The Bricker Challenge #4

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As always, the rules may be viewed at The Bricker Challenge #1 thread.

The deadline for this is Thursday 10 February at 11:00 PM EST, real time (as distinguished from whatever time stamp the board puts on your post).

Good luck!

  1. “If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
  2. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
  3. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
  4. If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?
  5. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
  6. Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n>2 and x,y,z non-zero?
  7. This artist sold only one painting in his lifetime: Red Vineyard, for $80. Less than 100 years later, his Irises would sell for $54 million. Who was the artist and who was his brother?
  8. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!
  9. What days must American Catholics attend church?
  10. If I named my pet Jellicle, whose poetry might I have been reading, and what sort of animal do I own? And what color is that animal?
  11. I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?
  12. What cease-fire was January 28th?
  13. If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing?
  14. Dick York :Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
  15. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
  16. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?
  17. Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.
  18. Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. Why?
  19. My aunt likes pink pearls, kinseis, and spigolds, but isn’t too fond of margil or criterion.
  20. This fellow lived in Puddle-on-the-Marsh with, among others, Dab-Dab.
  21. Who kept us out of war because he was too proud to fight?
  22. What was the association of Benny, Anni-frid, Agentha, and Bjorn?
  23. Why is it called Passover, by the way?
  24. Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why?
  25. Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.
  26. How many hosts are possible in a network that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192?
  27. The car was stalled that fateful night, upon the railroad track. I pulled you out and we were safe… but you went running back. Why?
  28. Shall I stay svelte with spelt and smelt?
  29. 8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.
  30. Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. What’s NSW? Add another, too.
  31. Soupy Sales was known for elevating pie-throwing to an art form, but what artist sold a famous soup can painting?
  32. Where does President Zedillo work?
  33. A good speed for Chinese typewriters is eleven words per minute. At last! A job for Elizabeth Ray. Why’s that funny?
  34. “Death is the mother of beauty.” Whose words?
  35. If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?”
  36. What do Beavis and Hank Hill share?
  37. “Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House! Ha, ha, ha!”
  38. Hockey:Stanley Cup::American football:?
  39. In bridge, minimum bid necessary to outbid four spades?
  40. Kaniktshaq, qanik, anijo, hiko (tsiko in some dialects), tsikut, hikuliaq, quahak, kanut, pugtaq, peqalujaq, manelaq, ivuneq, maneraq, akuvijarjuak, kuhugaq, nilak, and tugartaq. What am I generally talking about?
  41. Which law enforcement agency in the United States is responsible for the investigation of counterfeit money?
  42. Despite the best efforts of her father to protect her, Gilda is seduced by Duke. And when dad tries to get revenge, Duke lives and Gilda dies. Where are we?
  43. In 1963, Ernesto confessed to kidnapping and rape in Arizona. Why is that important today?
  44. Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.
  45. A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle?
  46. What day should you worry about if I told you to beware the ides of February?
  47. Be careful if your son wants you to co-sign a car loan, even though the Law of Cosines won’t be of much help, will it?
  48. Sartre said that Hell was other people, but what seeds kept Persephone there?
  49. Sometimes I go from the sublime to the ridiculous, but what if I were ice?
  50. Sammy Sosa hit plenty of high balls, but if he were a bartender, what would he be doing with them?
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  1. The Buddha
  2. Rosenkranz and Guildenstern
  3. Bing Crosby and singing?
  4. Vincent and Theo (van Gogh)
  5. tennis
  6. Days of obligation
  7. T.S. Eliot, cat, black and white
  8. The g-spot
  9. His high school ring (gag)
  10. Andy Warhol
  11. snow
  12. < 90 degrees
  13. pomegranate
  14. mixing it–liquor and some kind of soda
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without looking:

