Bricker Challenge #7

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The rules that appeared in Bricker Challenge #1 are included herein by reference.

Sorry for the delay, but life’s been busy. Here is the long-awaited BC #7.

  1. If you should happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world, what message should you deliver?
  2. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular pentagon?
  3. From what are you suffering if you have what television commercials call “occasional irregularities?”
  4. Andrew Cuomo is the Secretary of HUD, but what was the cause of New York’s CHUD?
  5. It’s bad enough that your husband died, but did he have to leave almost everything to his son by his first marriage? What will you and your three daughters do, especially when daughter Elinor decides she loves Edward and daughter Marianne decides she likes Willoughby?
  6. Who did the pieman meet, going to the fair?
  7. “We’re going about this all wrong! This guy’s a sailor, he’s in New York. We get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble.”
  8. I’ve got New York, St. James, Ventnor, and Marvin. What do I need?
  9. If A, then B. What is the inverse, the converse, and the contrapositive of that statement?
  10. The four possible outcomes are nun, gimmel, hay, and shin. Which is best?
  11. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?
  12. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club – but not in chronological order.
  13. Enough with the “Where is Waldo” business. Can you help find me? I was a respected judge, and on August 6th I told my friends I was going to see a Broadway play. I was never seen or heard from again. I’m pretty famous, as far as missing people go.
  14. They say that motels off the highway are a bad risk. Guess I shouldn’t have built one in that town at the mouth of the Sarno river.
  15. At least I wasn’t on Galloping Gertie in 1940. And I never ran into a Bouncing Betty at all.
  16. Ed Asner, Patty Duke, and Richard Masur all did this, but at least their last names aren’t Hoffa.
  17. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?
  18. She knew falling in love with Radames, commander of the Egyptian forces, was a bad idea. But as a captured Ethiopian princess, what else could she do?
  19. America’s Most Wanted never profiled this one: who killed Agamemnon?
  20. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?
  21. What is the four color map problem?
  22. What does a call girl mean who advertises that she speaks French and Greek?
  23. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?
  24. If you throw three dice, what is the chance that they will total 15 or more?
  25. Hitting the high house shot from station 1 is easier than hitting the low house from station 8, don’t you think?
  26. Bruno may not have taken the baby, after all.
  27. Who is John Galt?
  28. What basic qualification was necessary to play for the A.A.G.P.B.L.?
  29. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?
  30. By the way – name the three musketeers.
  31. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.
  32. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?
  33. His side-kick is Baba-Looey.
  34. Although Chance Wayne, Amanda Wingfield, and Big Daddy never met, they share a special secret. What?
  35. “It is a foolish man who builds his house upon the sand.”
  36. What was unsafe at any speed?
  37. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?
  38. What will happen in the year 7510, according to Zager and Evans?
  39. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?
  40. A zygote is just a gamete’s way of producing more gametes, right?
  41. I have the dubious distinction of serving the shortest time in office of any American president. Who am I?
  42. Tommy’s love was Becky, but when three brothers raped her, Tommy uncharacteristically lost his calm demeanor.
  43. Romeo and Juliet’s plans were foiled by poison, but when is a poison pill defense a good thing?
  44. What do I mean by “Tinker to Evers to Chance?”
  45. What makes wine different than liquor? They both have alcohol, after all.
  46. An oak tree at Runnymeade. Discuss.
  47. Who married Lisa Gottsegen?
  48. Who promoted Major Major?
  49. Whose neighborhood friends included Joey, Margaret, and Gina?
  50. It ain’t so much a question of not knowing what to do. I’ve known what’s right and wrong since I was ten.

Good luck, folks!

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I’ll try a few at a time

  1. Charlie Pride called and said he loves her
    2.108
  2. constipation
  3. Simple Simon
  4. Atlantic, tennessee & some hotels

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness…Mary Wollstonecraft

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2. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular pentagon?
600.

