Spiritus Mundi: 49
And to save time-wasting on the BASIC program, I’m accepting either “16” or “32”, because I wasn’t clear in the question as to exactly what I meant; someone could conclude that each line represented a number, of which X and Y were the digits.
Hm - stolen from Spiritus, except for #13:
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Q: Physical law for light and gravity drop-off?
A: The inverse-square law -
Q: Mobile, AL - Tennessee. Who are you?
A: The boy picked up by the “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”. And papa woulda shot me if he knew what I’d done. -
Q: Kyrie Eleison. Translate?
A: Lord, Have Mercy. -
Q: Manhattan for < $30?
A: Peter Minuit. -
Q: Nathan Brazil and the Well?
A: The Well of Souls series by Jack Chalker. -
Q: Giles says another Hellmouth is where?
A: Cleveland, OH (Mentioned or alluded to in a couple Buffy episodes, including the finale). -
Q: Pam House, Kimberly Dugan, Georgia Thomas, and Alison Parker?
A: All characters played by Courtney Thorne-Smith. -
Q: What device controls the winged monkeys?
A: Golden cap (in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz). -
Q: UNIX is to "ls -l"as DOS is to?
A: dir /v (v is for verbose). -
Q: Incest / Fricka / Wotan?
A: We are Siegmund and Sieglinde, brother and sister, and Brunnhilde, yet another child of Wotan, helps us out but ends up in her fiery bed. From Wagner’s Ring Cycle, specifically Die Walküre. -
Q: Who had the Butterflies killed?
A: Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. -
Q: Describe Janeane Garofalo’s character on “Seinfeld.”
A: The Female Equivalent of Jerry; they were breifly engaged until Jerry’s epiphany (“I hate myself!”). -
Q: Emma / Ah-nold / Jamie Lee Curtis. Title?
Madame Faux Vrais
14: Q: Real-life burglar on Miami Vice?
A: G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate burglar.
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Q: (computer program)
A: Thirty-two. Sixteen rows with two numbers in each row. -
Q: a) Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving. Where?
b) Pinky, Inky, Blinky, Clyde. Whree do they work?
A: a) Gilligan’s Island. They are “The Mosquitos”
b) Pac-Man video game, They are the ghosts. -
Q: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
A: Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats. -
Q: Poor student kills pawnbroker.
A: Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky. -
Q: John Savage, Deerhunter. Jon Voight, Coming Home
A: John Savage played Steven in The Deer Hunter and lost the use of his legs from the fall into the river. John Voight played Luke in Coming Home who was paralyzed from the waist down from his tour in Vietnam. On Friends, Ross and Monica’s then-boyfriend Richard (Tom Selleck) argued about which was which while Monica and Rachel decided who’d get to use the last condom… -
Q: How many terms did Amidala serve as the head of state of Naboo?
A: Two terms. -
Q: Radioactive gas in basement?
A: Radon -
Q: Who is the owner and head chef at Mesa Grill and Bolo, in NYC?
A: Bobby Flay. -
Q: Subnet masks?
A: 255.255.255.0 -
Q: 3 people that have read “Be Your Own Windkeeper.”?
A:Rachel Green, Monica Geller, and Phoebe Buffay (Friends). -
Q: Do you have a personal guess about what was thrown off the Tallahatchee Bridge?
A: I just looked up the lyrics; sounds like an aborted baby to me, maybe miscarried. -
Q: What unit of measure is equal to the distance to an object having a parallax of one second?
A: A parsec. -
Q: Newsreel narrator 1934–??
A: Westbrook van Voorhis (The March of time). -
Q: What actress played the character that marries Ulises on Amigas y Rivales?
A: Adamari Lopez, playing the lovely Ofelia. -
Q: What is the chemical formula for the amino acid that figured prominently in Jurassic Park?
A: C6 H14 N2 O2 (it’s lysine). -
Q: Who was Steve Austin’s boss?
A: Oscar Goldman, from the Six Million Dollar Man, or Vince McMahon of the WWE. -
Q: Flynn preceded Casey, and so did Jimmy Blake.
A: Casey at the Bat. Mudville Nine members. -
Q: Plan, last member alive wins big.
A: A tontine -
Q: What human led the first exploration of the Ringworld?
A: Louis Wu. -
Q: Threaded fastener that holds a lampshade to the harp?
A: A finial. -
Q: Why is this night different from all other nights?
