Bricker Challenge 2004 - Edition #2

Bricker · February 6, 2004, 3:19pm

grem0517: 2
jmizzou: 1

(And I am unaccountably amused that the “safe question” has turned out to be Sherlock’s hat - I don’t know WHY this amuses, but it does).

Zakalwe · February 6, 2004, 3:22pm

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.
**3. When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters! **
Rainy Day Stories, Chapter 12
**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? **
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick
**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. **
Alan Strang was the kid who mutilated horses in Peter Schafer’s excellent play “Equus.” His dad was a printer (typesetter).
**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? **
No. Although a pardon may be granted before a conviction, it cannot be granted until the crime has actually been committed.
**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 = 24x - 36
**22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan? **
You shouldn’t worry at all. If, however, the fortune-teller had said Isadora Duncan, then you should avoid wearing scarves. Particularly long ones.
**23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge? **
An incident; a hanging
**24. At least La Ciguapa doesn’t need to spend as much on shoes. **
Dominican Republic popular myths, strange wild women that inhabit the local mountains and have magical powers. They also have dark tanned skin and long, soft hair, so long it is supposed to be the only thing they need to cover their bodies with. In some versions, they are small, in others, taller with very thin and very long legs, to have their feet backwards (to help elude their pursuers), or be completely covered by soft hair, or completely covered by feathers, or to live underwater.
**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, Sadism and Masochism, 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? **
That’s Tryptophan. Its distinction is that, due to its large mass, it is the amino acid least able to cross the blood-brain barrier.
**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? **
Chichikov just wants their names. Everyone thinks he really owns all these (live) serfs, and that he must be rich.
**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
**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?
**50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny. **
The four ancient humours.

jmizzou · February 6, 2004, 3:23pm

Elementary, my dear Bricker. Sherlock was a master of logical deduction.

Bricker · February 6, 2004, 3:25pm

grem0517: 49
jmizzou:

Zakalwe · February 6, 2004, 3:31pm

Yeah, thanks for the confirmation! Right after I posted that I figured out what was confusing me.

jmizzou · February 6, 2004, 4:59pm

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.

**3. When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters! **
Dulce Maria = the Virgin Mary
Lamb = Jesus
Gang of counterfeiters = Mormon dissenters Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, et. al., denounced by the Mormons as, “. . .a gang of counterfeiters, thieves, liars. . .”

**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? **
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? **
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.

**8. Who was Khan quoting when he activated the Genesis device? **
Captain Ahab, of Moby Dick fame.

**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. **
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.

**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.

**13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error. **
Alan Strang was the kid who mutilated horses in Peter Schafer’s excellent play “Equus.” His dad was a printer (typesetter).

**14. “Although I feel like I have two left feet, I like dancing.” Is ‘dancing’ a verb as used in the preceding sentence? Discuss. **
No, it’s a 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 (units^3).

**17. What do prison inmates mean by ‘tossing my salad’? **
Non-consensual analingus.

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

**19. Can the President pardon a person for a federal crime that hasn’t been committed yet? **
No. Although a pardon may be granted before a conviction, it cannot be granted until the crime has actually been committed.

**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 = 24x - 36.

**22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan? **
You shouldn’t worry at all. If, however, the fortune-teller had said Isadora Duncan, then you should avoid wearing scarves. Particularly long ones.

**23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge? **
An incident; specifically a prolonged hanging.

**24. At least La Ciguapa doesn’t need to spend as much on shoes. **
These fabled wild women of the Dominican Republic are reputed to have feet backwards, to help elude their pursuers.

**25. In this version the people of Nineveh are so morally bereft they routinely hit each other with seafood. **
The version presented in 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. [Obvious remark regarding “Jackson” and “rat” omitted]

**27. If I find a porn story on Usenet that’s rated BD, SM, NC, TG, and MC, what am I in for? **
Bondage and Domination, Sadism and Masochism, Non-consensual, Transgender, Mind Control.

**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. **
In The 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). **
Those sneaky Connecticut Yankees!

**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? **
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? **
Midnight’s Children

**35. No truck nor trade with the Yankees! **
Quote by Sir John A. Macdonald, a Canadian against free trade with America.

**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? **
I don’t really see 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? **
That’s Tryptophan. Its distinction is that, due to its large mass, it is the amino acid least able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

**40. Where can I get a copy of the comic book series “White Hating Coon?” **
From the author, 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? **
The problem: Five philosophers are sitting at a round table, on which five forks are placed. To change from the “thinking” state into the “eating” state, a philosopher needs to have the forks at both his right and left sides. After eating, both forks are laid down again, and the philosopher switches back into the “thinking” state.
A popular problem, it’s used to explore 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? **
Chichikov just wants their names. Everyone thinks he really owns all these (live) serfs, and that he must be rich.

**45. What was the first name of Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins’ wife? **
Edna.

**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.

**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?

50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny.
You might even call them humour-ess.

Bricker · February 6, 2004, 5:25pm

jmizzou: 49

lno · February 6, 2004, 6:01pm

Heh, you ran across that page about Nauvoo, IL, too? I’m still dredging through Mexican actresses, Cuban activists and counterfeit cigars, Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys knockoffs, Jake & the Fatman, Spanish or Portuguese versions of “Mary had a little lamb”, the list goes on.

