# 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:** 3
**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, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/41 "2005-07-20T20:16:07Z")
CandidGamera: no change ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/42 "2005-07-20T20:25:36Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > I can’t help myself, I’m just so enthusiastic. But I do like the suggestion, Mtg. It wasn’t just you actually. I’ve seen previous challenges where one poster would post their list of answers, then someone else would post theirs with different answers. The first poster would do a :smack: upon reading the second poster’s answers and decide to crib some of them(as is allowed by the rules). So the first poster would make a second post which had mostly the same answers. Often **Bricker** is online and fast enough to get grading passes in, but sometimes not. Before the boards had the nifty “post within the thread” numbers in the corner this was really hard to keep up with sometimes. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/43 "2005-07-20T21:37:28Z")
I have to elucidate on the definition of a “pearl necklace.” It is not the culmination of the oral sex act, although it can be. It is when you ejaculate on the woman’s chest/neck/face area, hence the “pearl necklace” imagery. It can be the result of titfucking, wanking, or a blowjob, but is definitely not exclusive to oral sex. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/44 "2005-07-20T21:41:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I have to elucidate on the definition of a “pearl necklace.” It is not the culmination of the oral sex act, although it can be. It is when you ejaculate on the woman’s chest/neck/face area, hence the “pearl necklace” imagery. It can be the result of titfucking, wanking, or a blowjob, but is definitely not exclusive to oral sex. So one of them is a shiny mote, and the other is a money shot? ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/45 "2005-07-20T22:04:20Z")
Crap! I was out of town and didn’t check the SDMB until just now! –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/46 "2005-07-20T22:40:04Z")
This is my first viewing of the SDMB today… bliknk and you miss a $100 Challenge! You’re going to have to start warning us in advance, **Bricker** … ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/47 "2005-07-20T22:43:02Z")
Oh, what the heck…assume all of these are stolen unless proven otherwise. 1.) 6 - the vertices of a hyperbola are defined to be the points where the two branches of the hyperbola come closest together, and on this hyperbola those points are (3,0) and (-3,0). 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. (stolen, but known) 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. (stolen) 5.) A CONTINUE statement with a line number was traditional (which is _really_ counter-intuitive to this C++ programmer…), although any line with a line number could be used. 6.) 3/8 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (stolen) 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. (stolen) 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. (stolen, but I knew this one anyway) 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.) “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) 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. (stolen, but known) 17.) Ariadne was at least consenting. Helen of Troy, on the other hand, was only thirteen when Theseus kidnapped her and stashed her with his mother until she grew to marrying age. 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.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x[sup]2[/sup]-y[sup]2[/sup]=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. (stolen) 22.) 1/6 23.) 10% (stolen, but doable) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (stolen, but known) 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. (stolen) 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (stolen) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. (stolen) 28.) 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. (stolen) 29.) Brioche (stolen) 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom with the Astronomical Unit. (stolen, but known) ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/48 "2005-07-20T22:51:20Z")
Actually, now that I think about it, let me amend #5 (I’m not certain about the longer answer, so why be ambiguous…): 1.) 6 - the vertices of a hyperbola are defined to be the points where the two branches of the hyperbola come closest together, and on this hyperbola those points are (3,0) and (-3,0). 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. (stolen, but known) 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. (stolen) 5.) A CONTINUE statement with a line number. 6.) 3/8 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (stolen) 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. (stolen) 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. (stolen, but I knew this one anyway) 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.) “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) 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. (stolen, but known) 17.) Ariadne was at least consenting. Helen of Troy, on the other hand, was only thirteen when Theseus kidnapped her and stashed her with his mother until she grew to marrying age. 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.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x[sup]2[/sup]-y[sup]2[/sup]=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. (stolen) 22.) 1/6 23.) 10% (stolen, but doable) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (stolen, but known) 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. (stolen) 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (stolen) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. (stolen) 28.) 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. (stolen) 29.) Brioche (stolen) 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom with the Astronomical Unit. (stolen, but known) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/49 "2005-07-20T23:27:44Z")
