# Bricker Challenge 2005, Edition # 3 ($100) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290 "2005-07-20T14:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/21 "2005-07-20T18:14:20Z")
1. 6 2. Muggles have no magic, but their offspring could be a mudblood and have magic 3. From La Traviate (stolen and confirmed with google) 4. One is a string with oysters irritants, the toher is ejacualte on a porn star’s neck 5. The syntax would look like: ```auto do 20 i = 10, 1, -2 write(*,*) 'i =', i 20 continue ``` The do {label} is ended by {label} continue 1. 3/8 2. Clay Aiken “This is the Night” (looked up) 3. Aliena and Gamyemde are the names that Rosalind and Celia take when disguised as males. 4. Halvard was not the first to fall from the church vane. (stolen) 5. From _Ah, Wilderness_ (stolen and confirmed with google) 6. Because her double from an alternate universe was. 7. It can’t Happen Here is a novel by Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US (stolen) 8. Well, Ganz knows about the money in the car, so if he goes to jail, Reggie can get it. But he only has 48 hours to do it. 9. (BIG WAG) Bundling is getting yourself all set for the cold that those Loonies up in CA have every year. 10. No no, she’s a Frigga idiot. 😛 11. Odds are that Ariadne is a bit young for him. (stolen and looked up) 12. So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (quite stolen) 13. Roland blows his oliphant to call back Charlemagne, and in doing so, kills himself. (lookd up) 14. A circle 15. William, short for Billy, is Billy Rubin, or bilirubin, a substance one should not have in their body, so indeed, he is full of bile and get him to a hospital! 16. 1/6. 17. 10% (stolen then confirmed) 18. From Star trek: TOS: “The Doomsday Machine.” (stolen) 19. That Harper Vally PTA had it coming! (I suspect there might be more to this than just this…) 20. “I’d call that that a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman 21. Well, only the King of Hearts, and only to gain access to St. Anne’s (googled) 22. Man, this one’s hard to explain. Trunking allows more than one vlan on a switch to conenct to a device, while channelign basically combines ethernet ports on a switch to add more bandwidth/redundancy, 23. Brioche, and it’s good, too. 24. If so, then we’d all be quite toasty! An angstrom is 10[sup]-10[/sub] meters, and is deonted by an A with a little circle over it, a, AU is an astromical unit, and is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/22 "2005-07-20T18:17:05Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > 1. One angstrom unit (A.U.) is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. 1,495,978,700,000,000,000,000 angstrom units is the **mean** distance from the Earth to the Sun. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/23 "2005-07-20T18:22:30Z")
OK, keep my previous, with the following exceptions: 1. You can also use ENDDO, but you don’t need to. (saw it when I looked it up, but you said traditionally, and traditionally enddo isn’t used, it seemed) 2. Nebuchadnezzar II was defeated by the Egyptian Necho (Nekau) II in 601 BC, according to Wiki. Inexplicably, Necho was neither cat nor wafer. (stolen) 3. “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. (stolen) 4. The shape is more hour-glass like. (I had misread cotangent as secant…no, Idon’ty know why, and even then I don’t think you’d get a circle…) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/24 "2005-07-20T18:26:04Z")
1.) 6 (Stolen) 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler, but an oral sex act to the porn star. Specifically referring to the grand finale of the sex act. (Partly Stolen) 5.) ENDDO (Stolen, after I couldn’t remember from my five minutes of Fortran experience) 6.) 3/8 (Stolen) 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (Wiki) 8.) You mean Aliena, and Ganymede, of course. They are, in fact, Rosalind and Celia, disguised dames in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. (Stolen) 9.) Which is surprising, given that Halvard was not the first man to fall from the church vane; from Ibsen’s Master Builder. (Stolen) 10.) Nebucha **d** nezzar II was defeated by the Egyptian Necho (Nekau) II in 601 BC, according to Wiki. Inexplicably, Necho was neither cat nor wafer. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness (Stolen) 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because… well, she WAS a vampire - at least, the alternate-universe copy of her was. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. (Stolen) 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie had stashed in a trunk, in 48 Hours. (Stolen) 15.) Counter-yoinked : “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. 17.) For many reasons. The rape of Perigune would be one, but I’m guessing that Ariadne was underage. (Stolen) 18.) So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (Stolen) 19.) Roland, peer of Charlemagne, was quite the horn player. (Stolen) 20.)Yoink : I’m sure it has a special name, but it is essentially hourglass-shaped. It looks like a special case of lemniscate… but that’s probably wrong. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 2 out of 12, or 1/6th. (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 23.) 