OT: General knowledge test #486A

[wire chief]

Allow me to distract you from the impatience, tension and unwanted worry about Ohio State.

Please do no research nor reprint questions.

1..The oldest, continuously published humor magazine?

2..Seven Presidents used this far away city(?) for retreats and summits.

3..The only 2-time Heisman winner?

4..Wat Luang Ta Bua, a place where monks and tigers live together, is in what country?

5..Distinguish Hindu from Hindi.

6..Giuseppi Zangara kills Chicago mayor Anton Cernak but misses..?.

7..The transference of communication facilitation went from..? to..? in 1861.

8.."Don't stand in the doorway: don't block up the hall."

9..For centuries until about 300 years ago, this country burned about 17.000 witches.

10..What is the "Ferguson effect" myth?

11..Your hankering for "the taste of a lobster stew" is met in..?. Singer and her nickname?

12..In 1984 Baby Fae makes the news. Why?

13..The smallest African country?

 

[ballhawk]

6. FDR
8. The Times They Are A Changin' -Bob Dylan

 

[pinotbear]

1. Punch?
10. ..that public scrutiny is inhibiting policemen from doing their jobs, resulting in a rise in criminal behavior
11. Patti Page, "Old Cape Cod", no idea about nickname.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Mad
2. Malta
3. Archie Griffin
4. Sri Lanka
5. One refers to the religion, one refers to a follower of the religion
7. Pony Express to Western Union
9. France
10. That a lack of aggressive policing will result in a corresponding increase in crime
12. She was rescued from a wee in Texas. An incredible rescue.
13. Benin

 

[rbny1]

6. His target was Franklin D. Roosevelt, but he missed and killed Mayor Cernak instead.

 

[meyers7]

3. Archie Griffin, The Ohio State
5. Hindu is a religion. Hindi is a language. Both are prevalent in India
13. Swaziland?

 

[k9fanatic]

3. Archie Griffin
4. The somewhat controversial "Tiger Temple" is in Thailand
6. FDR
12. She received a heart transplant from a baboon/chimp/monkey?
13. Seychelles -- which I hope to someday visit.

 

[hoopingcrane]

6..FDR

7..mail to telegraph?

10..that the crime rate has gone up because police are reluctant to use deadly force

 

[JRRRJ]

1..Punch
4..Sri Lanka
5..An adherant of a particular religion vs. a speaker of a particular language
9..India
12..First test tube baby
13..Mali?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2. I was thinking West Long Branch, NJ, but it isn't far away. I thought they had a 7 President's Park there.

 

[wire chief]

1..Even if you take 2 Punches and get really Mad, you needed to find the Harvard Lampoon.

2..The Key here is go West, young posters, to the Little White House.

3..VAUC, K9 & Meyers have Archie.

4..Our resident Tigress picks Thailand.

5..JR is most precise. Oh, OK, Meyers too.

6..Ballhawk gets a special award for obeying the alarm clock and answering the middle-of-the-night call of #486, as he leads a quartet with FDR.

7..VAUC & hoop commemorate our getting down from our steeds.

8..That sleepy ballhawk again.

9..You should pick the place that most conveyed its practices to Salem--Scotland.

10..See Pinot or hoop or VAUC.

11..Pinot, she was "the singing rage". Dumb, I know.

12..Why not orangutan or bonobo, while you're at it? It was baboon, K9.

13..As K9 writes, the island group is the smallest. And she threatens to leave us, so start a writing campaign.