OT: Test #449B

[wire chief]

14..The (John) Lennon Wall has been blotted out numerous times (including by Commie officials),
but always comes back. Which eastern Europe city?

15..Saltwater fish must drink to replace lost water in a process called _______.

16..What famous singer wrote "My Girl" for the Temptations?

17..In 1953 Time Mag publishes its 1st bridge column, featuring a famous declarer(?).

18..The decade Congress outlaws polygamy?

19..In 1960 Elizabeth Taylor has this telephone #.

20..The author(?) of Monday, Monday & of California Dreaming?

21..Identify "Hollywood Henderson".

22..In 1955 where are Barbara bel Geddes and Ben Gazzara found?

23..What did Stuxnet do?

24.."Fresh out of clover, mortgaged up to here."

25..What state is about 1/2 & 1/2 in time zones?

So, got any ideas?

 

[Rayvin56]

15. Osmosis
16. Smokey Robinson
17. Omar Sharif?

 

[meyers7]

16. I think Smokey wrote that
20. Mamas and the Papas
21. Dallas Cowboy LB. Thomas?
25. Kentucky and Tennessee are in the EST and CST zones??? Is that what your asking?

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Hamburg
15. Osmosis
16. William Robinson known more famously as Smoky Robinson.
17. Omar Sharif
18. 1880's.
20. John Sebastian
21. Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson played for the Dallas Cowboys, was part of the famous 1975 Dallas draft from which 13 players made the team(maybe 12, but a lot). Was an all pro outside linebacker before drug use derailed his career. Tom Landry kicked him off the team in the middle of a season when Henderson was at the height of his game and popularity. Today, one would think he would be sent to rehab.
25. Idaho
25. Indiana

 

[rbny1]

19. Butterfield 8, her phone exchange in the movie of the same name, in which she starred as a call girl. I believe she won an Academy Award.
22. They costarred in the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

 

[Waquoit]

17. Oswald Jacoby
20. John Philips

 

[pinotbear]

25. Or, are you looking for Arizona, which doesn't observe Daylight Savings, which means, in practical terms, it spends roughly half the year observing Pacific zone time, and half observing Mountain zone time.

 

[Wally East]

Just answering unanswered ones ...

23. Stuxnet is a computer virus, created by the US government, targeted at Iranian uranium-enriching centrifuges. The virus that gave the centrifuge instructions that resulted in its own destruction.

 

[johnnyc]

16. Smokey Robinson
20. John Phillips
22. In the play Cat on A Hot Tin Roof

 

[crownfox2]

17. Charles Goren

 

[wire chief]

14..Long before the Arabs, this city had a "Spring", but it was punished for it.

17..All reasonable guesses, but this fellow had no reputation as a bridge player. Golfer, yes, but not bridge.

21..Anybody remember what he was caught doing by TV on the sidelines that was the precipitating incident
for Landry booting him?

25..I must accept Pinot's version, for it conforms to the question's wording. Still, there is one state
that has a fixed near 1/2 & 1/2 split, and we don't have it yet.

 

[VAUConnFan]

17. Sam Snead
21. He was waving a towel of sorts promoting a product he was pitching during a Monday night broadcast. He was gone the very next day.
25. Alaska
25. Montana

 

[pinotbear]

14. Prague?

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

25. Or, are you looking for Arizona, which doesn't observe Daylight Savings, which means, in practical terms, it spends roughly half the year observing Pacific zone time, and half observing Mountain zone time.

Interesting "twist", but technically, Arizona is always on "Mountain Standard Time". "Mountain Standard Time" just happens to be the same as "Pacific Daylight Savings Time".

 

[Wally East]

25. South Dakota?

 

[wire chief]

14..And Pinot becomes the 1st recipient of the Dubcek Award for citing Prague.

15..Ray & VAUC give us osmosis, their collusion looking fishy.

16..The Meyers quartet Really Got a Hold on Me when they give us Smokey Robinson.

17..Ike, the sitting Prez.

18..1882, and VAUC had to give up wives #2 & 3.

19..The only time rbny's name became "John" with his arrest. And yes, the was awarded an Oscar.

20..Long deceased John Phillips, one of you gave this a Waq.

21..VAUC has helpful info in 2 places. Meyers with a more truncated reply...but that's Meyers for you.

22..Rbny & JC are the cool cats, sometimes in the dog house, but wisely avoiding tin surfaces.

23..See Wally before he infects your laptop.

24..The 1960 musical WILDCAT contained "Hey Look Me Over" recorded by many afterwards.
The show starred Lucille Ball, and was especially memorable when the redhead collapsed onstage from exhaustion.

25..A late, but correct, entry by Wally with South Dakota.