# Bricker Challenge (Lite Edition #1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 29, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809 "2005-07-29T21:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/1 "2005-07-29T21:05:56Z")
No prizes here. Inspired by the “identify this” trivia thread… how many of these words/phrases/people do you recognize? 1. a perfect fifth 2. a pride 3. A.S.P.C.A. 4. Absolut 5. ACLU 6. Adonai 7. AIDS 8. albeit 9. Alexander Schneider 10. Allen Greenspan 11. Allen Stewart Konigsberg 12. Allen Turing 13. Alvin Ailey 14. American Gothic 15. ampere 16. Amway 17. angel dust 18. annuit cìptis 19. apartheid 20. apteryx 21. AT&SF 22. Austerlitz 23. autobahn 24. Avia 25. Axel Foley 26. Baby M 27. baud 28. Bausch & Lomb 29. BBC 30. Beany & Cecil 31. bebop 32. Ben & Jerry 33. Bernhard Hugo Goetz 34. big bang theory 35. bisque 36. Bix Beiderbecke 37. Bloomingdale’s 38. Bob Denver 39. Bob Marley 40. bogey 41. Bols 42. Brat Pack 43. brie 44. Brown vs. Board of Education 45. Buddy Holly 46. Bugs Bunny 47. Busby Berkely 48. Buzz Aldrin 49. camcorder 50. Captain Mark Phillips 51. caveat emptor 52. centrifugal force 53. Chambord 54. Chanukkah 55. Charles Dickens 56. Childe Harold 57. CHiPs 58. chord 59. Clive Barker 60. Clyfford Still 61. coracle 62. Corazon Aquino 63. Cornwallis 64. Corvette 65. couch potato 66. CPR 67. Creme brulee 68. Cream 69. croissant 70. CRT 71. De Kuyper 72. Dec. 7, 1941 73. difference between a minor third and a major third 74. Dolph Lundgren 75. Dom Perignom 76. Donald Trump 77. Donna Rice 78. Donner party 79. Dred Scott decision 80. duvet 81. Ed Koch 82. Ed White 83. Eddie Haskell 84. Edict of Nantes 85. Edvard Munch 86. Ellis Island 87. emeritus 88. empanada 89. Empress of the Blues 90. en 91. Epcot Center 92. ERA 93. Eric Stanley Gardner 94. Erik Satie 95. Fawn Hall 96. fellatio 97. femur 98. feta 99. Fire Island 100. Francis Scott Key ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/2 "2005-07-29T21:14:00Z")
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**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/3 "2005-07-29T21:19:30Z")
I don’t know what the following are: 1. Adonai 2. Alexander Schneider 3. annuit cìptis 4. apteryx 5. AT&SF 6. Avia 7. Beany & Cecil 8. Bix Beiderbecke 9. Bols A couple sound familiar but I can’t place them. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/4 "2005-07-29T21:21:35Z")
If 93. is supposed to be Erle Stanley Gardner, 85. Otherwise, 84. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/5 "2005-07-29T21:23:34Z")
75, off the top of my head. That’s not counting the ones that I’ve heard of, but wouldn’t be able to explain without some research. Most are familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/6 "2005-07-29T21:26:16Z")
86% > [@missbunny](#): > > 1. apteryx As every _B.C._ reader knows, it’s a wingless bird with hairy feathers. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/7 "2005-07-29T21:30:44Z")
76 Though some of my familiarity was limited to things like That’s some old English dude. Do you mean the car or the ship class? ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/8 "2005-07-29T21:35:24Z")
Well if it’s just “the word is not completely alien to you,” then I’d have to remove six from my list of “don’t knows” - they sound familiar but I couldn’t write a paragraph of description on what they are. Otherwise you guys are making me feel embarrassingly uninformed. What’s B.C.? Is that the comic strip? (Add that to my ??? list.) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/9 "2005-07-29T21:36:43Z")
I know about 75 of them, give or take a few. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/10 "2005-07-29T21:37:24Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > What’s B.C.? Is that the comic strip? That’s the one. The apteryx would make an occasional appearance, always introducing himself with an explaination of what an apteryx was. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/11 "2005-07-29T22:29:07Z")
87, believe it or not, though a few were more like educated guesses than certain knowledge. Scale it back to 80 or so, if certainty is the criteria. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/12 "2005-07-29T22:34:30Z")
79 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/13 "2005-07-29T22:37:48Z")
78, but I had to double check on annuit cìptis. I seem to remember it being spelled annuit coptis. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/14 "2005-07-29T22:46:43Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > If 93. is supposed to be Erle Stanley Gardner, 85. Otherwise, 84. > > –Cliffy 92 if it’s Erle. otherwise 91. I feel guilty that I saw “American Gothic” and thought “TV show” first, then had my :smack: moment and went “Oh, and that painting.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/15 "2005-07-29T22:52:48Z")
It’s easier to leave the ones I don’t recognize: 1. a perfect fifth 2. Alexander Schneider 3. Allen Stewart Konigsberg 4. annuit cìptis 5. AT&SF 6. Beany & Cecil 7. Clyfford Still 8. difference between a minor third and a major third 9. empanada 10. Erik Satie ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/16 "2005-07-29T23:14:14Z")
The ones I don’t recognize: 1. a perfect fifth 2. Alexander Schneider 3. Allen Turing 4. Alvin Ailey 5. annuit cìptis 6. apteryx 7. Beany & Cecil 8. Bix Beiderbecke 9. Busby Berkely 10. Captain Mark Phillips 11. Chambord 12. Childe Harold 13. Clyfford Still 14. coracle 15. De Kuyper 16. difference between a minor third and a major third 17. Ed White 18. Edict of Nantes 19. Erik Satie 20. Fawn Hall So I don’t recognize 20 out of 100 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/17 "2005-07-29T23:49:24Z")
1. Do I still get to keep my membership? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/18 "2005-07-29T23:56:05Z")
Honestly, - my score is 87. You know what that means? I seriously should get out a LOT more !!! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/19 "2005-07-30T00:01:53Z")
And if we are going to correct Bricker’s list, I believe the proper spelling is **Annuit Cœptis** ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/20 "2005-07-30T00:21:07Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > 1. Allen Greenspan > 2. Allen Turing I have no clue who these people are. Now, **Alan** Greenspan and **Alan** Turing I’m familiar with… With the aforementioned corrections, I think I could identify all but 18 (i.e. 82) of them (and at least a couple of those rang bells). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809.md?page=2)