10% (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 25.) Yoink : That Harper Vally PTA had it coming! 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. 28.) Yoink : Trunking" splits one high-volume information stream into several streams, each of which fills a cable; “channeling” combines several smaller streams so that their combined bandwidth will fill a cable (via Wikipedia). Both have analogies to nature: as a tree trunk splits into branches, so does a trunk switch divide a signal; as tributaries flow together into one river, so does a channelizer merge disparate signals. 29.) Brioche. 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom (itty bitty measurement) with the Astronomical Unit. (Big measurement) ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/25 "2005-07-20T18:42:35Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > 1. Commodore Decker lost his own ship, and almost lost Kirk’s ship too. > > Carbon Unit Decker sacrificed himself to V-Ger in order to save the Enterprise. Then went on to be a parent on Seventh Heaven, along with the whale expert who helped save the Enterprise a few years later—or earlier. (Everyone else seems to think this is “The Doomsday Machine”, and it probably is, but I’m hoping for points just for getting the wrong Decker completely. ) Nice try, and that was my first thought as well, but unless the question is far, far trickier than **Bricker’s** usual I don’t think it works. The Decker in [Star Trek: The Motion Picture](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/) was a Captain until Kirk bumped him down to Commander for the duration of the V’Ger mission. He was never a Commodore. It could be said that he “lost his ship” when Kirk took command away from him, but I’m not really seeing a place where his actions endangered Kirk’s ship. In fact, with his timely belaying of Kirk’s orders in the wormhole, he probably saved it. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/26 "2005-07-20T18:42:36Z")
Just a reminder that posts that say things like, “Keep my previous answers, except substitute 6,8, and 10 for my other posts, and 14 is changed to 'Yes, only on Thursdays,” are very hard for me to follow and grade. All your answers have to be in one post, because I’m too lazy to di it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/27 "2005-07-20T18:50:14Z")
1. 6 2. Muggles have no magic, but their offspring could be a mudblood and have magic 3. From La Traviate (stolen and confirmed with google) 4. One is a string with oysters irritants, the toher is ejacualte on a porn star’s neck 5. The syntax would look like: ```auto do 20 i = 10, 1, -2 write(*,*) 'i =', i 20 continue ``` The do {label} is ended by {label} continue Although sometimes ENDDO is used 1. 3/8 2. Clay Aiken “This is the Night” (looked up) 3. Aliena and Gamyemde are the names that Rosalind and Celia take when disguised as males. 4. Halvard was not the first to fall from the church vane. (stolen) 5. Nebuchadnezzar II was defeated by the Egyptian Necho (Nekau) II in 601 BC, according to Wiki. Inexplicably, Necho was neither cat nor wafer. (stolen) 6. From _Ah, Wilderness_ (stolen and confirmed with google) 7. Because her double from an alternate universe was. 8. It can’t Happen Here is a novel by Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US (stolen) 9. Well, Ganz knows about the money in the car, so if he goes to jail, Reggie can get it. But he only has 48 hours to do it. 10. “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. (stolen) 11. No no, she’s a Frigga idiot. 😛 12. Odds are that Ariadne is a bit young for him. (stolen and looked up) 13. So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (quite stolen) 14. Roland blows his oliphant to call back Charlemagne, and in doing so, kills himself. (lookd up) 15. An hourglass. 16. William, short for Billy, is Billy Rubin, or bilirubin, a substance one should not have in their body, so indeed, he is full of bile and get him to a hospital! 17. 1/6. 18. 10% (stolen then confirmed) 19. From Star trek: TOS: “The Doomsday Machine.” (stolen) 20. That Harper Vally PTA had it coming! (I suspect there might be more to this than just this…) 21. “I’d call that that a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman 22. Well, only the King of Hearts, and only to gain access to St. Anne’s (googled) 23. Man, this one’s hard to explain. Trunking allows more than one vlan on a switch to conenct to a device, while channelign basically combines ethernet ports on a switch to add more bandwidth/redundancy, 24. Brioche, and it’s good, too. 25. If so, then we’d all be quite toasty! An angstrom is 10[sup]-10[/sub] meters, and is deonted by an A with a little circle over it, a, AU is an astromical unit, and is equal to the distance between the Earth and the Sun. (FTR, even though this is the first time I puit them all in one post, these are the same answers I had as of post #23, jsut so it gets noticed in terms of being first. Not that i think they are all correct, but just in case.) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/28 "2005-07-20T18:54:55Z")
