OT: General knowledge test #387A

[wire chief]

Though it's Halloween, I hope no mean-spirited trolls show up.

Please no reprinting questions nor research.

1.."Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" represents the attack by _________'s R______.

2..In 2012 Jacques ______ is fired as CEO by Wm Clay Ford.

3..Loy is an Irish tool comparable to a..?

4..What is the occupation of a "tail-sitter"?

5..What is telling the Cascades lead, "What a fool I've been"?

6..He(?) and 4000 drive 10,000 Brits out of La.

7..Identify Esa-Pekka Salonen.

8..The top religious leader of what nation has just died at 100.

9..What is the 605-miles-in-diameter Ceres?

10..In 1904 this 1st NYC subway debuts.

11..How is St. Sebastian depicted in classical painting?

12..P___4__ts tries to create relationships.

13..The world's largest diamond is named ___ I ____.

 

[rbny1]

1. Doolittle's Raiders
6. Andrew Jackson
7. A Finnish-born orchestra conductor
10. The first subway ran from City Hall to Grand Central Terminal. I believe it was part of the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) system, but I may be wrong about that. It could have been the BMT.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Since Rbny snatched all the ones I knew, I'll take a guess

11 - holding his detached head? I'm pretty sure it is related to his martyrdom.

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..Doolittle's Raiders

6..Jackson

9..Asteroid

10..IRT, designed by the engineering firm of Parsons Brinckerhoff

11..shot with arrows

 

[JRRRJ]

6..Prez-to-be Andy Jackson

9..The largest asteroid

11..As a pincushion

13..Kohinoor

 

[SoCalCanine]

5. Rhythm of the falling rain

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[SoCalCanine]

7. Conductor of the LA Philharmonic

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[VAUConnFan]

1. Doolittle's Raiders(I believe it was off a ship deck before carrier flights became commonplace. Unlike today's carrier departures where takeoff power is achieved by a combination of engine power and a catapult, these planes took off on their own power and barely got airborne, almost all of them dipping a bit before gaining altitude.)
4. I do not know about occupation, the only tail sitters about which I am aware are the flying craft with a unique takeoff, landing, and flying profile; vertical instead of horizontal
6. Andrew Jackson
6. Zachary Taylor
10. The IRT (from City Hall to Times Square. That City Hall station, which became obsolete because of its short platform, was built over by today's Brooklyn Bridge Station, but I hear that if you stay on the 6 Train as it turns around, it runs right though that old station. )
13. The Heart of the Ocean

 

[Zorro]

Though it's Halloween, I hope no mean-spirited trolls show up.

Please no reprinting questions nor research.

1..Doolittle's R_???

6. Old Hickory

 

[wire chief]

Since Rbny snatched all the ones I knew, I'll take a guess

11 - holding his detached head? I'm pretty sure it is related to his martyrdom.

That would be St. Denis, a relief at Notre Dame Cathedral.

 

[geordi]

1. Doolittle's Raiders
3. Shovel
6. Andrew Jackson
13. Doesn't fit your blanks, but I always thought the world's largest diamond was the Star of Africa???

 

[wire chief]

1..The rbny 4some whooping it up alongside Doolittle's Raiders.

2..Same name as a former Egyptian leader.

3..We're all dependent on geordi's mastery of all things Irish--shovel.

4..Think on the sport of kings, in a related sort of way.

5..The 60's hit, LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM OF THE FALLING RAIN;
sing along with SoCal.

6..Old Hickory or Andrew Jackson--credit to the Hoop quintet.



7..Orchestra conductor, rbny & SoCal vying to be 1st violin.

8..Think about the most purely Buddhist nation.

9..Largest asteroid in the belt--JR & hoop, both worried about when it will hit.

10..Rbny & VAUC offer details. Hoop accurate too, the IRT.

11..The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune made him a pincushion
(in the colorful language of JR). Hoop more literal.

12..P___4vets

13..The Kohinoor, JR used it to get engaged, though she asked for rhinestone.

 

[SoCalCanine]

12. Paws??

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[rbny1]

12. Paws??

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12. Or perhaps Pets4Vets.

 

[wire chief]

Paws will do.