OT: General knowledge test #531A

[wire chief]

Please do not hit REPLY and no research. And no political statements.

1..The Muslim Eid-al-adna celebrates what Old Testament event?

2..The John Bates Clark Medal is for...?

3..How did South Ossetia get its current status?

4..In 1937 The Shadow begins on radio with the voice of...?

5..In 1986, one joins the Supreme Court and another becomes Chief Justice. Name them.

6..Bing Crosby sings about a gun-toting woman(?).

7..The gist of Rachel Carson's blockbuster book?

8..In 1989 what company buys Columbia Pictures?

9..Willie Nelson and Canned Heat go Jack Kerouac on word better. Explain.

10..The National Institute of Health's "All of Us" project aims to study what?

11..Alexander Fleming gave the world what, and his homeland?

12..In 9/76 Muhammed Ali wins a 15 round decision over..?

13..In 1989 a deposed Southeast Asian Prez dies in exile in Hawaii. Who?

 

[DriveLH]

9. Kerouac wrote " On the Road", the singers "On the Road Again"

 

[chj001]

2. A Griswald Vacation at Downton Abbey. Perhaps in a pea green Wagon Queen Family Truckster.

 

[rbny1]

6. Pistol Packin' Mama. If I recall correctly, he recorded with the Andrews Sisters.
7. She wrote The Silent Spring, which warned about the pollution of the environment with chemicals, especially DDT.

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Noah's Arc
4. Walter Winchell
5. Antony Kennedy and William Rehnquist
8. United Artists
11. Penicillin, UK
12. Joe Frazier
13. Marcos of the Phillipines

 

[Gamecockfan77]

5. Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist.
7. Pesticides are killing birds resulting in a Silent Spring
8. Sony
11. Penicillin. UK.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. Orson Welles

 

[SVCBeercats]

4.. Orson Welles

5.. Antonin Scalia & William Rehnquist

8.. SONY

9.. Jack Kerouac wrote “On the Road.” Both Willie Nelson and Canned Heat wrote a song titled, “On the Road Again.” Their lyrics are different. So relative to titles WN and CH out did JK by the one word, “Again.”

10.. The NIH’s "All of Us" project aims to study one million people presumably in the USA in order to accelerate research in hopes of producing medicines focused specifically on different groups of people.

11.. Penicillin, Scotland

12.. Ken Norton

 

[Bigboote]

5..Chief Justice Rehnquist, Associate Justice O'Connor

7..Silent Spring -- we're not only polluting the environment, we're suffering for it.

9..Jack Kirouac wrote "On the Road", the others did songs called "On the road again"

11. Penicillin, I think he was Scottish

12..George Foreman?

13..I'm guessing South Viet Nam's first president Ngo.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

7. The death of living creatures due to pesticide use - producing a "Silent Spring". Required reading for a high school class.

8. Sony. Although I wouldn't have guessed the year correctly. My career was with Loews Theatres, which were part of that mix for a while - and actually named Sony Theatres (briefly). Sold off to investors and eventually AMC.

11. Penicillin, Scotland

 

[huskyrob1]

5) Scalia and Rehnquist
8) Sony
12) Joe Frazier
13) Marcos

 

[wire chief]

1..Abraham's trust in God as enough reason to slay his son.

2..Economic achievement for those < 40.

3..With Russian help it rebelled vs. Georgia to become autonomous.

4..Ed4 & SVC point to Orson Welles.

5..SVC & husky do righteous picking.

6..Rbny is armed and loaded.

7..Game part of a 5some.

8..The knights quartet with Sony.

9..Drive and SVC and Big all give you approved texts.

10..What should be added to SVC's response is the project aims at individualized medicine (e.g. finding DNA anomalies), with the hope that the concept becomes standardized.

11..U. K. is a lazy response. Give a pat on the back to the 3 who said Scotland.

12..SVC alone has Ken Norton.

13..VAUC & husky note that his wife's shoes fell from a high shelf and crushed him.