3. From what are you suffering if you have what television commercials call "occasional irregularities?"
Constipation.

6. Who did the pieman meet, going to the fair?
Simple Simon.

8. I’ve got New York, St. James, Ventnor, and Marvin. What do I need?
Atlantic and Tennessee.

11. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?
The cicada.

12. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club – but not in chronological order.
They’re all daughters of U.S. presidents

13. Enough with the “Where is Waldo” business. Can you help find me? I was a respected judge, and on August 6th I told my friends I was going to see a Broadway play. I was never seen or heard from again. I’m pretty famous, as far as missing people go.
Judge Crater.

17. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?
The Paleozoic.

19. America’s Most Wanted never profiled this one: who killed Agamemnon?
His wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

21. What is the four color map problem?
Theoretically it’s possible to use only four colors to color every country on a map without two countries of the same color touching. It’s been done with five, but never four.

22. What does a call girl mean who advertises that she speaks French and Greek?
She performs both oral and anal sex.

23. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?
California.

24. If you throw three dice, what is the chance that they will total 15 or more?
1/27.

29. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?
M&M/Mars.

30. By the way – name the three musketeers.
Athos, Porthos, Aramis. And don’t forget D’Artagnan!

31. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.
Edwin Abbott.

32. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?
1.

35. "It is a foolish man who builds his house upon the sand."
The Bible contains a parable about a wise man who built his house on stone and a foolish man who built his on sand. The moral of the parable is not to base one’s beliefs on shaky foundations.

36. What was unsafe at any speed?
The Chevrolet Corvair, or so Ralph Nader said.

37. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?
1368.

39. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?
A bunch of kids.

40. A zygote is just a gamete’s way of producing more gametes, right?
According to Heinlein, yes.

41. I have the dubious distinction of serving the shortest time in office of any American president. Who am I?
William Henry Harrison died after serving only one month in office.

TMR
You will buy the ukulele, and touch every place.

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  1. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular pentagon?

108? PAH! 540.

  1. From what are you suffering if you have what television commercials call “occasional irregularities?”

Constipation? PAH! Diarrhea

  1. If A, then B. What is the inverse, the converse, and the contrapositive of that statement?

huh… a) if A then not B
b) if B then A
c) if not B then not A

Is that right?
11. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?

Any insect

  1. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club – but not in chronological order.

Huh… first daughters??

  1. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?

Fossils?

  1. America’s Most Wanted never profiled this one: who killed Agamemnon?

Well that’s obvious! Clytemnestra!

  1. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?

In a museum… or a hangar…

  1. By the way – name the three musketeers.

Athos, Porthos… uh… Aramis.

  1. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?

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  1. What was unsafe at any speed?

Death

  1. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?

1368… lame question!

  1. What do I mean by “Tinker to Evers to Chance?”

That’s got to be a double play… or maybe a triple play.

  1. Whose neighborhood friends included Joey, Margaret, and Gina?

Dennis the Menace (american)
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Excrement quiz!

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Whoops! Goofed up my answer to question 2. The real answer is 590.

TMR
You will buy the ukulele, and touch every place.

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(apologies for possible double post)
Off the top of my head…
2. 540
8. Tennessee and Atlantic
12. presidential daughters: Margaret, Lynda, Amy, Patti, Chelsea
20. Bullwinkle J. Moose
21. What is the minimum number of colors needed so that no area borders another of the same color?
22. She does blow jobs and “up the butt, Bob”?
23. Howard Hughes built the Spuce Goose back in the 30’s or 40’s. It’s somewhere in Greater LA.
26. Bruno somethingorother kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
30. Bathos, Aramis, and the other one. D’Artagnan was the kid who kept bugging them.
35. But the wise man builds upon the Rock.
36. The Corvair, according to Ralph Nader.
39. Our days, and our nights. Oh Charles in charge of you and me. Or there abouts. Scott Baio’s sitcom post happy days.
40. William Henry Harrison.
44. 3/4s of the Philly A’s(?) infield back in the day.
45. Wine is fermented, as is beer. Liquor is distilled.
46. The Magna Carta was signed by King John on the Isle of Runnymeade in 1215.
48. Can’t remember, but I do know that his full name is Major Major Major, which is why he was stuck as a Major for so long. Just another one of life’s catch-22s.

