OT: Test #401B

[wire chief]

14..The TV serial "Roots" was based on a book by..?

15..In the mid-50's Kitty Kallen offered this advice to men in a relationship.

16..The most famous sports person in China?

17..What's a skeleton race?

18..Both Ike and Omar Bradley had to answer to this military person.

19.."It's just a shot away," musically speaking.

20..Mr. Martin's sidekick, who made us laugh in the '60's?

21..Robert Baden-Powell starts what in 1908 England?

22..Papyrus to ________ to paper.

23..In 2004 ____ _________ Studios parts ways with Disney.

24.. The tendency for an object to just sit there.

25..In 1649 this English monarch is beheaded.

Looking down the road, I vote we wind up in the Nebraska region...
but we know life is unfair.

 

[geordi]

14. Alex Haley
16. Prolly Yao Ming, the basketball player
17. It's kind of a one man luge or sled race against time
18 George C. Marshall
20 Mr. Lewis -- Jerry
21. Boy Scouts
24. Inertia ???
25. Mary, Queen of Scots???

 

[rvwsleep]

15. Little things mean a lot
16. Yao Ming
17 single bobsled
19 Freedom
20 Rowan
23 Dreamworks
24 inertia

 

[rvwsleep]

15. Little things mean a lot
16. Yao Ming
17 single bobsled
19 Freedom
20 Rowan
23 Dreamworks
24 inertia

After seeing Geordi's answers I think there may be 2 correct answers to No. 2o

 

[pinotbear]

19. Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter"

 

[meyers7]

14. Alex Haley
16. I'm guessing Ming the basketball player?
17. Talking Olympics, it's a sled race. Similar to luge, except you go down head first.
19. Shot away, shot away, shot away. Stones, mmm Gimme Shelter??
20. Jerry Lewis (not Lee) (if Mr Martin is Dean)
24. Inertia. Newton's first law.

 

[Waquoit]

25. Charles I

 

[Waquoit]

After seeing Geordi's answers I think there may be 2 correct answers to No. 2o

Nah, they were long since broken up by the 60's

 

[k9fanatic]

14. Haley
16. Yao Ming?
17. Face down on a luge sled
19. Gimme Shelter -- Stones
20. Dan Rowan

 

[SoCalCanine]

22. parchment

 

[FairView]

14..Alex Haley

16..Ming?

17..sled

18..Tina

19..War

20..Mr. Rowan

21..Boy scouts

24.. Government employment.

 

[JRRRJ]

14..Alex Haley
16..Ming Na
17..Sliding down an ice track at 80 MPH on what amounts to a cafeteria tray.
19..Murder
20..Dan Rowan
21..The Boy Scouts
22..Vellum
24..Inertia, but I like FairView's answer too.

 

[JRRRJ]

After seeing Geordi's answers I think there may be 2 correct answers to No. 2o

I think qualifying it with "in the 60's" leaves out the Jerry-Dean pairing.

 

[wire chief]

16..Notice how JR is covering 2 bases. The rest of you are not up to date.

23..No, not Dreamworks

 

[Zorro]

14. Haley
18. Mark Clark?
20. Le Gran Jerri.
24. Old Age, mebbe?
25..Charley I

 

[rvwsleep]

SKG ?

16..Notice how JR is covering 2 bases. The rest of you are not up to date.

23..No, not Dreamworks

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Alex Haley
16. Yao Ming
18. McArthur
19. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones with Mary(sp?) Clayton
20. Dan Rowan
22. Sanskrit
22. Leather
22. Sheepskin
24. Inertia

 

[wire chief]

14..The whole Fair view sextet scrambles for this one--Alex Haley.

15..Sleep is stuck in the 50's, Little Things Mean Mucho.

16..Na Li has been steadily awakening China. She made the Aussie
finals in '12 &'13, and she captured the French Open last year.
Earlier this month she finally emerged on top at the Aussie while a gazillion Chinese TV sets watched. JR knew.

17..Lots of you know, but only Meyers & K9 underscore the head-first nature.

18..Geordi going once; geordi going twice; SOLD to the only poster
with Geo Marshall.

19..Ladies and Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones
Pinot brings a group to the front row.

 

[wire chief]

20..Yeah, forget Jerry Lewis.

21..Geordi, fair view & JR state Boy Scouts.

22..Parchment is best; vellum & sheepskin more specialized.
So we award the Grand Prize to SoCal.

23..Pixar Animation

24..I too think "Congress" is the best answer, but I suppose
we must employ rigor and go with inertia.

25..We finish up with Waq & zorro who write that the noggin belongs
to Charles I.

Thank you for you avid and scintillating participation.

 

[FairView]

It appears to me that #19 is asking what's just a shot away, not who performed a song with that lyric.

 

[wire chief]

It appears to me that #19 is asking what's just a shot away, not who performed a song with that lyric.

Well then, what do you make of "musically speaking"?

 

[VAUConnFan]

You don't like my answer to #20?

 

[Zorro]

So were you asking for "war" and "rape and murder", as in the lyrics in different verses?

 

[wire chief]

You don't like my answer to #20?

Indeed, I shall accept all the Dan Rowans that come my way.

So were you asking for "war" and "rape and murder", as in the lyrics in different verses?

My dear zorro, by now you know, in some bag of neurons. that I use
(?) or ... for such situations. Otherwise give me artist & title.
I do not wish to face war, rape & murder in print, so stop it.