Who: A dog
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d/Plutodog.gif

What is: A planet. (At least when I was in school)

Was: In WWII it was a plan to construct pipelines in the channel from England to France.

Or

It was the code name of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

You forgot this guy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ps_Inv8584.jpg
The Roman God of the Underworld.

Ah, why not? Here's yer cookie.

Jester, you get NUTHIN!

'NOTHER QUESTION:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...arlie_1977.jpg
You should be able to recognize this structure/area. Were there any others like this? If so, where?

Ahhh...the famous Checkpoint Charlie so often seen in movies and literature.

Originally there were only two checkpoints in the American sector – one at Helmstedt (West German-East German border) and the other at Dreilinden (West Berlin and East Germany border). It was not along after that when the US military police opened the third checkpoint at Friedrichstrasse. Based on the phonetic alphabet the name Alpha was given to Helmstedt checkpoint, Bravo to the Dreilinden Checkpoint and Charlie to the Friedrichstrasse check point.

That depends on when they were opened, and on when the phonetic alphabet changed. If it was early enough the first two would have been Able and Baker.

Well, Torplexed, Helmstedt wasn't in the American Zone. It was in the British Zone. And yes, Sailor Steve, they weren't always known as Checkpoints Alpha and Bravo, because the checkpoints were established on 1 July 1945.

Berlin itself would've been the quickest erected POW camp had the balloon gone up.

Both of you get a cookie. Well done.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

Who was Peter Fechter and how does he figure in this scenario?

They sent up balloons if a war breaks out?? Cool!:woot:

Kirk, you bring new meaning to the term DAT.:haha:

BTW, Starchucks will open soon.

Nobody cares about ol' Peter???:wah:

'NOTHER QUESTION:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ic_Rainbow.jpg

This aircraft beat out another aircraft that, when it crashed, nearly took the life of its pilot. Please identify both aircraft AND the pilot.

Nobody yet, huh Squid?

Rainy week here....maybe we'll have some RAINBOWS soon.

XF-12 Rainbow


pilot: Lynn Hendrix

That's only one aircraft AND the WRONG pilot.

While we're waiting...

'NOTHER QUESTION:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...o_-_USCG_2.jpg

Please identify this dashing sea going man. (No peaking at the link!)

Anthony Quinn?

Nope, Tony was Mexican. This dashing figure is of Cuban descent, so he claimed.

Oh...its Squid! :woot:
I knew it..whats my prize?

You get Cracker Crumbs.

HINT:

http://www.batmania.com.ar/images/im...a/joker_13.jpg

Holy Flashback Batman! Jose Ferrer. :damn: I always thought he was Puerto Rican.

http://cristianos.com/wp-content/upl...ose_ferrer.jpg

The other plane would be the Hughes XF-11, and the pilot would of course be one Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_XF-11

Based on your hint, I'd say the last one would have to be Cesar Romero, who had a huge long career in a great many films. One of my favorites was the 1955 flick The Racers, starring Kirk Douglas.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003110/bio

José Ferrer??? He bears NO resemblance to Cesar Romero and NEVER played The Joker.

Cesar Romero was one of the few movie stars who, during WWII, did NOT seek a commission. He wanted to be like the rest of the GIs. So, he enlisted in the Coast Guard, ultimately rising to the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate. And he NEVER shaved that moustache, even while made up as The Joker. If you look closely, they applied the grease paint over the stache.

Sailor Steve, you get the cookie for the Cesar Romero question and the bottom half of the cookie WITH THE FILLING for the airplane question. Well done, sir.

'NOTHER QUESTION:

One of the strangest ideas come up with during WWII involved the use of Pykrete. What was Pykrete and what was the idea?

Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carrier. Pykrete has some interesting properties, notably its relatively slow melting rate (due to low thermal conductivity), and its vastly improved strength and toughness over unmodified (crystalline) ice, actually closer to concrete. Pykrete is slightly more difficult to form than concrete, as it expands during the freezing process, but can be repaired and maintained from the sea's most abundant raw material: water.

http://www.lugaluda.com/wp-content/u...t_carrier.jpeg
The carrier concept was abandoned when the U-Boat threat receded and it was decided to concentrate on more conventional means of combating them.