OT: General knowledge test #440A

[wire chief]

Dedicated to Ms. Iowa, may she be henceforce known as Kiah "Triple-double" Stokes.

We have double-double rules: No reprinting questions & no research please.

1..Billy _____ _____ Johnson did the funky _______ in the end zone.

2..Five states have "Right to Try"(?) laws.

3..Uses for pumice powder?

4..In 1973 there began a significant change(?) in MLB.

5..Within 20 years when was Eliz I coronated?

6.."Can analysis be __________? Is the theater really ____."

7..More than half of Asia's Catholics reside in what country?

8..The Tumen River is the border between which 2 nations?

9..The American chain(?) accepts its Canadian failure by closing 133 stores.

10..Major soccer includes the San Jose ___________.

11.."Is that a gun in your pocket or..?'.

12..The Feb issue of the Annals of Epidemiology reports that veterans' suicide rate is
8, 19, 26, 36, 42, or 50% higher than that of civilians.

13..Since 1978, what venue is considered top for independent filmakers?

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Billy White Shoes Johnson; the funky chicken
4. Free agency; IIRC Andy Messersmith was the first
7. India
10. Mercury
11. are you just glad to see me - Mae West
12. 42%
13. Sundance

 

[OneTrickPony]

1. Billy White Shoes Johnson...funky chicken extraordinaire for the Houston Oilers...
3. Soap...Lava was the best...
6. Can analysis be worthwhile, is the theater really dead...Paul Simon at his best
10. San Jose Earthquakes..?
11. You just happy to see me...
13. Sundance...just a guess...

 

[Zorro]

1.. Whute Shoes. funky chicken



3..fine polishing, dry lubrication

4..DH

5.. 1849

6..worthwhile, dead

11. are you just glad to see me

 

[geordi]

1. White Shoes - Funky Chicken
3. exfoiant, soap, abrasive
4. designated hitter (worst travesty ever foisted on MLB) BTW, Ron Blomberg of the Yankees was the first. (Gotta get another plug in for the Yankees - they don't have too many lately).
5. about 1525
7. Phillipines
10 Earthquakes
or are you just glad to see me
13. Sundance in Utah

 

[Waquoit]

9. Target

 

[meyers7]

1. Billy White Shoes Johnson. I think he did the funky chicken
4. Horrible change. Worst thing ever to happen to baseball. The DH.
10. San Jose Earthquakes. Haven't been very good and played in a dinky stadium. I think they are getting a new one, maybe this year??
11. or are you just happy to see me. Used in about a billion movies/shows
13. You thinking of the Sundance Film Festival. (named after Robert Redford's character)

 

[Wally East]

7. Philippines.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - I don't know the others, but Arizona is one of them. Allowing the extremely ill to try non-FDA approved drugs for treatment. It was on the ballot and passed in November here.
4 - DH is my guess as well
5 - Elizabeth I died in 1603 and reigned somewhere around 50 years, IIRC. So how about 1560?
9. Target

 

[wire chief]

8..Related to 17.

 

[pinotbear]

8. the two Koreas, then? and , all them Kims?

 

[RegisteredUconn]

1. White Shoes...chicken
5. 1550
6. worthwhile...dead
7. Philippines
11. or are you just happy to see me?*

* I thought it was a "pistol" not a gun.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

5. 1558

 

[wire chief]

8. the two Koreas, then? and , all them Kims?

Forget 2, work from there.

 

[Dove]

1 white shoes...chicken
4 DH
7 Russia
8 North Korea and China
9 Target
11 are you just happy to see me?

 

[wire chief]

1.. Football memories are out of this world...gotta be 8 of you walking a mile in his white shoes.

2..See Knight, always on top of the drug trade. Psst...Got any mushrooms.

3..I like zorro's wording...points off for geordi claim of abrasion. Name me something gentler.

4..A geordi quartet with the Amer L use of designated hitter.

5..Zorro, did you mistype? Ed4 sells short (by 1 year); Knight goes long(by 1 year).

6..Zorro succinct, pony elaborates.

7..Spanish-influenced Phillipines, Reg, Wally & geordi here.

8..Our Lonesome Dove connects China with N Korea.

9..Waq & Knight & dove are my Targets.

10..Meyer, geordi, & pony feel the earth move under their feet...and blame Carole King.

11..VAUC leads a sextet over the sexkitten.

12..It's 50%...be aghast.

13..Sundance works, credit the Ponyfoursome.