OT: General knowledge test #368A

[wire chief]

Looking forward to great men's semi-finals tomorrow.

Meanwhile, no research please nor reprinting questions.

1..Jennifer Jones is part Indian in..?

2..RIP electrical engineer Douglas Englebart who a 1/2C ago gave us something(?) we
all have at home and/or office.

3..In 1759 Francis Drake lands in __________.

4..When a section of a glacier breaks off and falls into the sea, that is known as..?

5.."Comfort me through all this madness. Woman, don't you know..?

6..Either a music writer or a St. Bernard.

7..A feudal estate, ____(___).

8..Luanda is the capital of..?

9..The theme of the movie "Rudy"?

10..What is the "trouble" we have in River City?

11..The EU just got its 29th member(?).

12..July 9th is an important worldwide date. Why?

13..Prophecising in 1940, Churchill says, "This was..?

 

[UConnChapette]

4. Iceberg
6. Cujo?
9. Music theme? "Rudy". Subject (theme) - player with dream to play football for Notre Dame but is on the smallish side (think Hobbit size?) works hard and has his dream come true.
10. Trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for "Pool" (that stands for pool) trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble....I think I need to go watch The Music Man now.

 

[pinotbear]

1. her left foot pinky toe...jes' a leetle, leetle bit!
4. Calfing, or calving, I suppose
6. Beethoven

 

[rbny1]

13. "This was their finest hour" - In the gloomy early years of World War II, Churchill predicted that England would rally against the Nazis and win the war, and people would look back and say, "This was their finest hour."

 

[SoCalCanine]

2. Computer mouse

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. Purgatory? The Francis Drake I know died around 1600.

If you meant 1579, maybe San Francisco bay?

 

[meyers7]

10. Trouble right here in River City (IA). Robert Preston was the real trouble. But Trouble with a capitol T that rhymes with P and that stands for Pool. Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Ron Howard, The Buffalo Bills. It was just on last night, with all 76 trombones.

 

[geordi]

4. calving - spectacular if you've ever seen it.\
9. Walter Mitty story. Team football manager at Notre Dame gets into a game in his senior year and makes good.
10. Pool, with a capital P which rhymes with T
11. Croatia - beautiful country. Stop at Pula sometime.

 

[wire chief]

5..Recorded by George Benson/Vanessa Williams, also Billy Preston.

12..Muslims everywhere

1..Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotton

 

[rbny1]

1. Based on your hint: Duel in the Sun - an interesting movie because Gregory Peck played out of character as a bad guy. Peck and Cotten are two of my favorite actors. Just about everything they did is still worth watching.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Pocket calculator
3. Newfoundland
4. Ice flow
8. Angola
9. Underdog non scholarship undersized little guy gets a chance at Notre Dame

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny rightfully picks DUEL IN THE SUN.

2..SoCal has the computer rodent.

3..Ed4 calls me on transposing digits (Gulp). Remember, ed4, there was still a Limbo then too.

4..Geordi calls the process calving and wants us all to rush right out and see it. (PINOT too)

 

[wire chief]

5..With you I'm born again.

6..I've never heard Cujo's music, but I have heard Beethoven's. Pinot has it.

7..Fief(dom)

10...Starting with Chap(Miss 8-ball-in-side-pocket), lots of you "troubleshooters".

 

[wire chief]

8..VAUC is correct with Angola.

9..Chap leads all comers with Notre Dame's own Jacquie Fernandez walk-on.

11..The beautiful Croatia, at least in geordi's view.

12..Ramadan begins.

13..See rbny's history lesson.