OT: General knowledge test #365A

[wire chief]

Don't worry. for I can squeeze this in between Wimbledon points.

Now don't do research nor reprint questions please.

1..Poland is 2nd in euro tobacco production. Who is tops?

2..What is a columbarium?

3..Ambient...as a noun?

4..This lady(?) is foremost as a founder of the Museum of Modern Art in NY.

5..Where does one find Thurston Howell III?

6..Of what is a meerschaum pipe made?

7..This major American city(?) is banning plastic shopping bags.

8..What is the theme of the former best-seller, Eats, Shoots and Leaves?

9..Her dancing legs are all one can see of her in this cigarette(?) commercial.

10.."Stand there just a moment, darling; let me catch my breath."

11..Who was Agent 99?

12..In 1898 US cruiser Charleston captures which Spanish-controlled island.

13..Stumpings and no-balls, oh my. Say what?

 

[terif831]

11. Barbara Feldman, I think her name was? On Get Smart.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. John Rockefeller Jr.'s wife (Abby?)
6. Clay
7. Los Angeles
12. Puerto Rico

 

[Vowelguy]

2) A place for storing/interring people's ashes.
5) Did you mean Thurston Howell III? He's from Gilligan's Island.
7) Portland OR ?

 

[DriveLH]

5.Gilligan's Island

 

[rbny1]

4. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
8. Grammar

 

[geordi]

5. Right now, you'll find him 6 feet under. Jim Backus is dead. But of course he was on Gilligan's Island
9. Mary Tyler Moore
11. Barbara Feldon

 

[wire chief]

5. Right now, you'll find him 6 feet under. Jim Backus is dead. But of course he was on Gilligan's Island
9. Mary Tyler Moore
11. Barbara Feldon

9..asks for the brand

 

[huskyrob1]

1) Germany?
3) room temperature?
4) Marjorie Post?
5) Gilligans Island
9) Edie Adams?
11) Barbara Feldon

 

[Zorro]

9. Old Gold?
13. Cricket, doncherknow?

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Turkey
2. That nasty stuff one drinks in preparation for a barium enema
3. A sleep induce
5. Among fellow castaways, his wife Lovie, the Captain, Gilligan, ginger Grant, Mary Ann Summers, and Professor Brinkely(might be Huntley), on an uncharted island in the Pacific where they landed after a terrible storm tossed their tiny ship, the Minnow, adrift on what was supposed to be a three hour tour. Who knows what might have become of them if not for the courage of the fearless crew. They might have really been lost.
8. First guess: Pandas
8. Second guess: Basketball
9. Edie Adams
11. Maxwell Smart, Agent 86's eventual wife played by Barbara Feldon.
12. The Phillipines

 

[meyers7]

1. Germany??
5. Well he was on Gilligan's Island, but I think they eventually (in a movie) made it off. I imagine he was eventually buried back in the NE with Lovey. Jim Backus has long passed away though.
9. Lucky Strikes??
11. Barbara Feldman?? Or did I miss it by that much? Maxwell Smart's (Agent 86) eventual wife. The worked for CONTROL against the evil organization KAOS.

 

[geordi]

9..asks for the brand

Sorry! My UConn education never taught me to read. Chesterfield, wasn't it?

 

[wire chief]

1..A nation often associated with K9 & geordi.

3..VAUC's suggestion lacks a final "t". We want a form of _____ invented by an Eno.

10.._________ _______ ___. It goes with your hair. You certainly know the right things to wear.

12..Well, the Philippines is closer to the correct answer than is Puerto Rico.

 

[rbny1]

10. Based on your hint: "Moonlight becomes you"

 

[wire chief]

Sorry! My UConn education never taught me to read. Chesterfield, wasn't it?

If my question were, "What brand of smokes did wire chief's mother smoke", you'd be right on.

 

[wire chief]

1..Italia

2..Vowel on target with the ashes graveyard.

3..Sort of new age music.

4..John D. Rockefeller Jr didn't like modern art, but that did not stop his missus.
Ed4 & rbny score.

 

[wire chief]

5..Vowel advised me to change the spelling to Howell; I did so, and then a horde of you typed Gilligan;s Island.

6..Ed4 says clay...that will work.

7..Yes, to LA; here's ed4 again.

8..Rbny is correct about "grammar", but he leaves the comic aspect to me.
Notice the difference--(A being) eats, shoots and leaves. (A being) eats shoots and leaves.

 

[wire chief]

9..Who said "Old Gold"? El zorro with the long memory.

10..Rbny, a fellow who could always take a hint, gives us MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU.

11..A few of you couldn't quite capture her end--Feldon, not Feldman

12..This ship was the lone vessel sent to Guam. The sailors discovered that the
Spaniards there had not been told there was a war and were not prepared to
defend. So they surrendered without a shot, a bayonet thrust or even a full-nelson.

13..Wouldn'tchaknow Zorro has cricket, you know, the game they play in Sri Lanka.