OT: Test #560B

[wire chief]

14..A Kansas branch of which drug company has caused a pain-relieving shortage?

15..What's Uptake Technologies doing for the army?

16..What was the Tunguska Event of 1908?

17..New Yorkers call it the East River. Technically, it is not a river, but a..?

18..A Mediterranean rescue group in Barcelona is called ____ ____.

19..The year the 5-digit zip code begins?

20..Two national parks in what African state have been approved for oil drilling?

21..What company and under what brand does one get Espresso Chip and French Silk ice cream?

22..A medical study indicates that 3.2 million diabetes sufferers above what's expected are caused by..?

23..Barbi Benton's sugar daddy?

24.."Soothing every raging wave that comes."

25..Ace Atkins continues the novels of..?

I have now freed myself for bank and Wal-Mart errands.

 

[pinotbear]

16. Something - meteor, comet, alien craft - explodes over an essentially uninhabited area of Siberia, leveling millions of trees with the force of several Hiroshima-level bombs.
17. tidal strait/estuary
23. Hugh Hefner

 

[SVCBeercats]

15. Uptake Technologies is supplying the Army with an artificial intelligence product to forecast when combat equipment will fail.

16. The Tunguska Event of 1908 was an explosion that leveled trees for hundreds of square miles and probably killed who knows how many animals. There is no crater. So the speculation is the “object” exploded 5-8 kilometers above the ground. Pictures from this event are amazing. The best guess is a meteoroid.

19. The 5-digit code began in the early 40s for large cities. The ZIP code as we know it was established in the early 60s.

22. Mortality rate and heart disease

23. Hugh Hefner

 

[Bigboote]

16..A big explosion or impact that leveled thousands of square miles in Siberia.

17..Channel?

19..It was during the Kennedy administration, which is why Massachusetts begins with 01. I’ll split the difference and say 1962.

 

[VAUConnFan]

17. Estuary
19. 1958
19. 1963
20. South Africa
21. Nestle, Carnation
22. refined sugar
23. Hugh Hefner

 

[Rocket009]

16..A sizable object, likely a meteorite or comet, caused a massive explosion above Tunguska, a remote area of Russia. The explosion felled millions of trees, but no pieces of the object have ever been found.

17..Estuary

19..Post WWII - I'll guess 1955

22..Air pollution

23..Hugh Hefner

 

[wire chief]

14 Makers of Gabapentin and Ibuprofen.

18..They gave safe harbor to an immigrant vessel that had been sent away by Malta and Italy.
Think the "Journey" hit.

20..Think gorillas.

21..VAUC's WAG about Nestle's is right. The brand is Ms. Gorme, spelled a little differently.

24..About a facial feature, sung by, um, Sweetbread.

25..One character is Vinnie Morris.

 

[SoCalCanine]

24. Green-eyed Lady by Sugarloaf

 

[SoCalCanine]

21. Edy's

 

[wire chief]

14..If you're one whose money you hoard,
Then with a rhyme you are on board.

15..Very good, SVC. I always try to find fault, but this time...

16..Big's Quartet with the 1812 Overture...sort of.

17..Estuary or tidal strait works, as a river would denote runoff or spring originated. Big is still basking in the last test, where he removed an N from "channel" to cover himself in musk.

18..Oh, c'mon. "So now I come to you with ____ ____, nothing to hide. Believe what I say."

19..And then JFK was shot.

20..Democratic Republic of the Congo.

21..SoCal feeding his face, but with lower calorie ice cream.

22..Rocket in a face mask. No diabetic he.

23..VAUC Quartet put down their magazines to write.

24..SoCal is one of those guys, "Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by".

25..Let's give Mrs. SVC one more chance. The Hero's girl friend is a psychotherapist named Susan. Or maybe K9; she reads.

Work to do, folks, work still to do.

 

[pinotbear]

14. miserly Pfizer-ly?

 

[wire chief]

14. miserly Pfizer-ly?

Well you could use the noun and be less cute. But what's a bear, if not cute?

 

[k9fanatic]

Open Arms

 

[wire chief]

Open Arms

Got it.

 

[VAUConnFan]

19. 1963, my second WAG.