OT: General knowledge test #396A

[wire chief]

Whereas Ct. needs 3-dog-night, I look forward to winter to sleep well on 2-blanket-nights.
Haven't had many yet. Too much global warming in Fl. Anyway, you get to warm up with this.

Please don't research nor reprint questions.

1..This African country is like "keep talking".

2..The Huracon will replace the Gallardo. The car?

3..What are Alexander Dubcek's highlights.

4..Brit Ronnie Briggs was part of what 1963 event?

5..Sinatra, et al: "All life through must I go on pretending? Where is my happy ending?"

6..Mystic Pizza and Tinker Bell?

7..In tradition, on what water does Jesus walk?

8.." I should hesitate between Dante&Shakespeare, but I have to go with the Englishman. He's richer."

9..The restored Casco Viejo tourist district is where?

10..The name of Meredith Wilson's 1957 musical?

11..What is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's hope but is apparently not getting?

12..What's Utah especially in the news for lately?

13..Where in literature does one find "Houyhnhnms?

 

[geordi]

2. Lamborgini
4. The Great Train robbery in Britian
7. Sea of Gallilee ???
10 Music Man
11. governor of Texas candidate ???
12. the Utah Supreme Court just allowed gay marriage.
13 Sounds like Gulliver's Travels

 

[DriveLH]

2. Lomborghini (sp)
4. Great train robbery.
13. Gulliver's Travels

 

[meyers7]

6. Julia Roberts
7. Sea of Galilee. So did Peter.....for a little bit.
10. The Music Man. Film came later. Robert Preston in the title role of both.

 

[rbny1]

11. She has made a big pitch that military commanders should not handle complaints of sexual misconduct within their units. She believes such complaints should be handled independently, outside the normal chain of command. Is that what you are referring to?
12. Not only did a court rule in favor of gay marriage, but another court struck down parts of the state's law against polygamy.

 

[hoopingcrane]

3.. Leader of Czechoslovakia (First Secretary of C.P.) during Prague Spring

6..Julia Roberts

7..Sea of Gallilee

9..Panama

10.. The Music Man

11..military sexual assaults to go to military prosecutors rather than commanding officers

12..gay marriage after court ruling that ban was unconstitutional

13..Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. The Profumo Affair, a huge scandal reaching the upper echelons of British government.
6. Julia Roberts
12. Polygamy. The law against it, as written in Utah, have been deemed unconstitutional; the challenge brought by the guy witht he sister wives.

 

[wire chief]

1..We are seeking a 5-letter country as a synonym.

2..Drive & geordi, revealing themselves as members of the 1%, know about Lamborghinis.

3..Hoop has a partial reconstruction (no, not of his anatomy). In the late 60's he dared challenge the Soviet Union and
was deposed to a factory job.

4..Geordi and drive, long a fugitive in foreign nations, place this guy as involved in The Great
Train Robbery. (Notice my misplaced modifier)

5.."When we said goodbye, love, what had we to gain?
When I gave you my love, was it all in vain?"

6..Meyers hoop, & VAUC place Julia Roberts in her first starring role and later playing Tink in a
Peter Pan production.

7..Geordi, Meyers and hoop find Him on the Sea of Galilee.

 

[wire chief]

8..Words of a famous Irish writer a century or so ago.

9..Hoop, with far too much vacation time, correctly cites Panama.

10..Meyers and hoop know we got trouble, right here in River City.

11..Rbny with a fine report. The lady is aware that so many rape cases have been stymied by superior officers.

12..Others mention 1/2 of Utah's newsworthy events, but see rbny for the whole shebang.

13..The race of intelligent horses found in Gulliver's Travels, credit to geordi, drive and hoop.

 

[DriveLH]

1. Gabon

 

[geordi]

8. How about if I try William Butler Yeats???

 

[wire chief]

8. How about if I try William Butler Yeats???

How'bout I express great sadness in saying "nay".

1. Gabon

Yeah, once you think of it, you are 100% certain.

 

[rbny1]

8. If Yeats isn't the guy, I would go with Oscar Wilde.

 

[wire chief]

8. If Yeats isn't the guy, I would go with Oscar Wilde.

Still sad. Writer of The Dubliners

 

[hoopingcrane]

Still sad. Writer of The Dubliners

That would be James Joyce, famous for punctuating just like TonyC.

 

[wire chief]

That would be James Joyce, famous for punctuating just like TonyC.

Yes, and will TonyC die in poverty?

 

[wire chief]

One lovely lament is #5