OT: General knowledge test #352A

[wire chief]

G'day fellow off-season thumb twiddlers.

Please no research nor reprinting questions.

1..What athletic black Americans were dismayed about Jackie Robinson being a Dodger & why?

2..Who are Glaswegians?

3..What else travels at light speed?

4..The 1st black MLB manager?

5..In 1946 this international group(?) meets for the last time.

6..Its title is simply "Josh Grogan", and it kicks off with Alle Luce ___ ____.

7..This flowering shrub sounds like it has German measles.

8..The decade Marie and Pierre isolate radium?

9..In 1980 lots of Cubans come here in the ______ boatlift.

10..In 1892 Frank and Charles ______ demonstrate a prototype car engine.

11..Musician who kicked off Woodstock?

12..What's a "perp walk"?

13..Nestled in the Dolomite foothills, this nation has Europe's largest meadowlands.

 

[rbny1]

1. Players in the Negro Leagues. Robinson's elevation to the Dodgers marked the beginning of the end for those leagues.
2. People who live in Glasgow.
4. Frank Robinson?
12. When the cops walk an accused person by the media so photographers can take pictures.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - folks that live in Glasgow
5 - League of Nations?
8 - 1920's? - probably too late, but I guessed
10 - Olds
11 - Whoever it was just died. Otis Redding?

 

[geordi]

2. natives of Glasgow, Scotland
4. Frank Robinson
5. The League of Nations ??
8. 1890s
11. the late, great Richie Havens
12. in my business, it's when personnel takes a vice president who has been fired and leads him/her out of the building for the last time. Picture someone in cuffs with their coat over their head.
13. Well, it's gotta be either Italy or Austria. Since I"ve spent so much time there, I'll say Italy.

 

[meyers7]

1. the Monarchs? They lost their best player.
3. Besides light? Well Superman travels faster than the speed of light.
6. Du Sol??? Do Sol, Du Sul, something like that. Wife loves him, me, eh not so much. (dull music to me)
8. 1900's??
11. ahhh, we just covered this, he just died. Ritchie Havens.
12. Criminal/suspect/prisoner is led by police, usually from jail to court or vice-versa. The press take lots of pictures. Sometimes they put coat over head to prevent the pictures.
13. Switzerland or Austria. (at least according to the movies)

 

[pinotbear]

4. Larry Doby may have been hired before Frank Robinson.

 

[crownfox2]

9. Mariel

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Frank Robinson - Cleveland Indians
5. League of Nations
8. 1860's.
9. Murieletta
10. Duryea
11. Bob Dylan
12. When police walk arrested suspects out of a precinct to jail to be witnessed by awaiting cameras and reporters

 

[wire chief]

1..Meyers deserves some recognition for knowing that Jackie came from the KC Monarchs, but that response is obvious and localized. See rbny's more sweeping result.

2..Geordi, rbny and Knights select residents of Glasgow.

3..Well, superman can't qualify, being faster. It's radio waves.

4..Pinot, you caused me to look this up. Wiki says he was the 2nd. Anyway,
you plus 3 mention Frank.

5..VAUC, Knights & geordi specify The League of Nations.

6..I've long suspected that Mrs. Meyers, sadly, "married down". Now we learn that she has the refined sensibility for voice, unlike hubby who prefers noise. I can hear her lament over
the wireless, "I should have wed rbny".

7..The dwarf Mexican petunia is ruellia. Close to rubella? A stretch?

8..Meyers is most exact with 1900's (1902).

9..Crown rightly offers Mariel.

10..VAUC alone with Duryea.

11..Meyers with Richie Havens (RIP).

12..Rbny is part of a quartet, highlighting a suspect being grandstanded for onlookers.

13..Good choice, geordi, although South Tyrol did once belong to Austria.

Part B will be delayed while I woof down my brunch.

 

[meyers7]

1..Meyers deserves some recognition for knowing that Jackie came from the KC Monarchs, but that response is obvious and localized. See rbny's more sweeping result.

I don't know. I bet they were originally pretty happy the Monarchs had lost their best player. And many of them were probably happy he had broken the barrier, because quite a few of them got there shot in MLB.

6..I've long suspected that Mrs. Meyers, sadly, "married down". Now we learn that she has the refined sensibility for voice, unlike hubby who prefers noise. I can hear her lament over
the wireless, "I should have wed rbny".

You have no idea how far "down".

It's not I prefer noise, I just prefer music with a soul/groove/strength as compared to wussy music. Also it's not that I don't think he has a very nice voice, he does. However not unique or interesting. But his fault is he sings wussy music.

(Although I did enjoy Groban in Chess. Not as much as Pascal or Menzel of course.)

 

[wire chief]

I don't know. I bet they were originally pretty happy the Monarchs had lost their best player. And many of them were probably happy he had broken the barrier, because quite a few of them got there shot in MLB.


You have no idea how far "down".

It's not I prefer noise, I just prefer music with a soul/groove/strength as compared to wussy music. Also it's not that I don't think he has a very nice voice, he does. However not unique or interesting. But his fault is he sings wussy music.

(Although I did enjoy Groban in Chess. Not as much as Pascal or Menzel of course.)

But a larger number of the Negro Leaguers would lose their audience. You must take the long view here.

And, hey, my dad called it noise