# The Bricker Challenge 2003 - Edition #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159 "2003-06-06T19:46:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/21 "2003-06-07T02:59:09Z")
Next time I’m in Chicago, then, and I’ll call on you sometime in the future for some legal assistance. Hey, you don’t happen to be an immigration lawyer, do you?.. ---
**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/22 "2003-06-07T03:22:19Z")
Sorry, I’m a corporate lawyer–mislaid my soul somewhere along the way. But hey, ya ever need a master trust indenture, it’s on the house. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/23 "2003-06-07T03:29:42Z")
Lsura: 9 lno: 34 (still) iampunha: 9 Orbifold: 15 Little Nemo: 15 ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/24 "2003-06-07T03:36:23Z")
Yeah, that’d settle it. :ahem: 1. a delay which causes you to lose your right to contest something (“sleeping on your rights”). Ultimately derived from the Latin _laxare_. I will not be guilty of such an undue delay in asserting my legal right and privilege to answer this potentially final question. (Even if I win the beers, I’m gonna have to pay almost all of them out…) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/25 "2003-06-07T03:42:02Z")
lno: 35, and it’s now a 12-pack! Hey, at least I save shipping costs!! Look for the next challenge next week – 50 questions. ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/26 "2003-06-08T00:55:45Z")
No searching, no peeking: 1. Who knew that the darn statue of her father would come alive to drag me into Hell? Don Juan (no one knew) 2. She always depended on the kindness of strangers. Streetcar Named Desire 3. Clay creature given life in Jewish legend – or possibly a Tolkein character spelled differently. Golem/Gollum 4. Heller’s Milo Mindbender is fictional, but who might be described as Uri Spoonbender? Uri Geller 5. Cicero stopped me from overthrowing the Roman Republic, and I never even got a fair trial. Brutus 6. For this festival, you build a shelter with three walls and a leaky roof. Booths of palm branches 7. It’s not roots, exactly; more of a fleshly underground growth system that also starts with ‘R’. Raceme 8. This word is a dentist’s tool or a repetitive exercise. Drill 9. One if by land, two if by sea. Lanterns for P.Revere 10. I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” 11. Roots of 2x^2 – 4x – 30 = 0 ? x=-3, +5 12. Should I admit to my parents that I masticate? They want you to, at least your mother cares. 13. There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Cremation of Sam McGee 14. At long last, Senator, have you no decency? Senator Joseph McCarthy, and he deserved it. 15. Illegally hunt, or cook an egg. Poach ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/27 "2003-06-08T03:25:14Z")
“Minderbinder.” Not “Mindbender.” ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159/28 "2003-06-08T03:48:29Z")
1. Navy SEALS – what’s the acronym mean? SEa Air Land 2. Clay creature given life in Jewish legend – or possibly a Tolkein character spelled differently. Golem or Gollum 3. Heller’s Milo Mindbender is fictional, but who might be described as Uri Spoonbender? Uri Geller 4. This word is a dentist’s tool or a repetitive exercise. Drill 5. One if by land, two if by sea. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 6. I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 7. From what platform does the train for Hogwart’s leave? Nine and three quarters 8. Should I admit to my parents that I masticate? That means chewing, but they might look at you funny if you told them. 9. Which resident of Whoville was no more than 2? Cindy Lou Who 10. There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Cremation of Sam McGee 11. Illegally hunt, or cook an egg. Poach I did those without looking at the other replies. I missed the first thread, so I don’t know the rules. But here are the answers I knew off the top of my head anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-2003-edition-2/180159.md?page=1)