Bricker, could you drop me a line at the email in my profile? I think there’s a miscalculation somewhere.
There is at least one. My post of 01-06-2004 12:26 PM should say “lno: 8.”
I’m going to try to keep things on the board instead of e-mail, because part of this game is how others respond to what’s posted. (And, unfortunately, part of this game is the chance that I screw up intermediate totals, such as I did then. 
)
Righto! Let’s fix that problem in 1-10 and swing for the fences again. Mighty Casey hasn’t struck out yet …
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 it seem like fun to them.
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?"
Ursula Buffay, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred 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?
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.
lno: 49
Ohfer. So close and yet so far.
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 it seem like fun to them.
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?"
Ursula, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred 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?
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.
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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] -
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] -
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. -
Who starred in the porn flick “Buffay: The Vampire Layer?”
Ursula Buffay, credited as Pheobe Buffay (from Friends). [Sadly, I knew this one] -
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).
lno: 10
jmizzou: 5
1-20.
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 it seem like fun to them.
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?"
Ursula, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred 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?
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.
lno: 20
Do I get greedy? I do. 1-50.
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 it seem like fun to them.
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?"
Ursula, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred 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?
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?
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.
lno: 49
You’re killing me. 1-30…
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 it seem like fun to them.
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?"
Ursula, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred 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?
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.
lno: 30
#29 could very well be Mr Brady from the Brady Bunch. He was an architect and in (at least )one episode, he designed various commercial buildings (restaurants?) and they all looked the same, except the what the sign said. To boot, they looked just like the house they lived in.
IMHO
You’re killing lno and me, both, I swear.
Changes made to #33. I could be totally wrong… but hey, let’s give this a shot.
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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. -
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 it seem like fun to them. -
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. -
Who starred in the porn flick “Buffay: The Vampire Layer?”
Ursula, Phoebe’s twin sister, who also starred in Lawrence of A Labia. -
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!) -
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. -
As far as photoreceptors go, rods are better at distinguishing colors.
Nope. The cones are sensitive to color. But there are more rods. -
What was the significance of the librarian’s name in the episode that sent Spock back in time to a frozen wasteland?
Mr. Atoz. A to Z. -
The saint that was known as the Little Flower - to what order did she belong?
She was a Carmelite nun. Sweet, gooey caramel. -
What advice might you give to Laius and Jocasta’s son?
Your mother is not a MILF, so hands off. Everything just gets complex. -
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. -
Assuming a haploid number of fifteen chromosomes, how many different combinations of paternal and maternal chromosomes are possible for the gametes?
2^15. -
In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
Pylea. -
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. -
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. -
There is no Dana, only Zuul.
Don’t cross the streams, Ray. -
Daniel killed Ed Drummond, but was he crazy?
According to a British jury in 1843, he sure was. -
Which of the six signs did Will get for his birthday, when he discovered he was an Old One?
Iron. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
What sort of aircraft is Snoopy’s doghouse?
Sopwith Camel. -
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. -
Lord Mayor of London, three times, and all because his cat could catch mice!
Dick Whittington, my good man. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
What’s that Keats poem about the fairy creature that enthralls the knight?
La belle dame sans merci. -
Eugene O’Neill’s architect - the one that could only design ugly, stocky buildings.
William “Billy” Brown. That skank Margaret shafted him. -
What Shakespeare character didn’t love well, or wisely?
Othello. -
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. -
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. -
Which organelles are generally responsible for synthesis and transport of cellular components?
Ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus, Chloroplasts -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Five days after Yom Kippur - time to eat outside in the lean-to!
Sukkoth. And you reused this one too. -
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. -
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. -
I always get the Book of Common Prayer and the Book of Counted Sorrows confused.
I didn’t know Dean Koontz was an Anglican. -
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. -
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. -
Husker-Du!
“Do you remember” playing it as a child? Or do you just remember the music? -
Paul and Jamie turn out to be distant cousins.
Mad About You. -
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. -
Armand and Albert have a drag nightclub in Miami.
The Birdcage, with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams. And Gene Hackman. -
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. -
Sweet Loretta seemed to be confused about the difference between a cleaner and a frying pan.
Get back to where you once belonged, Bricker. -
What’s El Coqui to a Puerto Rican?
A small tree frog. -
Did Eliza fool the Hungarian?
Eliza passes off as royalty and fools the professor while making plenty of fun of everyone else.
jmizzou: 9
Elenfair: 49
jmizzou: 5
Why do I feel like I’m stuck in some logic puzzle? “You have 50 balls of lead. Using only a set of scales, find the one ball that is lighter than the rest.”