OT: General knowledge test #438A

[wire chief]

DYK? A species of jellyfish is eternal, in that the adult can transform itself into an embryo and regrow
and repeat the process ad infinitum.

Our rules are eternal also: no reprinting questions and no research please.

1..Where are the "Southern" Alps?

2.."Tumbling Dice" is on what Stones Album?

3..RIP a man for the "Birds".

4..Why are the big losses by Taiwan's ruling party making residents especially nervous?

5..Whose intelligence branch was "Savak"?

6..How are Snoopy and Charles Darwin linked?

7..Play on words: Some states give this rock group for bottles.

8..Explain Quebec's "Moving Day".

9..In 1990 works by Rembrandt, Vermeer et al. were stolen from what Boston museum?

10..California's 1st freeway, linking L.A. to Pasadena in 1940 is called..?.

11..Janis Ian writes about the Prom.

12..In 1863 the US buys 45K sq. miles known as the..?

13..Geologist John Milne invents the..?.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Chile
2. Sticky Fingers
2. Exile on Main Street
3. Anthony Perkins
5. French
6. Dogs evolved from wolves. Most current dog species were created/evolved over the last 150 years
10. The Harbor Freeway
11. Seventeen
13. Seismograph

 

[rbny1]

3. Rod Taylor, who starred in the Hitchcock movie
9. The Gardner

 

[DriveLH]

6. Snoopy is a beagle, the name of Darwin's ship was "The Beagle".

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. They favor normalization of relations with mainland China.

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. The Soviet Union(second guess)

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. Is there a rock group with "Deposit" or "Refund" in its name?

 

[johnnyc]

2. Exile on Main St.
11. At Seventeen

 

[Wally East]

1. New Zealand
7. Nickelback
12. Do you mean the Gadsden Purchase?

 

[wire chief]

7. Is there a rock group with "Deposit" or "Refund" in its name?

Um...no. See Wally.

Perhaps, dear VAUC, you need to return to clean up hitting. Alex Trebek is crestfallen.

1. New Zealand
7. Nickelback
12. Do you mean the Gadsden Purchase?

12..Well, why wouldn't I?

 

[lne001]

5. Shah of Iran
12. Gadsden Purchase

 

[reno tony]

1. South America
3. Hitchcock
5. Hungary
6. Charles Schultz was named after Darwin
7. Ten Sense
10. I-5
11. Carrie

 

[Wally East]

12..Well, why wouldn't I?

Well, some of the details in the question might not be quite right.

Here's a link to the U.S. Secretary of the State's Office of the Historian about the Gadsden Purchase.

 

[wire chief]

1..Yep, Wally, the South Island of NZ.

2..VAUC & JC, thenselves thrown out of all the Main St. taverns.

3..Rbny announces the passing of Rod Taylor. Now if this happened in Mongolia, birds would be feeding on him.

4..The new gov't seeks more independence from the mainland, and you don't want to bristle the big dog.

5..Back when the Shah ruled Iran, as Ine points out.

6..Drive makes the connection, revolving around Beagle. Shultz' mom said better the biologist than being named after
Manson.

7..Nickelback is the rock group that Wally listens to unceaseingly, right after he unloads his empties.

8..http://www.movemeaway.com/blog/post/why-everyone-in-Quebec-moves-on-July-1st.aspx

9..Rbny still has the Vermeer in his attic. If you PM him, he'll arrange viewings for select Boneyarders.

10..A____ S___

11..JC still crying about the mistreatment "At 17". VAUC reads a teen mag.

12..Sorry Wally, I misread my notes. Someday I'll find an Opthamologist who says my cataracs meet gov't standards.

13..VAUC is on shaky ground. Just kidding, since he has the seismograph.

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. Arroyo Seco

Um...no. See Wally.

Perhaps, dear VAUC, you need to return to clean up hitting. Alex Trebek is crestfallen.

As long as I'm in the lineup.

 

[wire chief]

10. Arroyo Seco


As long as I'm in the lineup.

Aroyo Seco is a winner.