OT: General Knowledge Test #320A

[wire chief]

The Bryan Bros are chest-bumping for having won the doubles championship.

We will do the equally excitng challenge here, but please don't repeat question list nor do research.

1..The majestic Conwy Castle sits in No. Ireland, Ireland, Norway, Wales, Scotland or England?

2..In 1912 Alfred Wegener's theory of p_____ t________ is not accepted; today it is highly regarded.

3..How we know what we know is a branch(?) of philosophy.

4..Borodino was a crucial battle leading to the ultimate defeat of..?

5..1.574(etc) feet = ?

6..Arcelor-Mittal is the world's largest..?

7..A famous oceanic bird flies no more. Huh?

8..The decade Sweden changes to right-side-of-the-road driving?

9..In 1975 Jefferson County, Ky is the 1st metropolitan area to begin the
Supreme Court's order to..?

10.."Give me time...oh, give me a little time to ease the pain."

11..Though in dispute, this secular historian offers a reference to Jesus' existence.

12..What is steganography?

13..The Euproneous Krater is restored to Italy from the..?

 

[pinotbear]

2. plate tectonics (sp?)
9. bus school children to achieve racial balance in individual schools
12. the study of the steganosaurus

 

[wire chief]

2. plate tectonics (sp?)
9. bus school children to achieve racial balance in individual schools
12. the study of the steganosaurus

12..or the history of silly ol' bears.

 

[vtcwbuff]

4. Napolean
7. Dodo?

 

[k9fanatic]

4. Napoleon
10. Break It To Me Gently -- Juice Newton

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. Wales (north coast I believe)
3. Epistomology
7. Spruce goose?

 

[Bestiarius]

8. 1960s. Another way to ask this question, What caused ALL vehicular traffic in the country of Sweden to simultaneously come to a halt for 10 minutes on 9-3-67. Good trivia question.

 

[frankenclyde8]

Congrats Mike and Bob...and holy crap, Serena.

3. Epistemology
4. Defeat of Napoleon, but I think that battle actually was won by the French.
5. Cubit?
12. The method of code writing

 

[wire chief]

6..We're talking heavy metal here.

7..This concerns a recent death of an author.

11..J_______

13..Somewhere(?) in NYC.

 

[pinotbear]

7. oh, yeah. didn't the author of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull head off to the Great Rookery in the Sky recently?

 

[Zorro]

2.. Plate tectonics. I am not sure that Wegener called it that though. Continental drift, mebbe?

3..Epistemology

4.. Napoleon's army in Russia.



11.. Flavious Josephus. Pretty specious evidence,though.
12..What is steganography?

13..The Euproneous Krater is restored to Italy from the..?[/quote]

 

[wire chief]

Finishing up while central Florida has the rarity of morning rain.

1..Ed4 Wales that I should call on him.

2..Plate tectonics(I feel the earth move under my feet)--Pinot & zorro

3..Ed4, frank & zorro argue they know what they know, and it's epistomology.

4..Not yet Napolean's Waterloo, but getting there--K9 + 3.

5..Standing on line when something sinks their teeth into you is a queue-bit--that's frank's joke, I swear.

6..Steel yourself for my answer.

7..Pinot knows we are referencing the J. L. Seagull author, Johan Sebastian Bach (All right, maybe it's Richard)

8..Best is trying out for your new testmeister with this absorbing rephrasing. See him.

9..Flinging students every which way, like Pinot says.

10..Juice Newton did Break it to Me Gently, though Brenda Lee had it earlier. Nonetheless, we highlight K9 here.

11..Josephus of the 1stC--though zorro may fight that acknowledgement to his last breath.

12..Like frank says, we want to break coded messages.

13..Metropolitan Museum of Art. Who knows what other shady acquisitions lay there?

 

[vtcwbuff]

If the key to #11 is "secular" than it could be argued that Josephus was far from secular. He was a Jew that "defected" to the Romans. According to Wikipedia - the source of all knowledge - he was also a well known hagiographer (I had to look that up too) which might disqualify him as secular. Secular Roman historian and senator Tacitus also provided historical proof that Christ existed.

Unfortunately both accounts may have been spun by centuries of "scholarly" monks intent on writing history their way.

 

[meyers7]

5. sounds like a cubit.......rriiiggghhhtttt.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

If the key to #11 is "secular" than it could be argued that Josephus was far from secular. He was a Jew that "defected" to the Romans. According to Wikipedia - the source of all knowledge - he was also a well known hagiographer (I had to look that up too) which might disqualify him as secular. Secular Roman historian and senator Tacitus also provided historical proof that Christ existed.

Unfortunately both accounts may have been spun by centuries of "scholarly" monks intent on writing history their way.

Jesus - the historical figure that walked on the earth - was a rather obscure, minor rebbi who did much of his ministry in a very brief period in one of the true backwaters of the empire, before getting himself executed. What grew and grew was the religion that was developed after his followers came to believe in His resurrection. One religious commentator made the interesting point that Christians are not particularly following the religion of Jesus himself, but rather the religion that developed ABOUT Jesus. Interesting point, whether or not one would agree with everything else the author said.