- What might a little sildenafil citrate help me do?
AKA Viagra, it might help you achieve an erection.
- What’s the sum of all the interior angles of a cube?
Each corner has 3 90 degree angles, and there are 8 corners. That makes 2160 degrees.
- Who was the first US president to have a vice-president that never became president?
Thomas Jefferson. His VPs were Aaron Burr and George Clinton.
- I was the typical picked-on acne-ridden geek in high school, although I was luckier than most in that I had one good friend, Dennis – a definite non-geek who even played football. But my status as a loser changed after I bought myself a rusted-out car and began to work on restoring it – I got a job, a better complexion, and even a girlfriend, Leigh. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the bullies that tormented me started dying left and right, I could really have had a happy ending. Who am I?
You are Arnold Cunnigham. Funny, you also developed a back problem just like the car’s previous owner.
- No soup for you!
The signature catchphrase of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld.
- My computer friend insists that a checksum is NOT the amount I write on my bank checks. So what is it?
A way of checking consitency between different files. Every character in the file is given a number. The numbers are then all added up. If the checksum is the same between the files, then the files are almost certain to be identical. This method was also used in the old days of hand-written manuscripts…the the checksums for the pages were the same, then you were confident you had made an accurate copy.
- Should you avoid keeping an appointment in Samarra?
I doesn’t matter if you try to avoid it or not. You will keep the appointment no matter what you do.
- She was the beautiful Swedish daughter of a farmer, and she lived with a Congressman, in the early 1960s, but it wasn’t scandalous at all.
“The Farmer’s Daughter” The movie came out in 1947, the sitcom in 1963. Inger Stevens played the titular rolein the sitcom. Googled.
9. When Danny Davis is betrayed by his former fiancée and former business partner into giving up his engineering business, he takes a unique method of getting even: one that involves sleeping for thirty years or so.
“The Door Into Summer”, Robert Heinlein.
- Fourteen-count Aida is not an opera character after all, is she?
No, it’s a cross-stitch fabric
- We’re back playing Jeopardy, and the category is BEFORE AND AFTER, and the answer is CHARLES DREW CAREY. What was the question?
“I’ll take BEFORE AND AFTER for $400, Alex.”
“This African American physician organized the first blood bank and hosts the TV show ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway?’”
“Who is CHARLES DREW CAREY.”
- What are puts and calls in the trading world?
A put option gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying stock at a given price (the strike price) by a given time (the expiration date).
A call is an option contract that gives the owner the right to buy 100 shares (usually) of an underlying stock at a specified price (its strike price) for a certain, fixed period of time (until its expiration).
Googled.
- Who played Lucy in the Broadway premiere of “Jekyll & Hyde”?
The original Broadway cast starred Lina Eder as Lucy Harris.
- Name the Chicago mayor that most likely lost the job because of a snowstorm.
Michael Bilandic fumbled Chicago’s response to the record snowstorm of 1979 and was beaten by the city’s first female mayor, Jane Byrne.
15. Why do people say, “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille?”
It’s a quote from “Sunset Boulevard”. Gloria Swanson plays aging actress Norma Desmond: “I AM big. It’s the pictures that got small” “There’s nothing else. Just us, and the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I’m ready for my closeup.” People say it when they want to satirize out of touch vanity.
- Clang, clang, clang went the trolley.
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley,
Ding, ding, ding went the bell.
Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings,
From the moment I saw him I fell.
Sung by Judy Garland in “Meet Me in St. Louis”
- Who is Radioactive Man’s sidekick?
Fallout Boy. Jiminy Jillikers!
- Originally, it was Tripper, Snow, and Wood that lived together.
Two is company, three is a crowd–but not always.
- In an RJ45 plug, what pins are “live” and what pins are not used?
1, 2, 3, and 6 are live; 4, 5, 7, and 8 are not used
- In what way is Dr. Loren related to the answer to question #8? (Note: Kevin Bacon is not involved, except perhaps in spirit).
Sophia Loren won an oscar for Two Women, Loretta Young won an oscar for the movie version of “The Farmer’s Daughter”.
- Who was the first US president not chosen as such by the Electoral College? (If you can defend your answer, I might accept it).
Thomas Jefferson. He was tied with Aaron Burr in the electoral college, and was chosen president by the House of Representatives.
- La donna e mobile is perhaps one of the most famous arias ever. I have a hard time staying awake, so tell me not only what tickets I should buy, but who I should pay attention to in order to catch it.
Buy tickets to Verdi’s Rigoletto, and pay attention to the Duke of Mantua.
