Bricker Challenge 2005, Edition # 2

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Following, please find the questions for the Bricker Challenge 2005, Edition # 2

The rules, as always, are simple: I have posted a list of … stuff. You, the contest participant, must identify each item and/or answer each question. For example, if one item were: “Is the quality of mercy strained?” you might answer, “No. It falleth as gentle rains from the heavens,” which would show you recognize the classic speech from Portia in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Even better would be if you added that the speech came from Portia in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.

“What is NaCl?” Your answer might be, “The chemical symbols for sodium chloride, common table salt.”

An answer that shows you get the reference is fine, as long as it explains every element in the question. If it’s a joke, explain the joke. Leave no stone unturned. Be the party know-it-all that explains why the malaprop is funny, and what the speaker MEANT to say. Some questions may contain deliberate errors of spelling, or of meaning. Correct the misapprehension or the mistake. “What’s that movie where Shelley Duvall says ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning?’” needs to be answered with “Apocalypse Now” but ALSO a note that the actor was Robert Duvall, not Shelley Duvall.

I’m phrasing questions ambiguously in an effort to cut down on the help that search engines can provide, although there’s no getting around it … many will be answerable by search engine anyway. There is no rule against using search engines (or any other reference) although I would appreciate if, just for curiosity’s sake, you note that you got the answer by search engine as opposed to simply knowing it.

I am awarding a $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com as the prize to the winner. Alternatively, if the winner is not a subscribed member and wishes to become so, I am awarding a one-year paid subscription to the SDMB. A winner who is already subscribed may donate his subscription to another person of his choosing, but must identify the recipient within a reasonable period of time.

The winner is the person that answers the most questions correctly by post here dated on or before Thursday, March 3rd, at 11:00 PM EST, or the first person to answer all questions correctly before that time. I reserve the right to substitute another prize of comparable value for any reason. My decisions are final as to the accuracy of all answers. I may, or may not, provide intermediate feedback as to the number of correct answers each entrant has, but if I make any errors in doing so, it’s your tough luck. I won’t score posts with less than five correct answers. Only the single post with the most correct answers by the deadline qualifies you as a winner. In the unlikely event of a tie, which would occur if two or more posts have the same date/time stamp and both have the highest number of correct answers, the prize will be split amongst each tied contestant.

The next post has the questions. Good luck!

