OT: General knowledge test #305A

[wire chief]

Fats didn't like "Blue Monday", but the poor guy never had these tests to compensate.

Kindly don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..So far only one Mountain state(?) has escaped these wildfires.

2..Mr Stewart offers this political reality: "Even the president needs _______".

3..In what movie is "Etta Place"?

4..Charles II grants whom a Rhode Island charter?

5..Where was the 1st Ziegfield Follies held (1907)?

6..Andy Murray may have lost Wimbledon, but, "He remains an Englishman. He remains an Englishman"(?).

7..Zwingli forwards the Reformation in what nation?

8..Author of IVANHOE?

9..The Japanese use "gaijin" to refer to..?

10..Israel currently debates conscription for 2 groups(?).

11..SungJongUn represents..?

12..Big-munching ______, resembling muskrats, are on states' eradication list.

13..Ken Lay got away, but not J.S.

 

[pinotbear]

8. Scott
9. foreigner
12. nutria
13. Enron scandal

 

[meyers7]

1. Gonna guess Montana. Don't remember hearing them in the news.
4. Roger Williams
6. Not sure what exactly you are after. Murray (English) lost Wimbleton final to Federer. Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore (and those airs from that infernal nonsense)
9. referring to reefer? (like ganja?)

 

[UConnChapette]

3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Montana?
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid among others.
4. Roger Williams
8. Walter Scott
12. Nutria
13. Skilling

 

[ed4ourgirls]

7. Switzerland?

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Wyoming
3. The Natural
4. Roger Williams
5. New York
6. there was a quote about if he won he would be the greatest Englishman of all time, if he lost he was a Scotsman.
10. Non Jews and Palestinians living in Israel

 

[rbny1]

10. Ultra-orthodox Jews and Palestinians living in Israel

 

[frankenclyde8]

1. Wyoming
7. Switzerland
9. Foreigners
12. Capybara

 

[geordi]

2. I don't know the quote but it's gotta come from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. Roger Williams
6. Isn't Murray a Scotsman?
8. Daniel Defoe
9. foreigner

 

[geordi]

16. Aw, C'mon - "to thine own self be true; and thou canst not be false to any man"
20 Souse Korea
21. The Lovely Lennon Sisters
22. Henry David Thoreau
23. Went to Mars
25. Kent

 

[geordi]

BTW, forgot one. Sung Jong Un is the dictator in North Korea

 

[wire chief]

1..You provide offerings, but Idaho has escaped you. Is that any way to act when Boise State is coming to us?

2..Not Jimmy, from Rod Stewart...the title is Passion.

3..Chap, VTC & geordi give us BUTCH CASSIDY... Katherine Ross played that lady.

4..Meyers leads 4 with Roger Williams.

5..VAUC is alone with NYC.

6..Meyers presents himself as perplexed, yet he answers forthrightly. The quote is Gilbert & Sullivan.
Yes, technically Andy is a Scot, but for Wimbledon purposes, he's an adopted Englishman.

7..Ed4 & frank correctly put him in Switzerland.

8..VTC has Sir Walter Scott. Pinot lazily just types "Scott". Could be Scott Tissues, for all we know.

9..Although Japanese, the term is familiar, judging by 4 correct responses.

10..Rbny has it--the ultra-orthodox and in-country Arabs.

11..Three generations of N Korean rulers, which you may have recognized has I not run their names together.

12..Pinot & VTC with nutria. Far as I know there are no runaway capybaras in the USA.

13..Pinot recognizes the names from the Enron scandal. VTC provides (Jeffrey) Skilling as the initials.

 

[frankenclyde8]

If I could go back in time and form an 80s punk band, I would call it The Runaway Capybaras.​