OT: General knowledge test #391A

[wire chief]

I may be way off on my timing here, as you locals return from visiting kin in Tijuana and Beirut,
but we'll see.

Please don't reproduce questions and no research.

1..What's the job of the alveoli?

2..The Ticino River flows into the ? River, which empties into the ________ Sea.

3.."The fog comes in on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city.

4..Which city was the 1st municipality to (unsuccessfully) attempt to forbid abortions past 20 weeks?

5..One Raiders-Jets contest had a prominent nickname.

6..Initially it was 8, then 12 methods of body-building.

7..In 1967 _______ secedes from Nigeria.

8..Explain prestressed concrete.

9..First ladies Edith and Nell spent much time together. Their hubbies?

10.."There's a world where I can go to tell my secrets to." Where is this "world"?

11..There're some other Huskies(?) that are 12-0 right now.

12..Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovers..?.

13..The largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe is ____Minster.

 

[rbny1]

3. The poem Fog by Carl Sandburg.
5. The Heidi game. NBC cut away from the game at 7 p.m. to show the movie Heidi. Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final two minutes (which were not shown on NBC) to come from behind and win. This took place something like 40 years. I don't want anyone to think I hold grudges, but dammitall, being a Jets' fan I'm still angry -- not only at NBC but also at Oakland for winning.
9. Edith Wilson and Nell Taft.
10. "In my room." It's a very touching ad about kids with cancer.

 

[Waquoit]

11. Northern Illinois

 

[pinotbear]

1. Really reaching into high-school biology here..are those the little finger-like projections that line the small intestine and extract water and nutrients?

 

[Bezzz]

8. Really? I'm an architect so I'll give it a shot in 40 words or less. When a prefab concrete beam's rebar are pulled into tension (stressed) during manufacturing causing the beam to deflect (hump). When the beam is installed and fully loaded (add compression) the beam deflects back to level.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. I believe it is a lung function responsible for oxygenating the blood.
5. The Heidi Game back in 1967(?, may have been 1968) with the Jets leading comfortably with very little time left, NBC at 7pm went to its regularly scheduled programming, a show called Heidi. The Raiders went on to stage a miraculous comeback to win the game; Leaving many fans irate. Since then, all networks postpone regular programming until the conclusion of games.
6. Wonder Bread? Helps build strong bodies 12 ways.
7. Biafra

 

[Zorro]

3. Sandburg, "Fog", of course. Personally, I have always preferred the version by Ann Onymous, that starts; "The frogs come, on little flat feet..."

6. Wonder Bread, still going strong in its Latin American incarnation as "Bimbo".

7..Biafra.

 

[Waquoit]

4. Albuquerque

 

[ed4ourgirls]

12. The Palmer "peninsula" in Antarctica.
13. York?

 

[geordi]

1. Helps in the exchange of oxygen in the lungs
2. Po River empties into the Adriatic
3. Carl Sandburg poem "Fog"
6. Charles Atlas???
9. Edith Wilson and ???
11. Northern Illinois University

 

[wire chief]

1. Helps in the exchange of oxygen in the lungs
2. Po River empties into the Adriatic
3. Carl Sandburg poem "Fog"
6. Charles Atlas???
9. Edith Wilson and ???
11. Northern Illinois University

Edith Wilson?!!!!! You might just as well have said Edith Bunker!!!

 

[geordi]

Edith Wilson?!!!!! You might just as well have said Edith Bunker!!!

As in Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. You DID say First Lady, didn't you? I don't think there were any other President's Wilson.

 

[wire chief]

As in Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. You DID say First Lady, didn't you? I don't think there were any other President's Wilson.

Ayup, but she's not the Nell buddy.

 

[geordi]

Ayup, but she's not the Nell buddy.

Took a flyer.

 

[wire chief]

You mugs wuz poifect here. The world turned upside down.

1..Little fellas in the lungs exchange gasses. VAUC & geordi get ovations.

2..Geordi cites the Po, empties into the Adriatic. Believe him.

3..A Carl Sandburg poem identified by rbny, zorro & geordi.

4..Waq gives us Albuquerque.

5..We'll never erase that Heidi Bowl from our heads. At least rbny & VAUC won't.

 

[wire chief]

6..Wonder Bread--Zorro & VAUC, looking like Charles Atlas.

9..Well, near-perfect to be more accurate. Rbny has Nell Taft, but the Edith we want was married to TR.
The 2 Prez' were long time pals until a falling out.

8..I wouldn't dream of changing one word of Bezz description. Just wondered why he was
surprised by the question.

7..Zorro & VAUC provide Biafra.

 

[wire chief]

10..Rbny cites the Beach Boys' "In My Room".

11..The MAC' No. Ill. footballers, known by Waq & geordi.

12..Ed4 comes alive at the end, providing Antarctica and
13..York

I won't get to part B until the pm. Tennis time.