OT: General knowledge test #408A

[wire chief]

So, the NC is decided, the draft is over. Who's still around to take a test?

Please avoid research and reprinting questions.

1..The Prince and the Pauper author?

2..The title of the 1st Beatles album?

3..Both a NM town and a quiz show?

4..What's a catalogue raisonne?

5..The decade of the 1st Stanley Cup?

6.."Slowly starts dancing, remembering her girlhood
and all of the boys she had waiting in line."

7..Marya Skigdowska became...

8..Castillo de San Marcos is our oldest masonry fort. Location?

9..1930's Wolfman?

10..Mr. Carmichael's group was called "Snik" Full name?

11..Lantana, verbena, heliotrope are all...?

12..Ty-bop, Vinnie & Chollo sometimes show up where?

13..Constantinople is to Istanbul as ______ is to Ankara.

 

[DriveLH]

3. Truth or Consequences
9. Lon Chaney Jr.

 

[Waquoit]

2. In America - Meet The Beatles

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Meet The Beatles
3. Truth or Consequences
5. 1940's.
9. Lon Chaney
10. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
11. Fonts
13. As far as I know it has always been Ankara or something closely resembling the pronunciation.

 

[rbny1]

1. Mark Twain

 

[geordi]

1. Mark Twain
2. Please Please Me
3. Truth or Consequences
6. Songs of the Everyday Housewife ???
8. San Juan, Puerto Rico???
9. Lon Chaney Jr.
10 Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

 

[wire chief]

6..Clearly geordi remembers, but his synapses are getting sticky. Help him out with a correction.

 

[Waquoit]

6..Clearly geordi remembers, but his synapses are getting sticky. Help him out with a correction.

Dreams!

 

[Waquoit]

5. 1920's

 

[UCGamer]

1..Mark Twain
2..Please, Please Me
3..Truth or Consequences
4..
5..
6..
7..
8..
9..Lon Chaney
10..
11..Fragrant flutterby attractors
12..
13..

 

[Zorro]

So, the NC is decided, the draft is over. Who's still around to take a test?

Please avoid research and reprinting questions.

1..Ol Sam Clemons

2..Meet the Beatles

3..Truth or Consequencs

8. St. Augustine fl?
9..Lon Chaney
11..Flowering plants

 

[wire chief]

4..An itemized list of...

5..Two guesses, too late

7..Madame is slowly poisoned.

8..Usually considered America's oldest.

12..RBP died in 2010 at 77, considered a top crime fiction writer. His usual protagonist?

13..VAUC is not being wooly-minded that the name is similar.

 

[pinotbear]

7. So, Marie Curie?
8. Is that the one in San Juan, Puerto Rico?

 

[DriveLH]

8. St. Augustine, Fla ?

 

[wire chief]

7..Oui for Marie.

8,,Si, Drive.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

5 - 19teens?
11 - I have Lantana in the front yard and there is a street named Desert Verbena in our development, where most of the streets are named for wildflowers, so I'll guess wildflowers.

I knew several others (including St. Augustine before the hint), but alas, am too late to the party.

 

[UCGamer]

5..1890??

 

[Zorro]

12. Spencer?

 

[HoopsFan21]

Wait, yesterday we had test #208B and now we're up to #408A? What happened to all the numbers in between?

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny is in a quartet with Mark Twain (Clemens)

2..Please Please Me as offered by geordi and gamer. Other posters tried to be xenophobic.

3..The VAUC 5some with Truth or Consequence.

4..List of an artist's works. Like my 408 tests.

5..We're going with gamer, 1894.

6..We needed 2 of you, cause Glen Campbell is heavy lifting. Waq's got the feet & geordi the shoulders.

7..Pinot finds Marie, um, radiant.

9..VAUC, geordi, gamer, Drive provide that hairy devil Chaney.

10..See VAUC for total accuracy.

11..Horticulturalist Knights cites flowers; gamer puts it another way.

12..Yes, zorro, Robert B. Parker's Spencer novels.

13..If you guys were more wooley-minded, you'd pick Angora.

Note to Hoops...I rely on Meyers for proofreading, but sometimes he's on the mushrooms in a Pink Floyd daze.