OT: General knowledge test #486A

[wire chief]

I can't imagine we need too much jawing about how to beat Colgate, so chew on this.

Please no reprinting questions nor research.

1..FDR waited how many days afterwards to declare war?

2..The brain part that elicits emotions from pain is the anterior _________ cortex.

3..Saints linebacker Stephen Anthony just did what as a "first'?

4..The discriminatory "Black Codes" of 1865 began in what state first?

5..Within 5 years when is THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES published?

6..Who purges 1/2 million folks in INDONESIA IN 1965-66?

7..Who defeated both John Bell and John Breckenridge?

8..In 1954 Ted Koop is the moderator of what news show?

9..In 1940 the "Galloping Gertie" Bridge collapses after only 4 months in what city?

10..Which former Prez is elected to the Confederate House of Representatives?

11..Ambrosia's first sentence (?) includes "whole business". And the title?

12..Within a decade the Louvre opens in..?

13..She(?) is 83 today and won an Oscar for "Alice doesn't Live Here Anymore".

 

[rbny1]

9. Tacoma
12. I believe it opened in 1793

 

[johnnyc]

13. Ellen Burstyn

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..One

4..Mississippi

5..1859

6..Sukarno

7..Lincoln

10..tyler

12..1790's

13..Ellen Burstyn

 

[geordi]

1. One. December 8.
2. Temporal
5. 1859
7. Honest Abe
10. John Tyler
12. 1805

 

[wire chief]

Hoop gives us a bushel of answers; the only correction Suharto succeeded Sukarno and is the far bigger butcher.

Geordi is prolific also, but we need "cruciate" for #2.

Rbny adds Tacoma and is exact about the Louvre. Both JC and hoop identify Ellen.