Bricker Challenge 2004 - Edition #2

1. They should never have greased their rifle cartridges with animal fat.
The British used animal fat to grease rifle cartridges of their new Enfield rifles to ease loading into the muzzle. Rumors among the sepoy (native Indian soldiers) said the fat was made from cows (sacred to Hindus) or pigs (sacred to Muslims). As such, biting the cartridge was sacrilegious. This was one of the causes of the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

**2. Now I’ve got to remember the baptism, the wedding at Cana, the proclamation, the transfiguration, and the Eucharist in addition to all the others! **
The Luminous Mysteries.

**4. What’s the significance of the graffiti’ed “TURK 182?” **
Jimmy’s brother, Terry, injured his back saving a girl from a fire. Because he was off-duty and drunk, “Turk” is denied pension. Jimmy fights back by scrawling TURK 182 (his brother’s badge number) on everything.

**6. Are you talking about the guy that hung out with Rerun and Dwayne, or the period of British dominion over India? **
Well, that’s either Roger “Raj,” or the 1858-1947 British Raj.

**7. What traditional trial must a Slayer face to ensure she can depend on her wits, instead of her strength? **
The Tento di Cruciamentum.

jizzmou: 5

**11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top? **
The caramelized sugar, of course. Queer Eye Quick Tip: use a blowtorch to make this a manly dessert.

**12. How does the Major General manage to rescue his daughters from the first encounter with the pirates? **
The Major-General pretends to be an orphan, so the pirates take pity and release both him and his daughters. Or maybe they were just tired of all of the singing.

And you should really check the spelling on my name :slight_smile:

jmizzou (D’oh!): 2

**11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top? **
The caramelized sugar, of course. Queer Eye Quick Tip: use a blowtorch to make this a manly dessert.

**12. How does the Major General manage to rescue his daughters from the first encounter with the pirates? **
The Major-General pretends to be an orphan, so the pirates take pity and release both him and his daughters. Or maybe they were just tired of all of the singing.

Doh. Forgot a new one.

**10. We don’t know if the Simpsons ever visited San Francisco, but one could argue that Bart was already there. **
BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit

jmizzou: I don’t answer single-question posts. See 2004 #1 for details.

Make that a double Doh!

**10. We don’t know if the Simpsons ever visited San Francisco, but one could argue that Bart was already there. **
BART - Bay Area Rapid Transit

**11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top? **
The caramelized sugar, of course. Queer Eye Quick Tip: use a blowtorch to make this a manly dessert.

jmizzou: 2

Some I know, a few are guesses. The punny one’s my favorite.

1. They should never have greased their rifle cartridges with animal fat. Native soldiers refused to bite the bullet.

2. Now I’ve got to remember the baptism, the wedding at Cana, the proclamation, the transfiguration, and the Eucharist in addition to all the others! Go to Cross Station for your answer.

3. When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters!
I don’t know. :frowning:

**4. What’s the significance of the graffiti’ed “TURK 182?”**Brother who is a firefighter had this number on his hat—it was his nickname.

**5. The musical Oliver! was inspired by Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” set in London. But what sort of songs might end up in a musical inspired by Oliver Brown, set in Topeka, Kansas?**Songs about integrating schools. The Wheels on the Bus, maybe.

6. Are you talking about the guy that hung out with Rerun and Dwayne, or the period of British dominion over India?
Raj-jah, over and out.

7. What traditional trial must a Slayer face to ensure she can depend on her wits, instead of her strength?
Lose your special powers and still survive.

8. Who was Khan quoting when he activated the Genesis device?
Captain Ahab

9. Bullfighters may hear the word differently, but what’s OLE to a Windows application?
Object Linking and Embedding

10. We don’t know if the Simpsons ever visited San Francisco, but one could argue that Bart was already there.
Bay Area Rapid Transit

11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top?
Carmelized sugar, usually from a kitchen blow torch (doesn’t everyone have one?)

12. How does the Major General manage to rescue his daughters from the first encounter with the pirates?
Well, you can’t kill an orphan, can you? Even pirates have some pity for the unfortunate.

13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error.
What “R” you talking about?

14. “Although I feel like I have two left feet, I like dancing.” Is ‘dancing’ a verb as used in the preceding sentence? Discuss.
A gerund is a verb form used as a noun. There’s no rule against this—unlike verbing a noun. Ing doesn’t necessarily mean a verb; discussing this would be boring.

