OT: General knowledge test #333A

[wire chief]

Order of business
A..Do this
B..Eat turkey
C..See Wake beatdown

Please don't repeat questions nor do research.

1..It's heartbreaking and petty, I know, but I prefer the musical one(?) to the driver(?).

2..This started with Homer, and now she(?) has to heal.

3..Cuando juegas con fuego uno se cema.

4..In 1775 the colonists capture a foreign city.

5..A new coinage--sockpuppetry(?)

6..Who sent the killer in the direction of Robert Gatsby Redford?

7..Folks tromp the swamps of..? in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker.

8..Pursuer of Vronsky?

9..Coming out of Africa, they(?) croon to an actress(?), but fruitlessly.

10..She drew her cards, fanned them, then selected the one that reduced her
balance on use.

11..He(?) once described himself as "no Lincoln", but a lesser make.

12..He liked lobster stew, so he stayed there(?), just like she(?) predicted.

13..A famous military man is associated with the same side of the mountains.

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Toms
4. Montreal
7. Everglades?
11. Ford?

 

[pinotbear]

7. southern Arkansas, I believe.

 

[JRRRJ]

1..The Toms

3..And those burns will ache...the playing better be worth it

4..Montreal

7..Arkansas

9..they(?), Meryl Streep

10..Debit card use outstrips credit card use these days

11..Gerry Ford

 

[k9fanatic]

3. When you play with fire, you get burned
8. Anna Karenina

 

[wire chief]

1..There's a Petty family that goes zoom around an oval track. One died in a crash. Know any of them?

2..We know Homer based on 2 works. We're not talking the Iliad here.

5..It relates to an underhanded thing a blogger has done.

6..Bruce ____.

9..The band is Toto; the actress?

10..Watching the moonlight on ____ ___ Bay, from P. P.

13..Well, one side is windward.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Richard, Kyle,?
2. I knew the Odessy part, it's the rest of it?
9. I knew the Toto part, but the only actress I associate with Toto is Judy Garland
13. Leeward, and R.E. Lee? Gettin' pretty esoteric here, Chief!

 

[crownfox2]

9. Rosanna Arquette
13. Robert E. Lee

 

[wire chief]

1..Yup, Tom is the musical guy. Then Pinot comes along with Kyle & Richard, the Nascar boys.

2..Not one of you fans of WCBB knows an Odyssey who needs to heel? That's Twilight Zone territory.

3..JR gives it his eccentric twist. K9, a linguistista, has it straightforward.

4..VTC & JR with Montreal.

5..It refers to an anonymous online praise of a blogger's work by that very blogger.

6..Bruce Dern

7..They trod mostly in Arkansas (Pinot, JR), to a lesser extent in the Fl panhandle, Texas & So. Car.

8..K9 with the Russian Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

9..Toto recorded "Rosanna" about Ms. Arquette, as crown wrote.

10..JR identifies the debit card.

11..President Gerald Ford--credit to JR & vtc.

12..Nobody recognizes OLD CAPE COD by Patti Page?

13..While "windward" is always "Windward", the other side is often shortened from "leeward" to "lee". Not so esoteric.
Pinot & crown