The Bricker Challenge #3

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Rules are as explained in #1 and #2.

The deadline for entries is 11:00 PM EST Monday, January 31st, 2000.

Good luck!

  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing?
  2. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary.
  3. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell?
  4. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests?
  5. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:?
  6. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where?
  7. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison?
  8. “Manly yes, but I like it too.”
  9. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams?
  10. Who were Laius and Jocasta?
  11. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces?
  12. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up?
  13. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they?
  14. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.”
  15. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry?
  16. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows…
  17. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby?
  18. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care?
  19. Pb(NO[sub]3[/sub])[sub]2[/sub]. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing?
  20. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why?
  21. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why?
  22. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.”
  23. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear?
  24. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city?
  25. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there?
  26. His campaign slogan was AuH[sub]2[/sub]O.
  27. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them?
  28. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket?
  29. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on).
  30. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow?
  31. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence?
  32. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference?
  33. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there?
  34. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill?
  35. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe?
  36. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song?
  37. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him?
  38. What’s a ground rule double?
  39. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand.
  40. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12?
  41. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand?
  42. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa?
  43. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall?
  44. What does the Army think a CSM is?
  45. How many coins in the fountain?
  46. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next?
  47. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient?
  48. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way.
  49. After Lyndon Johnson dramatically increased U.S. participation in Vietnam, approximately what percentage of eighteen and nineteen-year olds voted Democratic in the 1968 presidential election?
  50. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it.

Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it?

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I’m sure I’ll only get about half of these, but I pledge not to look anything up…I’m going only on the knowledge in my head.

  1. Don’t know

  2. Don’t know

  3. Mozart’s Don Giovanni

  4. It’s from Mutiny on the Bounty (where Bligh was marooned, I think)
    5.Christie (characters to authors)

  5. Moscow

  6. Don’t know

  7. Irish Spring soap

  8. Four grams

  9. Parents of Oedipus

  10. Don’t know

  11. Don’t know

  12. Isaac Asimov; 1: a robot may not harm a human, or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey an order given it by a human, unless this conflicts with the First Law; 3: a robot must protect itself from harm unless this conflicts with the First or Second Laws.

  13. From American Bandstand.

  14. Krugerrand.

  15. Anything Goes (BTW, that should have been “heaven knows”

  16. Don’t know

  17. don’t know

  18. A quadratic equation

  19. The dark side of the moon always faces away from the earth.

  20. It’s a quote from a Robert Frost poem.

  21. Xaviera Hollander’s “The Happy Hooker”

  22. Porcine and ursine, respectively.

  23. New Orleans (french quarter)

  24. A miner forty-niner and his daughter Clementine.

  25. Barry Goldwater

  26. Sacco and Vanzetti

  27. Charlie Bucket

  28. Don’t know

  29. Don’t know

  30. Don’t remember.

  31. Don’t know

  32. Don’t know

  33. The Gold rush

  34. Lizzie Borden.

  35. Aretha Franklin

  36. Cereal Killer (serial killer)

  37. Don’t know

  38. Yeah, Pee wee Herman’s hands might be a mite sticky.

  39. She was a crusader for temperance who would never sit down over a beer.

  40. Adam Smith

  41. Don’t know

  42. It was a riot…oh, I don’t know.

  43. Don’t know

  44. Three (each one seeking happiness)

  45. Fibonnaci Series, and the next # is 44.

  46. Donor: type O; recipient: type A

  47. Neat (no ice)

  48. Don’t know.

  49. Species.

            Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal,
        and what is it?

6 (gold)

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  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing?
    Being a soldier of some sort, I guess, fighting those damn Commies.

  2. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary.
    …and?

  3. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell?
    I’m assuming this is from a story of some sort, but instead all sing a song:
    I was working all night in my office
    when a man I had recently killed
    called me up from a phone near my building
    so I looked out the window at him.

  4. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests?
    A pit is a whole, a cairn is something dead people are buried under. I suppose it’s the ironic juxtaposition of life and death symbols, but I’m probably wrong.

  5. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:?
    No idea. I doubt you mean the Chandler from that evil tv show, but Friends?

  6. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where?
    China.

  7. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison?
    He sneezed on the Pope.

  8. “Manly yes, but I like it too.”
    GOod for you.

  9. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams?
    4 grams, silly.

  10. Who were Laius and Jocasta?
    Oh, they were characters in a play, I think. I don’t remember, and am too lazy to look it up.

  11. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces?
    blink

  12. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up?
    uh

  13. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they?
    Oh, I know that one, it was Asimov. They were…

  1. No Robot shall harm a human
  2. No Robot shall, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.
  3. Robots shall always obey humans.

Maybe not in that order.
14. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.”
HEard that somewhere, recently, isn’t it a comment on the origin of rock?

  1. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry?
    I don’t know.

  2. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows…
    We see panty hose?

  3. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby?
    How do you OD on arsenic, it’s a poison! Wouldn’t any be ODing?I heard about something like this, a doctor what tried to operate on club feet… Dont’t remember squat.