  1. Haley Mills?? I’ve no idea.
  2. Founder of Budhaism
  3. Rosencrantz & Gildenstern
  6. Fermat
  7. a) Van Gogh b) ??
  8. Tennis
  9. Sundays, Good Friday, Easter, & Christmas ?
  11. The Navy
  22. ABBA
  23. The angel of death passed over doors with the blood of the lamb during the 10th plague in Egypt.
  24. a) Washtington, b) ?
  25. The Bra?
  26. 6
  30. a) States in Australia, b) ?
  31. Andy Warhole (sp?)
  32. Nicaragua?
  33. Nelson Rockefellers (sp?) mistress-secretary.
  35. Nothing.
  36. Animators
  37. Garfield
  38. Ring
  40. Snow?
  44. Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.
  45. an acute angle is less than 90 degrees.
  46. February 15th
  47. c^2=a^2+b^2-2ab*cos©, where C is the angle opposite side c (or something like that)
  48. Persimmon?
  49. From ice to steam
  50. Drinking them.

sigh

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  1. Wilbur. Former Senator from Arkansas, discovered in the Tidal Basin with exotic entertainer Fannie Foxxe, in a somewhat inebriated condition.
  2. Buddha
  3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, in Hamlet
  5. Don’t understand the question; reference is to Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”
  6. Fermat
  7. Vincent van Gogh; Theo
  8. Tennis
  10. T.S. Eliot; cat; -
  12. Vietnam War
  17. William Rehnquist
  18. It was his particular Lucky 7 (Friendship 7)
  21. Wilson
  22. Members of ABBA
  23. Because the angel of death passed over the homes of the Jews during the plague of the death of the firstborn.
  24. George Washington, -
  25. Claimed to have discovered G-spot
  26. 64
  27. To get your ring, darling
  28. Not if you eat too much of either.
  29. Japan surrenders to MacArthur on board the U.S.S. Missouri
  30. New South Wales;
  31. Andy Warhol
  32. Mexico City
  33. Elizabeth Ray was found to have been working on the payroll of a congressman from Ohio, named Hays, if memory serves, as a secretary despite having no secretarial skills whatever.
  34. Keats
  35. Nothing
  38. Lombardi Trophy
  40. Snow
  41. Secret Service
  43. His last name was Miranda, his confession was obtained without informing him of his right to an attorney, and hence was declared inadmissible by the Supreme Court.
  44. Gore (cheap I know, but I had a hard time coming up with other veeps who hadn’t served as prez, which I took to be an additional criteria)
  45. less than 90 degrees
  46. 2/15
  48. pomegranate
  49. You’d go from solid to liquid, unless you sublimated directly from solid to gas.
  50. mixing and serving

Hmmm. Not as well as I’d hoped to do, but I didn’t use any sources other than my noggin. Ah well.

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  1. Hayley, or General. Sorry, no idea.
  2. The first Buddha. Also hero of the Hesse novel.
  3. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, HAMLET.
  4. Damn. You’d be in some Broadway musical. Not BRIGADOON, that’s Scotland. FINEAN’S RAINBOW?
  5. Uhhhh…that awful Billy Joel song about the red and white wine in the Italian restaurant?
  7. Vincent Van Gogh. Brother? Uh-oh. He used to drink with Gaugin, but they weren’t related, were they…?
  8. Tennis.
  9. Sunday, I suppose. Do they have to go on other days, too?
  10. T.S. Eliot, a cat. Don’t know the color.
  15. Sydney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam.
  18. The name of his Mercury mission space capsule.

20, Dr. Doolittle.
21.
22.
23. God passed over the houses of the Jews during the Plague on the First-born.
24. Washington. No dollars at the time.
25. The G-spot, sexual pleasure zone.
26.
27. One of those morbid rock songs from the '50s. “Patches” ?
28. Stay skinny on a diet of non-wheat cereal grain and sardine-like fish? Why not?
29. The Hiroshima bombing, or possibly the Nagasaki bombing.
30. New South Wales.
31. Andy Warhol.
32.
33. Ray was employed by a Ohio congressman in the 1970s, despite her lack of clerical skills.
34.
35. Nothing.
36.
37. A taunt used against a US President in the late 19th century. Which one…damn! Cleveland?
38. Heisman Trophy?
39.
40. Snow, in Inuit language.
41.Treasury.
42.
43.
44. Quayle. Veeps who never made it to the Big Seat.
45. Acute angle…less than 90 degrees.
46. Valentine’s Day.
47.
48. Pomegranate.
49.
50. Pouring them. A Highball is liquor over ice with a mixer added.

