OT: General knowledge test #494A

[wire chief]

CORRECTION: From lest test--King Harold & Queen Sonja are Norwegian, not Swedes

Please do not hit "reply" nor do research.

1..Describe the significance of the Dickens character Magwitch.

2..Fin de siècle

3..Alexander Butterfield's role in history?

4..Home state of Jefferson Davis?

5..An hour after midnight with Count Basie.

6..A top Saudi cleric has just banned this pastime(?).

7..Gov. Rick Snyder is on the hot seat for a failure. Explain.

8.."No soup for you!"

9..Link Ben E. King, Johnny Moore, and Clyde McPhatter.

10..____ the Greek, with Anthony_____, whose ethnicity was..?

11..He succeeds Queen Victoria.

12..The 1953 work The Crucible was by..?

13..What do the Swiss call their nation?

 

[johnnyc]

5. One O'Clock Jump
6. Chess
9. All three were lead singers of the Drifters

 

[Waquoit]

3. He was a Watergate character. I believe he disclosed the existence of Nixon's taping system.
4. Mississippi
12. Arthur Miller

 

[rbny1]

2. Refers to the final years of the 19th century and the decadence of that period.
10. Zorba the Greek with Anthony Quinn. Quinn was Mexican.

 

[pinotbear]

6. Beer Pong - tough on the robes
7. Ignoring the water in Flint, MI
8. Soup Nazi, "Seinfeld"
13. Home

 

[geordi]

2. End of the century
3. He blew the whistle on Tricky Dick. Told people about the tapes
4. Mississippi
7. He didn't solve the contaminated water problem in Flint
10. Zorba; Quinn; Mexican
12. Arthur Miller
13. According to FIFA it's Suisse

 

[crownfox2]

1. Name of convict who was Pip's real benefactor and not Miss Havisham in Great Expectations

 

[meyers7]

4. some southern state. Alabama or Mississippi. Way far south of the Mason Dixon line
7. Michigan governor, hasn't solved, is partially responsible for the Flint water problems.
8. Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. Makes great soup though. Or did until Eileen got the recipes.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. He was a Watergate figure( yes, you want more specifics). President Nixon's lawyer maybe?
4. Virginia
5. One O' clock Jump
7. Flint's severely contaminated water supply
8. The episode that cemented my addiction to Seinfeld in which a soup chef based on a real life New York entrepreneur who makes great soup, but is extremely temperamental, and is known as the Soup Nazi. (In real life, I really did get shunted to the side for the briefest of pauses when making my soup order on the day of the last episode of Seinfeld. I also made a trip to H&H Bagels that day).
9. All sang with the Drifters
10. Zorba the Greek, Anthony Quinn was Mexican
11. King Edward

 

[lne001]

13. Helvetia

 

[UcMiami]

3. He was a Watergate figure( yes, you want more specifics).
8. I also made a trip to H&H Bagels that day).
11. King Edward

Edward VII

I tried to make a trip to H&H bagels a few years ago (used to live on W 82nd street many years ago) and was so disappointed to discover it long gone! Did a little research and turns out the owner hadn't paid sales tax in something like 15 years and they finally caught up with him. Loved the pictures of the elephants eating their day old bagels on the wall, and boy do I miss stopping on my way home from the subway in the wee hours of the morning - testing the bins to see which were warm from the last batch and munching a few before bed in an attempt to soak up some of the alcohol!

 

[wire chief]

1..Crownfox beats the Dickens out of the rest of you. See him.

2..Rbny & geordi put the century to rest.

3..Waq & geordi listen in horror to Watergate tapes.

4..Waq, geordi & Meyers beard the traitor in his Mississippi den.

5..JC & VAUC stuck in the 40's.

6..JC alone has bishop to H7, check.

7..Pinot's Quartet sing, "Shame on you, Gov"

8..VAUC is especially literate here. Meyers & Pinot are Soup Nazis also.

9..JC & VAUC are our resident doo-woppers.

10..The Rbny Foursome dance the Parzakana, at least it looks like the Parzakana.

11..VAUC tries to slip in a generic monarch. That won't do. UcM to the rescue with Edward VII.

12..Waq and geordi provide Arthur Miller.

13..That Suisse label is simply the French trying to promote its ethnicity(Well, the French-Swiss DO use Suisse). While Die Schweiz has a big French contingent, the Germans are more numerous. Historically "Helvetia" works too, but not likely in everyday usage.