OT: Test #452B

[wire chief]

14..Abraham's Hill, the wind, Jefferson

15..Our territories: Puerto Rico, Virgin Is, Guam and N...?

16..What species is Kogia?

17..Within a decade when was Webster's Dictionary first published?

18.."A spirit born of earth and water, fire flying from your hands."

19..Great Belt Bridge is 8 miles long and connects Zealand with Funen in..?

20..Singer Sade's mixed ethnicity?

21..Grandcamp & Hiflyer in 1947.

22..Whose Colonnade and Piazza?

23..The Supremes agrees to have raisins in Court. Say what?

24..Two Christian Scientist politicians(?) throw their weight and secure a religious
exception to medical neglect by parents in the '70's.

25..When Ark. secures an Orange Bowl bid, fans pelt players with oranges.
Coach(?) quips, "I'm glad we're not going to the Gator bowl."

I'm still laughing about #25. Go getum, you, um, reptiles.

 

[Wally East]

15. Northern Mariana (and American Samoa, too)

25. Former UConn coach Lou Holtz

 

[johnnyc]

14. Moriah

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

17 - 1805 (guess)

 

[rbny1]

24. Haldeman and Ehrlichman of Nixon White House fame. There was a review in the NY Times last weekend of a book on the topic; that's the only reason I know the answer.

 

[k9fanatic]

16. Fish
17. Before his "dictionary" came into being, he published his American Spelling Book in the late 1780 - early 1790s.
20. I believe she was born in Nigeria. Maybe Nigerian/British ethnicity?
22. Vatican's? St. Peter's Square.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

19. Denmark.

 

[ndmb]

15. Northern Mariana (and American Samoa, too)

25. Former UConn coach Lou Holtz

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Moriah
17. 1770
20. Nigerian and British
25. Frank Broyles

 

[wire chief]

14..JC & VAUC rightly say Moriah applies in all 3 cases.

15..Northern Marianas, writes Wally. Ndmb says he's thinking. What do I do with that?

16..Will someone tell K9 mammals ain't fish. Kogia is a whale.

17..Like I wrote in 15, K9, what do I do with that? Dictionary was 1828. Now, given the space between his spelling book and the dictionary, I'd guess the first one was in crayons.

18..Elton John's The One...yeah, he was pretending he liked goils.

19..See, you can get tough ones. Well, at least ed4 can. It's Denmark.

20..Nigerian and English, told to us by VAUC & K9. That will make for one singular individual, as her musical style attests.

21..These 2 French ships exploded in Texas 2 days apart. Columbo and Dr. Who are still on the case.

22..An Italian guide once told me that although Michelangelo is more famous, Italians consider Gian Bernini
their greatest sculptor. His work is all over Rome. Check out his bronze in St. Peter's Basilica.
https://maitaly.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/bernini-his-mark-on-st-peters-basilica/

23..There's a '30s law that punishes farmers for growing crops that the Feds don't want, so a California raisin
grower is suing vs. this archaic rule. Stay tuned.

24..Ya gotta wonder that if the NY Times goes belly up, whether rbny will just, like old soldiers, fade away.

25..Lou Holtz is a crazy delight. Wally knows.

Well, I lugubriously report that 15 1/2 is your score. If I ever had a trig teacher, I'm sure she'd score it a "D".
Now I see why you need hints.