OT: General knowledge test #360A

[wire chief]

Hail!...but don't yet farewell.

And also don't research nor reprint questions.

1..Name 2 renowns who stood on Glinka's shoulders.

2..In 1819 Savannah leaves Savannah for a 1st(?).

3..What state had Bonnie & Clyde's bullet-ridden bodies?

4..Lewis didn't name it Alice in Wonderland. Correction please.

5..Janey was lovely; she was the queen of my nights.

6..What Hath God Wrought!

7..When Jerry Ohrbach and Martin Landau were brothers?

8..In 1986 7 million came together to highlight poverty. Name of the event?

9..The Catholic Church calls it(?) "laicization".

10..First armed urban resistance to the Nazis--______ U_______.

11..______ Bonham ______

12..This nation is experiencing violence vs, Muslims and local ordinances
vs. their marrying and having big families.

13..Family: Clark Kent, Jonathon, and..?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4 - Through the Looking Glass, or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
6 - First message transmitted over transcontinental telegraph, IIRC. Telegraph and Morse related, for sure.
9 - Sounds like defrocking a priest, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Zorro]

4. Alice's Adventures Underground. (However, did he not then name the revised and expanded version Alie in Wonderland?
6. First Morse telegraph message.
9. Unfrocking of a priest?
10. Warsaw uprising?
12. Sweden?

 

[pinotbear]

11. Helen Bonham Carter

 

[rbny1]

1. Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov?
7. In the Woody Allen movie Crimes and Misdemeanors

 

[TXs N Os]

12. Myanmar

 

[UConnChapette]

3. Louisiana?
5. Against the Wind - Bob Seeger
11. Helena Bonham Carter

 

[geordi]

3. Oklahoma
4. Through the Looking Glass
6. Sam Morse's first message through the telegraph
11. Helena Bonham Carter - actress
13. Martha

 

[ed4ourgirls]

2. First steamship to cross the Atlantic.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Louisiana
6. The first words spoken by the recipient of Alexander Graham Bell's first phone call.
8. Live Aid
11. Helena Bonham Carter

 

[wire chief]

8.._____ Across _______

 

[Waquoit]

8. Hands Across America

 

[wire chief]

1..Actually any of the Russian romantics, including the 2 named by rbny.

2..Ed4 is right on--1st trans-Atlantic steamboat.

3..Chap & VAUC hit La.

4..Either Alice's Adventures in W. or Through the Looking Glass will do.

 

[wire chief]

5..Ms.
Chap is sailing with the wind with the Bob Seger composition.

6..Knights, geordi & zorro grab the 1st telegraph message.

7..Rbny has the characters in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.

8..Waquoit comes around the far turn with Hands Across America

 

[wire chief]

9..The beginning "lai" is a clue in hinting at the faithful, the laity. So Knights & zorro
adroitly say defrocking a priest, booting him into the laity.

10..Credit to zorro for the Warsaw Uprising.

11..Pinot among a whole bunch with Helena...Carter.

12..Txs alone has Myanmar (Burma, as we continue to say).

13..Geordi gives Superboy a mom, Martha.