1.) 6 - the vertices of a hyperbola are defined to be the points where the two branches of the hyperbola come closest together, and on this hyperbola those points are (3,0) and (-3,0). 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards. (stolen, but known) 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 in a pr0n movie its when a man ejaculates onto his costar’s neck and breasts. \*\* 5.) A CONTINUE statement with a line number. 6.) 3/8 7.) Clay Aiken — “This Is The Night” (stolen) 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. (stolen) 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. (stolen, but I knew this one anyway) 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.) “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) 16.) Despite what Napoleon Dynamite might think, her _name_ is Frigga. (stolen, but known) 17.) Ariadne was at least consenting. Helen of Troy, on the other hand, was only thirteen when Theseus kidnapped her and stashed her with his mother until she grew to marrying age. 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.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x[sup]2[/sup]-y[sup]2[/sup]=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. (stolen) 22.) 1/6 23.) 10% (stolen, but doable) 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” (stolen, but known) 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. (stolen) 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (stolen) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts, about a fellow with a disarming smile. (stolen) 28.) 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. (stolen) 29.) Brioche 30.) You’re confusing the Angstrom with the Astronomical Unit. (stolen, but known) ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/50 "2005-07-20T23:49:56Z")
1.) 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.) CONTINUE 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. Ganymede, BTW, is also the name of one of Jupiter’s moons. 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.) In the Book of Judith, a book of the Catholic and Orthodox (but not Jewish or Protestant) bibles, beautiful widow Judith turned the head of Nebuchadnezzar’s general Holofernes, who was attacking her city. She got him drunk and cut off his head, which she brought back to the city (Bethulia), after which the Jews there defeated the attackers. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness: Richard Miller’s father publishes the newspaper. Mr. Macomber threatens to pull his business from the paper if Richard doesn’t break off with Macomber’s daughter, Muriel. By the end of the play, Macomber has relented and Richard and Muriel get back together. That’s good for Mr. Miller’s newspaper, and also good for Richard, who had ended up drunk, fighting, and almost sleeping with a prositute during his brief period of singledom. 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because they encountered an alternate-universe counterpart of Willow at the Bronze that had been pulled into the regular universe. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. **Reeder** and **elucidator** are posters on the SDMB who take a dim view of the current Administration, including its protection of individual liberty. 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.) Maybe for other stuff, but certainly for the rape of Perigune, who he raped after he killed her father. (Who, let’s be fair, was a murderer and thief.) 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.) The Song of Roland (Le Chanson de Roland) is the oldest surviving French poem. It tells the story of Charlemagne’s friend, Roland who led Charlemagne’s rearguard during a battle. He was betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon, who Roland had nominated to be the diplomat to the enemy. The enemy ambused Roland’s force. At first he refused to blow the oliphant horn to summon the rest of Charlemagne’s army. As Roland’s forces are all killed, he finally blew the horn, but had to blow so hard that he blew out his temples and died. Monica Lewinsky was a girl who gave President Clinton a blow job in the Oval Office. 20.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x2-y2=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 1 out of 6 23.) 10% 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” Commodore Matt Decker captained the Constellation whose crew was destoryed by a huge planet-eating Doomsday device. Decker took command of the Enterprise and tried to destroy the device, but the Enterprise was caught in a tractor beam. After Kirk on the Constellation helped the Enterprise escape, Decker attacked the device with a shuttlecraft. While he failed, it gave Kirk the idea to destroy the device by sending in the empty Constellation, booby trapped, which worked. 25.) In the song “Harper Valley PTA,” the PTA admonished Mrs. Johnson for her short skirts. She struck back by airing all their own ill-concealed dirty laundry, including the fact that Bobby Johnson (who was married married) had asked her out 7 times. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (From Ghostbusters; Venkman asked if Alice’s family had a history of mental illness – she mentioned her uncle.) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts. Johnny is a WWI soldier who hides from the Germans in a mental institution and becomes King of the inmates – The King of Hearts. The Germans have planted bombs to go off at midnight, and Johnny tris to defuse them. Miz Draba was his geometry teacher. 28.) 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 of 1 x 10^-10 meters) with the Astronomical Unit, which is defined as the distance from the sun to the Earth – very roughly 93 million miles, and more than 20 orders of magnitude greater than an angstrom. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/51 "2005-07-20T23:55:35Z")
