OT: General knowledge test #384A

[wire chief]

Time to engage your brain following passive watching of weekend sports.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..Why are Fitow & Phailin in the news?

2..Col. John McRae's wartime poem?

3..Members of what group have been charged with piracy by Russia?

4..The singer of "Everybody's Talkin'"?

5..Had an Amateur Hour.

6..What Jews do at a death, S______ _____.

7..The Prez who authorized the Susan B. Anthony dollar?

8..Hitler's last peacetime acquisition before invading Poland?

9..Identify charcuterie & boulangerie.

10..Russian author who died in an 1837 duel?

11.."Ill be what I am, ____t___ ___."

12..This nation was just awarded leadership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

13..The 2 football teams from lesser conferences in the top 25?

 

[pinotbear]

4. Niilson
5. Arthur Godfrey?
6. sit shiva?
8...this really cool copy of "Action Comics #1"? If not, then Czechoslovakia maybe
11. Solitary Man

 

[rbny1]

10. Pushkin

 

[heavyhusky]

6) Sit shiva
8) Sudetenland
9) Butcher shop, bakery shop

 

[DriveLH]

5. Ted Mack

 

[geordi]

2. In Flander's Field
5. Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
9. a boulangerie is a bakery
11. a solitary man
13. Northern Illinois and Fresno State

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Greenpeace
4. Nilsen
5. Ted Mack
6. Sit Shivah
7. Carter
8. Austria
9. Boulangerie is a pastry shop
10. Dostoyevsky

 

[Zorro]

3..Greenpeace.

4..Nilson/Schmilson

5..Horace Heidt

6..Sit Shivah.

8..Austria, mebbe?

10..Pushkin

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. After gaining the Sudetenland, Hitler occupied the remainder of Bohemia and
Moravia (present day Czech Republic) setting up a "protectorate" in March 1939.
Slovakia remained nominally independent, but was essentially a puppet regime.

10. Pushkin

 

[wire chief]

1..Windbags, but not the political kind.

12..It had a name change.

 

[wire chief]

1.. Cyclones that did mucho damage in China and (especially) India.

2..IN FLANDERS FIELD will do nicely, credit to geordi.

3..Zorro & VAUC provide Greenpeace.

4..Pinot, zorro, & VAUC give us Niilson, but I can't hear a word they're saying.

6..I left enough blanks for "sitting", but as usual, people ignore my blanks.
The Heavy quartet with "sit shiva".

5..Horace had a talent show, but AMATEUR HOUR belongs to Ted Mack,
as told by drive, geordi & VAUC.

7..VAUC, who has the first dollar he ever earned, writes that it's Jimmy.

 

[wire chief]

8..See ed4's lovely history blurb.

9..Heavy with the mouth-watering butcher shop & bakery.

10..That silly Pushkin, attested by his seconds, rbny & zorro.

11..Neil Diamond's 1st recording, Solitary Man, by the gregarious Pinot/geordi duo.

12..Burma

13..Geordi types No. Ill. and Fresno State. Who am I to argue?