The Bricker Challenge #4

Fretful_Porpentine · February 8, 2000, 12:00am

Alas, I suspect I won’t win this one either…

Wilbur Mills, Speaker of the House who had an affair with an exotic dancer.
Buddha.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Uh, somebody Irish? Singing?
Yes, and riding around with the car top down and the radio on, nobody looked any finer
Fermat.
Vincent van Gogh; his brother was Theo.
You’re playing tennis.
Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. (Reading clarification) Oh, shoot. Um, first Fridays, Christmas, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, and probably a few others.
T. S. Eliot; a cat; (guess) black.
The U. S. government?
The end of the Vietnam war.
I don’t know.
Sarah Chalke.
Haven’t a clue.
Friends.
Rehnquist Taft.
He piloted Friendship 7.
She must eat a lot of apples.
Dr. Doolittle.
Wilson.
ABBA.
Because God passed over all the houses with lamb’s blood on the doorpost when he slew the firstborn of Egypt.
George Washington. Because there weren’t any dollars back then.
The G-spot.
Don’t know that either.
For a class ring?
Why not, grains and fish are good for you.
… was precisely 10 days after the bombing of Hiroshima. You didn’t mean August 6, did you?
New South Wales. Western Australia.
Andy Warhol.
Mexico City.
She was the secretary of a congressman, more noted for having an affair with him than for her typing.
Wallace Stevens.
Nothing.
An animator?
Chanted by Grover Cleveland’s opponents after it was revealed that Cleveland had an illegitimate son.
Heisman trophy?
Four notrump. (Really, Bricker, you need to make the bridge questions tougher.)
Eskimo words for snow.
The FBI?
Mantua.
His last name was Miranda, and his conviction was overturned because the police failed to read him his rights.
Ford.
One that measures less than 90 degrees.
The 13th.
Not unless there are any triangles involved.
Pomegranate.
You’d sublimate by going from a solid to a gas.
Serving them.

John_Corrado · February 8, 2000, 12:02am

Changed answers are in bold for your convenience.

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 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. In accord with c. 1246, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops decrees that the holydays of obligation to be observed in the United States are the solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God; the solemnity of the Ascension; the solemnity of the Assumption; the solemnity of All Saints; the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception; the solemnity of Christmas. The solemnity of the Epiphany shall transferred to the first Sunday following January 1st; the solemnity of Corpus Christi shall be on the second Sunday following Pentecost. When the solemnities of Mary, Mother of God, the Assumption, and All Saints fall on a Saturday or a Monday they will not be observed as holy 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 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…Oh, and as Cecil said: " The Continental Congress said what the hell and declared the dollar the U.S. monetary unit in 1785, although no U.S. dollars were actually minted until 1794."
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. 255
27. His high school ring.
28. Well, smelt is a small fish, so that’s okay; but spelt is a wheat used for livestock, 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 Presidential election of 1884, in which they (successfully) supported the admitted bastard-siring Grover Cleveland.*
38. Lombardi Trophy.**
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.*

JMCJ

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system · February 8, 2000, 1:16am

1. “If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
Wilbur Mills, democrat representative from Arkansas, and chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, was stopped by the US Park Police after his car was found speeding near the Tidal Basin in 1974. Mills, and a friend, Mrs. Battistella, were intoxicated, and Mrs. Battistella jumped in the Tidal Basin and had to be rescued. Since Mrs. Battistella was known to be a stripper under the name Fanne Foxxe, many rumors were cast upon their innocent friendship. In the following electoral campaign, his opponent used the slogan above.

2. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
A young man from India, who later become better known as The Buddha and lived 6th-5th century B.C.E.

3. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.)

4. If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?
You would probably be an actor playing Sharon McLonergan, and you would be performing in a production of the musical “Finian’s Rainbow”.

5. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
Yes, as you could tell by listening to Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.”

6. Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n>2 and x,y,z non-zero?
The french mathematician Fermat wrote this “theorem” in the margin of a book, accompanied by the sentence “I have discovered a wondrous proof for this, but the margin is too small to contain it.” Known (inaccurately) as “Fermat’s last theorem” or (accurately) as "Fermat’s last conjecture), it became one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics until the theorem was finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994.

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 painted the Red Vineyard, and the brother with whom he was closest was Theo.

8. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!
You must be playing tennis, and you’re not playing against Martina Hingis.

