OT: Test #525B

[wire chief]

14..Model 5150?

15..Pew research: At least __% of households have at least one gun.

16..The Merry Widow--whose light opera?

17..Steamship Arapaho was a first to..?

18..Before 1934 what was Alcatraz' purpose?

19..The gist of the movie MELVIN AND HOWARD?

20..A 19thC controversial thinker(?) now has a statue in his hometown of Manchester, Eng.

21..One(?) of the Euro countries dealing with wildfires has extensive eucalyptus farms,
which exacerbate a fire's heat.

22..Frances, Charley, Jeanne & Ivan

23.."Morning Mood" sets the tone for the PGS by EG.

24..The goal of the Boxer Rebellion?

25.."She can make the birds sing harmony. Every drop of rain is glad it found her."

I CAN DO NO MORE TO PRIME YOU.

 

[SVCBeercats]

22. Probably hurricanes
24. “purify” China of all foreign peoples and their influence.
25. Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got – Four Tops

 

[JRRRJ]

14..First IBM PC

15..50

 

[CajunHusky]

4. It wasn't the first but it certainly redefined the PC for generations. there were a number of business computers before this - my office had several IBM 5120s doing financial work but they were an all in one unit with 8 inch floppy disks. the 5150 used 5 1/4 inch disks and broke the PC into modules: keyboard, monitor and CPU. And I think it also made MS-DOS the de-facto operating system which made Bill Gates his fortune.

19.. Howard Hughes stops at a gas station, meets owner/attendant and ends leaving him a fortune in a contested will

20..Karl Marx

24..Overthrow of the Emperor and expulsion/murder of all foreigners

 

[pinotbear]

15. I think it's a distinct minority, say, 30%. I seem to recall that a remarkable percentage of total guns are owned by a very small percentage of Americans - something like 60% of guns are owned by 10% of the population.

 

[k9fanatic]

18. Military fort
21. Portugal
24. Nationalistic uprising in China -- goal was to drive all foreigners out
25. Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got -- Four Tops

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Texas Instruments last pocket calculator
15. 45%
18. Insane Asylum
19. Describing the relationship of two men during Howard Hughes' later most eccentric years.
24. To get the foreigners out of China
25. Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got - as sung by the Four Tops after they left Motown. Just in case, "I would Kiss the Ground She Walks On, Heaven Must Have Made Her Just For Me."

 

[ed4ourgirls]

16. Franz Lehar. I had the pleasure of seeing it at the Volksoper in Vienna some years ago.

 

[Bigboote]

15..I know it's a record low, I'm thinking 35%

16..That's not fair, it's somebody really obscure whose name I can't call up.

21..Portugal

23..Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg

 

[wire chief]

14..We get Cajun's life story, and we hope nothing but his disks and his rabbits remain floppy.

15..Leave it to Machine-Gun VAUC to enlighten us.

16..Well, Big, Ed4 invited you, but you laughed at him. Now you suffer.

17..19-15-19

18.. K9 correct, more specifically military hoosegow.

19..Cajun & VAUC fight over the aisle seat.

20..Cajun as close to accuracy as one can get, but a beat off.

21..K9 & Big aim their hoses.

22..Yes, SVC in 2004 all 4 hit my adopted retirement state.

23..OK, Big redeems his faltering over the Merry Widow.

24..The K9 Quartet acts like Edward R. Murrow--YOU ARE THERE.

25..Nobody Tops VAUC 4 detail here.

Seventeen & twenty, folks, need help.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

20. Well, as I was reading answers, I blitzed on the Marx. Perhaps the answer is Engels?

 

[CajunHusky]

20. Well, as I was reading answers, I blitzed on the Marx. Perhaps the answer is Engels?

Engels sounds good too especially since there does seem to be a statue of Engels in Manchester but when I reread the question and realized it was a stretch to call Marx a native son of Manchester it would seem that would also be true of Engels

 

[wire chief]

17.. Convert to letters

 

[CajunHusky]

17.. Convert to letters

first to send an SOS by wireless?

 

[wire chief]

first to send an SOS by wireless?

yup