OT: Test 455B

[wire chief]

14..Former mcbb players are now trying out for a pro sport(?)entirely new to them.

15..Suite Judy Blue Eyes is named for..?

16..Peking is to Beijing as Calcutta is to..?

17..Obama has been meeting with the 6 members of the Gulf Cooperative Council: United Arab Emirates,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, ___ & ______.

18..The 2 "Midnight Cowboy" actors?

19.."American Pickers" is whose program?

20..It's capital is Dar es Salaam.

21.."Habanera", its composer & production name?

22..West Point is naming a building for a once-shunned black cadet, General Benjamin O. _____.

23..When did Moscow become the Russian capital?

24..Visiting the Pope, this nation's leader(?) said,"I (may) go back to the Church".

25..On the comeback trail, Rafa Nadal loses to..? at the Madrid final.

I was just listening to a Platters rendition, "I'll Never Smile Again" until you get an "A" on this test.

 

[rbny1]

14. Australian rules football, where basketball players can use their height to advantage.
18. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman.
24. Raul Castro of Cuba.

 

[pinotbear]

15. Judy Collins

 

[k9fanatic]

16. Kolkata
17. Kuwait and Oman?
18. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight
19. I believe it's on the History channel
20. Dar es Salaam is in Tanzania, but the capital is Dodoma.
23. After the Russian Revolution -- 1917-18?? Actually it was the capital before that until Peter the Great decided to name, what else, St. Petersburg the capital during his reign.

 

[rvwsleep]

15. Judy Collins
19. History channel
21. Bizet, "Carmen"

 

[meyers7]

15. Miss Judy Collins. Send In The Clowns. I believe Stills' girlfriend.
18. Jon Voight (owner of George Costanza's car) and Dustin Hoffman. "We're walking (filming) here".
19. Unfortunately on the History Channel. When they could be showing something about actual history. Waste of a channel.
21. Habanero or Habanera? I believe Bizet ate habaneros, but Carmen sang Habanera.

 

[TXs N Os]

25. Andy Murray

 

[johnnyc]

22. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

20. It WAS the capital of German East Africa and Tanganyika, but it has
been replaced as the capital of Tanzania.

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Cricket
15. Judy Collins
16. Kolkata
17. Kuwait and Dubai
18. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman(fantastic movie, originally rated X)
20. Tanzania
22. Davis(shunned would be an understatement)
23. 1925
24. Cuba

 

[geordi]

15. Judy Collins
16. Mumbai
18. Dustin Hoffman and John Voight
19. The History Channel. Frank Fritz and Mike Wolf (depending on what you are asking for)
20 Tanzania
21. Carmen by Bizet
24 Raul Castro ???

 

[wire chief]

14..Rbny has the down under game, and add rugby (which IS different).

15..There's a Pinot quintet immortalizing Ms. Collins, about whom Cary Grant swooned "Judy, Judy, Judy".

16..K9 & VAUC sing "Istanbul, not Constaninople. Now it's Istanbul, not..." It's nobody's business but these 2..and the Turks.

17..K9, with no one to sing to here, provides Oman and Kuwait.

18..Got another quintet, call it rbny's, of those who gravitate to sleazy flics.

19..Another group, this time a quartet (they lost the washboardist to the Stones) with History Channel, which plans
"Dumpster Diving" for September.

20..I'm accused of living in the past of German colonialism. Hey, if America can forgive Werner Von Braun, it can make its
peace with me too. Anyway Dar es Salaam is not the political capital, just the economic capital. K9 has the skinny.

21..Rbny read the question and thought this was easy enough to give the doofusses a shot at it, and he was right, as
geordi, meyers & sleep all piped up.

22..VAUC thinks I'm too tame in my exposition, but this is a family site. He and JC identify Davis.

23..K9 gives us more history and accurately dates the return to Moscow immediately following the Commie takeover.

24..Rbny is certain; geordi less so; VAUC thinks it is Cuba Gooding. Please let me know, if you see Raul at Mass.

25..Tx knows to pay attention to the really important. Yes, to Andy Murray.

OK, you hit 24, and that's an "A'. I can smile again.

 

[pinotbear]

20. ah, inspiration!