OT: General knowledge test #304A

[wire chief]

I have no idea why my brain sometimes insists on coming alive in the middle of the night.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..For 3 years (until its repeal in 1770) the colonists fought the T_______ R______ Acts.

2..Neil Armstrong's steps were in the S__ __ ___________.

3..Singer: a supernatural Travolta + a cow, a pig, a horse & a chicken.

4..On British Mystery offered on PBS, Inspector Lewis is preceded by Inspector _____.

5..The term "derecho"(?) is in the news recently.

6..Where did a golf course just open, a time zone from any sizable metropolitan area?

7..In 1960 he was the 1st to win MVP in a world series on the losing team. Who?

8..In 1943 Emile Gagnan &..? invent the aqualung.

9..He(?) had a 2nd estate called Poplar Forest near Lynchburg Va.

10..The decade Canada becomes self-governing?

11..The Legend of Lorelei involves what river?

12..What the czarina thinks she sees have come to be called ________ V_______.

13.."Oh, I see her face everywhere I go, on the street, even in the picture show."

 

[pinotbear]

2. Sea of Tranquility
5. A long-lived line of storms/severe downburst. In this case, all the way from the upper Midwest to the central Atlantic coast.
7. Ernie Banks?
8. Jacques Cousteau?

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Sea of Tranquility
5. Heavy windstorm of some kind caused by very high upper level cool winds mixing with lower level hot air producing the high gusts of winds over 80mph that knocked over my tree(I feel blessed that the damage was not more extensive)
7. Yogi Berra
7. Bobby Richardson
7. Mickey Mantle
7. Someone on the Yankees
8. Jacques Cousteau
9. Robert E. Lee
13. Have You Seen Her - the Chi-lites

 

[meyers7]

11. Gotta be Styx

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Townsend Revenue acts
2. Sea of Tranquility
8. Cousteau
9. Jefferson

 

[rbny1]

7. Bobby Richardson
11. The Rhine

 

[crownfox2]

4. Inspector Morse

 

[geordi]

2. Sea of Tranquility - actually Tranquility Base
5. straight line wind storms like the ones here in Washington last week - from the spanish for "straight ahead"
7. Bobby Richardson - I hated that series. The Yankees outscored the Pirates something like 45 - 12 and lost on Mazeroski's homer
8. Jacques Cousteau
9. Thomas Jefferson
11 Rhine.

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Townshend Act?
9. Thomas Jefferson
13. Have You Seen Her -- Chi-Lites

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Sea of Tranquility
5. A long-lived line of storms/severe downburst. In this case, all the way from the upper Midwest to the central Atlantic coast.
7. Ernie Banks?
8. Jacques Cousteau?

I would have given my left pinky and one of my kidneys to have seen Ernie Banks play in a World Series. President Nixon listed him as his all time favorite shortstop. Unfortunately, I only saw him play first base. Anyone here fortunate enough to have seen Banks play shortstop? His arm? Range? Fielding? Could he turn a double play? Was he a leader on the field?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

10. 1867 I believe. (Dominion status)

 

[wire chief]

3..Travolta with wings...and a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there.

6..Somewhere other than the old Scotland.

12..So there's Catherine, cruising down the river, inspecting her various "communities".

 

[crownfox2]

3. Michael McDonald

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Michael McDonald(if correct, the Travolta with wings clue is going to have to be explained)

 

[vtcwbuff]

3..Travolta with wings...and a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there.

6..Somewhere other than the old Scotland.

12..So there's Catherine, cruising down the river, inspecting her various "communities".

I remember the Travolta movie and the wings but it must have sucked so bad that I forgot the name.

 

[pinotbear]

The name of the movie is "Michael", and it's got some good moments and good lines. My favorite is "I'm not That kind of Angel".

 

[wire chief]

I remember the Travolta movie and the wings but it must have sucked so bad that I forgot the name.

Actually, nowadays I forget even the good ones. MICHAEL did get good reviews.

 

[frankenclyde8]

6. The golf course question has had me thinking time zones all day. I'll go Azores.

 

[wire chief]

So, what have you been up to?

1..VTC provides the Townsend Revenue Acts. K9 is into short forms.

2..Pinot + 3 are up on their moon features--Sea of Tranquility.

3..Post hint, you recognize Michael McDonald, singing ee-i-ee-i-o.

4..I can always depend on crown to watch PBS--Inspector Morse.

5..Several with various ways of storm-defining. See above.

6..Well, if it's not the "old" Scotland, it must be the new one.

7.. Well, VAUC, is that your final answer? No? OK, then is this your final answer? No. Well, Gosh darn what is your bloody
answer? Rbny & geordi also give us Bobby Richardson, but geordi does not like to be reminded of that time in his life.
By the way, VAUC, why would you think Nixon gives credence to any position?

8..Geordi + 3 give us Jacques Cousteau.

9..K9, VTC & geordi put Jefferson in his southernmost home.

10..1867 is right on the nose. YOU ARE THERE, Edward R. Murrow. (Whoops, the ed is ed4).

11..Rbny & geordi sight her along the Rhine.

12..Come on, you must have heard of Potemkin Villages, phony fronts put up along the river to fool the empress.

13..K9 & VAUC ask "Have You Seen Her?" by the Chi-Lites. (See, K9, you don't REALLY need '80's music. Not that I'm saying you are old.)

 

[geordi]

6. Ahhhhh! "New" Scotland...Nova Scotia. Never would have guessed

 

[VAUConnFan]

So, what have you been up to?

By the way, VAUC, why would you think Nixon gives credence to any position?

Merely to underscore the fact that I always knew of Ernie Banks as a first baseman having never seen him play the #6 position.