OT: Test #366B

[wire chief]

14..The Montgolfier Brothers pioneer what?

15..At the 1904 St Louis World's Fair, a reshaped zalabria(pastry) starts a trend(?)

16..In 1776 who is the Virginian who proposes a declaration of independence?

17..The late philosopher/anthropologist who wrote THE POWER OF MYTH?

18..The decade we made 7/4 a national holiday?

19..Identify Rosneft.

20..Ray Charles sings of a, um, mineral?

21..A vexillologist is an expert of..?

22..Penny Pritzger is a _____ heiress who the Prez has selected for what cabinet post?

23..Our Prez is about to visit Dar es Salaam in what nation?

24..Sinhalese is the main tongue in..?

25..Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code fame has a new one(?).

You seniors can wait 'til after your afternoon nap.

 

[geordi]

16. John Hancock???
19.. a Russian oil company
23. Tanzania

 

[rbny1]

17. Joseph Campbell

 

[DriveLH]

14. Flight. Specificly balloons.

 

[meyers7]

15. donuts? doughnuts
21. vexing people, so maybe a quiz master??? hmmm?
25. Leonardo Code?? I have no idea, I don't read fiction.

 

[k9fanatic]

15. doughnut
16. Thomas Jefferson
21. flags
23. Tanzania
25. Inferno

 

[huskyrob1]

You seniors can wait 'til after your afternoon nap.[/quote]
14) hot air balloon
15) hotdogs?
16) Tom Paine
17) Louis SB Leakey?
22) Commerce?
23) His home town?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

16. Nobody has guessed Patrick Henry yet, so I'll guess him.
20. ruby?

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Hot air ballonons
15. Ice cream cones
16. Nathan Hale
20. Ruby
23. Senegal

 

[wire chief]

16..A little lost in history, is he?--Richard Henry..?

18..C'mon, some WAG's por favor.

22..Which hotel?

24..How 'bout an island that plays cricket?

 

[TXs N Os]

24. Sri Lanka

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

16 - he isn't lost to me. Richard Henry Lee at the 2nd Continental Congress, on July 2nd, IIRC. I'm out of town on vacation with limited internet. The only answer I knew in the whole quiz, incidentally.

Not to carp, but FWIW - Tom Paine was British, Nathan Hale from Connecticut and John Hancock from Massachusetts.

 

[meyers7]

16..A little lost in history, is he?--Richard Henry..?

18..C'mon, some WAG's por favor.

22..Which hotel?

24..How 'bout an island that plays cricket?

Fine.

18. 1800's (the oughts)
24. Jamaica does. But that don't fit. But I'd probably rather go to Jamaica, mon.

 

[wire chief]

14..It's possible VAUC is giving the French pronunciation; all others just type "balloon".

15..Vendors ran out of cups, and even a century ago, they realized that folks did not want a scoop of ice cream in their hands, and so the cone was born. Credit to VAUC alone.

16..Knights arrives late to the party but provides what you could not. He chides (but refuses to carp) posters for their geographical befuddlement. Takes a Rutgers man.

17..It's been decades since PBS gave us those enchanting interviews, but rbny remembers
Joseph Campbell.

 

[wire chief]

18..As long after 1776 as 1870. The nuns didn't teach you that?

19..Russian gas/oil giant. Give the award to geordi, who, despite rumors,
has licked his own problems with gas.

20..They say Ruby you're like a dream, not always what you seem. Hmm,
I wonder if it was inspired by the 40's "Laura".
Oh, almost forgot, VAUC & rbny here.

21..Raise the flags for K9, who not only speaks Italian, but also semaphore.

 

[wire chief]

22..The Hyatt heiress; rob gets the Commerce part.

23..The blindfolded geordi & K9 close their eyes and stick a pin in the Tanzania part of Africa.

24..TXs reads hint, comes up with Sri Lanka.

25..INFERNO is on the best seller list, and K9 will get to it just as soon as she's finished the series of a certain Venetian Commassario.

Two & 1/2 wrong...a most respectable 90%