Not so good. At least you know I didn’t look anything up.

Uke

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Okay, don’t think I’ll get too far, but maybe someone who’s got more answers can use mine.

  1. Who was Siddartha Guatama? Buddha

  2. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win! You’re playing tennis

  3. If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing? Playing backgammon, I think

  4. Dick York Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:? Sarah Chalke (the Beckys on Roseanne

  5. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani? They’re Friends

  6. This fellow lived in Puddle-on-the-Marsh with, among others, Dab-Dab. Gotta go with Dr. Doolittle

  7. Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why? George Washington, because there weren’t any dollars yet

  8. Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg. Because he found the G spot. The bastard.

  9. The car was stalled that fateful night, upon the railroad track. I pulled you out and we were safe… but you went running back. Why? Because, you insensitive man, your ring was still in the car

  10. Soupy Sales was known for elevating pie-throwing to an art form, but what artist sold a famous soup can painting? Andy Warhol

  11. Where does President Zedillo work? Mexico

  12. If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?” Diddly-freakin’-squat

  13. What do Beavis and Hank Hill share? Mike Judge’s voice

  14. “Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House! Ha, ha, ha!” Ahh, that Grover Cleveland was a real Casanova

  15. Which law enforcement agency in the United States is responsible for the investigation of counterfeit money? Treasury Dept.

  16. In 1963, Ernesto confessed to kidnapping and rape in Arizona. Why is that important today? He gave us the right to remain silent, as well as the rest of the Miranda rights

  17. A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle? An angle that measures less than 45 degress

  18. What day should you worry about if I told you to beware the ides of February? I’m gonna guess Valentine’s Day, as there’re only 28 days in Feb.

  19. Sartre said that Hell was other people, but what seeds kept Persephone there? Pomegranate

  20. Sometimes I go from the sublime to the ridiculous, but what if I were ice? I believe you’d go directly from a solid to a gas

  21. Sammy Sosa hit plenty of high balls, but if he were a bartender, what would he be doing with them? Mixing them

We interrupt this thread to increase
dramatic tension.

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Actually, an acute angle has less than 90 degrees. I’m an idiot.

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1.) I’d wager Wilbur Mills, an arkansas senator who was involved in a scandal in the early 1970s.
2. Lord Buddha
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
4. I’m ashamed to say I cannot remember who was singing, but the song is from the musical “Finnegan’s Wake.”
6. Fermat
7. Vincent Van Gogh. I have no idea who his brother was.
8. You won a set of tennis.
10. T.S. Elliott, cat, no idea of color.
11. U.S. Navy (submarine division)
12. The ceasefire that ended the Vietnam War?
13. Playing Battleship?
17. Earl Warren
18. It was the name of his Gemini capsule?
19. Are those flowers?
21. Woodrow Wilson
22. These people comprised the rock group Abba.
23. It commemorates God killing the first-born children of the Egyptians to allow the Hebrews to leave Egypt.
24. George Washington
25. He discovered the alleged G-spot.
26. Without a calculator, I’d venture 192 * 255 (cubed).
28. As they are species of fish, it is possible.
29. Was this the date Japan announced its surrender in WW2?
31. Andy Warhol
33. She was the mistress of an Ohio congressman in the mid-1970s, and it created a stink when it was learned she was on the payroll as a secretary, but couldn’t type.
35. Not a damn thing
36. The same artist? They are both Fox TV shows.
37. Grover Cleveland
38. The Super Bowl
40. These are words for snow in Inuit.
41. The Secret Service.
43. His case was the basis for Miranda vs. Arizona, the case that determined the Miranda rights.
44 Aaron Burr
45. <= 89 degrees
46. Feb. 15
48. Pomengranite (probably misspelled) seeds
49. You would go directly to water vapor.
50. You would be mixing and serving them.

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BTW, I did mine off the top of my head.
I hope you all are suitably impressed.

