Bricker Challenge 2004 - Edition #1

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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It’s still nearly impossible to google that - there’s no mention of “major odal” anywhere on the web as far as google cares. I’m lucky I remembered it from a previous challenge. :slight_smile:

31. Burt Lancaster is a drunken salesman that can con anyone, it seems, even under a revival tent.
Elmer Gantry, he was, and look at that Shirley Jones.

32. How did Jack Ryan’s friend Mr. Clark come to be a CIA operative?
Well, he fell for this hooker, see, and rescued her from her dismal life, and then the drug dealers killed her, and he got his revenge via vigilante justice, and … well, Without Remorse was an okay book, not really bad.

33. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
Nucleus, ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus.

34. What’s the difference between FAT and NTFS?
FAT is File Allocation Table, or an older way of arranging data on a disk. NTFS is New Technology Filing System, native to NT, 2k, and XP. It’s a “journaling” file system, which is more robust and allows for larger files and more functionality.

35. Provide a statement logically equivalent to ‘If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,’ and, crossing genres in a single question, tell me where I got the original statement.
If this isn’t Belgium, then it is not Tuesday, and Mel Stuart and David Shaw really dropped the ball on that film.

36. Two atoms of bromine form an ionic bond, right?
No. An ionic bond is between two different ions, which means that one is positively charged and one is negatively charged.

37. Five days after Yom Kippur - time to eat outside in the lean-to!
Sukkoth. And you reused this one too.

38. One of Mrs. White’s husbands was an illusionist, apparently.
If I were married to Madeline Kahn, I’d never disappear and not reappear. Rowr.

39. Giorgio ends up dumping the hot Clara for the kinda weird Fosca.
All Giorgio wanted was to read Clara’s letter (ah, the sunrise!) by himself, but Fosca got in the way… is this what you call love? Man, that chick is obsessed.

40. I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.
I didn’t know Dean Koontz was an Anglican.

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Screw the $25 gift certificate. Can I just have the leftovers when you bill 15 minutes for a 2 minute call and spend the rest of your time Doping?

:slight_smile:

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I spoiler’ed all the answers I had to look up, in case someone who thinks they know the answer does come along.
(On preview: Replaced some answers [mostly spoiler’ed] with Ino’s, who, apparantly, is a trivia god!)

  1. If we built a new version of England’s famous structure at, say, Windsor, and brought Phoebe Halliwell’s first husband there, what punny phrase might come to mind?
    Bringing Cole to New Castle. [Finagle]

  2. Just how did I end up getting the fence whitewashed AND collect loot from all the boys that did it?
    Made it seem like fun. [Finagle]

  3. How many different four-man bobsled team combinations may be assembled from a group of eighteen Jamaicans, assuming each Jamaican has an equal chance of being chosen? (And what movie comes to mind?)
    Assumption: By “combination,” the team is chosen without regard order. Note, however, that order is important, as indicated in “Cool Runnings.”
    Combination of “r” objects from “n” total objects: n!/[r!(n-r)!] = 18!/[4!*14!] = 3,060.

  4. Who starred in the porn flick “Buffay: The Vampire Layer?”
    Ursula Buffay, credited as Pheobe Buffay (from Friends). [Sadly, I knew this one]

  5. The death of the baker’s wife was a terrible tragedy, but at least it saved a member of a royal family from a potential sexual harassment suit. He had nothing to do with the Giant, though.
    However, the shadow of the Giant did panic the Baker’s Wife, which caused her to tumble backward and be crushed by falling trees (from Into the Woods).

  6. Was there a lady in there? Or a tiger?
    No one knows. Except maybe the barbarian princess. [Finagle]

  7. As far as photoreceptors go, rods are better at distinguishing colors.
    Nope. The cones are sensitive to color. But there are more rods. [Finagle]

  8. What was the significance of the librarian’s name in the episode that sent Spock back in time to a frozen wasteland?
    His name was wholly apt for someone managing all knowledge: Mr. Atoz (A to Z). [Manatee]
    (It’s also the order in which he sent the planet’s population (i.e., alphabetically)).

  9. The saint that was known as the Little Flower – to what order did she belong?
    St. Therese belonged to the Carmelites. [Ino]

  10. What advice might you give to Laius and Jocasta’s son?
    Never marry anyone, especially anyone old enough to be your mother. [Manatee]

  11. How did the Great Brain manage to put together a winning tug of war team of Gentiles against the Mormons?
    He cheated. His team braced themselves on stakes he hid in the ground, and he got the teams to switch sides by arguing last year’s losers should get the “better,” dirt side.

