OT: Test #428B

[wire chief]

14..__________ Day becomes Veteran's Day in what year(within 5)?

15..The chief reason that the Mongol network went into decline in the 14th Century?

16..I'll (who?) light the fire, while you (who?) place the flowers in the vase that you bought today-ay-ay.

17..In contrast to his traveling grandpa, Kublilai Khan ruled from..?

18..What was Don Carter's sport?

19..The nation with the 3rd largest economy?

20..Only one tennis player from South America was ever a year-end #1. Who?

21..Only 2 veggies(?) can produce year after year without help.

22..Not Arab: Turks, Kurds, Kuwaiti, Iranians, Syrians, Lebanese?

23..The decade the Louvre opened?

24..Monday, 3/8/71 contained what event of worldwide interest?

25.."Summertime will be a love-in there."

No, no, none of your usual belly-aching. Just get on with it, hop to it, forge ahead.

 

[pinotbear]

14. Armistice Day .. WAG, 1953
16. Well, it's from "Our House", by CSN. Not sure specifically who the two folks are.
17. Xanadu?
18. Bowling
25. "San Francisco", by Scott McKenzie .. be sure to wear flowers in your hair.

 

[crownfox2]

15. Development of sea trade by the west lessened importance of land routes
19. Germany
21. One is asparagus
22. All are non-Arab

 

[Waquoit]

20. Guga Kuerten

 

[k9fanatic]

16. Our House (and a very, very fine one at that) by Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
17. Mongolia
19. India?
20. Guillermo Vilas of Argentina
22. Lebanese

 

[DishNSwish]

15..The chief reason that the Mongol network went into decline in the 14th Century?

Cable companies wouldn't pay their fee to add it to their base package.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

16 - I looked it up - I didn't know that!!!

 

[meyers7]

14. Armistice (Remembrance) no idea on the date. 1959??
16. Our House, CSNY?
17. Xanadu?
18. I think bowling.
21. I know corn can.
25. I imagine San Francisco, Haight Ashbury.

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Armistice Day some time between 1959 and 1972.
16. Our House - CSN&Y from the Deja Vu album, their second I believe.
17. Outer Mongolia
18. Bowling
19. India
20. Pancho Segurra
24. the concert for Bangladesh bringing together George and Ringo along with a host of other superstars

 

[ed4ourgirls]

15. I'm guessing that the bubonic plague had something to do with it.

 

[wire chief]

22..Now it looks like crown and I shall lock horns, I'm clearer if I say which don't speak Arabian as a mother tongue.

15...When I typed "Network", I knew someone like Dish would pounce. And all you "likes" are just encouraging him.

24..See, there's just 2 fellas involved, and one just got out of prison.

16..It is a myth that they arrived home in a big yellow taxi. An Englishman would not hear of it.

19..Largely south of Hyundai & Kia.

21..Now combine the 2nd one in a pie with strawberries.

23..As it happens, right down the street(well, same year anyway) the 16th Louis's head is in a basket.

 

[Waquoit]

16. Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell

 

[OneTrickPony]

16. Graham Nash of Hollies fame wrote Our House while living in an iconic tree house with Joni Mitchell...performed by CSNY...considered an idyllic time by both performers...
22. Persians that speak Farsi...?
25. Scott McKenzie singing about the Summer of Love in 1967 in San Francisco...but hit the airwaves the summer of '69 just as I was moving there...

 

[crownfox2]

21. the other is rhubarb

 

[VAUConnFan]

19. China
19. Japan
21. Rhubarb, ???

 

[TXs N Os]

20. Maria Bueno

 

[wire chief]

14..Pinot, Meyers & VAUC have ended their usual squabbling with an Armistice. Pinot is only 1 year off-1954.

16..Waq & Pony with a very, very, very fine response--Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell. Knights still in shock,
so send him cards and letters.

15..While we always issue a (black) plague on both the houses of ND & Tn, ed4 says it applies also to the 14thC.

17..You could say China, or more specifically, Xanadu, as Pinot & Meyers & Coleridge did.

18..Pinot, Meyers & VAUC all heard a pin drop.

19..VAUC writes that it is Japan. China follows us at #2.

20..Gustavo (Guga) Kuerton of Brazil, who for awhile owned the French Open. It's a good sport,
so give it a Waq.

21..Crown starts us off with asparagus. Later entries by VAUC & crown, who recall their Little League
squabbling days, figure it must be a rhubarb.

22..Turks, Kurds & Iranians don't speak Arabic. Pony gave us 1 of 3.

23..1793

24..Mr. Ali fell to Mr. Frazier, shortly following the end of Ali's sentence for conscientious objecting.

25..Pinot & pony give us Scott McKenzie's San Francisco. If you see any Boneyarders festooned with flowers,
it's them.

Taking into account some partial answers, I give you an 80%. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

 

[TXs N Os]

20. Apparently there are two tennis players from South America who have been year-end number one. Gustavo Kuerten for men and four time year-end number one Maria Bueno for women.

 

[wire chief]

20. Apparently there are two tennis players from South America who have been year-end number one. Gustavo Kuerten for men and four time year-end number one Maria Bueno for women.

You're right. If I were talking men, then I should have typed men.