OT: General knowledge test #346A

[wire chief]

A homily from Pope Francis follows, so long as you do no research nor
reprint questions.

1..RIP Peter Banks, lead guitarist with the Brit band..?

2..Which Prezzes had a Ph D?

3..According to Forbes, the richest billionaire is from what country?

4..The decade Heinrich Steinway starts his piano biz?

5..Who first employed the term "iron curtain"?

6..In 1834 the city of York in Upper Canada changes its name to..?

7..In what nation were recently found 6000 dead pigs a-swimmin'?

8..Marc Ouellet has been in the news. How so?

9..A nation of 330 islands?

10..Back in the 50's this honcho(?) wanted a legal spitball but was overruled.

11..Xerostomia is a simple condition(?).

12..An early Kentucky Derby favorite, V________.

13..The Deutschebahn refers to..?

 

[RegisteredUconn]

5. Churchill

9. I'll guess Indonesia.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - Woodrow Wilson almost certainly; Obama I would think. Not sure otherwise.
5 - From Stettin in the Baltic to . . . Churchill
7- Thought that was in China, not sure

 

[rbny1]

3. Mexico
7. China

 

[ed4ourgirls]

2. Wilson and maybe Carter.
13. German national railroad.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, William Howard Taft

 

[vtcwbuff]

3. US - Gates?
5. Churchill
6. Toronto
8. Cardinal from Canada - Quebec or Montreal?
9. Micronesia
13. The German RR System

 

[UConn64BA72JD]

1. The Who
2. Wilson, Hoover and Carter
3. Dubai
4. 1920s
5. Churchill
6. Toronto
8. Marc Cardinal Ouellet from Quebec (2nd or 3rd in papal voting)
9. French Polynesia
10. Robin Roberts
11. You are healthy
13. German railroad

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Wilson, Cater, Clinton, and Taft
3. Dubai
4. 1820's
5. Harry S. Truman
7. England
8. His long time friend, the young guy who caddied for him, recently passed away
9. Indonesia
10. Bill Veeck
13. Germany's highway system

 

[VAUConnFan]

8. Let me withdraw my wild guess on #8. That golfer's name was Francis Ouimet.

 

[geordi]

3. Mexico
5. Winston Churchill
8. Canadian Cardinal rumored to be a frontrunner for Pope
9. Indonesia
13. The German Train Company

 

[wire chief]

1..Aye! You bet! Thumbs up.

4..We have a range of 100 years between you. One guess is about about XXX off;
another LXX.

9..French Polynesia, much fewer; Micronesia, way more; Indonesia, way, way way more.
That just leaves..?

10..He was commisioner a half century or so ago.

11..The average runner will quickly experience this on a low humidity day.

12..Once a famous explorer.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. U2
4. Assuming that my previous guess is the one XXX off, then seeing that the other response would match mine if LXX is taken off, respectfully submitted is MDCCCL's.
9. Melanesia
10. Ford Frick
10. Bowie Kuhn
10. Mountain Landis
11. Hyperthermia
11. Dry skin
12. Vespucci

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10. the commissioner around 50 years ago was post KML and pre BK. I'll choose Ford Frick from VAU's multiple choice.

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. the commissioner around 50 years ago was post KML and pre BK. I'll choose Ford Frick from VAU's multiple choice.

The pressure is on, now, KnightsBridge. It is hoped that there is a correct choice among my three guesses. If there was a commissioner between Frick and Kuhn, then I may very well be responsible for leading you to an incorrect choice[Fingers crossed].

 

[wire chief]

1..Great Caesar's ghost how many synonyms does one need. The band is YES.

2..Wilson is the only one--Knights and a trio.

3..Rbny & geordi point to a fellow named Slim from south of the border.

4..1852--VAUC does the math.

5..Winston (tastes good like a prime minister should)--64BA leads a quartet.

6..Vtc & 64BA with Toronto.

7..Floating in a Chinese river--Knights & rbny.

8..Canadian cardinal mentioned as a Pope possibility--geordi, vtc & 64BA.

9..Fiji

10..Fear ye not, VAUC, for Ford Frick is a true choice, also Knights.

11..Dry mouth

12..Verazzano

13..Nope to the railroad, it's the national roads, like VAUC writes.

 

[vtcwbuff]

DeutcheBahn "Ride a Deutsche Bahn train. Explore all that is Germany."The road system is the Autobahn - or at least it used to be.

 

[wire chief]

DeutcheBahn "Ride a Deutsche Bahn train. Explore all that is Germany."The road system is the Autobahn - or at least it used to be.

My reference, using the collapsed Deutschebahn, was off. The term, as 2 words, refers to train travel.