OT: General knowledge test #344A

[wire chief]

Do not dawdle, venerable posters, for I must be free for my biannual trip to see our Huskies.
Yes, Saturday I drive cross-state to land in Tampa for the only game where I am in-person.

Meanwhile, please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..The origin of "Mayday!"?

2..In 1929 Al Capone had a special Valentine's Day gift for..?

3..In the sixteen eighties a Bill of Rights made this couple(?) king & queen for life.

4..Who was responsible for inviting the Beatles to make their first trip to these shores?

5..The decade for the inception of the Boy Scouts?

6..Until 1971 Grenada was a colony of..?

7..A state(?) capitol building was destroyed by fire in 1897.

8..The Brit counterpart to our IRS is Her Majesty's ________ & _______.

9..The world's 3rd largest economy?

10..The Vatican's Room of Heliodorus features the art of..?

11..After a brief struggle with ants, he(?) had a long career chasing outlaws.

12..Who were the leaders of the adversaries in Buena Vista, Mex. in 1847?

13..Senkaku or Diaoyu? Explain.

 

[geordi]

1. It comes from a French phrase. Don't know exactly what.
2. Bugsy Moran and his gang. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago.
5. 1900 - 1910. 1909, I think.
6. Spain ??
9. Brazil
12. One was Winfield Scott. Mexican War???

 

[pinotbear]

4. Ed Sullivan?
12. Scott and Santa Ana?

 

[vtcwbuff]

2, Bugsey Moran
4. Ed Sullivan
6. Britain
9. Germany?
12. Winfield Scott and Santa Anna?

 

[meyers7]

1. In both Julian and Gregorian calenders. The 1st day of May, Mayday, is a spring celebration. Also where/when we saw the first instance of pole dancing.
2. Bugsy. Present was made of lead. Although Capone was in FL at the time.
4. Ed Sullivan
9. California?

 

[JRRRJ]

1..From the French "M'aidez"(sp?) Help Me.
4..Ed Sullivan
6..Great Britain
9..Germany for a country. California for a "state"
12..Santa Anna & Houston

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

3. William and Mary. 1688? End of the commonwealth, return of the monarchy - Great Britain.
12. I'll go with the majority and say Winfield Scott. Scott and Zachary Taylor were the two American commanders to lead battles in the war. I'll go with Santa Anna as the Mexican commander.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Those guys in the garage.
3. William & Mary
4. Brian Epstein, their manager
5. 1840's
6. France
9. India
10. Michelangelo

 

[wire chief]

7..It's a woody state.

8..Does R & C help?

9..No, not down past the Caribbean nor across the Atlantic.

10..Michaelangelo? No, but almost as famous...really close.

11..Really, really big ants

13..See the Chinese are bugging their neighbors about who owns what.

 

[Zorro]

Do not dawdle, venerable posters, for I must be free for my biannual trip to see our Huskies.
Yes, Saturday I drive cross-state to land in Tampa for the only game where I am in-person.

Meanwhile, please do not reprint questions nor do research.
2. Bugsy Moran

3..Wm and Mary

4..Ed Sullivan?


8.. Inl& revenue?


9..Brazil?

 

[vtcwbuff]

13. Post hint - islands in a territorial dispute with Japan?

 

[pinotbear]

11. OK, somebody, who starred in the movie "Them", and then went on to chase outlaws?

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Canada
10. Leonardo da Vinci

 

[wire chief]

1..Quite fine, JR, you are truly cosmopolitan to quote the French.

2..Several of you know Bugsy Moran's boys were gunned down in a garage.

3..VAUC & Knights know we are looking for William & Mary.

4..Ed Sullivan said, get me them, as Pinot, Meyers et al. attest.

5..1910--who's there? Well, geordi is.

6..Vtc & JR place responsibility with Britain.

7..I can just hear you, "Woody!" how is that any help. Most states are woody."
Ah, but one is a synonym, is it not? The one named by William Penn.

8..Zorro's got half--Revenue & Customs.

9..The one over the Pacific--Japan.

10..How could you not try Raphael?

11..James Arness was in "Them", but poor Pinot could not take us there.

12..Well, several of you got Santa Ana. But I did not hear Zach Taylor among all the noise,
except from Knights. The rest of you keep letting a Jersey fellow outdo you.

13..Vtc is correct: the 2 islands are given different names by Japan & China respectively.

 

[meyers7]

7..I can just hear you, "Woody!" how is that any help. Most states are woody."
Ah, but one is a synonym, is it not? The one named by William Penn.

I like my #1 much better.

7. Penn's Woods. Pennsylvania. Harrisburg I guess.