Bricker Challenge 2003 Edition #7

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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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 wind is not an outside agency, hence the ball would be removed from the cup after it had stopped moving and placed on the spot where the cup was. The ball can still be moved by wind on the green until the player marks his/her ball, after that then the ball would be replaced. Unless someone has a decision like this that I couldn’t find.

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Edward, read Bricker’s response to your previous post – the wind is NOT an outside agency, but the cup is, and the cup, not the wind, is what moved the ball. You might disagree (indeed, I might disagree), but the USGA has definitively ruled on the subject – I know, 'cuz it took me a good 20 minutes to track down Decision 18-1/6.

–Cliffy

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Opps, I feel like an idiot now. Mainly because I didn’t re-read the entire thread over and when I tried to post this last night it did not show that I had made the post. Actaully when I refreshed it was not there. So there was some precidence that I couldn’t find. So sorry about the double post.

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My answering strategy:

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

Guessed, and googled to confirm

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

Figured it out

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

Knew, googled to confirm

  1. 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?

Knew, googled to confirm last name.
5. No soup for you!

Knew.

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

Knew

  1. Should you avoid keeping an appointment in Samarra?

Guessed the answer, googled to confirm

  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.

Googled. This one was difficult to get the google terms right.

  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.

Knew.

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

Copied, googled to confirm.

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

Googled Charles Drew, knew the rest.

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

Knew, googled to confirm.

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

Googled.

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

Googled.

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

Kinda knew, googled for more complete information.

  1. Clang, clang, clang went the trolley.

Knew.

  1. Who is Radioactive Man’s sidekick?

Knew.

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

Knew.

  1. In an RJ45 plug, what pins are “live” and what pins are not used?

Copied.

  1. In what way is Dr. Loren related to the answer to question #8? (Note: Kevin Bacon is not involved, except perhaps in spirit).

Copied. This was really difficult, since the most common google reference to “Loren” was Sophia Loren. And of course the #7/#8 controversy.

  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).

Knew.

  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.

Copied, googled to confirm.

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

Knew.

  1. What’s a sump pump?

Knew.

  1. How many were going to St. Ives?

Knew.

  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.

Googled. Ctrl-C on lyrics, Ctrl-V into google. Exact lyrics are easy.

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

Googled.

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

Knew.

  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.

Guessed (“Bound for glory”), googled to confirm birth date.

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

Knew, googled to confirm.

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

Googled.

  1. What was the Nacht und Nebel Erlass?

Knew.

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

Knew Raggedy Andy, googled creator.

  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?

Copied.

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

Guessed, googled to confirm.

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

Knew.

  1. 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.)

Knew.

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

Kinda knew, googled to get complete definitions.

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

Knew.

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

Copied, since googling didn’t bring anything up. Substituting “mama” and “papa” was a clever move, since I was using them in the search terms. Once I dropped them, I googled the answer right away.

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

Knew.

  1. What is soylent green?

Knew.

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

Knew.

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

Knew.

  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?

Googled, “brandy” “cointreau” and “lemon juice”.

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

Copied.

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

Knew.

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

Googled “All my exes live in Texas”.

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

Googled, had to hunt around a bit.

  1. What’s the area of a sphere having a radius of pi units?

Guessed the formula, googled to confirm.

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Lemur866: Thanks very much – and, indeed, thatnks to everyone for their feedback, but especially Lemur866, since it’s great insight into what works to confuse the search engine technique…