OT: Test #498B

[wire chief]

14..This "boss of the blues" often performed with Count Basie.

15..Exec order 9066 by which Prez officially ends Japanese internment.

16..Sports writer who was 1st prez of NCAA?

17..John Speke and James Grant discover a source. Explain.

18..Middle east counterpart to Red Cross?

19..Countries without oil? Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan.

20..Precipitating event to Andrew Johnson's impeachment?

21..In early 20's the organization that later was the Nazi Party?

22..ELO takes a 2-word Platters title and uses just the 1st word?

23..Nike just awarded $400M to what university?

24..Upton's famous 1904 novel and the location of its action?

25..Both Sondheim and Mozart liked this title(?).

Somehow I must stay energized for 9am tennis. Help me with your shining performance.

 

[geordi]

15, Truman???
18. Actually there are two. In Muslim countries, it's called the Red Crescent. In Israel, the Red Star of David.
20. He fired one of his cabinet secretaries.
21. The Nationalist Socialist Party

 

[pinotbear]

15. I'd assume Truman

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Joe Williams
15. Truman
19. Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan

 

[rbny1]

16. Walter Byers
23. Stanford
25. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik/A Little Night Music

 

[wire chief]

15. I'd assume Truman

Assume and make an ___of _ & __. (In other words, no).

 

[lne001]

15.. Truman

18.. Red Crescent

19.. All of them

22.. Magic

23.. Stanford

24.. "The Jungle" Chicago slaughterhouses

25.. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik

 

[MJL243]

14. Big Joe Turner, did the original "Shake, Rattle and Roll"

 

[pinotbear]

Assume and make an ___of _ & __. (In other words, no).

oh, that's interesting. So, did FDR end it towards the end, or did it fall to Ike, if it was still on the books, so to speak. Flip the coin - I"ll say FDR

 

[wire chief]

oh, that's interesting. So, did FDR end it towards the end, or did it fall to Ike, if it was still on the books, so to speak. Flip the coin - I"ll say FDR

And you LOSE.

 

[pinotbear]

And you LOSE.

story of my life, Chief, story of my life!

 

[hoopingcrane]

15. Just passing by with no time but the troubling #15 is Gerald Ford.

 

[wire chief]

17..In Africa, the White one.

19..Two more, VAUC.

20..And which Sec'y?

21..G. W. Party

22.."________, I only meant to stay awhile.
________, I gave you time to steal my mind."

 

[hoopingcrane]

17. white nile
19..I'll add Morocco.
20. I have a vague recollection that it was Secretary of War Stanton.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

20 - Wasn't on the board for most of this - but yes, Stanton (the darling of the radical Republicans). Replaced him with US Grant, IIRC. Violated something called "the tenure of office act" in a situation that probably resembled the current political stand-off between congress and the pres.

 

[wire chief]

14..VAUC pours himself the wrong "morning Joe". MJL rebukes him with, "Get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans".

15..Hoop ends our troubles by pointing out that some underling whispers to Gerald that there's been a 30 year oversight.

16..Rbny alone gives us Walter Byers, who incidentally turned against it. Rbny fails to point that out, but after long consideration, I'm not blackballing him.

17..What does hoop have against capitalization? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

18..Geordi fires with both barrels.

19..Only Libya and Algeria have oil. To the rest Marie Antoinette says, let them eat sand.

20..Hoop explains what dementia has done to his memories. Knight is younger.

21..German Workers Party.

22..Twilight (Time)

23..Rbny cites our west coast adversary. How're we to compete when Tara has all that new money?

24..No wonder ine's now a vegan.

25..Ine, with rbny being bilingual.

With the Boneyard's greatest minds, you could only get 20!!! Be very humble henceforth.