Jurph:21 bouv:26 CandidGamera:26 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/29 "2005-07-20T19:02:27Z")
An alternate idea on the Buffy question. I think the “they” refers to the inhabitants of the alternate dimension who thought the main-universe Willow was a vamp. They obviously thought Willow(the main character from the normal Buffyverse) was their Willow(who was a vamp). In the main universe “they” thought she was NOT a vamp. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/30 "2005-07-20T19:12:23Z")
1.) 6 (Stolen) 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler, but an oral sex act to the porn star. Specifically referring to the grand finale of the sex act. (Partly Stolen) 5.) ENDDO (Stolen, after I couldn’t remember from my five minutes of Fortran experience) 6.) 3/8 (Stolen) 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (Wiki) 8.) You mean Aliena, and Ganymede, of course. They are, in fact, Rosalind and Celia, disguised dames in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. (Stolen) 9.) Which is surprising, given that Halvard was not the first man to fall from the church vane; from Ibsen’s Master Builder. (Stolen) 10.) Nebucha **d** nezzar II was defeated by the Egyptian Necho (Nekau) II in 601 BC, according to Wiki. Inexplicably, Necho was neither cat nor wafer. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness (Stolen) 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because… well, she WAS a vampire - at least, the alternate-universe copy of her was. It’s complicated, when Vamp-Willow is confused for Real Willow, and then Real Willow impersonates Vamp-Willow! Bored now. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. (Stolen) 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie had stashed in a trunk, in 48 Hours. (Stolen) 15.) Counter-yoinked : “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. 17.) For many reasons. The rape of Perigune would be one, but I’m guessing that Ariadne was underage. (Stolen) 18.) So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (Stolen) 19.) Roland, peer of Charlemagne, was quite the horn player. (Stolen) 20.)Yoink : I’m sure it has a special name, but it is essentially hourglass-shaped. It looks like a special case of lemniscate… but that’s probably wrong. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 2 out of 12, or 1/6th. (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 23.) 10% (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 25.) “Well, there’s Bobby Taylor sittin’ there and seven times he’s asked me for a date / Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he’s away” 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. 28.) Yoink : Trunking" splits one high-volume information stream into several streams, each of which fills a cable; “channeling” combines several smaller streams so that their combined bandwidth will fill a cable (via Wikipedia). Both have analogies to nature: as a tree trunk splits into branches, so does a trunk switch divide a signal; as tributaries flow together into one river, so does a channelizer merge disparate signals. 29.) Brioche. 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom (itty bitty measurement) with the Astronomical Unit. (Big measurement) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/31 "2005-07-20T19:16:40Z")
For ease of reference, Bricker, I tweaked #12 and #25 in that one. Meant to bold their numbers or something. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/32 "2005-07-20T19:16:43Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Nice try, and that was my first thought as well, but unless the question is far, far trickier than **Bricker’s** usual I don’t think it works. The Decker in [Star Trek: The Motion Picture](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/) was a Captain until Kirk bumped him down to Commander for the duration of the V’Ger mission. He was never a Commodore. It could be said that he “lost his ship” when Kirk took command away from him, but I’m not really seeing a place where his actions endangered Kirk’s ship. In fact, with his timely belaying of Kirk’s orders in the wormhole, he probably saved it. That all occurred to me after I’d already typed it out–and I just like saying “Carbon Unit Decker.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/33 "2005-07-20T19:27:36Z")
1.) 6 (Stolen) 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler, but an oral sex act to the porn star. Specifically referring to the grand finale of the sex act. (Partly Stolen) 5.) ENDDO (Stolen, after I couldn’t remember from my five minutes of Fortran experience) 6.) 3/8 (Stolen) 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (Wiki) 8.) You mean Aliena, and Ganymede, of course. They are, in fact, Rosalind and Celia, disguised dames in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. (Stolen) 9.) Which is surprising, given that Halvard was not the first man to fall from the church vane; from Ibsen’s Master Builder. (Stolen) **10**.) Nebucha **d** nezzar II did have a general, Holofernes, who was reported to have lost his head over a lovely widow Judith, while leading Nebbie’s forces against Judea. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness (Stolen) 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because… well, she WAS a vampire - at least, the alternate-universe copy of her was. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. (Stolen) 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie had stashed in a trunk, in 48 Hours. (Stolen) 15.) Counter-yoinked : “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. 17.) For many reasons. The rape of Perigune would be one, but I’m guessing that Ariadne was underage. (Stolen) 18.) So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (Stolen) 19.) Roland, peer of Charlemagne, was quite the horn player. (Stolen) **20**.)Yoink : Hourglass on its side. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 2 out of 12, or 1/6th. (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 23.) 10% (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (Stolen, but I coulda done it) **25**.) “Well, there’s Bobby Taylor sittin’ there and seven times he’s asked me for a date /Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he’s away” - from the lyrics of Harper Valley, PTA. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. 28.) Yoink : Trunking" splits one high-volume information stream into several streams, each of which fills a cable; “channeling” combines several smaller streams so that their combined bandwidth will fill a cable (via Wikipedia). Both have analogies to nature: as a tree trunk splits into branches, so does a trunk switch divide a signal; as tributaries flow together into one river, so does a channelizer merge disparate signals. 29.) Brioche. 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom (itty bitty measurement) with the Astronomical Unit. (Big measurement) I’m such a perfectionist. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/34 "2005-07-20T19:32:28Z")
CandidGamera: 27 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/35 "2005-07-20T19:52:16Z")
**1**.) 6 - though the question isn’t clear. A ‘vertex’ is a single point, and picking two points on the curve described can yield many different answers. The graph, however, is split around the y-axis into two diverging curves which, at their closest point to one another (y = 0) are separated by 6. 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler, but an oral sex act to the porn star. Specifically referring to the grand finale of the sex act. (Partly Stolen) 5.) ENDDO (Stolen, after I couldn’t remember from my five minutes of Fortran experience) 6.) 3/8 (Stolen) 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (Wiki) 8.) You mean Aliena, and Ganymede, of course. They are, in fact, Rosalind and Celia, disguised dames in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. (Stolen) 9.) Which is surprising, given that Halvard was not the first man to fall from the church vane; from Ibsen’s Master Builder. (Stolen) 10.) Nebucha **d** nezzar II did have a general, Holofernes, who was reported to have lost his head over a lovely widow Judith, while leading Nebbie’s forces against Judea. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness (Stolen) 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because… well, she WAS a vampire - at least, the alternate-universe copy of her was. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. (Stolen) 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie had stashed in a trunk, in 48 Hours. (Stolen) 15.) Counter-yoinked : “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. 17.) For many reasons. The rape of Perigune would be one, but I’m guessing that Ariadne was underage. (Stolen) 18.) So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (Stolen) 19.) Roland, peer of Charlemagne, was quite the horn player. (Stolen) 20.)Yoink : I’m sure it has a special name, but it is essentially hourglass-shaped. It looks like a special case of lemniscate… but that’s probably wrong. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 2 out of 12, or 1/6th. (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 23.) 10% (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 25.) “Well, there’s Bobby Taylor sittin’ there and seven times he’s asked me for a date / Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he’s away” - from the lyrics of Harper Valley, PTA. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. 28.) Yoink : Trunking" splits one high-volume information stream into several streams, each of which fills a cable; “channeling” combines several smaller streams so that their combined bandwidth will fill a cable (via Wikipedia). Both have analogies to nature: as a tree trunk splits into branches, so does a trunk switch divide a signal; as tributaries flow together into one river, so does a channelizer merge disparate signals. 29.) Brioche. 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom (itty bitty measurement) with the Astronomical Unit. (Big measurement) ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/36 "2005-07-20T19:55:44Z")
Just a quick note **Bricker**. The rapid-fire nature of some of these posts makes it hard to keep track of which post you were grading. For instance there were two posts by **CandidGamera** between your post #28 and your post #34. They had differences and the latest was ~ five minutes before your grading post. Which post was it with 27 correct answers? Was it post 30 and he snuck in #33 before you posted the grade? Or was it post 33 that you graded as 27 correct? Maybe if you put the post number in the grading post? Like **CandidGamera** : Post 30 : 27 correct. Sometimes tiny permutations make the difference and knowing which post had those permutations correct and which didn’t may make it easier to figure out the answer you’re looking for. Not sure why I care since I don’t really play these challenges anymore, but following along can be harder if there are multiple “tries” between “grading passes”. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/37 "2005-07-20T19:57:47Z")
