OT: Test #519B

[wire chief]

14..For the Carlisle Indians to get high respect, they needed to handle the Big 4(?)

15..In 1969 the US Treasury stopped printing big bills. Who was on the $500? the $1000?

16..The coleoidea--octopus, squid and __________.

17..The CDC reports that among minors there are ____ gunshot deaths a year?

18..James Braddock lost the heavyweight crown to...?

19..What animal has the densest fur?

20..The ATF has added another letter, standing for..?

21..The countries breaking ties with Qatar want what TV station shut down?

22..In 1997 our air force says that so-called Roswell aliens were really..?

23..Explain the "Berlin Airlift".

24..Why is Alexei Navalny in the news?

25.."But nowadays I'm lost between two shores." Next line?

Ask for no quarter.

 

[DriveLH]

25. "LA's mine but it ain't home. New York's home, but it ain't home no more." Niel Diamond, "I AM I SAID"

 

[pinotbear]

16. Nautilus
23. During the early stages of the Cold War, the USSR tried to impede deliveries of supplies to the Allied sections of Berlin - a city located well within the boundaries of East Germany. The US, essentially, flew over the roadblocks by bringing in necessities by air, which was a pretty good trick for a population that size in the 1950's.

 

[Rocket009]

16..Cuttlefish?

19..Polar bear

22..A weather balloon

23..Transportation routes into West Berlin is cut off by the Soviets. In response US airlifts in supplies for about a year before the Soviets lift the blockade

 

[huskyrob1]

19) Chinchilla

 

[ed4ourgirls]

15. McKinley on the $500 and Cleveland on the $1000.

16. Nautilus

 

[SVCBeercats]

14. Hard to believe today but it was the Ivy Leaguers: Princeton, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. Carlisle had this guy who was kinda good, Jim Thorpe.

18. Joe Louis

19. Chinchilla

20. Explosives

21. Al Jazeera

23. "Berlin Airlift" occurred when in 1948 the Soviets created a land blockade around the western half of Berlin. The USA and England flew supplies into West Berlin. The Soviets dropped the blockade in 1949.

 

[Bigboote]

16..Cuttlefish

17..356?

19..Polar Bear

20..explosives

21..Al Jazeera

22..Tribbles

23..West Berlin was an enclave within East Germany. The East Germans/Soviets closed all land routes in and out of West Berlin, forcing the US and company to fly supplies in.

25..I'm drowning?

 

[DriveLH]

25. "LA's mine but it ain't home. New York's home, but it ain't home no more." Niel Diamond, "I AM I SAID"

I just realized a mistake, it should read:" LA's mine but it ain't home, New York's home but it ain't mine no more."

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Colgate, Princeton, Lehigh, Slippery Rock
18. Jack Johnson
19. Seals
20. Explosives
21. Al Jezeera
22. Weather balloons
23. In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, the US and its western allies airlifted food and supplies into West Berlin. The success of the airlift prompted the Soviets o eventually lift the embargo.