# Gadarene's Online Scavenger Hunt -- main thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052 "2006-01-29T05:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/41 "2006-01-30T02:32:07Z")
Or how about: **7) What was Tom Servo’s nom de usenet?** “The Mad Newgrouper”. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/42 "2006-01-30T02:54:52Z")
> [@Sofis](#): > > **2) If I’m a hound and I see three lines, each above the other, extending in the same direction and not meeting, what should I do?** > > Try to remember what colour each line was, use that knowledge to figure out the colour of the bottles in front of the lines, and then pick the bottle with the antidote. > (Or you could save your game and try the bottles one by one.) Holy crap, somebody else played that game? ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/43 "2006-01-30T02:57:32Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > Scavenger Hunt Questions > > 1. Y sus números de teléfono fueron expuestos también. Demuéstreme. (15 points) > Good luck! I have a question about this one. when it is translated it reads “And their telephone numbers were exposed too (as well). Show me” Is this an idiom that can’t be translated? I also checked with a spanish teacher and she couldn’t translate it so it made sense either. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/44 "2006-01-30T03:24:10Z")
**36) Who outed Dick Pole?** Tony Muser? * * * > [@Zsofia](#): > > Holy crap, somebody else played that game? I encountered it a few years back, while going through a play-lots-of-old-games phase (Home of the Underdogs rocks). I’d read the novels, and thought it might be interesting. Great game, though that particular puzzle didn’t work very well. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/45 "2006-01-30T03:45:15Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > Scavenger Hunt Questions > > 1. Get me a pinpoint cite for Ludacris. (5 points) > > Good luck! US v Darron Murphy and Jennifer Baker, 2005 IL, Footnote 1, no 03 CR 30137 [http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/PZ1A1I12.pdf](http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/PZ1A1I12.pdf) I don’t know if I have the cite quite right since I am not a legal beagle. I am hoping this is close enough. adhemar ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/46 "2006-01-30T03:55:43Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Holy crap, somebody else played that game? I was going to reply with the same thing. XD I actually have that game sitting under ‘D’ in my wallet of game CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/47 "2006-01-30T04:17:49Z")
**12) How many triple haws in Ivan the Terrible?** [Three.](http://www.angelfire.com/on/3angels/ivan.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/48 "2006-01-30T04:26:16Z")
Lotsa stuff here. Awesome. **Mgcklmoon:** > [@](#): > > 1. making a joke Tip #216 You’re referring to the following quote: > [@](#): > > RATMM Tip #216 - Making a joke 4 times is at least 3 times too many. Not a bad answer. It doesn’t quite fit the question, though, as it states that making a joke more than once is discouraged, rather than saying four times that it’s prohibited. In any case, it’s moot, since **Hal Briston** answered this one correctly back in post #4. Until someone gives the correct answer to a question, I’ll decide case-by-case whether to give partial points to someone who’s substantially answered the question asked in a way different than I envisioned. But once the question’s been correctly answered, I think it should be closed. If all that makes sense. More next post. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/49 "2006-01-30T04:29:37Z")
**astorian:** > [@](#): > > I’m pretty sure I don’t believe this guy, but… > > 1. [http://ladybunny.net/blog/2005/05/i...n-ass-hard.html](http://ladybunny.net/blog/2005/05/i...n-ass-hard.html) Oh, wow. That’s disturbing on several levels. 10 points for you, and 20 total. _shudder_ And don’t ever mention that website again. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/50 "2006-01-30T04:46:30Z")
**Sofis:** > [@](#): > > _2) If I’m a hound and I see three lines, each above the other, extending in the same direction and not meeting, what should I do?_ > > Try to remember what colour each line was, use that knowledge to figure out the colour of the bottles in front of the lines, and then pick the bottle with the antidote. > (Or you could save your game and try the bottles one by one.) All right, given that you, **Zsofia** , and **Little Plastic Ninja** all had the same reaction to this question, I’m definitely awarding you 10 points for it. But the intended answer is still up for grabs, if people want to take a shot, 'cause that wasn’t what I had in mind. What game are y’all talking about? > [@](#): > > _6) How many air-handling systems operated independently in Duke University’s Perkins Library as of November 22, 1995? Show your work._ > > Nine. Indeed! And though I was around Perkins back then, I never counted them personally. 10 more points, 20 total. > [@](#): > > _39) What’s one reason [Portland Trailblazers] guard Steve Blake likes Johnny Rockets so much?_ > > The upbeat atmosphere. Yeah. 