The Bricker Challenge #5

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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To the rules espoused in the Bricker Challenge #1 thread, I will add this word of caution: the only way to win is to post the most correct answers. I may provide what I think are correct interim scores, but they’re based on what I think the correct answers are. Someone may argue, successfully, that his alternate answer should be given credit. I may miss a perfectly legitimate answer on your part. So take the interim scores with a small helping of Morton’s.

The deadline for BC#5 is Sunday, 11PM EST.

And now… on with the show:

  1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?”
  2. Who wrote about the winds of war?
  3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
  4. I like Macanudos better than Montecristos, and the Arturo Fuentes aren’t so bad, either. What am I describing?
  5. What happens in football if a fumble goes out of bounds? Be complete.
  6. How many different straight flush hands are there?
  7. Who knew that writing institutes of the Christian religion would cause you to be known as helping to institute a Christian religion? John did.
  8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
  9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.
  10. Under what circumstances in chess does the capturing piece not end up on the captured piece’s square?
  11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.
  12. Hello, I am Edmond. I was all set to get married and become the captain of my own commercial vessel, when my enemies conspired, framed me and had me sent away to prison. After fourteen years I escaped, and managed to get revenge on everyone who wronged me. What’s my last name, and who told my story to the world?
  13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
  14. Hello, I am Edmond. Along with Peter, Susan, and Lucy, I discovered an oddity in one of the pieces of furniture in the house.
  15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all.
  16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
  17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?
  18. “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
  19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?
  20. I’ve got an oblong solid with sides of 3(pi), 4, and 5. I carve out of it a cylinder of radius 2 and height 3. What’s the volume of the former oblong?
  21. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
  22. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?
  23. If Janet Reno were Bill Clinton’s sister, it would be an eerie parallel to what other administration?
  24. His characters include Lazarus Long, Zeb Carter, Jubal Harshaw, and Maureen Johnson Smith.
  25. La Cage Aux Follies is one thing, but can you tell me about Fulton’s Folly and Seward’s Folly?
  26. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?
  27. I can clarify my point if you don’t quite grasp it, but can I do it with butter?
  28. What do Sirica and Gesell have in common?
  29. The heavyset sergeant for Stalag 13, the former secretary of state, and the guy who worked for peanuts all share something. What?
  30. Dr. Brackett often used the radio to tell John and Roy what to do – because, after all, they weren’t doctors.
  31. This man has just turned twenty-one, and tries to quit his job. Turns out he can’t, because he’s really only five (and a little bit). Fortunately, he might end up with a career military man for a father-in-law, and a LOT of sisters-in-law. What are we talking about?
  32. Guiteau Pleads Guilty To Shooting, Says Victim Deserved It. This is a mythical headline, but what would be the year and who would be the victim?
  33. You can’t deal me the aces, and think I wouldn’t play. Don’t let this be the reason you would walk away.
  34. Maybe I’m not particularly tranquil if I get to third base on a date, but where would I find tranquility base?
  35. What is the appropriate medical diagnosis for an elderly female patient who has ingested a common household musca domestica, if we don’t know why she did it?
  36. If you’re not sure, remember “red right returning.” How will that help?
  37. What did Elijah Poole have a hand in starting?
  38. His family plot was awful, but you’d never get vertigo travelling north by northwest; that’s for the birds at the end of their rope.
  39. Doing crank calls is better than doing crank. Why?
  40. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?
  41. What resident of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence?
  42. Witches cackle, but do they use CaCl?
  43. Folsom, Joliet, Leavenworth, Attica. Add one.
  44. In match play, what happens if I’m putting on the green and my ball hits another ball on the green?
  45. Bugs Bunny:Mel Blanc::Bart Simpson:?
  46. Who makes Lynsander fall in love with Helena? And how does he manage to do it?
  47. “Just because my father committed treason, you can’t punish me! And by the way, you troops are just going to have to sleep on the patio!” These are perfectly constitutional things to say, aren’t they? 48. What’s the difference between sleet and freezing rain?
  48. Valentine’s Day is a time for happy hearts, but what singer told us that everybody has a hungry heart?
  49. The painter that did this picture did not enjoy commercial success during his lifetime, but is now renowned for his use of natural light in pictures.

