Bricker Challenge 2003, #8

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Following, please find the questions for the Bricker Challenge 2003, #8.

The rules, as always, are simple: I have posted a list of … stuff. You, the contest participant, must identify each item and/or answer each question. For example, if one item were: “Is the quality of mercy strained?” you might answer, “No. It falleth as gentle rains from the heavens,” which would show you recognize the classic speech from Portia in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.

“What is NaCl?” Your answer might be, “The chemical symbols for sodium chloride, common table salt.”

Any answer that shows you get the reference is fine. If it’s a joke, explain the joke. Leave no stone unturned. Treat it like you’re explaining a Dennis Miller throwaway line. I’m phrasing questions ambiguously in an effort to cut down on the help that search engines can provide, although there’s no getting around it … many will be answerable by search engine anyway. There is no rule against using search engines (or any other reference) although I would appreciate if, just for curiosity’s sake, you note that you got the answer by search engine as opposed to simply knowing it.

I am awarding a $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com as the prize to the winner.

The winner is the person that answers the most questions correctly by post here dated on or before Saturday, August 16th, 2003, at 11:00 PM EST, or the first person to answer all questions correctly before that time. I reserve the right to substitute another prize of comparable value for any reason. My decisions are final as to the accuracy of all answers. I may, or may not, provide intermediate feedback as to the number of correct answers each entrant has, but if I make any errors in doing so, it’s your tough luck. Only the single post with the most correct answers by the deadline qualifies you as a winner. In the unlikely event of a tie, which would occur if two or more posts have the same date/time stamp and both have the highest number of correct answers, the prize will be split amongst each tied contestant.

The next post has the questions. Good luck!

  • Rick

(The “Buffy SME” edition is on hold pending editing).

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  1. The “Ghost in the Garrett” lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?

  2. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?

  3. On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?

  4. How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  5. The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.

  6. Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!

  7. If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?

  8. I grok that sharing water is good.

  9. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  10. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?

  11. Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?

  12. What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?

  13. In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.

  14. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?

  15. Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?

  16. Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?

  17. What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?

  18. Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.

  19. Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …….

  20. What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?

  21. My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!

  22. “Friendly angel, come to me” – heard during a Star Trek episode?

  23. I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?

  24. Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.

  25. Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t – or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.

  26. He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.

  27. Veronica Lake was in “The Blue Dahlia,” but who was the Black Dahlia?

  28. Nobody’s perfect – but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?

  29. You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.

  30. My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper – and he had an unusual marriage.

  31. Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War – possible headline?

  32. Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?

  33. Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, “A Penny for Your Thoughts?”

  34. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won – but who did they always beat?

  35. Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.

  36. I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?

  37. So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down – so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the “L” word!)

  38. Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?

  39. What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)

  40. What was the mouse that roared?

  41. I first saw her as a chorus girl in “Floradora,” and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.

  42. In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie – a regular Simon Filigree.

  43. Suicide is painless?

  44. According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?

  45. Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.

  46. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?

  47. Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?

  48. Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver – where did they live?

  49. Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.

  50. Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?

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Did you mean to have x=2 listed twice?

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  1. How do you solve a problem like Maria?

You send her * from * a nunnery.

  1. Iberian.

  2. 48?

  3. Very cool. Also * triboluminescence *.

  4. Not on the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

  5. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick

  6. If you’re an impotent dentist, yes.

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  1. The “Ghost in the Garrett” lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?

  2. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?

  3. On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?

  4. How do you solve a problem like Maria?

  5. The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.

  6. Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!

  7. If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?

  8. I grok that sharing water is good.

  9. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  10. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?

  11. Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?

  12. What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?

  13. In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.

  14. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?

  15. Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?

  16. Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?

  17. What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?

  18. Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.

  19. Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …….

  20. What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?

  21. My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!

  22. “Friendly angel, come to me” – heard during a Star Trek episode?

  23. I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?

  24. Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.

  25. Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t – or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.

  26. He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.

  27. Veronica Lake was in “The Blue Dahlia,” but who was the Black Dahlia?

  28. Nobody’s perfect – but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?

  29. You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.

  30. My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper – and he had an unusual marriage.

  31. Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War – possible headline?

  32. Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?

  33. Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, “A Penny for Your Thoughts?”

  34. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won – but who did they always beat?

  35. Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.

  36. I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?

  37. So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down – so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the “L” word!)

  38. Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?

  39. What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)

  40. What was the mouse that roared?

-Whoever they were, they defeated the US. (I forget the name.)
45. Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.

-Assuming you meant “x=1” in place of the second “x=2”…the volume would be 3 pi, or a tad over 9.

  1. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?

-That would be Eliza Dolittle.