  4. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care?
    He was an emotional psycholigist.

  5. Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing?
    Their states. Godammit, I’m a chemist, I should know the words!! Um, it’s their relative charge, or something. Jesus. Pb has two fewer electrons than in elemental form, N has 5 fewer, O has 2 more. Their oxidation states! Boom yaw, I’m the man!

  6. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why?
    Because they were tripping when they wrote it? Maybe you mean the back side of the moon, which we can’t see without satellites or ships going around there (wheras the “dark” rotates around the surface of the moon, so to speak).

  7. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why?
    Jack kills pretty, early yellow flowers.
    Or the sun reflects off frost.
    The first is poetry (Dickinson), the second is my BS.

  8. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.”
    The happy whore?

  9. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear?
    The pig is orcine, maybe, the bear is ursine. A sheep is ovine, a cow is bovine. I’m doin just fine.

  10. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city?
    Two bits? A quarter?

  11. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there?
    A miner and/or hermit.

  12. His campaign slogan was AuH2O.
    Barry Goldwater? God, I dislike that man.

  13. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them?
    The P-something brothers, I believe. Weren’t they Italians who bombed something or other?

  14. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket?
    Charlie, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

  15. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on).
    24, I believe.

  16. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow?
    The way they’re cooked.

  17. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence?
    Linda, something, Margeret, hmm…

  18. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference?
    Truck drivers.

  19. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there?
    Oh, I think it’s 12, but I ain’t lookin it up.

  20. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill?
    Oh sweet Jesus, I remember this, summat. Hmm. Was that the textile factory that hired lots of girls and put them in horrible working conditions, inspiring a somewhat feminist movement, or am I making this all up?

  21. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe?
    Some English prince, I’m sure.

  22. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song?
    That diva. Oh lord, R something. I know the song…
    R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
    something something T-C-B!
    She was in the movie “Blues Brothers” I know WHO, I just don’t know her name. Argh! Damn you Rick, I can’t rest til I get this!!
    Aretha Franklin! I think that’s it.

  23. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him?
    A man who murdered and ate people.

  24. What’s a ground rule double?
    A baseball term.

  25. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand.
    Good for you, he didn’t have one.

  26. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12?
    Because she’s a lesbian?

  27. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand?
    Smith. Economist.

  28. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa?
    Because it’s used as a dowry. The bride’s parents supply a month’s worth of mead, giving rise to the term “honey month” or honeymoon.

  29. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall?
    No clue at all.
    Some guy who complained that Stonewall “Liked mein ass, yes.”

  30. What does the Army think a CSM is?
    Civilian Sector Mission?
    I like that they call dead soldiers ‘Inoperative Combat Units’

  31. How many coins in the fountain?
    Oh, I think it was twelve. That’s an old song of some sort, that Steve Martin started to sing in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

  32. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next?
    Well, I’ve taken a lot of math courses and been fairly good at them. I’ve even had people suggest to me that I major

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Yeah, I messed up the robotics laws, and neat makes much more sense.

Bricker, I’m brain dead now. Ug.

Og like woman. Og go sleep.

I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.

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Pick off the easy ones, I guess:

  1. You’re playing Risk.
  2. Punny? My knee can’t speak. It’s mute.
  3. Red Square is in China
  4. Four grams
  5. A pig is porcine and a bear is ursine.
  6. My Darlin’ Clementine.
  7. Barry Goldwater
  8. The one to the Chocolate Factory
  9. Gold rush
  10. Ms. Lizzy Borden
  11. Ms. Aretha Franklin
  12. A cereal killer (Bricker, I love you.)
  13. Don’t worry, It’s rather pee-wee.
  14. Smith
  15. three coins
  16. Fibonochi Sequence - 34

Tie breaker: (not that I’m in contention. It’s late, and I’m not as smart as I thought I was.) Gold is mentioned… uh… four times?

Everyone go to Opal’s page right now and vote the Bricker ticket!

Dojo. Casino. It’s all in the mind.

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Hey, I know some of these. And considering there’s no other replies (that may not be true when I finally finish), I’ll give it a shot:

  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing? playing Risk

  2. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests? Mutiny on the Bounty

  3. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:? Christie

  4. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where? Red Square in Moscow?

  5. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison? President of the US for 24 hours (because Taylor refused to be sworn in on Sunday (websearch)

  6. “Manly yes, but I like it too.” some kind of soap, Irish Spring found by websearch

  7. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams? 4 grams

  8. Who were Laius and Jocasta? parents of Oedipus

  9. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up? Ali Agca (websearch)

  10. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they? Isaac Asimov. (1)A robot may not injure a human, or allow one to be injured. (2)A robot must obey a human, provided it does not violate (1). (3) Self-preservation, provided it does not violate (1) or (2).