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Good luck!

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Bugs Bunny:Mel Blanc Bart Simpson:Nancy Cartwright

GO SIMPSONS!!!
As for the other questions, they are just too damn hard.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevent.

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  1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?”

  2. Who wrote about the winds of war?

  3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.

  4. I like Macanudos better than Montecristos, and the Arturo Fuentes aren’t so bad, either. What am I describing?
    Cigars

  5. What happens in football if a fumble goes out of bounds? Be complete.
    Possesion stays with the Offensive team, from the original line of scrimmage, next down.

  6. How many different straight flush hands are there? 16

  7. Who knew that writing institutes of the Christian religion would cause you to be known as helping to institute a Christian religion? John did.
    john was one of the Evangelist, along with Matthew mark and Luke

  8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
    Annuals are released at the same time every year. perennials are released at fixed perionds. an annual is a perennial, but a perrenial dosent have to be annual

  9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.
    Inspector Cleauseau? I have no Idea!!

  10. Under what circumstances in chess does the capturing piece not end up on the captured piece’s square?
    checkmate?

  11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.

  12. Hello, I am Edmond. I was all set to get married and become the captain of my own commercial vessel, when my enemies conspired, framed me and had me sent away to prison. After fourteen years I escaped, and managed to get revenge on everyone who wronged me. What’s my last name, and who told my story to the world?

  13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  14. Hello, I am Edmond. Along with Peter, Susan, and Lucy, I discovered an oddity in one of the pieces of furniture in the house.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

  15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all.

  16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
    99

  17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?

  18. “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

  19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?
    well, a candle lights his head.

  20. I’ve got an oblong solid with sides of 3(pi), 4, and 5. I carve out of it a cylinder of radius 2 and height 3. What’s the volume of the former oblong?
    62.8 for the Oblong

  21. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

  22. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?

  23. If Janet Reno were Bill Clinton’s sister, it would be an eerie parallel to what other administration?

  24. His characters include Lazarus Long, Zeb Carter, Jubal Harshaw, and Maureen Johnson Smith.

  25. La Cage Aux Follies is one thing, but can you tell me about Fulton’s Folly and Seward’s Folly?

  26. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?
    T.V. emmys
    ad’s. The MTV Music Awards.

  27. I can clarify my point if you don’t quite grasp it, but can I do it with butter?
    you can if you have a hot knife.

  28. What do Sirica and Gesell have in common?

  29. The heavyset sergeant for Stalag 13, the former secretary of state, and the guy who worked for peanuts all share something. What?

  30. Dr. Brackett often used the radio to tell John and Roy what to do – because, after all, they weren’t doctors.

  31. This man has just turned twenty-one, and tries to quit his job. Turns out he can’t, because he’s really only five (and a little bit). Fortunately, he might end up with a career military man for a father-in-law, and a LOT of sisters-in-law. What are we talking about? BEing born on on the 29th feburary. the marriage bit I dont get

  32. Guiteau Pleads Guilty To Shooting, Says Victim Deserved It. This is a mythical headline, but what would be the year and who would be the victim?

  33. You can’t deal me the aces, and think I wouldn’t play. Don’t let this be the reason you would walk away.

  34. Maybe I’m not particularly tranquil if I get to third base on a date, but where would I find tranquility base?
    On the Moon

  35. What is the appropriate medical diagnosis for an elderly female patient who has ingested a common household musca domestica, if we don’t know why she did it?
    there was an old Lady who swallowed a fly,
    Idont know why she swallowed a fly
    perhaps she’ll die.
    But I’m not going to talk about her swallowing a goat. thats just obscene

  36. If you’re not sure, remember “red right returning.” How will that help?

  37. What did Elijah Poole have a hand in starting?

  38. His family plot was awful, but you’d never get vertigo travelling north by northwest; that’s for the birds at the end of their rope.
    Hitchcock’s movies

  39. Doing crank calls is better than doing crank. Why?
    Cranck is a drug. Doing crank calls makes you look like a real fun guy

  40. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?
    yes, According to the Kinks.

