OT: General knowledge test #577A

[wire chief]

No game until Sunday. Plenty of time to do this.
Remember, no politics, no research, no hitting "reply".

1..Nickname was "Ivy Mike". What?

2..Nation of the Komodo dragon?

3..In 1903 this nation splits into..?

4..A UConn defensive strategy or certain clothing?

5..Three albums by well known singer: Warm; Open Fire, Two Guitars; Good Night, Dear Lord.

6..Where is the Pelagie Archipelagro? Country?

7..The Romans called this place(?) Aquae Sulis.

8.."You may fire when ready, Gridley."

9..Explain England's "Gunpowder Plot".

10..In the 1956 Israel-Egypt conflict, which 2 European countries sent forces?

11..Link Spencer Kimball and Ezra Taft Benson.

12..In a small Asian Indian village women took turns wearing its one fancy outfit, and Connie Francis was in charge of distribution. So she would ask, "?

13..The country west of the Congo, on the Gulf of Guinea?

 

[Gamecockfan77]

2. Indonesia.

Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, and Robert Downey, Jr. know.

5. Johnny Mathis.

7. An educated guess says the Roman baths at Bath.

9. Guy Fawkes tries to blow up Parliament but sadly I have no idea why and think it had something to do with Natalie Portman? Maybe not.

12. Ugh, another Sari pun.

 

[pinotbear]

2. Sumatra

8. Battle of Manila, American Admiral (Farragut?) to his gunnery officer

 

[Bama fan]

1. hydrogen bomb project codename
2. Indonesia?
6. Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Tunisia. Italy claims it. greeks named it
7.city of Bath in England
8. Battle of Manila Bay. orders from Dewey
9. Catholic plot against James and parliament. Guy Fawkes Day was Nov 5. He tried to blow the parliament building up and kill James I
10. U.K. and France
11. Mormon leaders in the 50's?
12. Whose sari now . Ugh!
13. Cameroon or Gabon

 

[Bama fan]

4. Is Geno going to the pants 'em defense? Embarrassing, but effective!

 

[SVCBeercats]

1. "Ivy Mike" is the moniker used to refer to the first nuclear fusion bomb test. The overall effort was Operation Ivy.
2. Indonesia
7. Bath, England

 

[wire chief]

So, Bama, you denigrate with an "ugh!" But let's look at who is responsible for putting "sari" in my head.
I was content thinking Kashmir sweater until you came along with your totally inappropriate response.
So like the proverbial, "Don't think of pink elephants", that garment is now in my head irremovable, and I want Boneyarders like Game to know where the ire should be directed. So, Bama, who's sari now?

 

[Bigboote]

2..Indonesia

9..It had something to do with Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Parliament

12..Whose Sari Now?

13..Gabon

 

[Bama fan]

So, Bama, you denigrate with an "ugh!" But let's look at who is responsible for putting "sari" in my head.
I was content thinking Kashmir sweater until you came along with your totally inappropriate response.
So like the proverbial, "Don't think of pink elephants", that garment is now in my head irremovable, and I want Boneyarders like Game to know where the ire should be directed. So, Bama, who's sari now?

I got in your head ,not you in mine. Ugh it is Chief. And what is with the "denigrate" ? Not my intention to denigrate, just expressing my disappointment in your ' my brain can't flush ' problem. Hate to see a good man encumbered. Good quiz, by the way , for a guy whose brain is stuck in second! keep on , my friend.

 

[VAUConnFan]

2. Indonesia
4. Permanent Press
6. Off the Straits of Magellan, Chile
13. Guinea-Bassau

 

[wire chief]

1..Bama & SVC locate the Big Bang. No Sheldon at the time.

2..Unbeknowst to the rest of us, Pinot advises that Sumatra is now a country. Oh well, at least he gives good graphics. The Big Quartet answers properly.

3..Um, you know about the Canal, no?

4..Only VAUC appreciates my cognitive skills.

5..Game is crooning.

6..Bama has it.

7..Romans splashing around in England's only mineral springs, as you write.

8..Pinot and Bama mention the time McKinley was messin' with the Philippines.

9..Game, Bama & Big remember Guy Fawkes. Bama with the best detail.

10..It was UK & France, as Bama points out.

11.Yes, Bama, successive Prezzes.

12..I am signaling out Big for the mature way he handled this question, unlike some people I know.

13..And Big rightly names Gabon. Bama is less sure, as is so often the case.

 

[Bama fan]

I will accept that Big is more mature; and I think permanent press was a master stroke . Kudos to you and VAUC! But I contend that you are unlucky with 13. Both Gabon and Cameroon are to contiguous to ,and west of the Republic of the Congo. And there is also a country named The Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was truly unsure of your question, not of the answer. As is often the case. But again, permanent press was really good!

 

[wire chief]

I will accept that Big is more mature; and I think permanent press was a master stroke . Kudos to you and VAUC! But I contend that you are unlucky with 13. Both Gabon and Cameroon are to contiguous to ,and west of the Republic of the Congo. And there is also a country named The Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was truly unsure of your question, not of the answer. As is often the case. But again, permanent press was really good!

Maps tend to display just Congo, but always display the other one as the Dem Rep of the Congo.

 

[Bama fan]

Maps tend to display just Congo, but always display the other one as the Dem Rep of the Congo.

Okay, but both are still west of and contiguous to just Congo. That is my reasoning for offering up one or the other. Gabon does have a longer shared border than does Cameroon. So it is perhaps the better answer, but not the only answer , Chief. Just sayin'