  11. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.” American Bandstand

  12. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows… Anything Goes

  13. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care? He’s an expressionist (websearch)

  14. Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing? the charges

  15. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why? poem written by Robert Frost

  16. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.” Happy Hooker, Xaveria Hollander (used Amazon to get last name)

  17. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear? porcine and ursine

  18. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city? New Orleans?

  19. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there? a miner forty-niner and his daughter Clemintine

  20. His campaign slogan was AuH2O. Goldwater

  21. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket? Charlie Bucket

  22. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow? Tai bo is a martial art, yes? Pai-gow appears to be a type of poker/card game. (web search)

  23. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence? Major

  24. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference? Psychiatrists

  25. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there? seven sacraments

  26. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill? California gold rush

  27. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe? Lizzie Borden’s

  28. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song? Aretha Franklin

  29. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him? cereal (serial) killer

  30. What’s a ground rule double? I remember using this when we played baseball as kids, but we said “ground roll double”. We used it when the ball was hit into the empty lot (full of trees) next door, the batter got to second and no further. A websearch reveals: “Into the trees on the fly, on the ground, or off a fielder is a ground rule double.”

  31. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand. Pee Wee Herman?

  32. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12? temperance advocate

  33. What does the Army think a CSM is? command sergeant major (web search)

  34. How many coins in the fountain? Three

  35. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next? Fibonacci number and 34

  36. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient? O negative and AB positive

  37. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way. Neat?

  38. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it. family, genus, species

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  6. China
  9. 4 grams
  10. Father and Mother of Oedipus
  11. The Joule
  13. Asimov. A Robot…1.May not harm a human or through inaction allow a human to come to harm. 2. Must follow orders givens by a human except where it conflicts with the first rule. 3. Must protect it’s own existance except where it would conflist with the First or Second Rules.
  14. American Bandstand
  18. If it’s about gay love.
  19. Atomic Charge
  23. Not Bovine
    24.Paris. Latin Quarter
  25. Barry Goldwater
  27. Charlie of the Chocolate Factory
  28. 120
  30. Albright
  32. 7
  34. Lizzie Borden
  35. Aretha Franklin
  40. Adam Smith
  41. Grendel?
  45. Fibbinocci, 34
  46. 0 , AB
  47. Shaken not stirred
  49. genus, species
    Gold, 2
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Falcon and I worked on these jointly. Those marked with stars are those we looked up.

  1. Playing Risk.
    *2. You’re watching Mannix, aren’t you?
    *3. I’d refuse, just like Don Giovanni.
  2. Pitcairn Island is where the surviving mutineers of the HMS Bounty landed and lived for some time.
  3. Christie
  4. Moscow
  5. President for a day, when Taylor refused to be sworn in on Sunday. Not that anyone noticed until much later.
    *8. You old ad for Irish Spring soap, you!
  6. Four grams
  7. Oedipus’s parents.
    *11. JEWEL: Just a nEW Evaluation tooL. A way-fun system of measurement.
  8. Mehmet Ali Agca.
  9. Isaac Asimov. One, no robot may harm a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey all orders given it by a human being except when doing so would conflict with the First Law. Three, a robot must protect its own existence except when doing so would conflict with the First or Second Laws.
  10. You’re rating the song just played on American Bandstand.
    *15. Springbok, on the South African gold Krugerrand.
  11. Anything Goes!
    *17. Hubby is Charles Bovary, husband of Madame Bovary.
    *18. Because he was an Expressionist painter.
  12. You’re describing the charges of the ions of each element in that compound. They balance.
  13. The so-called ‘dark side of the moon’ isn’t visible from Earth.
  14. Because Robert Frost wrote ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, which is where the line ‘nature’s first green is gold’ is from.
    *22. The Happy Hooker, by Xavier Hollander.
  15. Porcine and ursine.
  16. New Orleans.
  17. A miner forty-niner and his daughter Clementine.
  18. Goldwater.
  19. Sacco and Vanzetti.
  20. Charlie Bucket
  21. 120
  22. Tae-bo is aerobic kickboxing. Pai-gow is a style of poker played often in Vegas.
  23. Callaghan.
  24. Psychiatry.
  25. Seven.
  26. The California Gold Rush.
  27. Lizzie Borden’s.
  28. Aretha Franklin.
  29. A serial/cereal killer.
  30. There may be more than one way to do it, but I know it as a ball hit by the batter that bounces in the outfield and then goes over the outfield fence, out of play. Batter may walk to second.
  31. If the Reubens you’re talking about is Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, and he’d just been arrested for masturbating in a movie theater, I wouldn’t shake his hand either.
  32. Carrie Nation was a temperance advocate. She’d never have a beer.
  33. Adam Smith.
    *42. Margaret Mead, anthropologist, studied the culture of Samoa.
    *43. In 1969 police tried to arrest a group of gay men and women at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. They resisted arrest, and a riot broke out. It helped set off the gay rights movement, and is celebrated every year.
    *44. Command Sergeant Major
  34. Three.
    1. It’s the Fibonacci Sequence.
      *47. Donor, O. Recipient, AB.
  36. Neat.
  37. Zero. Eighteen and nineteen year olds didn’t get the vote until 1971.
  38. Family, genus, species.

Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it?
Gold. It occurs in four questions.

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Ok, Grace; my sister, chocolate; and I are playing together tonight. Again, I will give you a key…

I knew it without any research.
@chocolate knew it without any research. (I answered them first again, so she only picked up where I left off. I’m sure she also knew a lot of the same ones I did.)
%Grace knew it with no research (and she came in after both Chocolate and me.)
~One of us researched the answer.
~ I was pretty sure, but looked it up to confirm.
#2 is Mannix (Bet you didn’t think anyone would remember watching that show, huh?)
#4 is a reference to Mutiny on the Bounty. The goal of the voyage of The Bounty was to get breadfruit plantings to provide food for the slaves in the Caribbean colonies. The first mate, Fletcher Christian, took The Bounty after it left Tahiti. Eventually the mutineers settled on Pitcairn Island and weren’t found for 25 years.
#5 is Agatha Christie. (And it’s Marple. Miss Jane Marple to be exact.)*
#6 is Moscow*
#7 David Rice Atchison was president for a day, on Sunday, between the term of 11th & 12th Presidents.~
#8 is from an ad for Brut 33 (which Joe Namath used to do).*
#10 Jocasta, in Greek mythology, wife of King Laius of Thebes. (From Chocolate - LOL): It gets better, read this! When an oracle foretold that Jocasta’s son would kill his father, Laius abandoned him on a mountain. The child was adopted and named Oedipus. Unaware of his true identity, Oedipus later quarreled with and killed Laius. Traveling to Thebes, he saved the city from the sphinx and married Jocasta, who bore him four children. When she learned that she had married her son, Jocasta committed suicide.~
#12 If Jerry Ford is talking to Karol (who is actually Pope John Paul II), and Jerry brings up Lynnette Fromme (who was Charles Manson’s follower and psycho), then Karol would bring up Satan.
#13 - Isaac Asimov - The Three Laws of Robotics are:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.~
#14 is from the show American Bandstand, where audience members would hear clips of new songs and vote on them, indicating how much they like them.*
#15 is Kruggerand.@
#16 Anything Goes.~ (It’s actually “In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now “heaven” (not God) knows…Anything Goes.”)
#20 There is no dark side of the moon that is visible to us. You’d have to be hallucinating if you could see a dark side of the moon. The exception to this would be during an eclipse.@
#21 is a line from the Robert Frost poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”.*
#22 the alliteration was “The Happy Hooker”. It was written by Xaviera Hollander.%
#23 Porcine (pig), Ursine (bear)~ (which was a total “duh!” because I knew it when I saw it and should have known it off hand. Oh well.)
#24 is New Orleans (where they have the French Quarter).@
#25 A miner and his daughter Clementine (from the song “Oh My Darlin’ Clementine”).~
#26 is Barry Goldwater. (Au is the chemical symbol for gold and H2O is water)
#28 is Charlie from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” or the movie version, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.”*
#29 is 120 different ways.* (I did the math - but given how I suck at math, I probably did it wrong. LOL.)
#30 Pai-Gow is a popular Chinese gambling game played with one set of dominoes; do not confuse it with Pai Gow Poker. Pai Gow Poker is a game created in California to get around gambling laws played with a deck of regular cards and very elaborate rules.

Pai Gow means “make nine” and it is the original version of Baccarat or Chemin de Fer.~

Tae-Bo (correct spelling, btw) is a workout program developed by Billy Banks.*
#31 Callaghan ~
#32 is Phychology (A friend was getting her masters in phsych and had to memorize it. I was living with her and helped her study so I’d have to quiz her. In doing so, I also memorized it. I couldn’t tell you diddly about it now, though. LOL)
#33 There are seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.~
#34 is the California Gold Rush~
#35 is Lizzy Borden*
#36 is Aretha Franklin*
#37 a Cereal (Serial) Killer.%
#38 is when a ball is hit in bounds, but bounces out of play (into the stands, for instance), not allowing the fielder an opportunity to play the ball. The runner is only allowed to advance to 2nd base.*
#39 is referring to Paul Reubens (aka PeeWee Herman). He was arrested for masturbating in an adult theater.%
#40 Because she (Carrie Nation) thought she was a messanger of god, and I quote, “… Convinced of her divine appointment…” ~
#42 Margaret Mead, at one time a respected anthropologist, made some rather insulting and inaccurate assertions about Samoan culture, particularly as it pertained to adolescents. I wouldn’t classify her work as helpful to the Samoans in any way, though. But I guess that’s a matter of opinion.~
#43 For gay, lesbian and bisexual activists, the word “Stonewall” signifies quite possibly the most important, single landmark in the worldwide struggle for gay rights. Most chroniclers of the homosexual rights movement trace the beginnings of the movement’s militant phase to 1969 and New York’s lower-Manhattan (largely gay-frequented) Stonewall Bar. There, for the first time on record, homosexual patrons fought back when Stonewall was raided one hot summer night by New York City policemen, who came hoping to arrest gay individuals for engaging in then illegal homosexual acts.~
#44 is a Command Sergeant Major.~
#45 is 3. %
#46 A Fibonacci Series is a rather ubiquitous set of numbers that begins with one and one and each term thereafter is the sum of the prior two terms. Therefore the next number in the series is 34.~ (admittedly, I didn’t look at this one very closely before passing the list on to Brenda who is the one who looked it up. Upon further inspection, the pattern was obvious, and I’m sure if I’d given it more than a cursory glance I would have come up with it without research.)
#47 Universal Donor - Type O, Universal Recepient - Type AB~
#48 is “neat” (meaning no ice)*
#50 is family, genus, species.* (I aced all my geology classes in college - HA!)