  41. What resident of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence?

  42. Witches cackle, but do they use CaCl?
    Calcium Chloride? I hope so

  43. Folsom, Joliet, Leavenworth, Attica. Add one.
    Portia

  44. In match play, what happens if I’m putting on the green and my ball hits another ball on the green?
    The opposite player has to play his ball from where it stopped, irregardless

  45. Bugs Bunny:Mel Blanc::Bart Simpson:?
    Nancy Cartright

  46. Who makes Lynsander fall in love with Helena? And how does he manage to do it?

  47. “Just because my father committed treason, you can’t punish me! And by the way, you troops are just going to have to sleep on the patio!” These are perfectly constitutional things to say, aren’t they? 48. What’s the difference between sleet and freezing rain?

  48. Valentine’s Day is a time for happy hearts, but what singer told us that everybody has a hungry heart?

Frank Zappa’s Uncle. With his Big ol’ Beefheart.

  1. The painter that did this picture did not enjoy commercial success during his lifetime, but is now renowned for his use of natural light in pictures.
    God, Im bad at these quizzes.

J
“We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible”

Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman.
Sean O’Casey

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  1. An aeroplane coming towards you. the red will be in the Aeroplanes left hand side, but your right

J
“We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible”

Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman.
Sean O’Casey

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  1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?” :: Because I didn’t have doubles! Eleven is odd. Craps.
  2. Who wrote about the winds of war? :: Herman Wouk
  3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving. ??
  4. I like Macanudos better than Montecristos, and the Arturo Fuentes aren’t so bad, either. What am I describing? :: Cigars
  5. What happens in football if a fumble goes out of bounds? Be complete. :: Team with possesion prior to the fumbel retains possesion.
  6. How many different straight flush hands are there? :: 36
  7. Who knew that writing institutes of the Christian religion would cause you to be known as helping to institute a Christian religion? John did. :: Paul. The Epistles of Paul were written to early churches.
  8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me. :: Annuals grow from seed, and fruit or flower in a single season, Perrenials rebloom, or fruit each year. Most perrenials are propagated without seeds.
  9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy. :: Sherlock Holmes. Actually, he wasn’t even as smart as Watson.
  10. Under what circumstances in chess does the capturing piece not end up on the captured piece’s square? Pawn captures En Passant.
  11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree. Chicago, 1968, the “Chicago Seven” Conspiracy to incite riot.
  12. Hello, I am Edmond. I was all set to get married and become the captain of my own commercial vessel, when my enemies conspired, framed me and had me sent away to prison. After fourteen years I escaped, and managed to get revenge on everyone who wronged me. What’s my last name, and who told my story to the world?: Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo
  13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that. Edmond Spenser, author of “The Faerie Queene”
  14. Hello, I am Edmond. Along with Peter, Susan, and Lucy, I discovered an oddity in one of the pieces of furniture in the house. :: Edmond Pevensie, King under King Peter, the High King of Narnia, and the Lone Isles.
  15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all. ??
  16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena? 99 Red Balloons!
  17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future? :: Aluminum, assuming you have access to refining techniques for you bauxite ore.
  18. “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.” ::Guilt and Sorrow, by William Wordsworth.
  19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he? :: Oklahoma, where the wind etc.
  20. I’ve got an oblong solid with sides of 3(pi), 4, and 5. I carve out of it a cylinder of radius 2 and height 3. What’s the volume of the former oblong? :: 60pi - 12pi = 48pi (~150.08)
  21. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. : Easter is always the first Sunday, after the first Full Moon, after the Vernal Equinox
  22. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd? ??
  23. If Janet Reno were Bill Clinton’s sister, it would be an eerie parallel to what other administration? ??
  24. His characters include Lazarus Long, Zeb Carter, Jubal Harshaw, and Maureen Johnson Smith. :: Robert Heinlein
