Correct as to both - Celeste of Ohio and Seymour of New York.
Just guessing:
378. Stone Mountain.
379. Colt Navy revolver.
380. Jim Fisk.
Tycoons, magnates and captains of industry…
- This railroad tycoon and yachtsman is alleged to have snarled, when a critic complained that his pricing system was hurting the public, “The public be damned!”
- He made his ginormous fortune in Cleveland, moved to NYC to keep tabs on his business interests, but was finally buried in Cleveland.
- He had a particularly large and red nose of which he was self-conscious, but was a veritable financial wizard, once saving the U.S. Government during a financial panic.
- Bearer of a famous name, he headed the Pullman Co. at the time of its controversial strike.
- This Hollywood studio boss was renowned for his malapropisms, perhaps most memorably, “An oral contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”
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WC Fields.
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Samuel Goldwyn?
- Correct!
- Correct, the Model 1851 .36 caliber Navy Colt.
- Good guess, but not the one.
My answers:
- William Vanderbilt. (I know it was Vanderbilt, but did I remember the son’s name right?)
- John D. Rockefeller
- John Pierpont Morgan
- George Pullman
- Incorrect.
- Correct.
- Wrong first name; right last name.
- Correct.
- I only know him as “J.P.,” but correct.
- Incorrect.
Pullman wasn’t running the company anymore at the time of the strike? Color me surprised.
OK, one of my favorite subjects: pirates!
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What American city did Blackbeard blockade and hold for ransom in the spring of 1718?
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What vessel, formerly named the Concorde, served as Blackbeard’s flagship for a time?
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Although he was most famous for his depredations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and Africa, where he captured more than 400 ships, this pirate captain once sailed up the American eastern seaboard to attack Trepassey, Newfoundland.
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Before his death in the wreck of his ship Whydah off Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1717, this pirate captain is reputed to have told one of his victims, “I am a free prince, and have as much right to make war against the whole world as one who has a thousand sail of ships at sea.”
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Who was the New York governor who lured Captain William Kidd ashore with promises of good treatment, then arrested him for piracy in 1699?
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Charlestown, SC
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Was that his Queen Anne’s Revenge?
Correct on both counts!
Where did they go…?
- This New York jurist stepped into a cab in the 1930s and was never seen again; some think the Mafia did him in.
- This single word was found carved in a stockade post on the site of the “Lost Colony”'s settlement on the Outer Banks of N.C.
- This Southwestern Indian tribe left behind beautiful cave dwellings but no indication of their ultimate fate.
- Amelia Earhart was flying this kind of plane when she disappeared over the Pacific.
- This Congressional leader disappeared while flying over Alaska; his daughter now works for NPR.
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I believe this is Judge Carter
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Croatoan, found in the remains of the Roanoke Island colony, founded by Sir Walter Raliegh.
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I think you’re talking about the Anasazi. Who are getting more attention these days since the scarce evidence seems to indicate that their culture was victim of a massive ecological disaster/civilization-wide crops failure.
Now, a few more questions:
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Where was the first sustained man-made nuclear criticality achieved?
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One of the early reactors gave rise to an acronym that is used to this day to describe shutting down a nuclear fission reactor. What is this acronym, and what words were used to develop the acronym?
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In the 1950’s the US Gov’t subsidized the construction of a small town in the vicinity of Los Alamos, at the request of the researchers there. What was the grim nickname for this town? And what was the maximum population of this town?
The University of Chicago, in (of all places) Chicago. Debatably beneath their football field.
Huh, I know the acronym but got no clue as to the words.
kidchameleon, you’re right for question 398 - where the first sustained man-made criticality occured.
I figured most people actually know the word, far fewer are aware that it started out as an acronym, let alone what it was. I suspect it would be possible to reason through to what the acronym is dervived from, if one thinks about the primitive nature of the pile under the stadium, and what the fastest way to take that reactor sub-critical might have been.
ETA:
- If you’re looking for the exact model, I can’t get it. I believe it was a variant of an Electra, but I think that’s partial credit at best.
- This Congressional leader disappeared while flying over Alaska; his daughter now works for NPR.
Hale Boggs
Everyone has correctly answered my questions. Good job.
And it was a Lockheed Electra, IIRC.
They said it during Watergate era
401. What did the President know, and when did he know it?
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I am prepared to run over my own mother to get the President re-elected
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There is a cancer growing on the Presidency
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. . . at that point in time
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This Watergate prosecutor was also a member of the 9/11 Commission?
Senator Howard Baker (R-Tenn)
John Dean
Everybody
- Wouldn’t that have to be G. Gordon Liddy? The whole thuggishness-as-virtue sentiment just screams Liddy.
Here are some random ones:
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In one word, what were Beecher’s Bibles?
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Under the original terms of the 1862 Homestead Act, how many acres could a homesteader claim?
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Who wrote a famous early Cold War essay under the pseudonym, “X”?
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What railway innovation did Gustavus Swift use to revolutionize the Chicago meat-packing industry in the latter 19th century?
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What patron of the back-to-Africa movement founded the Black Star Line?
Rifles.
@ Julius Henry correct on all three. Back in '73 it seemed like no one could complete a sentence without adding . . . that point in time.
@ Danimal Nope, see #342 for G Gordon Liddy’s most memorable phrase.