OT: General knowledge test #505A

[wire chief]

No research please and answers only, i. e. DO NOT PRESS "REPLY".

1..How are Paul Scofield and Liz Taylor linked in 1967?

2..Only one city has 24M+ people within its confines. Which?

3..Its(?) depth is 35,797 feet. Be specific.

4..In 1689 they were crowned together. Who?

5..Who just ordered a halt of gov't support for independent scientists?

6..Which 3 countries have made a joint bid for the 2026 World Cup?

7..Judge Raymond Myles was shot while in his front yard in what city?

8..The world's most energy-efficient (mostly geothermal) city?

9..Marine Le Pen has just received widespread condemnation for what viewpoint?

10..The traveling USS Carl Vinson has just changed course from where to where?

11..Who's surprisingly endorsing a product--Perfect Skin?

12..Approximate the sex ratio of Trump's Twitter followers.

13.."Suits" member with a royal connection?

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Butterfield 8
2. Tokyo
3. Marianas Trench
5. President Trump
6. US, Mexico, ???
7. Chicago
7. Detroit
10. From ??? to South China Sea

 

[pinotbear]

8. Reykavik, Iceland

 

[LesMis89]

4. William of Orange and Mary, daughter of James II of England

 

[meyers7]

6. USA, Mexico, Canada. USA getting 60 of the 80 games (including semi's and Final). It will be the first expanded WC (48 teams). They should get it too. Very little, if any competition. Europe has the 2018 (Russia), S. America is looking at Uruguay and ??? in 2030 (100 year anniversary of 1st WC in Uruguay). Asia has the 2022 in Qatar. Only real competition could come from Africa, but not likely.

 

[CONNMAN98]

2. Shanghai if going by city proper.

 

[k9fanatic]

6. U.S, Canada and Mexico
7. Chicago
9. Claimed the French were not responsible for the rounding-up of Jews in France during the Holocaust.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. Both won oscars that year.

2. Mexico City?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4. William III and Mary II as English Monarchs, as someone noted above. There is a statue of William of Orange at Rutgers.

 

[SVCBeercats]

2. Tokyo

3. Mariana Trench

6. USA, Canada, Mexico

8. Reykjavík

11. Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge

12. 50-50

 

[wire chief]

1..Ed4 notes that the pair was in, "Virginia, There's a Man Who is Afraid of All a Woolf's Seasons".

2..We've been Shanghaied by 98.

3..VAUC & SVC take us to ocean's depths.

4..And then they snuck off to found an American college, Shanghaied by C. Viv. Our thanks to 89 and Knights.

5..He came from ______ with a banjo on his knee...and really white hair.

6..Gotta admire the Meyer's ken, clickety clickin' all that info. SVC with a quieter validity.

7..According to VAUC he was probably shot in Detroit, then dumped in his Chicago yard. K9 rightly says it all happened
in the Windy City.

8..Pinot & SVC identify the capital of Iceland. Can't blame the Icelanders for climate change, but they'll melt away nonetheless.

9..K9 says she didn't do it either.

10..It was first headed for the place where women glow and men plunder(?), but made a sharp left to keep an eye on North Korea.

11..SVC, ever up on cosmetics, cites the now wrinkle-free Kate.

12..I always encourage guessing at such questions, and SVC has obliged. What makes this interesting is the ratio is NOWHERE
near 50-50. Keep trying.

13..Meghan Markle, who plays "Rachel", is the girl friend of..?

Lotsawork needed. See what you can do about 5, 10, 12, 13.

 

[pinotbear]

5. with the hint, Alabama.. figures...
10. with the hint, Australia. Yeah, nah, mate, it'd be Oz
12. 85/15, male/female?

 

[wire chief]

5. with the hint, Alabama.. figures...
10. with the hint, Australia. Yeah, nah, mate, it'd be Oz
12. 85/15, male/female?

OK, but you are looking for the white-haired guy who came from there and issued the directive.
Yes to 10
12..You are intuitive here; it is in that direction with a little under 20% female.

 

[SVCBeercats]

12..I always encourage guessing at such questions, and SVC has obliged. What makes this interesting is the ratio is NOWHERE
near 50-50. Keep trying.

OK! Let's now use the Pareto Principle.

 

[SVCBeercats]

OK, but you are looking for the white-haired guy who came from there and issued the directive.

Alex, Who is Jeff Sessions?