Yes, you should be careful googling perverts, cannibalism and "good feelings"

Answers to last week's trivia, although everyone who played along seemed to know these anyway:

1. Question: What enigmatic slang phrase, meaning "get lost," supposedly originated from cops shouting at perverts outside a New York landmark?

Answer: 23 Skidoo. Lots of theories behind this one, but this is my favorite (from Wikipedia):

New York City's Flatiron Building, on 23rd Street, is shaped as a triangle. This shape caused frequent winds, which would stir ladies' skirts, revealing ankles which, in the early years of the Twentieth Century, were seldom seen in public. Rogues would loiter around the Flatiron Building hoping for glimpses. Local constables, shooing such rogues away, were said to be giving them the 23 Skidoo.

2. Question: What was the quaint name for consensual cannibalism by stranded shipwreck survivors? It was sometimes used as a defense against subsequent murder charges.

Answer: The Custom of the Sea. This is the old cliche of drawing lots to determine who gets et. If you read the link, you'll see that it's important everyone agree to the lottery. If they don't, it's murder. A fine line.

3. Question: Which close friend of H.P. Lovecraft helped ensure the writer's works were published posthumously? This friend even finished some of Lovecraft's incomplete works.

Answer: August Derleth. He may be personally responsible for the survival of the Cthulhu Mythos, but dude was not a great writer. Lovecraft fans have to be careful, because there are "rare collections" of Lovecraft writings that were in fact story fragments fleshed out by Derleth.

4. Question: What coastal territory has been a point of political debate involving Britain and Spain since the two battled over it 300 years ago? It even led the Spanish king to snub Prince Charles quite publicly. Bonus: What was the snub?

Answer: Gibraltar. Geographically, it's the southern tip of Spain, which Spain feels is plenty of reason to annex it. But the Gibralterians (I made that up) are happy being a self-controlling British territory. The illustration with last week's questions was a painting of the 1607 Battle of Gibraltar, which actually involved the Dutch and the Spanish. (Wow, two references to the Eighty Years' War since the inception of this trivia challenge. Crazy...)

Bonus answer: The king of Spain boycotted Prince Charles' wedding to Diana because of...well, just read:

In 1981 it was announced that The Prince and Princess of Wales would fly to Gibraltar to board the Britannia as part of their honeymoon. In response, the Spanish King, Juan Carlos I refused to attend their wedding in London.

5. Question: What was the name given to a 9-year period in U.S. history when tension between political parties died down almost to the point of placidity? Of course, it exploded again in a big way, and then there was that whole Civil War thing...

Answer: The Era of Good Feelings.

Congrats to Greg for being the first to get them all right. Thanks to Dawn, Emily and Andrea for playing, too. Everyone did great. I apparently need to toughen these things up a bit.