OT: General Knowledge Test #507A

[wire chief]

Answers only; DO NOT PRESS REPLY. And no research please.

1..The actor who "Married Joan" from '52-'55?

2..Confederate General Joseph Johnson surrenders to whom near Durham Station?

3..The International Court of Justice is where?

4..Congress set a goal to change..? by August, but won't make it.

5..Hagar the Horrible's immediate family?

6..Explain the Holodomor.

7..Name of the building Timothy McVeigh blew up?

8..Called the Roman Empire's philosopher emperor?

9..The Bernard Goetz story?

10..French Revolutionary Wars starts in 1792 with the declaration of war vs..?

11..Patti, Laverne and Maxine? Which song had every sentence start with the same word.

12..The Henrietta Lacks dispute?

13..Link the new KFC Colonel Sanders with the TITANIC flic.

 

[pinotbear]

2. William Tecumseh Sherman?
3. The Hague?
4. The tax code, and it's not a Congressional goal, but, rather a White House goal
7. Murrow building, Oklahoma City
9. Bernie Goetz, riding a train in NYC, feels threatened by fellow passengers, opens fire, seriously injuring others. Goetz is white, shooting victims are black. Goetz claims, basically, pro-active self-defense, as he says he felt threatened. Victims claim there was no threat, Goetz just wanted to shoot them because of his racist attitude.

 

[CajunHusky]

13. Rob Lowe (Col Sanders) and Bill Paxton (Titanic) were both in the flic Frank and Jesse James

 

[SVCBeercats]

3. The Hague
6. Genocide via starvation of the Ukrainians by the Soviets in the thirties
7. Alfred P. Murrah Fed. Bldg.
9. Goetz rides subway every day – fears young black youths who he believes are threatening him and other riders - buys gun – carries gun – rides subway – has confrontation with some young black youths – shoots them injuring all & crippling one of them – gets convicted and sent to prison for unlicensed carry - serves <1 yr. – gets sued for millions and loses – NYC addresses crime in a more serious manner
11. Andrew Sisters, ???

 

[SVCBeercats]

13. Rob Lowe (Col Sanders) and Bill Paxton (Titanic) were both in the flic Frank and Jesse James

Wow! All of my hats are off to you! Good job!

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. The Hague
4. Tax Reform
8. Cicero
9. Mr Goetz shot some teenagers on a NYC subway train before he was attacked. In other words, he assumed that he was going to get mugged and shot first.
10. Canada
12. Ms Lacks' cells were used for medical research without her knowledge or consent; Creating the first immortal human cells grown in a lab; Cells that are still alive today well over half a century after her death.

 

[Bigboote]

3..The International Court of Justice is where?
The Hague

5..Hagar the Horrible's immediate family?
Helga, Honi, Hamlet

7..Name of the building Timothy McVeigh blew up?
Alfred Murrah Federal Building

9..The Bernard Goetz story?
New York Vigilante

10..French Revolutionary Wars starts in 1792 with the declaration of war vs..?
Holland? Is that where Wollonia and Flanders began to become Belgium?

 

[CajunHusky]

13. Rob Lowe (Col Sanders) and Bill Paxton (Titanic) were both in the flic Frank and Jesse James

Bill Paxton has always a been a favorite ..... who can forget Chet!

or "Maybe you haven't been keepin up with current events but we are getting our ass kicked"

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Marcus Aurelius ("Meditations")

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

2 - Sherman. Terms offered Johnston were deemed to lenient and were changed to match those offered Lee by Grant. (and yes, it is Johnston, not Johnson - the CSA had two of them, not related, Albert S Johnston, the other, was killed at Shiloh and was considered the much better general).
3 - The Hague
8 - Marcus Aurelieus, I had to do a report on him in school but have forgotten virtually everything else about him.

 

[wire chief]

7..While Edward R. Murrow was a respected broadcaster and an idol of Pinot, please tell the silly ol' bear that the OK City building isn't named after Edward.

8.. Don't fret, Knights, it will all come back to you, when you are wondering where you misplaced your IRS refund..
And VAUC, how could a Chicago suburb be a Roman Emperor. Alex, dun him a thousand bucks.

 

[VAUConnFan]

7..While Edward R. Murrow was a respected broadcaster and an idol of Pinot, please tell the silly ol' bear that the OK City building isn't named after Edward.

8..
And VAUC, how could a Chicago suburb be a Roman Emperor. .

When one's knowledge of Roman history is confined to popular entertainment and very little else is known. Cicero was a wild guess, obviously wrong.

 

[geordi]

since I'm obviously the oldest one here (perhaps save Wire), Jim Backus married Joan. [And Tom Corbett was a Space Cadet}

 

[wire chief]

1..Mr Methuselah Geordi, who was Joan's first husband, knows Jim Backus was next.

2..Yup, it was Sherman, as the war mongerers Knights and Pinot gleefully celebrate.

3..It's in The Hague, at least until the dikes fail from rising seas and the VAUC Foursome floats away.

4..Pinot and VAUC, who have never paid their fair share, cite tax reform.

5..Since he reads no other part of the newspaper, Big well knows all things Hagar.

6..Applause for SVC, as I doubt 98% of Americans know about this holocaust. Of course, the 98% know more about the Kardashians than does SVC.

7..Yes, to Alfred P. Murrah, but I wish Pinot had been correct, cause at least I know who Edward R. Murrow was, and I really know nothing about Alfred.

8..I think the Fifth Dimension would have been wise to add "Marcus Aurelius" in the stanza with "Age of Aquarius". Nice compatible meter, don't you think?

9..A trio of you have good detail. The one year sentence for gun carrying was inevitable under NY law, but he was not prosecuted for the shootings.

10..The easternmost of western Europe. Take it gang.

11..SVC is right. While a half dozen artists have recorded this, youtube does not feature the Andrews, so here's the McGuire Sisters' version.


12..Thank you VAUC, and we all hope your cells achieve Immortality.

13..Any question you have about 6 degrees of separation, just ask Cajun.