-Dave
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
-Albert Einstein

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I’ll have a go without looking anything up:

  1. That you love her (?)
  2. 540
  3. constipation
  4. Simple Simon met the pieman going to the fair
  5. Bill Murray said that in Ghostbusters when they encountered the Stay-Puft marshmallow man
  6. Atlantic and Tennessee (?)
  7. cicada
  8. presidential daughters (?)
  9. Bullwinkle
  10. Trying to find the minimum number of colours on a map so that no two adjacent countries are the same colour.
  11. oral and anal sex
  12. ask Howard Hughes. I think it’s in California
  13. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan
  14. 1
  15. Chevy Corvair
  16. 1368
  17. sure - a zygote will grow into an animal which will produce more gametes
  18. Zachary Taylor
  19. In the stock market, a company that implements a poison pill can protect itself from hostile takeovers.
  20. wine is fermented, liquor is distilled
  21. an IBM machine with a sense of humour (?)
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  1. Just make sure to keep your sense and sensibility about you.
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Number 28: The ability to play baseball.

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  1. Bruno Hauptmann & the Lindbergh baby
  2. Coward of the County
  3. I guess a famous triple play (not a huge baseball fan am I)
  4. Curtis Sliwa?
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28: Make that, a woman who can play baseball. (All American Girls Professional Baseball League)

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  1. 540
  2. Constipation.
  3. You quit Norwood and move to Barton Park, where your relative, Sir John Middleton, was generous enough to offer you a house.
  4. Simple Simon.
  5. Atlantic and Tennessee.
  6. Inverse: If B, then A.
    Converse: If not A, then not B.
    Contrapositive: If not B, then not A.
  7. Gimmel.
  8. Cicada.
  9. Presidential daughters.
  10. Judge Crater.
  11. The Paleozoic.
  12. Aida?
  13. Clytemnestra, but she had a good excuse.
  14. Bullwinkle’s.
  15. (WAG) She’s into sadism and lesbian sex?
  16. At the Air & Space Museum.
  17. Bruno Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby.
  18. The hero(?) of an Ayn Rand novel.
  19. Dumas – or M&M / Mars.
  20. Athos, Porthos, Aramis, D’Artagnan.
  21. Abbott, Flatland.
  22. The Sermon on the Mount.
  23. The Corvaire.
  24. William Henry Harrison.
  25. Liquor is distilled – hence a lot stronger.
  26. The Magna Carta.
  27. Dunno, but it happened in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
  28. Dennis the Menace.
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Hey, y’all: for number 41, he might be going for David Rice Atchison, who was technically president for a day before the swearing in of Zachary Taylor. Cecil even wrote a column mentioning it.

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Thanks to all the “little people” who made this possible! (meaning the other posters whose answers I shamelessly stole.)

1. If you should happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world, what message should you deliver?
A: Tell her, “I’m sorry.”
Tell her, “I need my baby.”
Oh… Won’t you tell her that I love her. (from the song by Charlie Rich)

2. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular pentagon?
A: 540

3. From what are you suffering if you have what television commercials call “occasional irregularities?”
A: Constipation.

4. Andrew Cuomo is the Secretary of HUD, but what was the cause of New York’s CHUD?
A: Nuclear waste.

5. It’s bad enough that your husband died, but did he have to leave almost everything to his son by his first marriage? What will you and your three daughters do, especially when daughter Elinor decides she loves Edward and daughter Marianne decides she likes Willoughby?
A: You quit Norwood and move to Barton Park, where your relative, Sir John Middleton, was generous enough to offer you a house.

6. Who did the pieman meet, going to the fair?
A: Simple Simon. And shouldn’t that be “whom did the pieman meet”?

7. “We’re going about this all wrong! This guy’s a sailor, he’s in New York. We get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble.”
A: Bill Murray, in GhostBusters.