  25. La Cage Aux Follies is one thing, but can you tell me about Fulton’s Folly and Seward’s Folly? :: One is a steam powered boat, the other is the Alaska Purchase.
  26. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials? ??
  27. I can clarify my point if you don’t quite grasp it, but can I do it with butter? :: Yes, heat it, and allow the solids to rise and liquids other than fat to settle, skim, and pour off into a separate container. Good for high temperature. Called Ghi, in India.
  28. What do Sirica and Gesell have in common? :: Federal Judges involved in the Watergate scandle. They are also both dead.
  29. The heavyset sergeant for Stalag 13, the former secretary of state, and the guy who worked for peanuts all share something. What? :: Shultz
  30. Dr. Brackett often used the radio to tell John and Roy what to do – because, after all, they weren’t doctors. :: Paramedics on some Jack Web show, Emergency?
  31. This man has just turned twenty-one, and tries to quit his job. Turns out he can’t, because he’s really only five (and a little bit). Fortunately, he might end up with a career military man for a father-in-law, and a LOT of sisters-in-law. What are we talking about? ??
  32. Guiteau Pleads Guilty To Shooting, Says Victim Deserved It. This is a mythical headline, but what would be the year and who would be the victim? :: Giteau assassinated President James Garfield in July 2, 1881
  33. You can’t deal me the aces, and think I wouldn’t play. Don’t let this be the reason you would walk away. ??
  34. Maybe I’m not particularly tranquil if I get to third base on a date, but where would I find tranquility base? :: In the Mare Tranquilitatis on the Moon, where Armstrong left it.
  35. What is the appropriate medical diagnosis for an elderly female patient who has ingested a common household musca domestica, if we don’t know why she did it? :: I don’t know why she swallowed the fly, Perhaps she’ll die.
  36. If you’re not sure, remember “red right returning.” How will that help? :: It will keep you in the channel, as you come back into port in your small water craft.
  37. What did Elijah Poole have a hand in starting? :: The Nation of Islam
  38. His family plot was awful, but you’d never get vertigo travelling north by northwest; that’s for the birds at the end of their rope. :: Hitchcock movies
  39. Doing crank calls is better than doing crank. Why? :: Speed kills. Amphetamines
  40. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets? :: Yes, Dinah Shore says, " I’m irrezeestable you fool, Give in."
  41. What resident of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence? :: Bilbo Baggins
  42. Witches cackle, but do they use CaCl? Calcium chloride? What for? Only witches in either the CIA, or the Illuminati would know about mind control. They aren’t talking.
  43. Folsom, Joliet, Leavenworth, Attica. Add one. :: Lompoc, Texarkana, Soledad I assume you mean prisons.
  44. In match play, what happens if I’m putting on the green and my ball hits another ball on the green? ::
  45. Bugs Bunny:Mel Blanc::Bart Simpson:?
  46. “Just because my father committed treason, you can’t punish me! :: Article II section 3. And by the way, you troops are just going to have to sleep on the patio!” :: Third Amendment. These are perfectly constitutional things to say, aren’t they? :: First Amendment. Yes.
  47. What’s the difference between sleet and freezing rain? :: Sleet freezes before it falls, Freezing Rain freezes as it hits.
  48. Valentine’s Day is a time for happy hearts, but what singer told us that everybody has a hungry heart? :: Bruce Springsteen
  49. The painter that did this picture did not enjoy commercial success during his lifetime, but is now renowned for his use of natural light in pictures. :: Johannes Vermeer
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  1. You should always double down on 11 in blackjack because the probablity states that a ten is the next card up.

  2. Herman Wouk

  3. ?

  4. Cigars my good man

  5. In football, when a fumble goes out of bounds possession stays with the fumbling team (the team which last had possession) and is returned to the spot of the fumble. The clock stops. A fumble out of bounds into your own endzone is a safety, and a fumble into the opponents endzone is a touchback.

  6. 40 different straight flushes

  7. I protest all religious questions on principle

  8. Annuals complete their life cycle in one year, and must be replanted at the begining of every growing season. Perennials grow from the same plant every year after year.

  9. Sherlock Holmes

  10. En Passant

  11. They are the Chicago Seven, blamed for the riots at the '68 Democratic convention.

12-15) They all sound familiar, but I’ll be damned if I can think of any.

  1. 99 Luftballoons, or Neun und Neunzig if you prefer.

  2. Aluminum, well disguised I might add, very creative.

  3. ?

