OT: Test #297B

[wire chief]

14..The Italians call this central region __s___a.

15..According to Abba what activity is associated with a "monarch"?

16..A Native American tribe of the Great Plains, __o_.

17..She(?) disappeared from Salt Lake City in '02 and escaped years later.

18..Prez #38?

19..The name for a battery terminal?

20..Hosea follows the Book of..?

21..One 1985 hit song was a fruity hat(?) by..?

22..A literary character: the ending of a synonym for "vinca".

23..This TV series offers a unique spelling of a math term.

Haven't had cheesecake in a long while, and it's tonight's dessert. You get this.

24..Term for a live-in nanny?

25..The smallest gourami(?) is aptly named.

 

[pinotbear]

14. Toscana
15. Dancing Queen
18. Tricky Dick Nixon
24. au pair

 

[rbny1]

16. Otoe
19. Anode or diode

 

[meyers7]

15. Dancing? as in Dancing Queen? Wife would kill me if I missed this.
16. Sioux
17. The Smart girl??
20. Daniel I believe. (years of Sunday School)
24. au pair (sp?)

 

[geordi]

14. Toscana
16. Otoe
18 Gerry Ford
19 Anode
24. Au pair

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Dancing - Dancing Queen
16. Sioux
18. Gerald Ford
19. Post
21. Raspberry Beret - Prince (like the kind you find in a second hand store)
24. Au pair
25. Shrimp

 

[poalo4343]

16..Kiowa
18..President Gerald Ford
19..Cathode and anode; also positive and negative
23..Numb3rs
24..Au Pair

 

[vtcwbuff]

14. Toscana
16. Crow
17. Smart
18. Ford
19. Anode/Cathode
24. Au pair

 

[frankenclyde8]

22. vinca = periwinkle, so Rip van Winkle?
25. dwarf gourami

 

[wire chief]

Boy, that silly ol' bear does just what a bruin should do. He always pounces, goes to the meat of the matter before any of the primates get a shot.


You've left me nothing to hint about here. You should swell with pride.

14..Toscana will do just fine; Pinot, geordi & VTC.

15..VAUC, Meyers & Pinot with Dancing Queen.

16..To be picky, Otoe (selected by geordi & rbny) best satisfies the length of the blanks, but some of you provide
a nice array of tribes.

17..Meyers & VTC with Pamela Smart.

18..Poalo plus 3 with Gerald Ford.

19..Given the wording, one can use anode, diode or cathode, as you combined to do. VAUC gives us the
less technical "post". It works.

20..Has all that bible study injured Meyers? Well, not in this case for he alone can cite Daniel, unless you think
he just got it from an Elton John song.

21..And again another poster is alone(VAUC), this time with Prince's Raspberry Beret.

22 & 25..Frank cleans up the undone with Rip Van Winkle and then dwarf gourami.

23..Numb3rs, so types Poalo.

24..Precisely a half dozen of you with au pair.

Smashing job.

 

[vtcwbuff]

16. I think an argument could be made that Crow fits the bill.

19. Diode??? No way! A diode is an asymetrical device. Think of it as an electronic check valve. Anyone who has reverse charged a battery knows that the battery terminal isn't one way.

 

[wire chief]

Sorry VTC, I somehow overlooked Crow...So I'll eat it.

19..That's another reason I don't do hard science often.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Sorry VTC, I somehow overlooked Crow...So I'll eat it.

19..That's another reason I don't do hard science often.

At first I felt strongly that Crow was a correct answer but after checking WIKI and other sources I think an argument could be made that they were not a true great plains tribe, merely transients being pushed from their traditional lands by more powerful tribes.