8. I’ve got New York, St. James, Ventnor, and Marvin. What do I need?
A: Tennesee Avenue and Atlantic Avenue.

9. If A, then B. What is the inverse, the converse, and the contrapositive of that statement?
A: Inverse: if not A then not B.
Converse: if B then A.
Contrapositive: if not B then not A.

10. The four possible outcomes are nun, gimmel, hay, and shin. Which is best?
A: Depends on your point of view, but if you’re a capitalist, probaby gimmel.

11. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?
A: A 17-year cicada (sometimes erroneously called the 17-year locust), such as Magicicada septendecula.

12. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club - but not in chronological order.
A: Daughters of presidents of the USA.

13. Enough with the “Where is Waldo” business. Can you help find me? I was a respected judge, and on August 6th I told my friends I was going to see a Broadway play. I was never seen or heard from again. I’m pretty famous, as far as missing people go.
A: Judge Crater, on his way to see “Dancing Partner” in 1930.

14. They say that motels off the highway are a bad risk. Guess I shouldn’t have built one in that town at the mouth of the Sarno river.
A: Because the Sarno is the most polluted river in Italy? Or because of the 1998 mud slides?

15. At least I wasn’t on Galloping Gertie in 1940. And I never ran into a Bouncing Betty at all.
A: Known across the world as one of the biggest mistakes in the history of civil engineering, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge will not soon be forgotten. This seven million dollar project was completed in 1940 and quickly nicknamed Galloping Gertie because of its spectacularly dynamic behavior.
Bouncing Betty - (DH-10) A conical three pronged mine. The bouncing betty mine would jump about three feet in the air when triggered, and explode at waist level. (used in the Vietname war)

16. Ed Asner, Patty Duke, and Richard Masur all did this, but at least their last names aren’t Hoffa.
A: President of the Screen Actor’s Guild?

17. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?
A: Paleozoic.

18. She knew falling in love with Radames, commander of the Egyptian forces, was a bad idea. But as a captured Ethiopian princess, what else could she do?
A: Verdi’s opera Aida.

19. America’s Most Wanted never profiled this one: who killed Agamemnon?
A: Clytemnestra and/or Aegisthus.

20. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?
A: Bullwinkle. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_022a.html

21. What is the four color map problem?
A: A mathematical problem, stating that for any map in which you want contiguous countries to have different colours, you only need four colours. (theorem proved in 1976 IIRC, one of the first if not the first of mathematical theorems proved with the help of a computer program.)

22. What does a call girl mean who advertises that she speaks French and Greek?
A: french = oral sex, greek = anal sex.

23. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?
A: McMinville, Oregon.

24. If you throw three dice, what is the chance that they will total 15 or more?
A: 5/54.

25. Hitting the high house shot from station 1 is easier than hitting the low house from station 8, don’t you think?
A: You’re shooting skeet.

26. Bruno may not have taken the baby, after all.
A: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of having kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

27. Who is John Galt?
A: A mythical character in the novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

28. What basic qualification was necessary to play for the A.A.G.P.B.L.?
A: Play baseball (and be a woman).

29. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?
A: M&M Mars.

30. By the way - name the three musketeers.
A: Athos, Porthos, Aramis.

31. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.
A: Edwin Abbott, Flatland.

32. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?
A: 1.

33. His side-kick is Baba-Looey.
A: Quick Draw McGraw.

34. Although Chance Wayne, Amanda Wingfield, and Big Daddy never met, they share a special secret. What?
A: They are all charactes in plays by Tennesee Williams.

35. “It is a foolish man who builds his house upon the sand.”
A: Therefore, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock (Matthew 7:24).

36. What was unsafe at any speed?
A: Chevrolet Corvair, as told in Ralph Nader’s book.

37. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?
A: 1368.

38. What will happen in the year 7510, according to Zager and Evans?
A: In the year 7510
If God’s a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself and say
“Guess it’s time for the judgement day”

39. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?
A: The idiotic Powell family.

40. A zygote is just a gamete’s way of producing more gametes, right?
A: Just another way of saying a chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg.

