OT: General knowledge test #361A

[wire chief]

Geez, New Yorkers are hotter today than are we Floridians.

Despite any discomfort, follow the rules and don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..Daryl F. Zanuck: Unquestionably she(?) is the most beautiful actress in the movies ever.

2..______ Rogers Nelson

3..The decade that begins the Sierra Club?

4..To the ancient Greeks, what did Helios do daily?

5..Theme of "8 Men Out"?

6..If you witnessed a crazy man get even crazier when exposed to Stevie
Wonder's Ma Cherie Amour, then you recently viewed..?

7..__ __ ____ ___ __ ___ that we don't know what to do.

8..What were once called Persian apples?

9..The historical importance of a fellow called "Sweetwater"?

10..Americans spend $1B on this Father's Day gift.

11.."Good lovin' still gets in my eyes."

12..The medical term for lazy eye?

13..The hidden-away renegade in Cambodia in Apocalypse Now?

 

[pinotbear]

2. Craig?
4. ride his chariot (the sun) across the sky, I think
5. Chicago Black Sox scandal?
12. amblyopia? (sp?)
13. probably Bobby Fischer

 

[rbny1]

1. Zanuck = 20th Century Fox. So my guess is Fox's beautiful star Gene Tierney

 

[Zorro]

1. Jean Seberg?
2 Horatio, mebbe?
4. Drove his fiery chariot across the sky. East to West, I think it was.
5. Black Sox scandal.
10. Guessin necties.
13. Marlon Brando. No, wait, wait; Coronal Kurtz.

 

[Waquoit]

1. Vivian Leigh
2. Prince

 

[meyers7]

2. Prince Rogers Nelson. Or just Prince. or the artist formally known as Prince, or some hieroglyphic sign.
3. 1910's??? (wag)
5. 1919 World Series. Chicago White Sox (Black Sox) threw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Were not convicted but Judge Kennesaw Mountain (in GA) Landis threw them out of baseball anyway. Including Shoeless Joe (say it ain't so, Joe; say it ain't so) Jackson. Even though he had a great Series. Buck Weaver (played by one John Cusack) was also banned even though he didn't take any money and also played very well.
10. Ties?? (that's a lot of ties though)

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Prince
4. Rise (as in sunrise)
5. Black Sox scandal
8. Peaches
10 Ties?
11. Ji-Ji-Ji-Jive talkin' -- you're tellin me lies...

 

[huskyrob1]

1) It is Gene Tierney, who attended Roger Ludlowe High School in Fairfield CT

8) Figs?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. Wasn't he connected with Jennifer Jones?

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny & rob...and rob, wouldn't she be expelled for causing a distraction?

2. Several of you know the "Prince" full name, despite his attempts to make it shorter
and shorter.

3..Meyers took a stab here and wasn't far off--1892.

4..The chariot driver who escorted the sun's path, as said by pinot & zorro.

5..Four of you here, see Meyers.

 

[wire chief]

6..No one has seen "Silver Linings Playbook? ..or did it not yet make it to the wilds of Storrs?

7..Sixties song by the Tymes--any help?

8..The Romans imported peaches from China, but the recipients used the tag cause
the fruit passed through Persia. K9 once picked 'em.

9..My gremlin again--try it this way, who broke the color barrier in the NBA?

 

[wire chief]

10..Yes, on ties. Meyers, zorro & K9.

11..Meyers gives us Jive Talkin'.

12..Credit to Pinot with Amblyopia.

13..Zorro provides Marlon Brando.

 

[pinotbear]

12. I've always thought that "amblyopia" ought to be the word that describes how a little boy walks; a combination of "amble" and "Opie"

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. So in love are we two - the Tymes. One of the best recordings songs of all time. A little drum, a little bass and five beautiful voices.

 

[huskyrob1]

1..Rbny & rob...and rob, wouldn't she be expelled for causing a distraction?

She did!!! My mother remembers her, she said a big limo used to drop GT off at school each morning. Went to Ludlowe for 2 years according to mom.

 

[wire chief]

11..Sorry K9, I missed you on this one.