  12. Assuming a haploid number of fifteen chromosomes, how many different combinations of paternal and maternal chromosomes are possible for the gametes?
    2^15. [Ino]

  13. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
    Pylea. [Ino]

  14. If you had a nickel for each distinct way to make change for a dollar, how much more (or less) money would you have than a person who had the most money without being able to make change for a dollar?
    $13.46. [Ino]

  15. Value corrupts, and absolute value corrupts absolutely. Right?

Right, because Mathmatica is stupid. Sometimes, it trys to find the derivative of an absolute value, and makes the Baby Jesus cry. [Google]

  1. There is no Dana, only Zuul.
    Who ya gonna call? [Finagle]

  2. Daniel killed Ed Drummond, but was he crazy?

At the time. He was found Not guilty, on the ground of insanity. [Google]

  1. Which of the six signs did Will get for his birthday, when he discovered he was an Old One?
    Iron [Ino]

  2. A ten-newton force is required to hold a stretched spring 2 meters from its rest position. What is the potential energy of the stretched spring?
    10 joules. [Ino]

  3. If Chip hadn’t shown up for his and Roy Gublik’s double date with the girls, what might have happened?
    Rachel and Ross might have found their lobsters a lot sooner (or, perhaps, just some crabs, being Prom and all). [Sadly, I also knew this one.]

  4. Major Odal was good at duels.
    Somehow, Major Odal is killing people in the dueling machine. And it’s all Ben Bova’s fault. [Ino]

  5. What sort of aircraft is Snoopy’s doghouse?
    A Sopwith Camel. [Finagle]

  6. You know – it’s like that song about the ship sinking, “The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
    F Scott Fitzgerald was an author, and the Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship that sank. [Ino]

  7. Lord Mayor of London, three times, and all because his cat could catch mice!
    “Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London.” [various]

  8. If you can’t connect to port 80, you are going to have a hard time with this Challenge.
    Clarifying Finagle’s answer: computers connect to web servers over port 80. If you can’t connect to port 80, you’ll have a hard time browsing the internet and, thus, answering the Challenge.

  9. Apparently, Wilbur’s new best friend is Cardigan the Lamb.
    Clarifying Finagle’s answer: Charlotte’s Web 2: Wilbur’s Great Adventure. [Google]

  10. Having watched the Democratic primary race thus far, I think Kubler-Ross missed the sixth stage: utter stupefaction.
    The stages of loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, . [Finagle & Ino]

  11. What’s that Keats poem about the fairy creature that enthralls the knight?
    La Belle Dame Sans Merci. [Finagle]

  12. Eugene O’Neill’s architect – the one that could only design ugly, stocky buildings.
    Billy Brown, from “The Great God Brown.” [Look, kids, a high school education is useful!]

30.What Shakespeare character didn’t love well, or wisely?
Othello loved too well, but not wisely. [Buckleberry Ferry]

  1. Burt Lancaster is a drunken salesman that can con anyone, it seems, even under a revival tent.

Elmer Gantry

  1. How did Jack Ryan’s friend Mr. Clark come to be a CIA operative?
    Via a really bad book in which he take revenge on some drug dealers. [Finagle]

  2. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
    Ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi apparatus. [Yay, Bio 1! But only if I’m right. Otherwise, I still hate Bio 1.]

  3. What’s the difference between FAT and NTFS?
    The biggest difference is the internal architecture. FAT (File Allocation System) is basically a big ol’ blob data files with an itty-bitty index.
    NTFS (New Technology Filing System) uses binary trees to store file system data. [Hooray computer questions!]

  4. Provide a statement logically equivalent to “If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,” and, crossing genres in a single question, tell me where I got the original statement.

“If it rains tomorrow, then I will wear a raincoat.” The statement is false only if the first part is true and the second part is false. [Philosophy 51: Intro to Logic]
The original statement might be from the Mel Stuart movie of the same name.

  1. Two atoms of bromine form an ionic bond, right?
    To form an ionic bond, atoms must gain or lose electrons. Both bromine atoms want to gain one electron for a full outer shell. Two bromine atoms would form a covalent bond and share an electron pair. [Only used Google to check the atomic weight of Bromine.]

  2. Five days after Yom Kippur – time to eat outside in the lean-to!
    It’s called a Sukkoth. [Finagle]

  3. One of Mrs. White’s husbands was an illusionist, apparently.
    Wadsworth: But he never reappeared!
    Mrs. White: He wasn’t a very good illusionist. [“Clue” is one of my favorite movies. Did you know Mr. Green is the only guest that didn’t kill Mr. Body?]

