OT: General knowledge test #321A

[wire chief]

Yes, me buckos, it's that time again, but kindly don't research nor reprint questions.

1..Judith Martin is better known as..?

2..The 1st (1916) self-service grocery(?) became a chain that's still around.

3..Fairly new nation(?) calls Dili its capital.

4..A new toll road in..? will have 85mph speed limits.

5..The longest ex-presidency(?) was just surpassed by Jimmy Carter.

6..The date of this year's Day of Atonement?

7..Ben E' King sings the movie title song.

8..In finally leaving America, the Marquis de Lafayette bids farewell to which serving Prez?

9..PG-13 & R movies now carry a behavioral warning that was absent a few years ago.

10..A political reconciliation? "You'd never think they go together, but they certainly do.."

11..RIP _______ ____ who gave us Bus Stop & Picnic.

12..Ethnicity of "Good King Wenceslas"?

13..Yellowstone has a N, a S, an E, a W and..?entrances.
And which is (are) open in winter?

 

[frankenclyde8]

3. East Timor
4. Texas
6. Sundown, 25 September
12. Czech

 

[vtcwbuff]

2. IGA?
4. Texas
5. Truman?
8. Monroe?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

5. Herbert Hoover
11. William Inge
12. Polish? (or is that too obvious?)

 

[Zorro]

2. A & P?

11. Inge?
12..Polish

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[mr006]

7. Stand By Me

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Safeway
3. Dally
4. Canada
5. William Howard Taft
7. Stand By Me
8. George Washington
9. Don't Do This At Home
13. South and East

Hoping to get 2 correct answers. Would not bet on it, though.

 

[TXs N Os]

1. Miss Manners

 

[pinotbear]

13. There's a northeast entrance...and, I think that the west (West Yellowstone) and north (Mammoth Hot Springs) are the only ones open in winter.

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. Gerald Ford(second guess)

 

[wire chief]

1..You are (erroneously too) Topsy Turvedly all over the place.

8..Not yet, but there are limited possibilities, so keep at it.

9..Get your sorry butts in gear.

10.."A combination of _______ _______ & Irish ____."

 

[pinotbear]

9. cigarette smoking?

 

[arnie3]

1. Miss Manners
2. A & P
4. Texas
5.32 years, Gerald Ford
7. Stand By Me, Rob Reiner
8. John Adams
10. Obama & Bill Clinton who had been on the outs until a game of golf in 2011
11. Inge
12. Lutheran
13. North is Montana, South is Jackson Hole, west is Idaho, and east is Cody Wyoming. Jackson Hole is open in the winter

 

[wire chief]

1..the syndicated Miss Manners. The socially inept TXs & Arnie are faithful readers.

2..You covered the field but failed to mention Piggely Wiggely.

3..Just frank here with E. Timor. VAUC has turned lavender blue.

4..The eyes of Texas will only catch a glimpse of those upon which they are. Say what?
Frank, VTC & Arnie

5..Mr. Herbert Hoover, thanks to ed4.

6..Yes, sir, frank, the 25th of this month.

7..So darlin', darlin', STAND BY ME...mr006, Arnie & VAUC.

8..It was the Quincy guy.

10..Novelty song--ENGLISH MUFFINS AND IRISH STEW.

9..Credit to Pinot for "smoking".

11..William Inge, as ed4+3 indicated.

12..Yes, Polish is too obvious; frank knows he was Czech.

13..Pinot is good at this, relying on his decades as a survivalist. There's a northeast entrance. My info says only the north(Pinot again) is cleared & open in winter. Essentially the Park tkes little pains to clear roads, leaving transportation to snowmobilers et al.

As always, a delight dealing with you.