Ok, we’re tired now. We’ll come back and finish up tomorrow. Thanks again, Bricker - another fun one!

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank

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  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing? playing Risk
  2. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary. Mannix
  3. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell? I’d refuse, just like Don Giovanni.
  4. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests? Mutiny on the Bounty
  5. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:? Christie
  6. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where? Red Square in Moscow
  7. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison? President of the US for 24 hours (because Taylor refused to be sworn in on Sunday
  8. “Manly yes, but I like it too.” Irish Spring
  9. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams? 4 grams
  10. Who were Laius and Jocasta? parents of Oedipus
  11. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces? Joule
  12. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up? Ali Agca
  13. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they? Isaac Asimov. (1) A robot may not injure a human, or allow one to be injured. (2) A robot must obey a human, provided it does not violate (1). (3) Self-preservation, provided it does not violate (1) or (2).
  14. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.” American Bandstand
    *15. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry? springbok, on the South African gold Krugerrand
  15. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows… anything goes
  16. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby? Hubby is Charles Bovary, husband of Madame Bovary
  17. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care? He’s an expressionist
  18. Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing? You’re describing the charges of the ions of each element in that compound.
  19. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why? The dark side of the moon always faces away from the earth.
    *21. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why? Because Robert Frost wrote ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, which is where the line ‘nature’s first green is gold’ is from.
  20. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.” Happy Hooker. Xaveria Hollander.
  21. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear? porcine and ursine
  22. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city? New Orleans’s French Quarter
  23. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there? a miner forty-niner and his daughter Clementine
    *26. His campaign slogan was AuH2O. Goldwater
  24. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them? Sacco and Vanzetti
    *28. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket? Charlie Bucket
  25. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on). 120
  26. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow? Tae-bo is aerobic kickboxing. Pai-gow is a style of poker played often in Vegas.
  27. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence? Callaghan
  28. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference? Psychiatrists
  29. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there? seven
    *34. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill? California gold rush
  30. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe? Lizzie Borden’s
  31. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song? Aretha Franklin
  32. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him? cereal (serial) killer
  33. What’s a ground rule double? A fair ball, after touching the ground, bounds into the stands, or passes through, over or under a fence, or through or under a scoreboard, or through or under shrubbery, or vines on the fence, in which case the batter and the runners shall be entitled to advance two bases.
  34. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand. Because Pee Wee Herman was arrested for public masturbation
  35. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12? temperance advocate
  36. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand? Adam Smith
  37. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa? Margaret Mead, anthropologist, studied the culture of Samoa.
  38. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall? In 1969 police tried to arrest a group of gay men and women at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. They resisted arrest, and a riot broke out. It helped set off the gay rights movement, and is celebrated every year.
  39. What does the Army think a CSM is? command sergeant major
  40. How many coins in the fountain? Three
    *46. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next? Fibonacci sequence and 34
  41. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient? O negative and AB positive
  42. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way. Neat
  43. After Lyndon Johnson dramatically increased U.S. participation in Vietnam, approximately what percentage of eighteen and nineteen-year olds voted Democratic in the 1968 presidential election? Zero. Eighteen and nineteen year olds didn’t get the vote until 1971.
  44. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it. family, genus, species
    Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it? Gold. It occurs in the six starred questions, if you count the fact that the answer to 46 involves the Golden Proportion.

Yes, as you can notice, I did use everyone else’s answers.

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  1. Playing risk
  2. pitcairn island is where the mutineers of the BOUNTY settled
    6 red square. moscow
  3. irish spring
  4. 3
    14.American bandstand
    21.robert frost wrote the poem
    24 quarter
    25 a miner 49er and his daughter Clementine
    35 lizzie borden
    36 atetha franklin
    38 baseball
    39 pee wee herman
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I’ve changed my answer to question 30.

