OT: General knowledge test #378A

[wire chief]

Yeah, sometimes the eyes just pop open, when no one in the bedroom wants them to.

Do no research please nor reprint questions.

1..Emma Thompson appears in which Jane Austen movie?

2..The gist of Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit"?

3..Saint R of L(?) deliberately disfigured her face.

4.."Water. water everywhere, ___ ___ ___ ______ ___ ______,"

5..The order they left Nixon? Dean, Mitchell, Haldeman, Erlichman

6..Sally Field is James Garner's love interest in..?

7..Almost all of Latin America celebrate independence in mid-?.

8..Ron Glass as a cop?

9..Two other state capitals(?) are just about on a straight line from Atlanta to Santa Fe.

10..Identify Kentucky Burgoo.

11..Gina Lollobrigida in a circus?

12..Whose poem?--"Whenever I go to Suffern along the Eire track,"

13..Who was responsible for killing the last Inca king?

 

[pinotbear]

4."but, not a drop to drink"
8. Barney Miller
10. traditional Derby day dish - kinda stew-like. Traditionally would include some game meat, including squirrel.

 

[wire chief]

4."but, not a drop to drink"
8. Barney Miller
10. traditional Derby day dish - kinda stew-like. Traditionally would include some game meat, including squirrel.

4..Ah Pinot, you squeezed a square peg into a round hole.

 

[rbny1]

2. It's a very sad song about lynching. "Strange fruit" refers to the bodies of blacks hanging from trees.
13. The Spanish conqueror Pizarro

 

[Icebear]

11. Trapese with Burt Lancaster

 

[meyers7]

4. and not a drop to drink
6. Murphy's Romance. Haven't seen that one in awhile.
8. He was in Barney Miller.
9. hmmm possibilities are Montgomery, Jackson, Little Rock, Austin, Baton Rouge. Montgomery, Jackson and Baton Rouge are south of Atlanta, maybe Austin too?? Well Little Rock is pretty much same level.

 

[Zorro]

2.. Has to do with a lynching.

4. Til all the boards did shrink

7. Septiembre

 

[geordi]

3. Rose of Lima
4. And not a drop to drink
5. Dean, Mitchell, Haldeman, Erlichman, Nixon ??
8. in Barney Miller, played Det Harris
9. Jackson, Montgomery, Baton Rouge (2 of those 3 anyway)
10 kind of grass (lawn not smoking)
13. Hernan Cortes

 

[hoopingcrane]

3..Rose of Lima

4..and not a drop to drink

5.. Mitchell, Dean, Erlichman, Haldeman,

13.. Toledo

 

[wire chief]

4. and not a drop to drink
6. Murphy's Romance. Haven't seen that one in awhile.
8. He was in Barney Miller.
9. hmmm possibilities are Montgomery, Jackson, Little Rock, Austin, Baton Rouge. Montgomery, Jackson and Baton Rouge are south of Atlanta, maybe Austin too?? Well Little Rock is pretty much same level.

4..See my Pinot admonition

 

[rbny1]

4..See my Pinot admonition

4. "And all the boards did shrink" fits the spaces of your underlines.
If I recall correctly from having been an English major years ago, the poem reads, "Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink."

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Sense & Sensibility
2. Lynchings
8. Barney Miller
9. Baton Rouge and Jackson

 

[wire chief]

1..You are not using good sense here.

2..See rbny.

3..Rose of Lima didn't like getting lecherous gazes, geordi & hoop.

4..See rbny with the couplet. Zorro only one word off.

5..Trust hoop here.

6..Meyers thinks it's about time to review Murphy's Romance.

7..Zorro has September.

8..Yes, from Barney Miller, credit to Pinot, geordi & Meyers

9..Meyers names every American city but one. He's right about Little Rock,
but the 2nd is still undone.

10..Pinot with his odd appetite.

11..Just mention "scrapple" in a test and Ice's mouth waters, and he's compelled to answer one question. The movie TRAPEZE.

12..The poem is "The House With Nobody In It." by the guy(?)
who prizes vegetation over verse.

13..Rbny has the right guy in Pizarro.

 

[wire chief]

OK, Vauc came in as I was typing and correctly hits Sense and Sensibility for Q1.

 

[VAUConnFan]

9. Oklahoma City and Little Rock

 

[meyers7]

9..Meyers names every American city but one. He's right about Little Rock,
but the 2nd is still undone.

I'm thinking your idea of a "straight line" and my idea of a "straight line" might differ.

 

[wire chief]

I'm thinking your idea of a "straight line" and my idea of a "straight line" might differ.

Have you even looked where the wind comes sweeping down the plain?

 

[meyers7]

Have you even looked where the wind comes sweeping down the plain?

Yes, and might be a little further north of a "straight line" then some of the others were south of a "straight line".

 

[wire chief]

Yes, and might be a little further north of a "straight line" then some of the others were south of a "straight line".

And cops have told me you often don't walk a straight line.

 

[meyers7]

And cops have told me you often don't walk a straight line.

I dance it.

 

[wire chief]

Anyway VAUC did cite Ok City and the missing poet in Q12 is Joyce Kilmer--you remember? the Trees guy?