OT: General knowledge test #477A

[wire chief]

Sinatra once extolled the "Wee, Wee Hours" so I'm following his lead.

And here's how you "Set 'em up, Joe". No reproducing questions and no research.

1..Yon _______ has a ____ and hungry look.

2..Which nation just newly sent 1000 troops into Yemen?

3..The Prez just spoke to unions, mainly about his plan for..?

4..On Tuesday Il Papa offered new guidelines for..?

5..Once there was a prominent Jewish Miss America(?).

6..The original 1954 SEATO had the following, except: India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, Australia.

7..May You Always...walk in sunshine, sung by..?

8..It's 4/87, what's going on at L'Ambience Plaza in Bridgeport?

9..Famous politician breaks a strike among NYC cops in 1919. Who?

10..What's the distinction of Esther, at 1600 Pa. Ave?

11..On the Inter-American Highway Sits 13000' Cerro de la Muerte in..?

12..The 2000-sreong Uros live entirely on rafts on what lake?

13..Financially speaking, what do the following have in common? Zimbabwe, Panama, Marshall Is, Ecuador.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Cassius has a mean and hungry look - "Julius Ceasar", by Wm. Shakespeare
6. I'd guess Pakistan.
8. IIRC, a massive collapse of .. a parking garage? .. under construction, leading to death and injury.

 

[johnnyc]

2. Egypt
4. Annulments

 

[Waquoit]

5. Bess Meyerson
10. First Family Dog

 

[rbny1]

1. Cassius... lean and hungry.
2. Qatar

 

[geordi]

1. Cassius...lean. from Julius Caesar
4. marriage annulment
5. Bess Myerson
11. Costa Rica
12. I'll take a flyer here. Titicaca ???

 

[Rayvin56]

9. LaGuardia

 

[lne001]

1. Cassius, lean
2. Saudi Arabia
5. Beth Meyerson
6. India
8. building collapse
9. La Guardia
12. Lake Victoria

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. France
3. Paid sick leave
4. Divorced Catholics
5. Bess Myerson
6. Pakistan

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

2..Qatar

3..health care

4...annulment of marriage

5..Bess Myerson

6..Guess- Pakistan

8..Building collapse and death of construction workers

 

[wire chief]

12..Bad proofreading...2000-strong

 

[wire chief]

7..You may need to incorporate a bugle.

9..As governor

10..A 1st and only. going back around a century and a quarter.

13..No worries about black market exchange rates. Well, why not?

 

[wire chief]

7..You may need to incorporate a bugle.

9..As governor

10..A 1st and only. going back around a century and a quarter.

13..No worries about black market exchange rates. Well, why not?

I keep trying...

7..Boogie Woogie bugle boy of company B

9.."The business of America is business."

10..Only one was a new dad while in office.

13..Oh, my lord, the spoon feeding you need. You don't exchange there at all, CAUSE???????

 

[johnnyc]

9. Calvin Coolidge

 

[UcMiami]

7. Andrews Sisters
13. Do not have their own money?
10. OK - with that last hint one assumes a presidential child born in the white house. Either that or a pet Donkey?

 

[Purduke]

I keep trying...

13..Oh, my lord, the spoon feeding you need. You don't exchange there at all, CAUSE???????

Ecuador uses the USD as its official currency. If I were a stickler (who, me??), I would note that they do have their own coinage though -- the centavo -- which is technically pegged to the penny, nickel etc, but people accept the US coinage interchangeably. So that would be my guess.

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny Quintet have long looked lean and emaciated. Such folks are dangerous.

2..Rbny & hoop offer Qatar.

3..VAUC HAS ASKED FOR SICK LEAVE FROM OUR NEXT TEST. All in favor?

4..Hoop & 4 more mention stuff surrounding marriage, or rather its dissolution. No, not dissolution,
cause maybe it wasn't really there. Ah, a magic trick.

5..Waq organizes 5 to sing, "There she is, Miss Myerson".

6..Ine is OK with India.

7..UcM, you are right about the bugle, but as JC kindly told me, my hint was my goof,
cause MAY YOU ALWAYS is the McGuire Sisters.

8..Pinot, hoop & Ine lay depth charges which go BOOM.

9..JC grabs a Silent Cal hint.

10..Grover was the sole seed distributor among sitting Prezzes. Wait, I really don't know if he was sitting, when they...

11..Geordi wins a no-expenses-paid trip to central America.

12..Geordi well uses his one frequent flyer mile

13..Welcome, Purduke, to our modest endeavor. Everybody, go see what he typed. All mentioned nations
use our money.

Excuse me while I watch Flushing Meadows stuff.