OT: General knowledge test #337A

[wire chief]

Will 2013 continue to bring challenging questions? Of course.

Do no research nor repeat questions, por favor.

1..The allies commander in chief in N. Africa in 1941?

2..This West Virginia sized Latin American country has 5% of both the world's
flora & fauna species.

3..What distinguishes Broadway from off-Broadway?

4..Who are Spain's castellers?

5..The ultimate fate in 1939 of the Graf Spee (Be specific)?

6..ELO was once petrified. How so?

7..The Eumenides (Kindly Ones) was the last play in the _________ Trio.

8..In December a 3-nation(?)trio blasted into space.

9..Disco lady Gloria _______ & ___ _____ _____ _______.

10..Great literature(?) has this benign dispute over the nightingale vs. the lark.

11..The Kennedy Center Honor just went to bluesman, B____ ___.

12..Often referred to as "Pagliacci", the tune is actually _____ la ______.

13..The director of soft-core films, Z_____ ____, died in 2012.

 

[meyers7]

1. Montgomery?
6. Turn to Stone

9. Gloria Gaynor and I can't remember what she did??? Oh yea, " I Will Survive", but that doesn't fit.

 

[rbny1]

3. I believe the union contracts are the major difference, but I'm not sure.
5. The Graf Spee was a damaged German warship that was trapped in a South American port by British warships. Rather than sail out of port and take on the British, the German captain sank the Graf Spee while it was still in port. He later committed suicide.

 

[crownfox2]

2. Costa Rica
3. union contracts are scaled to the size of the theater seating

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. Eisenhower
2. Costa Rica?
4. They form human towers
5. The Graf Spee was trapped in a South American harbor (Buenas Aires or
Montevideo) by the British Navy and scuttled by the crew.
9. Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine

 

[pinotbear]

3. practice, practice, practice!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

12. Forgive my spelling and possibly not quite correct wording - dona la mobilee, or something on that order.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

12. Vesti la giubba (sp?)

 

[Sargassoc]

6. They turned to stone.
7. The Oresteia
10. Romeo and Juliet

 

[wire chief]

11 & 13...Need some 1st names here--Buddy, Zalman.

8.. There's an American, a Russian, and a...

 

[geordi]

1. Montgomery
2. WAG - Colombia ??
3. A Street Sign???
5. The Brits sank it - or rather damaged it pretty badly so the captain scuttled her
11. Buddy Guy

 

[wire chief]

1..Vtc is correct about Ike.

2..Crown & vtc have the lush land of Costa Rica.

3..Crown is on to something when he mentions"size". If the theater has 500+ seats it's B'way.

4..Vtc knows they build human pyramids.

5..Rbny heads a quartet who specify the ship was sunk by its captain.

6..Meyers & Sarg type they "Turn to Stone".

7..The literary Sarg cites Aeschylus' Oresteia.

8..A Canadian

9..Vtc properly fills in the blanks--Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine. Meyers still strugglin'.

10..Sarg knows how Romeo & Juliet ended their balcony scene.

11..Geordi has Buddy Guy.

12..Spelling was fine, ed4, Vesti la Giubba.

13..Zalman King, director of The Red Shoes Series for Shotime (or Cinemax--one of them).

We're done until post-Notre Dame.

 

[meyers7]

9..Vtc properly fills in the blanks--Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine. Meyers still strugglin'.

You said "Disco", Estefan wasn't really known for disco. They are/were pop.

Now Vickie Sue Robinson was known for "disco".

 

[pinotbear]

Chief, we weren't in the war until the second week of December in 1941. Ike commanded Operation Torch, but I believe that was 1942.

 

[Bobanozz]

Operation Torch commenced on Nov 8, 1942. It wasn't until 1943 that the Allies established AFHQ
(Allied Force Headquarters) with Eisenhower in command. If memory serves me right, Claude Auckinleck was in command then. He was replaced by Harold Alexander as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command in 1942. Bernard Montgomery took over command of the British 8th Army in North Africa then also. Countless hours playing Computer wargames has paid off.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Copied from Eisenhower on line bio -

In May 1942, Eisenhower arrived in England on a special mission to build cooperation among the Allies as Commanding General, European Theater, and so began his meteoric rise in rank and fame. By November, he was named Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, North Africa, and carried out Operation Torch.

From WIKI Operation Torch -

The Allies intended to advance rapidly eastwards into Tunisia and attack the Axis forces in the rear. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was given command of the operation, and he set up his headquarters in Gibraltar. The Allied Naval Commander of the Expeditionary Force would be Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham; his deputy was Vice-Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who would plan the ground effort.

Alexander was CIC of the Brit Middle East Command. He was Montgomery's boss but he reported to Eisenhower who was the Supreme Commander.

 

[wire chief]

I was about to bluff that he snuck in on New Year's Eve. Quick research confirms 11/42.

 

[wire chief]

Well, this one could please Travolta

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...tefan songs youtube&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-701-1

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Omar Bradley
1.. Dwight Eisenhower
2. Costa Rica
3. Location and the size of the theater. <499 seats = off Broadway regardless of location.
Theater must be east of 9th ave, west of 5th ave, north of 38th st, and south of 66th st.(all guesses BTW) Therefore the Beacon Theater, while certainly of size and directly on Broadway is not classified as a Broadway Theater.
9. Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
11. Buddy Guy (he appears on a DVD of a Rolling Stones concert at the aformentioned Beacon Theater. Keith Richards gave Guy his guitar.)