  4. Giorgio ends up dumping the hot Clara for the kinda weird Fosca.

Sounds like Just Another Love Story to me. (From Passion). [Google]

  1. I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.

Book of Common Prayer - Collection of ancient and modern prayers, mostly from the Bible. [Google]
Book of Counted Sorrows - Collection of Dean Koontz poems and sayings that are also referenced in his works. [Google]

  1. What’s a bot, in the world of IRC?
    An automated program that simulates a user, usually programmed with a set of commands that ops can use to perform tasks, such as give pithy sayings and kick/ban. [Leaper]

  2. In this spin-off, Clancy becomes a P.I. in New Orleans, and Ralph is kidnapped by Big Daddy.
    “Ah, New Orleans. The Big Easy. Sweet Lady Gumbo. Old … Swampy.” (From The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase) [Google for a nice quote]

  3. Husker-Du!

I heard they set a new Land Speed Record. [Google]

  1. Paul and Jamie turn out to be distant cousins.
    Mad About You. [Finagle]

  2. The recipe says I’m supposed to barder the quail and cure the venison, but I didn’t even know it was sick!

Cover the quail with meat during cooking (barder), and preserve the vension by using chemicals to produce a form a dehydration (curing). [Google]
I really hope you aren’t looking for an actual recipe.

  1. Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
    The Cage Aux Folles, brought to the Big Screen as The Birdcage with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams. [Finagle]

  2. Sweet Loretta seemed to be confused about the difference between a cleaner and a frying pan.
    *Get Back*, by the Beatles. [various]

  3. What’s El Coqui to a Puerto Rican?

[spoiler]El Coqui: The Frog, The Legend:

[Google] [/spoiler]

  1. Did Eliza fool the Hungarian?
    Yes, the fair lady certainly does. [THE classic high school play]
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Right, someone’s trying to sneak in, but they missed #47. Time to cross my fingers and swing for the fences:

1. If we built a new version of England’s famous structure at, say, Windsor, and brought Phoebe Halliwell’s first husband there, what punny phrase might come to mind?
Bringing Cole to New Castle.

2. Just how did I end up getting the fence whitewashed AND collect loot from all the boys that did it?
I’d like to let you try, honest injun, but Aunt Polly is awful particular, and … oh, you’ll give me an apple? And then a kite? And then a dead rat and a stick to swing it with? And twelve marbles, and a jews-harp, and a piece of blue glass, and a spool cannon, and a key that wouldn’t unlock anything… he just made them think it was fun.

3. How many different four-man bobsled team combinations may be assembled from a group of eighteen Jamaicans, assuming each Jamaican has an equal chance of being chosen? (And what movie comes to mind?)
Cool Runnings, and there are 73,440 possible permutations, and 3060 combinations, and I’m sober, I swear.

4. Who starred in the porn flick "Buffay: The Vampire Layer?"
Phoebe the porn star, also in Lawrence of A Labia.

5. The death of the baker’s wife was a terrible tragedy, but at least it saved a member of a royal family from a potential sexual harassment suit. He had nothing to do with the Giant, though.
The Baker’s Wife gets crushed by the Giantess (damn Jack and his silly ideas) but Charming will never get ratted out for groping her merrily in the glades (Any Moment!)

6. Was there a lady in there? Or a tiger?
Never trust semi-barbaric kings when it comes to dealing with administering justice: 50-50 chance of getting eaten or getting married. Nasty odds.

7. As far as photoreceptors go, rods are better at distinguishing colors.
Nope. The cones are sensitive to color. But there are more rods.

8. What was the significance of the librarian’s name in the episode that sent Spock back in time to a frozen wasteland?
He knew everything - Mr. Atoz. A to Z.

9. The saint that was known as the Little Flower - to what order did she belong?
She was a Carmelite nun. Sweet, gooey caramel.

10. What advice might you give to Laius and Jocasta’s son?
Your mother is not a MILF, so hands off. Everything just gets complex.

11. How did the Great Brain manage to put together a winning tug of war team of Gentiles against the Mormons?
He sneaked out in the middle of the night with his friend and put wooden stakes in the ground covered by mud. The next day his team went out and braced their feet against the stakes and won the contest.

12. Assuming a haploid number of fifteen chromosomes, how many different combinations of paternal and maternal chromosomes are possible for the gametes?
2^15.

13. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
Pylea.

14. If you had a nickel for each distinct way to make change for a dollar, how much more (or less) money would you have than a person who had the most money without being able to make change for a dollar?
Well, if I have a pile of $20s, I can’t make change for a dollar, but you mean someone who has three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies for $1.19 but no change for a dollar. And there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (including a dollar coin, either Susan B or Sacajawea) which is $14.65, less the buck nineteen, and you’ve got thirteen dollars and forty-six cents there, chief.

