OT: General lnowledge test #548A

[wire chief]

Happy earth day.
No research, no politics, no hitting "reply". Thank you.

1..Which friend-of-earth organization puts out a magazine called ODYSSEY?

2..In 1953 Oveta Culp Hobby is installed as 1st..?

3..The 1st "best actor" going to a black man was to..? for what flic?

4..Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel?

5..NineteenthC essayist (Elia, Tales from Shakespeare) has an appendage(?) better known than is he.

6..The presented play where Abe was shot?

7..MacBeth can't die by any man born of woman. Explain.

8..The Spanish for "Germany"?

9..What are known as the "Galilean Satellites"?

10..Which nationwide chain had it start in Des Plaines?

11..In 1817 Hartford establishes the 1st school for..? in the nation.

12..Who played Benny and Joon...and Sam?

13..Selous Game Reserve in..? is known as "ground zero" for elephant poaching.

 

[SVCBeercats]

3.. Sidney Poitier in Lilies Of The Field

4.. Casino Royale

6.. Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

9.. Ganymede, Io, Callisto and Europa are the four largest moons of Jupiter.

10.. McDonald’s

 

[VAUConnFan]

3. Sidney Poitier - Lilies of the Field (1963)
4. To Live and Let Die
6. The American Cousin
10. McDonald's
12. Johnny Depp
13. Zimbabwe

 

[Zorro]

7. "Dispair thy charm! McDuff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped."
8) Allemenia

 

[k9fanatic]

11. The Blind

 

[Bigboote]

3..Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field

4..Casino Royale

5..Charles Lamb -- did he have a really big nose?

8..Alleman~a?

9..The moons of Jupiter, which Galileo saw with his (the first) telescope

12..Johnny Depp, . . .(Angelina Jolie?)

 

[meyers7]

6. Our American Cousin (in Ford's Theatre)
10. Kroc's McDonalds. The McDonald's McDonalds had been around for awhile out in CA.
11. I know there's American School for the Deaf there (a friend's child went there), don't know when it was founded though.
12. Aiden Quinn, ?? Masterson, Johnny Depp and Juliane Moore. Great movie.

 

[dogged1]

7. the man who killed Macbeth (McDuff?) was "untimely ripped from womb" if I recall the quote correctly. In other words he was not born of woman by normal delivery but by C section, nearly unheard of at the time

 

[wire chief]

1..Greenpeace

2..Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare

3..SVC, VAUC & Big, though preferring to tiptoe through the tulips.

4..SVC & Big arrived in a Jaguar, but could only leave in a Greyhound.

5..Nose of Lamb never became a thing, ah, but consider leg of Lamb.

6..Meyers and SVC are most precise, but an article rather than a possessive adjective ensnares VAUC fatally.

7..Welcome, dogged, you are truly a dog with a womb. Zorro, without the dramatics.

8..Zorro & Big have always been a little off, in thus case it's Alemania. Now, Big is showing the
usual disdain of a Brit in knowing anything precisely about the continent. Zorro's neighbors told him, but left the spelling
up to him.

9..Big and SVC, with the latter providing names and Big explaining why they are linked to Galileo.

10..When Meyers speaks. I always think he' giving us a Kroc of, um, chopped meat.

11..Meyers again pinpointing school for deaf.

12..God, Meyers still again?! Can't get rid of the lad. I know he was tempted to write "Bat" Masterson,
given his penchant for goofiness. Anyway, he's got it all, except for Mary Stuart...

13..Tanzania

 

[SVCBeercats]

9..The moons of Jupiter, which Galileo saw with his (the first) telescope

The first person to construct a telescope was Hans Lippershey. Galileo's contribution to the telescope was to vastly improve it magnification. Galileo had a better grasp of optics. He probably was the first to use it to gaze upon the stars and planets. Hans was still bird watching -- no, not the feathered kind.

 

[meyers7]

10..When Meyers speaks. I always think he' giving us a Kroc of, um, chopped meat.

When it comes to McDonald's, unfortunately for my heart and waist, I have had much experience. (not so much anymore though)

12..God, Meyers still again?! Can't get rid of the lad. I know he was tempted to write "Bat" Masterson,
given his penchant for goofiness. Anyway, he's got it all, except for Mary Stuart...

Ah Mary Stuart, that's it. I could only come up with Sarah and Beth, which weren't even close. Oh and Cindy, I dated a Cindy Masterson many, many years ago.

 

[Bigboote]

The first person to construct a telescope was Hans Lippershey. Galileo's contribution to the telescope was to vastly improve it magnification. Galileo had a better grasp of optics. He probably was the first to use it to gaze upon the stars and planets. Hans was still bird watching -- no, not the feathered kind.

My bad; I'd forgotten about him.