  4. Que?

  5. Either I’m missing something, or from your description this problem lacks sufficient information to solve. I’m guessing math isn’t your strong suit ;).

  6. Easter Sunday

  7. Know the book, but never read it.

  8. Jonh F. Kennedy appointed his Brother Robert F. Kennedy Attorney General

  9. Robert A. Heinlien

  10. Fulton’s folly is the name given to Fulton and Livingston’s first Steamboats because they were so costly and slow, ironic because they became one of the foundations of the industrial revolution. Seward’s Folly was the shortsighted label given to William Seward’s purchase of Alaska from the Russians, for what seemed to be a high price for useless land.

  11. TV has the Emmy, and commercials have the Clio.

  12. You clarify butter by melting it and skimming the fat off the top, milk solids sink to the bottom.

  13. Judges in the Watergate hearings

  14. ?

  15. Characters on “Emergency!”

  16. This ones pissing me off, I’m close but it isn’t clicking.

  17. 1881 assasination of President Garfield.

  18. “The Gambler”

  19. The Sea of Tranquility on the moon, the first Lunar landing.

  20. “Perhaps she’ll die”

  21. A nautical phrase that sailors used to navigate, refers to keeping the red bouys on the right side of the boat to return home.

  22. Nation of Islam

  23. Alfred Hitchcock films

  24. Crank calls are prank phone calls, crank is a slang term for methamphetamine, a very dangerous drug.

  25. Yes

  26. Bilbo Baggins, LOTR movies?

  27. I suppose they could, Calcium Cloride must serve some use in potions and such.

  28. Alcatraz, Sing Sing, but it may be of note if you want only prison names Joliet’s well know prison is Stateville, there is however a City and County prison in the city as well.

  29. Your ball is played as it lies, the ball you hit and moved is replaced to its original location at no penalty. If the player fails to replace the impacted ball he incurs a penalty.

  30. Nancy Cartwright

  31. Damned if I can’t remember

  32. The first is constitutional, the second isn’t

  33. Sleet thaws as it falls through a warm region, but refreezes before it hits the ground, Freezing rain freezes after it impactes the sub zero ground.

  34. Bruce Springsteen “The Boss”

  35. Me no like art.

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Omni,

I stand by my oblong.

  • Rick

(math major freshman and half of sophomore year before switching to CS)

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Without peeking, and without searching the net…

  1. Obviously talking about blackjack, unless we are supposed to identify this specific quote
    3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
  2. Cigars
  3. the clock stops. The team that last had control is awarded the ball, I believe where it went out.
  4. 40
  5. Annuals die out at the end of the year, presumably re-seeding themselves (although you might have to help). Perenials root structure becomes dormant over the winter, but revive and create new sprouts in the spring.
  6. Checkmate.
  7. I don’t believe the Chicago Seven ever played craps.
  8. Is this a reference to the Faerie Picture hoax?
  9. 99
  10. Iron
  11. Nope. Curley is telling him how wonderful his funeral will be.
  12. Easter
  13. Robert Kennidy was John Kennidy’s brother
  14. Robert Heinlan
  15. Fulton’s Folly was a steem ship. Was Seward’s Folly the purchase of Alaska?
  16. TV has Emmies. I don’t remember, nor do I especially care what the comercial awards are called. Specifically for Chicago, they are called the Timmy, in honor of an obnoxious car dealorship comercial.
  17. A last name - Schultz
  18. Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance”.
  19. On the moon.
  20. I guess she’ll die.
  21. Nautically, tells you which side is red and which is green.
  22. Must be Alfred Hichcock
  23. Crank Calls only annoy someone. Drugs are bad, OK?
  24. No, she failed.
  25. Dildo Bugger - I mean Bilbo Baggins
  26. Calcium Cloride? probably not.
  27. Sing-Sing.
  28. If you did not ask the other person to mark their ball, you receive a penalty stroke. If you did and they refused, they receive a penalty stroke.
  29. You betcha. No cruel and unusual punnishment; can’t be forced to quarter soldiers.
  30. Where it freezes. Sleet freezes higher in the atmosphere; freezing rain closer to the ground.
  31. Bruce Springsteen
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  1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?”
    **Blackjack

  2. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
    ** The owl and the pussycat

  3. I like Macanudos better than Montecristos, and the Arturo Fuentes aren’t so bad, either. What am I describing?
    **Cigars

  4. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
    ** I assume we’re talking about flowring plants, annuals come back each year perennials are good for they year they are planted only.

