The Bricker Challenge #5

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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First reply, off the top of my head. I’ll be back with/for more later.

1.He’s right; always double down on an eleven in Blackjack.
5. The ball is marked to the team which last had possession of the football, and set at the line where the ball went out of bounds.
6. First: I’m assuming we’re talking 5-card poker, here. If you’d like me to calculate all possible straight flushes for both 5-card and 7-card combined, well, yeesh. Anyways, 36.
8. Types of flowers.
9. A box of rocks, the way Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about him in the Sherlock Holmes series.
10. en passant; the pawn continues moving straight ahead as normal, but the piece to the diagonal is removed.
11. The Chicago 7.
14. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
16. 99.
23. The Kennedy Administration. (Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was President John F. Kennedy’s brother.)
25. Fulton’s Folly was the first steamship; Seward’s Folly was Alaska.
26. Television has the Emmys; commercials have the Clios.
29. The last name: Schultz.
32. 1881- Charles J. Guiteau shoots President James G. Garfield. (“Look on the bright side, not on the black side, get off your back side, shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity, you are the lightning and you’re news!”)
34. The moon.
36. In boating, the larger channels (and main thoroughfares for boats) are marked with red and green buoys.
38. Sounds like you’re psycho for Alfred Hitchcock.
43. Sing Sing.
47. The second most definitely is (Amendment III, I believe.)

JMCJ

This is not a sig.

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1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?”
In blackjack, if you’re using the basic strategy (without card counting), you should always double down if you have a hard eleven.

2. Who wrote about the winds of war?
Herman Wouk.

3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
James T. Fields, The Owl Critic
“Who stuffed that white owl?” No one spoke in the shop;
The barber was busy, and he couldn’t stop;
The customers, waiting their turns, were reading
The Daily, the Herald the Post, little heeding
The young man who blurted out such a blunt question;
Not one raised a head, or even made a suggestion;
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.
A fumble that goes forward and out of bounds will return to the fumbling team at the spot of the fumble unless the ball goes out of bounds in the opponent’s end zone. In this case, it is a touchback.

6. How many different straight flush hands are there?
Fourty. Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten to Five-Four-Three-Two-Ace in four suits.

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 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
Well, you would have to replace your annual plants every year, so I would stick to the perennial plants, which will last for several years and therefore give you more time to sleep on the couch Sunday afternoons.

9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.
Sherlock Holmes.

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

11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.
The Chicago Seven Trial, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -vs- DAVID T. DELLINGER, RENNARD C. DAVIS, THOMAS E. HAYDEN, ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN, JERRY C. RUBIN, LEE WEINER, JOHN R. FROINES.

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, aka The Count of MonteCristo, the novel by Alexandre Dumas (father).

13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Edmund 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.
In C.S. Lewis’ THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE…the wardrobe led to Narnia.

15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all.
Edvard Munch, who painted “The Scream”.

16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
Neun und neunzig Luftballons (eighties pop song)

17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?
Aluminum occurs in igneous rocks chiefly as aluminosilicates in feldspars, feldspathoids, and micas; in the soil derived from them as clay; and upon further weathering as bauxite and iron-rich laterite. Bauxite, a mixture of hydrated aluminum oxides, is the principal aluminum ore.

18. “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
William Wordsworth, GUILT AND SORROW OR INCIDENTS UPON SALISBURY PLAIN

19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?
Rogers & Hammerstein - Oklahoma

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?
Maybe I’m missing something, but I would say that your oblong solid could be a “rectangular” solid with sides 3pi, 4, 5 and volume 60pi.

21. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
The commonly stated rule that Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox is not quite correct. Easter is actually the first Sunday after the ``Paschal Full Moon’’. The date of the Paschal Full Moon is determined from tables, and it may differ from the date of the the actual Full Moon by up to two days! The possible dates for the Paschal Full Moon are March 21 through April 18. This gives the date of Easter as March 22 through April 25.

22. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?
Dr. Sheppard.

23. If Janet Reno were Bill Clinton’s sister, it would be an eerie parallel to what other administration?
John F. Kennedy appointed his Brother Robert F. Kennedy Attorney General.

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?
steamboats and purchase of Alaska

26. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?
emmys and clios

27. I can clarify my point if you don’t quite grasp it, but can I do it with butter?
To clarify butter, melt any amount of butter over gentle heat, then skim off the foamy white substance that has collected on the surface. Spoon out the clear yellow liquid (this is the clarified butter); there will be a little milky substance left. Use the clarified butter for sauteing; it doesn’t burn as easily as unclarified butter. (The “milk solids” can be discarded, added to the dish later, or used to flavor soups, sauces or vegetables.)

28. What do Sirica and Gesell have in common?
Watergate. John Sirica engaged in the initial search for facts in the break-in that lead to President Nixon’s resignation. Gerhard Gesell ruled that Nixon’s firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was unconstitutional.

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

30. Dr. Brackett often used the radio to tell John and Roy what to do – because, after all, they weren’t doctors.
TV show.
EMERGENCY!, a drama series, aired on NBC on Saturday evenings from 8:00 to 9:00pm EST from January 22, 1972 to July of 1972, and then from September of 1972 until September 3, 1977.
Johnny Gage, played by Randy Mantooth, Squad 51 Paramedic who loved the ladies.
Roy DeSoto, played by Kevin Tighe, Squad 51 Paramedic and dedcated family man who had to put up with Johnny.
Kelly Brackett, M.D., played by Robert Fuller, the top physician in the Emergency Room at Rampart Hospital.

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?
Gilbert and Sullivan, the Pirates of Penzance.

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?
Shortly after his inauguration in 1881, President James A. Garfield was assassinated by one mildly loopy Charles Julius Guiteau.