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Ukele Ike, is right. The song in #4 is from Finean’s Rainbow, not Finnegan’s Wake. Joyce to the world.

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Oh, and that Ohio congressman was Wayne Hays.

I was a teenager in Ohio back in the '70s, and this story was much appreciated, believe you me.

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Alright. Here’s my massive reply. And my apologies to all those I stole information from- if I win, I owe you a beer.

No marker- stolen from one of the above replies.
*- knew that off the top of my head.
**- found on the web.

1.Wilbur Mills, Congressman from Arkansas, caught with stripper Fanny Foxe.
2.Buddha.
3. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, according to Shakespeare’s Hamlet*
4.It’s from Finian’s Rainbow, but I don’t know who sings it.**
5.Yes. From"Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel. (Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom/ Riding around with the car top down and the radio on…)*
6.Fermat.
7. Vincent Van Gogh; his brother, Theo, was his would-be agent (and I believe the only person who actually bought one of his paintings).*
8. Then I challenge you to a rematch of tennis, starting score, Love-Love.*
9. Days of Obligation
10. T.S. Eliot, cat, black and white.
11. The U.S. Navy.
12. The Vietnam War.
13. Playing Backgammon.
14. Sarah Chalke.
15. Sidney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam.
16. They’re all Friends! (Monica Gellar, Rachael Green, Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, and Joey Tribbiani.)**
17. Hughes Rehnquist. (Supreme Court Chief Justices. And if you can get away with “Taney” as a first name, I can get away with “Hughes.”)
18. It was the name of his capsule.
19. Well, how’s she like them apples? I can’t figure out any particular distinction between those types of apples, though…**
20.Dr. Doolittle.
21. Woodrow Wilson Kept Us Out Of War, and Woodrow Wilson Is Too Proud To Fight. At least, he was until he won the election of 1916 in which these slogans were used, whereupon a year later we suddenly found ourselves involved in World War I….*
22. ABBA. Blech.*
23.Because the Angel of Death “passed over” the children of Israel in the final plague of Egypt.*
24. Because the legend is that George Washington threw a dollar across the Delaware. He chopped down a cherry tree when he was a kid, though. I heard from a friend of a friend…*
25. While not necessarily the first guy to find it, he was the first to document the “Grafenberg Spot”, better known as the G-spot. Ask Tveblen why this is important.*
26. 64
27. His high school ring.
28. Well, smelt is a small fish, so that’s okay; but spelt is a wheat used for livestock, so I think you’ll end up fat as a cow… (No offense intended towards Imthecowgodmoo or tinycow for that stereotype.) **
29. Japan Surrenders. Large-scale hooting, hollering, and sailor-kissing begins in the U.S.
30. New South Wales; another is Northern Territory. (provinces of Australia, mate)**
31. Andy Warhol.*
32.Mexico City.*
33.Famous for saying: “I can’t type. I can’t file. I can’t even answer the phone.”, Ms. Ray was a former Miss Virginia hired as a ‘secretary’ for Ohio Representative Wayne Hays, although given the mattress in Hays’ back office, it’s unlikely that Ms. Ray was ever hired for her typing skills…**
34. Yeats.
35. Nothing, according to the rules. Gaining all money paid for fines and Community Chest/Chance cards is just a house rule.*
36. The same animator: Mike Judge, as well as the same home town.*
37. A chant spun by Democrats in the election of 1884, in which they (successfully) supported the admitted bastard-siring Grover Cleveland.*
38. Super Bowl ring.*
39. Four no-trump (assuming you’re not talking about doubles and re-doubles).*
40. Snow. Lots of words for snow.
41. The Secret Service, a branch of the Treasury Department.*
42. At the opera, watching Verdi’s Rigoletto.**
43. His confession was made without his legal counsel present, and Ernesto Miranda had no knowledge of his legal rights to counsel. After Miranda v. Arizona before the Supreme Court, the practice of informing someone of their rights became known as “Mirandizing” and the lack thereof was accepted as reason for overturning entry of evidence (yeah, I’m wrong on the specifics of what it means, but all my knowledge of the law comes from watching Law & Order).*
44. Quayle. (U.S. Vice Presidents)*
45. One that you send a card on Valentines Day. Or, mathematically, an angle less than 90 degrees.*
46. February 15th. (Okay, in theory, the Ides of the Month is the middle day of the month, but the Ides of March (31 days) is March 15th, and if it were the exact middle, it’d be March 16th. So I’m going with February 15th).*
47. No, it has to do with calculus. Although understanding calculus may actually help in trying to figure out your car loan payments.*
48. Pomegranate.
49. You’d go from solid to liquid, which kinda rhymes.
50. Mixing and serving them. They’re a type of drink.*