  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing? playing Risk
  2. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary. Mannix
  3. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell? I’d refuse, just like Don Giovanni.
  4. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests? Mutiny on the Bounty
  5. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:? Christie
  6. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where? Red Square in Moscow
  7. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison? President of the US for 24 hours (because Taylor refused to be sworn in on Sunday
  8. “Manly yes, but I like it too.” Irish Spring
  9. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams? 4 grams
  10. Who were Laius and Jocasta? parents of Oedipus
  11. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces? Joule
  12. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up? Ali Agca
  13. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they? Isaac Asimov. (1) A robot may not injure a human, or allow one to be injured. (2) A robot must obey a human, provided it does not violate (1). (3) Self-preservation, provided it does not violate (1) or (2).
  14. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.” American Bandstand
    *15. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry? springbok, on the South African gold Krugerrand
  15. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows… anything goes
  16. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby? Hubby is Charles Bovary, husband of Madame Bovary
  17. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care? He’s an expressionist
  18. Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing? You’re describing the charges of the ions of each element in that compound.
  19. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why? The dark side of the moon always faces away from the earth.
    *21. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why? Because Robert Frost wrote ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, which is where the line ‘nature’s first green is gold’ is from.
  20. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.” Happy Hooker. Xaveria Hollander.
  21. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear? porcine and ursine
  22. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city? New Orleans’s French Quarter
  23. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there? a miner forty-niner and his daughter Clementine
    *26. His campaign slogan was AuH2O. Goldwater
  24. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them? Sacco and Vanzetti
    *28. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket? Charlie Bucket
  25. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on). 120
  26. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow? Tae-bo is aerobic kickboxing. Pai-Gow is a popular Chinese gambling game played with one set of dominoes.
  27. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence? Callaghan
  28. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference? Psychiatrists
  29. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there? seven
    *34. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill? California gold rush
  30. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe? Lizzie Borden’s
  31. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song? Aretha Franklin
  32. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him? cereal (serial) killer
  33. What’s a ground rule double? A fair ball, after touching the ground, bounds into the stands, or passes through, over or under a fence, or through or under a scoreboard, or through or under shrubbery, or vines on the fence, in which case the batter and the runners shall be entitled to advance two bases.
  34. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand. Because Pee Wee Herman was arrested for public masturbation
  35. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12? temperance advocate
  36. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand? Adam Smith
  37. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa? Margaret Mead, anthropologist, studied the culture of Samoa.
  38. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall? In 1969 police tried to arrest a group of gay men and women at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. They resisted arrest, and a riot broke out. It helped set off the gay rights movement, and is celebrated every year.
  39. What does the Army think a CSM is? command sergeant major
  40. How many coins in the fountain? Three
    *46. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next? Fibonacci sequence and 34
  41. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient? O negative and AB positive
  42. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way. Neat
  43. After Lyndon Johnson dramatically increased U.S. participation in Vietnam, approximately what percentage of eighteen and nineteen-year olds voted Democratic in the 1968 presidential election? Zero. Eighteen and nineteen year olds didn’t get the vote until 1971.
  44. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it. family, genus, species
    Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it? Gold. It occurs in the six starred questions, if you count the fact that the answer to 46 involves the Golden Proportion.
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Thank you for guaranteeing that I will not get any work done this morning…

  1. Playing Risk?
  2. Sorry, haven’t a clue.
  3. The statue invites you to dinner at his place the next night, serves you gall and vipers, and drags you down to hell.
  4. It was the scene of the mutiny on the Bounty.
  5. Christie.
  6. Moscow.
  7. He was president for a day (and didn’t Cecil do a column on this?).
  8. Irish Spring?
  9. 4 grams.
  10. Oedipus’ parents.
  11. A joule?
  12. Mehmet Ali Acga.
  13. Isaac Asimov. A robot must not injure a human being, must obey orders from a human being (unless this would conflict with the first law) and must preserve its own existence (unless this would conflict with the first or second law).
  14. Je ne sais pas.
  15. No se.
  16. Anything goes?
  17. Charles Bovary.
  18. He was an expressionist.
  19. (Total and complete WAG). The oxidation of lead?
  20. Ich weiss nicht.
  21. “… Her hardest hue to hold,
    Leaf subsides to leaf
    So Eden sank to grief”
    – Robert Frost
  22. Who is Xaviera Hollander?
  23. Porcine and ursine.
  24. Paris?
  25. A miner, forty-niner, and his daughter Clementine.
  26. Goldwater.
  27. Sacco and Vanzetti.
  28. Bucket.
  30. Ego non scio.
  31. Heath.
  32. Psychiatry.
  33. Seven.
  34. The gold rush.
  35. Lizzie Borden.
  36. Aretha Franklin.
  37. (AAARRGHHH!) A cereal killer.
  38. Ic ne wite.
  39. (TOTAL WAG.) He had a hook-hand.
  40. She wouldn’t go anywhere near the beer.
  41. Smith.
  42. Margaret Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa.
  43. The Stonewall Riots, 1969.
  44. I don’t know, and I have run out of languages.
  45. Three.
  46. The Fibonacci series, and 34.
  47. Universal donor: O. Universal recipient: AB.
  48. Uh … shaken, not stirred?
  49. None. The voting age was 21.
  50. Family, genus, species.

Tie-breaker: Three, and gold.

