OT: General knowledge test #539A

[wire chief]

A week until Memphis? Don't let time drag. Do this.
Please no politics nor research, nor hitting "reply".

1..In what decade did we and Kia's land agree on standard time zones?

2..On 11/18/36 Italy and Germany acknowledge whose leadership?

3..Within 3 years when did the US Bishops allow eating meat on Fridays? Except?

4..Cops recognize 5 causes of death(?).

5..Explain "pass-through" business.

6..Why was the FBI's Media, Pa. office a cause of concern more than 4 decades ago?

7..In which century were Norway, Sweden and Denmark one kingdom?

8.."Or are we not seeing things too clear? Are we too much in love to hear?
Is it all...(?)..other?"

9..In 1996 Republicans once again choose whom to be Speaker of the House?

10..What organism produces more than 50% of our oxygen?

11..What was the Supreme Court's Booker Decision?

12..For his US debut, Caruso sang..?

13..Publisher of Life Mag. in 1936?

 

[Puppy Love]

4. Best guess...Accidental, Self Inflicted, Homicide, Natural Causes and Undetermined

 

[pinotbear]

oh, this is a WAG quiz, for sure..
2. Franco of Spain
9. Newt Gingrich
10. Plankton
13. Luce

 

[Bigboote]

3..1972(?), except during Lent

4..Natural, accidental, homicide, suicide, unknown

6..The Weathermen broke in and stole a bunch of files.

7..19th?

9..Newt Gingrich

10..phytoplankton

12..Marriage of Figaro?

13..Henry Luce

 

[huskyrob1]

10) Plankton
12) Pagliacci
13) Henry Luce

 

[Bigpetunia]

Pretty sure #12 is the Duke of Mantua. Thought you were going to ask the most important question: Where does one find the best barbecue in Memphis?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

1. 1870's

8. Is it all going in one ear and out the other.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

2. Francisco Franco
5. A pass through business is one in which there is no distinction between the income of the business and the income of the owner. Thus any income of the business is imputed to the owner and the owner pays taxes on the income at individual marginal rates. Typically you will see this with solo proprietorship, but you can elect pass through treatment in an llc as well. The alternative is when the business entity itself pays taxes on its income at corporate rates. The new tax bill cuts corporate income tax rates and apparently cuts tax rates on pass through income as well, with some exceptions.
9. Newt Gingrich
13. Luce?

 

[SVCBeercats]

2..Franco in Spain

3..1985

4.. accident, homicide, suicide, unknown, natural

5.. S-Corporations, partnerships, and sole proprietorships are "pass-through" businesses. The business’s income passes through to the owner. The owner must declare the income on their personal income tax return. The theory being the maximum tax an individual pays is less than maximum corporate tax. This may not be true with the new tax law’s maximum corporate rate of 22%. There is another business which is loosely referred to as a pass-through business. For example when selling to a federal government agency including military, it is desirable for both parties (Feds and vendor) to by-pass the compete regulations which open the sale to a competitive bid. In such a case the seller will seek out an 8A company which the Feds define as a minority owned business (race and/or gender). Sells from such a company don’t have to be opened to a competitive bid. The seller enlists the 8A as a reseller of their products and services. The sale may be worth say $3M. The 8A “sells” the products and collects a “commission” typically $150-200K plus some of their consultants would be engaged and they must “manage the project” at least on paper. There are a few more hoops but this is the gist.

6..Good old J Edgar Hoover collecting info on citizens particularly the left.

9.. Newt Gingrich

10..Algeae

 

[wire chief]

1..Ed4's excitement is just a touch premature--1883.

2..Not too WAGGY. Pinot. You got it right here, joined by SVC and Game.

3..Big went 6 years before he learned he could have had Friday flesh. After slapping himself on the side of his head, he laughed that SVC went 19 years.

4..Puppy heads a trio, who have it right. Big and SVC would argue that cliff-diving and too-much-sex should be separate categories.

5..I couldn't begin to analyze the windiness of Game and SVC. Just read them and marvel.

6..Yes,Big & SVC, and were never caught. The raid was an apparent antidote to J.Edgar's pursuit of all who disagreed with how the FBI head
thought things should be.

7..Throughout the 1500's.

8..No getting past Ed4 with decades old tunes. Song is HEY THERE, recorded by Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day et al. Mrs. SVC no help.

9..The eye (and other parts) of Newt. SVC, Game and the WAGGY Pinot.

10..Husky, Big, and the ever-dumbfounded Pinot.

11..In 2005 the Supremes imposed restrictions on judges vs. too lengthy sentences beyond the facts of a case.

12..Your 2 offerings won't suffice.. You leave me no choice but to PM rbny to set us straight.

13..How can they be guesses, when each one is correct, Pinot. You must be a humble man.
As a reward, you may eat meat on Friday, except, as Big says, during Lent. You lead a quartet.

 

[rbny1]

12. Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera.

 

[wire chief]

12. Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera.

And so it was.

 

[Bigpetunia]

And so it was.

And what role, pray tell? 'Twas the scurrilous Duke of Mantua!

 

[wire chief]

And what role, pray tell? 'Twas the scurrilous Duke of Mantua!

He's after Gilda...beware Rigoletto!