Bricker Challenge 2003 Edition #7

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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One observation. Quoting exact lyrics makes it really really easy to google the answer. If you want to make things harder, paraphrase the lyrics instead. Other than that, carry on.

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Emilio Lizardo: 15
BurnMeUp: 13
Leaper: 16 (and a note that in Jeopardy, they give the answers, and you must supply the question, so I didn’t reverse it)
ENugent: 46
Humble Servant: 25
iampunha: 9
Cliffy: 47
Aguecheek: 49
Lsura: 12

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Lemur866: 49

Rodd Hill: props for the “Arena” reference!

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Sorry about the formatting but I figured I was running against the clock. Here’s a prettier version:

  1. What might a little sildenafil citrate help me do?

Get and maintain an erection

  1. What’s the sum of all the interior angles of a cube?

2160 degrees

  1. Who was the first US president to have a vice-president that never became president?

Thomas Jefferson (VP Aaron Burr)

  1. I was the typical picked-on acne-ridden geek in high school…

Arnie Cunningham, from Stephen King’s “Christine”

  1. No soup for you!

The Soup Nazi from “Seinfeld,” shmoopy.

  1. My computer friend insists that a checksum is NOT the amount I write on my bank checks. So what is it?

A digit consisting of the sum of the other digits in a number (or some other algorithm), used to confirm that the number has not become garbled in transmission or tampered with

  1. Should you avoid keeping an appointment in Samarra?

Only if you want to live – the servant who fled from Baghdad to Samarra to escape Death actually ran into his arms

  1. 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.

Because she was only the governess, in “The Farmer’s Daughter” (although she did marry him in the third season)

  1. 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; Davis ultimately marries the partner’s step-daughter.

  1. Fourteen-count Aida is not an opera character after all, is she?

No, it’s a cross-stitch fabric

  1. We’re back playing Jeopardy, and the category is BEFORE AND AFTER, and the answer is CHARLES DREW CAREY. What was the question?

A: He founded the world’s first blood bank … then went on to host improvisational comedy on TV. Q: Who is CHARLES DREW CAREY?

  1. What are puts and calls in the trading world?

A put option gives the holder the right to sell a specified publicly traded stock at a set price on or before a specified date. A call option gives the holder the right to buy a security at a set price on or before a set date.

  1. Who played Lucy in the Broadway premiere of “Jekyll & Hyde”?

Linda Eder

  1. Name the Chicago mayor that most likely lost the job because of a snowstorm.

Michael Bilandic

  1. Why do people say, “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille?”

It’s a line from Sunset Boulevard, spoken by the fading Norma Desmond.

  1. Clang, clang, clang went the trolley.
    Ding, ding, ding went the bell
    Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings,
    or so sang (famously) Judy Garland

  2. Who is Radioactive Man’s sidekick?

Fallout Boy

  1. Originally, it was Tripper, Snow, and Wood that lived together.

Jack, Chrissy and Janet from Three’s Company

  1. 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

  1. In what way is Dr. Loren related to the answer to question #7? (Note: Kevin Bacon is not involved, except perhaps in spirit).

Inger Stevens played “The Farmer’s Daughter,” she was also Jana, Dr. Loren’s robot daughter in the aforementioned Twilight Zone ep “The Lateness of the Hour”

  1. Who was the first US president not chosen as such by the Electoral College? (If you can defend your answer, I might accept it).

Jefferson, again. The EC couldn’t come up with a majority between him and Burr, so the election went to the House of Representatives, which chose Jefferson on the 36th ballot. Therefore, President Jefferson was not chosen so by the EC, but rather by the House.

  1. 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.

The Duke of Mantua, in Verdi’s Rigoletto

  1. You don’t have any H2O2 around the house, by chance?

Why yes – I use hydrogen peroxide to clean minor cuts. It also is found in some contact lens solutions

  1. What’s a sump pump?

Pumps standing water or entering ground water out of the basement

  1. How many were going to St. Ives?

Just one.

  1. “But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night, I saved the life…” of someone who later died anyway.

Ringo

  1. Robbie, Mike, and Chip were my ….

Three Sons, until Mike left and was replaced by Ernie.

  1. Who’s the Ivory Snow girl that got very dirty?

Marilyn Chambers, when she went “Behind the Green Door”

  1. 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.

