OT: General knowledge test #359A

[wire chief]

Another exciting array. Hold on to your...wait, we don't wear them anymore.

No reprinting questions; no research por favor.

1..A dweller out west, the hoary ______.

2..Members of the Triple Entente?

3..James Cash ______.

4..In 1921 immigration is tackled in the Emergency _____ Act.

5.."I was thinking about what a friend had said; I was hoping it was a lie."

6..What's a handicap race?

7..On the east coast where is the most prominent Disney topiary?

8..What does Styne & Sondheim give Broadway in 1951?

9.."And you're the prettiest thing in the crowd. Guess who be laughing out loud?"

10..Leoncavallo's most renowned aria?

11..The Prez who institutes Yosemite/Mariposa Woods to be a protectorate of California?

12..People speak Romanian in this former Soviet land.

13..Before Henri Lacoste gave us alligator shirts, what was his profession?

 

[Waquoit]

6. A horse race where the better horses are required to carry more weight based on their perceived ability.
13. Tennis Player

 

[meyers7]

2. I think that was like around WWI England, France and Russia???
3. J.C. Penney
11. Didn't Teddy do all those park things?
12. Romania??? But that's too simple.

 

[rbny1]

3. Penny, as in J.C. Penny
8. Gypsy
10. Something from Pagliacci -- Vesti la Giubba?

 

[pinotbear]

1. marmot, not ol' cranky 49er, nor anything else yer minds come up with.

 

[geordi]

2. England, France, and Russia
3. Penney
6. a horse race in which horses have to carry varying weights based on their previous performance
7. I'd say Disney World, but that's probably too obvious
11. I gotta go with T. Roosevelt, but that's probably too obvious too.
13. tennis player

 

[Wally East]

11. Grant, I think. Yosemite (as well as a number of other parks) was protected well before the National Park Service was established by TR.
12. Moldova

 

[k9fanatic]

2. France, UK and Russia
4. Emergency Quota Act
12. Moldova

 

[VAUConnFan]

6. A horse race in which the horses with better recent form are assigned higher weights than other horses in the race. In a perfect scenario, the best horse in the race is given top weight, the worst given the low weight. If there are fillies or mares in the race, their assigned weight is further reduced five pounds. A younger colt is usually assigned less weight than an older horse.
If it was up to me, I'd never assign a horse more than 126 pounds, and would love to see the weights in triple crown races reduced at least five pounds(so there is no misunderstanding, the triple crown races are not handicap races).
7. Epcot Center
8. Carousel

 

[wire chief]

5..This line is from the title song. Maybe the most famous piece on the album is "Southern Man".

9..The guy also sang, "Sit right down and talk to me."

11..Grant was responsible for Yellowstone, but that was a bit later.

 

[pinotbear]

5. this one is bugging me: I can hear the lyric, and thought it was a CSNY song, but, WC's hint makes me think it's just a Neil Young song..damn, it's just slipping away from me: help me, Mr. Wizard!

 

[wire chief]

5. this one is bugging me: I can hear the lyric, and thought it was a CSNY song, but, WC's hint makes me think it's just a Neil Young song..damn, it's just slipping away from me: help me, Mr. Wizard!

Well I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes.

 

[Zorro]

I once read somewhere that Judy Collins once asked Young what the meaning behind the words was, and he replied; "If you could tell me what I was on at the time maybe I could tell you."

 

[Nostical]

8. Gypsy--but not sure it was 1951

 

[Wally East]

11. I looked it up immediately after posting and could only think I've should've known who it was for a wide variety of reasons.

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot, raised by wolves himself, knows the pudgy mountain rodent.

2..Meyers, geordi & K9 with Russia, England & France during WW2.
K9 & geordi, of course, rooted for Italy when it raided Austria-Hungary, while
Meyers was just spinning records.

3..Meyers, rbny & geordi tell us where they use all their coupons.

4..K9 has no companions while providing the Emergency Quota Act.

5..Poor Pinot, outdone by his faulty synapses. Let me help--AFTER THE GOLD RUSH.
And zorro with a funny quote.

6..Three had no handicap in responding. Waquoit & geordi--and see VAUC for an elaboration.

7..After we beat the bushes for the answer, VAUC emerges with Epcot.

8..A welcome to Nostical to our games. He & rbny select Gypsy.

9..Al Green with WHAT A WONDERFUL THING LOVE IS.

10..Many just call the aria "Pagliacci". Rbny more accurately specifies Vesti la Giubba.

11..It's Abe, and Wally, you really should have known this.

12..K9 & Wally give us Moldova.

13..A tennis star for France--Waquoit here.

 

[geordi]

[quote="2..Meyers, geordi & K9 with Russia, England & France during WW2.
K9 & geordi, of course, rooted for Italy when it raided Austria-Hungary, while
Meyers was just spinning records.[/quote]

Not so!!! Not so!!! I rooted for Italy when they raided Ethiopia with their 'mighty' army.