15. Value corrupts, and absolute value corrupts absolutely. Right?
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I wish that the absolute value of my debt could be given to me in cold, hard cash.

16. There is no Dana, only Zuul.
Don’t cross the streams, Ray.

17. Daniel killed Ed Drummond, but was he crazy?
According to a British jury in 1843, he sure was.

18. Which of the six signs did Will get for his birthday, when he discovered he was an Old One?
Iron.

19. A ten-newton force is required to hold a stretched spring 2 meters from its rest position. What is the potential energy of the stretched spring?
F = k x is Hooke’s law. We can use that to find that k must be 5. Then the potential energy is 1/2 k x^2, or 1/2 (5) (2)^2 = 1/2 * 5 * 4 = 10 joules.

20. If Chip hadn’t shown up for his and Roy Gublik’s double date with the girls, what might have happened?
Ross might have taken Rachel to the prom.

21. Major Odal was good at duels.
Somehow, Major Odal is killing people in the dueling machine. And it’s all Ben Bova’s fault. And you used this in challenge #4; don’t try to fool me.

22. What sort of aircraft is Snoopy’s doghouse?
Sopwith Camel.

23. You know - it’s like that song about the ship sinking, 'The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald.'
F Scott Fitzgerald was an author, and the Edmund Fitzgerald was the ship that sank.

24. Lord Mayor of London, three times, and all because his cat could catch mice!
Dick Whittington, my good man.

25. If you can’t connect to port 80, you are going to have a hard time with this Challenge.
Because you need http traffic to reach the boards.

26. Apparently, Wilbur’s new best friend is Cardigan the Lamb. Talk about milking the classics!
Charlotte’s Web 2: Pork Ain’t Kosher. Er, I mean, Wilbur’s Great Adventure.

27. Having watched the Democratic primary race thus far, I think Kubler-Ross missed the sixth stage: utter stupefaction.
The stages of loss: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. I’m still in stage 1. Dean is not unelectable. HE’S NOT HE’S NOT HE’S NOT IT’S YOUR FAULT FOR SAYING HE IS BUT VOTE FOR HIM AND I’LL SEND YOU A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH OH GOD THIS SUCKS OH WHAT THE HELL I can always move to Canada.

28. What’s that Keats poem about the fairy creature that enthralls the knight?
La belle dame sans merci.

29. Eugene O’Neill’s architect - the one that could only design ugly, stocky buildings.
William “Billy” Brown. That skank Margaret shafted him.

30. What Shakespeare character didn’t love well, or wisely?
Othello.

31. Burt Lancaster is a drunken salesman that can con anyone, it seems, even under a revival tent.
Elmer Gantry, he was, and look at that Shirley Jones.

32. How did Jack Ryan’s friend Mr. Clark come to be a CIA operative?
Well, he fell for this hooker, see, and rescued her from her dismal life, and then the drug dealers killed her, and he got his revenge via vigilante justice, and … well, Without Remorse was an okay book, not really bad.

33. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
Nucleus, ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus.

34. What’s the difference between FAT and NTFS?
FAT is File Allocation Table, or an older way of arranging data on a disk. NTFS is New Technology Filing System, native to NT, 2k, and XP. It’s a “journaling” file system, which is more robust and allows for larger files and more functionality.

35. Provide a statement logically equivalent to ‘If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,’ and, crossing genres in a single question, tell me where I got the original statement.
If this isn’t Belgium, then it is not Tuesday, and Mel Stuart and David Shaw really dropped the ball on that film.

36. Two atoms of bromine form an ionic bond, right?
No. An ionic bond is between two different ions, which means that one is positively charged and one is negatively charged.

37. Five days after Yom Kippur - time to eat outside in the lean-to!
Sukkoth. And you reused this one too.

38. One of Mrs. White’s husbands was an illusionist, apparently.
If I were married to Madeline Kahn, I’d never disappear and not reappear. Rowr.

39. Giorgio ends up dumping the hot Clara for the kinda weird Fosca.
All Giorgio wanted was to read Clara’s letter (ah, the sunrise!) by himself, but Fosca got in the way… is this what you call love? Man, that chick is obsessed.

40. I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.
I didn’t know Dean Koontz was an Anglican.

41. What’s a bot, in the world of IRC?
An automated program that can respond to certain triggers, such as a user’s arrival in the channel prompting the bot to grant privileges to that specific user.

42. In this spin-off, Clancy becomes a P.I. in New Orleans, and Ralph is kidnapped by Big Daddy.
Look, Big Daddy! It’s regular daddy! I’m just depressed that Chief Wiggum, PI lasted about as long as Trapper John, MD.

