OT: General knowledge test #381A

[wire chief]

Airwaves getting full--Blacklist began; NCIS & PERSON OF INTEREST TONIGHT.

Meanwhile reprint no questions; research no answers please.

1..Where specifically is the Absaroka Range?

2..Nokia's homeland?

3..RIP Susan George's lust interest?

4..Where will the NCAA men's final 4 be next?

5..What destination was Magellan seeking?

6..The source of the name Bath(English city)?

7..Charles & David, famous billionaire brothers?

8..."So don't forget it. It's just a silly phase I'm going through."

9..The Sri Lanka minority is the Tamil. The majority?

10..In 1846 Johann G. Galle discovers ..?

11.."I'm sorry for the things I've done. I've shamed myself with lies."

12..What is the 200' long Cloud Lab?

13..This famous ex-Giant(?) just disparaged the team's offensive line.

 

[geordi]

1. Rockies, in Montana - my son lives there
2. Finland
4. Dallas, Cowboys Stadium
6. Mineral Waters???

 

[crownfox2]

6. Romans built an enormous bath complex there.
7. The Koch brothers
13. Michael Strahan

 

[SoCalCanine]

8. "I'm Not In Love" 10cc

 

[ed4ourgirls]

5. If it was the Northwest Passage, he obviously made a wrong turn somewhere.

10. The planet Neptune - whose approximate position had been independently calculated by
John Couch Adams (Brit.) and Urbain Leverrier (France), working from irregularities in the
orbit of Uranus, and resulting (of course) in contentiousness for credit. It remains one of
the great triumphs of Newtonian mechanics.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Southwest Montana specifically, I think, and it runs into the eastern part of Yellowstone National Park..

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Finland
4. Dallas
7. Koch brothers
8. I'm Not In Love (so if I call you, don't make a fuss. Don't tell your friends about the two of us...)
11. You Were Always On My Mind -- Willie Nelson
13. Michael Strahan?

 

[wire chief]

13..You are seeking a premier run-stopping linebacker.

12..It's about to travel from coast to coast.

11..It's from EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE.

9..____hal___

6..Don't waste your time with a water-answer.

5..The Spice Islands, part of what nation now?

 

[geordi]

Weren't the Spice Islands Hawai'i?

 

[SoCalCanine]

Weren't the Spice Islands Hawai'i?

I see your confusion, Hawaii was the Sandwich Islands, which may or may not be spicy!!!

 

[SoCalCanine]

11. Must be Neil Young!

 

[SoCalCanine]

13. Carson?

 

[VAUConnFan]

13. Sam Huff

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. Indonesia