OT: General knowledge test #491A

[wire chief]

Please do not hit "reply" and do no research.

1..Seventy years ago it was known as "Wolf's Lair"(?).

2..Slash was an original member of what music group?

3..A particular prohibition about possessing it(?) ended in 1974.

4..Mr. & Mrs.(?) Ashton Kutscher first met in what TV show?

5..Place African Charles Taylor.

6.."He rides in the sun til the days work is done, singing.."?

7..The flooding catastrophe in the Midwest involves 4 waterways, 3M's and 1 I.

8..The first state to legalize recreational pot is..?

9..Why do we remember Samuel Pepys?

10..Discuss the Mark Trail drawings.

11..Urbi et Orbi: In English? Associated with whom?

12..Shep fronted 2 doo-wop groups(?). And a song from each?

13..The 1900 OPD(?) was aimed at China.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

9 - for his diary. Oddly, apparently pronounced Peeps. He kept a detailed diary for about 10 years in the mid 17th century including the period of plague and the great fire. He was a government official and had the ability to mingle a bit around court, and in general gave a picture of life in the London of his times. To be fair, my wife and I are listening to a Great Course on London and just finished the Pepys section a couple of weeks ago.

11. Its associated with the Pope. It means something like (to the) City and World. It is an annual thing, I don't know if it is spoken or written.

 

[MJL243]

12. James "Shep" Sheppard, the Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away. And the answer song, Shep & the Limelites - Daddy's Home.

 

[Waquoit]

2. Guns N Rose
4. That 70's Show
6. Polly Wolly Doodle all the day

 

[pinotbear]

1. I believe this is Hitler's retreat, up in the mountains of southern Germany.

 

[meyers7]

2. Saul was with GnR along with Axel. He later did Velvet Revolver too.
4. I think it was that 70's show. Can't remember what it was called though. Ms Kunis. or Meg.
7. Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois?
8. think it was Colorado, right dude?
9. We don't.

 

[Jimbo]

1. This was the name of one of Hitler's military compounds during World War II, albeit slightly more than 70 years ago. If memory serves, this was the location of the failed July 20(?) 1944 assassination plot against Hitler.
2. Guns 'N Roses. Possibly also the later "supergroup" Velvet Revolver
5. President of Nigeria, I believe

 

[rbny1]

3. Gold. As strange as it may seem today, the possession of gold by Americans (except jewelry and other incidental uses) had been outlawed by the federal government in the 1930s.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Little Red Riding Hood
2. Aerosmith
5. An Army sergeant who led a successful coup in Liberia.
8. Colorado
9. a diary full of quotes and observations
12. the Limelights, ??? the Lion sleeps tonight, ???

 

[geordi]

1. Berchtesgaden; Hitler's Bavarian retreat
2. KISS ??
5. President of Liberia
6. singling his cattle call. Eddy Arnold
8. Coorado, I think
12. Shep Wooley??? Purple People Eater????

 

[Rocket009]

2..Guns and Roses

4..That 70's Show

7..Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, could the other "M" be the Des Moines river? Can't think of any other "M"

8..Colorado

 

[hoopingcrane]

1..Hitler's bunker

2..Guns and Roses

5..Liberian warlord, president, war criminal

7..Mississippi, Meremac, Illinois

9..Because of his diary

11..To the City and the World- the Pope's messages at Christmas and Easter

13..Open door policy?

 

[wire chief]

4..Can someone provide Ms. Kunis' first name(not Meg)?

10..They appeared in a long-living comic.

 

[Jimbo]

4. That'd be Mila Kunis.

 

[meyers7]

4..Can someone provide Ms. Kunis' first name(not Meg)?

Well Milena if you want to be specific. (Ukrainian)

(she does Meg)

 

[wire chief]

1..Adolph brought in Joe McCarthy to practice building a fall-out shelter that became all the rage in the States a decade later. The Pinot Quartet.

2..Here goes that Meyers again with abbreviations. Don't encourage him. Full credit to the Waquoit Foursome instead.

3..Gold, as rbny adroitly burnishes it.

4..Jimbo with the finishing touch of Mila, following Rocket & Waq's naming That 70's Show, with Meyers feigning dumassedness.

5..Hoop covers the crucial bases. We know him mostly because of the publicity he garnered as a war criminal.

6..Geordi traipsing in crossover land with Eddy Arnold's Cattle Call.

7..Hoop provides the minor(as in usually "little" rather than of little consequence to the folks along its banks) omission of the Meremac, along with Mississippi, Missouri & Illinois.

8..Rocket's foursome with Colorado, home to increasing numbers of dudes.

9..VAUC & hoop recall the keeper of small observations of his time. If Meyers had lived in that time period, Sam would have duly
provided his various scandals.

10..http://www.bing.com/search?q=mark+t...2300C97FA4F2FA0E30007A48FB023&FORM=QBLH&ghc=1

11..Knight & hoop bring us into the Vatican.

12..We can't get more encyclodaedic than MJL. See that fella.

13..An uncertain but accurate hoop with Open Door Policy. He's still wondering what part of his brain held that tidbit.