OT: General knowledge test #403A

[wire chief]

Well, the good ship Lollipop sails no more.

You have clear sailing, so long as you do no research nor reprint questions.

1..Explain the "sore loser" laws.

2..The classical antecedent to Elvis' "I can't help falling in love with you".

3..The mass of men lead lives of q____ ___________. And author?

4..Whassa Matter Baby, The Love of a Boy, (I'm so)Hurt.

5..This nation's Prez has instituted a "name and shame" policy to out big businesses
who have few female employees.

6..In 1943, rationing meant one could buy only six of these(?) a year.

7.."How blue the skies, all sweet surprise, shines before our eyes"..?

8..Explain the Dreyfus Affair.

9..Name the 5 states which allow "Aid in Dying".

10..The main drag in St. Petersburg is ______ Prospekt.

11.."But I would not feel so all alone. Everybody"..? And title?

12..W______ E____ Gladstone G_____.

13..The Gulenists are led by a guy in the Poconos, offering an alternative in what nation?

 

[DriveLH]

11. everybody must get stoned. Bob Dylan

 

[pinotbear]

3. quiet desperation. Not sure who wrote it, so, WAG here - Sinclair Lewis
6. tires?

 

[rbny1]

8. In 19th century France, an army officer named Dreyfus, who was Jewish, was wrongly accused of treason and was court-marshaled, convicted and sent to Devil's Island. The author Emile Zola rose to Dreyfus's defense by writing a stirring article titled J'Accuse which accused the military of antisemitism. Zola was convicted of libel, but his article resulted in the release of new evidence that led to Dreyfus's exoneration.
9. It was in the newspaper a couple of days ago: Oregon, Washington, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.

 

[DishNSwish]

11. everybody must get stoned. Bob Dylan

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

 

[geordi]

Tough one today, Wire.

12. William E. Gladstone was a British prime minister
13. I think Gulenists are a Turkish political party. Don't know what they have to do with PA.

 

[Waquoit]

1. A law that forbids political candidates who lost their parties primary from running in the general election as an independant.

 

[Waquoit]

3. quiet desperation. Not sure who wrote it, so, WAG here - Sinclair Lewis

3. Yup, half right. It's Henry David Thoreau.

 

[VAUConnFan]

Totally shut out.

 

[Zorro]

Well, the good ship Lollipop sails no more.

You have clear sailing, so long as you do no research nor reprint questions.

2.. Plaisere d'amoure

3.. quiet desperation; H D Thoreau

8.. A treasonous letter was discovered, written by some French officer. Cpt Deyfus, a Jew, was deliberately framed by the army high command. Emile Zola blew it up with a newspaper campaign; "J'accuse", Dreyfuss was exonerated and the real culprit unmasked, a very well-connected member of the hereditary aristocracy.

13. Turkey. I have been following the story, and it is getting really nasty. But Gulen is not really "offering an alternative"; it is much more complicated than that.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

10. Nevsky Prospekt.

 

[wire chief]

5..The current Prez is female of a country we once helped out in a significant war.

12..Before and after.

 

[watanabe]

More hints, more hints...

 

[wire chief]

More hints, more hints...

Assume, me bucko, that the other questions have been well handled.

 

[Zorro]

You couldn't, could you, no. You couldn't be fishing for Gladstone Gander? But, if so, where does the WE come in?

 

[wire chief]

You couldn't, could you, no. You couldn't be fishing for Gladstone Gander? But, if so, where does the WE come in?

See geordi

 

[Zorro]

But Gladstone Gander was not William E. He was just plain old...oh, never mind.

 

[wire chief]

1..Waq has it--no coming in the back door, you hear!?

2..French composition from the 1700's. zorro provides
plaisere d'amoure.

3..Quiet desperation(is the English way), provided fully by Waq
as Henry David Thoreau.

4..Hits around 1960 by Timi ____.

5..Leaving it to me? S. Korea

6..That's my dog Tige

7.."Songs were meant to sing _____ __'__ _____."

8..Mucho exposition by rbny.

9..Rbny again with the 5. Scroll upwards.

10..Ed4 shows up with Nevsky.

11..Dish identifies those rainy day floozies. Drive completes the line.

12..Geordi writes William E; then take a Gander at zorro.

13..Muhammed Gulen is the founder and thought to run the group
from his self-imposed exile in the Poconos. Credit to geordi.

 

[DriveLH]

4. Yuro

 

[wire chief]

4. Yuro

You got it.

 

[wire chief]

6. .Continuing the old commercial...That's my dog Tige; he lives in a shoe.
I'm Buster Brown; look for me in there too. In 1943 one could buy only 3 pair a year.

7.."While we're young", recorded by Perry Como, Peggy Lee.

 

[pinotbear]