# Scheherazade's Revenge
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 29, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049 "2000-09-29T19:42:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/1 "2000-09-29T19:42:54Z")
Since my feeble attempt at a humorous mock contest in my thousandth post, I’ve decided to go all out for my thousand-and-first post. This also neatly coincides with the date of my birthday, October 1st. And since Bricker has been so scarce, I’ve felt an absence of good positive-reinforcement trivia-for-booze exercises. So, I’ve combined them all, and without any further ado, I present to you, my esteemed Doper colleagues, the following contest.
Here are the rules.
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[li]1. Cheat all you want. I don’t really care. Steal other people’s answers, search the Net, read tea leaves, use divining rods, beat up the brainy kids, whatever.[/li][li]2. First set of correct answers posted to the thread win. Obviously, I’ll be using the date/time stamp on the boards. The contest will end at 9:00 PM CDT on October 3rd. If no one’s answered all the questions correctly at that point, whoever’s got the most right will win.[/li][li]3. There’s no accounting for taste. I thought up all these questions (or cribbed them from someone else), so if I don’t like it, I probably won’t ask about it. You want to ask questions about particle physics in _Star Trek_, you write your own list. Also, I tried to make them hard, because I think you guys can swing it and I hate weenie questions.[/li][li]4. Prizes will be set up in the following manner. I’m giving a few options, so take your pick. You can choose any of the following: a) alcohol-cost less than or equaling $10.01 (and I’m expecting all the under-21 Dopers to be good people and not try to get ol’ Flyp a nice Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor charge for his birthday); b) candy-cost less than or equaling $10.01; c) my sworn promise that I’ll buy you a horseshoe at the next Spiffled gathering, should you choose to attend-cost less than or equaling $10.01.[/li][li]5. My online schedule has pretty much reversed itself lately. Therefore, I’ll probably only be able to post scores and such in the evenings and weekends. Please don’t be impatient; I’ll post as soon as I can.[/li][li]6. One request-please don’t quote every question in your response. Just put the number before the answer, and I’ll take it from there.[/li][/ul]
The Questions
1. Name the Sweet Haven eatery where Cole and Castor Oyl chowed down their burgers.
2. Ralph, Ricky, Ronnie, Johnnie, Bobby, Michael. Name the group.
3. How did Brodie and Randal’s cousin Walter die?
4. If I add cyan, magenta, and yellow lights together, what color light will result?
5. What arcade game, a first of its kind, featured a nailbiting duel between Dirk the Daring and the Lizard King?
6. “Shave and a haircut…”. Complete the line.
7. King Philip Called On Fifty Good Soldiers is a mnemonic device used for remembering what?
8. Which Dr. Seuss character could’ve stocked a hatter’s shop all by himself?
9. Seymour and Audrey worked for this cantankerous florist on Skid Row.
10. Barbarian, Illusionist, Cavalier, Ranger, Magician, Acrobat. Name their Saturday morning archnemesis.
11. In the plural, an alternative band. In the singular, the freaky-ass neighbor who lived next door to Atticus, Jem, and Scout.
12. Chester, Harry, and Tucker all try to save a floundering New York newsstand in what children’s book?
13. If I’m heading west on the MLK Jr. Memorial Bridge, the Eads Bridge, or the Poplar St. Bridge, what city am I heading into?
14. Baravelli won’t let Professor Wagstaff in unless the Professor guesses the password. What was the password (and no, it isn’t Mary)?
15. Who was Eros’ lover, in Greek mythology?
16. 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights. Name the family who lived there.
17. Amelia Earhart’s last radio transmission was received by which US Coast Guard ship?
18. The bottleneck of Interstates 290, 294, and 88 is a dubious Chicago “landmark” known by what name?
19. The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company took the lives of how many people?
20. Rapper Tupac Shakur released his last album under a pseudonym, which proponents of the theory he faked his death use as evidence to support their claims. What was the name?