Woody Guthrie

  1. How does Steve evade arrest and prosecution for his interracial marriage to Julie?

swallows a drop of her blood, so there was black blood in him

  1. Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe. Get it done by half-past two. What Victorian-era parlor game are we listening to?

Hunt the Slipper

  1. What was the Nacht und Nebel Erlass?

“Night and Fog Decree” – members of anti-Nazi resistance in occupied territories were to be quickly “disappeared” and sent off to Germany, where they were never heard from again.

  1. Who was Raggedy Ann’s brother, and who created them?

Johnny Gruelle created Raggedy Ann and Andy

  1. 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.

  1. Name the cartoon character noted for “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”

Snagglepuss

  1. I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.

Time for some Alka-Seltzer!

  1. Two ounces of scotch have 160 calories…

The “calories” in the scotch are actually kilocalories – you need 160 kilograms of water in your scotch, giving you the classic drink, Love in a Canoe

  1. I keep hearing about poison pills, greenmail, and golden parachutes. Huh?

Defenses to corporate takeovers

  1. If I were you, I’d turn down an invitation to go west with the Donners.

You might get eaten!

  1. What sort of dance did papa and mama do to the rock and roll record on the record machine?

waltz

  1. I’ve got some potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. What can I make?

gunpowder

  1. What is soylent green?

Soylent green is people!

  1. It’s not a Tennessee Williams character, but a cooking term that means to remove the outer skin by parboiling in steam.

blanch

  1. What’s the occupation of Jack Ryan’s wife Cathy?

eye surgeon

  1. 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?

sidecar

  1. Telnet is 23, and SMTP is 25. What’s https?

443

  1. In the thirteenth century, he traveled with his uncle and father to Cathay, and his descriptions may have inspired Coleridge’s Xanadu.

Marco Polo

  1. All my exes live in Texas, so where might I hang my hat?

Tennessee

  1. A US Navy one-star admiral is promoted one rank. What’s her new title, and what was her old title?

She was and is still a rear admiral (previously lower half, now upper half)

  1. What’s the area of a sphere having a radius of pi units?
    4(pi cubed)

Y’know, I really should have figured out the typo earlier; I musta spent forty minutes staring at the cast page for “The Lateness of the Hour” this afternoon. Oh, and to bring in #30 – after her death it was revealed that Stevens had been in a secret interracial marriage for years.

–Cliffy

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Blatantly ripped off from Cliffy with one bolded change:

[quote]

  1. What might a little sildenafil citrate help me do?

Get and maintain an erection

  1. What?s the sum of all the interior angles of a cube?

2160 degrees

  1. Who was the first US president to have a vice-president that never became president?

Thomas Jefferson (VP Aaron Burr)

  1. I was the typical picked-on acne-ridden geek in high school…

Arnie Cunningham, from Stephen King’s “Christine”

  1. No soup for you!

The Soup Nazi from “Seinfeld,” shmoopy.

  1. My computer friend insists that a checksum is NOT the amount I write on my bank checks. So what is it?

A digit consisting of the sum of the other digits in a number (or some other algorithm), used to confirm that the number has not become garbled in transmission or tampered with

  1. Should you avoid keeping an appointment in Samarra?

Only if you want to live ? the servant who fled from Baghdad to Samarra to escape Death actually ran into his arms

  1. 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.

Because she was only the governess, in ?The Farmer?s Daughter? (although she did marry him in the third season)

  1. 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; Davis ultimately marries the partner’s step-daughter.

  1. Fourteen-count Aida is not an opera character after all, is she?

No, it?s a cross-stitch fabric

  1. We?re back playing Jeopardy, and the category is BEFORE AND AFTER, and the answer is CHARLES DREW CAREY. What was the question?

A: He founded the world?s first blood bank ? then went on to host improvisational comedy on TV. Q: Who is CHARLES DREW CAREY?

  1. What are puts and calls in the trading world?

A put option gives the holder the right to sell a specified publicly traded stock at a set price on or before a specified date. A call option gives the holder the right to buy a security at a set price on or before a set date.

  1. Who played Lucy in the Broadway premiere of ?Jekyll & Hyde??

Linda Eder

  1. Name the Chicago mayor that most likely lost the job because of a snowstorm.

Michael Bilandic

  1. Why do people say, ?I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille??

It?s a line from Sunset Boulevard, spoken by the fading Norma Desmond.

