OT: General knowledge test #533A

[wire chief]

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

1..The Bard starts off with, "Who's there".

2..SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, starring..?, written by..?, a title not as famous as his..?.

3..The 84 year old US Senator(?) has just announced she will run again.

4..In October of 1981 this leader is assassinated by Muslim extremists.

5..Ending in 1990 which team made 3 straight World Series?

6..In the 70's what new coin?

7..Atomic #6 accepted my dinner invitation. This is an example of ______ ______.

8..Chiquita Banana: "But you should never.."?.

9..Fort Meade, credited with standardizing..? among army posts is in what state?

10..Only one mammal lives all year round at 11,000 feet in Yellowstone. Which?

11..In 1934 who escapes jail with the bluff of a wooden gun?

12..HOW THE GRINCH..? in 1957.

13..Dagwood's boss and boss's wife?

 

[pinotbear]

1. Hamlet?
3. Diane Feinstein
6. Susan B. Anthony dollar
13. Mr. Dithers, and Cora

 

[SVCBeercats]

3.. Dianne Feinstein

4.. Anwar Sadat

5.. The 1989 Earthquake helps - Oakland Athletics?

6.. Quarters for each state?

9.. ?, Maryland

10.. Pika?

11.. John Dillinger?

12.. Stole Christmas?

13..Mr. and Mrs. Dithers otherwise known to their friends as Julius C. and Cora

 

[DriveLH]

8. put bananas in the refrigerator.
11. John Dillinger
12. Stole Christmas

 

[chj001]

2. Fonda (not Jane, Peter or Bridget) and Newman (not Randy); written by Ken Kesey who also wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

5. The Bash Brothers, McGwire and Conseco, with the Oakland A's, who lost to Kirk Gibson's miracle homerun off Dennis Eckersley in '88.

 

[Bigboote]

4..Anwar Sadat

5..The Oakland A's?

6..Susan B Anthony dollar

7..Carbon dating

9..No idea what it standardized, but it's in Maryland

10..Mountain goat?

11..Clyde Barrow?

12..How the Grinch stole Christmas

13..Mr and Mrs Dithers

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

3 - Diane Feinstein.

11 - pretty sure it was Dillinger.

 

[wire chief]

9..This Ft Meade, established 1878, is not in Md.

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Diane Feinstein
5. Oakland A's
6. The 200 year quarters commemorating 1776 independence.
9. housing, Maryland
10. Big horn sheep
11. John Dillinger
12. Stole Christmas
13. Mr Dithers, Cora

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot with a solitary soliloquy, and without a skull.

2..Chj001 (not 007 nor jch)

3..Hail Knights of the woeful countenance (and 3 others) for picking the California Girl.

4..Big & SVC place the Egyptian leader.

5..VAUC & SVC sing of the earth moving under their feet.

6..Just ONE coin; did I not write that? Good thing we have Big and Pinot.

7..Say Big, am I not just too cute for words?

8..Drive brushes off his collection of TV commercials.

9..It's in S D and it took leadership in promulgating The Star Spangled Banner among army posts.

10..Yes, SVC. Put aside your question mark. Show the courage of your convictions!

11..A foursome of Dillingers works out fine.

12..I for one never learned how the Grinch stole Christmas, but I guess he returned it, since it goes on.

13..Oh, the desperation, as you think you can get away with Mr. & Mrs. as first names. Now we see that SVC was desperately trying to write something in "B", he's OK here.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

At the risk of falling victim to small town rumor, I have always been told that Dillinger used a potato rather than a wooden gun.

I wouldn't bring it up but the lead agent who brought down Dillinger had lived a block away from my home and it was a claim to fame for a small town.

 

[wire chief]

Yes, and that agent even got a bio, like the mason and the steelworker et al, in the book WORKING by Spuds Terkel. He claimed the incident led to his inventing the toy Mr. Potato Head.

Later in life the agent developed this ad...



I'll stop now.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Yes, and that agent even got a bio, like the mason and the steelworker et al, in the book WORKING by Spuds Terkel. He claimed the incident led to his inventing the toy Mr. Potato Head.

Later in life the agent developed this ad...



I'll stop now.

You laugh but he was played by Christian Bale in Public Enemies.

Wikipedia seems to support the potato.

 

[wire chief]

You laugh but he was played by Christian Bale in Public Enemies.

Wikipedia seems to support the potato.

You object to my laughing? How else would one ward off depression?
Like Wiki I support potatoes, for they complete the bacon, eggs and biscuit.
Note that "he" is an unclear referent. A person might think Mr. Bale played Mr. Potato Head.

I'll stop now, lest you conclude I am absurd.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

Why G-Man Melvin Purvis of course.

Hash Browns? how do you like them?

 

[wire chief]

Why G-Man Melvin Purvis of course.

Hash Browns? how do you like them?

Sister and I took our usual Sunday morn brisk walk. Then ate at Christos. Not hash browns, but the flat kind, with runny yellows mixed in. Some bacon comes home with me to add to other meals. Can never finish the biscuit.