OT: Test #499B.

[wire chief]

14..Describe the Okapi.

15..Author and gist of Native Son.

16..What is the historic label "Hundred Days Rule".

17..The 1st Sherlock book that was American published?

18..Why is Senator Chuck Grassey in the news?

19..When did Ray Allen and Denzel get together?

20..Within 5 years when did Texas declare its independence from Mexico?

21..What songs did not appear on the Eagles initial Greatest Hits album?
The Long Run, Witchey Woman, Desperado, Heartache Tonight, Already Gone, Hotel California.

22..Explain why translating Tyrannosaurus has been faulty.

23..What Prez ok'd Puerto Ricans as citizens?

24..The 1942 club for servicemen, the S.D.C.(?).

25..Identify the Eroica & Emperor.

Do a bad job, and you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself. Cause I'm already...

 

[Zorro]

14. A zebra designed by a committee.
25. Ludwig Van's 3rd symphany and piano concerto, respectively.
17. The Casebook, mebbe?

 

[meyers7]

19. He Got Game.
20. Some time around the Alamo and Battle of San Jacinto prolly. 1830's. So 1835. Give or take 5.
21. Don't think The Long Run and Hotel California were on the 1st Greatest Hits. It was about the early 70's. They came later. Think Heartache Tonight was on the Long Run album too, so not that one either.
25. Eroica was a Beethoven single I think. Not sure of the B side.

 

[pinotbear]

14. To expand on zorro's entry, the Okapi is an African animal of the deep forest, partially striped like a zebra, but, actually related to the giraffe, I believe. Looks more like a funky antelope with racing stripes than either a member of the horse family or a giraffe (to me, anyway). Wasn't discovered by Western science until fairly recently, within the last 100 years or so.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

14. Cute. We discovered them for the first time at a couple of recent zoo visits. Partly zebra striped, kind of Giraffe looking head and brownish. My wife - who loves Giraffes - nominated them to her second favorite category.
20. Early 1830's.

 

[k9fanatic]

14. An odd-looking (but beautiful) African animal in the giraffe family although its legs are striped like a zebra's.
18. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has vowed not to take action on any Supreme Court nominee put forth by President Obama.
19. Ray played Denzel Washington's son in He Got Game.
21. The Long Run, Heartache Tonight and Hotel California.
23. I'm guessing Teddy Roosevelt?

 

[VAUConnFan]

15. Richard Wright, racism and systemic poverty in the North
19. He's Got Game
20. 1845
23. Truman

 

[ed4ourgirls]

17. The Sign of Four?
20. 1836
25. 3rd symphony and 5th piano concerto

 

[hoopingcrane]

15..Richard Wright- young African American in Chicago, poor and struggling, gets into trouble and ends up sentenced to death for murder

16..Napoleon returns from exile to Elba, loses at Waterloo and is exiled to St. Helena, all in one hundred days

18..Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committed joins McConnell in declaring that if President Obama nominates anyone to replace Scalia on the Supreme Court, they will not even hold a hearing on the nomination.

19..In the movie He Got Game, Ray as Jesus Shuttlesworth, Denzel's son

20..1836, almost exactly 180 years

23..Wilson- Jones Act

25..Beethoven- Third (?) Symphony; Concerto

 

[ballhawk]

18. Not to be overly pedantic but Sen. Grassey is not in the news. Sen. Grassley is.

 

[wire chief]

17..Pimpernel

22.."Terrible______", which it isn't.

24..S____ Door C______

 

[lne001]

22. Lizard

 

[JRRRJ]

17..The Scarlet Pimpernel

22..Terrible Lizard (I seem to recall "Thunder Lizard" from the dim past, which is terribler.)

 

[pinotbear]

34. Screen Door Cantina?

 

[wire chief]

14..We'll give the thoroughness award to our own Dr. Doolittle (pinot) for his description, and we approve of Mrs. Knight's affection.

15..VAUC & hoop are up on the '40's story.

16..Hoop again with the exploits of Josephine's hubby.

17..I ask JR if he read the question, for I would have expected him to know that the Scarlet Pimpernel is not a Sherlock story. A poster was to take my colorful hint and come up with A Study in Scarlet. Oh well.

18..Did you notice that ballwalk reminds me that, If you want to get to heaven, you've got to raise a little 'l. And I didn't.

19..The K9 Quartet with "He Got Game".

20..The ed4 Quartet focus on 1836. Amazing # of you must hail from the Lone Star, for why else hold on to such useless knowledge.

21..Meyers & K9 soar like eagles.

22..JR & Ine with the thundering, terrible lizard.

23..Hoop's got the Woodrow edict.

24..Pinot needs to take down the screen and replace it with a Stage.

25..Funny that I had to cobble together the complete ID from 4 of your segments.
Beethoven's 3rd Symphony & 5th Piano Concerto.

Enough, time to turn our attention to the semifinals.