41. I have the dubious distinction of serving the shortest time in office of any American president. Who am I?
A: Alexander Haig! No, seriously, William Henry Harrison.
But just in case, I’ll also mention the oddball theory that it was David Rice Atchison. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_133.html

42. Tommy’s love was Becky, but when three brothers raped her, Tommy uncharacteristically lost his calm demeanor.
A: From Kenny Rogers’ song “Coward of the County.”

43. Romeo and Juliet’s plans were foiled by poison, but when is a poison pill defense a good thing?
A: A poison-pill defense is a maneuver used by a company to avoid a hostile takeover.

44. What do I mean by “Tinker to Evers to Chance?”
A: The immortal Tinker-Evers-Chance double play combination, made famous in a poem by newspaperman Franklin Adams…

45. What makes wine different than liquor? They both have alcohol, after all.
A: Wine is fermented, liquor is distilled.

46. An oak tree at Runnymeade. Discuss.

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I haven’t read any of the other answers, and I’m only answering the ones I don’t have to look up, because I’m lazy:

  1. If you should happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world, what message should you deliver?
    Tell her I’m sorry. Tell her I need my baby. Oh, won’t you tell her that I love her.
  2. Andrew Cuomo is the Secretary of HUD, but what was the cause of New York’s CHUD?
    Nuclear waste? I know it stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers
  3. Who did the pieman meet, going to the fair?
    Simple Simon
  4. I’ve got New York, St. James, Ventnor, and Marvin. What do I need?
    Boardwalk and Park Place. Why try for anything else?
  5. If A, then B. What is the inverse, the converse, and the contrapositive of that statement?
    Probably in the wrong order but:
    If not A, then B. If A, then not B. If not A, then not B.
  6. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club – but not in chronological order.
    Presidential children
  7. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?
    Bullwinkle
  8. What is the four color map problem?
    something about touching colors
  9. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?
    not at an airport, that’s for sure
  10. Who is John Galt?
    That guy in that book
  11. By the way – name the three musketeers.
    Athos, Porthos, Aramis
  12. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.
    Was it Flatland??
  13. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?
    the kids
  14. Tommy’s love was Becky, but when three brothers raped her, Tommy uncharacteristically lost his calm demeanor.
    Coward of the County
  15. Whose neighborhood friends included Joey, Margaret, and Gina?
    Dennis Mitchell
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Interim scores:

dekayx: 3 1/3
Trout Mask: 18
KarmaComa: 8 1/6
BigDaddyD: 15 1/3
Lord Derfel: 17 5/6
Drain Bead: 1
Fillet: 2
ARG220:1
Fretful Portentine: 25
Arnold Winkelried: 48

  • Rick
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<<1. If you should happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world, what message should you deliver?>>

Yo, bitch! You do anal?

“My hovercraft is full of eels.”