  • Rick
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  1. What’s the difference between a hub and a switch? Between a switch and a router? Between a switch with VLANs and a router? Discuss.
  2. Has an Oscar ever won an Oscar?
  3. Considering question #2, why won’t the concept therein work for the female lead of the 2004 movie based on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
  4. Was it Linda Lovelace or Alexander Haig that Woodward and Bernstein protected?
  5. You just better hope that Clifford Irving doesn’t decide to write your biography.
  6. David becomes Bud and Jen becomes Mary Sue, but it won’t make much sense if you watch it on your grandma’s old Quasar.
  7. Hoffman says that Smith played with salamanders, not angels.
  8. This question refers to image A at this page. Who is the artist?
  9. Is it better to win second prize in a beauty contest or have a bank error in your favor?
  10. Was it a good idea for Arnie and Dave to partner up on a do-it-yourself divorce video?
  11. In Into The Woods, why are the Baker and his Wife childless?
  12. How can she grow if you won’t let her blow?
  13. This question refers to image B at this page. Who is this bride marrying?
  14. Describe the character – or her characteristics – played by Teri Hatcher on Seinfeld along with the catchphrase associated with her at the end.
  15. The inverse-square law describes how to calculate the area of a square using inversible geometry, right?
  16. What do Samantha Micelli, Jenny Matrix, Jennifer Mancini, and Phoebe Halliwell have in common?
  17. He hates Ms. Godfrey, enjoys needling Mr. Rosa, and grits his teeth when Artur bests him. Who is he?
  18. In the ground-breaking X-flick Deep Throat, what medical condition is critical to the … ahem… plot?
  19. When Homer Simpson appears on “Hollywood Squares," he’s attacked by what other performer?
  20. This question refers to image C at this page. To the nearest tenth of a percent, what percentage of a circle’s area is the shaded area?
  21. The corpse of this character’s brother is guarded by order of a big meanie and she can’t even bury him – why so mean, Creon?
  22. When Billie Bare helps break Ganze out of prison, they’re after money that was hidden by Reggie Hammund. Do they get it?
  23. Why did Baudouin become King when he wasn’t even Leopold’s firstborn child?
  24. Who’s the most famous solo resident of Anchorage Island in the Suwarrow Atoll?
  25. And speaking of islands, who is the biggest and reddest inhabitant of Birdwell Island?
  26. First I generate sound that contains every frequency within the range of human hearing, and then I reduce each higher octave by about six decibels, to counteract the increase in the number of frequencies per octave, and bingo! White noise!
  27. This question refers to image D at this page. Who is the artist?
  28. Bald NYPD Lt. Theo, who loves ya, baby.
  29. In Roman Catholic tradition, what saint is thought to have wiped the face of Christ when he fell while carrying His cross?
  30. This question refers to image E at this page. A 70 foot ladder and a 119 foot ladder are placed across an alley in opposite directions, such that the point where they intersect in the air is exactly 30 feet above the ground. How wide is the alley?
  31. What Stephen King character knows how to spell ‘moon?’
  32. This question refers to image F at this page. Who is the artist?
  33. A told B, and B told C, I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.
  34. This question refers to image G at this page. Who is this childhood storybook character?
  35. “Don’t pass" means very different things to a traffic engineer and a Vegas pit boss.
  36. What John Grisham character sues Dyloft for making a drug that causes bladder tumors?
  37. You can get a lot of money from the ATM at the Food Emporium if you remember A-N-G-E-L.
  38. One of Leather Tuscadero’s backup singers was unable to follow her on tour to San Francisco.
  39. Speaking of leather, she ruins her mom’s suede outfit and he gives up his telescope money to get a pretend girlfriend.
  40. What’s the sum of the interior angles of a dodecehedron?
  41. Emily Dickinson – yes. Vogon – no.
  42. How popular are “Bort" license plates?
  43. A Knight of Columbus is wearing a purple cape and chapeau, and carrying a white-handled sword. What can you tell me about him?
  44. VNS got some scrutiny in November 2000, for some reason.
  45. What agency employs Buzz Lightyear?
  46. He lives aboard the Busted Flush, which he got because of a broken toilet.
  47. Few people realize that after the roll on the beach with Burt Lancaster, that same actress went on to play Mindy’s grandmother in the TV series set in Boulder.
  48. This name is shared by a weatherman that repeats days in Pennsylvania and a capitalist rapist in a meatpacking exposé. Explain.
  49. If John Marshall hadn’t died, this never would have cracked.
  50. What’s the relative minor of E-major?
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  1. Was Al’s throat really that deep?
  2. What a pleasant movie. Just like the old days, it was.
  3. Do you have a monopoly on this type of game? I’d prefer the bank error.
  4. It would seem that this would work out well for a lawyer in Los Angeles, but it doesn’t.
  5. A future congressman and governor of Virginia. The rest of the single guys got robbed.
  6. Fade away and radiate on this one, bub.
  7. No. Instead, the scruffy cop buys a sh*t-blue convertable.
  8. Not Kodak, but close. A Greek guy on the Telly.
  9. M-O-O-N spells Tom Cullen.
  10. Joanie was never allowed to have any fun. That’s why she had to marry ChaChi.
  11. Too bad The Beatles didn’t do the theme song for this movie. It would then have one redeeming quality.
  12. Pure poetry, Bricker. Pure poetry.
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  1. Woodward and Bernstein have never revealed the identity of Deep Throat.
  2. No, the movie Pleasantville wouldn’t make sense if you watched it on anything other than a color TV.
  3. The artist is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
  4. The inverse-square law says that the intensity of a wave is equal to 1/the square of the radius of the sphere surrounding the emission point. A wave that is 2r from the source will be 1/4 as strong as a wave 1r from the source.
  5. Alyssa Milano’s characters on Who’s the Boss, the movie Commando, Melrose Place and Charmed.
  6. Lt. Theo Kojak, of course.
  7. That would be Tom Cullen. M-O-O-N, that spells Tom Cullen.
  8. Peter Rabbit?
  9. Good poetry, bad poetry.
  10. They couldn’t get a Florida exit poll right.
  11. Buzz Lightyear of Star Command at your service.
  12. Phil? Phil Connors? It’s Ned Ryerson! How’s life in The Jungle?
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Sean Factotum: 11
brianjedi: 12

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  1. Why, it’s Antigone!
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  1. Cliffy did a bit of an imaginary interview with Howard Hughes, and wrote a fanciful biography of the whacky coot.

