OT: General knowledge test #328A

[wire chief]

For those keeping track of renowned biologists, the Dolly-the-sheep guy just died.

You may not clone the question sheet nor do research.

1..Birds have flight, down, and _______ types of feathers.

2..______ is now the 37th nation to be part of our visa-waiver program, allowing visitors 90 days.

3..A famous 4-character play with Amanda, Jim, Laura & Tom.

4..Mrs. O'Leary's cow didn't do it(?).

5..The boat takes on water; link that to ABBA.

6..What nation has more pyramids than does Egypt?

7..Ex-all-star catcher and current announcer, Tim McCarver, once played for a National
Championship in what non-sport activity?

8..In what specific course of study does one encounter Truth Tables?

9..Within 50 years, when was Leif Ericson's visit here?

10..What is Howard Wolowicz' nickname among fellow astronauts?

11..Awaitin' for the train that goes home, Sweet Mary,
Hopin' that the train is on time.

12..The decade the Washington Monument opens?

13..Hard(?) coal.

 

[SoCalCanine]

4. Start the Chicago Fire
6. Mexico
7. Bridge?
10. Fruit Loops
11. "One Toke Over The line"- Brewer and Shipley, I swear I didn't inhale!!!
13. Anthracite

 

[k9fanatic]

3. The Glass Menagerie
4. Start the Great Chicago Fire
8. Math (and boolean logic which extends beyond math and is at the heart of super-duper searching techniques)
10. Fruit Loops
11. One Toke Over the Line

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Start the Chicago Fire
6. Guatamala
9. 1419
11. One Toke Over the Line - ???
12. 1890's
13. Bituminous
13. Anthracite

 

[meyers7]

4. Start the great Chicago Fire. (and yes it did)
5. S.O.S.

6. USA (on the back of our money)
7. You mean the one time catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals? The reigning World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals? I don't know, I just wanted to say reigning World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals. It has such a nice ring (get it?) to it.
11. One Toke Over the Line - was gonna link S.O.S. but who can pass this up:

 

[DriveLH]

8. Boolean Algebra, hich was almos useless until digital computrs.

 

[pinotbear]

1. pin?
9. 970 AD

 

[vtcwbuff]

4. Start the fire in Chicago
6. Mexico
8. Math - DriveLH I was using Boolean Algebra in 1965. Yes/no circuits predated digital computers
13. Anthracite

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

9. 1000 CE or 1000 AD if you prefer
12. 1880's
13. Anthracite is the hard stuff, Bituminous the "soft"

 

[Zorro]

4..Kick over the lantern

6..Guatemala


11..And I'm one toke over the line.


13..Anthracite

 

[geordi]

4. The Chicago Fire
6. Mexico
9. 1000
11. One toke over the line, Sweet Jesus
12. 1875

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice?
9. 1006

 

[wire chief]

1..Contour

2..Taiwan

3..K9 provides The Glass Menagerie by Evil Empire Williams.

4..Years later a journalist admits that he invented the cow story because it made good newsprint. Anyway a near-uncountable
# of you cited the Chicago fire (of 1871).

5..Meyers has the ABBA hit SOS.

6..Mexico? Not even close. It's Sudan.

7..He was a bridge player. SoCal has this obscurity.

8..Boolean algebra, but more commonly, Intro to Logic. K9, VTC & Drive.

9..If this were THE PRICE IS RIGHT, I'd have to disqualify ed4 by going over 1002. But here he's OK. So are Knights
& Pinot.

10..SoCal & K9 know Fruit Loops for the BIG BANG character.

11..Tell me, Meyers, was Welk a closet imp...or just really, really dumb? And I heartedly agree that it was too good to pass up.
Sweet Jesus! So many of you are one toke over the line. Brewer & Shipley

12..It was 1888, Knights on target.

13..SoCal leads a quartet with anthracite.

You captured 10 here.

 

[meyers7]

11..Tell me, Meyers, was Welk a closet imp...or just really, really dumb? And I heartedly agree that it was too good to pass up.
Sweet Jesus! So many of you are one toke over the line. Brewer & Shipley

I'm guessing completely clueless. I do wonder about some of the younger people there on the show though, they must have been LTAO.