(I apologize for formatting errors in advance.)

JMCJ

This is not a sig.

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In an effort to clarify what I’m looking for in question nine, since everyone who’s attempted it has answered, “Days of Obligation”…

That is a true statement… but it’s also a definition. I can understand why you might think that’s as far as you had to go… but it’s a more appropriate answer to, “What are the days American Catholics must go to church called?”

Since I asked what they are, that’s what I’m looking for - what, specifically, are the days I have to go to church?

I will total scores thus far in a little while.

As usual, my hat’s off to everyone, and my carefully constructed difficult questions are reeling in disbelief that they have been so easily conquered.

Two or three of them still are smiling smugly, though. :slight_smile:

  • Rick
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And as they round the first turn:

cher3: 12
Tinker Grey: 16 1/2
rackensack: 30 1/2
Ukulele Ike: 22
Flysyde: 19
Peyote Coyote: 27 1/2
John Corrado: 43

Please note that for questions calling for two distinct pieces of information, getting one gains you 1/2 point. I did this not out of generousity, but in an effort to make it harder to figure out who’s right about what. :slight_smile:

It should also assist in tie-breaking, should that become necessary.

  • Rick
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As always, all my own work, off the tippy top of my head.

  1. “If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
    Sen Wilbur Mills, caught w/ a prostitute.

  2. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
    the Buddha

  3. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
    Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern

  4. If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?

  5. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?

  6. Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n>2 and x,y,z non-zero?

  7. This artist sold only one painting in his lifetime: Red Vineyard, for $80. Less than 100 years later, his Irises would sell for $54 million. Who was the artist and who was his brother?
    Vincent Van Gogh, Theo.

  8. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!
    Tennis score

  9. What days must American Catholics attend church?
    Holy days of obligation.

  10. If I named my pet Jellicle, whose poetry might I have been reading, and what sort of animal do I own? And what color is that animal?
    T.S. Eliot, Cat, Orange

  11. I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?

  12. What cease-fire was January 28th?
    Gulf war?

  13. If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing?
    Playing Backgammon

  14. Dick York ick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
    Sarah Chalke

  15. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
    Sidney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam

  16. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?

  17. Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.
    Rehnquist Vinson

  18. Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. Why?
    Friendship 7, Glenn’s spaceship

  19. My aunt likes pink pearls, kinseis, and spigolds, but isn’t too fond of margil or criterion.

  20. This fellow lived in Puddle-on-the-Marsh with, among others, Dab-Dab.

  21. Who kept us out of war because he was too proud to fight?

  22. What was the association of Benny, Anni-frid, Agentha, and Bjorn?
    ABBA

  23. Why is it called Passover, by the way?
    because the angel of death passed over the houses of the Hebrews, who had put a mark on their door.

  24. Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why?
    George Washington. There were no “dollars” when he was a kid. Also, too far for anyone to throw.

  25. Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.
    discovered the G-spot

  26. How many hosts are possible in a network that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192?
    192

  27. The car was stalled that fateful night, upon the railroad track. I pulled you out and we were safe… but you went running back. Why?

  28. Shall I stay svelte with spelt and smelt?
    If you like fish.

  29. 8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.
    signing of Japan’s surrender

  30. Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. What’s NSW? Add another, too.
    New South Wales, Northern Territory

  31. Soupy Sales was known for elevating pie-throwing to an art form, but what artist sold a famous soup can painting?
    Andy Warhol

  32. Where does President Zedillo work?
    Mexico City

  33. A good speed for Chinese typewriters is eleven words per minute. At last! A job for Elizabeth Ray. Why’s that funny?
    ask Wilbur Mills

  34. “Death is the mother of beauty.” Whose words?

