TaleraRis: 21
Ukelele Ike: 33
Nice work, both of you!
As always, all from prior knowledge – no research or consultation. Anybody else challenge me on this basis?
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I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing?
Playing risk. -
Joe’s a white private investigator in Los Angeles, and Peggy is his black secretary.
Mannix -
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?
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What’s punny about the idea that Pitcairn Island produces bountyful harvests?
Home of the Bounty mutineers -
Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:?
Christie -
There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where?
Moscow -
What’s the claim to fame of David Rice Atchison?
Acting President (of the US) for a day. -
“Manly yes, but I like it too.”
Irish Spring -
If a coin weighs two grams plus half a coin, what is the weight of a coin in grams?
4 grams -
Who were Laius and Jocasta?
Parents of Oedipus. -
Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces?
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If Jerry Ford and Karol Wojtyla got to talking over a beer or two, Jerry might mention Lynette Fromme. Who would Karol bring up?
Ahmet ? the Turkish man who shot him. -
Who created the Three Laws of Robotics? What are they?
Isaac Asimov, 1. Robot shall not harm a human. 2. Robot shall not harm itself or other robot. 3. Robot shall follow all orders of humans unless it would result in a violation of Rule 1 or 2. -
“I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.”
American Bandstand record review. -
Panda, maple leaf, double eagle. South Africa’s entry?
Kruggerrand -
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows…
(actually, its … but now heaven knows)…. Anything Goes. -
Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby?
Dr. Bovary -
Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care? Expressionist painter
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Pb(NO3)2. If I tell you that Pb = +2, N = +5, and O = -2, what am I describing?
The charges on the ions which combine to form lead nitrate. -
You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why?
The dark side of the moon is never visible from the earth. There is no dark side of the moon. Matter of fact, its all dark. -
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?
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She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.”
Xaviera Hollander, the “Happy Hooker” -
A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear?
Porcine, ursine -
Maybe we would call a twenty-five centime coin this phrase, but it’s better known as a section of what city?
The French quarter is a section of New Orleans. -
In a canyon, in a cavern, excavating for a mine. Who lived there?
A miner, 49’er and his daughter Clementine. -
His campaign slogan was AuH2O.
Goldwater -
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 -
Charlie gave assignments to Sabrina, Kelly, and golden-haired Jill, but what other Charlie found the last golden ticket?
Charlie Bucket, in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. -
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).
5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1 = 120 different possibilities. -
What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow?
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Blair, Major, Thatcher. Who’s next in this sequence?
Edmund Heath? (pm’s of gb) -
What profession turns to the DSM-IV for reference?
Psychiatric/psychological -
According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there?
7 -
Sutter’s Home makes a low-quality zinfandel, but what started with a discovery at Sutter’s Mill?
The California Gold Rush -
Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe?
Lizzie Borden -
Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song?
Aretha Franklin -
“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?
The Life Cereal Killer -
What’s a ground rule double?
In baseball, a ball hit fair which bounces over the outfield wall. By rule, the hitter is given a double. -
Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand.
Paul Ruebens (Pee Wee Herman) was caught masturbating in an x rated movie theatre. -
Why wouldn’t Carrie Nation EVER be a part of question 12?
Because she was against drinking and busted up saloons w/ a hatchet -
According to Genesis, Adam was the first man, but what Adam theorized market forces acting as if controlled by an unseen hand?
Smith -
Mead is a fermented honey drink, but how might that help you if you’re growing up in Samoa?
Anthopologist Margaret Mead’s most famous work was about growing up in Samoa -
Stonewall Jackson was a big help at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but what gay rights battle is also identified with Stonewall?
The Stonewall riots in New York City -
What does the Army think a CSM is?
Command Seargent Major, the highest ranking enlisted man. -
How many coins in the fountain?
3 -
1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21. What’s its name and what’s next?
Fibionacci numbers, 34 -
She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient?
O-, AB+ -
I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way.
Neat (i.e. w/o ice) -
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?
0, 18 years didn’t have the vote yet -
Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it.
Family, genus, species.
Tie-breaker: how many questions involve the same precious metal, and what is it?
6, gold
Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.
I am beginning to think that the beer isn’t even necessary.
Silly, I don’t drink. I just wanted to see how many I could get right off the top of my head with zero research or looking off other answers 
When are you going to realize being normal isn’t necessarily a good thing?
- I attacked Kamchatka from Alaska, and was in all four countries in South America. What was I doing?
**Playing Risk
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Marlowe:Chandler::Marples:?
**Christie -
There are thirty-two red squares on a checkerboard, but only one where?
**Moscow? -
“Manly yes, but I like it too.”
** Some sort of aftershave… i forget -
Jewel amazed the world with 1995’s Pieces of You, but what jewel might measure the work involved in picking up those pieces?
** the Joule? -
“I give it an eighty-five, Dick. It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it.”
**American bandstand, rating a song -
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking, but now God knows…
** anything goes (and isn’t it “heaven knows”?) -
Hubby thinks he can fix clubfeet, but just makes it worse. Wife has affairs, spends money, and ODs on arsenic. Who is hubby?
** Henry the 4th? -
Expressing your feelings is important on the Jerry Springer show, but why would Kandinsky care?
** He was an expressionist painter -
You might need to drop acid to really see Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Why?
** There is no dark side of the moon really, in fact, it’s all dark -
She probably did better with the alliteration than titling it, “The Joyful Prostitute.”
** The Happy Hooker -
A cat is feline. A dog is canine. What’s a pig and what’s a bear?
**Porcine and Osine -
His campaign slogan was AuH2O.
**Barry Goldwater -
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).
**25 -
What’s the technical difference between tai-bo and pai-gow?
** One is an exercise fad, the other is a gambling game -
According to the RCC, how many sacraments are there?
**3 -
Whose parents were reportedly dispatched with, respectively, forty and forty-one whacks of an axe?
** Lizzy Borden -
Speaking of respect, who is known for spelling it out in a song?
** Aretha Franklin -
“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 Killer
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Ruebens was known for painting full-figured women, but if I were introduced I might think twice before shaking Paul’s hand.
** very hamhanded segue but referring to Paul Reubins (pee wee) caught masturbating in a florida porn theater -
How many coins in the fountain?
**3 -
She may not be your type, but what is the universal donor and the universal recipient?
**Recipient is AB + donor is O- -
I’m not worried about the bartender being sloppy just because I ask for drinks this way.
** Clean (no ice) -
Kingdom, phylum, class, order. Finish it.
** Genus Species
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
Frankd6: 44 - nice !
Note that Command Sergeant Major is not really “the highest ranking enlisted man in the Army.” That honor goes to the Sergeant Major of the Army, who has an office right next to the Army Chief of Staff.
Sergeant Majors, Command Sergeant Majors, and the Sergeant Major of the Army all are E-9s.
BurnMeUp: 18 (and thanks for the editorial comment on my segue!!)
- Rick