# The Bricker Challenge #4

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 7, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591 "2000-02-07T19:11:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591/81 "2000-02-10T06:09:00Z")

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So what’s the deal about church on Sundays? I remember in my younger (catholic) days being taught that one _should_ go to church on sundays, but one _must_ go on the holidays I listed. So I think the answer to the question  
**9. What days must American Catholics attend church?**  
should _not_ include sundays.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591/82 "2000-02-09T19:25:00Z")

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No peeking, posted by a (relative) newbie, who hopes she now doesn’t look like a complete moron…

1. Senator Wilbur Mills, scandal-plagued lover of Fanny Fox/e.
2. The Buddha
3. Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern?
4. Well, it’s from Finnean’s Rainbow.
5. Um, yes?
6. Vincent and Theo Van Gogh.
7. Tennis game
8. Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation.
9. T.S. Eliot, a black and white cat (which is “rather small”)
10. The U.S. Navy, if you track missile submarines from a 688 or more generally, the DOD.
11. Did they all play the same character in Bewitched?
12. Bailey Banks and Biddle is a law firm - but not sure, otherwise.
13. Popular singers.
14. William Rehnquist.
15. It was the name of his capsule when he first orbited the earth.
16. Mr. Toad?
17. Because the spirit of God “passed over” the houses of the faithful Hebrew slaves who had painted their lintels with lamb’s blood.
18. George Washington, and because there weren’t any silver dollars at the time.
19. He supposedly identified the G-spot.
20. To get his high school ring (". . .they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight"
21. I don’t know that these fishes are particularly low-fat, but I guess if you limited yourself to them, you’d lose weight.
22. V.J. day.
23. New South Wales; another is Western Australia.
24. Andy Warhol
25. Mexico
26. Because she was someone’s secretary mistress who couldn’t type but apparently had other talents – a Watergate figure?
27. Wallace Stevens.
28. Nothing.
29. A network.
30. Grover Cleveland who fathered a child out of wedlock. The second sentence was given by Cleveland supporters in response to the oft-quoted first one.
31. Snow, in the Inuktiktut, or whatever the Inuit language is called.
32. The Treasury Dept.
33. Italy?
34. “Che” was in Arizona?
35. Vice Pres. Ford.
36. one of 45 degrees or fewer?
37. The 15th
38. Uh, no.
39. A pomegranite’s seeds.
40. Dry ice becomes gas through sublimation, passing from solid to gas without stopping at liquid.
41. Putting drinks in them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591/83 "2000-02-09T19:35:00Z")

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oops, please change 15. to “Sidney Biddle Barrows”, the Mayflower madam; and 16. to Characters in the television show Friends.

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591/84 "2000-02-10T00:18:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried:  
> So what’s the deal about church on Sundays? I remember in my younger (catholic) days being taught that one _should_ go to church on sundays, but one _must_ go on the holidays I listed. So I think the answer to the question  
> **9. What days must American Catholics attend church?**  
> should _not_ include sundays.

You remember incorrectly, my friend.

Among the six precepts of the church is the admonition that Catholics are obligated to attend Mass on Sundays and other Holy Days of Obligations. It’s not uncommon to speak of a Saturday Vigil Mass as “meeting the obligation”; that is, as counting towards the Sunday obligation to attend Mass.

- Rick

(For fun, the other five are: to fast and abstain on the days appointed, to receive the Eucharist at least once per year during the Easter season, to receive the Sacrament of Penance at least once per year during the Lenten season (only if serious sin is involved), to contribute to the support of the church, and to observe the laws of th church concerning matrimony.)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bricker-challenge-4/13591/85 "2000-02-10T03:04:00Z")

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Now I really look like a moron – the game was over - bad week at work, thought today was yesterday.

Well, look forward to the next one. I enjoyed it, anyway. Thanks.

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