  35. If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?”
    nothing

  36. What do Beavis and Hank Hill share?
    Mike Judge’s voice

  37. “Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House! Ha, ha, ha!”
    Presidental campaign slogan slurring Andrew Jackson?

  38. Hockey:Stanley Cup::American football:?
    Lombardi trophy

  39. In bridge, minimum bid necessary to outbid four spades?
    4NT

  40. Kaniktshaq, qanik, anijo, hiko (tsiko in some dialects), tsikut, hikuliaq, quahak, kanut, pugtaq, peqalujaq, manelaq, ivuneq, maneraq, akuvijarjuak, kuhugaq, nilak, and tugartaq. What am I generally talking about?
    snow

  41. Which law enforcement agency in the United States is responsible for the investigation of counterfeit money?
    Secret Service

  42. Despite the best efforts of her father to protect her, Gilda is seduced by Duke. And when dad tries to get revenge, Duke lives and Gilda dies. Where are we?
    Italy

  43. In 1963, Ernesto confessed to kidnapping and rape in Arizona. Why is that important today?
    Miranda warnings

  44. Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.
    Adams. Ford. Johnson. Barkley.

  45. A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle?
    well, Helen Hunt has some cute angles, but an “acute” angle is one of less than 90 degrees.

  46. What day should you worry about if I told you to beware the ides of February?
    2d

  47. Be careful if your son wants you to co-sign a car loan, even though the Law of Cosines won’t be of much help, will it?
    No – its a trig ratio

  48. Sartre said that Hell was other people, but what seeds kept Persephone there?
    pomegranite seeds

  49. Sometimes I go from the sublime to the ridiculous, but what if I were ice?
    you’d go from solid (ice) to gas (steam)

  50. Sammy Sosa hit plenty of high balls, but if he were a bartender, what would he be doing with them?
    pouring them.

Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.

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Well, to redeem myself for my casual effort, here are the Holy Days of Obligation:
Mary, Mother of God : January 1
Ascension: Forty days after Easter
Assumption: August 15
All Saints: November 1
Immaculate Conception: December 8
Christmas: December 25
Now, how could Jesus have been conceived on the 8th and born on the 25th? Miraculous, indeed.

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The Immaculate Conception is MARY’S conception, since she was born without Original Sin.

I’ll post my answers later…just needed to clear that up. grin

“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!”

  • Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
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Ah, that clears it up. I forgot to say that Sundays are all Days of Obligation, too. I’m not Catholic, but I’m married to one.

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Here are mine.
CODE: ~ == net research
* == stolen from previous poster