I think apathy, depression, irony, and confusion are damned fine ways to view a world going to hell.
– Cynthia Heimel

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Scores so far:

Chef Troy: 31
Surgoshan: 11
Nekosoft: 14
Kat: 36 (please note I am giving credit for both Pai-Gow Poker and the original Pai-Gow dominos game, since I am hard-pressed to defend the propostion that Pai-Gow Poker isn’t a valid answer)
Headless Cow: 16
Maxtorque & Falcon: 49
Shayna, Grace, & Chocolate: 37 (original version does say “heaven knows,” but some cover versions say, “but now God knows.”)
Wendell Wagner: 49
kellibelli: 10
Fretful Porcupine: 37 and a thanks for some great laughs – being able to say “I don’t know,” in many languages is a great skill!

Still no winner… but I should just get used to the fact that these are never as tough as I think they are. Nice going!

  • Rick
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Without research or looking at any other answers:

  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing?

Playing Risk.

  1. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary.

Mannix.

  1. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell?

No idea.

  1. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests?

Pitcairn Island was where most of the H.M.S. Bounty mutineers (Fletcher Christian & crew) ended up after puuting Capt. Bligh and a few loyal crewmen adrift in a boat.

  1. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:?

If you mean Miss Jane Marple, the answer is Christie. If you mean Marples, I have no idea.

  1. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where?

Moscow. Good question

  1. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison?

Unless he founded Atchison, KS, I have no idea.

  1. “Manly yes, but I like it too.”

Irish Spring Soap

  1. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams?

4 grams

  1. Who were Laius and Jocasta?

Greek myth, I think, but no idea beyond that.

  1. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces?
  2. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up?

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme shot Pres. Ford. The name of Pope John Paul’s Turkish attacker was something like Achmet Ali.

  1. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they?

Isaac Asimov. (Paraphrasing) 1. I will not cause harm to a human or, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. 2. I will not allow myself to suffer harm. 3. I will obey the commands of a human.

  1. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.”

American Bandstand.

  1. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry?

Kreugerrand.

  1. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows…

Anything goes.

  1. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby?

No idea

  1. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care?

Title of Kandinsky painting.
19. Pb(NO[sub]3[/sub])[sub]2[/sub]. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing?

Lead Nitrate. the numbers refer to free spaces in the outer electron shell in the shell method of conceptualizing chemical interactions.

  1. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why?

  2. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why?

  3. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.”

  4. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear?

Porcine/Ursine

  1. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city?

New Orleans (quarter)

  1. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there?

A Forty-Niner (and Darling Clemintine)

  1. His campaign slogan was AuH[sub]2[/sub]O.

Barry Goldwater

  1. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them?

Sacco and Vanzetti
28. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket?

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

  1. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on).

120

  1. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow?

Use of weapons? (wild guess)

  1. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence?

Harold Wilson

  1. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference?

Psychiatrists

  1. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there?

Seven. Baptism, Confession/Reconciliation, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders.

  1. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill?

The California Gold Rush

  1. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe?

Lizzie Borden.

  1. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song?

Aretha Franklin

  1. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him?

Lol. A Cereal Killer.

  1. What’s a ground rule double?

In baseball, if the ball is lost or interfered with in certain ways, the batter takes second base and no more. As a Cub fan, I’ve seen my share of these when balls get lost in the ivy at Wrigley.

  1. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand.

  2. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12? She’s dead, and also was anti-alcohol.

  3. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand?

Adam Smith, 1776, Wealth of Nations.

  1. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa?

Margaret Meade, American anthropologist, wrote Growing Up in American Samoa.

  1. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall?

Stonewall riots in New York, resulting from police harassment of patrons at a gay bar.

  1. What does the Army think a CSM is?

A rank of Sargeant major

  1. How many coins in the fountain?

3

  1. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next?

Mathematical sequence - 34

  1. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient?

Donor = O-. Receipient = AB+

  1. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way.

Neat (straight alcohol.)

  1. After Lyndon Johnson dramatically increased U.S. participation in Vietnam, approximately what percentage of eighteen and nineteen-year olds voted Democratic in the 1968 presidential election?

25%

  1. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it.

family, genus, species.

Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it?

Seven. Gold.

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I’ve changed my answer to question.

