OT: General knowledge test #345A

[wire chief]

It's tournament time...everybody redouble your efforts.

No research nor reprinting questions please.

1..Talking about eats, what do the Brits mean by a "fry"?

2..Monella(It) and Maovaise fille(Fr) mean the same.

3..Name given to the angora goat's wool?

4..A pope in 1582 starts something that's still important in the secular world. What?

5..Who said, "I've never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with
great pleasure."?

6..JP Morgan incorporates..? in 1901.

7..In 1962 he(?) can be found orbiting earth in a Mercury.

8..In 1937 who receives a patent for nylon?

9..In 1789 the..? capture Rome.

10..What was a joint cabinet post in 1903, becomes 2(?) in 1913.

11..The decade of the Communist Manifesto?

12..The Prez who establishes Grand Teton Nat'l Park?

13..Lady Chatterley's first name?

 

[pinotbear]

5. well, it sounds like Mark Twain!

 

[geordi]

2. roughly translated in Italian, a spoiled kid
4. calendar
5. Clarence Darrow
6 US Steel
7. John Glenn
11. 1840s ??

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Mohair
5. Mark Twain
6. Bank of New York
7. John Glenn
8. DuPont
12. William Howard Taft

 

[Wally East]

1. potato chip
2.
3.
4. The modern calendar
5. Mark Twain
6.
7. John Glenn
8.
9. French
10.
11. 1880s
12. TR
13. Lady?

 

[vtcwbuff]

3. Cashmere or mohair
7. John Glenn
8. DuPont
9. France?
11. 1850's
12. Rooseveldt?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - potato chip

 

[JRRRJ]

1..Small fish
3..Mohair
4..The Gregorian calendar
5..If it's not Mark Twain, it's a wannabe...
6..his bank
7..John Glenn
8..E.I. Dupont de Neimours(sp?) & Co.
9..Italians
11..1890's
12..T. R. Roosevelt

 

[wire chief]

I fell on tennis court today & both wrists are sore. Delay on responding.

 

[wire chief]

Sorry for the delay.

1..Fries ARE chips in Britain, but you're not likely to see it as a singular. Rather, a fry means
a hearty breakfast.

2..Geordi is in the ballpark. More precisely, the translation would be "bad girl".

3..VAUC, vtc & JR have mohair.

4..Gregorian Calendar, say JR, Wally and geordi.

5..Geordi is right with Clarence Darrow. You other guys hang loose cause Mark Twain is coming soon.

6..Geordi again with US Steel.

7..VAUC is among 6 with John Glenn.

More to come.

 

[wire chief]

8..A Dupont worker, yes, the guy is Wallace Carothers.

9..Wally & vtc cite the French.

10..Commerce & Labor

11..Geordi has it, 1848.

12..Good ol' Silent Cal spoke up long enough to create a park.

13..Constance