43. Husker-Du!
“Do you remember” playing it as a child? Or do you just remember the music?

44. Paul and Jamie turn out to be distant cousins.
Mad About You.

45. The recipe says I’m supposed to barder the quail and cure the venison, but I didn’t even know it was sick!
Bardering is covering the quail with meat, and curing meat is a way to preserve it either for a recipe or for storage. Don’t try to shingle your house with cured venison.

46. Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
The Birdcage, with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams. And Gene Hackman.

47. Dave doesn’t encounter a big orange monster, but does find a balloon he names ‘Gerald.’
Still, a little animated field mouse shouldn’t go hopping through the forest. And what kind of rabbit can fit into a soup can? At least he’s brave.

48. Sweet Loretta seemed to be confused about the difference between a cleaner and a frying pan.
Get back to where you once belonged, Bricker.

49. What’s El Coqui to a Puerto Rican?
A small tree frog.

50. Did Eliza fool the Hungarian?
Eliza passes off as royalty and fools the professor while making plenty of fun of everyone else.

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  1. If we built a new version of England’s famous structure at, say, Windsor, and brought Phoebe Halliwell’s first husband there, what punny phrase might come to mind?

  2. Just how did I end up getting the fence whitewashed AND collect loot from all the boys that did it?

Well, after you told them how much fun it really was, but that they didn’t get to do it, they were just chomping at the bit.

  1. How many different four-man bobsled team combinations may be assembled from a group of eighteen Jamaicans, assuming each Jamaican has an equal chance of being chosen? (And what movie comes to mind?)

**18 nCr 4 = 3060

Cool Runnings**
4. Who starred in the porn flick “Buffay: The Vampire Layer?”

Kristi Myst

  1. The death of the baker’s wife was a terrible tragedy, but at least it saved a member of a royal family from a potential sexual harassment suit. He had nothing to do with the Giant, though.
  2. Was there a lady in there? Or a tiger?
  3. As far as photoreceptors go, rods are better at distinguishing colors.

Check your books; as that would be cones.

  1. What was the significance of the librarian’s name in the episode that sent Spock back in time to a frozen wasteland?
  2. The saint that was known as the Little Flower – to what order did she belong?

Therese belonged to Carmel at Lisieux, of course.

  1. What advice might you give to Laius and Jocasta’s son?

A mother is a boy’s best friend, but in a strictly platonic way.
11. How did the Great Brain manage to put together a winning tug of war team of Gentiles against the Mormons?

Won’t someone think of the children?

  1. Assuming a haploid number of fifteen chromosomes, how many different combinations of paternal and maternal chromosomes are possible for the gametes?

32768

  1. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
  2. If you had a nickel for each distinct way to make change for a dollar, how much more (or less) money would you have than a person who had the most money without being able to make change for a dollar?
  3. Value corrupts, and absolute value corrupts absolutely. Right?

Hell no. You obviously don’t know the power of the dark side.

  1. There is no Dana, only Zuul.
  2. Daniel killed Ed Drummond, but was he crazy?
  3. Which of the six signs did Will get for his birthday, when he discovered he was an Old One?

Iron

  1. A ten-newton force is required to hold a stretched spring 2 meters from its rest position. What is the potential energy of the stretched spring?

PEs=.5KX[sup]2[/sup]
PE=10N

  1. If Chip hadn’t shown up for his and Roy Gublik’s double date with the girls, what might have happened?
  2. Major Odal was good at duels.
  3. What sort of aircraft is Snoopy’s doghouse?
  4. You know – it’s like that song about the ship sinking, “The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald.”

Gordon Lightfoot would be horrified to hear you murder his classic “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”.
24. Lord Mayor of London, three times, and all because his cat could catch mice!
25. If you can’t connect to port 80, you are going to have a hard time with this Challenge.

Yep, no internet without your http/tcp port.
26. Apparently, Wilbur’s new best friend is Cardigan the Lamb. Talk about milking the classics!
27. Having watched the Democratic primary race thus far, I think Kubler-Ross missed the sixth stage: utter stupefaction.
28. What’s that Keats poem about the fairy creature that enthralls the knight?
29. Eugene O’Neill’s architect – the one that could only design ugly, stocky buildings.
30. What Shakespeare character didn’t love well, or wisely?
31. Burt Lancaster is a drunken salesman that can con anyone, it seems, even under a revival tent.
32. How did Jack Ryan’s friend Mr. Clark come to be a CIA operative?
33. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?

You mean, other than Golgi apparati and endoplasmic reticulum? (Ribosomes too, if you want to be pedantic.)
34. What’s the difference between FAT and NTFS?

Windows platforms use File Allocations Tables, but NT based Systems use NewTechnologyFileStructure.

