Bricker Challenge #7

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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What’s my score?

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

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. 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.

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

540degrees

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

Constipation

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

  2. 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?

  3. 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.”

Ghostbusters, spoken by Vinkman referring to the Sta-Puft Marshmallow man’s sailor hat.

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

Atlantic and States

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

Inverse: If B, then A
Converse: If A, then ~A
Contrapositive: If ~A, then ~B

  1. The four possible outcomes are nun, gimmel, hay, and shin. Which is best?
  2. Seventeen is too young for sex in many states, but it’s old age and sex for what insect?

Locust

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

Presidential daughters
Carter, Clinton, Johnson, Truman, Reagan

  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.

Judge Crater

  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.
  2. At least I wasn’t on Galloping Gertie in 1940. And I never ran into a Bouncing Betty at all.
  3. Ed Asner, Patty Duke, and Richard Masur all did this, but at least their last names aren’t Hoffa.
  4. Where would I need to go to get a nice, tasty, trilobite stew?

To the Pre-Cambrian age

  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?

Cleopatra

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

Achilles

  1. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?

Bullwinkle

  1. What is the four color map problem?

How many bordering areas can you create and have no same colored areas touching each other.

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

Oral and Anal Sex

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

Howard Hughes’ plane is parked in Long Beach, California.

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

1/9

  1. Hitting the high house shot from station 1 is easier than hitting the low house from station 8, don’t you think?
  2. Bruno may not have taken the baby, after all.

Lindbergh Baby

  1. Who is John Galt?

A character in * Atlas Shrugged*

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

femaleness

  1. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?

M&M/Mars

  1. By the way – name the three musketeers.

Athos, Porthos and D’Artagnan

  1. I never knew anyone named Costello, but my book about a two-dimensional world was used by Bricker in a recent GD thread.
  2. What is sin^2 x + cos^2 x = ?
  3. His side-kick is Baba-Looey.
  4. Although Chance Wayne, Amanda Wingfield, and Big Daddy never met, they share a special secret. What?
  5. “It is a foolish man who builds his house upon the sand.”

Parable of Jesus

  1. What was unsafe at any speed?

Corvair

  1. What is the square of this question number, minus the square of the answer to question 32?
  2. What will happen in the year 7510, according to Zager and Evans?

From the song “In the Year 2525”

  1. What was Charles in charge of, anyway?

Kids

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

yep

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

Wm. McKinley

  1. Tommy’s love was Becky, but when three brothers raped her, Tommy uncharacteristically lost his calm demeanor.
  2. Romeo and Juliet’s plans were foiled by poison, but when is a poison pill defense a good thing?

Corporate takeovers

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

famous double play combination from early in the century.

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

Liquor is distilled, wine is fermented.

  1. An oak tree at Runnymeade. Discuss.
  2. Who married Lisa Gottsegen?
  3. Who promoted Major Major?

Nobody knows. Or was it Colonel Cathcart?

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

Dennis the Menace

  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.

Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.

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The real real answer is 540.

Note to self: In future, do not answer Bricker Challenges while drinking beer.

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

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[stealing shamelessly from those who have gone before]

  1. Tell her, “I’m sorry.”
    Tell her, “I need my baby.”
    Oh… Won’t you tell her that I love her.

  2. 540

  3. Constipation.

  4. Nuclear waste.

  5. You quit Norwood and move to Barton Park, where your relative, Sir John Middleton, was generous enough to offer you a house.

  6. Simple Simon.

  7. Bill Murray, in GhostBusters.

  8. Tennesee Avenue and Atlantic Avenue. Hotels would be nice, too.

Inverse: if not A then not B.
Converse: if B then A.
Contrapositive: if not B then not A.

  1. gimmel.

  2. A 17-year cicada

  3. Daughters of presidents of the USA.

  4. Judge Crater.

  5. Who knew that Vesuvius was going to blow?

  6. 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)

  7. President of the Screen Actor’s Guild

  8. Paleozoic.

  9. Verdi’s opera Aida.

  10. Clytemnestra and/or Aegisthus.

  11. Bullwinkle.

  12. 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.)