A: We eat only matzoh – we eat mainly bitter herbs-- we dip twice – we all recline. It’s Passover, and the festival meal commemorates our release from bondage and our flight from Egypt. The matzoh is to remind us that the bread didn’t have time to rise, the herbs are to remind us how bitterly Pharoh treated us, we dip twice to remind us how hard we toiled on and of our tears, and we recline comfortably to remind us that, though once we were slaves, now we are free. Next year in Jerusalem! -
Q: Horsehead Nebula constellation?
A: Orion. -
Q: Where The Wild Things Are protagonist?
A: Max. -
Q: You know – for kids
A: The Hudsucker Proxy. Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) says this about his invention, the hula hoop. -
Q: I said over and over and over again, this dance …
A: … Is Gonna Be a Drag. (Dave Clark Five). -
Q: Curve of cable hung between two poles?
A: Hyperbolic cosine (aka catenary). -
Q: I’m nobody – who are you?
A: I’m somebody who’s reading an Emily Dickinson poem. -
Q: Warsaw Pact / NATO / Lost Luggage?
A: The Warsaw Convention. -
Q: Name Jonny Quest’s dog.
A: Bandit. -
Q: French, governmental “hands-off” policy?
A: Laissez-faire. -
Q: Time machine / Julia / 1880s?
A: Si Morley, from Jack Finney’s Time and Again. -
Q: Chocolate & riding naked. Name?
A: Godiva. -
Q: Chief Justice of the US before Rehnquist?
A: Warren Burger. -
Q: Into the Woods – to fetch what?
A: One, the Cow as White as Milk. Two, the Cape as Red as Blood. Three, the Hair as Yellow as Corn. Four, the Slipper as Pure as Gold. -
Q: Rush song, despair and loss of abilities due to aging?
A: Losing It -
Q: How did Rosalind Shays die?
A: She fell down an elevator shaft (LA Law).
Enugent: 49
Curious. I see no way that Cliffy’s answer and mine could both be accepted for #23, which must mean that we are both wrong on #23.
But unless I am misunderstaning your question, I am certain that the mask I gave is correct. The mask for demarking a standard class C subnet is 255.255.255.0 (or 0xffffff00 for hex geeks).
Now, if you meant the broadcat address, then Cliffy’s would be right, but mine would not. Of course, if you are accepting both, then he/I must be wrong on some other question. But thinking about that makes my brain hurt.
Damn! I love these chalenges.
This isn’t a silly misspelling thing, is it? Madame Faux Vrai?
I have virtually no computer programming skills, but some info on google led me to this modification.
Any chance that for number 38 you were looking for Trix, you silly rabbit?
Squooshed: 49
Spiritus: no change
Hm - let me change my answer for #23 to 255.255.255.192
Spritus: I should have said -1 if you were changing to Trix instead of the Hudsucker Proxy. My mistake.
Enugent: 50 and the win!
I think we’re now open for questions/debates/protests… 
Arggh! You’re too damn seductive with your challenges. Don’t you know that you’re stealing my attention away from motions in limine that need to be filed today?
OK. What’s the scoop on #23?
Re: #23 - minor quibble
While a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192 indeed gives you 4 possible networks of 62 hosts, only 2 of those are valid - 206.13.188.65-126 and 206.13.188.129-190
In general, routers will refuse to allow subnet IDs of all zeroes or all ones. In this case, you cannot use subnets 00 and 11, which corresponds to the 206.13.188.1-62 and 206.13.188.193-254 ranges.
Lord Derfel:
I disagree.
First of all, consider the default “Class C” (in quotes because classless subnets are now the hip thing) subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. According to you, that entire subnet is unusable - it’s all zeros.
Moreover, I have in front of me an Enterasys SmartSwitch with four VLANs set up with precisely that subnet mask, and all my network traffic is routed correctly.
I’d certainly like to see some sort of citation for the posposition that 255.255.255.192 allows access to only two subnets.
- Rick
And by the way – without resorting to variable subnet amsking, how do YOU contend a Class C address should be subnetted to permit four addressable subnets?
Fucking Hell! I just notice the challenge five minutes ago and it’s allready solved! Bricker, you bastard! Ah well, at least this way my employer can get some work out of me for a change…
Anyway, to nitpick on #33. Did Louis Wu LEAD the expedition? Wasn’t it really Nessus?
- What human led the first exploration of the Ringworld?
The question asked for a human – I did that specifically because there would be some debate as to whether Nessus or Louis Wu (or even Speaker-to-Animals, at times!) was in charge. That said, if someone had answered, “No human at all - at was Nessus the Puppeteer that led the expedition,” I would have accepted it.
Figures the one question about which I had no clue whatsoever was the one on which the game turned. Bricker I’m once again amazed at your catholic base of knowledge.
–Cliffy