  2. Pleasantville?

  3. Debunking the “sacred texts” of the Book of Mormon must be a thriving industry–much like a beehive–in Utah.

  4. “No Time” Toulouse.

  5. Community Chest (the nickname of a girl I went to high school with, actually)

  6. Bloody wind goddesses. I feel so dirty knowing the reference to Ross, Rachel, et al.

  7. I’ll snap a guess at Anthony Armstrong-Jones.

  8. I completely deny knowing that these roles were played by a non-naked Alyssa Milano.

  9. It’s been so long since I’ve seen it…inability to orgasm?

  10. Paul Lynde?

  11. Bloody math/geo… 20%?

  12. I know he reigned as regent while daddy cooled out in Switzerland…was the eldest child a girl?

  13. Degas, baby.

  14. Kojak. I still have the board game. What was his brother’s name–Stavros?

  15. Declan McManus knows…Veronica!

  16. Old Billy Blake

  17. Peter Rabbit, terrorist of the carrot patch.

  18. The difference between a motorbike flying over a car, and playing the craps in Vegas.

  19. Suzi Quattro played Leather…Pinky stayed behind, I think.

  20. Actually, I think Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was the better poet of the two.

  21. Well, they’re sold right out in the gift shop at Itchy and Scratchyland

  22. He’s a wanker. That and he’s a Commander or something.

  23. Erm, Space Command?

  24. Lavender’s just another word for me, me and Travis McGee…

  25. Monty Python’s Theme music (good thing I went to Philly as a kid…)

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  1. This name is shared by a weatherman that repeats days in Pennsylvania and a capitalist rapist in a meatpacking exposé. Explain.

Phil Connors is the weatherman in Groundhog Day, and Connor is the capitalist rapist in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

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#50 is C# minor.

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Also, thanks Bricker for doing these, they’re great fun.

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  1. They’re real, and they’re spectacular (Hatcher’s boobs).

  2. “G-Spot” in throat (can only orgasm by giving oral sex…)

Man, I’ve gotta shut down. That’s the only ones I knew right off that weren’t answered…

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Also, thanks Bricker for doing these, they’re great fun.

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  1. Goya
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Maybe. What kind of fish was Nemo?

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Rodd Hill: 13

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#49 - The Liberty Bell (Cracked while tolling the death of John Marshall)

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#18 - more correctly, it was the clitoris located in the throat that set Ms Lovelace apart from the rest

And I see #49 was already identified. My bad.

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Ohh, I’m dumb.

#3 must have something to do with her name being Emmy.
#50 is C sharp minor.

I give up.

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  1. Ron Howard
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I’ll add my name to the list of those thanking Bricker for doing this.

Since this will probably be my only chance to post before all 50 are solved, here’s my “Hail Mary”. I realize that it’s not the best winning strategy, but here goes:

  1. What’s the difference between a hub and a switch? Between a switch and a router? Between a switch with VLANs and a router? Discuss.
    **They operate at different levels of the OSI (Open System Interconnection) model of a network:

A HUB is a multi-port repeater, operating at Layer 1 of the OSI model (the Physical Layer). What enters through one port is reproduced identically at all the other ports, with no switching intelligence.

A SWITCH has some packet-fowarding intelligence, usually operating at Layer 2 of the OSI model (the Data Link Layer). It can send a broadcast signal to all ports, but can also send specific packets out via the relevant port to a specified recipient based on the MAC address. It can also use filtering to allow or block traffic depending on the identity of the source.

A SWITCH can have one or more Virtual Local Area Networks) (VLANs) set by the admin to allow groups of devices (each connected to a port) to communicate with other members in the same VLAN, while disallowing communication between the different VLANs.

HUBS and SWITCHES are invisible to the computers connected to them.

A ROUTER operates at Layer 3 of the OSI model, and uses network addresses (such as IP addresses, which I’m using now!) to determine packet forwarding. Since it has to inspect the data packet, there is always a slight delay in forwarding through a router (whereas a hub or switch can operate at near “wire-speed”). However, routers are extremely flexible and can allow or disallow communication between a large combination of different networks, such as different VLANs (cf the switch-with-VLANs described above). If you need Network Address Translation (NAT), you’re in the market for a router.**

  1. Has an Oscar ever won an Oscar?
    Yes – Oscar Hammerstein II won for Best Song in 1942 (“Lady Be Good”) and 1946 (“State Fair”).

