OT: General knowledge test #336A

[wire chief]

For when you've had a bellyfull of the Sunday papers.

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..Latin America's most populous city?

2..During WW2 he was known as the "Butcher of Prague".

3..The victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians led to a celebration(?) that still goes on.

4.."Imagine these in one perfect one. And..."?

5..Babi Yar, a gully that became a huge Nazi graveyard, is outside what city?

6..The year Etch-a-Sketch entered the marketplace?

7..The nationality of the guy who created the Celsius scale?

8..Ashley ____ Nelson

9..The world's #1 chess player hails from..?

10.."I don't know what it is, but I have to laugh when she reveals me."

11..An action verb more frequently describing animals than humans, __a__e_.

12..In which quarter century is the Magellan voyage?

13..A newer, smaller "rat pack"--Ben Gazzarra, Peter Falk and ?

 

[pinotbear]

8. Horatio?

 

[Zorro]

1. Mexico City
4. This is my beloved.

 

[DriveLH]

4. Hanakuh

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Mexico City
2. Heydrick
5. Warsaw?
12. 1500-1525

 

[reno tony]

11. edible

 

[crownfox2]

13. John Cassavettes

 

[ed4ourgirls]

9. IBM

 

[huskyblooz]

8. Judd

 

[wire chief]

1..Mexico City-about 8.9 million; But the largest(?) is about 11.4.

5..Not Warsaw, nor any capital of a Soviet satellite, but a capital within the Soviet Union.

6..What would it cost you to make an educated guess?

7..First name Anders.

9..Getting back to humans, it's Magnus Carlsen of..?

10..SHE HAS A WAY ABOUT HER by..?

11..__a_per.

 

[pinotbear]

10. Billy Joel

 

[meyers7]

1. Rio?
3. Festival of Lights (Chanukah), 8 crazy nights.
5. St. Pete?
7. German?
8. Before and after? Judd
10. Billy Joel?
12. early 1500's? I think it was sometime in the 1500's

 

[geordi]

1. Mexico City
2. Heydrich
5. Kiev
7. Swedish

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Sao Paolo
3. The Maccabiah Games
6. 1962
7. Austrian
8. Horatio
9. China
12. 1525 quarter century if that is the answer you seek. The voyage, if memory serves, was in 1519.

 

[wire chief]

1..Like VAUC says, it is Sao Paulo, Brazil

2..Geordi & vtc with Heydrich, 2nd to Himmler in command.

3..The Maccabiah Games mark a different battle in the 2nd Cen A. D. that freed Jews from Roman rule for 3 years.
Here we are acknowledging Hanukkah...and Drive also.

4..Zorro knows AND THIS IS MY BELOVED, a heroic tune recorded by Mario Lanza et al.

5..Geordi has Kiev.

6..Ye timid folks shy away from guessing--1959. VAUC was pretty close.

7..Geordi gives us Sweden for Anders Celsius.

8..Ashley Judd and Judd Nelson are actors. Meyers & husky.

9..Magnus is Norwegian.

10..Pinot & meyers identify Billy Joel.

11..Oh, how this tiny verb defeated you--scamper.

12..Vtc, Meyers & VAUC with the 1st quarter of the 1500's.

13..John Cassavetes fills in the trio, crown on target.

 

[meyers7]

8..Ashley Judd and Judd Nelson are actors. Meyers & husky.

Ashley Judd, actress? You are being pretty liberal with that term.

 

[Zorro]

4..Zorro knows AND THIS IS MY BELOVED, a heroic tune recorded by Mario Lanza et al. From the Broadway show Kismet, the music from which was all Borodin.

 

[wire chief]

4..Zorro knows AND THIS IS MY BELOVED, a heroic tune recorded by Mario Lanza et al. From the Broadway show Kismet, the music from which was all Borodin.

Yes, and people are probably more familiar with STRANGER IN PARADISE from that show.