9. What days must American Catholics attend church?
On the holidays of obligation (I’m not sure what the difference is between holidays of obligation and holidays of precept), i.e. Christmas, the New Year, the Ascension, the Assumption, All Saints, and the Immaculate Conception

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?
I would have been reading Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot, and I would own a cat.
Jellicle Cats are black and white,
Jellicle Cats are rather small;
Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,
And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.

11. I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?
The U.S. Navy, and I’m in a Los Angeles class submarine.

12. What cease-fire was January 28th?
Vietnam? My sources say the cease-fire was signed 27 January 1973 in Paris.

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 : :Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
Sarah Chalke. She replaced Lecy Goranson as Becky, the Conners’ oldest daughter, on the sixth episode of “Roseanne’s” sixth season. And Roseanne & Co., in their customary flair for self-parody, poked fun at the whole thing in Chalke’s first episode, having the Conner family watching “Bewitched” and commenting on which Darrin (Dick York or Dick Sargent) was better.

15. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
Sydney Biddle Barrows was known as the “Mayflower Madam” and ran a prostitute service in New York City from 1979 until 1984.

16. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?
Characters in the television show friends:Jennifer Aniston “Rachel Green”, Courtney Cox “Monica Geller”, Lisa Kudrow “Phoebe Buffay”, Matt LeBlanc “Joey Tribbiani”, Matthew Perry “Chandler Bing”, David Schwimmer “Ross Geller”.

17. Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.
Scalia Rehnquist? Last names of supreme court judges.

18. Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. Why?
Friendship seven was the name of the space capsule in which John Glenn became the first american astronaut to orbit the earth.

19. My aunt likes pink pearls, kinseis, and spigolds, but isn’t too fond of margil or criterion.
Well then I would say that the apples she prefers are Golden Delicious or one of its derivatives.

20. This fellow lived in Puddle-on-the-Marsh with, among others, Dab-Dab.
“Once upon a time, many years ago when our grandfathers were little children–there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle-- John Dolittle, M.D. “M.D.” means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot. He lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.”
From The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting

21. Who kept us out of war because he was too proud to fight?
In the summer of 1914 all Europe was plunged into war. US President Woodrow Wilson called upon the United States to be neutral “even in spirit,” and argued: " There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight." In 1916 he was reelected. He defeated the Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes by an electoral vote of 277 to 254. The campaign slogan “He kept us out of war” probably won him more popular votes than any other factor.

22. What was the association of Benny, Anni-frid, Agentha, and Bjorn?
Members of the Swedish pop group Abba (their initials where used for the name of the group.)

23. Why is it called Passover, by the way?
Passover: holiday commemorating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery in Egypt and the “passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus.

24. Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why?
The legend that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River is probably false, since the Potomac River is over a mile wide and not even Washington had that good an arm. And, there were no silver dollars when he was a child.

25. Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.
The G-spot was named for Dr. Ernest Grafenberg, a gynecologist who, in the 1950’s, wrote about a highly sensitive area inside the vagina. Proper stimulation of that area is claimed to produce earth-shattering orgasms in women.

26. How many hosts are possible in a network that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192?
64

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?
To get my high school ring, but now you’re a Teen Angel.

28. Shall I stay svelte with spelt and smelt?
Grain and fish, so you might stay on the skinny side, provided you don’t eat too much.

29. 8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.
Japan surrenders to the alli

Iolanthe · February 8, 2000, 2:24am

Bricker, I’ve read all four of your challenges, and I am really impressed with your work. The first section is made up of the ones I answered all on my own (no help, other answers, or research.) The second section are the ones I’ve stolen from others.