Two edits 1.) 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, where her partner ejaculates over her neck, chest and/or breasts. 5.) a CONTINUE statement with a line number 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. Ganymede, BTW, is also the name of one of Jupiter’s moons. 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.) In the Book of Judith, a book of the Catholic and Orthodox (but not Jewish or Protestant) bibles, beautiful widow Judith turned the head of Nebuchadnezzar’s general Holofernes, who was attacking her city. She got him drunk and cut off his head, which she brought back to the city (Bethulia), after which the Jews there defeated the attackers. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness: Richard Miller’s father publishes the newspaper. Mr. Macomber threatens to pull his business from the paper if Richard doesn’t break off with Macomber’s daughter, Muriel. By the end of the play, Macomber has relented and Richard and Muriel get back together. That’s good for Mr. Miller’s newspaper, and also good for Richard, who had ended up drunk, fighting, and almost sleeping with a prositute during his brief period of singledom. 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because they encountered an alternate-universe counterpart of Willow at the Bronze that had been pulled into the regular universe. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. **Reeder** and **elucidator** are posters on the SDMB who take a dim view of the current Administration, including its protection of individual liberty. 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie (Eddie Murphy) had stashed in a car 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.) Maybe for other stuff, but certainly for the rape of Perigune, who he raped after he killed her father. (Who, let’s be fair, was a murderer and thief.) 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.) The Song of Roland (Le Chanson de Roland) is the oldest surviving French poem. It tells the story of Charlemagne’s friend, Roland who led Charlemagne’s rearguard during a battle. He was betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon, who Roland had nominated to be the diplomat to the enemy. The enemy ambused Roland’s force. At first he refused to blow the oliphant horn to summon the rest of Charlemagne’s army. As Roland’s forces are all killed, he finally blew the horn, but had to blow so hard that he blew out his temples and died. Monica Lewinsky was a girl who gave President Clinton a blow job in the Oval Office. 20.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x2-y2=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 1 out of 6 23.) 10% 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” Commodore Matt Decker captained the Constellation whose crew was destoryed by a huge planet-eating Doomsday device. Decker took command of the Enterprise and tried to destroy the device, but the Enterprise was caught in a tractor beam. After Kirk on the Constellation helped the Enterprise escape, Decker attacked the device with a shuttlecraft. While he failed, it gave Kirk the idea to destroy the device by sending in the empty Constellation, booby trapped, which worked. 25.) In the song “Harper Valley PTA,” the PTA admonished Mrs. Johnson for her short skirts. She struck back by airing all their own ill-concealed dirty laundry, including the fact that Bobby Johnson (who was married married) had asked her out 7 times. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (From Ghostbusters; Venkman asked if Alice’s family had a history of mental illness – she mentioned her uncle.) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts. Johnny is a WWI soldier who hides from the Germans in a mental institution and becomes King of the inmates – The King of Hearts. The Germans have planted bombs to go off at midnight, and Johnny tris to defuse them. Miz Draba was his geometry teacher. 28.) 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 of 1 x 10^-10 meters) with the Astronomical Unit, which is defined as the distance from the sun to the Earth – very roughly 93 million miles, and more than 20 orders of magnitude greater than an angstrom. –Cliffy [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/52 "2005-07-20T23:57:25Z")
Actually, it was more than two edits. Lots and lots was stolen from **Candid** , who will get $25 of my gift certificate if I win. (I thought about making it $50, but I’m too greedy!) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/53 "2005-07-21T00:04:48Z")
Well, crap. I should have noticed **pulykamell** ’s post. :smack: I think **Cliffy** may have it. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/54 "2005-07-21T00:11:51Z")
Darn it - I just composed a post that was going to correct **Cliffy** ’s errors in post #50, but I think he’s got it. with #51. _Shakes fist_🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/55 "2005-07-21T00:32:27Z")
Well, I’m going to go ahead anywhere, stealing liberally but correcting #s 4 and 9. 1.) 6 2.) Mudbloods are wizards born to Muggle families; Muggles are plain old non-wizards, in the world of Harry Potter. 3.) She was struck down by consumption (AKA Tuberculosis) - Verdi’s La Traviata (Stolen) 4.) A pearl necklace is just that to the jeweler. In porn, it’s when a male ejaculates over his partner’s chest, neck, and breasts. Oral sex is not a necessary part. 5.) a CONTINUE statement with a line number, e.g.: 100 continue 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. Ganymede, BTW, is also the name of one of Jupiter’s moons. 9.) Halvard Solness is Ibsen’s _The Master Builder_. When young, he climbed the tower of a church he had built, impressing young Hilde. Later, he builds a house with a tall tower, and although both he and his wife think it’s too tall for him to climb in the dedication ceremony, Hilde shows up and convinces him to try. This being Ibsen, he naturally falls to his death. 