OT: General knowledge test #348A

[wire chief]

These tests will be on a hiatus during the continuation of Madness, though we have time to squeeze in one more.

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..This sub-Alps range basically separates France and Switzerland, the __r_.

2..Another term for the Society of Friends?

3..In 1859 Charles Gounod premieres his opera(?).

4..The decade the country first goes on Daylight Savings Time?

5..Black Rock Inc. is the world's largest..?

6..In 40 states it is settled law. Elsewhere there are "eye wars"(?).

7..Link Mel Brooks to THE GRADUATE.

8..Europe's airplanes were messed up for months due to ash from what nation?

9..Which long-ago crooner had a hit, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE?

10..What's conspicuous about the Manx?

11..Who ordered the emptying of Alcatraz?

12..Ezra Taft Benson was..?

13..Woody Allen tries to channel whom with INTERIORS?

 

[RegisteredUconn]

2. Quakers
7. Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman's cougar, was Mel Brooks' wife.
8. Iceland
10. No tail (unlike #7)

 

[rbny1]

3. Faust
12. Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture and a leader of the Mormon Church.

 

[pinotbear]

9. I can hear it..and, it sounds like Perry Como, so, that's my guess..

 

[crownfox2]

1. Pyrenees
13. Ingemar Bergman

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Quaker
4. 1910's
5. Coal Mining company
7. Mel is married to Anne Bancroft, the actress who played Mrs Robinson in The Graduate
8. Iceland
9. Andy Williams

 

[geordi]

2. Quakers
3. Faust
8. Iceland
10. Has no tail, very pointy ears
12. 1930s preacher

 

[ed4ourgirls]

9. Perry Como

 

[wire chief]

1..The Pyrenees do the job for France & Spain; here we want a 4-letter name.
5..Fits under a finance umbrella
6..One feuding party are opthamologists.
11..Once an attorney general

 

[wire chief]

Finishing up...

1..The Jura

2..Regi, VAUC & geordi with Quakers.

3..Faust, credit geordi & rbny.

4..We done sprung ahead and later fell in 1918. Thank you VAUC.

5..Money management

6..Optometrists in some states (Florida, e.g.) want more prescription rights. Opthamologists are opposed.

7..See Regi or VAUC.

8..Iceland--Geordi, Regi & VAUC all have it.

9..Pinot hears voices; in this case a rather soothing one, I imagine. Ed4 also
states Perry Como.

10..A breed of cat with no (or real short) tail. The meow award to Regi & geordi.

11..Robert Kennedy

12..Rbny has the guy with 2 hats.

13,,Crown has Ingmar Bergman.

Be sure to look in again when Madness disappears.