  1. Provide a statement logically equivalent to “If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,” and, crossing genres in a single question, tell me where I got the original statement.

  2. Two atoms of bromine form an ionic bond, right?
    Nope, covalent.

  3. Five days after Yom Kippur – time to eat outside in the lean-to!

For Sukkot?
38. One of Mrs. White’s husbands was an illusionist, apparently.
39. Giorgio ends up dumping the hot Clara for the kinda weird Fosca.
40. I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.
41. What’s a bot, in the world of IRC?

A robotic program, for spamming or trolling. Or virses, or whatnot.[

  1. In this spin-off, Clancy becomes a P.I. in New Orleans, and Ralph is kidnapped by Big Daddy.
  2. Husker-Du!
  3. Paul and Jamie turn out to be distant cousins.
  4. The recipe says I’m supposed to barder the quail and cure the venison, but I didn’t even know it was sick!
  5. Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
  6. Dave doesn’t encounter a big orange monster, but does find a balloon he names ‘Gerald.’
  7. Sweet Loretta seemed to be confused about the difference between a cleaner and a frying pan.
  8. What’s El Coqui to a Puerto Rican?

An endemic frog and a national art galleria.
50. Did Eliza fool the Hungarian?

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Mebbe, but I seem to recall Suzanne Pleshette looking really hot wearing just a shirt the morning after doing the nasty with the tour guide.

27

Someone didn’t know #47, and almost wore out Google looking for the answer!

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jmizzou: 47
lno: 48
Ilsa_Lund: 14

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Right. Well, let’s be methodical and go back to 31-40 and see how we do.

31. Burt Lancaster is a drunken salesman that can con anyone, it seems, even under a revival tent.
Elmer Gantry, he was, and look at that Shirley Jones.

32. How did Jack Ryan’s friend Mr. Clark come to be a CIA operative?
Well, he fell for this hooker, see, and rescued her from her dismal life, and then the drug dealers killed her, and he got his revenge via vigilante justice, and … well, Without Remorse was an okay book, not really bad.

33. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
Nucleus, ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus.

34. What’s the difference between FAT and NTFS?
FAT is File Allocation Table, or an older way of arranging data on a disk. NTFS is New Technology Filing System, native to NT, 2k, and XP. It’s a “journaling” file system, which is more robust and allows for larger files and more functionality.

35. Provide a statement logically equivalent to ‘If it is Tuesday, this must be Belgium,’ and, crossing genres in a single question, tell me where I got the original statement.
If this isn’t Belgium, then it is not Tuesday, and Mel Stuart and David Shaw really dropped the ball on that film.

36. Two atoms of bromine form an ionic bond, right?
No. An ionic bond is between two different ions, which means that one is positively charged and one is negatively charged.

37. Five days after Yom Kippur - time to eat outside in the lean-to!
Sukkoth. And you reused this one too.

38. One of Mrs. White’s husbands was an illusionist, apparently.
If I were married to Madeline Kahn, I’d never disappear and not reappear. Rowr.

39. Giorgio ends up dumping the hot Clara for the kinda weird Fosca.
All Giorgio wanted was to read Clara’s letter (ah, the sunrise!) by himself, but Fosca got in the way… is this what you call love? Man, that chick is obsessed.

40. I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.
I didn’t know Dean Koontz was an Anglican.

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Not that I’ve got a shot (lno, my goodness…)
but:

  1. Bringing Cole to New Castle
  2. Well, Tom, you convinced them that it was fun.
  3. Cool Runnings (3060)
  4. Ursula - you can tell because of the tatoo.
  5. It was a moment in the woods…
  6. Ask Frank Stockton (or watch the Apple Tree)
  7. That would be the cones
  8. Just because a guy is rude to you in the middle of the road, you don’t have

to kill him. See a shrink, Freud knows a thing or two about boys like you.
12. 32768
13. Pylea
14. yes
15. No, that’s power. Absolute value only corrupts negatives.
16. Ghostbusters
20. Ross would have gone to prom with Rachel.
22. Sopwith camel
25. http port.
27. I’m bargaining… with occasional flashbacks to denial.
29. The Great God Brown
30. Othello.
36. Nope, covalent.
37. Sukkot
38. He wasn’t a very good illusionist.
39. But a) she reads to live, and b) she gives him love without reason, love

without mercy, love without pride or shame. That’s gotta be worth something.
41. Computer in the IRC chatroom that performs a few basic functions and occasionally adds to the conversation. Often more coherently than the actual IRC people.
44. No, it was actually just a history of the Stemples having Buchmans for servants.
46. And a Birdcage
50. Yes, but the prof got the credit for it.

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lno: 9
amarinth: 24

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33: ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus. No nucleus involved in synthesis.

