OT: General knowledge test #406A

[wire chief]

I don't imagine we'll do much typing about UConn vs. Prairie View, so let's resume.

Please don't research or reprint questions.

1..Morgan Freeman is Best Supporting Actor in the 2005 Oscar movie..?

2..The all-time medal winning country in the Winter Olympics is..?

3..Three different portrayals of mid-weekend solo mio by Sinatra, Don French, & Sam Cooke?

4..The terms umbra, penumbra and antumbra are used for..?

5..The movie Exodus portrays..?

6..What's our Mel's conference?

7..Within 5 years when does the SSB become our national anthem?

8..This Jet was Tom Thumb.

9..Grand ol' Opry comedienne was M_____ P____.

10..The king who gave William Penn his land charter?

11..Joseph Force ______ could not be found.

12..___ ___ ___'_ ______ __. I'm riding with lady luck.

13..Who gave Rome a Baroque redo in the 17th C?

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. United States
3. Another Saturday Night
5. The Israelis fleeing bondage in Egypt
6. Atlantic Sun Conference
7. 1898
9. Minnie Pearl
10. King William I

 

[pinotbear]

9. Minnie Pearl - "howwwwww-dee!"
4. "atomospheric layers"? of the sun? either that, or three different kinds of bras, one of which you're not sure is there, and one of which is for wear during the Fall.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Driving Miss Daisy?

 

[meyers7]

2. I think it was Norway.
7. hmmm Key wrote it in 1812. So maybe 1820 (give or take 5)
9. Minnie Pearl

 

[Waquoit]

7. I know it's later than the other guesses - 1925?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

2. Norway
4. Lunar Eclipses (actually any kind of eclipse - you are in the penumbra when viewing a partial
eclipse, and in the umbra during totality)
10. Charles II
13. Bernini?

 

[wire chief]

1..Million Dollar..?

3..Well, you know the Sinatra one: Saturday Night is ___ ________ _____ __ ___ ____. That's when my baby and I used to dance
cheek to cheek.

8.. the Jet of West Side Story, i.e.

11..He was a judge.

12..Freeways, cars and trucks

 

[rbny1]

Based on your hints:
8. Russ Tamblyn, who played the title role in the movie Tom Thumb and also appeared in the movie version of West Side Story.
11. Judge Crater.

 

[pinotbear]

1. ..Baby
3. ..the loneliest night of the week
12. Eagles song, lemme think.. can hear it, can't think of the name...

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot grabs the hint and becomes Dick Vitale.

2..Meyers & ed4 reveal the benefits of a cold weather nation--Norway.

3..VAUC has the Sam Cooke number--Another Saturday Night (and I ain't got nobody. Sinatra's Saturday Night is the Loneliest
Night of the Week. About 1958 Don French had a hit with Lonely Saturday Night.

4..Ed4 is most accurate; we're talking sun shadowing.

5..I couldn't say it better than rbny.

6..VAUC provides Atlantic Sun (I wonder if Mel's tan is better now).

7..Waquoit does OK...1925.

8..Rbny recognizes Russ Tamblyn.

9..Yes, its Minnie Pearl, as attested to by Pinot, Meyers & VAUC.

10..Ed4 fingers Charles II.

11..You didn't recognize his 1st 2 names, cause they're never used. As rbny says, Judge Crater.

12..Pinot is correct. It's an Eagles song. Knowing that can anyone plug in the title?

13..Ed4 provides the amazing sculptor and architect, Gian Bernini.