OT: General knowledge test 476A

[wire chief]

Amid US Open groundstrokes, I type.

Your typing must avoid research and reprinting questions.

1..The decommissioned USS Missouri is brought out of mothballs for..?

2..Il Papa just gave priests temporary power to forgive..?

3..Which Latin American country has just ousted its Prez and put him on trial?

4..Where did one see Pat Paulson, and what was his extended joke?

5..The US Olympic Committee has just selected..? for its 2024 candidate.

6..The city of Harar in..? has hyenas in the streets, friendly to people.

7..Longest venomous snake?

8..In 17 81 Felipe de Neve founded..?

9..The nations of the bygone United Arab Republic?

10..Which big band leader had the Gramercy Five?

11..Where'd we see John Charles Daly for 17 years?

12..At 99 miles long, it(?) is Central America's largest lake.

13..Cohorts include Tupman, Winkle and Snodgrass.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Vietnam War, I think
2. women who have had abortions
4. Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and he was always running for President
5. Los Angeles
7. King Cobra. Largest US venomous snake is Eastern Diamondback

 

[MJL243]

11. The moderator of "What's My Line?". Panelists included Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, and Bennett Cerf.

 

[rbny1]

3. Guatemala

 

[heavyhusky]

1) Vietnam War
2) Women who have had abortions
3) Guatemala
4) Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, always running for President
5) LA
7) King cobra
9) Egypt and Syria
1o) Artie Shaw?
11) What's My Line? host
12) Lake Nicaragua?

 

[Rocket009]

5..Los Angeles
7..King Cobra
11..PGA Tour
12..Lake Titicaca

 

[Zorro]

2 aboryion
3.. Uh...wait, wait...don't tell me...uh..uh GUATEMALA!!!!!!

4.. The Smothers Brothers Show; We can't stand Pat! (Some Boneyarders picked that up, incidentally, back in the day,)

9. Egypt and Syria

13. That would be Mr. Samuel Pickwick, esq..

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, that he was running for President of the United States(the show was a number of years ahead of its time, challenged convention/censors in television's relative infancy)
5. Los Angeles
7. Copperhead
8. Nevis
9. Egypt and ???
11. On the PGA tour

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 aboryion
3.. Uh...wait, wait...don't tell me...uh..uh GUATEMALA!!!!!!

4.. The Smothers Brothers Show; We can't stand Pat! (Some Boneyarders picked that up, incidentally, back in the day,)

9. Egypt and Syria

13. That would be Mr. Samuel Pickwick, esq..

Good one on #13. As soon as you answered I recognized them. The 2 funniest "classics" I have ever read were Pickwick Papers and Twain's "Innocents Abroad" although I know there are others out there that I haven't read.

 

[wire chief]

1..No, after Vietnam

7..The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

8..The right answer will have you repeat yourself.

 

[pinotbear]

1. OK, so, my other guess is, for the Beirut/Lebanon situation in the early 80's while Reagan was President.

 

[geordi]

1. Vietnam War ??
2. women who have had an abortion
4. Laugh In - he was running for president (I voted for him)
7. King Cobra
8. I think he founded Los Angeles, Spanish priest of something
9. Syria and Egypt
12, Lake Nicaragua

 

[hoopingcrane]

2..divorce?

3..guatemala

4..smothers brothers tv show; running for President?

5..Los Angeles

9..Egypt and Syria

11.What's My Line

12..Lake Nicaragua

13..Dickens characters

 

[Rocket009]

7. Your hint had me all over the place - New York, NY, Walla Walla, Bora Bora - then I noticed answer #5 in hoopingcrane's post.

 

[Rocket009]

Ooops - #8 not 7

 

[wire chief]

1..Support for Desert Storm.

2..Now zorro leads 4, but I'm wondering if he gave us the Espanol spelling...or maybe the Aztec?

3..Now here zorro is unsure, but looks out his window at all the commotion and picks Guatemala. Rbny.
hoop & heavy have windows that tell them nothing.

4..Here we kick out geordi's response and award Pinot's quintet.

5..Another boatload of right stuff, called the Rocket Quintet, choosing the city that's a great big freeway.

6..Come on now, how many countries are known for long distant runners?

7..The King Cobra can go to 18 feet, but I'm not doing a good job stumping you. Anyway the heavy quintet
is out there, hiding behind their mongooses.

8..Ah, a rare case of only one poster scoring. Geordi picks the place for parking cars and pumping gas.

9..Another bunch. Hoop's quartet choose Egypt and Syria.

10..Heavy is so darn old. It is Artie Shaw.

11..No dementia for MJL, who remembers the panelists also. Hoop & Heavy chimed in.

12..Hoop, geordi and heavy are OK.

13..One could say "Dickens characters" or one could say "Mr. Samuel Pickwick". Zorro & hoop celebrate the
variety of turns of phrases that make these contests so stimulating.