OT: General knowledge test #315A

[wire chief]

Sometimes after a bladder call, you can beg and plead, but the body won't fall back asleep.
You are the fortunate recipients.

But still you must not obey the urge to research nor reprint questions.

1..What is the new 1860 industry that comes to Virginia City, Nev?

2..The decade Alcatraz receives its 1st federal prisoners?

3..James S. Sherman was the (mostly forgettable) veep under..?

4..Years ago his surprise victory in the 1500m at an Olympics henceforth inspired
African runners.

5..Diffuse or planetary or emission _______.

6..William Somerset Maughm's claim to fame?

7..Two distances(?) are mentioned by Peter, Paul & Mary in the same venue.

8..The popular name for the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry?

9..The decade pot becomes illegal?

10..In 1521 who leads the Spanish vs. the Aztecs in Mexico?

11..This comic was a feather in his capp.

12..Former longshoreman and academic who wrote LISTEN YANKEE, a 50's polemic
vs. US government behavior.

13..A blues standard: "I get up in the morning; I believe I ____ __ _____".

 

[pinotbear]

7. 100 miles, 500 miles
8. Rough Riders

 

[vtcwbuff]

3. Taft
8. Rough Riders
9. 20s?
10. Cortez?

 

[geordi]

1. Silver
6. he's a writer -wrote Of Human Bondage
8. Rough Riders
10. Hernan Cortes
11. Andy ... Capp, that is
13. 'dust my broom' classic

 

[meyers7]

4. Kip Kanu (sp?) ?
10. Cortez I believe was the right Conquistador.

 

[frankenclyde8]

1. Silver mining
5. Three types of nebulae
9. 1930s

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Gold mining?
1. A Ponderosa Theme Park?
2. 1910s
3. FDR
4. Kip Keino, a Kenyan policeman(up until that 1968 Olympics, Jim Ryan pretty much owned that duel. Neither Ryan nor non African distance runners have been the same since the Mexico City games)
8. The Roughriders
9. You mean to tell me it's illegal?
10. Cortez
11. Andy Capp, never worked, lived off his wife, drank, played snooker, chased women

 

[Zorro]

Sometimes after a bladder call, you can beg and plead, but the body won't fall back asleep.
You are the fortunate recipients.

But still you must not obey the urge to research nor reprint questions.

1. Uh...Big Ben Cartwright's ranch?

4. Kip Kino?

6. Of Human Bondage? The Razor's Edge? Cakes and Ale?

12. Eric Hoffer.

13.. "I'll dust my broom". Robt Johnson

 

[wire chief]

2..I support guessing

11..Y ou have one, but there's a 2nd perfectly appropriate answer.

12..Eric Hoffer is like a twin to this guy, same time period.

 

[Bestiarius]

2. 1930s
11. LiL Abner

 

[wire chief]

1..If geordi and frank could speak, they'd give us silver-tongue oratory.

2..I asked for guessing, and Best righteously replied with 1934.

3..Taft was his boss, as VTC knows.

4..Spelling's all over the place, except for VAUC who has Kip Keino.

5,,Don't think frank is nebulous for knowing nebulae.

6..A novelist, especially known for Of Human Bondage. If The Razor's Edge were no made into 2 movies, that book would be far less known. Zorro & geordi.

7..Pinot sets the tone with 100, 500. The song title is 500 Miles.

8..Teddy's Rough Riders, up and down the San Juan hills. Pinot heads 4 of you.

9..Ah, how we wish, VAUC; how we wish. Frank stops inhaling in the 30's.

10..Hernando Cortez, one of the reasons we have the Sea of Cortez. VTC plus 3.

11..Andy Capp, as a cartoon figure; Al Capp as a Lil Abner artist. Best, VAUC & geordi.

12..C. Wright Mills, whose THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION was once well read also.

13..Dust my Broom, geordi & zorro