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  1. How do you solve a problem like Maria?

-The same way you keep a wave upon the sand.

  1. Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!

-No, sir. That’s the Iberian.

  1. If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?

-48.

  1. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?

-Antigone!

  1. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?

-Exactly 6.

  1. I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?

-Descartes?

  1. Nobody’s perfect – but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?

-You mean like 6 or 28? Those certainly are perfect.

  1. Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?

-They be made up.

  1. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won – but who did they always beat?

-The Senators

  1. Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?

-You’d feel a bit wobbly, or worse. Absolutely not.

  1. What was the mouse that roared?

-Whoever they were, they defeated the US. (I forget the name.)

  1. Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.

-Assuming you meant “x=1” in place of the second “x=2”…the volume would be 3 pi, or a tad over 9.

  1. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?

-That would be Eliza Dolittle.

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Also, for question 37, I assume you meant 75 cm and 15 cm?

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  1. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?

The Ponderosa

  1. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won – but who did they always beat?
    The Washington Generals

  2. What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)

Jesse Owens
43. Suicide is painless?

M. A. S. H. Theme song?

  1. According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
    Imperious
  2. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?

Eliza Dolittle

  1. Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?

Afternoon Delight.

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  1. You’d get Lissajou patterns. Basically a harmonic pattern with multiple components. That’s pretty much all I remember about them – considering this is based on a 30-year-ago high school experiment where we hooked up a laser to speakers and looked at the pretty patterns, I reserve the right to be proud of myself…
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  1. The ‘Ghost in the Garrett’ lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
    It was a nice place for him to starve himself, at least.

  2. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
    The Ponderosa.

  3. On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
    March 31, 1981.

  4. How do you solve a problem like Maria?
    How do you take a cloud and pin it down? You could always just tell her, “Get thee from a nunnery!”

  5. The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
    That’d be a maximum transmission unit, bob.

  6. Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
    Tsk, tsk, that person had a bit of a lisp when he said Iberian peninsula.

  7. If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
    Forty-eight.

  8. I grok that sharing water is good.
    But you’re still a stranger in a strange land.

  9. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
    Yeah, maybe your parents love you, Robert Frost.

  10. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
    Antigone.

  11. Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
    If only Jeb Bush could embarrass his brother as much as Billy Carter did. Damn Jewish media.

  12. What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
    Bachman’s Warbler.

  13. In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
    That’s the most common pastime on Photon. Ah, The Game.

  14. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
    Nine; three per dimension.

  15. Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
    Don Cardwell 5/15/1960 Chicago 4 vs. St. Louis 0.

  16. Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
    Triboluminescense.

  17. What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
    Gold.

  18. Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
    But do you like thyroid glands?

  19. Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …
    Jack Ruby is to Lee Harvey Oswald.

  20. What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
    Well, depending on when this challenge is over… Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Friday Aug 15.

  21. My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
    Sherbert has a small amount of milk solids along with sugar/flavorings/etc. Sorbet is similar, but without milk solids. Ice cream is a pasteurized mix frozen by agitation, and ice milk is ‘light’ or ‘reduced fat’ ice cream.

  22. “Friendly angel, come to me” - heard during a Star Trek episode?
    And the children shall come to me.

  23. I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
    Solipsism.

  24. Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
    She should of illicited some laughter, though.

  25. Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t - or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
    Now that’s a cat on a hot tin roof.
    …okay, that made no sense.

  26. He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
    Spenser.

  27. Veronica Lake was in The Blue Dahlia, but who was the Black Dahlia?
    Elizabeth Short.

  28. Nobody’s perfect - but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
    That’d be a perfect number.

  29. You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
    The three investigators.

  30. My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper - and he had an unusual marriage.
    With a porpoise and a porgy as my siblings, growing up was pretty rough.

  31. Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War - possible headline?
    And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that darn meddling Wesley.

  32. Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
    What’s wrong with Men On The Flintstones? It’s a gay old time.

  33. Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts?’
    Corky St Claire.

  34. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won - but who did they always beat?
    The Washington Generals, and Krusty should never have bet on them. They weren’t due.

  35. Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
    Okay, they escaped to Witch Mountain. But where’s the ten sequels?

  36. I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
    A bet that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11, 12. $5 horn high twelve means a dollar upon three of the numbers and $2 on 12.

  37. So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down - so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the ‘L’ word!)
    Lissajou. (Thanks, Finagle!)

  38. Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
    Only if you like driving off of the Tacoma Narrows.

  39. What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
    Cornelius Johnson.

  40. What was the mouse that roared?
    Grand Fenwick, which decided to declare war on the US, lose, and then get cash for reconstruction.

