OT: General knowledge test #553A

[wire chief]

Do not press "reply". No research; no politics please.

1.._____ _____ & the _____ ________ ____ capture Fort Ti.

2..Promontary Utah significance?

3..The 3 most common rabies carriers?

4..In 1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to assume what post?

5..Where and when is Adolph Eichmann captured?

6..The saga of Daniel Ellsberg?

7..What is the French mint especially known for in 1998?

8..For a time what big pop singer played Ally Mc Beal's boy friend on the show?

9..THE BODYGUARD stars and hit song?

10..Our most popular baby names in 2017?

11..Every 19 minutes a senior citizen dies from..?.

12..Because at one time people were buying Jello, but leaving it in the pantry instead of eating it,
advertisers gave us this song line: ___ a _____ ___ _______.

13..NORAD stands for?

 

[dogged1]

2. completion of transcontinental rail road

3. dogs, cats, raccoons

4. Governor-general

9. Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner; And I, will always love you

10. Liam, Emma

11. heart failure

13. ?North American Radar Defense

 

[Gamecockfan77]

1. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. Sounds like one mean bluegrass band.

4. Governor

5. Argentina?

8. Jon Bon Jovi

9. Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston "I will Always Love You" cover of Dolly Parton song that originally appeared in (movie version) "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

10. Expecting second in July. Wife was reading names out ... Is it Emma for girls? Can't place any of the boy names which is what we are having.

 

[CajunHusky]

2..Is that where East and West trans continental railroad met - the Golden Spike

5..Early 60's in Argentina

 

[SVCBeercats]

1.. Presumably Fort Ticonderoga which was captured by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys.

2.. Promontory, Utah was the site of the completion of the First Continental Railroad.

3.. Skunks, raccoons, bats

4.. In 1647 Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to assume the post of Governor.

5.. Adolph Eichmann was captured in Argentina, tried in Israel, and executed there at the end of a rope.

6.. Daniel Ellsberg made public the Pentagon Papers.

13.. NORAD stands for North American Aerospace Defense Command

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. ???, Green Mountain Boys
2. Where the golden spike was struck connecting the first US transcontinental railroad shortly after the Civil War(would love to provide the year and am sure 1868 would come within 5 years. Hell On Wheels, if factually correct, has Ulysses S Grant as the President at the time)
3. Bats, skunks, raccoons
4. Governor of New Amsterdam(New York)
5. Argentina, 1958
6. Daniel Ellsburg was responsible for the release of the Pentagon papers which depicted the lies the government was peddling about the conduct and outcome of the Vietnam War. President Nixon, in an effort to discredit Ellsburg, had the office of his psychiatrist broken into to obtain medical records.
7. Minting a DeGalle coin.
8. Andy Gibb
9. Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, the overplayed hit "I Will always Love You", written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton.
11. Being a senior citizen
11. cancer
13. North American Aerospace Defense Command based in Cheyenne Mountain CO

 

[Bigboote]

3..Raccoon, skunk, rat?

9..Whitney Houston, I will always love you

13..North American Aerospace Defense

 

[wire chief]

4..New Amsterdam is the CITY. Of what is he governor?

 

[Rocket009]

4..New Amsterdam is the CITY. Of what is he governor?

 

[wire chief]

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So classy; so unhelpful

 

[SVCBeercats]

4..New Amsterdam is the CITY. Of what is he governor?

New Netherlands

 

[wire chief]

3..Scratch bats and rats & cats. These are not a few of my favorite things. When the dog bites... and scratch dog too.

11..More guesses please

7..It affected most of Europe and persists to this day.

 

[Rocket009]

3. Cayotes?

 

[Rocket009]

11. Alzheimers

 

[Rocket009]

7. Printing the Euro?

 

[dogged1]

3. well it has to be a mammal, if bats, rats, cats and dogs are out; then raccoons, foxes, coyotes?

11. a variation on heart failure? myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, cardiac arrest?

7. raging socialism. yes, I'm kidding. I have no clue.

 

[wire chief]

3. well it has to be a mammal, if bats, rats, cats and dogs are out; then raccoons, foxes, coyotes?

11. a variation on heart failure? myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, cardiac arrest?

7. raging socialism. yes, I'm kidding. I have no clue.

3..OK on those a few mentioned that I did not censure, raccoons and skunks. Your "foxes" completes the 3some.

 

[dogged1]

11. By implication, heart failure, cancer and alzheimer's are out. Stroke or blood clot?
Is rampant guessing bad form?

 

[wire chief]

11. By implication, heart failure, cancer and alzheimer's are out. Stroke or blood clot?
Is rampant guessing bad form?

O'er the rampants we watched were so gallantly streaming. Keep on streaming!

 

[dogged1]

Rampant ramparts, Francis must be standing on his hind legs.
Despite your avatar, methinks you have a wicked mind.
We have all been thinking natural causes such as disease or other age related illness. Would an accidental death be closer to home?

 

[VAUConnFan]

11. Stroke

 

[VAUConnFan]

4. governor of the Dutch East India Company

 

[Bama fan]

#11. They die from attempting to solve overly complicated online quizzes! It's the big one ,Elizabeth.

 

[wire chief]

Rampant ramparts, Francis must be standing on his hind legs.
Despite your avatar, methinks you have a wicked mind.
We have all been thinking natural causes such as disease or other age related illness. Would an accidental death be closer to home?

A specific kind of accident, yes...and all humans have a dark side, even Fulton J. Remember when Billy Joel told you that?

 

[SVCBeercats]

A specific kind of accident, yes...and all humans have a dark side, even Fulton J. Remember when Billy Joel told you that?

Death from falling