15. In which Hercule Poirot story was the narrator the murderer?
Murder of Roger Ackroyd

16. Consider a parallelogram with vertices at (0,0), (1,1), (1,2), and (0,1). Rotate this area around the Y-axis. ** What’s the volume of the resulting solid?**
3.14159, pi

17. What do prison inmates mean by ‘tossing my salad’?
Tongues and asses.

18. Let’s see, Seward’s Folly was buying Cuba, and Fulton’s Folly was the car engine, right?
Buying Alaska; building a steamboat.

19. Can the President pardon a person for a federal crime that hasn’t been committed yet?
Well, he can pardon a person not yet charged with the crime—at least Ford did.

20. Yum! Ground-up almonds, sugar, and water, in the hands of a pastry chef.
Marzipan and Doezipan and Lillian C. D’Ivy.

21. What’s the tangent of y=4x^2 at x=3?
y=24x

22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan?
Scarf.

23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge?
Only the innocent were hung.

24. At least La Ciguapa doesn’t need to spend as much on shoes.
La Cookaracha—had just two legs instead of four.

25. In this version the people of Nineveh are so morally bereft they routinely hit each other with seafood.
Veggietales. “This is the song that goes under the credits…these are the credits, so this is where it goes….”

26. What song was Oz singing when he was trying to find Buffy after Amy turned her into a rat?
Ben….though I would have favored Willard. Ben’s a gentle bear, right?

27. If I find a porn story on Usenet that’s rated BD, SM, NC, TG, and MC, what am I in for?
Um…kinky sex talk, more specifically, including Bondage, Sado-Masochism, Non Consentual, Transgender, and Mind Control
**
28. What seem to be the pluses and minuses of Potiphar’s wife coming on to you?**
Well, the minuses come first—you go to jail because her hubby believes her. Then you rot a long time and are betrayed by another prisoner even though you told the truth. Later, you interpret a dream and become a mighty official and save your family after tricking them.

29. Bender hid his stash in Johnson’s underwear.
What if your dope was on fire?

30. I would have died at noon on the 21st, except that I happened to remember there was an eclipse that day (and Clarence got the date wrong).
Camelot is nothing like Connecticut

31. Doctor Heidegger did a little better than Ponce de Leon, but not by much.
Ah, youth.

32. What’s the closest moon to Mars?
Well, if you enquire of an author named like the star who played Eddie’s fraternal parent, you’d find it’s really really a bad idea to let a punster go into space. The closest moon is um, on the bottom, most would say.

33. What brown-butter cookie might you have to fight Proust for?
Madeleine have a Madeleine.

34. Dexy’s Midnight Runners gave us “Come On Eileen,” but what Rushdie book is about a group born when India gained independence?
Children should be in bed by midnight.

35. No truck nor trade with the Yankees!
Old Macdonald says, Canada don’t need no steenking free trade with the US of A.

36. From what flavors of quarks do protons and neutrons come?
Life is full of ups and downs.
**
37. What Thurber character was a Navy officer, an Air Force officer, a surgeon, and a condemned criminal?**
Walter Mitty

38. The German passenger vessel “Vera” wasn’t occupied by Balthazar, Melchoir, or Gaspar, was it?
Ah, what foolish passengers.

39. Sesame Street used to do, “One of these things is not like the other.” If applied to essential amino acids, what would be the distinction used to pick the one that’s required for biosynthesis of niacin and serotonin?
Don’t get tripped up, it’s fantastic. Tryptophan goes to Niacin goes to Serotonin.

**40. Where can I get a copy of the comic book series “White Hating Coon?”**Maybe you could chase down Amy and Hooper would give you one?

41. My roommate tells me has to solve some problem about a bunch of philosophers at dinner for his CS homework – what’s up with that?
It’s a shame he can’t just let them have more utensils.

42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting.
One could frieze just thinking about Rodin.

**43. Lousia May Alcott’s characters were NOT so little that they were scary, unlike, say, “The Shining.”**Thank heavens for little" women, little men, and um….well, not THEM.

44. Why did the protagonist in Gogol’s “Dead Souls” care about buying dead peasants, anyway?
Well, the conCENSUS is that even the dead can vote, wait that’s in a democracy; in Russia, they merely increase your wealth and prestige.
**
45. What was the first name of Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins’ wife?**
Edna may tell you, but I never will.