  41. I first saw her as a chorus girl in ‘Floradora,’ and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
    Your own damn fault, Stanford White.

  42. In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie - a regular Simon Filigree.
    Or Simon Legree. Whichever.

  43. Suicide is painless?
    And I can take or leave it if I please.

  44. According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
    The Imperius Curse is one.

  45. Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
    Assuming you meant x=1 for one of those, the volume is 3pi.

  46. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
    Eliza Doolittle.

  47. Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
    Oh, be nice to Tom DeLay. He’s not just some crazy guy.

  48. Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver - where did they live?
    The Spot.

  49. Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
    In hoc signo vinces, beyotch.

  50. Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
    An afternoon delight.

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  1. The ‘Ghost in the Garrett’ lived in his lover’s attic for years before killing her husband, didn’t he?
    It was a nice place for him to starve himself, at least.

  2. Where did Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe hang out?
    The Ponderosa.

  3. On what date was the actor that played the two thousand year old man twenty thousand days old?
    March 31, 1981.

  4. How do you solve a problem like Maria?
    How do you take a cloud and pin it down? You could always just tell her, “Get thee from a nunnery!”

  5. The MTA rides Charlie around Boston, but the MTU refers to how big Ethernet transmission packets can be.
    That’d be a maximum transmission unit, bob.

  6. Someone told me that people speak Spanish and Portuguese in the Siberian Peninsula! I thought it would be Russian!
    Tsk, tsk, that person had a bit of a lisp when he said Iberian peninsula.

  7. If one and a half chickens can lay one and a half eggs in one and a half days, how many eggs could twelve chickens lay in six days?
    Forty-eight.

  8. I grok that sharing water is good.
    But you’re still a stranger in a strange land.

  9. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
    Yeah, maybe your parents love you, Robert Frost.

  10. I defied authority to give my brother a proper burial, even though my sister refused to help and my uncle mandated the death penalty for my actions. Although I died, at least it wasn’t from my uncle’s plan of burying me alive; I hung myself. Who am I?
    Antigone.

  11. Did Billy really get the Libyans any influence?
    If only Jeb Bush could embarrass his brother as much as Billy Carter did. Damn Jewish media.

  12. What bird did Lacey Davenport’s husband finally get to see before his heart attack?
    Bachman’s Warbler.

  13. In the first phase, one player chooses Physical, Mental, Chance, or Art; the other selects Naked, Tool, Machine, or Animal.
    That’s the most common pastime on Photon. Ah, The Game.

  14. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
    Six. One for each of the faces in the central cube.

  15. Who pitched the next perfect game after the only perfect game in a World Series?
    Don Cardwell 5/15/1960 Chicago 4 vs. St. Louis 0.

  16. Smash a Lifesaver with a hammer and get a flash of light. What’s that called if you’re a scientist?
    Triboluminescense.

  17. What color cape is worn in full regalia by a Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus?
    Gold.

  18. Yum! Mom says she’s making sweetbreads tonight. I like bread.
    But do you like thyroid glands?

  19. Finish the SAT analogy question: Dan White is to Harvey Milk as …
    Jack Ruby is to Lee Harvey Oswald.

  20. What is the next closest Holy Day of Obligation for Roman Catholics?
    Well, depending on when this challenge is over… Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Friday Aug 15.

  21. My mid-term at cooking school wants me to discuss the differences between sherbert, sorbet, ice cream, and iced milk. Help me cheat!
    Sherbert has a small amount of milk solids along with sugar/flavorings/etc. Sorbet is similar, but without milk solids. Ice cream is a pasteurized mix frozen by agitation, and ice milk is ‘light’ or ‘reduced fat’ ice cream.

  22. “Friendly angel, come to me” - heard during a Star Trek episode?
    And the children shall come to me.

  23. I only know that I exist; there’s no proof that anyone or anything else is out there. What’s this school of thought?
    Solipsism.

  24. Mrs. Malaprop was a fictional character, for all intensive purposes.
    She should of illicited some laughter, though.

  25. Maggie claims Brick got her pregnant, even though he didn’t - or, more accurately, hadn’t yet.
    Now that’s a cat on a hot tin roof.
    …okay, that made no sense.

  26. He ended up finding Rachel Wallace kept captive, naked, at the English estate.
    Spenser.

  27. Veronica Lake was in The Blue Dahlia, but who was the Black Dahlia?
    Elizabeth Short.

  28. Nobody’s perfect - but what about integers that are the sum of their positive proper divisors?
    That’d be a perfect number.

  29. You could enter their secret hideaway in the junkyard through Red Gate Rover or Green Gate One.
    The three investigators.