  13. french = oral sex, greek = anal sex.

  14. McMinville, Oregon. It’s where all the huge wooden planes that can’t fly very far hang out.

  15. 5/54.

  16. You’re shooting skeet.

  17. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of having kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

  18. A mythical character in the novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

  19. Play baseball (and be a woman).

  20. M&M Mars.

  21. Athos, Porthos, Aramis.

  22. Edwin Abbott, Flatland.

  24. Quick Draw McGraw.

  25. They are all charactes in plays by Tennesee Williams.

  26. 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).

  27. Chevrolet Corvair, as told in Ralph Nader’s book.

  29. 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”

  30. The Powell family.

  31. If you subscribe to the “selfish gene” model.

  32. William Henry Harrison – (I don’t buy that Atchison foolishness.)

  33. From Kenny Rogers’ song “Coward of the County.”

  34. When fighting off a hostile corporate takeover.

  35. The immortal Tinker-Evers-Chance double play combination, made famous in a poem by newspaperman Franklin Adams…

  36. Wine is fermented, liquor is distilled.

  37. The Magna Carta was signed by King John at Runnymeade in 1215.

  38. Dustin Hoffman.

  39. IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s

  40. Dennis the Menace.

  41. Me too. And I am quite sure this is the wrong answer.

The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I will now indulge in wild guesses and irresponsible speculation off the top of my head before reading the other posts, 'cause that’s how Regis would want it. That means I won’t answer all of 'em.

  1. 540 degrees

  2. Mourn Jo?

  3. “What did you do, Ray?”

  4. Atlantic and Tennessee

10)Sounds like dreidel, but I don’ know how to play.

11)A cicada

12)The First Kids’ Club

15)But you did survive the war, eh?

17)The primordial soup. Specificity eludes me.

19)Orestes?

20)Bullwinkle

21)No one can prove that four colors are the least you need on a map so that no adjacent countries are the same color. With the advent of computers, they can cop out and just run an assload of permutations.

23)Sitting on the water disappointing Howard Huges

27)An extremely long-winded borderline sociopath figuring prominently in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

39)Jaime, Sarah, and Adam (and sometimes Buddy)

48)“An IBM with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s.” (okay, that one I looked up)

49)Dennis the Menace

Pretty poor showing, now that I look at it. Alex Trebek would be ashamed.

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Dammit, forgot to include the Three Musketeers. Interestingly enough, the ads for the candy bar cut out poor Aramis. Their Three Musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and D’Artagnan.

And “Howard Huges”, of course, would be the porn star featured in the cult bestiality hit “The Loose Moose”. I meant Howard Hughes.

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With a little help from Grace…

  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. **

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

540 degrees.

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

Constipation

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

Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers were caused by nuclear waste in the sewer systems in NY (Bad, bad movie).

  1. 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?

In Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, you’d move, I guess.

  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.”

**Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) about Mister Stay-Puft in Ghostbusters. **

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

Tennessee Avenue and Atlantic Avenue.

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

inverse: If not A, then not B
converse: If B, then A
contrapositive: If not B, then not A

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

Gimel. The game of Dreidel is played by putting candy in a pile. Each child takes a turn spinning the dreidel. If it lands on Nun, they get nothing. If it lands on Shin, they have to add another piece of candy to the pile. If it lands on Hay, they can take half the candy in the pile, and with Gimmel, they take all of it.

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

The 17 year cicada (sometimes called locusts. Noisy dang bugs, too).

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

The “First Daughters Club” (they’re all daughters of the President of the United States).

  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.

You’re Judge Crater, who went missing on the way to see “Dancing Partner” in 1930.

  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.

**Pompeii is thought to have been settled before the sixth century B.C., when the first small farming settlement was founded there at the mouth of the River Sarnus (now called Sarno). In 62 A.D. the first great disaster hit Pompeii, a terrible earthquake. Although the city was left in rubble, the surviving citizens set about rebuilding and soon restored the city’s industrial and commercial activities, using the opportunity to expand as well. As the city was being rebuilt the second disaster struck.