  2. Considering question #2, why won’t the concept therein work for the female lead of the 2004 movie based on an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical?
    Emmy Rossum can’t win an Emmy because they’re for TV.

  3. Was it Linda Lovelace or Alexander Haig that Woodward and Bernstein protected?
    Could have been either, or anyone, since Deep Throat hasn’t been identified yet.

  4. You just better hope that Clifford Irving doesn’t decide to write your biography.
    He wrote a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes.

  5. David becomes Bud and Jen becomes Mary Sue, but it won’t make much sense if you watch it on your grandma’s old Quasar.
    The movie “Pleasantville”, a color TV is required to get the required effect.

  6. Hoffman says that Smith played with salamanders, not angels.
    Mark HOFMANN forged some documents that were not quite in keeping with Mormon tradition.

  7. This question refers to image A at this page. Who is the artist?
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

  8. Is it better to win second prize in a beauty contest or have a bank error in your favor?
    In Monopoly, a Bank error is MUCH better than SPiaBC.

  9. Was it a good idea for Arnie and Dave to partner up on a do-it-yourself divorce video?
    In a certain Law firm in LA (on TV at least), things can start out OK but then get ugly.

  10. In Into The Woods, why are the Baker and his Wife childless?
    The Witch put an infertility spell on them because the Baker’s father had stolen vegetables - especially the beans! – to satisfy his pregnant wife’s cravings.

  11. How can she grow if you won’t let her blow?
    "Friends": “Be Your Own Windkeeper” book, Rachel accuses Ross of trying to “steal her wind” - just like all men everywhere.

  12. This question refers to image B at this page. Who is this bride marrying?
    Charles Robb (the bride is LBJ’s daughter Lynda).

  13. Describe the character – or her characteristics – played by Teri Hatcher on Seinfeld along with the catchphrase associated with her at the end.
    Sidra’s breasts, which Jerry thought might be fake: “They’re real, and they’re spectacular”.

  14. The inverse-square law describes how to calculate the area of a square using inversible geometry, right?
    brianjedi said it best: The inverse-square law says that the intensity of a wave is equal to 1/the square of the radius of the sphere surrounding the emission point. A wave that is 2r from the source will be 1/4 as strong as a wave 1r from the source.

  15. What do Samantha Micelli, Jenny Matrix, Jennifer Mancini, and Phoebe Halliwell have in common?
    Alyssa Milano roles: “Who’s the Boss”, “Commando”, “Melrose Place”, “Charmed”.

  16. He hates Ms. Godfrey, enjoys needling Mr. Rosa, and grits his teeth when Artur bests him. Who is he?
    Big Nate, of the comic strip of the same name.

  17. In the ground-breaking X-flick Deep Throat, what medical condition is critical to the … ahem… plot?
    Linda Lovelace’s clitoris is in her throat!

  18. When Homer Simpson appears on “Hollywood Squares," he’s attacked by what other performer?
    What is this "Hollywood Squares of which you speak? Oh, you mean Springfield Squares. Flavor-of-the-month Homer mocks Ron Howard, who strikes back.

  19. This question refers to image C at this page. To the nearest tenth of a percent, what percentage of a circle’s area is the shaded area?
    36.2%

  20. The corpse of this character’s brother is guarded by order of a big meanie and she can’t even bury him – why so mean, Creon?
    Antigone. Her brother Polyneices was on the losing side in Thebes’ civil war, and Creon is the new ruler. To the loser go the, er, vultures.

  21. When Billie Bare helps break Ganze out of prison, they’re after money that was hidden by Reggie Hammund. Do they get it?
    No, Eddie Murphy (Reggie Hammond) and Nick Nolte stopped Billy Bear and Ganz within “48 Hours”.

  22. Why did Baudouin become King when he wasn’t even Leopold’s firstborn child?
    Baudouin I was Leopold III’s eldest son (and heir), and became King of the Belgians when Leopold abdicated. Poor big sis Josephine-Charlotte!

  23. Who’s the most famous solo resident of Anchorage Island in the Suwarrow Atoll?
    Tom Neale, who wrote a book about escaping the rat race – and how!