Who was Siddartha Guatama?
Buddha
These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They’re dead.
If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?
Sharon McLonagan, lately of Ireland, now of Missitucky, singing in Finian’s Rainbow.
Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
Yep, in Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.”
Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n>2 and x,y,z non-zero?
Fermat; it’s his last theorem. It’s doubtful that he ever actually had the solution.
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. His devoted brother was Theo.
Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!
You’re playing tennis.
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’s poetry, and you own a cat. The cat would be calico. (a little girl of his acquaintance mispronounced calico as jellicle.)
What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?
Otherwise known as Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey. They’re the Friends.
Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.
All are made up of the last names of Supreme Court Chief Justices. So I’ll add Taft Rehnquist.
Who kept us out of war because he was too proud to fight?
Woodrow Wilson.
Why is it called Passover, by the way?
Because the Angel-of-Death passed over the houses of the Hebrew slaves (which were marked with lamb’s blood, to fool the Angel into thinking that it had already been to their houses.)
Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why?
George Washington (and I had heard that the river was the Rappahannock, but you’re probably right.) He was tall and strong for the age, but not that strong. And if he did this as a youth, then they didn’t have dollars yet.
Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.
He is the man who named (and discovered, in theory,) the G-Spot.
Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. What’s NSW? Add another, too.
New South Wales, in Australia. Another is Northern Territory.
Soupy Sales was known for elevating pie-throwing to an art form, but what artist sold a famous soup can painting?
Andy Warhol’s famous paintings (on display in the East wing of the Nat’l Gallery.)
Where does President Zedillo work?
Mexico City, I’d assume (president of Mexico.)
A good speed for Chinese typewriters is eleven words per minute. At last! A job for Elizabeth Ray. Why’s that funny?
She was a famous “secretary” who had no skills at all and whose real job was governmental mistress.
If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?”
Nothing.
“Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House! Ha, ha, ha!”
Said of Grover Cleveland, president from 1885 to 1889, and again from 1893 to 1897. The Republicans (opposing party) supposedly spread the first half, to reveal that Cleveland accepted paternity of a woman’s illegitimate child (he was only one of many potential fathers, but the rest were already married.) The Democrats added the second half.
In bridge, minimum bid necessary to outbid four spades?
Four no-trump.
Which law enforcement agency in the United States is responsible for the investigation of counterfeit money?
Dept. of Treasury
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?
In Verdi’s opera Rigoletto, which takes place in Italy.
In 1963, Ernesto confessed to kidnapping and rape in Arizona. Why is that important today?
Because he was Ernesto Miranda, whose case outlined the Miranda rights.
Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.
Vice Presidents. Barkley and De Vane King are two of my personal favorites.
A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle?
One that’s less than 90 degrees.
What day should you worry about if I told you to beware the ides of February?
February 13.
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. It’s math, not insurance.
Sartre said that Hell was other people, but what seeds kept Persephone there?
Pomegranate.
Sammy Sosa hit plenty of high balls, but if he were a bartender, what would he be doing with them?
Mixing them from Whiskey and Ginger ale.
“If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
Wilbur Mills, Arkansas Congressman.
What days must American Catholics attend church?
Every Sunday, 1/1, 40 days after Easter, 8/15, 11/1, 12/8, 12/25
I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?
U.S. Navy
What cease-fire was January 28th?
Vietnam War.
If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing?
Playing Backgammon.
Dick York Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
Sarah Chalke.
A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
Sydney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam (a little embarrassed that I didn’t remember that myself.)
Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. Why?
He flew Friendship 7, as his Mercury mission. It was his only mission until he flew on the space shuttle, just this past year. He had become a national hero, and NASA didn’t want to lose their hero if something went wrong (thanks Dad.)
My aunt likes pink pearls, kinseis, and spigolds, but isn’t too fond of margil or criterion.
Names of apple types.
This fellow lived in Puddle-on-the-Marsh with, among others, Dab-Dab.
Dr. Doolittle
What was the association of Benny, Anni-frid, Agentha, and Bjorn?
Members of ABBA.
How many hosts are possible in a network that uses a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192?
64
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 he left his class ring in the car.
Shall I stay svelte with spelt and smelt? Well, fish is supposed to be good for you, but aren’t these very salty?
8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.
Japan surrenders, ending WW2.
“Death is the mother of beauty.” Whose words?
Yeats.
What do Beavis and Hank Hill share?
The voice and creative abilites of Mike Judge.
Hockey:Stanley Cup::American football:?
Lombardi Trophy
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.
Sometimes I go from the sublime to the ridiculous, but what if I were ice?
You could sublimate from solid to gas.

Mon dieu. Thanks all.

system · February 8, 2000, 4:22am

My sister, Chocolate, and I worked on these together. We did not take any answers from other replies here, just used our own smarts and looked up the ones we didn’t know.

indicates ones we knew (although in some cases, we got reference material from the web to back up our answer).

