OT: Test #495B

[wire chief]

14..Director of "Dr. Strangelove"?

15..In 1981 why did 2 million folks turn out for a NYC ticker tape parade?

16..Pascal's Wager?

17..Which nation has the largest captive elephant population?

18..Leslie Van Hooton, Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian

19..Eugene tells of a drug addicted mom and a dad wallowing in liquor.

20..Family and friends knew Caesar Augustus as..?

21..Josh Groban first gets national exposure on what TV show?

22..All wear masks at "Carnevale" (spelling is correct) in what city?

23..At age 8 he performed at Radziwil Palace, becomes a Paris exile, dies in 1849.

24..One continent(?) was chowing down on peanuts 3000 years ago.

25..In 1948 Ike resigns as General of the Army, replaced by..?

So, who's voting in New Hampshire? If you PM me, I'll tell you for whom you should cast your ballot.

 

[Jimbo]

14. Stanley Kubrick
16. If this is what I'm thinking of, it involves risk and belief in God: basically, from the perspective of one's eternal soul, it is a better bet to believe in God than not to. The thinking is that one who believes in God but turns out to be wrong has given up little, but one who does not believe in God and turns out to be wrong has given up much more.
20. Octavius
22. Rio de Janeiro?
23. Chopin?
25. Douglas MacArthur?

 

[Zorro]

16. Pascal's wager is based upon the absolutely invalid idea that "belief" is a matter of conscious volition; i.e., that a person can choose whether or not to believe something. This is a fallacy. One can choose to act as if one believes, but not to believe or disbelieve. Belief or disbelief comes from outside the individual. It may be rational (a consideration of the evidence for and against) or irrational (being so conditioned to believe that something is true that subsequent evidence is unable to cast doubt on that certainty), but it is not something that one can "choose".

 

[DriveLH]

18. The Manson Family girls.

 

[lne001]

16. Simplistically, why not believe in god, what have you got to lose
17. Thailand
18. Charles Mansion's girls
19. "Long Day's Journey into Night"
20. Sid
22. Venice
25. George Marshall

 

[Zorro]

14..Kubrick

18; Chicks in Manson's "family
19..A Long Day's Journey into Night.

20..Octavian

22. Rio?

 

[k9fanatic]

14. Stanley Kubrik
19. Long Day's Journey into Night
22. Venice

 

[wire chief]

22..Jimbo & zorro may want to realize that Rio's party has an "a", where I typed "e".

 

[pinotbear]

15. Return of hostages from Iran?
20. Augie, or, to his real close friends, Snoop Aug
25. Omar Bradley

 

[wire chief]

15. Return of hostages from Iran?
20. Augie, or, to his real close friends, Snoop Aug
25. Omar Bradley

You were (a sleepy-eyed) first on part A, and now look at you. What, you went back to bed afterwards?

 

[JRRRJ]

17..India. And they're going literally bonkers due to lack of work.
19..Streetcar Named Desire?
22. Venice
23..Mozart
24..North America

 

[pinotbear]

You were (a sleepy-eyed) first on part A, and now look at you. What, you went back to bed afterwards?

nah, something less unimportant showed up!

 

[VAUConnFan]

17. United States
18. The Manson Girls
19. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Eugene )'Neil
21. Rio de Janeiro
23. Mozart
24. Africa
25. Omar Bradley

 

[wire chief]

21..In the premiere( in '97, for 5 years) a new lawyer finds that the man who broke her heart also works in the firm

24..You are running out of continents--no go.

17..India sure has many unemployed elephants, but it's in 2nd place to another in the neighborhood.

 

[wire chief]

nah, something less unimportant showed up!

As if!

 

[lne001]

21. Ally McBeal
22. South America
23. Sri Lanka

 

[wire chief]

14..Jimbo, K9 & zorro state, Dr. Livingston, I presume. Wait, that's the wrong Stanley.
By the way, does anyone name their kid "Stanley" anymore?

15..Yes Pinot...a great day.


16..And I would add that one can tell by the lifestyle of another, whether that person believes in God.
See Jimbo & zorro's consideration.

17..Elephants joyously hauled trees in Burma. Not so much in Myanmar.

18..The Drive Quartet with the Dixie Chicks, um, no the Andrew Sisters. Oh, help me out here. I know they were off-key.

19..Ine, zorro & K9, all who reach for the needle when day is done.

20..Jimbo & zorro say an Octavian(us) by any other name would smell as sweet. Tell that to his 2 buddies in the 2nd triumvirite.

21..Ine's running with the hints (see below) with Aly McBeal.

24..And he' s OK with S. Amer. also.

23..Jimbo with the educated guess of Frederic Chopin.

22..An unmasked duo in K9 & JR revel in Venezia.

25..Pinot & VAUC rightfully select Omar the tent-maker Bradley.

Overall you are 19 & 5/6. You've been better, but only seldom worse. Must have left your brains in Columbia.