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  1. Tell her Charlie Pride called and said he loves her
  2. 540 degrees. (can you do the little degree symbol now that HTML is banned?)
  3. Constipation.
  4. Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.
  5. You are Mrs. Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility
  6. Simple Simon.
  7. I couldn’t help it - it just popped in there. It’s the Stay-Puft marshmallow man.
  8. You need Atlantic to complete the Yellow set, and Tennessee to complete the Orange.
  9. Inverse: If not A, then not B. Converse: If B, then A. Contrapositive: If not B, then not A.
  10. You are playing Dreidel, and you want to get gimmel to get all the kitty.
  11. Periodical Cicadas live to be 17 before reproducing and dying.
  12. They are the first daughters club, daughters of US Presidents.
  13. You are NY Supreme Court Justice Crater, missing August 6, 1930. No, I’m afraid I can’t help find you, but perhaps Jimmy Hoffa can.
  14. The city of Pompeii, a Roman resort, was built near the Sarno river on the Bay of Naples. Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD and buried the town, killing many.
  15. Galloping Gertie was the Tacoma Narrows bridge that collapsed spectacularly due to resonant motion induced by high winds. A bouncing betty is a type of land mine.
  16. All served as president of the Screen Actors Guild union. Hoffa was the leader of the Teamster’s union until he got the Judge Crater retirement plan.
  17. Trilobites were common in the Cambrian Period or early Paleozoic Era, so I suggest you go there, er, then.
  18. In the Verdi opera Aida, Aida is an Ethiopean princess owned as a slave by the Egyptian princess Amneris. Both Aida and Amneris are in love with Radames, and a nasty love triangle thang ensues.
  19. Depends on whom you ask. Aeschylus implicates Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife. Homer would say it was Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s lover in Agamemnon’s absence during the Trojan war.
  20. Bullwinkle.
  21. The four color map problem is “Given a map of any arbitrary number and complexity of geographical regions, how many colors are required such that no adjoining regions are the same color?” The answer for a planar map is four colors, hence the four color map theory. The four color map problem may refer to trying to come up with a map that requires five colors - I believe this was used as a puzzle in magazines. This theory applies in mapmaking, because it is desirable that no two bordering countries be the same color for confusion’s sake. This has also been discussed on this board in the last year, e.g. here.
  22. Greek is slang for anal sex, French is slang for oral sex. It means that is what she’s willing to do.
  23. The Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes’ huge boondoggle of a flying boat, is near McMinnville, Oregon in a museum.
  24. When you throw three dice, you have 216 possible outcomes, one of which is 18, three of which are 17, three of which are 16 using a four, three of which are 16 using two fives, three of which are 15 using a three, six of which are 15 using four and five, and one of which is triple-five. That makes 20/216 chance of being 15 or greater.
  25. In skeet shooting, targets are fired from either a low or a high house, and shooters shoot from one of eight stations. Due to geometry, some of the shots are easier than others. Station 1 is near the high house, so the shot is taken along a line of sight nearly the same as the trajectory of the target - thus the angular velocity of the target WRT the shooter is small from Station 1. Station 8 is between the two houses, so the target crosses from the right of the shooter to the left at a high angular speed. Thus, I would think that the high house shot from 1 would be easier to hit than the low house shot from 8.
  26. Charles Lindbergh, famous aviator and nazi sympathizer, had a baby (Charles Jr.) that was kidnapped at 20 months of age just five years after Charles Sr.'s famous transatlantic flight. The main suspect was Bruno Hauptmann. While a lot of the marked ransom money was found in Hauptmann’s residence, hard evidence was lacking, and many people believe him to be innocent.
  27. Who indeed. John Galt was the hero of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Galt was the symbol of intelligence and ingenuity, and the crowds of people invoking his name used it as an exclamation of despair that they were unable to control their destiny. “Who am I to argue with the powers that be? Who is John Galt?” That sort of thing.
  28. the All American Girls Professional Baseball League did, as the name implied, only accept women players. This is the league on which the movie A League of Their Own was based.
  29. What the hell are you talking about? I suspect this is some kind of SDMB inside joke. Unless you are asking who SwimmingRiddles could get to hook her up with a daily fix of Three Musketeers bars, in which case the answer is Mars, the maker of M&Ms and other fine confections.
  30. Porthos, Athos, Aramis.
  31. You are Edwin A. Abbott, author of Flatland.
  32. sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1.
  33. Quick Draw, a Hannah Barbera cartoon character. (not Howard Stern - his sidekick is Baba Booey, so named because he thought that was how to pronounce Baba Looey.)
  34. They were all characters in Tennessee Williams plays: Big Daddy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Chance Wayne, Sweet Bird of Youth; Amanda Wingfield, Glass Menagerie. I suspect that might not be the ‘secret’ you are looking for. I’ll refrain from guessing.
  35. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: And great was the fall of it. - from the Sermon on the Mount.
  36. The Corvair.
  37. 37 squared is 1369, minus 1 is 1368.
  38. If God’s a-comin’ he ought to make it by then - Maybe he’ll look around himself and say “Guess it’s time for the Judgement day”
  39. Charles was in charge of the household - sort of a butler/babysitter/nanny thing. Zaniness ensues.
  40. A gamete is a sex cell (haploid) which merges with a gamete from the opposite sex to produce a zygote. When the zygote grows up he produces many gametes, most of which end up in his sheets or washed down the drain of his shower. Whoops, too much information. So, yes.
  41. David Rice Atchison who filled in for 1 day because Taylor didn’t want to be sworn in on the sabbath. However, some people don’t think he actually was president because his term of office had also expired, so he was not eligible for the throne. In that case, it’d be William Henry Harrison who died after only a few months in office, narrowly beating out James Garfield who lasted six months before succumbing to an assassin’s bullet.
  42. Kenny Rogers’ “Coward of the county”
  43. A poison pill is a provision in a company’s articles of incorporation that make taking it over a bad idea. An exaggeration might be: “In the event the company is purchased by Microsoft or any company in which Bill Gates owns more than 5 shares of stock, the CEO Jeff Johnson will be paid 15 quintillion dollars and immediately sent to Barbados on the company jet to retire.” This has the tendency to make hostile takeovers less likely.
  44. Tinker to Evers to Chance was a famous combination of shortstop, second base, and first base ball players from 1903-1910 for the Chicago Cubs. They were famous for making double plays, where the ball would go from Tinker to Evers to Chance.
  45. Wine and beer are simply fermented, but liquor is distilled to concentrate the alcohol.
  46. Magna Carta was signed at Runnymeade.
  47. Dustin Hoffman?
  48. Time draws short for me…
  49. Blossom?
  50. and I must leave 48 and 50 unanswered.
19

