OT: General knowledge Test #470A

[wire chief]

We will continue to ward off deviation, as there will be 25 questions.
And your job is just answers, without research, without repeating questions.

1..What Prez set up the Dept of Energy?

2..Leaving with 2 pizzas is like a bridge bid. Huh?

3..First to cross the North Pole underwater?

4..In 1987 the FCC abolishes the Fairness Doctrine(?).

5..In 1914 England declares war on Germany, following the latter's invasion of..?

6..Where are there 3 reliefs of Confederate personages, larger in size than the Mt. Rushmore busts?

7..Identify Katie Ladecky.

8..A notorious deep South prison(?) has the same name as an African nation.

9..On 8/6/14 2 nations declare war respectively on 2 other nations. So state.

10..Dr. Frances Kelsey just passed. She saved us from..?

11..This major city has its geography and its name split by the Danube. Clarify.

12..What was the fate of the Confederate ironclad, "Arkansas"?

13..Name 2 candidates not invited to this week's big dance.

 

[geordi]

1. Carter?
3. USS Nautilus
5. Belgium
6. Stone Mountain, GA (includes sculptures of Lee, Davis, and Jackson)
10. Thalidomide (was just in the news a couple of days ago)
11. Buda and Pest
12. Had to be sunk, How? I have no idea
13. Lindsay Graham and Carly Fiorello

 

[pinotbear]

9. Germany and Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia and Russia
12. I think the Arkansas was involved in the battle of Mobile Bay, (Farragut, "damn the torpedos", and all that stuff).

 

[DriveLH]

2. It's a "take-out" double.

 

[lne001]

1.. Jimmy Carter

3.. USN Nautilus

5.. Belgium

6.. Stone Mt. Georgia

8.. Angola

11..Buda and Pest, Hungary

12..Scuttled in Mobile Harbor

13..Carly Fiorina and Rick Perry or Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders [/QUOTE]

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Ford
3. Amundsen
5. Austria-Hungary
8. In Louisiana, Angola
10. Thalidomide
11. Budapest; Buda on one side, Pest on the other
13. Perry & Fiorina

 

[rbny1]

7. Ledecky is the latest swimming phenom. A teenager Maryland, she who won all kinds of races and set several world records at the world championships in Russia.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

12. I also believe with lne001 that the ironclad was destroyed so that it didn't fall into Union hands.

 

[wire chief]

4..It involves politicians and broadcasts.

 

[meyers7]

3. Nautilus did that. You can find it down in New London now. Actually I think it's on the Groton side of the Thames. Been awhile since I've been down there.
4. I believe that has to do with requiring the same time for Dems/Reps (or any opponents). If you have one on (TV or Radio) you'd be required to have an opponent on also.
6. Stone Mountain. A very nice park right outside Atlanta, GA. My family used to go there quite a bit when we lived down there (circa 6-7th grade). We'd hike up to the top.

 

[wire chief]

1..Ine & geordi, whose wives blamed Carter for sapping the libidos of their husbands.

2..Drive's real good at takeout, often without paying.

3..Geordi, Ine & Meyers are expert at underwater, just look at their mortgages.

4..This has hit Meyers very hard, given he polled 6th for head of his town's tow truck contract.

5..Geordi knows this, cause his shipment of blood diamonds was delayed.

6..Geordi, Ine & Meyers, seen in the vicinity often, waving their rebel flags.

7..Rbny, despondent that he himself has no gold medals, begrudgingly admits Katie has some.

8..VAUC & Ine actually met there, after the revenoors caught 'em with moonshine.

9..OK, Pinot, but your wording, as usual, could be sharper. I mean it was not a duet.

10..Well, of course it was, geordi. It's what happens when you die. Sheesh. Poor VAUC wishes the news had reached his mom before...

11..Geordi, Ine & VAUC are influenced by anything that resembles their split personalities.

12..Knights, at least, gives us a reason; the other 2 mugs couldn't be bothered.

13..Well, which is she, a Fiorello or a Fiorina? If you goofballs can't agree, how do I make sense of it all?

Now listen up, you have done zip to attend to your miserable performance in "B". Don't expect any peep out of me, until you rectify this.