  1. Clang, clang, clang went the trolley.
    Ding, ding, ding went the bell
    Zing, zing, zing went my heart strings,
    or so sang (famously) Judy Garland

  2. Who is Radioactive Man?s sidekick?

Fallout Boy

  1. Originally, it was Tripper, Snow, and Wood that lived together.

Jack, Chrissy and Janet from Three?s Company

  1. 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

  1. In what way is Dr. Loren related to the answer to question #7? (Note: Kevin Bacon is not involved, except perhaps in spirit).

Inger Stevens played “The Farmer’s Daughter,” she was also Jana, Dr. Loren’s robot daughter in the aforementioned Twilight Zone ep “The Lateness of the Hour”

  1. Who was the first US president not chosen as such by the Electoral College? (If you can defend your answer, I might accept it).

Jefferson, again. The EC couldn’t come up with a majority between him and Burr, so the election went to the House of Representatives, which chose Jefferson on the 36th ballot. Therefore, President Jefferson was not chosen so by the EC, but rather by the House.

  1. 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.

The Duke of Mantua, in Verdi’s Rigoletto

  1. You don?t have any H2O2 around the house, by chance?

Why yes ? I use hydrogen peroxide to clean minor cuts. It also is found in some contact lens solutions

  1. What?s a sump pump?

Pumps standing water or entering ground water out of the basement

  1. How many were going to St. Ives?

Just one.

  1. ?But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night, I saved the life?? of someone who later died anyway.

Ringo

  1. Robbie, Mike, and Chip were my ?.

Three Sons, until Mike left and was replaced by Ernie.

  1. Who?s the Ivory Snow girl that got very dirty?

Marilyn Chambers, when she went “Behind the Green Door”

  1. 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.

Woody Guthrie

  1. How does Steve evade arrest and prosecution for his interracial marriage to Julie?

swallows a drop of her blood, so there was black blood in him

  1. Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe. Get it done by half-past two. What Victorian-era parlor game are we listening to?

Hunt the Slipper

  1. What was the Nacht und Nebel Erlass?

?Night and Fog Decree? – members of anti-Nazi resistance in occupied territories were to be quickly “disappeared” and sent off to Germany, where they were never heard from again.

  1. Who was Raggedy Ann?s brother, and who created them?

Johnny Gruelle created Raggedy Ann and Andy

  1. 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.

  1. Name the cartoon character noted for ?Heavens to Murgatroyd!?

Snagglepuss

  1. I can?t believe I ate the whole thing.

Time for some Alka-Seltzer!

  1. Two ounces of scotch have 160 calories…

The ?calories? in the scotch are actually kilocalories ? you need 160 kilograms of water in your scotch, giving you the classic drink, Love in a Canoe

  1. I keep hearing about poison pills, greenmail, and golden parachutes. Huh?
    **A poison pill is a defense to a corporate takeover that issues new shares to make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a controlling interest. Greenmail is an insincere corporate takeover who’s real goal is not to gain a controlling interest, but rather to force the target to buy out the shares you acquire at a premium to avoid a proxy a fight. A golden parachute is simply a very sweet retirement or exit package typically reserved for highly compensated employees. **

  2. If I were you, I?d turn down an invitation to go west with the Donners.

You might get eaten!

  1. What sort of dance did papa and mama do to the rock and roll record on the record machine?

waltz

  1. I?ve got some potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. What can I make?

gunpowder

  1. What is soylent green?

Soylent green is people!

  1. It?s not a Tennessee Williams character, but a cooking term that means to remove the outer skin by parboiling in steam.

blanch

  1. What?s the occupation of Jack Ryan?s wife Cathy?

eye surgeon

  1. 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?

sidecar

  1. Telnet is 23, and SMTP is 25. What?s https?

443

  1. In the thirteenth century, he traveled with his uncle and father to Cathay, and his descriptions may have inspired Coleridge?s Xanadu.

Marco Polo

  1. All my exes live in Texas, so where might I hang my hat?

Tennessee

  1. A US Navy one-star admiral is promoted one rank. What?s her new title, and what was her old title?

She was and is still a rear admiral (previously lower half, now upper half)

  1. What?s the area of a sphere having a radius of pi units?
    4(pi cubed)
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While I don’t seriously disagree with Scylla’s additions, I will note that all three can be used as forms of shark repellant; greenmail is sometimes used to buy off a serious corporate raider and a golden parachute can be used to insulate the current management team so that a successful raider cannot put his own officers in place without losing tons of dough and crippling the very asset he’s just purchased. Although as accurately noted by Scylla, greenmail and golden parachutes are sometimes used in other situations, they are also all three used to prevent takeovers.