  5. Under what circumstances in chess does the capturing piece not end up on the captured piece’s square?
    **Checkmate

  6. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.
    **Because they were the Chicago 7 and were imprisioned

  7. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
    **99

  8. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?
    ** Iron?

  9. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
    **Easter

  10. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?
    **Emmys and something else for commercials (do i get half a point?)

  11. This man has just turned twenty-one, and tries to quit his job. Turns out he can’t, because he’s really only five (and a little bit). Fortunately, he might end up with a career military man for a father-in-law, and a LOT of sisters-in-law. What are we talking about?
    **The Pirates of Penzance

  12. Maybe I’m not particularly tranquil if I get to third base on a date, but where would I find tranquility base?
    **The Moon

  13. What is the appropriate medical diagnosis for an elderly female patient who has ingested a common household musca domestica, if we don’t know why she did it?
    ** To have her swallow a spider to catch the fly?

  14. If you’re not sure, remember “red right returning.” How will that help?
    ** To determine wheather a boat or plane is headed torad you or away from you.

  15. His family plot was awful, but you’d never get vertigo travelling north by northwest; that’s for the birds at the end of their rope.
    **Alfred Hitchcock

  16. Doing crank calls is better than doing crank. Why?
    **Because Crank is crack cocaine

  17. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?
    ** As far as the song goes yes, and little boy lola wants you.

  18. Folsom, Joliet, Leavenworth, Attica. Add one.
    ** Alcatraz

  19. “Just because my father committed treason, you can’t punish me! And by the way, you troops are just going to have to sleep on the patio!” These are perfectly constitutional things to say, aren’t they?
    **Yes

  20. Valentine’s Day is a time for happy hearts, but what singer told us that everybody has a hungry heart?
    **Bruce Springsteen

  21. The painter that did this picture did not enjoy commercial success during his lifetime, but is now renowned for his use of natural light in pictures.
    **Renoir

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

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#15 is Edvard Muench, who painted “The Scream”

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PS–It’s Edmund Pevensie, not Edmond.

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DAMN you, Bricker. These things of yours are like pistachios. And the worst part is that I can’t help parading my ignorances for all to see.

  1. Blackjack.
  2. Herman Wouk.
  4. Cigars.
  6. Nine, within a suit, so 36 in all. I’m leaving the Joker out.
  7. John, the last of the gospel writers of the New Testament?
  8. Flowers (or other garden plants). Annuals must be replanted every year. Perennials come back on their own.
  9. Sherlock Holmes.
  10. When capturing en passant.
  11. The Chicago Seven.
  12. The Count of Monte Cristo
  13. Spenser; THE FAERIE QUEEN.
  14. Lewis’s THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE…the wardrobe led to Narnia. You did this one before.
  17. Bauxite ore…what metal? Aluminum?
  21. Earth Day.
  22. Oh, you’re gonna spoil it for everyone who hasn’t read it yet! The doctor, who was also the narrator, in the 1926 Agatha Christie novel.
  23. The Kennedys.
  25. The steamboat and the Alaska Purchase.
  26. Emmys and Clios.
  27. Clarified butter, also known as ghee, is butter that has been melted and the milk solids removed. You can now cook it at a higher temperature.
  28. Judges? John Sirica I know from Watergate, the other’s a mystery.
  29. All named Schulz.
  32. Victim is President Garfield. Year is…1878?
  34. The moon.
  35. I guess she’ll die!
  36. Hm…Boating?
  38. Alfred Hitchcock.
  39. Crank is a homemade amphetamine.
  40. Song from the B’way show DAMN YANKEES.
  41. Bilbo Baggins, from THE HOBBIT.
  42. Calcium Chloride, and I’m missing the joke.
  43. Sing-Sing. San Quentin.
  44. You are immediately put to death. Do I LOOK like a goddam golfer?
  45. Nancy Cartwright.
  46. Puck, with the magic potion supplied by Oberon, in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.
  47. Rights granted to U.S. citizens by the Bill of Rights.
  48. Sleet is frozen as it descends. Freezing rain freezes when it hits the ground.
  49. Bruce Springsteen.
  50. Vermeer.