  30. My father was the Eddystone Lighthouse keeper - and he had an unusual marriage.
    With a porpoise and a porgy as my siblings, growing up was pretty rough.

  31. Guilder And Florin Narrowly Avert War - possible headline?
    And he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that darn meddling Wesley.

  32. Should I trust a film review by noted critics Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather?
    What’s wrong with Men On The Flintstones? It’s a gay old time.

  33. Who directed the musical about a town in Missouri that contains the show-stopper, ‘A Penny for Your Thoughts?’
    Corky St Claire.

  34. Sure, the Harlem Globetrotter always won - but who did they always beat?
    The Washington Generals, and Krusty should never have bet on them. They weren’t due.

  35. Tony and Tia are twins with telepathic and telekinetic power.
    Okay, they escaped to Witch Mountain. But where’s the ten sequels?

  36. I know men are horn dogs, but what’s a horn high bet in craps?
    A bet that has an extra amount on one of the four numbers 2, 3, 11, 12. $5 horn high twelve means a dollar upon three of the numbers and $2 on 12.

  37. So I set up a stand with the top ends about one meter apart and one meter tall. To each I connect a thin wire about 750 cm long. I join the two wires at the bottom, and add an additional 150 cm wire length straight down - so the wire forms a ‘Y’ shape. I add a small weight to the bottom of the wire and set it swinging. Describe the shape it will trace in the air. (Extra points for using the ‘L’ word!)
    Lissajou. (Thanks, Finagle!)

  38. Should I have planned a trip from Tacoma to Gig Harbor on November 7th, 1940?
    Only if you like driving off of the Tacoma Narrows.

  39. What gold medal high-jump winner did Hitler probably refuse to congratulate, choosing instead to leave the stadium? (Being mindful here of urban legends and truth!)
    Cornelius Johnson.

  40. What was the mouse that roared?
    Grand Fenwick, which decided to declare war on the US, lose, and then get cash for reconstruction.

  41. I first saw her as a chorus girl in ‘Floradora,’ and was enthralled. I might have gone a bit far when I drugged her champagne and took her virginity, since she was only sixteen and I was a married middle-aged man. But, hey, I was rich. And I didn’t mind that she ended up marrying another guy, but I did sort of object when he ended up killing me and got off on an insanity plea.
    Your own damn fault, Stanford White.

  42. In the spirit of question 24, my boss is a real meanie - a regular Simon Filigree.
    Or Simon Legree. Whichever.

  43. Suicide is painless?
    And I can take or leave it if I please.

  44. According to J. K. Rowling, what’s an example of an unforgiveable curse?
    The Imperius Curse is one.

  45. Consider a square formed by the lines y=1, y=2, x=2, and x=2. Rotate that square about the y-axis and find the volume of the resulting solid.
    Assuming you meant x=1 for one of those, the volume is 3pi.

  46. What musical theater character embarrasses her companions at the Ascot races by announcing that gin was mother’s milk to one of her relatives?
    Eliza Doolittle.

  47. Good thing Crazy Tom got kicked off the ticket, eh?
    Oh, be nice to Tom DeLay. He’s not just some crazy guy.

  48. Tara Hartwick, Lon Oliver, Carrie Seaver - where did they live?
    The Spot.

  49. Constantine, Mithraism, Christianity. Discuss.
    In hoc signo vinces, beyotch.

  50. Skyrockets in flight, Starland vocals, what do you end up with?
    An afternoon delight. **
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Oh christ, you’re right. I even built a 3x3x3 cube out of dice at work and counted. That’s disgustingly depressing.

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14: you only need 3 cuts to get the 9 cubes requested, no one said you couldn’t have some left over.

40: mickey

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  1. Consider a cube three feet on each side. How many straight cuts are necessary to apply to it in order to create nine one-foot cubes?
    I could be mistaken, but a 3x3x3 cube could not render only 9 1x1x1 cubes-- it’d leave 27 1x1x1 cubes.

You could create these cubes with four cuts-- two horizontally and two vertically, at the one foot and two foot marks.

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big oops on my answer to 14, ugh, need a nap. you only need 5 cuts, 4 on one face, two top to bottom, and two side to side, then one cut to lop off your 9 cubes.

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Actually, I think the answer to 14 is 5. It’s a trick question. One cut to get a 1 foot thick, 9 cubic foot section, then four more cuts to slice it up. You have an 18 cubic foot chunk left over.

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Sheesh. And I even proofread.

y=1, y=2, x=1, x=2.

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I amend my answer to #14 to 5 cuts as well.

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Finagle: 8
Soup_du_jour: 8
Who_me?: 5
lno: 47
MonkeyMensch: 46
Verick: 1

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Phooey.