OT: General knowledge test #523A

[wire chief]

Please don't hit "reply", nor do research, nor discuss politics.

1..What 1975 B'way musical went on for 6137 performances?

2..In 1934 pro-Nazis assassinated which head of state?

3..The title of "Lady" is assumed by the wife of a duke and also of 5(?) other statuses.

4..The "husband" Fang.

5..Lots of former NFLers have CTE(?).

6..Which Prez fashioned the CIA?

7..Link Shelley Winters, Sally Struthers, Kirstie Alley.

8..LBJ appoints Kerner Commission to do what?

9..It(?) brands itself as the Athens of the North.

10..What's the name of the brand new Brit aircraft carrier?

11..An examination of 183 studies found that from 1973 - 2011 this biological reading
went from 99 per milliliter to 47. For what?

12..World's oldest head of state(?) is 93.

13..What was Ohio State's New Years Eve embarrassment?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

3. Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron, Knight (Sir)

4. Phyllis Diller's husband

6. Truman (although it's predecessor, the OSS, came into existence under FDR)

7. All became significantly overweight in their later years.

 

[pinotbear]

1. Cats?
5. Cumulative Traumatic Encephalitis? Basically, brain trauma acquired my repeated blows to the head.
11. sperm count in western males
13. Cleveland. It's always Cleveland, except when Akron acts up.

 

[SVCBeercats]

1. A Chorus Line

2. Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria was killed during the failed July Putsch. His death was preceded by the Night of the Long Knives by one month where Hitler consolidated his power and thwart the growing independence of the SA and it penchant for street violence, desire to redistribute the wealth, and drive to absorb the military under Ernst Rohmer, SA leader. Rohmer, Gregor Strasser, leader of left wing of Nazis party, a former chancellor von some body, and others were killed over 3-4 days. OK so it should have the Nights of the Long Knives. Some like Rohmer were long time supporters of Hitler. Yeah, at times politics is tougher than we think!

4. Phyllis Diller’s husband

5. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy – Are NFLers with single digit Wonderlic Test scores immune to CTE?

8. What caused the 1967-68 race riots?

13. Clemson 31 Ohio State 0 -- Could also have been every time USC beat them in the Rose Bowl. Being in the Big Ten, a weak sister Power 5 football conference is an embarrassment. Hell, Connecticut could have lost to Boston College just as easily as Maryland.

 

[Bigboote]

4..I'm assuming a wolf in a Jack London story?

5..Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, as found in a study released earlier this week

6..Eisenhower?

12..Queen Elizabeth

13..Gotta be a football game, but I have no idea which one.

 

[wire chief]

12..His country is Zimbabwe.

9..In the same country as is Andy Murray.

13..Now, SVC, there's a touch of overstatement here. Just 2 years before, Ohio State won over Alabama.

 

[Bigboote]

12..His country is Zimbabwe.

Oh, geez, Mugabe?

 

[SVCBeercats]

13..Now, SVC, there's a touch of overstatement here. Just 2 years before, Ohio State won over Alabama.

A touch! A TOUCH of overstatement! It was an egregious overstatement!

 

[wire chief]

1..You Cats lovers are drinking the Meow Mix. Go with SVC, egregious as he generally is.

2..Gott im Himmel! The man knows too much. Arrest SVC for his sniperism.

3..Very good, ed4, but you forgot The Tramp.

4..You mugs could have elaborated here, like by discussing his place in Joan's comedy.

5..Cajun reminds us of Paul Simon's portrait of a whole village with CTE.


6..Ed4, our expert on what has gone before.

7..Ed4 again, with the obesity awards he initiated.

8..The brick-throwing SVC fondly remembers.

9..You make me do it--Edinburgh.

10..Cajun & Big were seen curtsying...and begging for a ride.

11..Which includes Australia...Pinot explores his home with flashlight, hoping to discover his that are missing.

12..It would be beyond my ken to interpret Big's "Oh, geez".,,unless that's Mugabe's first name.

 

[SVCBeercats]

8..The brick-throwing SVC fondly remembers.

Not so fondly! Back then while taking a shortcut back to my hotel room in Cincinnati I realized I was being followed by 20-25 men while people on their porches were saying no good and honky. To their surprise and my relief I was one white man who could run really fast. I am sure adrenaline had much to do with my fleetness that evening. A couple of years later while watching the play "If you want to dance you have to pay the band" I learned the meaning of honky. A week later while I was in Cleveland this same Cincinnati neighborhood was one huge conflagration. A fellow worker and friend who knew of my Cincinnati experience and my penchant for going where my safety was at risk finally got through to me by saying; "My God, SVC I don't even go into those areas and I'm black!"

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Grease
4. Phyllis Diller
5. Chronic Traumatic Encephla????
6. President Truman with the National Security Act 1947
8. To investigate the exploding race riots of the time. (You are doing it again, Wirechief)

 

[VAUConnFan]

Just realized that I am late on this. Oh well.