OT: General knowledge test #554A

[wire chief]

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

1..When Israel declared independence in 1948, 5 countries(?) attacked.

2..ID Junko Tabai.

4..What's the 1996 Megan's Law?

5.."Gonna use my eyes; gonna use my legs."

6..Betty, Jim and Tim.

7..Since 1922 what tournament occurs annually in Wildwood, NJ

8..The 1st Best Picture Oscar (1927) goes to..?

9..The states crossed by I-75?

10..Who founds his own school, the Lyceum?

11.."There is moonlight and moss in the trees down.."?

12..Famous Celtic just completes a one night hospital visit.

13..Singer's name combines a fig with a beverage.

 

[Zanzman]

5 brass in pockets
12 bill Russell

 

[Zanzman]

13 juice newton

 

[SVCBeercats]

1.. Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq

2.. Junko Tabai is the most recent #1 junior college transferee to U of So. Carolina

4.. The 1996 Megan's Law was initially a federal law which generated state laws by the same name. This law requires law enforcement organizations to publically release information about registered sex offenders.

10.. Aristotle founds his own school, the Lyceum.

12.. Bill Russell

 

[pinotbear]

9. Let's see.. FL, GA, a tiny sliver of Alabama I think, TN, KY, OH, and MI

 

[ed4ourgirls]

8. Wings

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

4 - Megan's Law - reporting where sex offenders live after they are released from prison. Relates to a murder in Camden or Trenton area of NJ I think. Might have first been a law in NJ?
12 - Bill Russell

 

[VAUConnFan]

1. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Libya, Lebanon
4. Required persons convicted of sex crimes to be placed on a sex offenders registry and that sex offenders registry be made public.
8. Sunrise
9. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas
12. Bill Russell
13. Juice Newton

 

[meyers7]

5. Brass in Pocket - Miss Chrissy Hynde, The Pretenders
9. Starts in FL, through Atlanta, GA, through Tennessee, Kentucky, into Ohio, and I think into Michigan. (or it starts in the north and goes south )
11. down the Seven Bridges Road - Eagles covered it. Not sure who wrote it.

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. Marbles

 

[wire chief]

2..Female mountaineer who..?

6..Annie Get Your Gun, Where the Boys Are, Ordinary People

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Climbed to the peak of Mt Everest
6. Betty Comden, Jim Green(although, I believe the Ms Comden's writing partner is Adolph Green), Tim Rice.

 

[Bama fan]

5. Brass in Pocket - Miss Chrissy Hynde, The Pretenders
9. Starts in FL, through Atlanta, GA, through Tennessee, Kentucky, into Ohio, and I think into Michigan. (or it starts in the north and goes south )
11. down the Seven Bridges Road - Eagles covered it. Not sure who wrote it.

Steve Young wrote it. Only reason why I know that is that I worked with a fellow named Steve Young, and it was a standing joke he told.

 

[meyers7]

Steve Young wrote it. Only reason why I know that is that I worked with a fellow named Steve Young, and it was a standing joke he told.

He didn't make a joke about playing football?

 

[Bama fan]

He didn't make a joke about playing football?

No he is a Brit, and they think American football is ,by its very nature, a joke.

 

[Zanzman]

Come on how many people only have one pocket

 

[VAUConnFan]

7. That was a straight up guess.

 

[wire chief]

7. That was a straight up guess.

Au contraire. faithful companion, it was intuition.

 

[meyers7]

No he is a Brit, and they think American football is ,by its very nature, a joke.

Ahhh.

 

[meyers7]

5..Zanz thinks Chrissy has more pockets than she does. Nevertheless, we welcome him or her to our party.
Rocket provides the Pretenders. I might have given Meyers some credit, but not until he drops his irrationality about the Williams Sisters.

Never!

11..Dammit, he's all alone here, so I must cite Meyers.

13..VAUC & Zanz deduce Juice Newton. Did her folks really name her that?

Judy Kay Newton