Uke

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PPS–it’s Munch, not Muench. D’oh!

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Whoa! Prom Night flashback.

::snicker::

Comedic imperative. Had to say it. Just kidding. :slight_smile:

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  1. Blackjack, you should always double down on 11.
  2. Cigars.
  4. The cop in Sherlock Holmes.
  5. Checkmate.
  6. The Chicago Seven.
  7. Narnia.
  8. Iron.
  9. Steam engine.
  10. Schulz, George Schultz, Charles Schultz.
  11. President McKinley.
  12. The moon.
  13. Cause it wiggled and jiggled and giggled inside her. I guess she’ll die.
  14. Crank is meth.
  15. Bilbo Baggins
  16. Sing-Sing. Prisons.
  17. Yes.
  18. The Boss, Bruce Springsteen.
  19. Pierre Renoir.

My first one!

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Interim scores:

Hightechburrito: 1
John Larrigan: 10
Tris: 34
Omni: 34
PTVroman: 25
BurnMeUp: 13 1/2
Myron Van H: 2
Ukulele Ike: 32
Ave B dude: 14

  • Rick
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Hoo boy, here we go again…

  1. Blackjack. (If you’re looking for something more specific, I haven’t a clue.)
  2. Herman Wouk.
  3. The Marriage of Figaro? (WAG – I don’t actually know anything about opera.)
  4. Cigars.
  5. I’m gonna plagiarize Omni’s answer on this one, as I haven’t any better ideas:
  2. John Calvin.
  3. Perennials will grow back year after year; annuals live only one year.
  4. Sherlock Holmes.
  5. If a pawn is captured en passant, the capturing pawn advances to the square where it would be if it had made a normal capture.
  6. They were the Chicago Seven, convicted in 1970, so no.
  7. Dantes; Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo).
  8. Edmund Spenser. (He also liked transvestites, if Book III of The Faerie Queene is any indication.)
  9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
  10. Edvard Munch, that vierdo.
  12. Aluminum.
  13. William Wordsworth.
  14. It’s from the musical Oklahoma, and no.
  15. (REALLY random guess). 4.5(pi).
  16. The date of Easter.
  17. Your not-so-humble narrator, Dr. Shepherd.
  18. JFK’s. (But isn’t that illegal now?)
  19. Robert Heinlein.
  20. Fulton’s Folly = the first steamboat
    Seward’s Folly = the Alaska purchase.
  21. Emmys and Tellys.
  22. You can clarify butter by melting it, letting the solids settle, and skimming the scum off the top.
  23. Watergate?
  24. Their last name, Schulz.
  25. The TV show Emergency!
  26. ???
  27. 1881; President Garfield.
  28. The song “Aces” by Cheryl Wheeler.
  29. The moon.
  30. Pica.
  31. When navigating inland waterways, red buoys on the right indicate that you’re going upstream.
  32. The Nation of Islam.
  33. Hitchcock.
  34. The jail sentence for doing meth is longer.
  35. In Damn Yankees, yes.
  36. Bilbo Baggins.
  37. No, why would you want to de-ice roads when you can fly?
  38. Sing Sing?
  39. (Plagiarizing Omni again – he seems to know sports.)
  1. Nancy Cartwright.
  2. Puck; by laying love-in-idleness on Lysander’s eyes when he’s sleeping.
  3. Yes, the first by Article 3, section 3 of the Constitution, the second by the 3rd amendment.
  4. Sleet comes down as little pellets of ice; freezing rain comes down as a liquid but turns into a layer of ice after it hits the ground.
  5. Bruce Springsteen.
  6. (Educated guess.) Vermeer?

It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in it.