21. How many men comprised Eliot Ness’ Untouchables?
22. CU-SeeMe, software that allows video to be passed over IP, was developed at what university?
23. A friend tells me the Chicago Bears have beaten the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 21 to 1. I automatically know he’s a big fat liar. Why?
24. What was the one thing about living in Santa Carla that Grandpa never could stomach?
25. Toody and Muldoon were TV cops. What was the number of their squad car?
26. What was the score when Casey went to bat?
27. Chunk befriended which Fratelli brother?
28. In a famous photograph, a President-elect brandishes a copy of the _Chicago Tribune_ that incorrectly states he lost the election. What was the headline?
29. In a 4 player game of Hearts, what is the maximum total of points that can be given in a round?
30. Name the universities that comprise the Big Ten conference.
31. The Duke and the Dauphin harassed what river rat?
32. “No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater than” what, according to Azrael?
33. What’s the name for that little piece of skin that holds your tongue to the bottom of your mouth?
34. Name the beer-guzzling Canadian brothers who hosted _The Great White North_.
35. We all know Achilles’ heel was his downfall. It’s where his mother held him when she dipped him into what?
36. Eighty-eight lines. How many women?
37. Jonathan Winters, Peter Falk, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Ethel Merman, Buddy Hackett, and Spencer Tracy all looked for Smiler Grogan’s money in _It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_. How much had Grogan stashed?
38. One more from the Greeks-the seeds of what fruit are responsible for winter?
39. Who killed Billy Carl Hanson in Mercer House?
40. What 2-digit number is used to signify the end of wire reports and news copy?
41. According to the Barenaked Ladies, if I had a million dollars, what’s the last thing I’d buy you? Haven’t you always wanted one?
42. The Flash’s enemies were known collectively by what two-word phrase?
43. Name the date Marty McFly went back to 1985.
44. What is the study of caves called?
45. Name the youngest Van Pelt in the _Peanuts_ comic strip.
46. What M_A_S_H_ unit were Hawkeye Pierce and Col. Henry Blake assigned to?
47. According to the Shirk Brothers, how long was it supposed to take to finish the Money Pit?
48. Area = the square root of s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c) is better known as what?
49. The fear of doctors is known as what?
50. The Manciple, the Summoner, the Yeoman, the Knight and the Wife of Bath are all characters in what uncompleted work?
Well, that’s it, folks. Good luck.
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/2 "2000-09-29T19:43:57Z")
Stupid archiving.
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/3 "2000-09-29T19:45:00Z")
Hey, lookout! It’s my thousandth post! AGAIN!
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/4 "2000-09-29T19:46:02Z")
And now it all makes sense again.
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### Author:  [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/5 "2000-09-29T19:55:51Z")
1. being raised a Christian Scientist
(I can’t believe I said that.)
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/6 "2000-09-29T19:57:38Z")
1. “…all the damn vampires.”
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/7 "2000-09-29T19:58:45Z")
1. Swordfish
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/8 "2000-09-29T20:03:17Z")
1. White
2. Two Bits
3. Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
4. Barbarian, Illusionist, Cavalier, Ranger, Magician, Acrobat. Name their Saturday morning archnemesis.
5. Boo Radley(s)
6. The Munsters
7. 54
8. Dewey defeats Truman
9. The River Styx
10. Forty-four
11. Rerun
12. 4077
13. iatrophobia
14. The Canterbury Tales?
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/9 "2000-09-29T20:06:16Z")
1. Venger
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### Author:  [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/10 "2000-09-29T20:08:16Z")
I got the easy ones, I’ll let the smart people figger out the rest.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/11 "2000-09-29T20:22:20Z")
a lot of these are guesses
4 white
6 two bits
8 Bartholomew cubbins?
9 Mr. Mushnik
10 Zoltar?
16 The munsters
21 4?
22 Indiana?
23 no way to score one point
25 54
27 Sloth?
28 dewey beats Truman?
