OT: General knowledge test #374A

[wire chief]

No reprinting questions; no research: no wailing nor teeth-gnashing.

1.."Where's the beef?!"

2..One species of this animal(?) is Grevy's.

3.."You're digging for gold. Yet throwing away a fortune in feelings."

4..Mr. Berkowitz' nickname?

5..A real Pamplona-like running is to occur on 8/24 in what state?

6.."I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

7.."Papa"_____ startles the concert-goers in the 2nd movement of the ________ Symphony.

8..In '93 she's only the 2nd female approved for the Supreme Court.

9..Subtract Daniel Radcliffe's age from Woody Harrelson's and you get
23, 28, 33, 36, 39, 42.

10..The Blackfish documentary skewers what business practice?

11..Correct this sequence--rho, pi, tau, sigma upsilon.

12.."House" appears in a Poe title(?).

13..King Herod's Song, Pilate's Dream, and Judas' Death.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Clara Peller, acting in a Wendy's commercial - Walter Mondale later co-opts the phrase in his race for the White House against Reagan.
4. Son of Sam
13. Numbers from " - Superstar"

 

[meyers7]

1. Wendy's commercial. One of the best.
3. Cold As Ice - Foreigner
5. I'll guess Texas. They have lots of bulls down there.
13. From Superstar

 

[rbny1]

6. From the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus
7. Haydn, Surprise Symphony
12. The Fall of the House of Usher

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

11 - pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon if you mean alphabetical order

 

[Waquoit]

10. Sea World, killer whale training

 

[Dove]

2. Zebra

 

[geordi]

1. Wendy's commercial
2. Zebra
4. Son of Sam
6 comes from an Emma Lazarus poem that is on the base of the Statue of Liberty
12. Fall of the House of Usher

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Wendy's.
4. Son of Sam(also the chubby behemoth)
5. Virginia
8. Ruth Bader Ginsberg
12. the Fall of the House of Usher
13. Superstar

 

[wire chief]

1..I still laugh when I think of the little old lady hawking Wendys. Pinot & 3.

2..Dove & geordi think zebras...not horses, despite the advice.

3..Meyers, our resident Foreigner, who folks think is Cold as Ice.

4..VAUC, geordi & Pinot, all who still avoid Brooklyn, with Son of Sam.

 

[wire chief]

5..VAUC gives us no bull--Va.

6..Rbny & geordi with the Statue of Liberty inscription.

7..Rbny has the box seats for Josif Haydn's Surprise Symphony. It is said that the composer was
aware that that the audience was prone to doze during the standardized soft 2nd movements.
So , he built in some loudness...SURPRISE!

8..Ruth B. Ginsberg correctly writes VAUC.

 

[wire chief]

9..You know I'm always after you to guess. Anyway Woody is 52, Daniel 24.

10..Waquoit shows he picked the right avatar. The doc argues vs. the captivity of orcas.

11..Knights doesn't say it, but isn't it interesting that the 5 sounds also appear in our alphabet
in the same(corrected) order.

12..Rbny, geordi & VAUC provide Fall of the House of Usher.

13..Pinot, Meyers, & VAUC place the songs in Superstar.

 

[SoCalCanine]

6. and the name of the Emma Lazarus poem is "The New Colossus" I believe

 

[RegisteredUconn]

11 - pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon if you mean alphabetical order

But can you repeat the entire 24 letter sequence three times before the match you struck burns your fingers?

 

[wire chief]

But can you repeat the entire 24 letter sequence three times before the match you struck burns your fingers?

Depends on how articulate you want the pronunciation.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

Depends on how articulate you want the pronunciation.

Articulate enough that the "actives" accept your recitation as evidence of mastery.

 

[Zorro]

"sigma, tau, owwwwwww!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

But can you repeat the entire 24 letter sequence three times before the match you struck burns your fingers?

absolutely! The strangest place to get a piece of knowledge that has ever been useful for, among other things, crossword puzzles.