3..A 1973 top 15 song by a Dutch group("body jewelry") called ____ Love.

4..She died on Christmas day, 1989, amid joyous fanfare.

5..Two in Asia, one in Africa, collectively their initials are PAN.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Livingston
2. United States
3. Radio Love - ???
5. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria
8. Bill Buckner was the Red Sox first baseman in 1986 when, in the 9th inning of game 6 against the Mets, a game the Red Sox appeared to have well in hand with a two run lead and two outs, Bill Buckner failed to come up with the Mookie Wilson grounder that allowed Ray Knight to score the winning run from second base, capping a tremendously unbelievalbe two out rally to win the game and send the series to a seventh game.

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Livingston, Stanley or Burton
8. Buckners error cost the Sox the series.

 

[wire chief]

What to do during a Wimbledon rain delay? Well, there's this.

1..Best, VAUC & VTC mention Livingston, I presume.

2..Best alone is accurate with the Phillipines.

3..Golden Earring sings Radar Love.

4..Some of you are bound to remember that the Romanian folks hanged the Ceausescus on Christmas Day.

5..VAUC has all 3, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria.

6..And, Frank, so have millions of others, as it has been top of the list for weeks.

7..The clock henceforth is "Elizabeth", one gesture for the queen's diamond jubilee. Best is on this.

8..Several of you write of the Mookie-bobble. Oh yes, you are correct that the spelling is "Bochner".

9..Meyers expresses some giddiness over Fleetwood Mac's Sara.

10..William Gladstone & Benjamin Disraeli were respectively heads of their parties from 1868. Award to Knights.

11..Four of you identify the gay bar that led to police raids. See Rbny for detail.

12..1847...Best was close.

13..Frank cites Shirley Maclaine

You have 10 of 13 here.