OT: General knowledge test #496A

[wire chief]

I know from your cards and letters and phone calls that you have trouble filling in your time amid the anticipatory excitement of our later game. This is it!

Kindly refrain from repeating questions and research.

1..What is Sky Harbor International?

2..What is the psychological condition of anhedonia?

3..John Rock in 1865 was the first African-American to be admitted to..?

4..Who was the initial Sec'y General of the UN?

5..England's 2nd largest city?

6..The # of US suicides annually? 8k, 14k, 22k, 29k, 34k, or 40k.

7..Death and its pale horse?

8..The ad for rum with a guy in a red cloak?

9.."Try to get yourself a bargain, son. Don't be sold on the very first one."

10..Jingle for appliance: "There is a _______ in the house."

11..In bridge, the term "perforce".

12..Gen'l Halftrack's dimwitted private and the flashy, gambling, sunglass-wearer?

13..The leader(?) of one influential country has a Ph.D. in physics.

 

[DriveLH]

9. you better shop around. The Miracles

 

[pinotbear]

1. the main airport in Phoenix, AZ. Pretty nice airport, actually.
5. Liverpool?
8. Captain Morgan
12. Zero, and...

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. The airport in Phoenix(PHX)
3. Harvard
4. Dag Hammesjold
4. U Thant( both of my guesses probably do not go back far enough)
5. Liverpool
6. 29K
8. Captain Morgan's
9. Shop Around - The Miracles(Before they were Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
12. Beetle Bailey, Sgt Snorkel

 

[VAUConnFan]

10. Magnavox

 

[Jimbo]

4. I believe there was at first a provisional Secretary-General from the UK, but the first permanent one was Lie, from Norway. I think.
5. Manchester?
7. The fourth of the four horsemen from the book of Revelation

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Phoenix's airport
4. Dag Hammerskold (sp?)
5. Birmingham
8. Captain Morgan
9. Shop Around

 

[pinotbear]

12. oh, oh!, it's Zero and Cosmo!

 

[lne001]

2. Inability to feel pleasure
3. West Point
4. Dag Hammerskjold
5. Manchester
8. Captain Morgan

 

[JRRRJ]

1..The main airport in Phoenix, one of the 5 busiest in the world.
2..Inability to be happy.
4..Dag Hammerskold (I know it's spelled wrong)
5..Manchester
6..29k
8..Captain Morgan
11..Don't know it as a term in the card game, but "perforce" means "as a result of".
12..Zero, ?
13..Angela Merkel

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot starts a foursome of weary travelers, angry at patdowns and x-rays.

2..Ine & JR share their dysfunctions that are temporarily relieved by a Husky win.

3..Admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court.

4..Lots of you sag
By voting for Dag
Jimbo is alone in his glee
By picking Trygve Lie.

5..We have a full house at the poker table, 3 Manchesters over 2 Liverpools.
But K9 has the winning hand with Birmingham.

6..If you don't hear from me, make it 40,001. On second thought, I'll stick around to bask in your goofy answers.

8..Pinot, JR & K9 clink glasses and fall over.

7..Jimbo alone here. Read his doomsday scenario with Fear and Trembling.

9..Drive & VAUC are complete. K9 racks her brain and just knows it's not the Teddy Bears, but draws a blank afterwards.
She thinks Sting would have done it better.

10..Same as an exam monitor. Can you take it?

11..Well, in bridge it means the only card that can be played.

12..You can just picture a bear rolling on the ground, scratching his back and experiencing an adrenalin rush.

13..JR & Germany's Ms. Merkel share a laugh over E=mc(2).

 

[wire chief]

10..Exam monitor is a Proctor; you didn't know that?