Vesuvius, which for centuries had been considered extinct, suddenly returned to life on August 24, 79 AD, erupting with violence. Flames from the volcano soared high into the sky and an immense black cloud soon rose, blacking out the sun. Volcanic matter rained down on Pompeii, walls and roofs collapsed and ashes covered the village. At the end of three days, a layer of ash, rock, mud, and lava covered the area from Herculaneum to Stabiae at depths ranging from 15 - 20 feet.

Vesuvius remained active for many centuries, up until modern days, and while other cities were built and rebuilt, Pompeii remained buried for nearly 2,000 years.**

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

**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. The first motion of the bridge made several construction workers seasick and raised concern about the safety of the bridge, but on July 1 the bridge was opened for traffic. The up-down motion of the road soon reached ranges of three feet and drivers that crossed the bridge could see cars disappear and reappear as the wave passed through. The bridge became an attraction for tourists that were passing through the area, while others made a special effort to avoid it.

A Bouncing Betty is a conical three pronged mine that would jump about three feet in the air when triggered, and explode at waist level. **

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

They all served as President of the Screen Actors Guild.

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

Back in time. Tilobites are an extinct marine invertebrate animal that were abundant in Cambrian and Ordovician seas during the Cambrian period, around 700-500 million years ago. They became extinct in the Permian period.

  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?

**In Verdi’s opera, Aida, the King’s daugher, Amneris, ends her great aria with a pitiful, almost whispered prayer for the gods to have mercy on her. **

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

Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra

  1. Whose alma mater is Wassa Matta U?

**Bullwinkle. **

  1. What is the four color map problem?

**If you have a map, and you want to color all countries so they are easy to distinguish, you need, at most, 4 colors. In 1878 the mathematician Arthur Cayley presented the problem to the London Mathematical Society. Less than a year later Alfred Bray Kempe published a paper purporting to show that the conjecture is true. His argument was considered correct until 1890 when Percy John Heawood discovered a flaw. Work by many people continued and the conjecture was finally proved true in 1976 by Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken. **

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

She provides both oral and anal sex.

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

**The Captain Michael King Smith Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute in McMinnville, Oregon **

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

5 in 54

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

Yes, when you’re shooting skeet.

  1. Bruno may not have taken the baby, after all.

There is some speculation that Bruno Richard Hauptmann did not actually kidnap the Lindberg baby afterall.

  1. Who is John Galt?

John Galt is a mythical character in the novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.

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

You have to be a girl.

  1. To whom would SwimmingRiddles be enslaved if she could not control her craving for Three Musketeers?

M&M Mars (although at the moment she’s enslaved by Willy Wonka).

  1. By the way – name the three musketeers.

**Aramis, Athos & Porthos **

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

Flatland, by Edwin Abbott

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

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  1. His side-kick is Baba-Looey.

Quick Draw McGraw

  1. Although Chance Wayne, Amanda Wingfield, and Big Daddy nev
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OK, I guess it’s all over, but just in case, I’ll amend two of my answers.

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.
Because my motel would have been destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption.

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.
From the song “I Can’t Say No” (sung by Ado Annie) from “Oklahoma!”

Glad to see you’re continuing the challenges Bricker!

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I should have known you would use a Broadway munsical. doh

  1. You must be Ado Annie from “Oklahoma!” (And at least you don’t call the wind Moriah!)

The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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wait a minute…

When was Bricker challenge # 6? I don’t remember one. I remember these

Bricker Challenge #1
Bricker Challenge #2
Bricker Challenge #3
Bricker Challenge #4
Bricker Challenge #5

but no number 6.

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Well, Arnold gets the secret extra credit point! I was wondering how long that would take… sheesh!

Hold on a moment for scores.

