OT: Test 402B

[wire chief]

14..Within 10 years, Lord Byron's birth year.

15..Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama was an answer record to whom? And explain.

16..Catorce /due + elf = ?

17.."I think; therefore I am."

18..On many nights, we get a string of Big Bang Theory from 8pm on what station?

19.."Columbo" shared time with what 2 other shows?

20..A positive particle?

21..A "plant" with funny hair.

22..Timepieces or marbles.

23..IVANHOE author?

24..First name of any Pointer Sister?

25..What guns of August?

The starter pistol has gone off.

 

[stormsurge]

15. Neil Young's Southern Man was not too complimentary of southern men. SHA has a line that says something to the effect, "a southern man don't need him around anyhow." Certainly not a direct quote but the best I can recall at my age.
17. Descartes
19. McMillan and Wife, McCloud
20. Proton
21. Chiapet?
24. Bonnie?

 

[ed4ourgirls]

14. 1780?
16. achtzehn
23. Sir Walter Scott
25. The title of Barbara Tuchman's book on the first German offensive in the west in 1914 and
its blunting by the French (and English).

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

23 - Sir Walter Scott - my aunt (for reasons known only to her) gave me an 1899 library edition of his work, and I actually read a fair number of the novels as I was growing up. Some were quite entertaining.

 

[Zorro]

17.. Actually, I think that desCartes actually said; "I think; therefore I am; I think."

18. What you mean, "we"?

20..Proton

23..Sir Walter Scott

24..Bonnie, Anita

 

[pinotbear]

17. And, the Bruces from the Philosophy Dept. of the University of Wallamaway, Austrailia, sang "I drink, therefore, I am".

 

[Waquoit]

24. Ruth

 

[TXs N Os]

22. cats eye

 

[rbny1]

17. Descartes walked into a bar and ordered a Heineken. The bartender said, "We don't have any Heineken. Would you like a Guinness?" Descartes replied, "I think not," and vanished.

 

[wire chief]

17..Zorro, why stop there? The whole quote goes, "I think; therefore I
am, I think I am, I said, and no one heard at all, not even the chair."

 

[JRRRJ]

14..1730
15..Neil Young, whose "Southern Man" was not complimentary to Alabama. But "Sweet Home" asserts the "southern man don't need him [Neil] around anyhow".
16..18
17..Descartes self-affirmation
20..proton or positron
22..Timepieces or marbles.
23..Sir Walter Scott
25..Navaronne, probably a conflation.

 

[JRRRJ]

17..Zorro, why stop there? The whole quote goes, "I think; therefore I
am, I think I am, I said, and no one heard at all, not even the chair."

No, el Gris was quoting from the Moody Blues. Question of Balance, perhaps?

On edit: Nope. "In the beginning" from "On the Threshold of a Dream"

 

[meyers7]

15. Neil Young had a song Southern Man, which was about racism in the south. LS had a line in SHA "Hope Neil Young will remember a Southern Man don't need him around anyhow."
17. Descartes. Which eliminates half the worlds population.
20. Proton

 

[wire chief]

No, el Gris was quoting from the Moody Blues. Question of Balance, perhaps?

On edit: Nope. "In the beginning" from "On the Threshold of a Dream"

Well, ride my seesaw!

 

[wire chief]

14..Ed4 is our master of poetic beginnings--1788.

15..JR, Storm & Meyers correctly point to Neil Young. Neil had another tune called simply "Alabama" in which he offered, "Alabam, you've got
the rest of the Union to help you along. What's goin' wrong?"

16..The amazing ed4 does math in 3 languages and comes up with 18.

17..You can tell by question 5, I put De Horse before Decartes.

18..TBS

19..Storm is on target with McCloud, McMillan & Wife.
(Who was that lovely Wife anyway?)

20..Proton works--the zorro quartet.

21..Think of "Our Gang".

22..The Parthenon Marbles, also known as..?

23..Sir Walter Scott, brought to you by the Knights Foursome.

24..They are Anita, June & Bonnie, and due to Storm &
zorro, we got 2 of them anyway.

25..A WWI tale, mentioned by ed4: JR in the wrong war.

Be so kind as to attend to 21 & 22.

 

[meyers7]

21..Think of "Our Gang".

Alfalfa then?

 

[stormsurge]

Wife was iirc Susan St. James who iirc again married SNL producer Lorne Michaels

Of course, I could be making the whole thing up too

 

[wire chief]

Alfalfa then?

Well, sure.

 

[wire chief]

Storm is proud of his imagination, but there really was a Susan St. James.

 

[wire chief]

I neglected to give JR credit on #16...my bad.

22..Elgin Marbles & Elgin Watches