# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/21 "2005-07-30T01:29:29Z")
What’s “fellatio?” just kidding, really ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/22 "2005-07-30T01:32:48Z")
All but these: 1. Alexander Schneider 2. Allen Stewart Konigsberg 3. annuit cìptis 4. AT&SF 5. Beany & Cecil 6. Bix Beiderbecke 7. Bols 8. Busby Berkely 9. Childe Harold 10. Clyfford Still 11. coracle 12. Ed White 13. Eric Stanley Gardner (unless it’s Erle) 14. Erik Satie So I get an 86 or 87. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/23 "2005-07-30T01:37:56Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/24 "2005-07-30T01:41:08Z")
What I’m missing: > [@Bricker](#): > > 1. Alexander Schneider > 2. Allen Stewart Konigsberg > 3. Alvin Ailey > 4. apteryx > 5. AT&SF > 6. autobahn > 7. Avia > 8. Axel Foley > 9. Baby M > 10. Beany & Cecil > 11. Bernhard Hugo Goetz > 12. big bang theory > 13. Bols > 14. Busby Berkely > 15. Captain Mark Phillips > 16. Chambord > 17. Clyfford Still > 18. Corazon Aquino > 19. Ed White > 20. empanada > 21. Empress of the Blues > 22. en > 23. Eric Stanley Gardner > 24. Erik Satie > 25. Fawn Hall > 26. Fire Island So 74/100. That’s not bad, right? Right? ---
**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, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/25 "2005-07-30T02:36:25Z")
**ultrafilter** Since you asked, that’s a _really_ good score ! It’s a good thing you done Anthony … a really good thing !! ---
**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 30, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/26 "2005-07-30T08:50:26Z")
95/100 😛 ---
**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 30, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/27 "2005-07-30T08:52:25Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > 95/100 😛 Am googling the rest… ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/28 "2005-07-30T10:22:53Z")
93 if it’s Erle, otherwise 92. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/29 "2005-07-30T11:38:29Z")
Not really intended to be Google-foolin’, but correcting the mispellings is part of the fun. Are we ready for the next 100? ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/30 "2005-07-30T16:34:29Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Are we ready for the next 100? Oh, yes, please!!! (i missed 10) ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/31 "2005-07-30T18:09:28Z")
> [@missbunny](#): > > 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. I just realized that when people said a number in their post - like “78” - it meant that they recognized 78. I originally thought that meant that #78 was the ONLY one they didn’t recognize. So my “score” is really either 91 or 97. So I am not as uninformed as I feared I was. (I was baffled that people would not have any idea whatsoever who Donald Trump was!) ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/32 "2005-07-30T18:15:33Z")
64/100. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/33 "2005-07-30T18:47:12Z")
**ultrafilter** - The big bang theory? Really? I’m kind of shocked that no one knows what “Beany & Cecil” is. Obviously I grew up in a way too tv-obsessed household with parents of the correct age. I’m not going to post my score ☹ I didn’t count “items I had heard of but couldn’t use in a sentence” so my score is embarassing lower than everyone else’s. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/34 "2005-07-30T20:19:46Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > **ultrafilter** - The big bang theory? Really? Oops. Make that 75. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/35 "2005-07-30T23:42:29Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Oops. Make that 75. Wow…looks like my golden idol has feet of clay… I am so very, very disillusioned. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/36 "2005-07-31T00:33:12Z")
1. Frank Herbert 2. Frederick Law Olmstead 3. Free Silver 4. Freixenet 5. gaggle 6. Gandalf 7. Gary Hart 8. Gary Larson 9. Gelsey Kirkland 10. George Moscone 11. George Smiley 12. George Steinbrenner 13. Gerry Cooney 14. glasnost 15. gnocchi 16. Golda Meir 17. Gorilla Monsoon 18. Grammy 19. Greek god of the sea 20. H-R diagram 21. Harriet Beecher Stowe 22. Heironymus Bosch 23. Heritage USA 24. HMS Beagle 25. HMS Bounty 26. Holden Caulfield 27. I Like Ike 28. igneous rock 29. in lieu of 30. Inherit The Wind 31. Islas Malvinas 32. Jack Ruby 33. jambalaya 34. James Caan 35. James Thurber 36. Jean Valjean 37. jeroboam 38. Jessica Hahn 39. jetsam 40. jihad 41. Joe Montana 42. John Hinckley, Jr. 43. John Lee Hooker 44. John Milton 45. John Philip Sousa 46. John von Neuman 47. Jonah Jameson 48. Jonas Salk 49. Jonestown massacre 50. Jules Maigret 51. juniper berry 52. Jurassic 53. Kama Sutra 54. Karol Wojtyla 55. kerning 56. Kim Philby 57. Kinescope 58. King of Swing 59. Klemens Metternich 60. kugel 61. L. L. Bean 62. Le Nozze Di Figaro 63. Lee Harvey Oswald 64. Leon Uris 65. Leonard Bernstein 66. Les Paul 67. Levi’s 68. Lex Luthor 69. lo mein 70. mach 1 71. Magna Carta 72. Marcel Duchamp 73. Marla Maples 74. Marlee Matlin 75. Mary Baker Eddy 76. Mary Kay 77. Max Headroom 78. Mecca 79. Meese Commission 80. Michael J. Fox 81. Mike Ditka 82. Mimosa 83. Moet & Chandon 84. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 85. molarity 86. Molokai 87. Molson 88. Moshe Dyan 89. Motobecane 90. Moussaka 91. Movado 92. Mr. Ed 93. Mr. Television 94. mulch 95. mumblety-peg 96. Myrna Loy 97. nadir 98. Nathan Birnbaum 99. NCC-1701 100. near beer ---
**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 31, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/37 "2005-07-31T01:52:21Z")
I did a lot better on this one: 92% The ones I missed: 1. Gelsey Kirkland 2. gnocchi 3. Islas Malvinas 4. Kim Philby 5. kugel 6. Mary Baker Eddy 7. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 8. Motobecane ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/38 "2005-07-31T02:11:29Z")
wow more on this list I don’t think I know. 103. Free Silver (is this a new age supplement) 109. Gelsey Kirkland, 110. George Moscone 111. George Smiley 113. Gerry Cooney (was he the boxer) 117. Gorilla Monsoon 120. H-R diagram 131. Islas Malvinas 143. John Lee Hooker (there was a politician here named John Jay Hooker, prob not the same) 146. John von Neuman 147. Jonah Jameson 150. Jules Maigret (french cartoonist? artist? author?) 155. kerning 159. Klemens Metternich 172. Marcel Duchamp 185. molarity 191. Movado 186. Molokai 189. Motobecane 193. Mr. Television 198. Nathan Birnbaum who are all these people ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/39 "2005-07-31T02:26:14Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > 1. Frank Herbert > 2. Frederick Law Olmstead > 3. Freixenet > 4. gaggle > 5. Gelsey Kirkland > 6. George Moscone > 7. George Smiley > 8. Gerry Cooney > 9. Gorilla Monsoon > 10. Heritage USA > 11. Islas Malvinas > 12. Jessica Hahn > 13. Jules Maigret > 14. kerning > 15. Kim Philby > 16. Klemens Metternich > 17. Leon Uris > 18. Marcel Duchamp > 19. Marlee Matlin > 20. Mary Baker Eddy > 21. Meese Commission > 22. Moet & Chandon > 23. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi > 24. Moshe Dyan > 25. Motobecane > 26. Moussaka > 27. Movado > 28. Myrna Loy > 29. Nathan Birnbaum 71/100 this time. There are so many that I recognize but can’t quite place. btw, it’s John von Neumann. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809/40 "2005-07-31T05:09:24Z")
90/100. Don’t recognize 1. a perfect fifth 2. Alexander Schneider 3. Allen Stewart Konigsberg 4. Alvin Ailey 5. annuit cìptis 6. Baby M 7. Bernhard Hugo Goetz (I feel I should recognize this one) 8. Clyfford Still 9. Empress of the Blues 10. Erik Satie 88/100. Don’t recognize 1. Frederick Law Olmstead 2. Freixenet 3. Gelsey Kirkland 4. George Moscone 5. Gerry Cooney 6. Gorilla Monsoon 7. Heritage USA 8. Jonah Jameson 9. Marcel Duchamp 10. Marlee Matlin 11. Motobecane 12. Movado [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-challenge-lite-edition-1/314809.md?page=3)