46. What was unusual about George and Nancy Henderson’s family? Harry

47. Cyrano helped me hook up with Roxanne. Who am I?
Christian de Neuvillette

48. What’s the name of that kind of hat that Sherlock wears, with the visor at the front and at the back, and earflaps tied up?
Deerstalker. But your description sounds like a deer hunting hat.
**
49. So my meteorologist friend tells me that Dr. Fremantle is a windbag, and he laughed about it. I guess I won’t take any of Dr. Fremantle’s classes, then.**
Jerome Jerome’s dapper Dr. doesn’t give classes to motivate employees.

50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny.
Tsk, tsk—ask any old doctor, these are humors not humorous.

as u wish: 41

13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error.
What “R” you talking about?

**42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting. **
One could frieze just thinking about Rodin.

**49. So my meteorologist friend tells me that Dr. Fremantle is a windbag, and he laughed about it. I guess I won’t take any of Dr. Fremantle’s classes, then. **
Jerome Jerome’s dapper Dr. doesn’t give classes to motivate employees.

1. They should never have greased their rifle cartridges with animal fat.
Indian Mutiny in 1857 – rumors caused the sepoy to revolt
**2. Now I’ve got to remember the baptism, the wedding at Cana, the proclamation, the transfiguration, and the Eucharist in addition to all the others! **
The Luminous Mysteries.
**4. What’s the significance of the graffiti’ed “TURK 182?” **
Jimmy’s brother, Terry, injured his back saving a girl from a fire. Because he was off-duty and drunk, “Turk” is denied pension. Jimmy fights back by scrawling TURK 182 (his brother’s badge number) on everything.
**5. The musical Oliver! was inspired by Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” set in London. But what sort of songs might end up in a musical inspired by Oliver Brown, set in Topeka, Kansas? **
With apologies to Leaper:
Well, there’s the heart-wrenching love ballad between the two leads “Separate, But Equal,” the blood-boiling villainous ode “No Darkies Shall Ever Set Foot in My School,” and the stirring company finale, “Just Wait 'Til Alabama.”
**6. Are you talking about the guy that hung out with Rerun and Dwayne, or the period of British dominion over India? **
Roger “Raj,” or the 1858-1947 British Raj.
**7. What traditional trial must a Slayer face to ensure she can depend on her wits, instead of her strength? **
The Tento di Cruciamentum.
**8. Who was Khan quoting when he activated the Genesis device? **
Ahab from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
**9. Bullfighters may hear the word differently, but what’s OLE to a Windows application? **
Object Linking and Embedding
**10. We don’t know if the Simpsons ever visited San Francisco, but one could argue that Bart was already there. **
Bay Area Rapid Transit
**11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top? **
Caramelized sugar – usually done with a blowtorch
**12. How does the Major General manage to rescue his daughters from the first encounter with the pirates? **
Tells them he’s an orphan
**13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error. **
Missing the “R”: Stranger questioned in horse mutilation.
**14. “Although I feel like I have two left feet, I like dancing.” Is ‘dancing’ a verb as used in the preceding sentence? Discuss. **
Gerund
**15. In which Hercule Poirot story was the narrator the murderer? **
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
**16. Consider a parallelogram with vertices at (0,0), (1,1), (1,2), and (0,1). Rotate this area around the Y-axis. What’s the volume of the resulting solid? **
Pi
**17. What do prison inmates mean by ‘tossing my salad’? **
Non-consentual analingus.
**18. Let’s see, Seward’s Folly was buying Cuba, and Fulton’s Folly was the car engine, right? **
Seward – Alaska
Fulton – Steamboat