  1. Wilbut Mills. Chair of House Ways and Means committee brought down after a scandalous affair with the stripper Fanne Fox. ~ for confirmation)
  2. The Buddha
  3. Rosencrantz and gildenstern
  4. An actor performing in Finnian’s rainbow
  5. characters in Billy Joel’s Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
  6. Fermat
  7. Vincent van Gogh. His nrother was Theo.
  8. Tennis, anyone?
  9. Every Sunday +
    January 1
    Forty days after Easter
    August 15
    November 1
    December 8
    December 25
    ~ for all
  10. You were naming your cat after reading TS Elliot. Your cat is black+white. (*stole the color)
  11. USN
  12. VietNam cease fire ~
  13. Playing backgammon
  14. Sarah Chalke ~
  15. Sidney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam, connected many folks to hookers.
  16. Friends
  17. Whizzer White
  18. It was the name of his Gemini capsule *
  19. How does she like them apples (though I found criterian, not criterion) ~
  20. Dr Doolitle *
  21. Woodrow Wilson *
  22. They were dancing queens? (ABBA – ugh) *
  23. The Angel of death “passed over” houses of jews (marked with lamb’s blood).
  24. Geaorge Washington and because there weren’t any dollars when he was a kid. (Also, the river is too wide.)
    {also, the dollar incident was supposed to take place during teh war, not when he was a kid.)
  25. Becuase he convinced lovers everywhere to search for the G-spot.
  26. 62 or 63, depending upon how rigidly you adhere to TCP/IP conventions. (64 if you want to ignore them all, but every scheme I have seen reserves 255.255.255.255)
  27. It’s gotta be the ring *
  28. It depends upon how much of it you eat. Smelt is a fish, spelt is a grain, smelt roe is delicious between a quial egg and rice.
  29. Signing of Japan’s surrender?? (I found cites for the 14th, but the ceremony may have been later.) *
  30. New South Wales. Another state is Western Australia
  31. Andy Warhol
  32. Mexico. (Well, he’s President of Mexico. Presumably he works even while travelling to other countries.)
  33. She was a secretary who boasted that she could not type. She was also a former beauty queen and reputed harlot.
  34. WB Yeats
  35. Not a thing
  36. The same animator/creator
  37. Campaign jingle designed to ridicule Grover Cleeland for fathering a bastard child.
  38. Lombardi trophy (awarded to the Super Bowl winner).
  39. 4 notrump
  40. snow *
  41. The Secret Service
  42. Watching the opera rigoletto which is set in Italy. *
  43. The confession, made without the suspect being apprised of his rights, led to the Supreme court’s Miranda ruling. (which is currently being challenged.)
  44. Quayle
  45. An angle of less than 90 degrees
  46. Feb 13<super>th</super>
  47. No help at all, but if you say

ten times really fast, it might confuse him long enough for your son to steal the car.
48) Seeds of a pomegranate
49) Then you might be dry, since dry ice sublimates (changes state from solid to gaseous)
50) He would be mixing them. (preferably using Seagram’s and 7-Up.)

Ow. My brain hurts.

The best lack all conviction
The worst are full of passionate intensity.
*

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  1. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
    ***He is the Buddha.

  2. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
    ***Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

  3. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
    ***Yes, if you’re listening to a Billy Joel tune. Scenes froman Italian Restaraunt I believe.

  4. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!
    *** Tennis?

  5. What days must American Catholics attend church?
    *** SUndays and holy feast days

  6. If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing?
    *** playing backgammon

  7. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
    *** bowling?

  8. What was the association of Benny, Anni-frid, Agentha, and Bjorn?
    *** members of abba

  9. Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.
    ***For “discovering” the G-spot

  10. How many hosts are possible in a network that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192?

***255

  1. 8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.
    *** The end of WW2

  2. Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. What’s NSW? Add another, too.
    ***New South Wales, I am unaware of another Austrailian Province

  3. Soupy Sales was known for elevating pie-throwing to an art form, but what artist sold a famous soup can painting?
    ***Andy Warhol

  4. If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?”
    ***nothing

  5. What do Beavis and Hank Hill share?
    ***a creator and the man who performs their voice

  6. Kaniktshaq, qanik, anijo, hiko (tsiko in some dialects), tsikut, hikuliaq, quahak, kanut, pugtaq, peqalujaq, manelaq, ivuneq, maneraq, akuvijarjuak, kuhugaq, nilak, and tugartaq. What am I generally talking about?
    ***snow?

  7. Which law enforcement agency in the United States is responsible for the investigation of counterfeit money?
    ***FBI

  8. In 1963, Ernesto confessed to kidnapping and rape in Arizona. Why is that important today?
    ***Because of the Miranda warning now used in police procedure. The suspect was not warned that info he told police could be used against him.

  9. Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.
    ***Gore

  10. A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle?
    ** an angle that is less than 90 degrees

  11. What day should you worry about if I told you to beware the ides of February?
    ***15th?

  12. Be careful if your son wants you to co-sign a car loan, even though the Law of Cosines won’t be of much help, will it?
    *** not at all unless the car is involved in trigonometry

  13. Sartre said that Hell was other people, but what seeds kept Persephone there?
    ***Pomegranite

  14. Sammy Sosa hit plenty of high balls, but if he were a bartender, what would he be doing with them?
    *** serving drinks in them.

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.