1. “If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
 Wilbur… Wilbur Mills, as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, controlled all financial spending by the US Government.
Not a dime in the government’s money could be spent without approval by Mills, until it became known that he was involved with a stripper, Annabelle Battistella, better known as “Fanne Foxe, The Argentine Firecracker.” Battistella leaped from Arkansas Rep. Wilbur Mills’ limo one night in 1974 and ran into the Tidal Basin in Washington. The alcoholic Mills was eventually forced to check into a rehab center. He retired in 1976, and died in 1992. Battistella kept performing, often under the name “The Tidal Basin Bombshell”; and wrote the “The Stripper and the Congressman”; but tried to commit suicide in 1976. She is believed to be in Argentina.

*2. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
 Buddah

*3. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
Rosenkranz and Gildenstern (or however they’re spelled)???

*4. If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?
You’d be Sharon McLonergan in Finian’s Rainbow and you’d be asking how things are going in your home town, wondering if perhaps the little brook is still leaping there, and if the laddie with the twinklin’ eyes comes whistling by, and does he walk away sad and dreamy there, not to see [you] there.

5. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
YES, according to the Billy Joel Song, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

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, Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
6. Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n> 2 and x,y,z non-zero?
Pierre de Fermat - Fermat’s Last Theorem. The general theorem (that, when n > 2, there are no positive integer solutions to the equation x^n + y^n = z^n). It was conjectured by Fermat hundreds of years ago but remained unproved until just recently, when it was proved by Andrew Wiles. The proof is highly complex and involves some deep areas of abstract mathematics. That of which I really don’t want to go into… Gosh I’m SMART! — Okay So I had to look that one up!

*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?
The Artist is Van Gogh and his brother is Theo

*8. Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!

You’re playing tennis

9. What days must American Catholics attend church?
Sunday (is the Lord’s Day), The Feast of Christ’s Resurrection (Lent and Easter or Holy Pascha), Holy Days of Obligation,
The Twelve Great Feasts (this one is according to the Roman Catholic Church); are all days on which Catholics should go to church.
The Twelve Great Feast include;
(Four Feasts of the Mother of God)

The Nativity of the Theotokos
The Presentation of the Theotokos in the Temple
Annunciation
Dormition

(Six Feasts of Christ)
5. The Nativity of Christ
6. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
7. The Baptism of Jesus or Theophany
8. Transfiguration
9. The Entry into Jerusalem
10. Ascension
11. Pentecost
12. The Exaltation of the Cross

Holy Days of Obligation are
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

*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? 
You’d be reading T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and you’d have a black and white cat.

Jellicle cats are black and white
Jellicle cats are rather small;
Jellicle cats are merry and bright
and pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.
Jellicle cats have cheerful faces
Jellicle cats have bright black eyes;
They like to prctise their airs and graces
And wait for the Jellicle moon to rise

Blah Blah Blah…
11. I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?
A 688 is a submarine and you’d be employed by the Navy
12. What cease-fire was January 28th? 
January 27, 1973 All warring parties in the Vietnam War sign a cease fire. Couldn’t find anything on January 28th… verify the date here:
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index4.html

*13. If an opposing piece lands on a blot, the blot is hit and placed on the bar. What are we doing?
You’re playing backgammon.
14. Dick York Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
Sarah Chalke (Lecy Goranson played Becky #1 & #3 on “Roseanne” and Sarah Chalke played Becky #2 & #4)
*15. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
Sidney Biddle Barrows turned to the escort business after a chance encounter in the unemployment line. The Mayflower descendant made her company, Cachet, into the most exclusive in New York, with a “little black book” that contained the names of executives, oil sheiks, Bankers and Wall Street barons-Manhattan’s most influential men.

*16. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?
They’re friends on the sitcom “Friends”
17. Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.

Thomas Rehnquist (Clarence Thomas and William Rhenquist, put them together and you have Thomas Rehnquist! very funny play on names, by the way!)

18. Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. W

Spiritus_Mundi · February 8, 2000, 4:37am

Arnold and Shayna(s) are of course, correct.

#34 is Wallace Stevens. I am embarrased to have missed that one.

People are also correct that August 6 was the date of the Hiroshima bomb. If the question(#29) was a typo then I will add my voice to theirs.

Shayna(s) did misread the information on their link, though. The mask 255.255.255.192 allows host addresses in the range 193-254, which is 62 hosts. 255 is reserved.

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

system · February 8, 2000, 4:39am

Rassum Frassum %$#&! I want PREVIEW!! Sorry about messing up the links. I’m going to try to fix those. If they’re still messed up, I’m leaving it alone.

My sister, Chocolate, and I worked on these together. We did not take any answers from other replies here, just used our own smarts and looked up the ones we didn’t know.

indicates ones we knew (although in some cases, we got reference material from the web to back up our answer).

