OT: General knowledge test #471A

[wire chief]

Another opportunity for you early risers to grab the low-hangers. Um, are there any such?

Please don't reprint questions nor do research.

1..The Eiffel Tower was long the world's tallest structure until what went up?

2..He died in 1995, but his ice cream(?) homage lived on.

3..What did the Webster-Ashburton Act do?

4..Dr. J's 1st ABA team?

5..French revolutionaries attacked Louis XVI in his T_________ Palace.

6..Sundarbans is world's largest mangrove forest and straddles what 2 countries?

7..The Prez who OK's the Smithsonian set-up?

8..Virginia City Nev is especially known for..?

9..Explain why hatters are mad.

10..What just happened to Geno Smith?

11..In 1985 the world's most deadly single plane accident kills 545 crashing in..?

12..In 1981 what was Model 5150? And the corporation?

13.."His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean.
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen."

 

[rvwsleep]

1. 405 Lexington Ave.
2. Tom Carvel ?
4. Virginia Squires
10. His jaw was broken by a teammate in a locker room fight.
11. Japan
12. IBM computer
13. Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay

 

[rbny1]

9. Mercury was used to make hats, affecting hat-makers' brains.
10. He threw another interception? Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[terif831]

2. Cherry Garcia? (For Jerry, of course)

 

[lne001]

2. Jerry Garcia
5. Tuileries
8. silver mining

 

[meyers7]

4. I think he started with the Squires before the Nets. Then on to the NBA 76ers.
8. The Cartwrights lived nearby. Frequented the city.
10. He didn't pay his bills. IK took it out of his hide. Typical J-E-T-S.
12. Van Halen, Van Hager??

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..Chrysler building

2. Jerome ( I read an article the other day but forget his middle name) Garcia, some guy would played with the Warlocks

3..Set U.S./Canada border

4..Virginia something or others

5..Tuleries

8..Some might say silver mining, but also setting for Bonanza, the first tv show I saw in color (sort of- light greens and pale reds)

9..Sniffing too much mercury at work

10. former teammate broke his jaw with one punch (teammate since signed by Buffalo)

11..Are you sure more people weren't killed in Tenerife crash in the late 70's?

12.. IBM pc, sort of

13..Bobby Zimmerman, doing his country western imitation- Lay Lady Lay

 

[Atleast5char]

5.. Tuilleries

7..Taft

9..They use arsenic in the hat-making process, perhaps.

10..Jaw was broken by another player, Nmpali, whose sister played for University of Texas women's basketball and was drafted by Seattle (but is injured still).

11..Tenerife

 

[Atleast5char]

11..Tenerife --- or was "single plane" the operative phrase? Anyway, I think Tenerife happened before 1985.

 

[wire chief]

9. Mercury was used to make hats, affecting hat-makers' brains.
10. He threw another interception? Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Boy, that rbny...who would have thought he had such a lack of impulse control? Did Freud use him as the model for the "id" concept?
He stunned us before by knowing that Eleanor Rigby was dead, and now he's done it again.

 

[geordi]

4. Virginia Squires
8, silver mining - and the Ponderosa, oh, and Mark Twain began his newspaper career there.
10 he got sucker punched by a teammate over a $600 plane ticket. Broke his jaw and he'll be out 6-10 weeks.
11. FAr East somewhere, Japan, I think

 

[rbny1]

Boy, that rbny...who would have thought he had such a lack of impulse control? Did Freud use him as the model for the "id" concept?
He stunned us before by knowing that Eleanor Rigby was dead, and now he's done it again.

I'm a Jets fan. Years of suffering have warped my brain.

 

[pinotbear]

6. India and Bangledesh, I think.

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Empire State Building?
2. Cherry (Jerry) Garcia from Ben & Jerry
10. Had his jaw broken from a punch thrown by his now-former teammate.
11. Japan
12. IBM computer
13. Lay Lady Lay -- Bob Dylan

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. The Woolworth Building
2. Tom Carvel
4. The Virginia Squires who also had Charlie Scott, Doug Moe, Mike Maloy, (I thought me memory could come up with a few more, Oh well. I used to see them when they played the Nets at the Island Garden in West Hempstead.
5. Touleries
7. Theodore Roosevelt
8. silver mining
10. Had his jaw broken by a teammate. Early reports had him getting sucker punched. The latest word was that he tried to jump bad with a bigger dude over an unpaid debt he owed.
12. A Texas Instruments personal calculator(I forget which one I had when transitioning from the slide rule in 1975)

 

[wire chief]

1..Hoop's got the Chrysler Bldg. If sleep's address is that, then he's right too.

2..I asked about the ice cream, not the person, so only credit goes to K9 & terif. More evidence as to how K9 got that 47 inch waist.

3..We last saw hoop with shotgun enforcing the border, when everyone else was at the southern border.

4..Sleep leads a 4some with Virginia Squires.

5..Another quartet, baton by Ine, citing Tuileries.

6..Pinot says he thinks, therefore he is...right.

7..The Prez who rhymes with a breakfast food.

8..In real life, silver mining; for fantasists, the Ponderosa. Geordi contributes something refreshingly different.

9..Rbny and hoop, trying to leech the mercury out of their bowlers.

10..VAUC & geordi & Atl have good detail. And another bunch seem to know what you're talking about.

11..Sleep, geordi & K9 cite Japan, a Japan Airline flight hit a mountain.

12..Sleep, hoop & K9 mention the IBM computer.

13..Hoop, Bob asks that you not call him that, so folks don't confuse him with the guy who killed Trayvon.
Anyway, sleep & K9 also mention Lay Lady Lay.

I'm breaking for brunch, so expect a delay for "B".