OT: General knowledge test #464A

[wire chief]

It's perfectly OK to answer this during Wimbledon commercials,
so long as you do no research nor reprint questions.

1..What folks refer to kids as bairns?

2..What French family ruled England for 300 years?

3..The Beatles covered the Carl Perkins hit _____ D___

4..Brooks, Queen Ann, Sweetheart, Rainier

5..The 9th colony(?) to sign put the U. S. Constitution in play.

6..The Supremes say wrinkled grapes must be fairly compensated. Explain.

7..In 1936 the Civil Aeronautics Authority becomes..?.

8.."Take me along, if you lov-a me." The company? The scandal?

9..In 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes calls his invention the..?.

10..In 1497 he(?) is 1st European credited with sighting North America.

11..A hit song to celebrate a woman in space?

12..The Triple Entente members?

13..The car maker that produces the Azera?

 

[johnnyc]

3. Honey Don't
12. England, France and Russia

 

[rvwsleep]

3. Honey Don't
5. New Hampshire
7. The FAA ? I can't think of any other agency though I think the FAA came into being in the 50's
9. Typewriter
13. Hyundai

 

[rbny1]

1. The Scots

 

[wire chief]

3. Honey Don't
5. New Hampshire
7. The FAA ? I can't think of any other agency though I think the FAA came into being in the 50's
9. Typewriter
13. Hyundai

Kindly spell out the FAA to illustrate the name change.

 

[rvwsleep]

Kindly spell out the FAA to illustrate the name change.

Food addicts anonymous ?
I was going to say Federal Aviation Administration. But then I thought why would you ask for a clarification for a well known "agency". I tripped over it and it jogged my memory.

 

[pinotbear]

11. "Ride, Sally, Ride", although not written for the astronaut, became a kinda unofficial theme song for Sally Ride.

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. The CAB
8. TWA(guessing, but it was one of the airlines probably now defunct and there are a bunch of them)
10. Amerigo Vespucci
10. Verrazzano

 

[pinotbear]

4. are these all different kinds of roses?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1 - Scots
2 - Plantegenets I'll guess.
4 - varieties of cherry, perhaps - I have a box of Ranier cherries in the fridge. I'll stick to it, but I will admit that at least 2 of the 4 clues are also a variety of rose, I think.
10 - John Cabot

 

[k9fanatic]

1. People in Scotland
4. Cherries?
9. Typewriter
10. John Cabot (or Giovanni Caboto as he was known in his native Italy)

 

[geordi]

7. Federal Aviation Administration
11. Ride, Sally, Ride
12. England, France, and Russia
13. hyundai

 

[Zorro]

1. That would be the Scots. laddie.

2. The Plantaganets.

3..At a guess, Party Doll?

7 National Aeronautics administration?

8..Hmmm.. There was a Broadway musical of that name from which the song, but company? scandal? I musta been asleep at the time.

12. England, France and hmmm...Russia, mebbe?

 

[Waquoit]

11. "Ride, Sally, Ride", although not written for the astronaut, became a kinda unofficial theme song for Sally Ride.

11. Mustang Sally

 

[wire chief]

1..The rbny 4some get us started with the Scots, some in northern England too.

2..Knights and zorro here.

3..JC and sleep implore their loved ones to refrain from..?

4..With knight, everything comes up cherries.

5..To sleep, it's live free or die.

6..http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/22/supreme-court-raisin-farmer/28475623/

7..Sleep, sounding elitist, deigns to spell out the agency; geordi, without wingeing, also.

8..Like VAUC writes, it was an airline commercial. Now the juicy part is the honchos simply assumed that flyers
would bring wives, fiances,et al, with the reduced rate as incentive. Fine, but then the honchos direct mailed the guys at home
afterwards. When many wives saw the contents, they realized that they were not the ones that were taken along. Hee hee.
So, beloved posters, how did you miss this?

9..K9 & sleep peck it out in homage.

10..The English show their disdain for non-English names. We'll go with K9 and call him Giovanni Caboto.

11..Pinot's got the Lou Reed tune.

12..JC & zorro offer Russia, England & France. We accept.

13..Sleep & geordi name the Korean carmaker.

You got 11/13 in this section.

 

[rvwsleep]

1..The rbny 4some get us started with the Scots, some in northern England too.

2..Knights and zorro here.

3..JC and sleep implore their loved ones to refrain from..?

4..With knight, everything comes up cherries.

5..To sleep, it's live free or die.

6..http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/22/supreme-court-raisin-farmer/28475623/

7..Sleep, sounding elitist, deigns to spell out the agency; geordi, without wingeing, also.

8..Like VAUC writes, it was an airline commercial. Now the juicy part is the honchos simply assumed that flyers
would bring wives, fiances,et al, with the reduced rate as incentive. Fine, but then the honchos direct mailed the guys at home
afterwards. When many wives saw the contents, they realized that they were not the ones that were taken along. Hee hee.
So, beloved posters, how did you miss this?

9..K9 & sleep peck it out in homage.

10..The English show their disdain for non-English names. We'll go with K9 and call him Giovanni Caboto.

11..Pinot's got the Lou Reed tune.

12..JC & zorro offer Russia, England & France. We accept.

13..Sleep & geordi name the Korean carmaker.

You got 11/13 in this section.

My maybe too subtle implication of an answer for #7 was the Federal Aviation "AGENCY". See below.

"I was going to say Federal Aviation Administration. But then I thought why would you ask for a clarification for a well known "agency". I tripped over it and it jogged my memory".