OT: General knowledge test #402A

[wire chief]

Sure you can worry about injuries and fouls and cold shooting, but doing this is so much more
intoxicating.

No research nor reprinting questions please.

1..We usually see Israel's General Security Services written as ____ ___.

2..Who are the Sinti-Manouche?

3..The financial group which has settled on $2B for Madoff claims?

4.."If you should awake in the still of the night, please have no fear."

5..We now begin China's Year of the..?

6..A best seller and a new flic, The Monuments Men: its theme?

7.. The nation with the largest oil reserves?

8..Provide 2 pairings for "A Star Is Born".

9..What comic has the Red Rascal?

10..Sutter's Mill was the impetus for..?

11..The 1st Prez born west of the Mississippi?

12..A buttocks muscle, ____e__.

13..Who selected Ottawa as the capital?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10 - the California Gold Rush
11 - I can't believe it could be right, but off the top of my head - Herbert Hoover

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Frederic March and Janet Gaynor . . . and James Mason and Judy Garland.
10. California Gold Rush
11. Herbert Hoover
12. Gluteus Maximus

 

[pinotbear]

1. the Mossad, or something like that?
6. The recovery of artwork, stolen by the Nazis, at the end of WWII, as the allies moved into German territory. Hasn't gotten wonderful reviews, but the cast is impressive - Clooney, Murray, Damon, I believe.
8. And, Streisand and Kristofferson, I think.
9. Doonesbury - the younger Redfern's imaginary alter-ego, a Taliban-slaying vigilante.

 

[rbny1]

5. Year of the Horse

 

[watanabe]

2. Sintenghero Tschib(en). I got this from Wikipedia and still don't know what it means, Middle European?

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot, Mossad is a bad bet.

 

[pinotbear]

1..Pinot, Mossad is a bad bet.

vell, ya win a few, den ya lose a few!

 

[JRRRJ]

1..Shin Bet
5..Pig
7.. Canada
9..Doonesbury
10..The California Gold Rush of 1849
11..Hoover
12..Gluteus

 

[meyers7]

5. Horse I think
6. WWII group that hunted down the art stolen by the Nazi's. Looking forward to seeing the movie.
10. California Gold Rush. 49ers.

 

[wire chief]

1.. As JR writes Shin Bet is a good bet.

2..These folk are a Romani speaking group that Hitler persecuted like Gypsies. They are spread through central Europe, many in the Balkans.

3..JP Morgan

4..A big hit by Jesse Belvin a tad before 1960. Title is GNML(?)

5..Rbny and Meyers gallop off with the prize. JR is just so much pork.

6..I tried MONUMENTS MEN, but I have trouble with the painstaking
detail of journalistic writing. I'll wait for the DVD. Meanwhile, see
Meyers & Pinot.

7..Getting medical treatment in Cuba couldn't help.

8..There were 3 pairings. Between ed4 & Pinot we get them all.

9..JR & Pinot place him in Doonesbury.

10..The 1st nuggets were found at Sutter's. Knights, ed4, JR & Meyers
aptly indicate the '49 Ca. gold rush.

11..It is Hoover(Iowa), much to Knights astonishment. JR & ed4
also possess this useless knowledge, but are low-key about it.

12..Gluteus is it. JR has it, and ed4 seems to say that it's the province of emperors.

13..Who was the monarch at the time? Clean up 4, 7 & 13, wouldya?

 

[meyers7]

7. Prolly Venezuela then.

 

[David 76]

Good Night My Love.
U.S.
Canada

 

[wire chief]

Meyers has Venezuela.

And a "Welcome" to David who solves "Good Night My Love".

So what about 13?

 

[k9fanatic]

I'm guessing it wasn't Canadiens? So maybe the king/queen of England at the time?

 

[wire chief]

I'm guessing it wasn't Canadiens? So maybe the king/queen of England at the time?

Her friends called her Vicky...Hah!