OT: General knowledge test #532A

[wire chief]

1..He blasts his 3000th (and last) hit vs. the Mets. Who?

2.."Get your rosaries off my ovaries" has become a theme, as this nation(?) struggles with abortion laws.

3.."Backwards...and in heels" refers to what unsung accomplishment?

4..The Diet of Worms declares whom as a heretic?

5..How did the honchos of Ivory Snow cope with Marilyn Chambers?

6..The gigantic titan arum prefers a different set of pollinators. Explain.

7..A stroke resulted in a Prez being paralyzed on the left side. Who?

8.."Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace."

9..It(?) was a sextet back in 1939 when it recorded "Flying Home".

10..An immensely successful B'way musical(?) was based on unpublished T S Eliot poems.

11..A Diane Keaton 1982 movie and a successful card game maneuver. Explain.

12..In baseball what was called "the shot heard round the world"?

13..From 2000 t0 2015 overdose deaths increased 40, 100, 180, 250, 325 or 400%?

 

[pinotbear]

1. Roberto Clemente
2. WAG, Ireland
3. The fact that the esteemed dancer, Fred Astaire(sp?) had a dance partner, Ginger Rogers, who had to basically make every move that Fred did, but, "backwards..and in heels!"
5. Tried very hard to ignore her when she gained fame in pornography "classics" such as "Behind The Green Door".
12. Bobby Thompson's home run in the..oh, 1952?.. World Series.

 

[SVCBeercats]

1.. Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker, AKA The Great One! Arriba! Arriba! Roberto! As a kid he was my favorite BB player. Much to the chagrin of my high school coach I copied his closed deep in box batting stance. He was a great player but an even greater person, a true humanitarian. It was a sin he died so young.

2.. Ireland

4.. Martin Luther

5.. They locked and painted the green door white.

6.. I’m guessing flies, since it exudes the smell of rotting death.

11.. Shoot the Moon

12.. The game winning home run by the Bobby Thompson. So famous it needs no further elaboration.

 

[McFly]

5: took her picture off the soap box.

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Ireland?
3. Ginger Rogers -- did everything Fred Astaire did, but in heels and backwards
8. Man of Peace -- Bob Dylan
10. Cats
12. Bobby Thomson's homerun against the Dodgers to win the pennant for the Giants

 

[huskyrob1]

1) Roberto Clemente
2) Ireland
4) Martin Luther
7) FDR
12) Bobby Thompson's HR

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4. Martin Luther
7. Wilson He certainly had a stroke, I didn't know the exact result. Led to his wife having a reputation as the "real" president.
12. As others said, Bobby Thompson's HR for the Giants against the Dodgers in what I think was a one game playoff because they had ended the season tied. I don't really know the year, my guess would be 1954.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

12. The Giants win the pennant . . . the Giants win the pennant . . . the Giants win the pennant . . . the Giants win the pennant.

OK, calm down now.

 

[Bigboote]

1..Roberto Clemente; God, that was a sad day when his plane went down.

3.."Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did -- in high heels and backwards."

4..Martin Luther

6..I think this is the stink flower, so I'm gonna guess carrion beetles. (I have paw-paw trees, which are also largely pollinated by carrion beetles)

7..Wilson?

8..Sinclair Lewis said something like this in "It can't happen here"

10..Cats

12..Bobby Thompson's home off Ralph Branca in the one-game playoff in 1951

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. Joan of Arc
5. Took her off the cover of Ivory Detergent and showed her the green door.
7. Woodrow Wilson
10. Cats
12. Bobby Thompson's homerun off of Ralph Branca wo came on in relief of Don Newcombe in the third and deciding post season playoff game that capped off the NY giants' improbable pennant run. I know who was on deck, who was in the third base coaches box, and a story about how this individual was unable to congratulate Thompson as he came around the bases because of an over exuberant player(?) who tackled him to the ground.
13. 250%

 

[wire chief]

5..You doofuses have warped the tale. The honchos initially bombasted that they would remove the now offensive boxes.
HOWEVER, they discovered that Pinot, SVC, McFly, & VAUC organized their friends, family and neighbors to swarm the supermarkets and empty the shelves of said boxes.
The honchos, as astute businessmen, swallowed their moralistic apoplexy and continued to give their customers what they wanted.
After a short discussion, though, they decided not to go in the porno business themselves, as tempting as it was.

11..I'm not reading an explanation here.

9..Lionel Hampton was one member.

13..More guesses needed.

 

[SVCBeercats]

13..More guesses needed.

Probably 400% and demand continues rise. Hard to grasp why anyone is even tempted to do illicit drugs.

 

[SVCBeercats]

11..I'm not reading an explanation here.

In the card game Hearts, "Shoot the Moon," is a term referring to a player attempting to acquire all of the hearts and the queen of spades. If done successfully, then all of the other players are penalized 26 points and the moon shooter gets zero points. It is a fun thing to accomplish, but an irritable thing when a player incessantly tries to "Shoot the Moon" with cards that offer little or no hope of being successful. Such players ruin the game.

 

[wire chief]

In the card game Hearts, "Shoot the Moon," is a term referring to a player attempting to acquire all of the hearts and the queen of spades. If done successfully, then all of the other players are penalized 26 points and the moon shooter gets zero points. It is a fun thing to accomplish, but an irritable thing when a player incessantly tries to "Shoot the Moon" with cards that offer little or no hope of being successful. Such players ruin the game.

Not if you are playing for money.

 

[wire chief]

Probably 400% and demand continues rise. Hard to grasp why anyone is even tempted to do illicit drugs.

the head is now nailed

 

[wire chief]

1..Like Pinot & 3 wrote, it is Roberto.

2..The WAG crew used inference, deductive reasoning, intuition and Tarot cards to loft the Emerald Isle.

3..The K9 Quartet, ever as backward as Ginger.

4..Knights and others, striking a blow for religious repression.

6..Stinking worse than even some Tennessee fans, it relies on flies et al, as you say.

7..As VAUC and others write, it was that WWI guy.

8..No one accompanies K9 here. I must remind Big that answers that are "something like" don't fly here.

9..Benny Goodman's group, which only later was a quartet.

10..Some BY'ers are Cool Cats. Twenty-three skidoo and all that.

11..SVC goes from a man of few words to positively chatty.

12..Hey ed4, that pronouncement is loud in my head also.
















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