23. You don’t have any H2O2 around the house, by chance?
Yes. Yes I do. The fun thing to do is saw open a battery to get the manganese dioxide powder out. Rig up a collection vessel and mix the manganese dioxide and hydrogen peroxide and capture the evolved oxygen. You can do fun things with the oxygen like burn steel wool, or make blown out splints come back to life.
- What’s a sump pump?
A pump that removes water from the lowest point–or sump–of a building.
- How many were going to St. Ives?
Kits, Cats, Sacks, Wives. One was going to St. Ives.
- “But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night, I saved the life…” of someone who later died anyway.
Spoken word by Lorne Greene:
The story spread throughout the land
That I had beaten Ringo’s hand
And it was just the years they say
That made me put my guns away
But on his grave they can’t explain
The tarnished star above the name of Ringo
Googled.
- Robbie, Mike, and Chip were my ….
…Three Sons. Googled
- Who’s the Ivory Snow girl that got very dirty?
Marilyn Chambers became a porn star.
- This singer songwriter was bound for glory and would have been ninety-one years old today, but he spoiled his chances by dying in 1967.
Died October 3rd 1967. He was a fan of the Grand Coolee Dam, the mightiest work ever built by a man.
- How does Steve evade arrest and prosecution for his interracial marriage to Julie?
In “Showboat”, Steve cuts Julie’s finger and sucks the blood. Then he says that he has negro blood in him.
- Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe. Get it done by half-past two. What Victorian-era parlor game are we listening to?
Hunt the Slipper
- What was the Nacht und Nebel Erlass?
Night and Fog. The Nazi equivalent of Argentina’s dissappearances.
- Who was Raggedy Ann’s brother, and who created them?
Raggedy Andy, created by Johnny Gruelle.
- A player’s ball comes to rest inside an empty drink left on the putting green, just before a gust of wind moves the cup, with the ball inside, to a new position. What is the official golf ruling on what’s to be done?
The cup moved by the wind is an “outside agency,” and the ball is replaced, without the cup, in the place where it was in the cup before the wind moved it.
- Name the cartoon character noted for “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”
Snagglepuss
- I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.
Catchphrase from a 70s Alka-Seltzer ad campaign.
- Two ounces of scotch have 160 calories, according to my list. Now, as everyone knows, a calorie is the unit of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius. If I add ice and soda water to my scotch, my body has to expend the energy to warm it up from zero degrees. So all I need to do is have more than 160 grams of liquid in my scotch and soda, and I can sit around all day drinking them and losing weight! (P.S. – I tried this and it didn’t work.)
The “dietary calorie” or capitol-C calorie is really a kilocalorie, so your scotch really has 160,000 calories. Whoever decided to make calorie and kilocalorie interchangable should be beaten with sticks.
- I keep hearing about poison pills, greenmail, and golden parachutes. Huh?
Mergers and acquisitions talk. Poison pills are when you make your company unattractive to the potential buyer by diluting share value by offering discounted shares to the current shareholders. Greenmail is really blackmail when you threaten to buy controlling interest in a company unless they buy back your shares at a premium. Golden parachutes: current management have huge severance packages that would have to be paid if the company is acquired and management changed.
- If I were you, I’d turn down an invitation to go west with the Donners.
The Donner Party were trapped by a snowstorm in a pass in the Sierra Nevadas, and ended up eating the dead to survive.
- What sort of dance did papa and mama do to the rock and roll record on the record machine?
The tango
41. I’ve got some potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. What can I make?
All kinds of things. The most fun would be gunpowder.
- What is soylent green?
“Soylent Green is People!”, in the movie anyway. In Harrison’s book “Make Room, Make Room”, Soylent Green is soybeans and lentils.
- It’s not a Tennessee Williams character, but a cooking term that means to remove the outer skin by parboiling in steam.
Blanche
- What’s the occupation of Jack Ryan’s wife Cathy?
She is an a surgeon who specializes in eyes.
- Add two ounces of brandy, an ounce of Cointreau, and half an ounce of lemon juice to a shaker with ice, shake well, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. What have you made?
A Sidecar. Googled
46. Telnet is 23, and SMTP is 25. What’s https?
443
- In the thirteenth century, he traveled with his uncle and father to Cathay, and his descriptions may have inspired Coleridge’s Xanadu.
Marco Polo.
- All my exes live in Texas, so where might I hang my hat?
All my ex’s live in Texas, and Texas is a place I’d dearly love to be.
But all my ex’s live in Texas, and that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
Googled
- A US Navy one-star admiral is promoted one rank. What’s her new title, and what was her old title?
Her old title was Rear Admiral (lower half), her new title is Rear Admiral (upper half).
- What’s the area of a sphere having a radius of pi units?
Surface area of a sphere, a=4pir^2
a=4*(3.14159~)^3
a=~124.025 to six significant figures.
