As of Friday morning:
Omniscient: 48
Chief Scott: 27
Falcon: 28
MaxTorque: 28
SmickD: 17
Shayna & Grace: 40
Omniscient 1st run: 26
BurnMeUp: 18
Fretful Porpentine: 32
Frankie: 28
TinkerGray: 24
Frankd6: 39
Manduck2: 27
Roughly thirteen hours and twelve minutes remaining.
Whoohoo Tied for fifth!
And in such great company too!
-Frankie
“Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?”
-Bad Religion
Since this was originally supposed to be a test of common knowledge, and not of research skills, I feel entitled to gloat a little here. I’m in third place behind two entries which admittedly are research based. HA HA! Who can beat my UNAIDEDscore! You ignorant Philistenes!
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.
OK fellow SDMBers, sorry, I was missing in action for a while, but here are my answers (many of them liberally stolen from other posts.)
1. What device mixes vaporized fuel and air for an engine?
In a gasoline-powered automobile engine, a carburetor mixes gas into air as the air flows into the engine.
2. The Masons are a secret society, but what Mason was reunited with his son by Bart and Lisa?
Jackie Mason (Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky)
3. What is tableaux vivant?
Tableaux vivants were a popular form of entertainment at the turn of the century and involved the creation of scenes presented on stage by costumed actors who remain silent and motionless in an attempt to recreate famous paintings.
4. What am I hooked on, if I can’t stop this feeling deep inside of me?
I’m hooked on a feeling I’m high on believing
That you’re in love with me
Hopefully, you’re not hooked on that stupid dancing baby.
5. In Scrabble, A is worth 1 and B is worth 4. But Scrabble aside, during World War II, A was worth four and B was worth about eight, C was even better and X was unlimited. Explain.
Gasoline Rationing Coupons
All car owners received lettered windshield stickers and gas coupon booklets. The typical car owner would receive an “A” ration book, which allowed for approximately 150 miles of driving per month (OPA). However, if one’s job required him to drive further than the “A” ration allowed, he could be eligible for the “B” coupon (OPA). The “C” ration was given in accordance to “relation to the war effort or the public welfare.” (OPA) Most people with the “C” ration were doctors, ministers, or people working directly for the war effort (Sears 145). Below is a list of the different types of ration coupons, the people who commonly held them, and their value.
<font face=“Courier New”>Coupon Who Was Eligible Value
A General Population 4 gallons/week
B Those who drove Pertains to how much
long distances they needed
C Ministers, Doctors Pertains to how much
they needed
D Motercycles 2 gallons/week
E Non-highway vehicles 2 gallons/week
R Non-highway vehicles 5 gallons/week
TT Approved commercial 5 gallons/week
trucks
X Congressmen, Unlimited
Politicians</font>
6. The lion may be king of the jungle, but what children’s story series elephant is royal?
Babar
7. What is a one-eyed jack?
A jack seen in profile on a deck of cards (hearts and spades in a standard bridge deck.)
8. He loved Daisy so much he went away, got rich, came back, and built a mansion to impress her. Who was he?
Jay Gatsby, from F. Scott Fitzgerlad’s novel “The Great Gatsby”
9. Who killed Laura Palmer?
Her father, Leland Palmer, possessed by the evil spirit of Bob.
10. If you’re not a bartender, but you like ESPN, what’s a triple double?
A triple double is a basketball term where a player reaches double digits in three categories of statictics. Typically Points, Rebounds, and Assists, but it has been used to describe blocks, steals, as well as negative stats like turnovers.
11. Complete: jobs:gates:
?
microsoft
12. What sort of vehicle did Mathias Rust use?
In 1987, Mathias Rust, landed his Cessna aircraft in Red Square, Moscow, after flying undetected from Finland.
13. U2’s lead singer is Bono, but how does Gary Powers fit in?
In 1960, US pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot done while flying a U-2 plane over the Soviet Union.
14. In golf, what is a provisional ball?
a. Procedure
If a ball may be lost outside a water hazard or may be out of bounds, to save time the player may play another ball provisionally as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was played (see Rule 20-5). The player shall inform his opponent in match play or his marker or a fellow-competitor in stroke play that he intends to play a provisional ball, and he shall play it before he or his partner goes forward to search for the original ball. If he fails to do so and plays another ball, such ball is not a provisional ball and becomes the ball in play under penalty of stroke and distance (Rule 27-1); the original ball is deemed to be lost.
15. Saddam Hussein has attacked the Kurds, but who’s actually fond of curds and whey?
Little Miss Muffet
16. Male bonding was important to the Greeks, but what can you say about Ionic bonding?
Ionic binding arises from electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged molecules.
17. At whose work are you looking, if you note that the citizens of Calais seem to be standing very still?
Auguste Rodin, the Burghers of Calais, bronze sculpture
18. A marshal removes a general, and a general removes a colonel, and a colonel removes a spy. But a spy can remove a marshal, right?
Correct, according to the rules of the game of stratego.
19. Marcel and Rodolpo must burn their work to stay warm, and Mimi dies of consumption. Where are we?
The Latin Quarter in Paris (scene of Puccini’s Opera “La Boheme”)
20. What word describes a substance moving through the semi-permeable membrane of a living cell?
osmosis
21. Stanford killed Harry over Evelyn, right?
Wrong. Stanford White was shot and killed by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of former chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit.
22. What is Dr. Virginia Apgar known for?
For being on a USA 20-cent stamp. 
In delivery rooms around the world, doctors and nurses use a simple test to immediately assess a new baby’s reflexes and overall health. Named the Apgar score for Dr. Virginia Apgar, the 1933 graduate of the College of Physicians & Surgeons who devised it, the test helps identify newborns who may need early medical investigation.
23. Hey, Mabel!
“Hey, Mabel, Black Label”: commercials for Carling Black Label beer.
24. What game is Gary Gygax credited with inventing?
Dungeons and Dragons.
25. Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin are the only two now, but at one time Salmon P. Chase was also part of the group.
Non-presidents appearing on USA paper currency.
26. Who wrote a poem to a Greek pot?
Keats, Ode to a Grecian urn.
27. If you start in sixte, and use prime, octave, and carte, in what sport might you be engaging?
fencing. and it’s spelled “quarte”.
28. What are marshmallows made of?
corn syrup, sugar, dextrose, food starch-modified (corn), water, gelatin, artificial color, artificial and natural flavor, tetrasodium pyrophosphate & blue #1.
29. If the area bounded by y=3x^2, x=0, and x=2 is rotated about the x axis, what is the volume of the resulting solid?
x * pi, where x is left as an exercise to the alert reader. Next time, give us at least a half-sphere!
30. What climbs Jacob’s ladder?
your fingers (it’s a child’s game), or angels (Jacob’s dream in Genesis)
31. Maris was the never-seen ex-wife of Niles Crane on Frasier, but Maris’ 1961 achievement isn’t quite so important these days. Why?
McGwire hit 70 home runs, eclipsing Maris’s record.
32. Who thought Rush Limbaugh was a big fat idiot?
Al Franken
33. Beluga is the best. Best what?
caviar
34. Alonso Quijana’s delusions make up a large part of what story?
Don Quixote
35. What was unique about Patty and Cathy Lane?
identical cousins
36. This hero’s epic adventures include the death of Enkidu and the spurning of Ishtar.
The epic of Gilgamesh
37. Where was Dorothy Gale from?
Kansas (the Wizard of Oz)
38. He’s known for ballerinas and horses, mostly.
french painter Degas
39. What doctor speculated that men and women are from different planets?
John Gray
*40. What c
First, a correction. I credited Omni’s second-attempt score as 48 correct.
Upon review, however, I marked his answer for Question 29, "16pi" as correct. The correct answer as I figured it is 16/3pi. I saw the 16 and thought he had it.
So I am revising Omni’s score downwards by 1, to 47.
I mark Arnold’s score as 48 correct, and declare (subject to protest) that he is the winner of Bricker Challenge #2. Arnold, drop me a line and let me know what beer you want and where you want it!
Omni – you still need to let me know that same information, from Challenge #1, to get your beer!
Explanations:
I am only going to post the disputed answers; if anyone has questions about any others, please ask. You may assume that Omni’s and Arnold’s (since they’re the same) are correct for any answers I don’t post below).
“Hey, Mabel!” This is the line for a series of commericials in the sixties for Black Label beer. The correct response is, “Black label!”
A number of correct answers: I was thinking of the electrical plasma or the Biblical dream; others brought up the child’s game. Full credit for each.
Alonso Quijana’s tales are told in both the novel Don Quixote and the musical Man of La Mancha - accepted either answer.
The minimum bid necessary to outbid three no-trump in bridge is four clubs. Unquestionably four no-trump will also outbid it, but it’s not the minimum.
So, Omni’s misses were 23 (Hey Mabel), 29 (volume of the curve rotated), and 44 (bridge bid).
Arnold’s misses were 29 (you can’t leave it as an exercise for the reader - you’re the reader! – and 44 (bridge bid).
I invite responses if there’s any disagreement, especially about the volume of the solid in 29. I figured that the volume of a cylinder is 1/3 pi r^2 h. In this, h is delta-x (will approach 0 to solve), and the curve is y=x^2, and r is twice that, above and below the x axis. So the integral to solve is 1/3(pi)(3) x^2 between the limits of x=2 and x=0. Integrating, pi(x^3)/3 between 2 and 0, gives 16/3pi - 0/3pi, or 16/3pi.
The bridge question may be resolved with any bridge reference.
Thanks to everyone, once again, for excellent participation. Once again, I thought this would have a winning score of 25, maybe. I am truly impressed with the caliber of answers!
Bricker –
I urge, nay demand, that you count ChiefScott’s answer to #30 among the correct ones.
I refer you to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, page 645 definition 2 under Jacob’s Ladder:
2: a marine ladder of rope or chain with wooden or iron rungs.
Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS)
Thank you, thank you.
My calculus years are far behind me, so I will have to do some serious thinking on that voluume question. Maybe I’ll ask a math teacher friend.
Good job again Bricker, with some truly excellent and cleverly phrased questions. You are going to ruin yourself in beer!
This time, the S. Cal dopers have vindicated their defeat at the hands of omniscient in Bricker challenge #1. Once again, you will see that I heavily used answers from Shayna’s post.
I will contact you for the beer prize, which I plan on sharing with the other helpful S. Cal Dopers from Bricker Challenge # 1 (Shayna, Catrandom, Rilchiam) if we happen to meet and the Straight Dope S. Cal. gathering.
P.S. by the way, since you mentioned the formula for finding the volume of the rotated solid, I will mention the formula I used for determing the length of time it takes the barometer to fall. (question 45)
For an object to fall in earth’s gravity (assuming atmospheric conditions are negligible), the time to fall can be found using
s = (1 / 2) * g * (t ^ 2)
where s = 122.5 m, and g = 9.81 m/s^2
solving for t, we get
t = sqrt ((2 * 122.5) / 9.81)
Fear not. Your demand was met. I didn’t specifically list that amongst the right answers, but when I said, “A number of correct answers,” I meant to convey that there were far more meanings to the phrase than I knew, and I gave full credit to every answer that I could support. The marine ladder made it.
The last two days were hectic for me, so I didn’t have time to dig out my calculus textbook. But after reading Bricker’s answer to question 29
If the area bounded by y=3x^2, x=0, and x=2 is rotated about the x axis, what is the volume of the resulting solid?
it seemed incorrect to me, so I dusted off the pages of the book and the cobwebs from my brain.
Short version: the answer is (288 / 5) * pi
Long version:
From “Calculus With Analytic Geometry”, by Earl W. Swokowski, Marquette University. Prindle, Weber & Schmidt, Inc., publishers. Copyright 1975.
---- begin quote
Ch. 6 - Applications of the Definite Integral, p. 226
(6.11) Definition of volume
if f is continuous on [a,b], then the volume V of the solid of revolution generated by revolving the region bounded by the graphs of f, x = a, x = b, and the x-axis about the x-axis is given by
V = integral from a to b (pi * (f(x))^2 dx)
Example 1
If f(x) = x^2 + 1, fin the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region under the graph of f from -1 to 1 along the x-axis.
Solution
(illustration omitted)
V = integral from -1 to 1 (pi * (x^2 + 1)^2 dx)
= pi * ( integral from -1 to 1 ( (x^4 + 2x^2 + 1) dx ) )
= pi * ( ( (1/5) 1^5 + (2/3) 1^3 + 1 ) - ( (1/5) (-1)^5 + (2/3) (-1)^3 + (-1) ) )
= (56 / 15) * pi
----- end quote
So the answer for the question aobve should be:
integral from 0 to 2 of (pi * (3x^2)^2 dx)
= pi * ( integral from 0 to 2 ( 9x^4 dx) )
= (pi * (9/5) * 2^5) - (pi * (9/5) * 0^5)
= (288 / 5) * pi
P.S. I sent my calculations to a friend of mine who teaches math at the university level. If I hear anything from him I will post it.
Woo Hoo - Go Arnold! I almost posted a plea for you to come and wrap this up, as I knew you could! WTG!
I will be at the So. Cal. gathering, and I’m bringing Catrandom with me as well. We can all drink a toast to Bricker for his great challenge games! Hey Rick, wanna fly out to L.A. and partake with us? I’m not the coordinator, but I feel pretty safe in saying that everyone’s welcome whether they live here or not.
Frankd6, I bow to your superior knowlege. I made no effort to hide my use of search engines to come up with some of the responses, and since according to the rules it’s completely legal to do so, I don’t feel the least bit bad about having done it, either. So there! 
Rick, will there really be a Challange Round #3? Or are ya running out of beer money? We don’t want to drink you out of house and home. 
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Tucker isn’t the only answer. In
http://www.team.net/www/ktud/Tatra_history_auto3.html
tab down to the 1935 model T77A, and the 1936 model T87.
John, if anyone had given those answers, I would have credited them!
BTW, my math teacher friend agreed with my solution to question 29.
<font size=4>Protest!! Protest!!</font>
OK, now I am lodging a protest to the results of this challenge. I have two concrete grounds for it. Reason #1, I posted the correct answer to question #29 (288/5)*pi) at 6:11 AM 1-27-2000, a full 56 hours before Arnold. Rick, I strongly suggest you get your eyes tested ;). Reason #2, Arnold’s answer which you credited him 48 points for was a full 9 minutes after the posted deadline (Friday 10:09 CST = Friday 11:09 EST).
I demand a reassessment of the results. Sorry SoCal dopers, foiled again by a Chicagoan.
I don’t totally agree with what you’re saying, Omniscient.
As regards your first point:
You had several posts, including different answers to several questions. Are you saying Bricker should go in all your different posts, picking out correct answers and discarding incorrect ones, to come up with the highest total possible for your score?
Also, you will notice that Bricker has never acknowledged the (288/5) * pi answer. Since he is the final arbitrer of the contest, he gets to decide what the correct answer is.
As to the second point: I assumed that what Bricker meant by a deadline would be the time that appears on the posted message. But we will have to leave that up to Bricker.
Omniscient, I forgot my third point. 
Now performing victory dance a second time.
Arnold my friend, your mind seems to be clouded with the fumes of a misbegotten victory celebration.
First, its a math problem, there is only one correct answer. The fact that Rick’s answer was incorrect in value and procedure isn’t grounds for discounting my answer (which you managed to also come up with as the right answer supported by your “math expert” :rolleyes: ). Also, I’m not asking Rick to selectively choose any answers, I specifically posted the CORRECT answer to number 29 a matter of minutes after my funal submission as a ammendment. It is quite clear that I admitted my first calculation was flawed, but that the second submission was my one and only answer.
As to your second point, Rick said:
Your post is dated
and it clearly states at the bottom of the page
Since 10:09 PM CT (Central Standard Time) is after 11:00 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time) it is abundantly clear that you FAILED to meet the deadline on submissions.
As to your third point…you may be dancing, but there isn’t any music. :eek:
One more point of contention. I direct you to this link.
Now, I admit that I missed the likely intended meaning for #23, but the coy methods of posing these questions raise opportunities for multiple but very different answers. I used the first paragraph in that link to get my answer, I have no idea where the author got her info on that legend. But, it does create an alternative answer, not that I lend much creedence to the entire search engine methodology, although rules are rules, and I would be foolish to ignore the advantage ;).
Omni, I can dispose of a couple of these quickly. The link you provide has an author joking, not quoting a legend. You don’t get the “Hey, Mabel!” credit.
As to your contention about timing, the time stamp that the SDMB puts on messages is not authoritive, for the simple reason that it’s wrong. Try this easy-and-fun experiment: reply to this post. When you hit the submit button, look at your watch. Then look at the time stamp on the posted message. There is a difference of about ten minutes, plus of course the hours that are offset because of time zone differential.
Arnold’s post was timely, which disposes of that point.
Not so easily dismissed, however, is your math problem point. Let me take that under advisement, and get back to you.