OT: General knowledge test #409A

[wire chief]

Use this to help pass the 200 days or so until we cheer again.

No reprinting questions nor research please.

1..Scents go to the part of the brain called the _________ b___.

2..In 1792 Congress passes the Coinage Act that establishes..?

3..A once famous Hollywood restaurant or a hat?

4..Fox enters network TV with 2 shows(?).

5..What is the myoclonic jerk?

6..What county's economy just passed South Africa as Africa's largest?

7..Full name of the ADHD disease?

8..One who throws or a useless person in Brit slang?

9..Identify: Ring cycle

10.."Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear."

11..This Prez puts Harlan F. Stone on the Supreme Court, and this Prez makes him chief.

12..1940's radio gave us a PI who ended each program with an accounting of his
expenses, closing with, "Yours truly, ______ ______".

13..Mt. Marcy is highest in what state?

 

[rbny1]

3. Brown Derby. I went there as a kid many years ago with my father. I oohed and aahed as movie celebrities (or at least I thought they were celebrities) dined at nearby tables.
9. A series of four extraordinary Wagner operas about the mystical Ring of the Nibelung.

 

[JRRRJ]

2..The Bureau of Engraving & Printing

3..Brown Derby

7..Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder

8..Tosser

10..The Lone Ranger

 

[pinotbear]

13. New York, I think

 

[Zorro]

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3..Brown Derby
7..Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
8..At a guess, tosser?
9..I think that is the one where the fat lady sings.
10.."From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again" "Hi yo Silver! AWAY!"
12. That would be Johnny Dollar

 

[Waquoit]

4. 21 Jump Street, Tracy Ullman Show

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Paper Money
3. The Brown Derby
4. 21 Jump Street, Married With Children, The Simpsons(2 out of three?)
5. A Clown
6. Nigeria
7. Attention Deficit Hyperactive disorder
10. The Lone Ranger
13. New York

 

[wire chief]

1..Olfactory bulb

2..JR's answer is in mint condition.

3..Rbny, an attendee, brings 3 others on board too.

4..Between Waq & VAUC, we get Tracey Ullman & Married With Children(each repeated twice).

5..An involuntary leg spasm as one is falling off to sleep.

6..VAUC has Nigeria.

7..JR & VAUC with the mouthful.

8..Tosser works--zorro & JR.

9..Rbny is most specific; JR introduces a sine qua non.

10..Way back when we had the Lone Ranger, credit to JR, zorro & VAUC.

11..Coolidge, FDR.

12..That would be zorro, IDing Johnny Dollar.

13..Pinot & VAUC in a NY state of mind.

 

[JRRRJ]

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9..Rbny is most specific; JR introduces a sine qua non.

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Not me, I couldn't bring it into consciousness. Credit El Gris, rather.

 

[wire chief]

Not me, I couldn't bring it into consciousness. Credit El Gris, rather.

Yes, sorry, it was zorro.