OT: Test #435B

[wire chief]

14..Social scientist of a century ago Charles Cooley argued that people
a)imagine how we present ourselves to others
b)imagine how others see us
c)decide how we feel about b)
This process he called the _______ _____ Self.

15..The Dettifuss Waterfall in..? is Europe's most powerful.

16..'Tis the season in Rome for La Befana(?) and presepi(?).

17.."The sun stands still" is the literal Latin translation of ..?.

18.."It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star."

19..Orangutangs are naturally found in which 2 nations?

20..And speaking of that animal, how did it just make news in Argentina?

21..A partner of Harold Saffir, he(?) just passed at 102.

22..Phillip ____ Ira

23..In the video of Lionel Richie's "Hello" what are the 2 characteristics of the woman?

24..In early TV Eric Fleming is the star of the long-running..?.

25..Abe receives, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the ____ __ ________".

Do not wait and expect the answers to be found under your tree.

 

[VAUConnFan]

19. Malaysia and ???
20. One was freed from the zoo by court order, given rights
22. Roth
23. She was blind and gorgeous

 

[lne001]

24. Rawhide

 

[Waquoit]

14. Inner

 

[meyers7]

17. Well since you always do current things and the only thing current with the sun is the winter solstice. Maybe?
19. Asian so maybe China? Indonesia?
23. blind and single? blind and a student? blind and stalked?

 

[wire chief]

23..Stalked, single, gorgeous, student...hmm, you are overlooking what's right in front of your eyes, certainly more factual
than the words you are using.

14..I left space for 2 words, and neither is "inner".

 

[OneTrickPony]

17. solstice...

 

[mr006]

18 - "somewhere out there" - linda ronstadt (& james ingram???)

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

25. City of . . . Savannah, I think. Could have been Atlanta. It was one of them.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

19. Indonesia and Malaysia
25. City of Savannah.

 

[VAUConnFan]

23. She was blind and a sculptor

 

[wire chief]

23. She was blind and a sculptor

Wheooo, thanks for noticing.

 

[wire chief]

18..Well bless my soul, it's the return of James Bond's predecessor. It must be decades.
And you are right (it is Ingram).

 

[Volup1]

19. Indonesia and Malaysia.

 

[Wally East]

22. Phillip "and" Ira (Glass). The modernist composer and the host of This American Life are cousins.

 

[Dove]

17. solitude?
19. Borneo and Sumatra?
20. One was elected mayor of Buenos Aires?
23. She was an artiste...and blind as a bat.

 

[wire chief]

14..Try a synonym for "mirror".

15..Technically considered Europe, though far away.

16..The first is Rome's answer to Santa, but not jolly and uses something other than a sleigh and reindeer.
The 2nd refers to a common display also found here.

21..Think hurricanes.

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Looking glass
15. Iceland

 

[pinotbear]

21. I guess that would be Mr. Simpson, of the Saffir-Simpson scale of measuring hurricane intensity, then.

 

[mr006]

18..Well bless my soul, it's the return of James Bond's predecessor. It must be decades.

Ah, the life of a secret agent. Gotta slip out of sight sometimes (alas, the truth is much more mundane ). Couldn't stay away from your quizzes

 

[geordi]

16. La Befana is the Christmas witch in Italy. Part of the Italian Christmas season. Delivers gifts to children along with Babbo Natale (Father Christmas). Presepi relates to the three wise men visiting the manger.
25. the City of Savannah. Sherman's telegram to Lincoln after his March to the Sea

 

[wire chief]

14..VAUC, known for his adroit hint-reading, says Cooley's construct is the Looking Glass Self.

15..And the VAUC continues his adroitness with Iceland.

16..Ah, the late entry by geordi saves the day. It was looking like neither he nor K9 would be participating,
and that meant you were in trouble.

17..Just solstice, not just the winter one. Pony eliminates this one.

19..Borneo & Sumatra are precise and given by Dove. The nations are Malaysia and Indonesia, as Volup(welcome)
& ed4 know.

20..Here in the US we already had one judge turn down a plea for "personhood" for an animal.
As VAUC writes, ground has been broken for an orangutang's personhood in Argentina.

21..Pinot can read hints too. Robert Simpson of the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

22..Wally's on thin ice here. If I intended his answer, some of you would think, "Whoa, that Wirechief is
really reaching this time. VAUC recognizes that I was disguising the retirement account we all live on
(I just took my mandatory withdrawl yesterday. though not from a Roth)).

23..P.S. VAUC, she really is gorgeous.

24..That whip-snapping Ine is alone in identifying Rawhide.

25..City of Savannah--Atlanta gets burned, but Sherman leaves Savannah intact.
Geordi & ed4 are clear...Knights not so much.

Such a Cristmas gift you have given yourselves. When in the course of human events have you ever hit 25/25?