OT: General knowledge test #545A

[wire chief]

Please no research, no politics, no hitting "reply".

1..Location and fame of Frenchman Flat?

2..Who's _____ Now? By Connie Francis, then by Journey.

3..TV commercial:
Make sure I have enough towels.
Towels?!

4..In what decade did Congress forbid further import of slaves?

5.."Those happy hours I spent with you; that lovely afterglow."

6..A fungus allied with an algae produces..?.

7..The Decatur Staleys became..?.

8..The Victorian Cross was first awarded in 1856 during what war?

9..Relate the tale that led to "sour grapes".

10..Provide 6 synonyms for "but".

11..What WNBA team has 2 players from Italia?

12..From across the pond come 2 Wallanders, in 2 different languages(?).

13..The Edgar Award is presented by what organization?

 

[Puppy Love]

2. Crying

9. The Grapes of Wrath

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Sorry
4. 1830's
6. Chlorophyl
7. The Green Bay Packers
8. 100 Years War
10. However, besides, conversely, still, nevertheless, yet
11. Minnesota Lynx
13. The Poe Society

 

[SVCBeercats]

2..Who's sorry Now?

6..Lichen – every year our local Master Gardener program (Penn State Extension) receives numerous calls from concerned gardeners about a disease on their trees. The majority of them describe lichen or send pictures of lichen. A few have a hard time believing their trees are not being damaged by the presence of the lichen.

8.. Crimean War

13.. Mystery Writers of America

 

[meyers7]

4. 1830's
7. Chicago Bears Halas coached both
8. Crimean War

 

[k9fanatic]

2. Crying
8. Crimean War

 

[huskyrob1]

2) sorry
8) Crimean War

 

[OneTrickPony]

2. Crying
8. Crimean...maybe more
9. Fox and the Grapes (Aesop)
12. Henning Mankell's character Kurt

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

8 - Crimean War
13 - Mystery Writers of America, I believe. That one is a crossword puzzle staple.

 

[McFly]

2. sorry
5. I miss you so

 

[ed4ourgirls]

4. 1809?

 

[SVCBeercats]

9. Fox and the Grapes (Aesop)

Good get! I can't believe I did not remember this. I was such an Aesop Fables freak as a kid.

 

[SVCBeercats]

4. 1809?

Sorry! 1809 is not a decade. Where is your proper detail? Did you not know this is a blue book test? Try again.

His Eminence

 

[wire chief]

1..Military in 1951.

4..SVC being a dingbat. His Eminence never takes one to task for being too specific.

9..And then the same dingbat heaps ill conceived praise on Pony for a response that does not answer the question.
Where is the tale that explains "sour"?

3..This is said to the now disgraced Steve Wynn at his Vegas hotel. The speaker?

12..Well, yes, he is Kurt, and I will be curt to demand the 2 languages.

2..Then we have a gaggle of posters, who only know one of the 2 songs and fail to say which song goes
with which artist. It's no wonder I must do lots of drugs.

And which one of you has kidnapped Bigboote?

 

[OneTrickPony]

9..And then the same dingbat heaps ill conceived praise on Pony for a response that does not answer the question.
Where is the tale that explains "sour"?

 

[Bigboote]

[when I tried to respond last night the board was having issues. I haven't peeked.]

1..Nevada, A-bomb test site.

4..1830's

6..A really slippery front stoop for those of us living on wooded plots

7..Chicago Bears

8..Crimean War

10..yet, however, nevertheless . . .

12..These were detective books. They were made into a few series by the BBC with Colin Firth. Presumably they were also made into series or movies in the original (Swedish, Norwegian?)

13..Mystery Writers of America

 

[McFly]

2. I assumed from the way it's phrased that it was the same song, performed by Connie, then by Journey, who or whatever that is. You can't seriously expect anyone familiar with Connie Francis to know or care about Journey, can you?

 

[SVCBeercats]

2. I assumed from the way it's phrased that it was the same song, performed by Connie, then by Journey, who or whatever that is. You can't seriously expect anyone familiar with Connie Francis to know or care about Journey, can you?

