OT: General knowledge test #551A

[wire chief]

Remember, no politics, no research, no hitting "reply" please.

1..Amadeus has nuptials on his mind. So state.

2..What's the only state that has an opioid tax os drug mfrs?

3..In '94 Nelson Mandela defeats whom for the presidency?

4..What's the bad news coming out of Yuma recently?

5..The Harvey Schmidt/ Tom Jones production ran 42 years on B'way?

6..Author"? Their Eyes Were Watching God.

7..What famously happened in Haymarket Sq in 1886?

8.."Damn Yankees" is based on..?

9..This mammal has an exclusive order, the tubulidentata. We know it as..?

10..Who just hit his 3000th?

11..Who is the French Prez who opens the Chunnel?

12..Lisa Wingate's best seller--______ __ Were _____.

13.."Not good guests" sing "Place of lit bulbs". Say what?

 

[pinotbear]

10. Albert Puljos

 

[SVCBeercats]

1.. The Marriage of Figaro

3.. F.W. de Klerk?

4.. Romaine lettuce with E. Coli

5.. Fantasticks

10.. Albert Pujols

11.. Mitterrand

 

[meyers7]

1. Marriage of Figaro
3. DeClerc?
7. The Haymarket Affair. Bombing at a Workers Rally in Chicago.

 

[heavyhusky]

1. The Marriage of Figaro

3. F.W. de Klerk

4. E. Coli in Romaine lettuce

5. Fantasticks

6. Zora Neale Hurston

9. Aardvark ?

10. Albert Pujols

11. Mitterrand

 

[k9fanatic]

6. Zora Neal Hurston
7. Riot broke out after a bombing at a labor demonstration
9. Aardvark
12. Before We Were Yours

 

[Gamecockfan77]

3. De Klerk?
6. Nora Zeale Hurston
8. I think you are going for Dr. Faustus here. Long suffering Washington Senator's fan makes a deal with the devil to leave his wife and home to become a baseball slugger and help the Senator's win the pennant. I forget the details but he gets out of it at the last moment and I believe the Senators still do get the pennant.
10. Albert Pujols -- lowest drafted player to ever reach 3000.
11. Chirac

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Ohio
3. DeKlerk
4. Horses dying of thirst
7. A riot at a labor rally
8. The 1927 New York Yankees, considered among the greatest of all time.
10. Albert Pujols. One of four with 3000 hits and 600 home runs. the others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and A Rod.
12. When We Were Colored

 

[Bigboote]

1..Marriage of Figaro

3..de Klerk

5..The Fantasticks, AFAIK, it was off-Broadway

6..Zora Neale Hurston

7..There was a demonstration by workers protesting working conditions/working hours; the response was deadly.

10..Albert Pujolz

11..Mitterand

 

[wire chief]

1..It's a Heavy Foursome warbling with Figaro.

2..The Empire State

3..Meyers was lusting for an éclair, but 5 others got it right.

4..SVC and heavy note the sickness in 27 states. VAUC hears a different drummer--the hoof beats in his own head.

5..Perhaps, Big, but does the distinction play in Peoria?

6..K9 & 3 merry men get this.

7..Big Quartet report on the noise.

8..Later than that VAUC, cause it mirrors a book THE YEAR THE YANKEES LOST THE PENNANT.

9..Heavy and K9 know all there is about the enemies of ants.

10..Game and VAUC add info. Pinot learns to spell after reading others.

11..Heavy, SVC & Big denote him.

12..K9 is literate. Ms. SVC out shopping.

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