You should be able to get the degree symbol by holding down Alt and pressing 0-1-8-6 on the numpad.

Let’s try it: 540º

TMR
You will buy the ukulele, and touch every place.

20
  1. If you should happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world, what message should you deliver?

That it’s all her fault that Troy gets utterly destroyed by the Greeks?
2. What is the sum of the interior angles of a regular pentagon?

540
3. From what are you suffering if you have what television commercials call “occasional irregularities?”

Diarhea cha cha cha.
4. Andrew Cuomo is the Secretary of HUD, but what was the cause of New York’s CHUD?

Bad meat.
5. It’s bad enough that your husband died, but did he have to leave almost everything to his son by his first marriage? What will you and your three daughters do, especially when daughter Elinor decides she loves Edward and daughter Marianne decides she likes Willoughby?

One of them will shave her head, another one will die. What a bunch of Silly Little Women.

  1. Who did the pieman meet, going to the fair?

Simple Simon.

  1. “We’re going about this all wrong! This guy’s a sailor, he’s in New York. We get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble.”

blink True, but…

  1. I’ve got New York, St. James, Ventnor, and Marvin. What do I need?

Park Place and Boardwalk would be nice.

But in these circumstances, I’d shoot for Tennessee and Atlantic.

  1. If A, then B. What is the inverse, the converse, and the contrapositive of that statement?

If not A then not B.
If B then A.
If not B then not A.

  1. The four possible outcomes are nun, gimmel, hay, and shin. Which is best?

Would you rather be kicked in the nun, gimmel, hay, or shin? Gimmel? I’ll assume that’s another term for willy. Forget the shin, that hurts. Although it’d be amusing to see a nun get kicked, I’ll have to go for hay.
11. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?

Probably a roach. Little buggers’ll outlive us all yet.

  1. Amy, Chelsea, Lynda, Margaret, and Patti all belong to this club – but not in chronological order.

The Babysitter’s Club?

  1. Enough with the “Where is Waldo” business. Can you help find me? I was a respected judge, and on August 6th I told my friends I was going to see a Broadway play. I was never seen or heard from again. I’m pretty famous, as far as missing people go.

No clue, dude.

  1. They say that motels off the highway are a bad risk. Guess I shouldn’t have built one in that town at the mouth of the Sarno river.

You mean the one that got carried away by a flood?

  1. At least I wasn’t on Galloping Gertie in 1940. And I never ran into a Bouncing Betty at all.

Stupid bridges. No, stupid engineers, making bridges that the wind loves to toy with.