Zakalwe · February 6, 2004, 6:07pm

When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters!
She also discovers Mexican actresses, Cuban activists and counterfeit cigars, Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys knockoffs, Jake & the Fatman, and Spanish or Portuguese versions of “Mary had a little lamb”!
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.

lno · February 6, 2004, 6:15pm

Cute.

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.

3. When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters!
And it’s Dismas and Gestas on either side of the lamb!

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?
Well, there’d be a song by Oliver Brown about how segregation just wasn’t right, and then a keen dance number by the Board of Education about how separate but equal just couldn’t be wrong, and don’t forget the grand finale where every dances arm-in-arm and the schools are integrated. (And on review, I swear I wrote this before seeing Leaper’s answer.)

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.

8. Who was Khan quoting when he activated the Genesis device?
Captain Ahab, of Moby Dick fame.

9. Bullfighters may hear the word differently, but what’s OLE to a Windows application?
Object Linking and Embedding, which is a technology that allows you to link elements from different applications within each other.

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. System of under and above ground light rail running throughtout the Bay Area (and even under the Bay!)

11. What gives crème bruleé the light brown color on top?
It’s caramelized sugar, but it’s the torch that does it.

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.

13. STRANGE QUESTIONED IN HORSE MUTILATION, said the headline, but the typesetter had made a small error.
Alan Strang was the kid who mutilated horses in Peter Schafer’s excellent play “Equus.” His dad was a printer (typesetter).

14. “Although I feel like I have two left feet, I like dancing.” Is ‘dancing’ a verb as used in the preceding sentence? Discuss.
No, it’s a verbal – a gerund, to be specific.

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 (units^3). Take the section bounded at (0,0), (0, 1) and (1, 1) and slide that up to (0,1), (0,2) and (1,2) and you’ve got a pretty cylinder with height 1 and radius 1. It fits neatly, too.

17. What do prison inmates mean by ‘tossing my salad’?
Licking another inmate’s anus. For some reason that wasn’t in Shawshank Redemption…

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

19. Can the President pardon a person for a federal crime that hasn’t been committed yet?
No. Although a pardon may be granted before a conviction, it cannot be granted until the crime has actually been committed.

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 = 24x - 36.

22. What winter clothing should I avoid if the fortune-teller says I’m going to suffer the fate of Isabella Duncan?
You shouldn’t worry at all. If, however, the fortune-teller had said Isadora Duncan, then you should avoid wearing scarves. Particularly long ones

23. What occurred at Owl Creek bridge?
An incident; specifically a prolonged hanging.

24. At least La Ciguapa doesn’t need to spend as much on shoes.
These fabled wild women of the Dominican Republic are reputed to have feet backwards, to help elude their pursuers.

25. In this version the people of Nineveh are so morally bereft they routinely hit each other with seafood.
The version presented in 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”, a song about rats.

27. If I find a porn story on Usenet that’s rated BD, SM, NC, TG, and MC, what am I in for?
Bondage and Dominance, Sado-Masochism, Non-Consensual, Trans-Gender and Mind Control. If you throw in Natalie Portman, give me the google groups url.

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.
What if your house … your car … no – 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).
Those sneaky Connecticut Yankees!

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?
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?
Midnight’s Children.

35. No truck nor trade with the Yankees!
Quote by Sir John A. Macdonald, a Canadian against free trade with America.

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?
I don’t really see 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?
That’s Tryptophan. Its distinction is that, due to its large mass, it is the amino acid least able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

40. Where can I get a copy of the comic book series "White Hating Coon?"
From the author, 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?
The problem: Five philosophers are sitting at a round table, on which five forks are placed. To change from the “thinking” state into the “eating” state, a philosopher needs to have the forks at both his right and left sides. After eating, both forks are laid down again, and the philosopher switches back into the “thinking” state.
A popular problem, it’s used to explore 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?
Chichikov just wants their names. Everyone thinks he really owns all these (live) serfs, and that he must be rich.

45. What was the first name of Sunnydale Mayor Richard Wilkins’ wife?
Edna. Or Edna Mae, if she’s one of them what says “Jim Bob” is one name.

46. What was unusual about George and Nancy Henderson’s family?
They had a Harry bigfoot.

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.

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?

50. Blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy are all pretty funny.
You might even call them humour-ess.

jmizzou · February 6, 2004, 6:28pm

It fits, but barely. They’re not a “gang of counterfeiters,” they’re a “couple of thieves”.

Bricker · February 6, 2004, 6:31pm

Hopefully, the answer to any question - when it’s known - will result in, “Of course - it fits perfectly!” as opposed to “It fits, but just barely.”

No change on scores.

jmizzou · February 6, 2004, 6:32pm

So, perhaps:

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.

**3. When Dulce Maria tries to save a little lamb, she discovers a gang of counterfeiters! **
An old legend from an Arabic infacy gospel states that, when Mary flees to Egypt with Jesus to escape Herod, they were set upon by a band of thieves - including Dismas and Gestas. Link