OT: General knowledge test #488A

[wire chief]

Gadzooks! Nothing til Monday. Be ever grateful you have this.

No reprinting questions nor research, por favor.

1..Il Trittico in 1918. Explain.

2..Roald Amundson is 1st?

3..What was the 1907 Great White Fleet?

4..After 14 years and 2 gold medals, she(?) hung it up last night.

5..In 1969 the Air Force closes the Blue Book. What's that about?

6..From 1985-1995 Bill Waterson drew..?.

7..How do the Stones (apparently) impact Don McLean?

8..The studio that put out ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST?

9..The US/Soviets establish diplomatic relations in what year?

10..Spell out UNESCO.

11.."People have got to know whether their president..?.

12..What's special about Josh Donaldson?

13..There's exactly one genetically modified species(?) we are allowed to eat.

 

[pinotbear]

2. to the .. North Pole?
3. Context is important here, as during almost all of our lifetimes, the US has been a predominate world power. In 1907, pre-WW1, the US was regarded as, essentially, a regional power. And, as this was pre-airpower, the way a nation demonstrated its' international capacity was by sea power. The US President - Teddy? - sent a powerful US fleet, composed of our newest and most impressive warships, on a world cruise, as a demonstration of American might. The warships were largely painted white (remember, pre-A/C, so, anything you can do to lessen the impact of traveling in tropical waters). Ergo, the Great White Fleet.
5. UFO investigation, I believe.
6. Calvin & Hobbes
7. In McLean's "American Pie", I believe the lyrics referring to "the jester on the stage" is regarding Mick Jagger & the Stones
11. ".. is a crook. Well, I am not a crook!" Richard Nixon, re: Watergate

 

[rbny1]

1. Loosely translated, Il Trittico means "the tryptich." It's the overarching title of three one-act operas composed by Puccini. Gianni Schicchi is one of the three, but I forget the names of the other two (or maybe I never knew what they are).

 

[Rocket009]

2..To the North Pole
4..Abby Wambach
6..Calvin and Hobbes (I still miss it)
13..Soybean?

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. First to the South Pole
6. Calvin & Hobbes
7. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
11. Is a crook - Richard Nixon

 

[meyers7]

3. Teddy sent a fleet of US ships around the world to show off the big stick.
4. And more importantly a WC. Abby Wambach. (Chalupny, Holiday, Boxx and Van Hollebeck also retired from the NT this year )
6. Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorites.
7. I've read before that And as I watched him on the stage/ my hands were clenched in fists of rage/ No angel born in hell/ Could break that Satan's spell/ And as the flames climbed high into the night had to do with Jagger (Sympathy For the Devil) at Altamont.
11. is a crook. Nixon. Which he wasn't. He didn't steal anything. (Well people's trust I suppose.)

 

[wire chief]

8..And this century's James Bond excesses.

9..Around the time spoilsports began clamping down on Hollywood smut.

10..What? You are citizens of the world and you don't know UNESCO?
How about I give you the "S"; Scientific, and the "O"; Organization.

12..Teel free to ask a fan of MLB.

 

[VAUConnFan]

8. 20th Century Fox
9. 1927
10. United Nations Educational Scientific Community Organization

 

[wire chief]

Oh, yes, #13..The Kodiak bears would never notice the difference.

 

[pinotbear]

13. makes me suspect salmon, .. but, then, I'm usually suspicious of salmon...

 

[wire chief]

1..Rbny thinks 2/3 are forgettable. That is what you wrote, right?

2..Two votes for North Pole; 2 votes for South Pole. Suppose we all meet for lunch at the Equator.

3..You could do worse than read Pinot's description.

4..Rocket & Meyers pen their Dear Abby column.

5..Pinot reports there ain't no flying saucers.

6..The Meyers Quartet say the comics just ain't what they ustabe.

7..Meyers' steel trap of a mind well captures the vitriol.

8..United Artists

9..1933

10..If we throw out "Community" and insert "Cultural", we can clap for VAUC.

11..Pinot is most complete; Meyers has a new version apparently.

12..No one knows who was the MVP in the American League ( Toronto)? Say 5 Our Fathers and 5 Hail Marys.

13..Pinot was swimming upstream until he read the hint.