1. “If you like liquor, sex, and thrills, cast your vote for _____ Mills.” Complete and explain.
 Wilbur… Wilbur Mills, as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, controlled all financial spending by the US Government. Not a dime in the government’s money could be spent without approval by Mills, until it became known that he was involved with a stripper, Annabelle Battistella, better known as “Fanne Foxe, The Argentine Firecracker.” Battistella leaped from Arkansas Rep. Wilbur Mills’ limo one night in 1974 and ran into the Tidal Basin in Washington. The alcoholic Mills was eventually forced to check into a rehab center. He retired in 1976, and died in 1992. Battistella kept performing, often under the name “The Tidal Basin Bombshell”; and wrote the “The Stripper and the Congressman”; but tried to commit suicide in 1976. She is believed to be in Argentina.

*2. Who was Siddartha Guatama?
 Buddah

*3. These two ne’er-do-wells were tricked into carrying their own death-warrants to England.
Rosenkranz and Gildenstern (or however they’re spelled)???

*4. If you heard me melodiously asking how things are in Gloccamorra, who would I be, and what would I likely be doing?
You’d be Sharon McLonergan in Finian’s Rainbow and you’d be asking how things are going in your home town, wondering if perhaps the little brook is still leaping there, and if the laddie with the twinklin’ eyes comes whistling by, and does he walk away sad and dreamy there, not to see [you] there.

5. Were the popular steadies and the King and the Queen of the Prom Eddie and Brenda?
YES, according to the Billy Joel Song, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

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, Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.

6. Whose idea was it that x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n> 2 and x,y,z non-zero?
Pierre de Fermat - Fermat’s Last Theorem. The general theorem (that, when n > 2, there are no positive integer solutions to the equation x^n + y^n = z^n). It was conjectured by Fermat hundreds of years ago but remained unproved until just recently, when it was proved by Andrew Wiles. The proof is highly complex and involves some deep areas of abstract mathematics. That of which I really don’t want to go into… Gosh I’m SMART! — Okay So I had to look that one up!

*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?
The Artist is Van Gogh and his brother is Theo

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

9. What days must American Catholics attend church?
Sunday (is the Lord’s Day), The Feast of Christ’s Resurrection (Lent and Easter or Holy Pascha), Holy Days of Obligation,
The Twelve Great Feasts (this one is according to the Roman Catholic Church); are all days on which Catholics should go to church.
The Twelve Great Feast include;
(Four Feasts of the Mother of God)

The Nativity of the Theotokos
The Presentation of the Theotokos in the Temple
Annunciation
Dormition

(Six Feasts of Christ)
5. The Nativity of Christ
6. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple
7. The Baptism of Jesus or Theophany
8. Transfiguration
9. The Entry into Jerusalem
10. Ascension
11. Pentecost
12. The Exaltation of the Cross

Holy Days of Obligation are
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

*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? 
You’d be reading T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and you’d have a black and white cat.

Jellicle cats are black and white
Jellicle cats are rather small;
Jellicle cats are merry and bright
and pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.
Jellicle cats have cheerful faces
Jellicle cats have bright black eyes;
They like to prctise their airs and graces
And wait for the Jellicle moon to rise

Blah Blah Blah…
11. I spend my days in a 688, tracking boomers. Who is my employer?
A 688 is a submarine and you’d be employed by the Navy
12. What cease-fire was January 28th? 
January 27, 1973 All warring parties in the Vietnam War sign a cease fire. Couldn’t find anything on January 28th… verify the date here:
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index4.html

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

14. Dick York Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?
Sarah Chalke (Lecy Goranson played Becky #1 & #3 on “Roseanne” and Sarah Chalke played Becky #2 & #4)

*15. A banker and a hooker connected by a biddle. Discuss.
Sidney Biddle Barrows turned to the escort business after a chance encounter in the unemployment line. The Mayflower descendant made her company, Cachet, into the most exclusive in New York, with a “little black book” that contained the names of executives, oil sheiks, Bankers and Wall Street barons-Manhattan’s most influential men.

*16. What’s the general relationship between the Gellars, Green, Bing, Buffay, and Tribbiani?
They’re friends on the sitcom “Friends”

17. Add a name to this crowd: Jay Chase, Warren Marshall, Taney Burger.
Thomas Rehnquist (Clarence Thomas and William Rhenquist, put them together and you have Thomas Rehnquist! very funny play on names, by the way!)

