OT: General knowledge test #343A

[wire chief]

I'm reloaded again with this shot across your bow.

Don't reprint questions nor do research please.

1..The time gap between the 48th state & 49th state admission.

2.."Those dirty rings (sigh)"

3..The recent Australian Open had an unusual golfers delay. Explain.

4..Frogner Park in..? has 6oo bronze and granite structures depicting the life cycle.

5..Africa's largest oil-producing nation?

6..In 1971 England/Ireland switch to _______ currency.

7..Which Prez OKs women lawyers arguing before the Supreme Court?

8..What do only 25 & 76 (of #s below 100) have in common.

9..World's highest selling (4.3B) novelist?

10..What contest is the Vendee Globe?

11..Where are the Dashwood Sisters?

12..It's "slightly ahead of its time".

13..After 8 decades, this state finally pardons the Scottsboro 9.

 

[Kibitzer]

4. These fantastic statues are in Oslo, Norway.

 

[terif831]

2. "Ring around the collar!" Wisk detergent

 

[pinotbear]

1. nearly 40 years, I think - from the 1910-19 decade to the 1950's.
3. buncha kangaroos went a-bounding across the course.
6. paper?

 

[rbny1]

13. Alabama

 

[vtcwbuff]

1. 35 years +/-
4. Oslo, Norway
5. Nigeria

 

[DishNSwish]

12. I believe Mercedes used that catchphrase

 

[NutmegDog]

1. fifty three years -- 1906(??) to 1959.
2. was going to guess Tide, but i like Wisk better
3. kangaroos or crocs -- kangaroos rings a bell
4.
5.Nigeria?
6. Pound sterling
7.?
8.?
9. Gotta be JK Rowling, no?
10. ?
11.?
12?
13. I thought Scottsboro was Tennessee.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. 47 years(1912-1959)
2. Wisk(ring around the collar)you try scrubbing them out and soaking them out, and still...
5. Nigeria
7. Benjamin Harrison
9. Stephen King
12. Quasar
12. Motorola
12. Panasonic
12. Zenith
13. Alabama

 

[FairView]

1.1 day.
2.."Those dirty rings (sigh), you try washing them and scrubbing them out, but still you get ring around the collar. Whisk around the collar beats ring around the collar every time."
5..Saudi Arabia?
6..Not sure what the term is, but it's based on a base-10 counting without odd breakdowns.
7..Nixon
8.When you add the numbers up, they are a prime number.
9..Stephen King
10..Sailing around the world
11..on the pages of a book, just can't remember which one
12..Panasonic? And wasn't it "just slightly ahead of its time"

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - 1912 to 1959, I think. 47 years.
6 - Decimal. They ditched the crowns, farthings, sixpence and such. Taken to UK with my parents in 1969 and they were using both, such that 5 "new pence" were worth a sixpence, etc.

 

[wire chief]

1..VAUC & Knights are precise--Ariz in 1912; Alaska in '59.

2..Lots of you Wisk afficianatos.

3..Pinot & Nutm chasing THE INVASION OF THE ROOS.

4..Kib & vtc with Oslo.

Computer problems have me doing this piecemeal.

 

[wire chief]

5..It's Nigeria--The 2 Vs plus Nutm.

6..Decimal--see Knights for details.

7..R. B. Hayes

8..Their squares end in that #.

More to come.

 

[wire chief]

9..Agatha Christie.

10..Around-the-world sailing says fairview.

11..Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

12..Panasonic, crdit to Fair & VAUC.

13..Rbny & VAUC provide Alabama.

Nine of 13 is below standard, about a C-.

 

[VAUConnFan]

As I mentioned back when I first became addicted to these tests, I'm just glad it is a group effort. We have been without the services of some pretty astute knowledge testers of late. And sometimes you provide hints.

 

[FairView]

9..Agatha Christie.

10..Around-the-world sailing says fairview.

11..Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

12..Panasonic, crdit to Fair & VAUC.

13..Rbny & VAUC provide Alabama.

Nine of 13 is below standard, about a C-.

If we bring it up to an A consistently, is there a chance of being recognized during halftime of a UConn women's game?

 

[wire chief]

As I mentioned back when I first became addicted to these tests, I'm just glad it is a group effort. We have been without the services of some pretty astute knowledge testers of late. And sometimes you provide hints.

...And sometimes I don't. Call me mercurial

 

[wire chief]

If we bring it up to an A consistently, is there a chance of being recognized during halftime of a UConn women's game?

And in between stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner