OT: General knowledge test #385A

[wire chief]

First Test since First Night. Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Please don't reprint questions and no research.

1..What retail operation plans to enter Columbia with 50 outlets?

2..What's the only undefeated NHL squad?

3..The European Union is worried about guns entering from what hi-tech source?

4..Who once had many fans from her I HATE TO COOK BOOK?

5..Prominent "birther" touting new construction = a card suddenly having trick-taking ability.

6..Explain the failed "one for the thumb" slogan.

7..The decade we took over Alaska?

8.."Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call."

9..Lately the Discovery Channel has been focusing on a particular time of greed. Explain.

10..LKA...cop talk for..?

11..Pasto & Dari both use versions of what alphabet?

12..To sing, Vito Farinola became whom?

13..One was executed; another had trouble with Peg.

 

[pinotbear]

5. something to do with Trump, but I haven't quite got it yet
6. After the Steelers won 4 Super Bowls (and had four rings), on their subsequent trip to the big game, their slogan was "One for the Thumb". They lost that game.

 

[DriveLH]

8. Country Joe and the Fish "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die"

 

[meyers7]

1. In Colombia?
2. I think Sharks were the last I saw. Not sure if they still are though.
5. Trump up to something
6. Steelers problems winning a 5th Superbowl ring
9. I watched a show on the 80's decade a few weeks ago, but I don't remember if that was Discovery Channel or not.
10. Likely Known Assailant. Little K-9 Assistant. Lead Killing Armor.

 

[Zorro]

First Test since First Night. Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Please don't reprint questions and no research.

1..Gotta be the octupus; Walmart

3..3D printers, mebbe?

4..Peg Bracken

5..Trump


8. "Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall"; "The times they are a'changin"

 

[JRRRJ]

5..Donald "combover" Trump
7..Purchase, not takeover. "Seward's Folly", "Seward's Icebox": 1840's?
8.."The Times they are a-changin'" -- Dylan

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

7 - that would be 1869, I think. 1860's is the decade.

 

[Waquoit]

10. Last Known Address

 

[Tidepool]

4. Irma Bombeck (sp?)

 

[MarlboroughMike]

4. I have a Peg Bracken "I hate to cook book" - 50th anniversary edition I got a few years ago.

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. Trump
6. I believe the NY Islanders had won four Stanley Cups when they declared that they would go after a 5th; One for the thumb. It very well could have been the powerful Edmonton Oilers from a period right after the Islanders dominance.
7. 1860's with Sewards' Folly. If an exact date had to be guessed upon, it would be 1869.

 

[wire chief]

1..Really overpriced breakfast.

5..Pay close attention...you were supposed to translate "a Trump promotion". Now you bridge players provide the parallel please.

7..JR takes exception to "takeover". What you don't know is that JR was frightened as a child by a corporate raider.

9..In them thar hills.

11..The speakers don't like that we sheltered the Shah.

12..Rhymes with a band member under the weather (sick Ramone.)

13..Names of Ted & Al.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

13 - post hint, Bundy. You made it easy.

11 - I'll guess Farsi, but don't know.

1 - IHOP?

If these are right, your hints were pretty easy.

 

[wire chief]

13 - post hint, Bundy. You made it easy.

11 - I'll guess Farsi, but don't know.

1 - IHOP?

If these are right, your hints were pretty easy.

Only 2/3 easy, ol' college-mate.

 

[JRRRJ]

9..Gold Rush
11..Arabic
12..Vic Damone
13..Bundy

 

[Zorro]

1. La Casa de Wafles?

 

[wire chief]

1..Starbucks

2..Meyers playing Officer Krupke, claiming the Sharks win.

3..Good connective logic by zorro--3D printers.

4..Zorro & Marl, who would not enter the kitchen w/o Peg Bracken.

5..In bridge, when declarer is forced to use up a trump, so that a defender's previously
worthless trump becomes dominant, i. e. a trump promotion.

6..A Steelers promotion, having just won their 4th in 6 years. Pinot & Meyers.

7..1860's says VAUC(1867).

8..Bob Dylan's THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'--Zorro & JR themselves have been
irrevocably changed by these tests.

9..JR has the gold prospectors.

10..Credit to Waq for LAST KNOWN ADDRESS.

11..Persian or Farsi--Knights feels unchallenged.

12..JR successful at uncovering a rhyme--Vic Damone.

13..Knights & JR provide Bundy.

Here you are 11 of 13. While Storrs flirts with frost tonight, you were warmer.