  1. Ed Asner, Patty Duke, and Richard Masur all did this, but at least their last names aren’t Hoffa.

Led the teamsters union?

  1. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?

The shore somewhere.

  1. She knew falling in love with Radames, commander of the Egyptian forces, was a bad idea. But as a captured Ethiopian princess, what else could she do?

Kill herself.

  1. America’s Most Wanted never profiled this one: who killed Agamemnon?

Damn those Greeks.

  1. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?

Damn. I KNOW this.

  1. What is the four color map problem?

Bad eyes.

  1. What does a call girl mean who advertises that she speaks French and Greek?

Willing to travel?

  1. Canada geese are pesky critters, but where would you find a Spruce Goose?

At an airport. Or didn’t it fall down go glub glub under the ocean?

  1. If you throw three dice, what is the chance that they will total 15 or more?

Hmm. Probability hat on.
8/216 = 1/27

  1. Hitting the high house shot from station 1 is easier than hitting the low house from station 8, don’t you think?

Yeah, getting 13 tricks is a damn harder than getting 7.
26. Bruno may not have taken the baby, after all.

Hyuk yuk yuk yuk. Where’s Olive Oil?

  1. Who is John Galt?

The man who killed the motor of the world.

  1. What basic qualification was necessary to play for the A.A.G.P.B.L.?

It falls between two things. Your legs. As a guy, I fail the definition.
29. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?

Chocolate and Nougat? All of the taste, non of the fat. You just gotta love Mars. Or do you mean Athos, Porthos, and Arimas?

  1. By the way – name the three musketeers.

Hmm. Ok. Just did. See 29.

  1. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.

Abbot?

  1. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?

Cos 2x

  1. His side-kick is Baba-Looey.

baba-looey? I’m guessing you’re not imitating Sher Khan from Tail Spin.

  1. Although Chance Wayne, Amanda Wingfield, and Big Daddy never met, they share a special secret. What?

They’re all women?

  1. “It is a foolish man who builds his house upon the sand.”

True dat, yo.

  1. What was unsafe at any speed?

having sex standing on your head on top of a space ship with a five peso whore.

  1. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?

One thousand three hundred sixty-nine minus the square of the cosine of the product of two and x.

  1. What will happen in the year 7510, according to Zager and Evans?

Computer clocks will overflow.

  1. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?

Me. A family. He was a sort of live-in baby sitter.

  1. A zygote is just a gamete’s way of producing more gametes, right?

Sort of. Gametes get together and make a zygote, which grows up, gets born, and produce more gametes. In a purely darwinian sense, yes, the purpose of life is the creation of more life. Who wants to fulfill their basic function with me?

  1. I have the dubious distinction of serving the shortest time in office of any American president. Who am I?

Tippecanoe. Longest inaugural speech, shortest presidency. Spent a few hours talking in the cold of January, died of pneumonia a few months later. His VP (tyler) became the chief, not a happy presidency that.

  1. Tommy’s love was Becky, but when three brothers raped her, Tommy uncharacteristically lost his calm demeanor.

Well, if the woman you loved was raped, wouldn’t you be pissed off?

  1. Romeo and Juliet’s plans were foiled by poison, but when is a poison pill defense a good thing?

Noooooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

If you’re captured by the enemy, you can kill yourself and not give away secrets.

  1. What do I mean by “Tinker to Evers to Chance?”

baseball.

  1. What makes wine different than liquor? They both have alcohol, after all.

Class. And taste. And proof. Wine has less alcohol in it and tastes better (the two go almost hand in hand).

  1. An oak tree at Runnymeade. Discuss.

No.

  1. Who married Lisa Gottsegen?

Harry Gottsegal.

  1. Who promoted Major Major?

Lieutenant Major’s commanding officer.

  1. Whose neighborhood friends included Joey, Margaret, and Gina?

Sam.

  1. It ain’t so much a question of not knowing what to do. I’ve known what’s right and wrong since I was ten.

GOod for you, you have a sense of morals that was beaten into your head. Way to go!

I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.