🙂 I’ll admit I should’ve rechecked this question before including it. It was on the first online scavenger hunt I put together, and back then the webpage you linked to wasn’t around and Steve Blake’s original page had expired, so the only way you could access the essay was by going to [The Wayback Machine](http://www.archive.org/) or some other Internet archive. So the question is a fair bit easier now than it was then, as your link was the third one to come up when I googled “Steve Blake” “Johnny Rockets”. But that’s not your problem. 10 points, 30 total. > [@](#): > > _12) How many triple haws in Ivan the Terrible?_ > > Three. Nicely done! My friends didn’t even attempt an answer to this question. Of course, it was inspired by the Dope, without which I wouldn’t know who Jack Chick is, so I’d expect y’all to be more on the ball 'round here. Another 10 points, for 40 total. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/51 "2006-01-30T04:46:54Z")
**27) I go from Oakland to New York to Oakland to Toronto to Oakland to San Diego to Anaheim to Oakland to New York to Seattle to San Diego to Boston to Los Angeles. You go from Oakland to New York to Toronto to Seattle to Baltimore to Los Angeles to Chicago to St. Louis to Cincinnati to Minneapolis to Chicago to Arlington to Phoenix. We meet in Oakland in 1979. Who are we?** Rickey Henderson and Mike Morgan (and that took some googlin’!). ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/52 "2006-01-30T05:02:29Z")
**adhemar:** > [@](#): > > 1. Make me a NATO-member tracklist, one band for each country. (10 points) Excellent job. FannyPack? 🙂 10 more points, 20 total. > [@](#): > > _32) He of Trent’s Last: antonomasia for an eponym. Do what he did for the celebrity of your choice. (10 points)_ > > “You’re fired” says Mr. Trump > til my head’s starting to thump. > The promoter of those shows, > has truly sunk to new lows. Your meter could use some work. 😃 But yes, that’s right. The question was asking for a personally-penned [clerihew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew), a verse form named after the man who invented it, mystery writer E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley. I think technically the first line’s supposed to consist almost solely of someone’s full name, so if someone else wants to have a whack at it, I’ll give 5 points for the first poster to do so. But you earn 10, and now have 30. > [@](#): > > _7) What was Tom Servo’s nom de usenet? (10 points)_ > > Tskwm: > Tom Servo Kevin Wagner Murphy; the voice behind and operator of our beloved Tom Servo. Good ol’ tskwm. I used to be a regular on alt.tv.mst3k, rec.arts.tv.mst3k, and rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc back in 1994 and 1995, and the excitement was palpable whenever he posted. Kinda like Cecil here, in fact. 10 points for 40 total. > [@](#): > > _4) Get me a pinpoint cite for Ludacris. (5 points)_ > > US v Darron Murphy and Jennifer Baker, 2005 IL, Footnote 1, no 03 CR 30137 > > [http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/PZ1A1I12.pdf](http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/PZ1A1I12.pdf) > > I don’t know if I have the cite quite right since I am not a legal beagle. I am hoping this is close enough. Hmm. This is only a 5 point question, so I’ll say this: the source is (of course) correct, but the cite isn’t a proper pinpoint citation. And because I think Google gives you enough information about what a pinpoint citation is to be able to fashion one together even if you’re a non-lawyer, I’m gonna rule this question incompletely answered. You get a shot at putting the proper citation together and posting it, and if your attempt falls a little short I’ll throw it open to everyone. If that seems fair. Also: Your translation of #41 is exactly correct. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/53 "2006-01-30T05:06:38Z")
**Sofis:** > [@](#): > > _36) Who outed Dick Pole?_ > > Tony Muser? Unless there’s a sense in which “outing” means “to hit someone in the face with a line drive and break their cheekbone,” I’m gonna say no. 🙂 However, your answer for #27 is exactly right and fairly self-explanatory: > [@](#): > > _27) I go from Oakland to New York to Oakland to Toronto to Oakland to San Diego to Anaheim to Oakland to New York to Seattle to San Diego to Boston to Los Angeles. You go from Oakland to New York to Toronto to Seattle to Baltimore to Los Angeles to Chicago to St. Louis to Cincinnati to Minneapolis to Chicago to Arlington to Phoenix. We meet in Oakland in 1979. Who are we?_ > > Rickey Henderson and Mike Morgan (and that took some googlin’!). Which gives you 10 more points, for 50 total and, at present, the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/54 "2006-01-30T05:07:20Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > **Sofis:** > > All right, given that you, **Zsofia** , and **Little Plastic Ninja** all had the same reaction to this question, I’m definitely awarding you 10 points for it. But the intended answer is still up for grabs, if people want to take a shot, 'cause that wasn’t what I had in mind. What game are y’all talking about? [Death Gate](http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=286). I quite liked it and played it before I ever read the books. I always liked Legend’s games – based on book series for the most part but usually they were rather faithful adaptations. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/55 "2006-01-30T05:09:27Z")
**Hal Briston:** > [@](#): > > _11) For any N (N being a number), who’s greater than N? (10 points)_ > > Far too obvious to be correct (especially in light of the the word “who’s”), but: N+1 > > Hmm…as I look at my answer in preview, the lateral thinking begins. Instead of N+1, we could look at as N and 1. And if we lateral think that over to Espanol, we get: Who’s greater than N? N y 1! 🙂 Ha! That’s really, really nice. Of course, in Spanish it would be en-ay y uno, which doesn’t quite have the same wonderful wordplay. You were right that the word “who’s” is important. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/56 "2006-01-30T05:12:59Z")
**Hal Briston:** Hell, 5 points for the “N y 1” answer. That was clever enough to be rewarded. You’ve got 30 total. **Little Plastic Ninja:** Interesting. And your character in the game is a hound? ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/57 "2006-01-30T05:15:11Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > All right, given that you, **Zsofia** , and **Little Plastic Ninja** all had the same reaction to this question, I’m definitely awarding you 10 points for it. But the intended answer is still up for grabs, if people want to take a shot, 'cause that wasn’t what I had in mind. What game are y’all talking about? An adventure game called Death Gate. At one point in the game, one gets poisoned. One is told that there’s an antidote in a nearby room, in a red bottle (I think red, a specific colour at any rate). Unfortunately, you’re chained to a wall. However, your loyal dog is nearby, and you’ve learned a spell allowing you to possess someones body. So you possess the dog, and go to the room with the antidote. Problem: there are several bottles here, and dogs are colourblind. The solution lies in there being three parallel lines running along the wall behind the bottles: one red, one green, one blue. By seeing which lines are visible through each bottle, you can figure out which is the red one. If you remember the colours of the lines, which I didn’t. Or at least, that’s how I remembered it. Looking through some walkthroughs just now I find an implication the antidote was in a clear bottle, which would make the puzzle actually work (since you wouldn’t need to remember the colours of the lines - the clear bottle would be the only one you could see all three lines through). I’ll admit, though, that I suspected you weren’t looking for that answer, since the phrasing was so mystifying. > [@](#): > > Unless there’s a sense in which “outing” means “to hit someone in the face with a line drive and break their cheekbone,” I’m gonna say no. 🙂 Well, I figured he was probably down and out after that. It was worth a try :). ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/58 "2006-01-30T05:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Gadarene] **adhemar:** Your meter could use some work. 😃 But yes, that’s right. The question was asking for a personally-penned [clerihew](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerihew), a verse form named after the man who invented it, mystery writer E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley. I think technically the first line’s supposed to consist almost solely of someone’s full name, so if someone else wants to have a whack at it, I’ll give 5 points for the first poster to do so. But you earn 10, and now have 30. citing examples of Bently’s work: ## The people of Spain think Cervantes Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes; An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy. ## The meaning of the poet Gay Was always as clear as day, While that of the poet Blake Was often practically opaque. I doubt if King John Was a sine qua non. I could rather imagine it Of any other Plantagenet. ---
**Author:** ![Sofis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/59 "2006-01-30T05:34:20Z")
**11) For any N (N being a number), who’s greater than N?** So, how about Pius Ncube? ---
**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:** [January 30, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052/60 "2006-01-30T06:06:20Z")
> [@Gadarene](#): > > 1. If a stop sign has six, how many does a slow sign have? (5 points) Since it’s only a five-point question, the amount of lateral thinking used here means this _can’t_ be right, but what the hey: **Three**. A stop sign has six possible anagrams: stop, tops, post, opts, spot and pots. A slow sign has three possible anagrams: slow, lows and owls. Of course, the whole thing falls apart if you don’t consider the original word as one of the anagrams, which I was forced to do in this case. Gaa…it’s too damn late at night for me to be trying to figure these out…🙂 And now that I’ve just glanced at a pic of a stop sign again, another ridiculous answer jumped out at me: **Eight**. The word “STOP” would be written with six strokes of a pen – one each for “S” and “O”, two each for “T” and “P”. The world “SLOW” would take eight – one each for “S” and “O”, two for “L”, and four for “W”. Damn, that’s a couple of silly answers… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gadarenes-online-scavenger-hunt-main-thread/342052.md?page=4)