OT: General knowledge test #493A

[wire chief]

You'll certainly have more trouble with this than our team will have with UCF.

Please do no research nor reprint questions.

1..In 1914 the 1st public defenders office opened in what area?

2..What car company created the 1st enclosed car and went out of business in the '50's?

3..Waldo, fresh water, & handwriting.

4..In 1908 it was designated a national monument: it(?) became a national park in 1919.

5..Woody Allen's __________ Man has just been released.

6..Two performers(?) sang 2 different songs with the title "Why Don't You Write Me".
One in the doo wop era, the second a couple of decades later.

7..In 1733 James __________ led 120 colonists to Charleston, SC before settling in Ga.

8..In 1966 Robert C. Weaver was in the news. Why?

9..In 1970 the mean age for 1st time moms was __. In 2015 it was __.

10..In 1814 the Treaty of Kiel settles a rift. Explain.

11..Within 3 years when did Manhattan's N-S arteries become one-way.

12..American Anglicans vs. American Episcopalians--explain.

13..Roughly speaking, how do Muslim honor killings work?

 

[pinotbear]

6. Well, half of the answer is Simon & Garfunkle - don't know the other half.

 

[johnnyc]

6. The Jacks and Simon & Garfunkel

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Desoto
3. Fish
4. Mount Rushmore
7. Ogelthorpe
8. for his appointment as the first black cabinet member
9. 24, 28
11. 1960
13. A disgraced member of a family is killed by another close family member.

 

[UcMiami]

3. Are you looking for 'Walden Pond' by Thoreau? (Who supposedly spent most nights getting sloshed at a local pub!)

 

[crownfox2]

2. Packard

 

[huskyd]

Now that you've failed the General Knowledge Test, try the Specific Knowledge Test: Identify the UConn players:

the pest, the athlete, hockey tough, the steady one, rhymes with "Stew," the best, the genius, the other genius-

(Bonus: the fan with the most balls-)

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. I like crownfox's response because it is probably right, and because it prompts another response, Nash.

 

[wire chief]

6. Well, half of the answer is Simon & Garfunkle - don't know the other half.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=youtube+the+jacks+Why+don't+you&FORM=EDGEND

 

[wire chief]

3. Are you looking for 'Walden Pond' by Thoreau? (Who supposedly spent most nights getting sloshed at a local pub!)

Made me smile, but no.

 

[wire chief]

2. I like crownfox's response because it is probably right, and because it prompts another response, Nash.

Oh VAUConisimo, we used up Nash just the other day (Crosby, Stills...)

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

7 - Oglethorpe
12 - Episcopalians have gay clergy and bishops, and I suppose recognize same gender unions, ordain LGBT in committed relationships, maybe even perform same-gender marriages. The Anglicans are on the opposite end of the spectrum.

 

[wire chief]

1.."is a great big freeway"

2..An old TV jingle goes, "Buy ______ paper napkins".

3..A pop rock group

4..The area has Page & Sedona.

5..No Woody fans among posters? Try this: If your behavior comes out of Freud's "id", you are this.

9..Dig a bit lower from VAUC. The sum of 2 numbers is 46. The difference is 6.

13..VAUC has the right decade. The relevant # is America's highway.

 

[crownfox2]

2. with the hint, Hudson

 

[Rocket009]

4. Having just driven through Arizona - the Grand Canyon comes to mind.

 

[pinotbear]

1. L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car
3. Emerson, Lake and Palmer?

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. LA( a long way from San Jose though)
4. The Grand Canyon
9. 20, 26
11. 1966

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot & VAUC pounce on my hint, L. A.

2..Crownfox sets his table with Hudson.

3..Pinot, why are you uncertain? Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lake, & the Palmer method of learning handwriting.

4..Thank Goodness for the peripatetic Rocket.

5..Irrational

6..Like Pinot & JC write, Simon & G, earlier were the Jacks.

7..VAUC & Knight with Oglethorpe.

8..VAUC alone, see him.

9..As in #8, he does his math.

10..Way back then Sweden and Denmark were squabbling over Norway. Norway was not pleased.

11..VAUC knows his roads, 1966.

12..The Knight explanation will do. The Anglicans are aligned with the Church of England in opposing
such unions.

13..A caution about VAUC's explanation. The disgraced is often chosen without any misbehavior on his/her part, like a victim of rape.
It's a cultural method of restoring balance between groups.