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mudee · **Posted:** Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:13 pm

I believe it is in Antarctica, as far as significance, my best guess is highest mountain?

zog741 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:35 am

mudee wrote:

I believe it is in Antarctica, as far as significance, my best guess is highest mountain?

Half right. It is in Antarctica, but Vinson Massif is the highest mountain.

Will give this until tomorrow evening, 6/18 at 6:00pm ET. At that point, I will answer the question if it hasn't been answered by then, and the torch will be passed.

-- RWM

zog741 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:29 pm

Time is now up...

Mount Sidley's significance is that it's the highest volcano in Antarctica.

Since mudee attempted an answer and got it half right, he can ask the next question.

-- RWM

mudee · **Posted:** Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:08 pm

Thanks Zog.

What year did the first production VW Beetle roll off the assembly line? (not the prototypes)

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:54 pm

mudee wrote:

Thanks Zog.

What year did the first production VW Beetle roll off the assembly line? (not the prototypes)

Dr. Ferdinand Porsche came up with the basic design in the mid 1930's. If memory serves, mass production didn't start until after the war in 1945 with help from the US in an effort to get the post-war German economy going again.
My first car was a 1959 bug Baja. I always wished it was a '58 because that was the last year they made the oval rear window. Oh well.

mudee · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:25 am

It was pre 45. And the last oval window was 57. 58 was large window.

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:38 am

mudee wrote:

It was pre 45. And the last oval window was 57. 58 was large window.

I stand corrected, it was '57... brain fart.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

I scrolled up and down, and I'm trying to figure out who got the right answer.

Whoever it was that got the correct answer, I'm waiting for him/her to put the next one up here.

Don't worry, it's unlikely that I will know the answer to the next question posed on this thread, but it's a lot of fun putting my silly guesses up here. :lol:

Damn, do pre-calls count...? If so, I'm gonna guess the answer to the yet to be asked question is gonna be Jimi Hendrix, or maybe William Shakespeare. :lol:

mudee · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:08 am

Cloudy, the question is still open, nobody guessed correctly. I will give it until Saturday night and post a new one if nobody gets it.

zog741 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:47 pm

mudee wrote:

What year did the first production VW Beetle roll off the assembly line? (not the prototypes)

I think it was 1938. If I'm wrong, I'll make one more guess and give up.

-- RWM

mudee · **Posted:** Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:58 pm

Zog, you are closest, the correct answer is 1940. The first 44 prototypes were made in 38, and most were dismantled and destroyed, only 3 are known to have survived. The second 50 prototypes were made in 1939 with changes made that would be used in the production cars (until 1940 they were only available to high ranking politicians and VW engineers). in 1940 8,532 production vehicles available to the general public were produced. The last of the 1979 model year rolled off the assembly line Jan 31, 1980 and were the last ones shipped to the U.S.. The air cooled beetles were produced in Mexico until June 2003 and the last one to roll off the line was number 21,529,464. :shock:

A few years ago someone found a 1938 prototype in lithuania and brought it back from the dead. http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=340552

Zog, Your up.

zog741 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 22, 2014 7:10 pm

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Who painted this work? Hint: this person is very famous, but not as a painter, although he turned out to be a fairly prolific artist. You'll need to use the scroll bars to see the entire painting.

-- RWM

FrankC · **Posted:** Sun Jun 22, 2014 8:27 pm

zog741 wrote:

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Who painted this work? Hint: this person is very famous, but not as a painter, although he turned out to be a fairly prolific artist. You'll need to use the scroll bars to see the entire painting.

-- RWM

EINSTIEN

zog741 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:57 am

Not Einstein. Sorry to have not responded sooner.

Here's a hint: "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."

-- RWM

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

I'm not familiar with the quotation, but I'm going to take a shot here and say Churchill because I know he dabbled in painting later in life.

zog741 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:07 am

ANON wrote:

I'm not familiar with the quotation, but I'm going to take a shot here and say Churchill because I know he dabbled in painting later in life.

Churchill is correct. The painting that I showed was A Storm over Cannes. I'm not sure when he painted it though.

You are next, ANON.

-- RWM

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

OK. Everybody is familiar with "famous last words" of various people, but as the vast majority of people don't get a chance to be so memorable or pithy with their final breath. In honor of all of those people, which President of the U.S.'s final words are alleged to have been, "The nourishment is palatable."

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

As it has been 24 hours, I'll give a hint: This president, for all of his admirable personal virtues, is generally thought of as being as forgettable as his final words.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Well, hell. That description seems to rule out the only President to have matriculated from that eternally damnable junior university. :lol:

pengwn · **Posted:** Wed Jun 25, 2014 1:31 pm

Blind guess: Andrew Johnson

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2232

LILJOL is of course right that it was not Hoover.

And although A. Johnson is a good guess, this guy is arguably even more forgettable than him.

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

wild gues..........Polk?

pengwn · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:07 am

I tend to forget about Chester A. Arthur, so he's my second guess

JohnL · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 10:25 am

The favorite president of the Procrastinator's Club - Millard Fillmore? I'm not sure what favorable personal qualities he had though.

THE ICEMAN · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:20 pm

I'll go with my great, great, great, great uncle... Franklin Pierce. :shock:

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