OT: General knowledge test #504A

[wire chief]

Please answers only. DO NOT HIT "REPLY". And no research.

1..The 3 actresses for the 3 "A Star Is Born" movies?

2..Author of "Charge of the Light Brigade"?

3..Alan Freed is tagged in the ______ scandal.

4..Connie Francis in song says Ft. Lauderdale is..?

5..In 1892 this famous playwright(?) produces his first--Widowers' House.

6..Where is the Petrified Forest N. P?

7..In what card game is the Queen of Spades either an asset or liability? Explain.

8..In the comics LUANN who is brother Brad's wife?

9..What company bought LinkedIn?

10..Locate the "Doomsday Defense".

11..Who writes of Ezekial Rawlins?

12..One pours cold water over a sugar cube to make Hemingway's favorite drink(?).

13..After 26 rounds Jess Willard knocks out whom in 1915?

 

[DriveLH]

3. payola
4. "Where the Boys Are"

 

[meyers7]

1. Barbara Streisand did one of them.
2. Alfred Lord Tennyson (Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die)
3. payola
6. SW. Either NM or AZ. One I've never been to...yet.
10. Dallas. America's Team

 

[rbny1]

1. Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

 

[SVCBeercats]

2. Tennyson

3. Payola

6. Arizona

7. Hearts – you get stuck for 13 points or you stick someone else for 13 points

10. 70s Dallas Cowboys

13. Jack Johnson

 

[Rocket009]

7..In Hearts. If you are stuck with it you get 13 points (bad) unless you shoot the moon and stick everyone else with 26 points.

8..Toni Daytona

9..Microsoft

 

[skilz]

11. Mosley
12. Absinthe cocktail ??

 

[k9fanatic]

1. Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand -- don't know the third
3. Payola
6. Arizona
9. Microsoft

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and ???

3. Payola

5. Ibsen

6. Arizona
6. New Mexico

7. Hearts. If you get stuck with it, you are assessed 13 points for that one card. If you take the Queen of Spades and all 13 hearts, either 26 points are deducted from your score or all the other players are assessed 26 points depending upon how the game is scored.

10. Green Bay in the 60's.

11. Walter Moseley(sp?)

12. Mojito

13. Jack Johnson. Johnson claimed that he threw the fight. Was shading his eyes during the count.

 

[FairView]

2..Tenneyson (sp?)
3..Payola
4..Connie Francis in song says Ft. Lauderdale is..?
9..Microsoft, the evil empire
12..Mojhito?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
6 - Arizona. Includes the old "painted desert" - which was a far bigger attraction years ago than now. Both interesting.

 

[wire chief]

1..Only rbny can reach far back enough to include Janet Gaynor among the 3.

2..Meyers & Knights show their adulation by giving Alfred his due as a Lord.

3..Some questions just turn out to be too, too easy. Drive heads a sextet with "payola". Once a colleague told me that his teen band had an audition with good ol' Alan, who told them he'd play their music for 500 smackers. Really big money for the late 50's.

4..Drive appears again as the only Connie devotee.

5..Hint: He got turned into MY FAIR LADY.

6..SVC, K9 & Knights appear to be the only ones who are sure. Some others will spend days roaming New Mexico in vain.

7..I like VAUC's details the best. Such clarity.

8..Rocket has the best taste in the funnies, citing firefighter Toni Daytona.

9..Rocket again, with sidekicks K9 & Fair, giving us Bill Gates & Co.

10..Meyers wants me to think of the Cowboys as "America's team". Not on his life will this Giants fan
accept that. SVC is also correct, but without the repugnant editorial.

11..VAUC has it. So too Skilz, a newcomer to these tests, who then parlays his acumen into...

12..telling us that absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

13...SVC & VAUC write that the guy on the canvas was Jack Johnson.

So, give us #5, and we are complete.

 

[SVCBeercats]

Forgive me! I am new to these quizzes. I thought the answers were to be right or wrong. I did not realize, the quality of the answers matter.

2..Meyers & Knights show their adulation by giving Alfred his due as a Lord.

7..I like VAUC's details the best. Such clarity.

 

[meyers7]

10..Meyers wants me to think of the Cowboys as "America's team". Not on his life will this Giants fan
accept that.

Well that would explain a lot. Nothing worse than a giants fan.

 

[wire chief]

Forgive me! I am new to these quizzes. I thought the answers were to be right or wrong. I did not realize, the quality of the answers matter.

2..Meyers & Knights show their adulation by giving Alfred his due as a Lord.

7..I like VAUC's details the best. Such clarity.

So I take it there will be a new SVC in the future? You may also notice I like to razz folks here and there.

 

[wire chief]

Verily, dear Cajun, most assuredly.

 

[FairView]

Forgive me! I am new to these quizzes. I thought the answers were to be right or wrong. I did not realize, the quality of the answers matter.

2..Meyers & Knights show their adulation by giving Alfred his due as a Lord.

7..I like VAUC's details the best. Such clarity.

I think wire chief's summations are some of the most fun parts of the tests.