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I’ll give it a shot off the top of my head:

  1. Herman Wouk
  2. Cigars
  3. The last tweam to posess the ball retains posession where the ball left the field unless it went out of the end zone. If a team fumbles the ball out of their own end zone it is a safety. If they fumble out of the opposing teams end zone they get the ball on the 1 yd line.
  4. 40
  5. Sherlock Holmes
  6. They were the Chicago 7 tried for their role in disrupting the 1968 democratic convention in Chicago
  7. Edmond Dontess aka the Count of Monte Cristo written by Victor Hugo
  8. 99
  9. Aluminum
  10. Kennedy appointed his brother to the AG post
  11. Heinlein
  12. Robert Fulton built the first steam boat and named it Fulton’s Folly. Seward’s Folly refers to the purchase of Alaska which was pushed for by a guy named Seward.
  13. TV has Emmys
  14. You clarify butter by melting and removing the milk solids
  15. Schultz
  16. Emergency! The tales of Squad 51
  17. The Pirates of Penzance
  18. Tranquility Base is in/on the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon
  19. She swallowed a fly?
  20. Alfred Hitchcock
  21. Phone calls dont kill you. Just say no!
  22. According to the song made popular by Lola Falana it is.
  23. Mr Kite?
  24. A witch could use calcium chloride to melt ice
  25. Sing Sing
  26. Bill of rights. 6th amendment?
  27. Sleet falls as solid pellets whereas freezing rain is liquid until it contacts a cold surface
  28. Bruce “the Boss” Springsteen
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For number one, are you looking for the answer: it’s a quote from the movie, Swingers?

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Oh well, it’s closing in on the start of Shabbat, and I probably won’t have a chance to do much more before tomorrow night, so here’s what I’ve managed so far:

  1. You’re playing blackjack, are holding two cards that total eleven, but have passed on your opportunity to increase your wager in return for drawing only one more card.
  2. Herman Wouk
  4. Cigars
  5. Possession is awarded to the to team who last had possession.
  6. 40
  7. John Calvin
  8. If you don’t want to replant them every year, go with perennials.
  9. Sherlock Holmes
  10. After capturing en passant
  11. The Chicago Seven
  12. Dantes, Alexandre Dumas
  13. Edmund Spenser, author of The Faerie Queene
  14. Edmund (as it’s spelled in the synopsis I used to confirm my answer) betrays his siblings to the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  15. Edvard Munch, painter of “The Scream”, aka, “The Cry”
  16. Neun und neunzig
  17. Aluminum
  18. William Wordsworth, “Guilt and Sorrow, or Incidents upon Salisbury Plain”, stanza XLI
  19. Nope. He and Curley are singing “Poor Jud is Dead”, however
  20. 150.8
  21. Easter Sunday
  22. The doctor/narrator
  23. Kennedy
  24. Robert A. Heinlein
  25. Seward’s Folly was the purchase of Alaska, Fulton’s Folly was the steamboat
  26. TV has Emmys, advertising, Clios
  27. You can clarify butter as well by melting it and skimming off or straining out the solids
  28. Both presided over Watergate-related trials
  29. The last name of Schulz (Schultz)
  30. Right, they were only paramedics on Emergency
  31. Frederic, in The Pirates of Penzance
  32. 1881, James A. Garfield
  34. In the Sea of Tranquility on the moon
  35. I guess she’ll die.
  36. When navigating a channel heading in, the red navigational lights are on the right side of the channel.
  37. The Nation of Islam
  38. Alfred Hitchcock
  39. Crank calls are probably only a misdemeanor, while methamphetamines are a felony.
  40. In Damn Yankees it is
  41. Bilbo Baggins
  42. Perhaps if they need to melt ice from their sidewalks, but probably not otherwise.
  43. San Quentin
  44. If a ball in play and at rest is moved by another ball in motion after a stroke, the moved ball shall be replaced.
  45. Nancy Cartwright
  46. Who makes Lynsander fall in love with Helena? And how does he manage to do it?
  47. In the U.S., they certainly are (Article III, Section 3 and the Third Amendment)
  48. Sleet falls to the ground in a frozen state, while freezing rain falls as a liquid and freezes after it hits the ground
  49. Bruce Springsteen
  50. Jan Vermeer