**19. Can the President pardon a person for a federal crime that hasn’t been committed yet? **
Yes. The President can pardon a person for anything.
**20. Yum! Ground-up almonds, sugar, and water, in the hands of a pastry chef. **
Marzipan
**21. What’s the tangent of y=4x^2 at x=3? **
y=8x+12
**22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan? **
Long Scarf
**23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge? **
An incident; a hanging
**25. In this version the people of Nineveh are so morally bereft they routinely hit each other with seafood. **
Jonah – A VeggieTales Movie
**26. What song was Oz singing when he was trying to find Buffy after Amy turned her into a rat? **
Ben by Michael Jackson
**27. If I find a porn story on Usenet that’s rated BD, SM, NC, TG, and MC, what am I in for? **
Bondage & Domination, SadoMasochism, Non-Consensual, Transgender, MindControl
**28. What seem to be the pluses and minuses of Potiphar’s wife coming on to you? **
You’ll be accused of rape and thrown in prison, but you’ll eventually rise to a position of great importance
**29. Bender hid his stash in Johnson’s underwear. **
Breakfast Club
**30. I would have died at noon on the 21st, except that I happened to remember there was an eclipse that day (and Clarence got the date wrong). **
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court
**31. Doctor Heidegger did a little better than Ponce de Leon, but not by much. **
“Dr Heidegger’s Experiment”; both searched for the Fountain of Youth
**32. What’s the closest moon to Mars? **
Phobos
**33. What brown-butter cookie might you have to fight Proust for? **
Madeliene
**34. Dexy’s Midnight Runners gave us “Come On Eileen,” but what Rushdie book is about a group born when India gained independence? **
Midnight’s Children
**35. No truck nor trade with the Yankees! **
Sir John A. Macdonald
**36. From what flavors of quarks do protons and neutrons come? **
Up and down
**37. What Thurber character was a Navy officer, an Air Force officer, a surgeon, and a condemned criminal? **
Walter Mitty
**38. The German passenger vessel “Vera” wasn’t occupied by Balthazar, Melchoir, or Gaspar, was it? **
No, you wouldn’t have the three wise men on a ship of fools.
**39. Sesame Street used to do, “One of these things is not like the other.” If applied to essential amino acids, what would be the distinction used to pick the one that’s required for biosynthesis of niacin and serotonin? **
A little Thanksgiving turkey, maybe? Tryptophan
**40. Where can I get a copy of the comic book series “White Hating Coon?” **
From Hooper LaMont.
**41. My roommate tells me has to solve some problem about a bunch of philosophers at dinner for his CS homework – what’s up with that? **
A problem used to illustrate deadlock and resource sharing issues.
**42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting. **
I don’t think so – Rodin ruminates, Degas dances
**43. Lousia May Alcott’s characters were NOT so little that they were scary, unlike, say, “The Shining.” **
“Oh, all blank, and no blank, makes blank a blank blank. Oh no-no-no, no, the end when Jack almost kills them all with that blank, but then at last second they get away.”
**44. Why did the protagonist in Gogol’s “Dead Souls” care about buying dead peasants, anyway? **
So that he can be accounted a gentleman.
**45. What was the first name of Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins’ wife? **
Edna Mae (okay, so Mae is her middle name)
**46. What was unusual about George and Nancy Henderson’s family? **
Harry
**47. Cyrano helped me hook up with Roxanne. Who am I? **
Christian
**48. What’s the name of that kind of hat that Sherlock wears, with the visor at the front and at the back, and earflaps tied up? **
Deerstalker
Farming for wind? What are Energy Visions and Pacific Hydro thinking?
**50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny. **
The four ancient humours.