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Firstly, this round is pretty devious. A lot of really tricky word games and far less actual-factual stuff. Much better suited to stumping people who have all the resources of the internet at their fingertips. As usual, all of these off the top of my head with no help from said internet.

Haven’t got a clue who Phoebe Halliwell is, but I’m guessing the phrase you’re looking for is a play on the old children’s song “London Bridge is falling down”.**

This is a reference to the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer tricked the neighborhood boys into helping him paint the fence white(whitewashing) by pretending it was a lot of fun and then only allowing others to share in the fun if they bribed him with toys/food/other assorted loot.**

18C4 in statistics notation(18 choose 4). It represents the fraction 18!/4! or 181716151413121110987654321 / 4321 and it basically means “All the different ways 18 things can be combined minus all the different ways 4 things can be combined.” As you can see there is a way to immediately cancel out of the above equation because 4321 is present in both. So strike them both and you’re left with 18171615141312111098765 = 266,765,571,072,000 as the number of possible combinations WITH UNIQUE ORDERS. The question was a bit sloppy because it didn’t specify if the order being unique or not counted as a difference. On a bobsled team there are several different positions. You’ll note that there is a driver, and three runners. They sit in positions 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively, so on a real bobsled team order does matter. Having Bob drive and Ken, Stef, and Frankie be runners is a different team than having Ken drive and the others be runners, although they are still the same four people. If the order doesn’t matter and there isn’t a difference between having Ken, Stef, Bob, and Frankie versus Frankie, Bob, Stef, and Ken, then the number is much smaller. See the movie Cool Runnings for more details on Jamacian Bobsled teams.**

This is a reference to the short story “The Lady or the Tiger” where a ruler uses an interesting form of jurisprudence. He forces suspects to choose one of two doors. Behind one is a lady, who will be given to him as his bride, behind the other is a tiger who will kill the suspect. Supposedly fate will not allow the injustice of an innocent man being torn apart by the tiger so anyone still alive at the end of such a trial is obviously innocent and deserves some compensation for having been put on trial for a crime they did not commit.**

The parts of the human eye which interpret light are called the rods and the cones. One distinguishes brightness/darkness(black/white) and the other distinguishes color.**

I’m going to trekkie hell, but I haven’t a clue what the librarian’s name was in that episode :(**

This is another question which relies on knowledge of probability and biology terms. Most organisms which use sexual reproduction(indicated by use of the keyword gamete and an organism getting parental and maternal genetic material) are Diploid(and I’m assuming the organism in question is as well, although haploid organisms exist). Diploid means the chromosomes are arranged in pairs. The chromosome pair in humans which determines sex is either an X paired with an X(yielding a female) or an X paired with a Y(yielding male)(staying away from the various forms of polyploidy for a moment). So the organism in question can be said to have 30 chromosomes(15 pair) in a somatic cell. So there are a total of 30 chromosomes and when producing gametes(sex cells, sperm and eggs) 15 of these chromosomes are chosen. The mechanisms are far more complex than simple selection. When chromosome pairs seperate during the process of meiosis they don’t just pick one at a time. They take two at a time. One goes into each gamete. I’d have to do a little more math, but I don’t think the answer is 30 choose 15. I think it is a bit more complex than that, and in this question I’m pretty sure order would not matter because it doesn’t matter if the XY chromosome pair is the first or the last, it’s still a boy. If I get a little more time I may sit down with a pencil and paper and work this one out.**

Power corrupts. Money is power. Money is the common measurement of value. Substitute these “equivelances” to get the above phrase.**

Not necessarially. Port 80 is just the common default for HTTP connections. In fact there are probably hundreds of readers who are connected to some proxy server on some non-80 port and the proxy server is connected to the actual server on port 80.

This refers to some sequel to Charlotte’s Web but that’s all I got.**

I hate Hamlet.**

The most basic difference is that one is the filesystem used by DOS and early Windows(FAT) and the other is the filesystem used by NT, Windows 2000, and XP. FAT allocated a large area of the filesystem to record lists of where everything else was(kind of like an index in a book) and NTFS allocates space as needed instead of taking it off the top. This allows for less fragmentation of new data and less space reserved for system use.**

I never could get the hang of Thursdays.**

I don’t recall off the top of my head what Bromine is, but if I remember my basic chemistry correctly, two atoms of the same element very rarely, if ever, form an ion. An ion is created when there is an imbalance in the electronegativity from one side of a molecule to another. Two identical atoms, by definition, have the same electronegative potential and as such will produce a balanced molecule with regards to electronegativity. Neither is capable of pulling the electrons away from the other with enough force to dominate the balance. So two of the same atoms of pretty much anything won’t form an ion.**

A program which keeps a open line into a chat channel. They are used for permanence(because IRC channels close down if no one is in them) as well as all kinds of other handy stuff. Sometimes they’re used to spam and annoy people as well.**

Sounds like something they would do on the sitcom “Mad about you.” The two main characters were a married couple named Paul and Jamie.**

This is a reference to the play “My Fair Lady” where a linguistic teacher boasts that 'e can take a commoner with a 'orrible accent and pass 'er off as a 'ungarian noblewoman at a society party. 'e teaches 'er proper English and in the process falls in love with 'er.