I can’t help myself, I’m just so enthusiastic. But I do like the suggestion, Mtg. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/38 "2005-07-20T20:02:45Z")
CandidGamera (post 35): 27 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/39 "2005-07-20T20:06:07Z")
Well, foo. I thought for certain that change to #1 would be sufficient. Oh well, guess someone will win it before I log back on from home. TTFN, all. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/40 "2005-07-20T20:12:34Z")
One more notion for #1 : 1.) 6 - though the question isn’t clear. A ‘vertex’ is a single point, and picking two points on the curve described can yield many different answers. The graph, however, is split around the y-axis into two diverging curves which, at their closest point to one another (y = 0) are separated by 6. Vertex can be used similarly to apex - highest point - and the two curves’ bulges are six apart. Or, taking vertex more literally, at their highest y-value, they could be said to be separated by an infinite distance. And - an alternate definition for Vertex - meaning a point at which sides or lines intersect. This graph has no intersections, if that meaning is intended. 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler, but an oral sex act to the porn star. Specifically referring to the grand finale of the sex act. (Partly Stolen) 5.) ENDDO (Stolen, after I couldn’t remember from my five minutes of Fortran experience) 6.) 3/8 (Stolen) 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (Wiki) 8.) You mean Aliena, and Ganymede, of course. They are, in fact, Rosalind and Celia, disguised dames in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. (Stolen) 9.) Which is surprising, given that Halvard was not the first man to fall from the church vane; from Ibsen’s Master Builder. (Stolen) 10.) Nebucha **d** nezzar II did have a general, Holofernes, who was reported to have lost his head over a lovely widow Judith, while leading Nebbie’s forces against Judea. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness (Stolen) 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because… well, she WAS a vampire - at least, the alternate-universe copy of her was. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. (Stolen) 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie had stashed in a trunk, in 48 Hours. (Stolen) 15.) Counter-yoinked : “Bundling” and “Loonie” are lunar slang from Robert Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”; they mean “sleeping together” and “lunar native” respectively. The question “What’s bundling, to a Loonie?” could also be answered “not a big deal,” because in the novel, a premium on available space and a less-Puritanical attitude toward sex have removed the taboo on sleeping together. 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. 17.) For many reasons. The rape of Perigune would be one, but I’m guessing that Ariadne was underage. (Stolen) 18.) So angry that he rebelled against it, declaring himself Governor, with the support of the large hunk of the RI population that didn’t meet the property qualifications to be eligible to vote. (Stolen) 19.) Roland, peer of Charlemagne, was quite the horn player. (Stolen) 20.)Yoink : I’m sure it has a special name, but it is essentially hourglass-shaped. It looks like a special case of lemniscate… but that’s probably wrong. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 2 out of 12, or 1/6th. (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 23.) 10% (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (Stolen, but I coulda done it) 25.) “Well, there’s Bobby Taylor sittin’ there and seven times he’s asked me for a date / Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he’s away” - from the lyrics of Harper Valley, PTA. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. 28.) Yoink : Trunking" splits one high-volume information stream into several streams, each of which fills a cable; “channeling” combines several smaller streams so that their combined bandwidth will fill a cable (via Wikipedia). Both have analogies to nature: as a tree trunk splits into branches, so does a trunk switch divide a signal; as tributaries flow together into one river, so does a channelizer merge disparate signals. 29.) Brioche. 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom (itty bitty measurement) with the Astronomical Unit. (Big measurement) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290.md?page=3)