Yeah, His Eminence's phrasing leaving much to be desired. Give him a break he does sip a bit while concocting these quizzes.

 

[wire chief]

1..The explosive Big is heard all the way to central Florida.

2..Well, another chance to remind all that "assume" makes an ass out of u. McFly, I think not. More like McStumble.
I am not alone in knowing both Ms. Francis and Journey, so SVC's pale attempt to make an ass out of me backfires
on his constipated self.

3..Sinatra

4..Ed4, a more serious chap than one I can name, is merely 2 years too late.
Methinks some of you confused the event with the decade that Britain made the slave trade illegal.

5..McFly owns up to knowing more than one song.

6..SVC, who shares near-identical DNA with lichen, plants his crop.

7..Meyers and Big score a TD.

8..K9 leads a bushel load with the Crimean War.

9..Technically, Pony, you presented "research". If you knew the answer, you could have given it to us in a concise sentence all your own.

10..VAUC gives the impression he could have gone on and on. Am I to believe the rest of you are a calamity
among English speakers?
BTW a synonym can be a phrase also. One could use "On the other hand" or "That said" e.g.

11..VAUC again showing his affection for the Lynx...or maybe just Italian women.

12..Swedish originally, then in English with Kenneth Branagh. Big is close, but he never mastered telling British actors apart,
which is why he was transported to America.

13..Knights, Big and SVC are Writers in America who solved the Mystery.

 

[SVCBeercats]

so SVC's pale attempt to make an ass out of me backfires
on his constipated self.

So petty! For shame!

 

[Bigboote]

2. I assumed from the way it's phrased that it was the same song, performed by Connie, then by Journey, who or whatever that is. You can't seriously expect anyone familiar with Connie Francis to know or care about Journey, can you?

I'm with Chief on this one. I'm not crazy about Journey's popular stuff (I do like their earlier albums), but you can't deny their success. They were inducted into the RnR hall of fame last year based on an online public vote, so obviously quite a few people have heard of them. If you're of the Connie Francis generation, there's no reason you can't listen to later music. I grew up in the 60's and listen to Duke Ellington and Robert Johnson as well as All Them Witches and Somali Yacht Club (both bands launched in the 2010's).

By the way, Gregg Rolie was a founding member of both Santana and Journey. He's one of the few multiple inductees to the RnR HoF. (I just had to get a bit of trivia into my post.)

 

[McFly]

5..McFly owns up to knowing more than one song.

Yes, but they are both from the same era. After which I grew up, outgrowing, among other things, the music of my youth, as I assumed (there's that word again) I was supposed to do. And the really dumb part, that others would too. Which really does make an ass out of me.

 

[Puppy Love]

Really need a quiz that mere mortals can pass...

 

[SVCBeercats]

Really need a quiz that mere mortals can pass...

It is a team event.

 

[meyers7]

2..Then we have a gaggle of posters, who only know one of the 2 songs and fail to say which song goes
with which artist. It's no wonder I must do lots of drugs.

If you are asking who is crying, that would be Jamie.

 

[Bigboote]

5..McFly owns up to knowing more than one song.

Yes, but they are both from the same era. After which I grew up, outgrowing, among other things, the music of my youth, as I assumed (there's that word again) I was supposed to do. And the really dumb part, that others would too. Which really does make an ass out of me.

McFly, I hope I didn't come across as picking on you. Truth is, most people don't really pick up much new music after around the age of 20.

 

[McFly]

McFly, I hope I didn't come across as picking on you. Truth is, most people don't really pick up much new music after around the age of 20.

Not at all. I took it as sticking up for a friend, which is admirable. His Worshipfullness, on the other hand....
I suppose I should use emojis, or emoticons or smileys, whatever they're called around here. I obviously have a problem communicating subtle shades with words. It's just that I find them trite, and frankly, juvenile.
My new music has devolved over the years to the point that it's now practically Medieval.

 

[Bigboote]

. . . My new music has devolved over the years to the point that it's now practically Medieval.

You're a better man than I -- my taste doesn't get much earlier than Bach, Handel, and Telemann. (I also tried learning the Renaissance flute and dropped that.)