Enjoy,
Steven

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Unfortunately, you may still be able to see text in spoiler boxes if it is also a link. Just FYI.

**

Not quite. He’s the only one who never murdered ANYONE (I don’t count the end of the “real” ending as a murder).

And it’s Mr. Boddy. grins

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You are close…oh so close…BUT…he wasn’t trying to pass her off as Hungarian per se…that’s just what the Hungarian linguist THOUGHT she was trying to hide. (because her English was too perfect…only someone who spoke English as a second language would pronounce their words so well)

:slight_smile:

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So I noticed. I figured something was better than nothing, though.

You are correct, of course. No matter how much I proofread, something still gets through! Oh well, at least all of the coding worked. I think.

And now, back to the trivia!

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3.How many different four-man bobsled team combinations may be assembled from a group of eighteen Jamaicans, assuming each Jamaican has an equal chance of being chosen? (And what movie comes to mind?)

The movie is Cool Runnings. The numbers, I don’t know.

4.Who starred in the porn flick “Buffay: The Vampire Layer?”
The actress was Ursula Buffay, but she used her sister’s name, so the credits listed Phoebe Buffay

6.Was there a lady in there? Or a tiger?
The world may never know.

9.The saint that was known as the Little Flower – to what order did she belong?
This was Therese, and she was a Carmelite nun.
10.What advice might you give to Laius and Jocasta’s son?

Oedipus, she is your mother. Oh, and dude? Don’t kill that bandit. He is your father.
13. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?

16.There is no Dana, only Zuul.

Your girlfriend’s a dog. Ghostbusters, line spoken by Sigourney Weaver.

18. Which of the six signs did Will get for his birthday, when he discovered he was an Old One?

Iron, because (as I learned when I read these last summer for a class) Iron for the birthday.

23.You know – it’s like that song about the ship sinking, “The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald.”

What I do know is that it’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
But I’m not really sure what else you might be getting at.

37.Five days after Yom Kippur – time to eat outside in the lean-to! The Jewish holiday where you build a lean-to is Succos/Sukkot. The lean-to is called a Sukkah

46. Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
This movie is The Birdcage, in which Armand and Albert are lovers, Armand’s heterosexual son is getting married to a senator’s daughter (a conservative senator’s daughter: even worse). Based on La Cage Aux Folles.

Ok, that’s what I know at first reading without reading past the post with the questions. Perhaps later I’ll come back in and answer some more. Who knows?

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Mtgman: 9
Lsura: 7

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Hm, that’s right. Posts with 1 question will not be counted. Shoulda remembered.

33. Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
Ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus.

41. What’s a bot, in the world of IRC?
An automated program that can respond to certain triggers, such as a user’s arrival in the channel prompting the bot to grant privileges to that specific user.

42. In this spin-off, Clancy becomes a P.I. in New Orleans, and Ralph is kidnapped by Big Daddy.
Look, Big Daddy! It’s regular daddy! I’m just depressed that Chief Wiggum, PI lasted about as long as Trapper John, MD.

43. Husker-Du!
“Do you remember” playing it as a child? Or do you just remember the music?

44. Paul and Jamie turn out to be distant cousins.
Mad About You.

45. The recipe says I’m supposed to barder the quail and cure the venison, but I didn’t even know it was sick!
Bardering is covering the quail with meat, and curing meat is a way to preserve it either for a recipe or for storage. Don’t try to shingle your house with cured venison.

46. Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
The Birdcage, with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams. And Gene Hackman.

47. Dave doesn’t encounter a big orange monster, but does find a balloon he names ‘Gerald.’
Still, a little animated field mouse shouldn’t go hopping through the forest. And what kind of rabbit can fit into a soup can? At least he’s brave.

48. Sweet Loretta seemed to be confused about the difference between a cleaner and a frying pan.
Get back to where you once belonged, Bricker.

49. What’s El Coqui to a Puerto Rican?
A small tree frog.

50. Did Eliza fool the Hungarian?
Eliza passes off as royalty and fools the professor while making plenty of fun of everyone else.

…says the lno.

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lno: 11