18. Friendship is important, especially to John Glenn. Why?
Because John Glenn’s historic flight as the first American in Orbit was on the Mercury Friendship 7 mission.

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Shayna · February 8, 2000, 4:49am

Thank you for the clarification, Spiritus Mundi!

We hereby change our answer to #26 to 62.

Bricker · February 8, 2000, 5:17am

OK, there are obviously some questions that I need to clarify.

First and foremost, to prevent people from going nuts, I whiffed #29. So the correct answer to #29 is the answer that spots the problem, figures out what I meant, and answers the question I meant to ask. I express no opinion on whether or not anyone’s already done that, because that wouldn’t be fair while the contest is still running.

I stand by Question #12. I would note that I don’t ask when the cease fire was SIGNED, but rather when it WAS.

Please note that it’s possible to say too much. For instance, if I ask, “What days of the week begin with the letter ‘T’?” and you answer Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday… you’re wrong, even though your response contains all the correct answers. Follow me? In general, the more background information you give, the better… but there are some questions where you must be definitive.

With those pieces of guidance out of the way… current scores are:

cher3: 12
Tinker Grey: 16 1/2
rackensack: 30 1/2
Ukulele Ike: 22
Flysyde: 19
Peyote Coyote: 27 1/2
Frankd6: 30 1/2
Spiritus Mundi: 47
BurnMeUp: 17
Fretful Porpentine: 42
John Corrado: 44 (note - your revisions created a net gain of 1)
Arnold Winkelreid: 48 1/2
Iolanthe: 46 (how’s Strephon these days?)
Shayna/Chocolate: 47 1/2

I think that every question has been answered correctly, by someone. Obviously, not all have been answered correctly by the same person yet!

Rick

Rilchiam · February 8, 2000, 6:59am

To be fair, I didn’t look at anyone else’s answers.

Who was Siddartha Guatama?

Uh…Herman Hesse wrote about him.

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

Finian? Or Fred Astaire?

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

Yes, but they started to fight when the money got tight, and they just didn’t count on the tears.

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?

Van Gogh; his brother was Theo.

Fifteen, thirty, forty, I win!

Tennis.

Dick York :Dick Sargent::Lecy Goranson:?

Sarah Chalke.

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

Dr. Doolittle. But it was Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.

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

Well, they just turned down $1B for a tour…

Why is it called Passover, by the way?

You were supposed to put blood on the door (shudder) so ? would “pass over” your house instead of killing your firstborn. (The
Bible is so wholesome…)

Throwing a dollar across the Potomac probably didn’t happen when he was a kid. Who and why?

George Washington. Because there wasn’t an American dollar coin when he was a kid?

Women everywhere may owe a debt of gratitude to Ernest Grafenberg.

He discovered the G-spot.

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?

Well, they said they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight.

8:16 AM, August 16th, 1945.

Hiroshima.

Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland. What’s NSW? Add another, too.

New South Wales?

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

Andy Warhol. (If you’re ever in Pittsburgh, check out the AW museum.)

Where does President Zedillo work?

Mexico.

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

“Of course I’m not a secretary–I can’t type, I can’t file, I can’t even answer the phone!” That said, I can’t remember who she was non-secretary to.

If you follow the rules, what do you earn for landing on “Free Parking?”

The rules say nothing, but I play so that fines and income tax go into the middle of the board and are collected on FP.

What do Beavis and Hank Hill share?

The voice of Mike Judge.

Hockey:Stanley Cup::American football:?

Super Bowl.

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?

Mondale, Agnew, Humphrey, Rockefeller. Add a name.

Johnson?

A cute girl is Helen Hunt, but what’s a cute angle?

Less than 90 degrees.

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

17th?

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

Pomegranate.

Sometimes I go from the sublime to the ridiculous, but what if I were ice?

Solid to liquid.

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

Mixing them.

Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green

Shayna · February 8, 2000, 7:35am

Ok, see if you can follow my logic here - hehehe

Arnold has 48 1/2 out of 50, meaning he only has 1 1/2 wrong answers.

Since I know his answer to #29 is wrong, that means that he’s only missing 1/2 an answer on any of the rest. That makes his “whole” answer for #26 correct.

I therefore change our answer for #26 to 64

We also have another 1 1/2 incorrect. The only other “whole” answer of ours that does not match his (and his must be right because it is, again, a “whole” answer where no half credit is possible) is the bridge question.