–Cliffy

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Correction (probably too late):

  1. In what way is Dr. Loren related to the answer to question #7? (Note: Kevin Bacon is not involved, except perhaps in spirit).

Inger Stevens played “The Farmer’s Daughter,” she was also Jana, Dr. Loren’s robot daughter in the aforementioned Twilight Zone ep "The Lateness of the Hour

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Cliffy: 50 first, and the win!

I apologize profusely for the typo that marred question #20.

I was looking for the concept of corporate takeovers in #38 - perhaps I should have insisted on detail from the beginning.

I would have taken “John Hanson, 1781” for #21 as well as Jefferson.

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Who-hoo! :smiley:

–Cliffy

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Oh, well, poop.

I came back in 'cause I forgot to give props to Cliffy for supplying the one last answer I was looking for and to graciously accept the congratulations of the Academy; and it turns out I snagged the wrong answer.

Ah well.

Congrats, Cliffy!

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Thanks, Aguecheek – how are things out in the Pacific Northwest?

On another note, Bricker’s original post asked how we arrived at our answers. Now that the time pressure is off, I can answer that:

  1. Googled
  2. Figured it out
  3. Knew
  4. Pretty sure it was the kid from Christine, tho’ I googled to get his name.
  5. Knew
  6. Knew, pretty much, but I needed to confirm
  7. Googled
  8. Googled
  9. Googled
  10. Googled
  11. Knew Drew Carey, googled Charles Drew. (Originally I was thinking I’d throw in a wrench here when I made my first pass at the answers and was going to put “Sydney Carton did a far, far better thing in saving me than even he knew, as it allowed me to develop an ABC sitcom,” but by the time I got around to posting, the right answer was already out there.)
  12. Knew what they were but I had to google to remember which was which.
  13. Googled
  14. Googled
  15. Knew
  16. Recognized it, but googled for a fuller answer
  17. Knew
  18. Knew
  19. Googled (which was confirmed by other posters)
  20. Googled the hell out of it!
  21. Pretty sure, but googled to confirm. I thought about one of the Articles presidents but since it was a very different job and a very different country, I felt the question called for some continuity in the office asked about.
  22. Googled, though I should have known it.
  23. Knew
  24. Knew
  25. Knew
  26. Googled
  27. Pretty sure, but googled to confirm
  28. Knew
  29. Had a hunch, which turned out to be correct.
  30. Googled
  31. Googled. got the wrong answer, and then stole from ENugent. :wink:
  32. Googled
  33. Knew Andy; googled Gruelle.
  34. Looked up the rules – I knew that law degree would come in handy!
  35. Knew
  36. Knew it was from a commercial but wasn’t sure about the brand; googled.
  37. Knew
  38. Knew the context and the def. of poison pill and golden parachute, googled for greenmail and more information generally, then left the extra info out when I cut and pasted ENugent’s answer, much to my shame but, fortunately, not regret.
  39. Knew
  40. After failing to find it through google, guessed wrong and then stole the right answer. (Thaks, Aguecheek and Lemur!)
  41. Had a hunch which google showed me to be correct.
  42. Knew
  43. Stole from ENugent, though I would have gotten it eventually.
  44. Googled
  45. Googled
  46. Googled
  47. Knew
  48. Googled
  49. Googled
  50. Googled for the formula, then did the math.

–Cliffy

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Perfect weather-wise, job-wise and everything else-wise, thanks for asking.

I do miss lunch bunch, although I’ve a standing reservation with a co-worker for bacon cheeseburgers every Friday, so I make do. :smiley:

Never really looked at the rules beyond the first challenge, never even noticed the request. So without further ado:

1 - Knew it (I used to work for the pharmaceutical industry! Honest!)
2 - Thanks to ENugent, Googling sent me all over Hell’s half-acre.
3 - Knew it
4 - Knew it
5 - Knew it
6 - From a friend who’s savvy about these things
7 - Google
8 - Google
9 - Knew it
10 - Google
11 - Knew Drew Carey, Googled Charles Drew
12 - Google
13 - Google
14 - Google
15 - Knew it
16 - Knew it, Googled the exact lyrics
17 - Knew it
18 - Sounded very familiar, clarification from Coworker
19 - Computer friend
20 - originally Cliffy, missed the later clarification
21 - Knew it, got details from Google
22 - Coworker’s wife
23 - Knew it
24 - Coworker
25 - Knew it
26 - Google
27 - Coworker
28 - Knew it
29 - Google
30 - Google
31 - Google
32 - Google
33 - Knew Raggedy Andy, Googled creator
34 - ENugent
35 - Coworker
36 - Knew it
37 - ENugent
38 - Google
39 - Knew it
40 - Google
41 - Though I knew it, confirmed via Google
42 - Knew it
43 - Joking around with a co-worker, pretending to be a cooking-show host: “Next, we STELLA! the turnips and get them ready for presentation…now, we’ll DuBois the parsnips…Oh, hell! Blanch! Quick, write that down!”
44 - Knew it
45 - Google
46 - Computer friend
47 - Knew it
48 - Google
49 - Google
50 - ENugent

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Nope, at least according to the USGA

Outside Agency
An “outside agency’’ is any agency not part of the match or, in stroke play, not part of the competitor’s side, and includes a referee, a marker, an observer and a forecaddie. Neither wind nor water is an outside agency.

So the wind is not an outside agency, the wind could blow the ball all the way back to the teeing area and you would be SOL. However the player after the cup stops, removes the ball and places it on the ground under the cup. That’s why players will hurry up in windy conditions and get to the green so they can mark the ball, then after the ball is marked you replace it in the same spot.

Now what I should do is copy the correct set of answers and win!

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You are correct that the wind is not an outside agency. However, I refer you to USGA Decision 18-1/7, which I quote:

My question merely substituted a cup for the bag.

  • Rick
36

Just out of curiosity – Aguecheek and others that drew on co-worker’s knowledge… how do explain why you’re asking these odd, unconnected questions?

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Well, the first time, I didn’t explain. I’d just printed out a list of the questions, walked into his office, plopped down and went over the ones I didn’t have yet. When we were done, I thanked him and continued looking up the rest.

No questions were ever asked, and I really get the impression that it was deemed normal behaviour on my part.

This time, when I plunked myself down and presented him with the list, he gave me a knowing smile and remarked that I was looking for a $25 Amazon gift certificate. He’s a Doper who spends most of his time lurking; so I don’t think many people here would know him and he prefers to remain anonymous, so…

Of course, I was more than willing to admit to the fact that I was working on the challenge. He thought it was a hoot.

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  1. Googled
  2. Figured out (except I googled to remember the word “steradians”)
  3. Googled
  4. Googled
  5. Guessed
  6. Knew
  7. Googled
  8. Googled
  9. Knew
  10. Googled
  11. Googled Charles Drew; knew Drew Carey
  12. Knew, but googled a clean definition
  13. Googled
  14. Googled
  15. Knew it was a classic movie whose name I would remember when I saw it - googled to find which one
  16. Googled
  17. Googled
  18. Googled
  19. Googled to confirm what I knew
  20. Missed - contest was over before I saw correction, which would probably have allowed me to google correctly
  21. Missed
  22. Googled
  23. Knew
  24. Knew
  25. Googled
  26. Googled
  27. Googled
  28. Googled (answer came from snopes, of all places!)
  29. Googled on some knowledge - I knew that Woody Guthrie sang “This Train is Bound for Glory”, so I googled his birthday to check.
  30. Knew
  31. Googled
  32. Googled
  33. Knew Andy, googled Johnny
  34. Looked in the rules of golf decisions, whose existence I knew about from writing a golf club patent application…
  35. Googled
  36. Knew
  37. Knew (and no one asked what Love in a Canoe is!)
  38. Knew
  39. Knew
  40. Missed
  41. Knew, googled to confirm
  42. Knew
  43. Knew the term, but wasted time googling because I didn’t think it usually meant to use steam
  44. Knew
  45. Googled
  46. Googled
  47. Googled
  48. Googled
  49. Googled
  50. Knew formula, but idiotically applied incorrectly
39

I assumed it was the lead in to the line most often applied to American beer being similar to making love in a canoe - yes?

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Yes, although I actually have heard it applied to American coffee, as well.

Oh, and on #15, I didn’t actually google - I imdb’d. :wink: