OT: Test #485B

[wire chief]

14..I'm in the funnies as the guy who was a champion tanner, but now disavows that practice.

15..I was an unsung hero of WW2, and then England turned on me for being gay.

16..I was a Prez who died in office 150 years ago.

17..Gordon wrote no song about me, but like Edmund, I held up a lot of men. In 1966
on Lake Huron, I no longer could.

18..I went from Kelsey to Tea.

19..I was just elected the 1st black presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

20..I am from Ontario with a degree in philosophy and long seen on a game show.

21..I was a "Law and Order" senator who just died.

22..Back in "59 I led a bunch of roaring mice.

23..I was the Prez who signed off on North Dakota and South Dakota as states #39 & 40.

24..My wife Arlene is 44, but I'm way, way up there in age after a career of sing, dancing,
acting and writing KEEP MOVING.

25..I sold you Maytags for many years.

Good hunting, comrades.

 

[rbny1]

15. Alan Turing, the British mathematician who helped break the Nazi Enigma code during the war. After the war he was convicted of being gay and committed suicide. A very sorry episode in British history.
20. Alex Trebek.
22. Peter Sellers in the amusing movie The Mouse That Roared.

 

[DriveLH]

14. Zonker Harris
16. Lincoln
21. Fred Thompson

 

[crown2]

25. Jesse White

 

[UcMiami]

22. Peter Sellers

 

[rvwsleep]

17. Edmund Fitzgerald
23. Harrison
24 Dick Van Dyke

 

[rvwsleep]

I had to look this up after realizing that my answer to #17 can't be correct. I read where the sole survivor of this disaster passed away in September of this year. It's an interesting story and for those who would like to read about it, I'm providing a link. No peaking until after you answer #17 !
http://www.freep.com/story/news/obi...ck-great-lakes-dennis-hale-obituary/71604532/

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Zonker Harris
16. Abraham Lincoln
20. Peter Marshall
20. Alex Trebek
21. Fred Thompson

 

[Zorro]

14. Zonker.

16. Alan Turing

16..Father Abraham?



21..Fred Thoimpson

22.Peter Sellers

23..I was the Prez who signed off on North Dakota and South Dakota as states #39 & 40.

24.. Dick Van Dyke, mebbe?

 

[wire chief]

I had to look this up after realizing that my answer to #17 can't be correct. I read where the sole survivor of this disaster passed away in September of this year. It's an interesting story and for those who would like to read about it, I'm providing a link. No peaking until after you answer #17 !
http://www.freep.com/story/news/obi...ck-great-lakes-dennis-hale-obituary/71604532/

Actually rw, if they have "peaked", then they are clearly entitled to peek.

 

[wire chief]

16..You may rightly ask, "What is Wirechief thinking that he'd give us a question even Dan Quayle could answer?"
It is the result of erroneously flip=flopping some numbers.
Your question should NOT read 150 years, but 165 years ago, or 1850.
So gimmee that.

 

[VAUConnFan]

16..You may rightly ask, "What is Wirechief thinking that he'd give us a question even Dan Quayle could answer?"
It is the result of erroneously flip=flopping some numbers.
Your question should NOT read 150 years, but 165 years ago, or 1850.
So gimmee that.

You want the answer to who died in office in 1850? My first response would be Tippiecanoe who, as the story goes attended his inauguration without a topcoat, but he was the 10th(maybe 9th) president, Lincoln the 16th so that is not likely. Not Buchanan, not Pierce, possibly Fillmore, possibly Taylor, possibly Polk, not Tyler, not Tippiecanoe.

 

[k9fanatic]

18. Bebe Neuwirth -- went from playing Kelsey Grammer's wife/ex-wife on Cheers and Frasier to playing Tea Leoni's chief of staff on Madam Secretary.

 

[Zorro]

That would be the Mallard, I'm thinkin.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

16. Taylor died in 1850.

 

[wire chief]

14..Drive VAUC & zorro note that Doonesbury is getting health conscious.

15..Rbny offers a description. Zorro's dementia means problems with numbers.

16..Mention "presidents" to VAUC, and you have Alex Trebeck yelling, "Stop!, Stop! we need your final answer."
And walking onstage comes savior Knights.

17..The high-minded rvw shows self-discipline. I have little of that, so lucky for me, it is time to answer--Daniel J. Morrell.

18..You need no further explanation than that offered by TV guru K9.

19..You are all religious-deficient. Michael Curry.

20..Alex Trebeck, who made a brief appearance in #16, returns, and rbny/VAUC have it.

21..Drive, VAUC & zorro bid a fond farewell to Fred.

22..Rbny UcM & zorro reveal Mr. Pink Panther himself.

23..This was supposed to stump you all, but there is no stopping the collection of obscurity that is
rvw's mind with Benjamin Harrison. (He could be meaning William Henry, but we'll never know.)

24..Pssst, guys, If you follow Dick Van Dyke and get a gal nearly a half-century younger, you too can threaten the life span record.
Zorro and rvw here.

And zorro, WHAT would be the Mallard?

25..Crown with really clean clothes.

Fond farewell one and all until sometime after Sunday's game. Go Huskies!

 

[Zorro]

Mallard Fillmore of course, silly!