Therefore, I am also changing our answer to #39 to four no trump.

And since we still only got credit for half an answer, I’m not sure if it was because we didn’t specify that the Vietnam cease fire happened on the 28th or if we gave you “too much information” in the question about when Catholics must attend church. Since I know we weren’t clear on the cease fire question, I’ll go ahead and clarify that our answer to #12 is, in fact, Vietnam.

Let’s see what those changes do to our score, if anything.

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

Bricker · February 8, 2000, 1:02pm

cher3: 12
Tinker Grey: 16 1/2
rackensack: 30 1/2
Ukulele Ike: 22
Flysyde: 19
Peyote Coyote: 27 1/2
Frankd6: 30 1/2
Spiritus Mundi: 47
BurnMeUp: 17
Fretful Porpentine: 42
John Corrado: 44 (note - your revisions created a net gain of 1)
Arnold Winkelreid: 48 1/2
Iolanthe: 46 (how’s Strephon these days?)
Rilchiam: 21 1/2
Shayna/Chocolate: 48 1/2

Shayna, your analysis is admirable, but it doesn’t take into account the fact that I may be accepting different answers for full credit. An example again: Suppose I asked, “Name the day of the week that starts with ‘T’?” If you answered “Thursday,” and someone else answered, “Tuesday” both of you would get the point credit. But if you later looked at both sets of answers, you might conclude that since his answer different from yours, changing to his would change the score. Obviously, it would not!

On the other hand, one of your changes did have an effect.

How’s that for confusing?

Rick

the_Scarlet_Pimpernel · February 8, 2000, 2:41pm

I want to say someone from the Baghavad Gita, but I suspect that’s wrong.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from Hamlet.
4.Finegan’s (Rainbow) daughter - isnt her name Mary? Dont know what she’s doing, though, other than reminiscing about her home in Ireland.
Vincent van Gogh - dunno his brother.
Im sure you do, cause I suck at tennis.
Sunday (or Saturday night) - and for holidays, I’ll guess Christmas Eve, Easter morning, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Pentecost.
T.S. Eliot - a rather small, black and white cat.
Because the Angel of Death passed over the houses of the Jews, who had put lamb’s blood on the lintels, and visited the houses of the Egyptians.
George Washington - cause American dollars hadnt been invented?
You silly - WE knew about the G-spot long before HE “discovered” it.
Oh…didnt I forget your class ring in the car? That was one of those sappy tragedy love songs from the 50s - Teen Angel, maybe?
New South Wales, and the…Northern? Territories.
Andy Warhol
Money - I think the money paid on any Community Chest card?
Same creator
Superbowl
Snow, to a Greenlander, Inuit, Aleut, or the like.
Less than 90 degrees.
Valentine’s Day, the 14th.
Uhh…shaking them?

Ass-Toaster Extraordinaire, SDMBSRC

Shayna · February 8, 2000, 4:22pm

Ok Bricker, based on what you said above re my attempt at logic, I’m going to take for granted that Arnold, who is a network administrator, is correct on #26 and leave that answer as 64 (believing that this is the one change that increased our score by a point). I’m also going to assume that both 5 clubs and 4 no trump are correct for the bridge question, therefore the change was neither detrimental nor beneficial.

I knew we’d overstated the days a Catholic must attend church, but wanted to see the net effect of the other changes before I tried to fix that one so I’d know how many more I might need to change.

Therefore I am changing our answer to #9 to be:

Holy Days of Obligation are
Sundays
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

Hopefully that gives us either another full point or the half point. If it gives us only 1/2 a point, I’ll know we have another one completely wrong. If it increases us by a whole point, I’ll know we have one more only half right.

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

Bricker · February 8, 2000, 4:37pm

cher3: 12
Tinker Grey: 16 1/2
rackensack: 30 1/2
Ukulele Ike: 22
Flysyde: 19
Peyote Coyote: 27 1/2
Frankd6: 30 1/2
Spiritus Mundi: 47
BurnMeUp: 17
Fretful Porpentine: 42
John Corrado: 44
Arnold Winkelreid: 48 1/2
Iolanthe: 46 (how’s Strephon these days?) Rilchiam: 21 1/2
Scarlet Pimpernel: 13
Shayna/Chocolate: 49 1/2

Rick

The_Peyote_Coyote · February 8, 2000, 4:39pm

On #29, then, Bricker, I’m assuming you made a typo and mean to say 8:14 a.m. Aug. 6, 1945. That’s the time the Enola Gay dropped an A-bomb on Hiroshima.

