OT: Test #505B

[wire chief]

14..The novel THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD got special attention Monday. How so?

15..What is the Scottish name for children?

16..Generally considered the world's oldest city, its civilization traceable to 11,000 years?

17..Which Governor just resigned under scandal?

18..In 1979 which brutal African dictator is deposed? And the nation?

19..Casting doubt on its survival is the 142 year old company _______.

20..Twice now a judge negates a Texas law(?).

21..About what are the Panama Papers concerned?

22..Explain the pairing of Nigel and Basil.

23..Word play: Drexler, Frazier & Mrs. Roy Rogers.

24..The Shetland Isles are about midway between which mainlands?

25."She danced around and round to a guitar melody.
From the fire, her face was all aglow; how she enchanted me."

I now rest, but, no, not you.

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Laddie
15. Lads
16. Baghdad
17. Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley
18. Idi Amin of Uganda
19. Sears
20. Voter ID
22. They are Rathbones
23. Clydesdale
24. Scotland and Ireland

 

[pinotbear]

15. wee bairns

 

[Rocket009]

15 Bairns

17 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley

18 Idi Amin: Uganda

22 Elementary. Rathbone and Bruce

24 Scotland and Norway

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

22 - Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce played Dr. Watson in a series of movies. Watched em on TV in my youth.

 

[k9fanatic]

14. Won Pulitzer Prize
17. Bob Bentley -- Alabama
18. Idi Amin -- Uganda
24. UK and Norway
25. Gypsy Woman -- Brian Hyland

 

[SVCBeercats]

16. Damascus

17. Alabama’s governor who shall remain nameless because I don’t know his name.

18. Francisco Nguema - Equatorial Guinea

19. Toshiba

 

[wire chief]

14..K9 is possibly the only BYer who reads anything over 10 pages.

15..Rocket & Pinot have the little tykes.

16..Some want to declare it is Storrs, but SVC is correct with Damascus, and al-Assad has been ducking munitions since
the beginning of all time.

17..SVC admits he/she would like to provide thorough, quality answers but just can't. Go with Rocket, K9 & VAUC, who know quality answers when they stumble into them.

18..1979 was a good African year for ending brutality. Got 3 votes for Idi and 1 for Francisco. Poor Guinea has not recovered from the carnage yet.

19..Yes, SVC, it is a tottering Toshiba.

20..It' the Voter ID & companion rules that are found to be discriminatory, and that's why VAUC vows never to move to Texas.

21..Nowadays Cajun's money is under the mattress, no fool that Cajun.

22..Ah, yes, Knights reminds us fogies of the joy of early TV. I was there too. You youngens got no culture.

23..VAUC's experience at playing the voice of Mr. Ed helps him here, of course, of course.

24..While "UK & Norway" is technically correct. it leaves a vaguer positioning than does Scotland & Norway.
SVC would agree, cause we want responses with high quality. So credit to Cajun & Rocket.
Poor VAUC is just lost at sea.

25..But, but K9, the Impressions had the bigger hit...and what about Santana, huh? But you win.

Unlike in Part A, you are golden here.

 

[Zorro]

18. I am so glad that this allows me to get in a plug for my favorite of all time Austin Texas local band, The Uranium Savages (The Band too Dumb to Die-50 years young now.) When this was cut, it was topical.

Uranium Savages Idi Amin Is My Yardman

 

[SVCBeercats]

Warning! Warning! HIGH quality response ahead!

When it comes to Africa, typically, there are many brutal despots from which to choose.
Wikipedia - Francisco Macías Nguema was the first President of Equatorial Guinea, from 1968 until his overthrow in 1979. Nguema is considered to be one of the most brutal and corrupt dictators in modern African history. On 3 August 1979 he was overthrown by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who was previously the military governor of Bioko and Vice-Minister of the Armed Forces, as well as Macías Nguema's nephew (and the brother of one of Nguema victims).

Apparently Macías Nguema was not familar with the "Prince."