  24. And speaking of islands, who is the biggest and reddest inhabitant of Birdwell Island?
    Clifford the Big Red Dog.

  25. First I generate sound that contains every frequency within the range of human hearing, and then I reduce each higher octave by about six decibels, to counteract the increase in the number of frequencies per octave, and bingo! White noise!
    Nah, Brown noise (named after Brownian motion). Pink noise would be -3dB/octave.

  26. This question refers to image D at this page. Who is the artist?
    Edgar Degas.

  27. Bald NYPD Lt. Theo, who loves ya, baby.
    Kojak, of the like-named TV series.

  28. In Roman Catholic tradition, what saint is thought to have wiped the face of Christ when he fell while carrying His cross?
    Saint Veronica.

  29. This question refers to image E at this page. A 70 foot ladder and a 119 foot ladder are placed across an alley in opposite directions, such that the point where they intersect in the air is exactly 30 feet above the ground. How wide is the alley?
    56 ft.

  30. What Stephen King character knows how to spell ‘moon?’
    Tom Cullen in “The Stand”. He knows how to spell everything. Must be a riot at Scrabble!

  31. This question refers to image F at this page. Who is the artist?
    Goya - (Kronos probably won’t get the Father of the Year award).

  32. A told B, and B told C, I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.
    "Chicka Chicka . . . BOOM! BOOM!" certainly livens up the Alphabet.

  33. This question refers to image G at this page. Who is this childhood storybook character?
    Peter Rabbit.

  34. “Don’t pass" means very different things to a traffic engineer and a Vegas pit boss.
    The former wants cars to stay in their current order, the latter offers a craps player a bet “against the dice” (i.e. against the roller).

  35. What John Grisham character sues Dyloft for making a drug that causes bladder tumors?
    J. Clay Carter.

  36. You can get a lot of money from the ATM at the Food Emporium if you remember A-N-G-E-L.
    Because Collins rewired it in Broadway’s “Rent”.

  37. One of Leather Tuscadero’s backup singers was unable to follow her on tour to San Francisco.
    Joanie, on “Happy Days”. Mean old Howard forbids her to go.

  38. Speaking of leather, she ruins her mom’s suede outfit and he gives up his telescope money to get a pretend girlfriend.
    Money “Can’t Buy Me Love”, but $1000 might be able to rent a girlfriend just once, for a month, in the 1980’s…

  39. What’s the sum of the interior angles of a dodecehedron?
    324 degrees (3 x 108) at each vertex. There are 20 vertices, so 6480 degrees in total if you want to cover ALL the angles.

  40. Emily Dickinson – yes. Vogon – no.
    Poetry – Belle of Amherst vs the VERY ugly planet-destroying odists from THHGTTG.

  41. How popular are “Bort" license plates?
    Much more popular than “Bart”, at least - Itchy & Scratchy Land giftshop runs out of "Bort"s.

  42. A Knight of Columbus is wearing a purple cape and chapeau, and carrying a white-handled sword. What can you tell me about him?
    The purple cape and chapeau show that he is the current Commander of the Color Corps for a local assembly. The white-handled sword is used by current (and former) Faithful Navigators, so this shows that he used to be a Faithful Navigator, the elected chief executive of a local assembly (a higher post than CCC, so he’s taking things a little easier now).

  43. VNS got some scrutiny in November 2000, for some reason.
    The Voter News Service conducts exit polls, and apparently there were some --er – problems, in Florida.

  44. What agency employs Buzz Lightyear?
    Star Command.

  45. He lives aboard the Busted Flush, which he got because of a broken toilet.
    John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee.

  46. Few people realize that after the roll on the beach with Burt Lancaster, that same actress went on to play Mindy’s grandmother in the TV series set in Boulder.
    But a few other people realize that Deborah Kerr (From here to Eternity) and Elizabeth Kerr (Mork & Mindy) weren’t the same actress.

  47. This name is shared by a weatherman that repeats days in Pennsylvania and a capitalist rapist in a meatpacking exposé. Explain.
    Phil Connors is the weatherman in Groundhog Day, and Phil Connor is the corrupt boss in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”.

  48. If John Marshall hadn’t died, this never would have cracked.
    The Liberty Bell (Cracked while tolling the death of John Marshall). Ask not for whom the bell cracks…

  49. What’s the relative minor of E-major?
    C sharp minor.