Bricker · February 8, 2000, 4:46pm

cher3: 12
Tinker Grey: 16 1/2
rackensack: 30 1/2
Ukulele Ike: 22
Flysyde: 19
Frankd6: 30 1/2
Spiritus Mundi: 47
BurnMeUp: 17
Fretful Porpentine: 42
John Corrado: 44
Arnold Winkelreid: 48 1/2
Iolanthe: 46 (how’s Strephon these days?) Rilchiam: 21 1/2
Scarlet Pimpernel: 13
Shayna/Chocolate: 49 1/2
Peyote Coyote: 28 1/2

Rick

Spiritus_Mundi · February 8, 2000, 4:56pm

Hmm. Not sure whether typos count or not.

Wilbur
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
You would probably be an actor playing Sharon McLonergan, and you would be performing in a production of the musical “Finian’s Rainbow”. (in case the character was required)
yes. (helps if I read the friggin question properly)
White Thomas
Your mistake was in typin 16 instead of 6. You meant 8:16 AM, August 6th, 1945: the detonation of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.
In the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico. (though I maintain e works elsewhere, too.)
The voice of Mike Judge
Superscripts failed me: c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2abcosC

Wonder if that will make a difference.

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

RTFirefly · February 8, 2000, 5:26pm

Without peeking at the others:

Rep. Wilbur Mills (Fanny Foxe’s flame)
Better known as the Buddha.
Rosencranz and Guildenstern. (Time to warm up my lucky coin!)
Brenda and Eddie (pronounced more like “brender and eddie”)
Some damned lawyer named Pierre de Fermat.
Tennis, anyone?
Ash Wednesday, Sundays during Lent, Good Friday.
T.S. Eliot (not the colors of the day!), cat, can’t recall the color.
Vietnam.
Playing backgammon.
Woodrow Wilson
ABBA (“dancing queen”, etc.)
Because the angel of death ‘passed over’ the houses of the Hebrews in Egypt, but took the egyptians’ first born sons.
George Washington. Why? It’s too far across to throw anything, that’s why a duck.
I dunno, the evidence is kinda **spot*ty…
They say it was my high-school ring, clutched in your hand so tight. (Gawd, I hate that song!)
It sounds fishy to me, but I’d say yes.
Japan surrenders.
New South Wales, Western Australia (aus. provinces)
Andy Warhol.
Mexico City.
“The alphabet? All of it?” (OK, that was the Doonesbury parody.) Ray was Rep. Wayne Hays’ secretary, but couldn’t type worth a lick, so to speak. (Nice followup to Question #1!)
Not a blessed thing. But who says we have to play by their stinkin’ rules?
Grover Cleveland (accused of fathering an illegitimate child). Boy, they used to be soooo much more moral, back then; it’s only since they got rid of school prayer that we’ve become a Clintonian moral cesspool.
Lombardi trophy.
4NT. And it’s good to know if it’s a ‘real’ bid, or the Blackwood convention.
I’m gonna guess: snow.
Secret Service (an arm of the treasury department).
I’m gonna guess again. Was his last name Miranda, by any chance?
OK, they’re veeps (but not in order of their service), and never became president. Quayle. Barkley.
Less than pi/2 radians (or 90 degrees).
Feb. 15, in this leap year.
No, the Law of Cosines (c^2 = a^2 + b^2 - 2ab*cos(gamma), where gamma’s the angle opposite side c) would be pretty useless in that context. But it’s really helpful when you know all 3 sides of a triangle, or 2 sides and the angle in between them.
Pomegranite seeds.
You’d sublimate directly to vapor.
he’d be mixing the highballs.

douglips · February 8, 2000, 5:53pm

The answer to 26 is in fact 62 as Spiritus Mundi indicated, not 64.
See Network numbers, interface addresses and broadcast addresses from Linux IP Sub-Networking Mini-Howto.

Gosh it’s hard to compete with Winklereid.
I just had to add this link for the buddha question:
2. Siddartha Gautama was Buddha.

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Hopefully that gives us either another full point or the half point. If it gives us only 1/2 a point, I’ll know we have another one completely wrong. If it increases us by a whole point, I’ll know we have one more only half right.

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