OT: General knowledge test #537A

[wire chief]

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

1.."I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things" Title and show

2..The people who speak Euskara?

3....."Is for good men to do nothing" The beginning?

4..The Hass type of ________ account for 3/4 of all sold.

5..A current movie title refers to a skater of questionable character(?) and her evil husband(?).

6..What military man was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953?

7..Distinguish pun from play-on-words.

8..The pope who said the Church was wrong to condemn Galileo.

9..In 1967 Nguyen ___ _____ was prez of S. Viet Nam.

10..In 1956 what was a "first" for Rear Admiral George Dufek?

11..The nation with the world's oldest desert and highest dunes and most cheetahs?

12..In order for the mid-teens to get the laughter out of their systems, Father Duffy writes this Latin sentence on the blackboard: Fidem clam scit. The English?

13..In 194o FDR defeats..?

 

[ballhawk]

5-Tonya Harding and Jeff Gilhooley
6-George Marshall
9-Cao Ky
15-Wendell Willkie

 

[wire chief]

5-Tonya Harding and Jeff Gilhooley
6-George Marshall
9-Cao Ky
15-Wendell Willkie

BH, take the length of my blanks seriously, and note that "Ky" is too short for the spaces I left.

 

[pinotbear]

1. "I could have danced all night", My Fair Lady, or, if you prefer, Pygmallion
3. "For tyranny to succeed, all that is required.."
11. Nambia?

 

[Bigboote]

1..I could have danced all night, My Fair Lady

4..avocado

5..A current movie title refers to a skater of questionable character(?) and her evil husband(?).

6..Marshall for the Marshall Plan?

7..A pun is specifically a word or phrase that uses words of the same or similar sounds, but rearranged -- There was a host of jokes going around a few decades ago that revolved around "Boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo,. One punch line I remember is "Roy is that the cat that chewed your new shoes." A play on words is much broader, but still involves the words being the centerpiece of the wit.

8..John Paul II?

10..Going around the world submerged?

11..Namibia?

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
4. IRA
5. I, Tonya about Tonya Harding and her husband Jeff Gillooley
6. Marshall
7. I am going to go out on a limb and say that there is no difference.
9. Van Khuy
11. China

 

[chj001]

1. "I could have danced all night", My Fair Lady, or, if you prefer, Pygmallion

I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that, because Pygmallion was a play and NOT a musical, the quoted words were not written by GB Shaw for Pygmallion but were written by the incomparable Alan Lerner for "My Fair Lady."

 

[SVCBeercats]

1..I could have danced all night – My Fair Lady

4..Avocado

5..Tonya Harding and Jeff Hooligan

6..General George C. Marshall

7..Play-on-words are funny. Puns are painful.

9..Nguyen Van Thieu

 

[Rocket009]

2..People from the Basque region of Spain

5..Tanya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.

6..George Marshall

8..John Paul II

 

[wire chief]

1..Pinot leads a foursome with 2 left feet, actually 8 left feet.

2..Rocket has the mountain folk, which also covers part of France.

3..Pinot and Big have the gist of it.

4..Big, showing expertise in fruit.

5..All of you make contributions here. BTW, added to their infamy, Jeff released a recording of their wedding night sex,
for money, of course.

6..You all know about General George.

7..Word play - Wikipedia

8..Big rockets into fame with John Paul2, or Rocket is Big on John Paul 2.

9..SVC is alone here...as he often is when the wife goes to the movies.

10..The first to touch down in Antarctica by air.

11..Pinot needs to buy a syllable, and he finds it among Big's holdings. VAUC moves cheetahs to the far east.

12..He secretly knows the faith.

13..No need to quibble over ball's trouble with numbers, cause he is correct about Willkie.

And so we move on soon to #538