OT: General knowledge test #332A

[wire chief]

Remember this one as following the first NFL tie in 4 years.

Kindly resist reprinting questions and doing research.

1..One NFL team has 15 straight home wins.

2..I'm riding with Lady Luck. Freeways, cars & trucks.

3..Thursday Muslims celebrate Al-Hijra. It's meaning?

4..La Clemenza di Tito is his(?) last.

5..He leads the NBA in scoring 3 seasons running.

6..Total solar eclipses happen because of 2 significant equal measurements. Huh?

7..Within 5 years when was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier dedicated?

8..What station delivers 666 Park Ave. to your home?

9..What make was the 1st car with A/C?

10..Within 5 years when is King Tut's Tomb found?

11..The song titles "I Gotta Woman" and "Be-Bop-A-Lula" appear in the
lyrics of what hit?

12..In 1775 the Continental Congress ok's 1 pint of milk and 1 quart of beer
OR _____ to each soldier daily.

13..What's especially functional about crocs hunting together?

 

[k9fanatic]

3. New Year's?
5. Kevin Durant
7. 1920-ish
8. ABC
11. Walk of Life -- Dire Straits

 

[rbny1]

4. Mozart's final opera.

 

[vtcwbuff]

7. 1930? More appropriately known as the "Tomb of the Unknowns"
8. ABC Network I think. I watched it once, that was enough. The "station" will vary by area.

 

[SoCalCanine]

2. Old 55- The Eagles

 

[geordi]

2. They are mud flaps, aren't they? You see them on the back of big rigs
4. Mozart opera
9. Packard
10. 1922

 

[ed4ourgirls]

6. If you are referring to the fact that the angular diameters of the Sun and Moon
are nearly the same, it should be pointed out that solar eclipses would still
occur (and occur more frequently) if the moon's angular diameter was very much
larger than that of the Sun. (i.e. if the Moon was bigger or closer to Earth).

7. 1920?
10. 1925?

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. Kevin Durant
7. 1918
8. MTV
8. BET
8. VH1
9. DeSoto(If I had to gues the year, I'd say 1959)
10. 1969
13. It isn't fair

 

[wire chief]

It all comes out in the wash. Profound expression, no? Wonder where it comes from.

1..When it comes to thinking about losing a game on their home turf, they avow, 'Nevermore"!!

2..Like SoCal wrote, Ol' 55. He credits the Eagles; yes, but the original was by folk singer Tom Waits(for no one).

3..It is New Year's Day, and, K9, that's without question.

4..Credit to rbny & geordi for choosing the Mozart opera.

5..From Oklahoma City (cue the Thunder), I give you Kevin Durant. Well, no, actually K9 & VAUC give him.

6..The diameter of the moon is 400 times smaller than that of the sun. Also the sun is 400 times the distance from the eatth
as is the moon. That yields a total eclipse with a nice artistic bright rim, for a few minutes anyway. What fun!

7..K9 leads four that're (hmm..is that a valid contraction? How'bout who're?) within 5 years(1921). Back then it was
"unknown soldier". Since then, the designation is officially "unknowns".

8..The ABC network, as K9 & vtc so state.

9..Geordi knows it is Packard.

10..It was 1922--geordi on the nose; ed4 within 5.

11..K9 is up on her Dire Straits--Walk of Life.

12..If you don't like beer you can have cider.

13..Crocs can't chew, so it's vital for large catches that you have a fellow croc on the other end, twisting and pulling to rip off smaller chunks that can be swallowed whole. Caution: if you have a croc after you, take no solace that he won't bite down, if he sees no other croc in the area.

 

[SoCalCanine]

2. Dang, I KNEW that and love Tom Waits, a brain fart forgetting his original and superior version!

 

[meyers7]

11..K9 is up on her Dire Straits--Walk of Life.

Thought I recognized the words, never realized they were song titles though.Used to listen to these guys all the time. Back in the day.

 

[wire chief]

Thought I recognized the words, never realized they were song titles though.Used to listen to these guys all the time. Back in the day.

You're such a yung-un.

 

[meyers7]

You're such a yung-un.

Try telling that to my kids.