OT: General knowledge test #526A

[wire chief]

No politics please. Also no hitting "reply" and no research.

1..The exteriors of both the Empire State Building and the Pentagon are constructed with I.B.(?) stone.

2..Why is Simone Askew in the news?

3..The SS Ancon was first to..?

4.."It might be unbelievable...It just might be fantastic."

5..Link Wiley Post and Will Rogers.

6..Give literal and typical meaning of KATZENJAMMER.

7..Vellum usually is made from..?

8..What is "doxing" on social media?

9..Accorfing to the Southern Poverty Law Center, what 2 states lead in # of hate groups?

10..In mid-19thC Victoria sends her 1st cable message to which Prez?

11..Within 5 years when did SPORTS ILLUSTRATED begin?

12..In 1958 a famous portrayal(?) by Rosalind Russell.

13..What was the 1978 accomplishment of the Double Eagle II?

 

[pinotbear]

13. Pretty sure this was a high-tech "hot air" balloon, but I'm not sure what the accomplishment was - WAG, crossed the Atlantic.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

5. Wiley Post and Will Rogers both died in the crash of a plane that Post was piloting.
In Alaska I think.

 

[Bigboote]

6..Cats ?? -- hangover

7..calf's skin

9..Texas has to be one. I'll guess Mississippi as the other

13. I'm pretty sure this was the (first) human-powered plane that flew across the English Channel.

 

[huskyrob1]

5) They crashed their plane flying together

 

[SVCBeercats]

1. Indiana limestone is the stone which encases both the Pentagon and the Empire State Building (lest we forget the National Cathedral as well). So what the hey is I.B. stone?

5. Wiley Post and Will Rogers died in the same airplane crash in Alaska.

6. Literal – Cat Trouble? Typical – confusion?

9. California and Florida

11. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED began in 1955-56, however, more importantly, the swimsuit edition started in 1964!

 

[McFly]

12: Gypsy Rose Lee?

 

[Rocket009]

1. Indiana limestone is the stone which encases both the Pentagon and the Empire State Building (lest we forget the National Cathedral as well). So what the hey is I.B. stone?

Irritable Bowel Limestone

 

[pinotbear]

Irritable Bowel Limestone

Which is produced when somebody is so scared, they're "s******g bricks"?

 

[VAUConnFan]

5. Aviators who have airports in Oklahoma named after them.
10. Rutherford B. Hayes
11. 1952
13. First space shuttle

 

[wire chief]

1..It's called Indiana Bedford. We in Florida will never extol the virtues of limestone. Its properties are responsible for our many sinkholes.
I'm sinking as I write this. Glug.
--
2..Does contemporary West Point jog your memory?

3..Something weird here...the tail end of your responses has disappeared, where one of you answered it was the first use of SOS.

4..It's a Pretenders tune.

5..Ed4, husky & SVC vow never to fly with any Wiley relative.

6..Big is on target--cats wailing --hangover.

7..Big again

8..Revealing personal ID of others.

9..See SVC

10..Hayes? Nope

11..VAUC & SVC meet the criteria. SVC has caused me to drop my swimsuit edition question from the next test.
You blabberfingers!

12..Cajun has her.

13..Pinot's WAG reaches fruition

 

[wire chief]

4..

2..She's 1st black lady to be commander of cadets.

10..James Buchanan