OT: General knowledge test #367A

[wire chief]

Wimbledon is done for today, but don't whine, for you have this.

Don't be tempted to research nor to reprint questions.

1..Eight days before Custer, the army lost the battle of the..?

2..A fruit(?) thought to interact badly with several medicines.

3..Guess the decade the post office began adhesive stamps.

4..On 7/2 is the 49th anniversary of..? On 7/20 is the 44th anniversary of..?

5..Construct a single word: informal "mother"+ western revolutionary+ Latin form of "you".

6..Elvis: "I had a relationship with every costar but one(?)".

7..We just lost a famous bluesman, who was anything but "tasteless".

8..From 1939 what company ran the Dixie Clipper?

9..In 1778 Mary Ludwig Hays was better known as..?

10..Mexicans try to sneak in here as..? try to sneak into Australia.

11..The Muslim _______ are in conflict with Han Chinese.

12..The oft-cited 5 Mafia families in NY?

13..Many doo-wop hits had Harvey and the_________.

 

[DriveLH]

13. Moonglows

 

[rbny1]

8. Pan Am airways
9. Molly Pitcher - she carried pitchers of water to the American troops fighting the British at Monmouth and then joined in and helped load one of the cannons after her husband, a member of the cannon crew, was shot.

 

[meyers7]

2. I believe that is grapefruit. Which is fine cause I don't like it anyway.
12. Gambino, Columbo, Genevese, that's all I remember. And not sure of the spelling.

 

[geordi]

1. I wouldn't know this but I'm reading a book on The Last Stand - Battle of the Rosebud
7. 'Blue' Bland
9. Molly Pitcher

 

[Zorro]

7. Bobby Blue Bland

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4 - July 20th was the moon landing, also my wife's birthday - and a very special 8th birthday it apparently seemed to her.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Big Small Horn
2. Tomato
3. 2000's
4. Civil Rights Act of 1964, the first man on the moon
6. Shelly Fabares
9. Typhoid Mary
12. Gambino, Genovese, Luchese, Bonnano, and Columbo
13. Moonglows

 

[Tidepool]

5. machete?

 

[wire chief]

1..Geordi, who's finally reading again, has The Rosebud.

2..Meyers (who has had these thrown at him) correctly cites grapefruit.

3..I believe VAUC is thinking "no lick", but one needs to go way back
for the licking kind.

4..Best wishes to your wife, Knights. Are you sure you are prominent enough
to deserve her? VAUC has both events.

 

[wire chief]

5..High fives to tidepool, who was willing to do a little thinking--machete.

6..Not Shelly--the one you want is forever paired with Lou.

7..Zorro's got the full name--Bobby Blue Bland.

8..Rbny's in flight with Pan Am.

 

[wire chief]

9..See rbny for his description of Molly Pitcher. Geordi's OK too

10..Go by geography for a hugely populated Muslim land.

11..Uighers, residing in China's far west.

12..VAUC is acquainted with all five Mafia families; suddenly I am very frightened of VAUC.

13..Drive & VAUC, who can't be young'uns, sing out with the Moonglows.

 

[pinotbear]

10. I would guess Malaysia..

 

[meyers7]

2..Meyers (who has had these thrown at him) correctly cites grapefruit.

But they haven't hit me yet.

 

[wire chief]

10. I would guess Malaysia..

If you are capable of picking Malaysia, you are likely competent to select its neighbor.

 

[pinotbear]

They got NEIGHBORS? Man, they's gonna need a lotta chips n' dips for the block party.. so, what, Indonesia?

 

[wire chief]

They got NEIGHBORS? Man, they's gonna need a lotta chips n' dips for the block party.. so, what, Indonesia?

You need to check whether chips and dips conform to dietary codes. But you are (finally) OK
with Indonesia.

 

[Wink96]

If you are capable of picking Malaysia, you are likely competent to select its neighbor.

1 Little Big Horn
3 1860s
8 Pan American

 

[wire chief]

3..Sticky stuff in 1847. Dink was pretty close.

6..After Elvis' report, Mary Tyler Moore replied publicly (seemingly with a sigh indicating that she was not thought of as sexy) that she was the ignored one.