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Who said?
1. "I have a dream..."
2. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
3. "First they ignore you..then they laugh at you..then they fight you...then we win."
4. "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground."
5. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
6. "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
7. "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
8. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
9. "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
10. "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
( Read more... )
I don't have any more in reserve, so don't count on anything soon.
Another easy one?
21 March 2003 09:20By the numbers.
1. Once upon a ____
2. Two for the ____
3. Three on a ____
4. Fourth ____ (newspapers, media)
5. Fifth _____ (sympathizers, spies?)
6. Sixth _____ (psi, movie title)
7. In seventh _____
8. Behind the eight ____
9. On ____ nine
10. Ten most ____
( Eleven )
This one might not be so easy...
Achievements
1. In 1866, his invention was a stabilized explosive originally intended for mining and excavation work.
2. In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb was the first person to do this.
3. In 1911, Roald Amundsen's group was first to reach this remote location.
4. In 1942, Enrico Fermi was in charge of the first manmade one of these.
5. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin was the first person to do this.
6. In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed this operation successfully on a human for the first time.
7. July 20, 1969 was when this dream was realized.
8. In 1980, a United Nations body announced that this was no longer a threat in the wild.
9. In 1982, Barney Clark was the first person to use this.
10. In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee came up with this. Most heard of it in the 1990s...
( Hey, what if... )
This should be a fairly easy one, but then I thought some others were, too...
1. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and _____
2. Laurel and ____
3. Shields and _____
4. Center for Disease Control and ______
5. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & ______
6. Romeo and _____
7. Martini and ______
8. Tony Orlando and _____
9. Sonny and ____
10. Yakko, Wakko, and ____
( and... )
The 1970s...
1. Seemingly every (U.S.) political scandal now gets suffixed with the same ending as this.
2. This started in late 1979 and dragged on for 444 days.
3. The line, "He drank the Kool-Aid" refers to this.
4. This pesticide was banned in U.S. in 1972.
5. This 1975 "Test Project" involved an unusual degree of US-Soviet cooperation.
6. Eleven days before Three Mile Island was in the news, this movie about a nuclear incident was released.
7. Not only was the U.S. national speed limit set to 55mph, this was tried for fuel conservation in 1974.
8. This church leader died not long after being selected as leader.
9. In the U.S. this means of communication became quite popular - and quite abused.
10. A day after his inauguration, Jimmy Carter followed through on a contentious campaign promise and did this.
( Those are bell bottoms, not flares. )
Drug test.
6 March 2003 11:00No, you don't have to fill a little cup. Just look this list over and see how many you know.
1. Common brand name of acetominophen.
2. Common brand name for methylphenidate.
3. Common name for procaine.
4. Common brand name of fluoxetine.
5. The song Mother's Little Helper was about this drug.
6. This drug was named for the god of dreams.
7. Another name for adrenaline.
8. Use of this tranquilizer resulted in birth defects.
9. This stuff is what gives tonic water such a bitter taste.
10. Chances are you are addicted to trimethylxanthine, also known as...
( Take two aspirin and call me in the morning. )
Swiping an idea from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
chipuni, here are a few questions. Oh, and I don't expect anything near as frequent as he is (or has been) with this sort of thing. Monthly, maybe weekly, if at all. Any, here goes:
1. This person wasn't the inventor of the telescope, but did first turn one to the skies and make public what he saw.
2. This person is credited with the invention of the reflecting telescope.
3. The apparent gap in Saturn's rings was discovered by this person.
4. After the sun and moon, this planet tends to be the brightest object in the sky.
5. This comet hunter's list of nuisance objects is more known than his comets.
6. The largest working refracting telescope is here.
7. Alvin Clark Jr. was testing a telescope lens when he was the first to see this star.
8. The sun passes through all the constellations of the zodiac, but this constellation is left out of common lists of the zodiac.
9. This southern hemisphere constellation was considered just too big and was broken up into six constellations.
10. This constellation is in two pieces.
11. Astronomers detected this element before it was found on earth.
Should I do this again?
