OT: General knowledge test #559A

[wire chief]

Don't hit "reply" please, nor discuss politics nor do research.

1..ID Dimitri Mendeleev.

2..In French history what is known as the "Flight to Varennes"?

3..The # of Canadian provinces and territories?

4..English speakers are in battle with the predominant French speakers in which African nation?

5..Who leads the soccer world with 109 international goals?

6..In 1943 she(?) was the 1st woman to be awarded the Soldiers Medal for Bravery.

7.."Take one fresh and tender kiss.
Add one stolen night of bliss.
One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy.."?

8..Vicyoria's reign begins in 1837, when her uncle (?) dies.

9..Alain and Gerard Wertheimer own what corporation?

10..What was the mutiny on the Discovery?

11..Joe Louis' 1st championship was vs...?

12..A favorite Japanese leisure activity, the onsen(?).

13..Who is the charwoman?

 

[DriveLH]

7. " Memories are made of this." Dean Martin

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

1. And I hope I'm not crazy - I think he created the periodic table of elements. I was a chem major - but it has been 40 years, I didn't go into my field of study.
3. Just a guess for this - 13?
8. Her uncle was a William, maybe William IV. He was a brother of the previous king, George IV.
13. The cleaning lady, I think - across the pond.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

1. Monk who learned a lot about genetics by experimenting with plants.
2. When Louis XVI attempted to flee Paris with Queen and son.
3. 13. Don't ask me to name them despite all the sporcle quizzes

I got cocky, but I'm done after 3.

 

[SVCBeercats]

1. Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russki chemist, created the periodic table of elements ordered by relative atomic mass. He also determined the atomic mass of the missing elements and their properties. When a new element was discovered, lo and behold, it possessed the atomic mass and properties as predicted by Mendeleev.

2. The "Flight to Varennes" was a failed escape by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the increasing violence of the French Revolution.

5. I know nothing of soccer except two names, Ronaldo and Messi. I guess Ronaldo is the correct answer.

7. OMG! I know a music question!!! “Memories are Made of This” was sung by lots of people but none better than Dean Martin.

11. James J. Braddock

13. Other than the obvious a woman employed to clean house; THE Charwoman was Carol Burnett.

 

[k9fanatic]

3. 17
4. Algeria?

 

[Bama fan]

#4 Cameroon

 

[Bigboote]

1..Mendeleev identified some patterns of behavior in the elements, which led to the first version of the periodic table.

3..Ten provinces, three territories.

5..Nobody, Abby Wambach has 184. I believe she scored more than 109 just with her head. Oh, you're probably talking MEN's soccer.

12..Community baths (thanks to my daughter, the nipponophile).

13..The charwoman was the main character in Lord Dunsany's "The Charwoman's Shadow." A charwoman is a cleaning woman.

 

[wire chief]

1..Mendeleev identified some patterns of behavior in the elements, which led to the first version of the periodic table.

3..Ten provinces, three territories.

5..Nobody, Abby Wambach has 184. I believe she scored more than 109 just with her head. Oh, you're probably talking MEN's soccer.

12..Community baths (thanks to my daughter, the nipponophile).

13..The charwoman was the main character in Lord Dunsany's "The Charwoman's Shadow." A charwoman is a cleaning woman.

5..OK, OK, I'm talking men's; frightfully sexist of me.

 

[wire chief]

1..Knights starts 4 describing the chemist and periodic table,
I just love it when VAUC goes WAGging.

2..Game & SVC report that the revolutionaries simply followed the trail of cake crumbs.

3..Big with the wherewithal to specify each. K9 observes that the Canadians, following China's tactics, filled in some atolls to give themselves 4 more territories.

4..How many Bama fans know this? One anyway.

5..You wouldn't expect an Iranian, would you? Ali Daei.

6..Lt. Edith Greenwood

7..SVC still hyperventilating over his serendipitous light bulb. Drive on board too.

8..Well, you'd expect the Knighted to know English history, no?

9..If a narrow waterway had on less "n".

10..Well, it was Henry Hudson's 3rd and last ship. Then what happened?

11..VAUC, taking a WAGging break; SVC types, despite his petit mal.

12..Big on good terms with his daughter. I wonder how she'd do with questions on Mongolia?

13..Cleaning lady, maid will do, as 4 so write.

You missed 4; you can salvage 2.

I shall mow before getting to part "B" I'll be very sweaty, when I next type.

 

[Bigboote]

9. Chanel

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

10. Henry Hudson was set adrift in what I suppose they now call Hudson's Bay - or somewhere up there, anyhow. The crew mutinied because they were not finding a Northwest Passage, IIRC, I may not. In any case, I certainly didn't know the name of the ship. I do know that was the end of Hendrik.

 

[wire chief]

Big & knights both correct.