10.) In the Book of Judith, a book of the Catholic and Orthodox (but not Jewish or Protestant) bibles, beautiful widow Judith turned the head of Nebuchadnezzar’s general Holofernes, who was attacking her city. She got him drunk and cut off his head, which she brought back to the city (Bethulia), after which the Jews there defeated the attackers. 11.) O’Neil’s Ah, Wilderness: Richard Miller’s father publishes the newspaper. Mr. Macomber threatens to pull his business from the paper if Richard doesn’t break off with Macomber’s daughter, Muriel. By the end of the play, Macomber has relented and Richard and Muriel get back together. That’s good for Mr. Miller’s newspaper, and also good for Richard, who had ended up drunk, fighting, and almost sleeping with a prositute during his brief period of singledom. 12.) Buffy, Doppelgangland. They were convinced because they encountered an alternate-universe counterpart of Willow at the Bronze that had been pulled into the regular universe. 13.) It Can’t Happen Here is a novel by Sinclair Lewis about a fascist takeover of the US government. Reeder and elucidator are posters on the SDMB who take a dim view of the current Administration, including its protection of individual liberty. 14.) Ganz is going after the money Reggie (Eddie Murphy) had stashed in a car 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.) Maybe for other stuff, but certainly for the rape of Perigune, who he raped after he killed her father. (Who, let’s be fair, was a murderer and thief.) 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.) The Song of Roland (Le Chanson de Roland) is the oldest surviving French poem. It tells the story of Charlemagne’s friend, Roland who led Charlemagne’s rearguard during a battle. He was betrayed by his stepfather Ganelon, who Roland had nominated to be the diplomat to the enemy. The enemy ambused Roland’s force. At first he refused to blow the oliphant horn to summon the rest of Charlemagne’s army. As Roland’s forces are all killed, he finally blew the horn, but had to blow so hard that he blew out his temples and died. Monica Lewinsky was a girl who gave President Clinton a blow job in the Oval Office. 20.) It’s a hyperbola, specifically the hyperbola x[sup]2[/sup]-y[sup]2[/sup]=1. 21.) Billy Rubin = Bilirubin, a waste product excreted into the Bile by the Liver. 22.) 1 out of 6 23.) 10% 24.) ST: TOS “The Doomsday Machine” Commodore Matt Decker captained the Constellation whose crew was destoryed by a huge planet-eating Doomsday device. Decker took command of the Enterprise and tried to destroy the device, but the Enterprise was caught in a tractor beam. After Kirk on the Constellation helped the Enterprise escape, Decker attacked the device with a shuttlecraft. While he failed, it gave Kirk the idea to destroy the device by sending in the empty Constellation, booby trapped, which worked. 25.) In the song “Harper Valley PTA,” the PTA admonished Mrs. Johnson for her short skirts. She struck back by airing all their own ill-concealed dirty laundry, including the fact that Bobby Johnson (who was married) had asked her out 7 times. 26.) “Well, I’d say that’s a big yes.” - Dr. Venkman. (From Ghostbusters; Venkman asked if Alice’s family had a history of mental illness – she mentioned her uncle.) 27.) The musical, King of Hearts. Johnny is a WWI soldier who hides from the Germans in a mental institution and becomes King of the inmates – The King of Hearts. The Germans have planted bombs to go off at midnight, and Johnny tris to defuse them. Miz Draba was his geometry teacher. 28.) 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 of 1 x 10[sup]-10[/sup] meters) with the Astronomical Unit, which is defined as the distance from the sun to the Earth – very roughly 93 million miles. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/56 "2005-07-21T01:29:21Z")
Orbifold (post 47): 29 Orbifold (post 48): 29 Peter Morris (post 49): 30, and the win! Congrats! Who knew the pearl necklace would be so elusive? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/57 "2005-07-21T01:34:08Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Following, please find the questions for the Bricker Challenge 2005, Edition # 3. > > **Please note that the prize for this contest is a $100 Amazon gift certificate.** > > 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. You should also add that the speech came from Portia in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, just to be safe. > > “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 $100 gift certificate from [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) as the prize to the winner. > > The winner is the person that answers the most questions correctly by post here dated on or before Saturday, July 23th, 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 contrained, not strained? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/58 "2005-07-21T01:41:40Z")
Nuts. I felt sure \*\*Peter[/b[ was missing some important bits. However, I never would have gotten the math stuff without stealing it from him, so I suppose I can’t complain. 😉 –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/59 "2005-07-21T02:09:50Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Orbifold (post 47): 29 Huh. I was expecting 28 after I realized that I missed #4. I guess you accepted multiple answers for #17… > [@](#): > > Who knew the pearl necklace would be so elusive? It’s not every day I can say “I would have won a $100 gift certificate if only I knew more about porn slang.” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290/60 "2005-07-21T02:19:29Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > Huh. I was expecting 28 after I realized that I missed #4. I guess you accepted multiple answers for #17… > > It’s not every day I can say “I would have won a $100 gift certificate if only I knew more about porn slang.” Yeah, #17 was too vague. I had Helen in mind, but I should have clearly ruled out those damn Minoans. After the first Minoan answer, I realized I had to accept those as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-2005-edition-3-100/313290.md?page=4)