OT: Test 460B

[wire chief]

14..The 1st sitting Prez to attend a baseball game?

15..Who was the show horse in the 2015 Belmont?

16..The only insect that can look over its shoulder?

17..What does a wet bulb thermometer measure?

18..What are the types of sopranos?

19..In 1948 Milton Berle began starring in the what TV show?

20.."Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

21..How do Protestants and Catholics differ in the numbering and content of the 10 Commandments?

22..In June of 1801 the African state of..? declares war on us.

23..In what Olympics did a new technique of high jumping called the ______ ____ emerge?

24..Coulom's Law in physics states..?

25..The 7 Deadly Sins goes by 2 other names(?)

I'll be back soon with my gold stars to award.

 

[pinotbear]

14. Taft?
17. essentially, the dew point
18. let see, Tony, Big ... nah, I'll just stop here
20. Comment made to Sen. Joe McCarthy, by, I think, a female senator from Maine
22. Barbary/Tripoli?
25.

 

[hoopingcrane]

14..Taft

15..Mutabhij, or something like that

16..praying mantis

18..coloratura is one

20. Jospeh Welch to Joe McCarthy in Army hearings

22..Algeria

23..Fosbury Flop 1968

 

[rbny1]

18. Off the top of my head, soprano, coloratura and mezzo. There are probably others.
20. Joseph Welch was general counsel for the army at the McCarthy hearings. When McCarthy accused a young lawyer on Welch's staff of having once been a communist (the young lawyer had briefly been a member of some left-leaning group that was legal), Welch objected to the smear and made his famous remark to McCarthy about "no sense of decency."

 

[meyers7]

14. I think FDR was the only "sitting" president we had.
23. Dick Fosbury Flop. '68?

 

[crownfox2]

15. Keen Ice

 

[wire chief]

14. I think FDR was the only "sitting" president we had.
23. Dick Fosbury Flop. '68?

14..Other posters recognized that Taft's bulk was made for a chair also, but he wasn't 1st at a game.

 

[k9fanatic]

14. Harrison? As a side note (I hope I'm remembering this right) Taft was the person that brought about the seventh inning stretch. After sitting for so long in the cramped little chair, he got up to stretch his considerable frame. Secret Service naturally followed and so did everyone else near him who didn't know what else to do. And a tradition was born.
15. If show means third place then Keen Ice
18. Soprano, mezzo soprano
20. Lawyer Jim Welch to red-scare demagogue Sen. Joe McCarthy
23. Fosbury Flop -- 1968
25. Cardinal sins and?

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Grover Cleveland
20. Said ??? to Joe McCarthy
23. The Fosbury Flop in 1968. In all honesty, I disliked it and never thought it would catch on. It is great that the person who created it was the gold medalist at the 1968 games.
24. Opposites charges attract, like charges separate(BTW, you might be missing a "b" in coulomb)

 

[johnnyc]

19. Texaco

21. I think..... Protestants have a separate commandment against graven images while the Catholic Church incorporates it into the first commandment. The Catholic Church separates the commandments against coveting while Protestants combine them into one.

25. Capital sins

btw.....some Protestant denominations use the Catholic Church's traditional listing.

 

[wire chief]

14. Harrison? As a side note (I hope I'm remembering this right) Taft was the person that brought about the seventh inning stretch. After sitting for so long in the cramped little chair, he got up to stretch his considerable frame. Secret Service naturally followed and so did everyone else near him who didn't know what else to do. And a tradition was born.
15. If show means third place then Keen Ice
18. Soprano, mezzo soprano
20. Lawyer Jim Welch to red-scare demagogue Sen. Joe McCarthy
23. Fosbury Flop -- 1968
25. Cardinal sins and?

14..You forgot to mention that they then broke out with the Hallelujah Chorus.

 

[wire chief]

14. Grover Cleveland
20. Said ??? to Joe McCarthy
23. The Fosbury Flop in 1968. In all honesty, I disliked it and never thought it would catch on. It is great that the person who created it was the gold medalist at the 1968 games.
24. Opposites charges attract, like charges separate(BTW, you might be missing a "b" in coulomb)

24..I have put out an AP for the B.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

20. Joseph Welch went on to appear as the presiding judge in the
film "Anatomy of a Murder", a film which featured one of the first
film appearances of George (who the heck is THAT guy) C. Scott.

 

[wire chief]

14..K9 is correct about Benjamin Harrison.. Baseball is so old.

15..Crown & K9 say the rink is a go.

16..Hoop, being paranoid, behaves similarly to the praying mantis.

17..There's a more helpful phrase for understanding than provided by Pinot. What?

18..Technically, the mezzo is its own classification for a voice between the soprano and contralto.
Coloratura (rbny & hoop), lyric, spinto are soprano types.

19..JC provides Texico, but the full name has 2 other words. What?

20..K9 is there. Rbny with more detail. Ed4 with an interesting sidelight.
Anyway, eventually the Senate got some moxie to censure ol' Joe, and afterwards, whenever he spoke, members made noises to drown him out.

21..JC has a pretty good handle. I would add that most Prots rebelled vs. the Catholic practice of statues and busts and paintings of saints,
feeling they were a distraction to divine worship. Catholics have a concept of praying to saints to "intercede" with God.

23..Well, at least Meyers tries to answer 50% of the questions seriously. His quartet provides the Fosbury Flop.

22..Can you hear Pinot warbling, From the Halls of Montezuma to...

24..You know the little white dog and the little black dog who repel each other? Besides being a statement of our unfortunate race relations, see VAUC.

25..JC has one; K9 the other.

Think more about 17 and 19, por favor.