OT: Test 346B

[wire chief]

14..What foreign leader sometimes addresses the people speaking Dari?

15..Everything's better with ____ ______ on it.

16..To harvest aluminum economically it must be found in what ore?

17..In 1785 Ben is replaced by..? as minister to France.

18.."His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Speaker?

19..The decade the US gov't first distributes paper money?

20..Who said, "I didn't attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter
saying I approved of it"?

21..The decade Puerto Ricans got citizenship?

22..Back in the 30's, the girl friend of a giant primate?

23.."Last night I took a walk after dark
A swingin' place called ________ ____"?

24..This is the time of year for colcannon(?).

25..The discoverer named it Georgium Sidos. We know it as..?

The pope is doing the tango and can't be with us.

 

[RegisteredUconn]

16. Bauxite
17. Guess Jefferson
22. Ann Darrow

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

15 - Blue Bonnet
19 - 1860's??
22 - Fay Wray

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Bluebonnet margarine
16. Bauxite
17. John Adams
17. Thomas Jefferson
19. 1780's
21. 1940's
22. Fay Wray
23. Palisades Park
25. The Grand Canyon

 

[vtcwbuff]

15. Blue Bonnet
16. Bauxite
19. 1830s ???
20. WC I cheated and peeked 'cause I think you're wrong
22. Fay Wray?
23. Palisades Park
24. A gawdawful cabbage and potato concoction.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

19. As the United States - the 1860's. As the rebellious colonies - the 1770's (Continental
Currency - as in "not worth a Continental").
25. The planet Uranus.

 

[UConn64BA72JD]

14. Karzai of Afghanistan(not a friend of the U.S.)
16. bauxite?
17. Jefferson
18. Possibly Mae West
20. Definitely Mark Twain
21. 1960s
22. Fay Wray
23. Palisades Park
24. British dish (cabbage and ?)

 

[geordi]

15. Blue Bonnet
17. Thos. Jefferson
20 sure sounds like Mark Twain
22. Ann something, played of course by Faye Wray
24. mashed potatoes, with onions, cabbage, bacon, butter, yumm It's an Irish side dish.

 

[wire chief]

21..Two guesses...both too recent.

Geordi & vtc show themselves to be of vastly differnt tongues, probably cause vtc's family leave out
the onions & bacon. Sad for them.

 

[vtcwbuff]

WC - My wife is just a couple of generations off the boat. Her version uses ham instead of bacon. Like most Irish cuisine it should have stayed in the old country.

 

[VAUConnFan]

21. 1930's

 

[wire chief]

14..It's Karzai, provided by 64BA.

15..A passel of you cite Bluebonnet Margarine.

16..Regis leads a quartet with bauxite.

17..JEFFERSON, say geordi and a trio.

18..64BA is alone with Mae West.

19..Knights & ed4 are accurate in putting it during the Civil War.

20..You were not thrown by vtc's doubts. It is Mark Twain.

21..1917

22..Faye Wray--tons of you, but I single out Regis for knowing the more obscure fact that the role is Ann Darrow.

23..The no-longer-in-existence Palisades Park (I made many a youthful visit) by Freddie Cannon.
Credit to our 2 V's and 64BA.

25..Ed4 as a solitary poster with Uranus.

Always a pleasure, and now we settle and await the announced match-ups.

 

[vtcwbuff]

WC- This quote was used as a poster's signature in another forum recently. There was some discussion about attribution. You can find lots of web sites that identify it as a Twain quote but none of them provide any source.

I'll refer you to the Quote Investigator. (S)He credits it to a man named Ebenezer Hoar. According to the editor of the "Mark Twain Quotes Repository" - probably the best Twain source on the internet . . . "there is no evidence that links Mark Twain to the funeral quote”