29 26?
30 Michigan, Michigan state,Ohios State,North Western, Penn State,Minnesota, Wisconsion, Illinois, Indiana,Purdue,Iowa
3bob and doug McKenzie
35 the River Styx
36 44
38 Pomegranite
43 november 15
44 Spelology??
45 rerun
46 4077
47 Two weeks
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### Author:  [@Mauve\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauve_Dog)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/12 "2000-09-29T20:37:15Z")
1. New Edition
2. Dragon’s Lair
3. Psyche
4. 146
5. Pomegranate
6. Speleology
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### Author:  [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/13 "2000-09-29T20:56:01Z")
12). A Cricket in Times Square
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/14 "2000-09-29T21:10:25Z")
Whoohoo! I love trivia!
As I’m too lazy to look at anyone else’s answers or do research, this is off the top of my head.
1. White.
2. Two bits.
3. Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
4. Bartholomew Cubbins.
5. Boo Radley.
6. _The Cricket in Times Square_
7. Psyche.
8. Because you can’t score 1 point in football. (Heh, even I know that…)
9. 54?
10. DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN
11. 78
12. Huck Finn
13. CRAP! I know this. It’ll come to me…
14. The Styx.
15. Pomegranate.
16. A monkey?
17. Spelology?
18. Rerun.
19. _The Canterbury Tales_.
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### Author:  [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/15 "2000-09-29T21:19:05Z")
1. New Edition
2. Dragon’s Lair
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### Author:  [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/16 "2000-09-29T21:37:07Z")
1. Makaveli (The album was “The Don Killuminati - The 7 Day Theory”)
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/17 "2000-09-29T21:47:07Z")
I suppose I have no chance of actually winning here, but it’s fun.
1)I have no idea.
2)New Edition
3)He broke his neck trying to perform auto-fellatio.
4)white
5)Dragon’s Lair. It was an animated game.
6)"…two bits."
7)Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
8)The Cat in the Hat
9)Mushnik
10)Tiamat, the chromatic dragon
11)Boo Radleys
12)“The Cricket in Times Square”
13)St. Louis, Missouri
14)“swordfish”
15)Psyche
16)The Munsters
17)The Itasca
18)ummm…the Eisenhower Expressway? Don’t really know any other name…
19)146
20)Makaveli
21)10
22)Cornell University
23)There’s no way to score one lone point in football. You can only score one point after a touchdow. Besides that, the Bears beat the Viks? Pshyeah right. 🙂
24)“all the damn vampires.”
25)Car 54
26)4 to 2
27)Sloth
28)“Dewey Defeats Truman!”
29)16, I think
30) Indiana University, University of Michigan, University of Iowa, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Pennsylvania State University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois
31)Beats me 🙂
32)central air
33)?
34)The MacKenzies
35)The River Styx
36)44
37)$350,000
38)pomegranate seeds. more specifically, from the tree in Hades.
39)Jim Williams
40)?
41)a monkey
42)?
43)October 26, 1985
44)speleology
45)Rerun
46)the 4077th
47)I have no idea
48)Heron’s Formula
49)iatrophobia
50)The Canterbury Tales
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/18 "2000-09-29T21:53:15Z")
I just realized what a sad, nerdy case I am. 🙂
I loooove trivia.
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### Author:  [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/19 "2000-09-29T21:54:56Z")
> [@](#):
>
> 1. A friend tells me the Chicago Bears have beaten the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 21 to 1. I automatically know he’s a big fat liar. Why?
Hate to be picky, but are you sure about that?
Before the two point conversion in the NFL, couldn’t a team screw up the extra point and have it run back on them, resulting in a single point for the other team?
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### Author:  [@Mauve\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauve_Dog)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/20 "2000-09-29T22:49:43Z")
1. I know this is a Popeye reference, but other than that, I have no idea…
2. The lingual frenulum
3. “The Rogues”
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