OT: Test #459B

[wire chief]

14..Nipper the RCA dog stares at a..?

15..First guy who walks in space in Gemini 1965 mission?

16..In 1888 what does Ernest Thayer write?

17..On 6/4/44 the first significant win over Japan begins at..?

18..What decade has the most Triple Crown winners(horses)?

19..E to W in the Tropic of Capricorn: Madagascar, Malawi, ?, Zambia, Angola.

20..Natty Bumppo, the series? the author?

21.."He woke up and the room was bare. He didn't see her anywhere. He told himself he didn't care."

22..Fictional psychologist Alex Delaware's cop buddy?

23..Big goof: these germs(?) were supposed to be dead before they were sent out.

24..Once the mayor of Warwick, he(?) has just thrown his hat into the ring.

25..To improve the male urine stream one could take S. P.(?)

Now is the time to throw YOUR hat into the ring.

 

[lne001]

14. Gramophone horn
18. 70's
19. Republic of Congo
20. The Deerslayer, J.F. Cooper
23. Anthrax
24. Lincoln Chafee
25. Saw Palmetto

 

[Gus Mahler]

14. Victrola
16. Casey at Bat
17. Guam (Marianas)

 

[johnnyc]

14. a Victrola
21. Simple Twist of Fate

 

[ed4ourgirls]

17. Midway (beginning 4 June 1942 . . . not 1944)

 

[Zorro]

14. Victrola horn.

16.. Casey at the Bat

17..On 6/4/44 I would have said the Battle of the Coral Sea, but that was in 42, as was Midway.

20. The Leatherstocking Tales, by James Fenimore Cooper. One of the funniest essays I have ever read, mebbe THE funniest, is Mark Twain's "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses". Check it out. Oh, and Natty Bumppo (a very strange name for a frontier hero) was Pathfinder, Deerslayer, Leatherstocking, Hawkeye and more I can't remember.

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Speaker from which he hears the voice of his master
15. Gus Grissom(that's a guess, but early on everyone could name the astronauts and their missions)
17. Bataan
18. 1970's with 3
19. Zimbabwe
19. Botswana
23. The anthrax recently sent out to a number of US labs.
24. Lincoln Chafee

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

14 - Victrola horn with the slogan "His Master's Voice"
15. - Like VAUC says, everyone could name them, but it was a long time ago. Not sure it was Grissom, I'll offer Ed White?

 

[Gus Mahler]

15. Wally Schirra?

 

[wire chief]

14..Gus + 5 who still haven't upgraded to hifi.

15..Knight selects Ed White from a host of now obscure names

16..Gus & zorro in a 7th inning stretch.

17..My goof. the numbers on my page are "44", and I type "42", whose only significance being the year of my birth.
Thankfully ed4 corrects me.

18..The 70's gave us Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed. Fine steeds all, but the wrong answer.

19..What's missing is an "M" word AND the title of a Bob Dylan song.

20..Zorro has an impressive memory. Ine also provides James F. Cooper.

21..JohnnyC offers the Dylan tune.

22..Combine Venus de with a motorcycle rally in South Dakota.

23..Anthrax, sufferers include ine & VAUC.

24..The same posters give us Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.

25..Ine sees his bathroom trips altered with Saw Palmetto.

Please attend to 18, 19, 22.

 

[VAUConnFan]

18. I looked up the answer, so this has to be left alone
19. I looked this up also and am convinced that one of my two answers are correct.
22. Even with the clue, I do not have one.

 

[hoopingcrane]

18..The 30's

 

[wire chief]

18..The 30's

You'll soon run out of decades, me buckos.

 

[hoopingcrane]

You'll soon run out of decades, me buckos.

Okay, the 40's.

 

[wire chief]

19..

 

[wire chief]

Okay, the 40's.

Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation

 

[wire chief]

What's so hard about my #22 hint--the cop is Milo Sturgis.