  • Rick
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Scores so far:

dekayx: 3 1/3
KarmaComa: 8 1/6
BigDaddyD: 15 1/3
Lord Derfel: 17 5/6
Drain Bead: 1
Fillet: 2
ARG220:1
Fretful Portentine: 25
douglips: 45 5/6
Surgoshan: 12 1/2
Frankd6: 24 5/6
Trout Mask: 19
Spritus Mundi: 49
Lux Fiat: 13 1/2
Shayna (also starring Grace): 49 2/3
Arnold Winkelried: 50, plus the secret bonus point

Shayna… Shayna, Shayna. “Oh, won’t you tell her, that I love her.”

Arnold Winkelreid is the winner of Bricker Challenge #7! Congratulations! Having yet to supply your prize from BC#5, this will save me some shipping; now I’ll send two cases of beer your way. Sometimes procrastination pays off.

  • Rick
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At the risk of compromising the strict neutrality of the Bricker Challenge Judges’ Committee, I will say that some members thereof were contemplating a personal delivery of a case of fine import beer, a large container of Wesson oil, a Twister game, and some foldable paper, had Shayna been the winner.

Rats.

:slight_smile:

  • Rick
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Damn, I keep missing these things. May I make a suggestion? Perhaps you might post 24 hours in advance before the next Bricker challenge to let us know when it is coming? That way I can study up and be ready with my almanac.

Also, How many lifelines do we get?

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So it was ex-pfc Wintergreen? Damn.

I couldn’t find my copy so I hunted online and found:

Lousy psycholiterary book reviewer! I want my money back!

The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Party on Bricker! I’m down with that and eagerly expecting your arrival. I’ll let you know when my fiancée is out of town.

By the way, I don’t like to complain about the final scores (especially when I win), but why did you remove 1/3 from Shayna? Was it because of the answer to question 1? Let me tell you, from having met Shayna in person (eat your heart out!) I wouldn’t let a measly 1/3 point stand in your way of declaring her the winner and playing drunken oiled-down twister with her.

Thanks again for a great quiz, with cleverly worded questions! I was slowly working on an “imitation Bricker Challenge #3”, and maybe with this encouragement I’ll finish it next week. Of course, you realize I don’t really do the quizzes for the beer, but for the thrill of the hunt!

Time to add another notch to my sig.

Official winner of Bricker Challenge #5 and Bricker Challenge #7.
First Place Trophy in Shayna, chocolate and Grace’s Rock & Roll Jeopardy.
Voted Most Valuable Poster in “Comments on Cecil’s Columns” forum.

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Next on Fox: When Equal Opportunity Attacks.

:slight_smile:

It was, in fact, question one. The message you should deliver to the most beautiful girl in the world, according to Charlie Rich, who was on radios everywhere in the fall of ‘73 with it, was: "Tell her I’m sorry. Tell her I need her lovin’. Oh, won’t you tell her, that I love her."

Clearly each of these three are of equal importance, since a girl hearing only one and two might conclude that Charlie was simply trying to get some nookie. But with the magic of part three, she would undoubtedly instantly be won over and return to his arms, to share in the profits of a #1 song.

The allure of Shayna, Naked Twister and full-contact origami was difficult to give up, especially in light of the fact that a scant 1/3 of a point was all that kept me from potential Wesson-oil ecstasy, but since my girlfriend might have raised some objections to my travelling to LA for that particular purpose, perhaps it all worked out for the best.

I will, of course, give your tantilizing offer, Arnold, the attention it so richly deserves. :smiley:

  • Rick
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A fine plan. Next time, I’ll post a heads-up message before Challenge itself.

As for lifelines – please. This is the SDMB. Save your lifelines for lame Philbinesque uninformed pop-cultural-impaired learning-disabled bottom-feeders that wouldn’t remember to breathe if they weren’t reminded. We don’ need no steekin’ Treasure of the Sierra Madres. Or something like that.

  • Rick
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Actually, the REAL correct answer to question number 2 is “3 pi”.

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Trout Mask Replica wrote:

Alt+0186 is for an underlined degrees symbol. The “straight” degrees sign is Alt+0176.