jmizzou : 1
grem0517: 42

1. They should never have greased their rifle cartridges with animal fat.
Indian Mutiny in 1857 – rumors caused the sepoy to revolt
**2. Now I’ve got to remember the baptism, the wedding at Cana, the proclamation, the transfiguration, and the Eucharist in addition to all the others! **
The Luminous Mysteries.
**4. What’s the significance of the graffiti’ed “TURK 182?” **
Jimmy’s brother, Terry, injured his back saving a girl from a fire. Because he was off-duty and drunk, “Turk” is denied pension. Jimmy fights back by scrawling TURK 182 (his brother’s badge number) on everything.
**5. The musical Oliver! was inspired by Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” set in London. But what sort of songs might end up in a musical inspired by Oliver Brown, set in Topeka, Kansas? **
With apologies to Leaper:
Well, there’s the heart-wrenching love ballad between the two leads “Separate, But Equal,” the blood-boiling villainous ode “No Darkies Shall Ever Set Foot in My School,” and the stirring company finale, “Just Wait 'Til Alabama.”
**6. Are you talking about the guy that hung out with Rerun and Dwayne, or the period of British dominion over India? **
Roger “Raj,” or the 1858-1947 British Raj.
**7. What traditional trial must a Slayer face to ensure she can depend on her wits, instead of her strength? **
The Tento di Cruciamentum.
**8. Who was Khan quoting when he activated the Genesis device? **
Ahab from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
**9. Bullfighters may hear the word differently, but what’s OLE to a Windows application? **
Object Linking and Embedding
**10. We don’t know if the Simpsons ever visited San Francisco, but one could argue that Bart was already there. **
Bay Area Rapid Transit
**11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top? **
Caramelized sugar – usually done with a blowtorch
**12. How does the Major General manage to rescue his daughters from the first encounter with the pirates? **
Tells them he’s an orphan
**14. “Although I feel like I have two left feet, I like dancing.” Is ‘dancing’ a verb as used in the preceding sentence? Discuss. **
Gerund
**15. In which Hercule Poirot story was the narrator the murderer? **
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
**16. Consider a parallelogram with vertices at (0,0), (1,1), (1,2), and (0,1). Rotate this area around the Y-axis. What’s the volume of the resulting solid? **
Pi
**17. What do prison inmates mean by ‘tossing my salad’? **
Non-consentual analingus.
**18. Let’s see, Seward’s Folly was buying Cuba, and Fulton’s Folly was the car engine, right? **
Seward – Alaska
Fulton – Steamboat
**20. Yum! Ground-up almonds, sugar, and water, in the hands of a pastry chef. **
Marzipan
**21. What’s the tangent of y=4x^2 at x=3? **
y=8x+12
**22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan? **
Long Scarf
**23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge? **
An incident; a hanging
**25. In this version the people of Nineveh are so morally bereft they routinely hit each other with seafood. **
Jonah – A VeggieTales Movie
**26. What song was Oz singing when he was trying to find Buffy after Amy turned her into a rat? **
Ben by Michael Jackson
**27. If I find a porn story on Usenet that’s rated BD, SM, NC, TG, and MC, what am I in for? **
Bondage & Domination, SadoMasochism, Non-Consensual, Transgender, MindControl
**28. What seem to be the pluses and minuses of Potiphar’s wife coming on to you? **
You’ll be accused of rape and thrown in prison, but you’ll eventually rise to a position of great importance
**29. Bender hid his stash in Johnson’s underwear. **
Breakfast Club
**30. I would have died at noon on the 21st, except that I happened to remember there was an eclipse that day (and Clarence got the date wrong). **
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court
**31. Doctor Heidegger did a little better than Ponce de Leon, but not by much. **
“Dr Heidegger’s Experiment”; both searched for the Fountain of Youth
**32. What’s the closest moon to Mars? **
Phobos
**33. What brown-butter cookie might you have to fight Proust for? **
Madeliene
**34. Dexy’s Midnight Runners gave us “Come On Eileen,” but what Rushdie book is about a group born when India gained independence? **
Midnight’s Children
**35. No truck nor trade with the Yankees! **
Sir John A. Macdonald
**36. From what flavors of quarks do protons and neutrons come? **
Up and down
**37. What Thurber character was a Navy officer, an Air Force officer, a surgeon, and a condemned criminal? **
Walter Mitty
**38. The German passenger vessel “Vera” wasn’t occupied by Balthazar, Melchoir, or Gaspar, was it? **
No, you wouldn’t have the three wise men on a ship of fools.
**40. Where can I get a copy of the comic book series “White Hating Coon?” **
From Hooper LaMont.
**41. My roommate tells me has to solve some problem about a bunch of philosophers at dinner for his CS homework – what’s up with that? **
A problem used to illustrate deadlock and resource sharing issues.
**43. Lousia May Alcott’s characters were NOT so little that they were scary, unlike, say, “The Shining.” **
“Oh, all blank, and no blank, makes blank a blank blank. Oh no-no-no, no, the end when Jack almost kills them all with that blank, but then at last second they get away.”
**45. What was the first name of Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins’ wife? **
Edna Mae (okay, so Mae is her middle name)
**46. What was unusual about George and Nancy Henderson’s family? **
Harry
**47. Cyrano helped me hook up with Roxanne. Who am I? **
Christian
**48. What’s the name of that kind of hat that Sherlock wears, with the visor at the front and at the back, and earflaps tied up? **
Deerstalker
**50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny. **
The four ancient humours.

**13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error. **
Missing the “R”: Stranger questioned in horse mutilation.

**42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting. **
I don’t think so – Rodin ruminates, Degas dances.

**49. So my meteorologist friend tells me that Dr. Fremantle is a windbag, and he laughed about it. I guess I won’t take any of Dr. Fremantle’s classes, then. **
Farming for wind? What are Energy Visions and Pacific Hydro thinking?

grem0517: 41
jmizzou: 2

**42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting. **
I don’t think so – Rodin ruminates, Degas dances.

**13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error. **
Missing the “R”: Stranger questioned in horse mutilation.

jmizzou: 1

**42. I heard that the same artist that did “The Thinker” painted “Freezing Dancers.” That sounds interesting. **
I don’t think so – Rodin ruminates, Degas dances.

**48. What’s the name of that kind of hat that Sherlock wears, with the visor at the front and at the back, and earflaps tied up? **
Deekstalker.