jmizzou: 2
Let’s try this.
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. FAT drives cannot have files larger than 4GB or partitions larger than 32GB. NTFS supports encryption and permissions and fault-tolerance configurations such as RAID.
That’s right, at least two answers.
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.
13. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
Pylea.
Lord above, I must still be drunk.
New answer for #34:
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. FAT drives cannot have files larger than 4GB or partitions larger than 32GB. NTFS supports encryption and permissions and fault-tolerance configurations such as RAID.
13. In what demon dimension are the dance of shame and the dance of joy disturbingly similar?
Pylea.
lno: 2
lmizzou: 2
Ideally that means that #36 is the thorn. See the amended answer.
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, Chloroplasts
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. FAT drives cannot have files larger than 4GB or partitions larger than 32GB. NTFS supports encryption and permissions and fault-tolerance configurations such as RAID.
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, they form a covalent bond. 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: 50, and the win!
Yep, #36 was your last prob. It wasn’t enough to say I was wrong – I wanted you to sya what the correct bond was.
Well done - you are a natural!
And due credit to Elenfair for helping me with this.
The toughest was actually #47 – I nearly broke Google trying to get it as well, and ended up using ‘dave “orange monster”’ to get a link to Nick Jr.
Yes, I did watch the little animated cartoon the whole way through to make sure I found the right answer. 
Congrats Ino - very impressive. I watched as this thread progressed…can’t say I’ll retain much of the info, but it was interesting (I think I knew less than a dozen of the answers and didn’t bother an attempt to join in). Good for you! (And Elenfair!)
When’s “Edition #2” coming Bricker???
Random explanation for Mtgman (and whoever just parroted the answer to the first question without knowing why it was right): Phoebe Halliwell is Alyssa Milano’s character on the TV show Charmed. Her first husband was ADA Cole Turner, who was actually a dangerous half-demon mercenary in disguise.
Any further explanation wouldn’t make sense unless you know the show.
I don’t suppose we could get email notification of when #2 is posted, could we?
I missed the whole affair.
Very good - but in the true spirit of the Challenge, you should also explain why “Taking Cole to New Castle” is a pun.
Oh - as to e-mail notification… no, I’m afraid that slavish devotion to the Boards is the only way at present.
#2 will be along whenever I generate fifty more questions…
“Taking coal to Newcastle” is a form of irony, in which the consequences of your action contradict your previous knowledge. Newcastle has a very large deposit of coal - so why bother to take coal to Newcastle? It’d be like shipping oranges halfway across the world to Florida, or making Brie in Argentina and shipping it to France.
(Due thanks to jmizzou as well, for helping troubleshoot the last remaining answers…)
Oy! Way too much TV trivia for me to ever be good at these. I wouldn’t have gotten that one in a billion years without some sort of outside reference. Thanks for the info Leaper.
I was also confused on the question because I was thinking it meant building a new version of England’s famous structure in some new location, say Windsor, and then bringing this person to it. Thinking of the structures England is famous for made me think of castles, but I wouldn’t pick that as THE famous structure. Big Ben and London Bridge were the contenders and London Bridge already has the children’s song on which many plays on words already exist. In hindsight I tend to think Stonehenge is really England’s most famous structure, but it didn’t occur to me until right now.
I think it would have been clear we were talking about a castle if the question had said something like “If we built a new version of England’s famous structure at Windsor, and brought Phoebe Halliwell’s first husband there, what punny phrase might come to mind?” The “, say,” made it seem like we were making it up as we go along and not referring to a specific structure. I see it now, but my first parsing of it made it look like we were looking for “England’s famous structure” singular and therefore a specific structure, not a class of structures like “castle”. The throwaway “, say,” construct before the specification of Windsor made it seem like it wasn’t part of the description of the structure but a description of the place the copy would be built.
Oh well, given my extremely low level of knowledge of TV trivia I don’t think I would have gotten that one anyway. Apparently I need to brush up on my statistics too, or I just made a calculator error and ended up with a stupidly high number of permutations. I would swear the formula was correct.
Good quiz this time Bricker. Not as many Google-able questions as previously. Are you assuming people will use Google these days?
Enjoy,
Steven
Yes, I face (reluctantly) the reality that a quiz in this medium is going to involve search engines, like it or not. That’s really the challenge for me - craft as many questions to be as obscure as possible to search engines, but still ring associative bells with people. It’s no fun to just toss up unbelievably obscure factoids - the key is to find things that ring a bell but aren’t instantly searchable.
I regret the loss of song lyrics the most. 
Say the word, Bricker, and I’ll send you a pile of questions that should hopefully be google-resistant. (Google-proof? I wish.)