OT: General knowledge test #515A

[wire chief]

Note the caution about turning your answers into some political position.
Do not press "reply" and no research please.

1..James ______ portrays George M. Cohen in ______ ______ _____.

2..ID Tensing Norgay.

3..One crucial difference between our court system and that of England, as mentioned by Justice Gorsuch recently?

4..What is "confirmation bias"?

5,,Carl Jung's concept of S_____ is recalled in Billy Joel's THE S_______.

6..So what's the SURPRISE in H____'s Symphony?

7.."To walk to school she's got to get up early.
Her clothes are old, but never are they dirty."

8..She speaks Cantonese only; he just Mandarin. How do they easily communicate?

9..ID Betty Shabazz.

10.."Old enough now to change your name.
When so many love you, is it the same.
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game."

11.."Cascadia" is several hundred miles long and refers to what?

12..Astronomers just announced feeling space/time vibrations. Explain.

13..Which Prez signed the first copyright law?

 

[pinotbear]

1. Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
2. hmmm - not sure if this is the guy that guided Hillary to the top of Everest, or guided Scott (?) to the Pole. I'll go with Hillary & Everest.
4. A tendency to look for evidence that supports your position, rather than objectively evaluate all data that comes your way.
11. WAG guess here - a term to refer to the area defined by the series of mountain ranges that extend up n' down the west coast of North America, from roughly northern California into British Columbia.

 

[terif831]

10. Cowgirl in the Sand, Neil Young.

 

[SVCBeercats]

1.. Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

2..Tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first two humans to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

3..In England the accused is presumed guilty and must prove their innocence. In America the accused is assumed innocent and the prosecutor must prove their guilt.

5.. Shadow, The Stranger

8..Love letters since Mandarin and Cantonese share a common written language.

9..Betty Shabazz was Malcolm X’s wife.


12..I presume gravitational waves.

 

[rbny1]

6. Franz Joseph Haydn's Surprise Symphony. The music gets softer and softer, and then is suddenly very loud, surprising the audience (and waking up anyone who might be dozing off).

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Sherpa who climbed Mt. Everest with Edmund Hillary
7. "Living for the City" -- Stevie Wonder
9. Wife of Malcolm X

 

[Bigboote]

1..Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

2..Sir Edmund Hillary's Sherpa guide on his ascent of Everest

5,,Self, the Stranger

6..The Surprise is one of Haydn's London Symphonies. It has a big chord at a seemingly random part of a quiet section, I think in the slow movement, possibly in the dance movement. The Drum Roll Symphony, another of the Londons, similarly has a drum roll in an unexpected place

7. Stevie Wonder, Living for the City, one of the great hit singles of the 70's.

9..The widow of Malcom X

11..I'm guessing that it's the equivalent of Appalachia, but the Cascade mountains?

12..In the last week or two, the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they've observed a third gravity wave

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. When one only accepts views that conform to already held beliefs.
7. Living For The City - Stevie Wonder from his Innervisions album.
8. The written language, Mandarin and Cantonese are the same. the characters have the same meaning in both languages.
9. Malcolm X's widow. Originally from Detroit, she was a nurse.
13. If I took 44 guesses, one of them would be correct. But I will hazard one, Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton.

 

[Zorro]

6)

 

[Rocket009]

2..The Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first ascent of Everest

4..Confirmation bias is found in scientific studies where the researchers focussed on the evidence they wanted to find instead of evaluating the totality of the evidence and making a judgement based solely on the facts or data.

 

[Bigboote]

FYI: Haydn's Surprise Symphony was on Jeopardy last night (just watched it on DVR).

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot leads another 3 of you about the old flic.

2..Cajun in a sextet of flatlanders who avoid nose bleed.

3..Our newest Supreme pointed out that England has no Judicial Review, no right to decide on the constitutionality of a law.
Diana Ross would have agreed, if she were not retired.

4..Go with Pinot; go with rocket. You'll be OK either way.

5..Billy Joel confided in me that he used the dark side of SVC for inspiration.

6..And Big, Alex often reaches out to me for suggestions, You and rbny get it right.

7..K9 and Big also wear old, but freshly washed duds, which they exchange at recess.

8..SVC and VAUC say it's still Chinese to them.

9..VAUC provides her profession too. Three others also accurate.

10..Terif finds and keeps her 10-gallon hat. It's a court case now.

11..Pinot has the clearer explanation.

12..Cajun, who often experiences black hole moods, is an expert here.

13..It was the guy who assumes the missionary position over the Hudson River.

 

[SVCBeercats]

FYI: Haydn's Surprise Symphony was on Jeopardy last night (just watched it on DVR).

Within the last two weeks Cagney and Yankee Doodle Dandy were on Jeopardy as well.