OT: General knowledge test #431A

[wire chief]

There's just so much hashing you can do about ND; take a break and try this.

Please do no research nor reprinting questions.

1..Woody Allen is 79 today. Show your love by naming 2 of his titles this decade.

2..Parts of Ill, Wisc, Iowa & Minn are known as the Driftless area. Explain.

3..Republicans have selected what city for their national convention.

4..Computerss IP stands for..?

5..Three Standard Deviations as a %?

6.."The shark closed fast astern, and when he hit the fish,"

7..Explain the Hollywood 10, and name one.

8..The Kemp's Ridley beasts undergo a human aided migration this time of year. Explain.

9..In 1943 a German missle kills 1138 on the HMT _____ off Algeria.

10..The Sec'y of State under Franklin Pierce?

11..What's Parcifal, and who created it?

12..Ray Tomlinson invented..? in 1971.

13..A BMI of 30 is cassified ..?

 

[johnnyc]

4. internet protocol

 

[crownfox2]

7. Refers to Hollywood screenwriters blacklisted in 50's for alleged communist activities....Ring Lardner and Waldo Salt to name two. Many continued to write under aliases or used "beards"

 

[wire chief]

7. Refers to Hollywood screenwriters blacklisted in 50's for alleged communist activities....Ring Lardner and Waldo Salt to name two. Many continued to write under aliases or used "beards"

One portrayal of the behind-the-scenes was Woody Allen's The Front.

 

[pinotbear]

6. I would guess "The Old Man and The Sea", Hemingway
8. a species of sea turtle, that often gets stranded in northern waters (Cape Cod bay, often) as temperatures cool. Being reptiles, they don't handle cold temps too well, so, nice folks from various animal rescue groups and aquariums help the turkles to get south to warmer water.
13. obese. And, I resemble that remark!

 

[rbny1]

3. Cleveland, I believe.
7. Dalton Trumbo is another, in addition to the two named by crownfox
11. An opera by Wagner

 

[OneTrickPony]

5. 99.7% of data fall within 3 standard deviations of the mean in a bell-shaped probability distribution...

 

[Dove]

1. Annie VIII and More Bananas!

4. Internet protocol

12. Email!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10. I have no idea. More interestingly, future confederate pres Jefferson Davis was his Secretary of War.

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Internet Protocol
6. The Old man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
7. I am going to assume it is the group of film industry individulas blacklisted for ties tot he Communist party during the HUAC witch hunts; Elia Kazan
10. Would have had to be famous in his own right or as obscure as the person for whom he served at the pleasure. My guess, Millard Fillmore

 

[wire chief]

1.. Midnight in Paris, To Rome with Love, blue Jasmine would all qualify.
Dove is just bananas.

2..An area that had no glaciation, resulting in more ridges and valleys and different soil composition.

3..Rbny has it, Cleveland.

4..Dove & VAUC share in naming internet protocol. It is the Wirechief Protocol to give credit where due.

5..Pony laments that on most issues he stands among the .3%.

6..Ya gotta think THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, don't ya? At least Pinot & VAUC do so think.

7..To straighten the record (and VAUC's memory), Elia Kazan was not one of the aggrieved, but a STOOL PIGEON.
Crown & rbny provide 3 valid names among those blacklisted for "Commie sympathies".

8..See Pinot about rescuing hypothermic turtles.

9..Rohna

10..Wirechief with a bad source and egg on his countenance. Knights correctly puts Jefferson Davis as Sec'y of War, not State.
And, like Knights says, we don't care who was Sec'y of State.

11..Rbny points to the Wagner opera.

12..As Dove writes, it's E-mail.

13..Pinot "expansive" with his remarks, 30+ equals obesity. We should not be surprised that he keeps track.

 

[Dove]

#2 is interesting to this geography buff. Gotta Google that.

 

[Zorro]

There were a couple of other notorious stool pigeons.

 

[Intpseeker]

Re #2: that Flowers just describes this in John Sandford's latest novel, Deadline.