  1. I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing? playing Risk
  2. Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary. Mannix
  3. Inviting the statue of a dead man to dinner may seem nuts, especially when you’re the guy that killed him… but what happens if the statue shows up and tells you to repent your despoiling ways or you’ll be dragged off to Hell? I’d refuse, just like Don Giovanni.
  4. What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests? Mutiny on the Bounty
  5. Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:? Christie
  6. There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where? Red Square in Moscow
  7. What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison? President of the US for 24 hours (because Taylor refused to be sworn in on Sunday
  8. “Manly yes, but I like it too.” Irish Spring
  9. If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams? 4 grams
  10. Who were Laius and Jocasta? parents of Oedipus
  11. Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces? Joule
  12. If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up? Mehmet Ali Agca
  13. Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they? Isaac Asimov. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
  14. “I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.” American Bandstand
    *15. Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry? springbok, on the South African gold Krugerrand
  15. In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows… anything goes
  16. Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby? Hubby is Charles Bovary, husband of Madame Bovary
  17. Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care? He’s an expressionist
  18. Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing? You’re describing the charges of the ions of each element in that compound.
  19. You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why? The dark side of the moon always faces away from the earth.
    *21. Jack Frost is nipping at your nose, but just around the corner is spring. And Nature’s first green is gold… which also involves frost. Why? Because Robert Frost wrote ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’, which is where the line ‘nature’s first green is gold’ is from.
  20. She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.” Happy Hooker. Xaveria Hollander.
  21. A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear? porcine and ursine
  22. Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city? New Orleans’s French Quarter
  23. In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there? a miner, forty-niner, and his daughter Clementine
    *26. His campaign slogan was AuH2O. Goldwater
  24. Bartholomew and Nikola were arrested, tried, and convicted. Their crime? Either anarchy or murder, depending on who you believe. How do we better know them? Sacco and Vanzetti
    *28. Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket? Charlie Bucket
  25. If I toss an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of spades in a shoebox, how many different ways can they be drawn out? (Ex. Ace-ten-queen-king-jack is one way, ten-queen-jack-ace-king is another, and so on). 120
  26. What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow? Tae-bo is aerobic kickboxing. Pai-Gow is a popular Chinese gambling game played with one set of dominoes.
  27. Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence? Callaghan
  28. What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference? psychiatrists
  29. According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there? 7
    *34. Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill? California gold rush
  30. Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe? Lizzie Borden’s
  31. Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song? Aretha Franklin
  32. “Let’s get Mikey! He won’t eat it; he hates everything.” Maybe so, but if he hated it so much he wanted to murder it, he’d fit in with DeSalvo, Ramirez, and Berkowitz. What might we call him? cereal (serial) killer
  33. What’s a ground rule double? A fair ball, after touching the ground, bounds into the stands, or passes through, over or under a fence, or through or under a scoreboard, or through or under shrubbery, or vines on the fence, in which case the batter and the runners shall be entitled to advance two bases.
  34. Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand. Because Pee Wee Herman was arrested for public masturbation
  35. Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12? temperance advocate
  36. According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand? Adam Smith
  37. Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa? Margaret Mead, anthropologist, studied the culture of Samoa.
  38. Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall? In 1969 police tried to arrest a group of gay men and women at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. They resisted arrest, and a riot broke out. It helped set off the gay rights movement, and is celebrated every year.
  39. What does the Army think a CSM is? Command Sergeant Major
  40. How many coins in the fountain? 3
    *46. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next? Fibonacci sequence and 34
  41. She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient? O negative and AB positive
  42. I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way. Neat
  43. After Lyndon Johnson dramatically increased U.S. participation in Vietnam, approximately what percentage of eighteen and nineteen-year olds voted Democratic in the 1968 presidential election? Zero. Eighteen and nineteen year olds didn’t get the vote until 1971.
  44. Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it. family, genus, species

Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it? Gold. It occurs in the six starred questions, if you count the fact that the answer to 46 involves the Golden Proportion. I’ve read through the words of “Clementine” carefully, and there’s no mention of the miner being a gold miner, so I’m not including 25.

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ARGH! Bricker, can you email me which one Max and I got wrong? I thought for SURE we had all 50 last night…

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I meant to say question 13 was the one where I changed the answer.

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Wendell: I gave full credit for your paraphrase of Asimov’s laws. Your re-phrase is now more accurate, but you can’t get more than full credit :slight_smile:

You are still at 49 correct answers.

Scores so far:

Chef Troy: 31
Surgoshan: 11
Nekosoft: 14
Kat: 36 (please note I am giving credit for both Pai-Gow Poker and the original Pai-Gow dominos game, since I am hard-pressed to defend the propostion that Pai-Gow Poker isn’t a valid answer)
Headless Cow: 16
Maxtorque & Falcon: 49
Shayna, Grace, & Chocolate: 37 (original version does say “heaven knows,” but some cover versions say, “but now God knows.”)
Wendell Wagner: 49
kellibelli: 10
Fretful Porcupine: 37 and a thanks for some great laughs – being able to say “I don’t know,” in many languages is a great skill!
Random: 33 (and a note to you and everyone else who caught “Marples” vs. “Marple”. I’d love to claim that was a deliberate mistake to foil Internet searches, or tossed in to see how many eagle-eyed observers caught it… but the truth is, I just messed up.) :slight_smile:

Falcon: while I appreciate how frustrating this is, I would prefer to wait until after this challenge is over before sending out the correct answers. Sorry… if it’s any consolation, you’re in first place right now (first poster with 49, and no one yet has 50).

  • Rick
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Bricker - that’s cool. I was just annoyed…we spent a LOT of time figuring the damn things out last night. Already picked the beer we want too! :slight_smile:

But I can wait until Monday.

“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.