# 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
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/21 "2000-09-29T23:04:47Z")
we share the same b’day!
I’ll be 28,704 weeks old on Sunday.
Happy day to you.
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### Author:  [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/22 "2000-09-30T01:07:25Z")
1. The Hillside Strangler
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/23 "2000-09-30T05:08:57Z")
Here’s the scores so far
Ogre-38 (and one of my answers may be disputed-I’m checking it out, and you may have 39)
Fretful-19
wolfman-18
Gr8kat-14
Mauve Dog-7
headshok-2
starbury-2
Cheap-2
xizor-1
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/24 "2000-09-30T05:20:08Z")
It appears I worded a question rather poorly, so I’m rewording it:
1. Eliot Ness chose how many men to aid him as his squad of “Untouchables”?
Ogre, your count stands at 38.
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/25 "2000-09-30T06:23:55Z")
Okay. Here’s my attempt. (Yay, Google! Yay, blatant theft!)
1. Rough-House Cafe
2. New Edition (cursed be their names)
3. He broke his neck attempting to fellate himself
4. White
5. Dragon’s Lair
6. …two bits.
7. Linnaean (sp?) taxonomy
8. Bartholomew Cubbins
9. Mr. Mushnik
10. Venger (though Tiamat sprang to mind first)
11. Boo Radley
12. The Cricket in Times Square
13. St. Louis
14. Swordfish
15. Psyche
16. The Munsters
17. The Itasca
18. The Hillside Strangler
19. 146
20. Makavelli
21. Nine
22. Cornell
23. The only way to score a single point is by kicking the point-after following a touchdown.
24. All the damn vampires
25. 54
26. Four to two
27. Sloth
28. Dewey Defeats Truman
29. I’m unsure of this one: 16, if you count all four cards
30. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
31. Huck Finn
32. Central air
33. Lingual frenulum
34. Bob and Doug McKenzie
35. The River Styx
36. 44
37. $350,000
38. Pomegranate
39. Jim Williams
40. 30 (this one took me the longest)
41. A monkey
42. Rogue’s Gallery
43. November 16, 1955
44. Speleology
45. Rerun
46. 4077th
47. About 3 weeks
48. Heron’s Formula
49. Iatrophobia
50. The Canterbury Tales
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/26 "2000-10-02T17:38:54Z")
Sorry, gang, I was OOC last couple of days. Here’s the scores:
Lux-47
Ogre-38
Fretful-19
wolfman-18
Gr8kat-14
Mauve Dog-7
headshok-2
starbury-2
Cheap-2
xizor-1
And I’ve realized that I’ve put another poorly worded question up, so here’s its replacement.
1. What date did Marty McFly return to 1985 in _Back to the Future_?
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/27 "2000-10-02T18:41:39Z")
1. Rough-House Cafe
2. New Edition (cursed be their names)
3. He broke his neck attempting to fellate himself
4. White
5. Dragon’s Lair
6. …two bits.
7. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
8. Bartholomew Cubbins
9. Mr. Mushnik
10. Venger (though Tiamat sprang to mind first)
11. Boo Radley
12. The Cricket in Times Square
13. St. Louis
14. Swordfish
15. Psyche
16. The Munsters
17. The Itasca
18. The Hillside Strangler
19. 146
20. Makavelli
21. Nine
22. Cornell
23. The only way to score a single point is by kicking the point-after following a touchdown.
24. All the damn vampires
25. 54
26. Four to two
27. Sloth
28. Dewey Defeats Truman
29. define “round”, 26 to a single player, 78 to 3 of 4 players if one shoots the moon if “round” means “hand”. If “round” means “trick” then the most is 16.
30. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
31. Huck Finn
32. Central air
33. Lingual frenulum
34. Bob and Doug McKenzie
35. The River Styx
36. 44
37. $350,000
38. Pomegranate
39. Jim Williams
40. 30 (this one took me the longest)
41. A monkey
42. Rogue’s Gallery
43. October 26, 1955
44. Speleology
45. Rerun
46. 4077th
47. About 3 weeks
48. Heron’s Formula
49. Iatrophobia
50. The Canterbury Tales
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/28 "2000-10-02T18:56:03Z")
1. Rough-House Cafe
2. New Edition (cursed be their names)
3. He broke his neck attempting to fellate himself
4. White
5. Dragon’s Lair
6. …two bits.
7. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
8. Bartholomew Cubbins
9. Mr. Mushnik
10. Venger (though Tiamat sprang to mind first)
11. Boo Radley
12. The Cricket in Times Square
13. St. Louis
14. Swordfish
15. Psyche
16. The Munsters
17. The Itasca
18. The Hillside Strangler
19. 146
20. Makavelli
21. Nine
22. Cornell
23. The only way to score a single point is by kicking the point-after following a touchdown.
24. All the damn vampires
25. 54
26. Four to two
27. Sloth
28. Dewey Defeats Truman
29. define “round”, 26 to a single player, 78 to 3 of 4 players if one shoots the moon if “round” means “hand”. If “round” means “trick” then the most is 16.
30. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
31. Huck Finn
32. Central air
33. Lingual frenulum
34. Bob and Doug McKenzie
35. The River Styx
36. 44
37. $350,000
38. Pomegranate
39. Jim Williams
40. 30 (this one took me the longest)
41. A monkey
42. Rogue’s Gallery
43. November 5th, 1955
44. Speleology
45. Rerun
46. 4077th
47. About 3 weeks
48. Heron’s Formula
49. Iatrophobia
50. The Canterbury Tales
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/29 "2000-10-03T03:47:52Z")
For #29, I’m using round to mean all 13 tricks.
Omni-48 (thus one of Omni’s answer to 29 is right)
Lux-47
Ogre-38
Fretful-19
wolfman-18
Gr8kat-14
Mauve Dog-7
headshok-2
starbury-2
Cheap-2
xizor-1
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/30 "2000-10-03T08:46:34Z")
1. 78
2. 11/12/55
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/31 "2000-10-03T08:50:01Z")
Oh, and I spelled “Makaveli” wrong, so
20. Makaveli
Just in case you’re paying attention to that sort of thing.
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/32 "2000-10-03T14:28:05Z")
Lux-49
Omni-48
Ogre-38
Fretful-19
wolfman-18
Gr8kat-14
Mauve Dog-7
headshok-2
starbury-2
Cheap-2
xizor-1
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/33 "2000-10-03T15:15:24Z")
1. Rough-House Cafe
2. New Edition
3. He broke his neck attempting to fellate himself
4. White
5. Dragon’s Lair
6. …two bits.
7. Linnaean taxonomy, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
8. Bartholomew Cubbins
9. Mr. Mushnik
10. Venger
11. Boo Radley
12. The Cricket in Times Square
13. St. Louis
14. Swordfish
15. Psyche
16. The Munsters
17. The Itasca
18. The Hillside Strangler
19. 146
20. Makaveli
21. Nine
22. Cornell
23. The only way to score a single point is by kicking the point-after following a touchdown.
24. All the damn vampires
25. 54
26. Four to two
27. Sloth
28. Dewey Defeats Truman
29. 78 pts, 26 to 3 of 4 players
30. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin
31. Huck Finn
32. Central air
33. Lingual frenulum
34. Bob and Doug McKenzie
35. The River Styx
36. 44
37. $350,000
38. Pomegranate
39. Jim Williams
40. 30
41. A monkey
42. Rogue’s Gallery
43. November 5, 1955
44. Speleology
45. Rerun
46. 4077th
47. About 3 weeks
48. Heron’s Formula
49. Iatrophobia
50. The Canterbury Tales
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/34 "2000-10-03T16:40:37Z")
OK, I think I have them all but the wording on teh Back to the Future question is bad, so I’m going to be a geek about it.
Flyp corrected it as:
> [@](#):
>
> 1. What date did Marty McFly return to 1985 in Back to the Future?
The first trip was taken by Einstein at 1:20 AM on Oct 26, 1985, he returned at 1:21 AM Oct 26, 1985.
The second trip was taken by Marty McFly on Oct 26, 1985, and he was transported to November 5th, 1955.
The third trip was taken by Marty McFly on November 12th, 1955, and he was transported to Oct 26th, 1985.
So, the answer could be interpreted as both 11/12/55, or 10/26/85.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/35 "2000-10-03T16:48:50Z")
Here’s where I copy Omni’s answers, use them under my name and delete his posts. Oooh boy, am I drunk with power.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/36 "2000-10-03T16:54:20Z")
Hey, **UncleBeer** wins _again!_ Damn, he’s good. How does he know all this shit?
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/37 "2000-10-03T17:05:20Z")
I respectfully bow out, since I am obviously outclassed. How 'bout some props for taking the first comprehensive stab at it?
::Go Ogre! It’s ya birfday! It’s ya birfday!::
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### Author:  [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/38 "2000-10-03T17:21:02Z")
Well, Omni and Lux are still both wrong on one of the answers, and I’m not going to tell them which one.
They’re both tied at 49, but as Lux’s set was posted first, if neither of them correct the last wrong answer, he gets the prize.
Or Uncle Beer could give me temporary moderator control of this forum, and he’d automatically win. Whichever.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/39 "2000-10-03T17:31:20Z")
Got it,
1. 2 weeks
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### Author:  [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scheherazades-revenge/35049/40 "2000-10-03T17:52:21Z")
Goddamned internet with it’s faulty-ass information. A big man would learn a valuable lesson from this, and graciously concede defeat. I am not that man. The contest was rigged from the start! Obviously, the powers that be on this board saw Omni’s high post count and early registration date and have been feeding him the answers! I cry foul! I demand a recount! Free the land, free the weed! Food not bombs!
I’m gonna go sulk.
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