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.
Cheryl Wheeler, Aces

*34. Maybe I’m not particularly tranquil if I get to third base on a date, but

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  1. "You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?"
    In blackjack, if you’re using the basic strategy (without card counting), you should always double down if you have a hard eleven.

  2. Who wrote about the winds of war?
    Herman Wouk.

  3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
    James T. Fields, The Owl Critic
    “Who stuffed that white owl?” No one spoke in the shop;
    The barber was busy, and he couldn’t stop;
    The customers, waiting their turns, were reading
    The Daily, the Herald the Post, little heeding
    The young man who blurted out such a blunt question;
    Not one raised a head, or even made a suggestion;
    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.
    A fumble that goes forward and out of bounds will return to the fumbling team at the spot of the fumble unless the ball goes out of bounds in the opponent’s end zone. In this case, it is a touchback. Also if fumbled out of the fumbling teams own endzone it is a safety…you said complete

  6. How many different straight flush hands are there?
    Fourty. Ace-King-Queen-Jack-Ten to Five-Four-Three-Two-Ace in four suits.

  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 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

  8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
    Well, you would have to replace your annual plants every year, so I would stick to the perennial plants, which will last for several years and therefore give you more time to sleep on the couch Sunday afternoons.

  9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.
    Sherlock Holmes.

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

  11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom, Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.
    The Chicago Seven Trial, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -vs- DAVID T. DELLINGER, RENNARD C. DAVIS, THOMAS E. HAYDEN, ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN, JERRY C. RUBIN, LEE WEINER, JOHN R. FROINES.

  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, aka The Count of MonteCristo, the novel by Alexandre Dumas (father).

  13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
    Edmund 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.
    In C.S. Lewis’ THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE…the wardrobe led to Narnia.

  15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all.
    Edvard Munch, who painted “The Scream”.

  16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
    Neun und neunzig (99) Luftballons (eighties pop song)

  17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?
    Aluminum occurs in igneous rocks chiefly as aluminosilicates in feldspars, feldspathoids, and micas; in the soil derived from them as clay; and upon further weathering as bauxite and iron-rich laterite. Bauxite, a mixture of hydrated aluminum oxides, is the principal aluminum ore.

  18. "And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food."
    William Wordsworth, GUILT AND SORROW OR INCIDENTS UPON SALISBURY PLAIN

  19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?
    Rogers & Hammerstein - Oklahoma

  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?
    Sorry Rick, you’re wrong, and the CS major explains why you are under the impression you are good at math. :wink: I reccommend you stick to the discrete and boolean math. You keep muffing the spacial stuff. You described the object as an oblong, this is not a defined shape, it is an adjective describing another shape. By giving the 3 2-dimentional boundries you do not give any information that indicates if the figure has a quadrahedral layout, tetrahedral, pyrimidal, and a infinite variety of other possibilities. I presume you intend to imply that the shape is quadrahedral with the opposite sides being in a parallel plane. The volume of the “former” meaning the original piece would be 3(pi)45=60(pi) this volume is accuate for a rectangular, rhomboid, or bilaterally skewed rhomboid.

  21. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
    The commonly stated rule that Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox is not quite correct. Easter is actually the first Sunday after the ``Paschal Full Moon’’. The date of the Paschal Full Moon is determined from tables, and it may differ from the date of the the actual Full Moon by up to two days! The possible dates for the Paschal Full Moon are March 21 through April 18. This gives the date of Easter as March 22 through April 25.

  22. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?
    Dr. Sheppard. from Agatha Chrisie’s novel

  23. If Janet Reno were Bill Clinton’s sister, it would be an eerie parallel to what other administration?
    John F. Kennedy appointed his Brother Robert F. Kennedy Attorney General.

  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?
    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.

  26. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?
    Emmys and Clios (or Addys)

  27. I can clarify my point if you don’t quite grasp it, but can I do it with butter?
    To clarify butter, melt any amount of butter over gentle heat, then skim off the foamy white substance that has collected on the surface. Spoon out the clear yellow liquid (this is the clarified butter); there will be a little milky substance left. Use the clarified butter for sauteing; it doesn’t burn as easily as unclarified butter. (The “milk solids” can be discarded, added to the dish later, or used to flavor soups, sauces or vegetables.)

  28. What do Sirica and Gesell have in common?
    Watergate. John Sirica engaged in the initial search for facts in the break-in that lead to President Nixon’s resignation. Gerhard Gesell ruled that Nixon’s firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox was unconstitutional.

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

  30. Dr. Brackett often used the radio to tell John and Roy what to do – because, after all, they weren’t doctors.
    TV show.
    EMERGENCY!, a drama series, aired on NBC on Saturday evenings from 8:00 to 9:00pm EST from January 22, 1972 to July of 1972, and then from

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Ok, this is our second attempt to post these. Chocolate said she did it earlier and because she used an html editor it kindof messed up, so she asked the administrators to remove it. It appears as though they did (THANK YOU, administrators!).

Here we go again. Hope it works this time…

  1. “You idiot! You had an eleven; why didn’t you double down?”
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>You’re playing blackjack and your friend has suggested that you should have doubled your
    bet.</FONT>

  2. Who wrote about the winds of war?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Herman Wouk</FONT>

  3. There was an owl, and the barber kept on shaving.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>“The Owl Critic” by James T. Fields
    ‘Who stuffed that white owl!’ No one spoke in the shop;
    The barber was busy, and he couldn’t stop;
    The customers, waiting their turns, were reading The Daily, the Herald, the Post,
    little heeding The young man who blurted out such a blunt question;
    No one raised a head, or even made a suggestion;
    And the barber kept on shaving.</FONT>

  4. I like Macanudos better than Montecristos, and the Arturo Fuentes aren’t so bad, either. What am I describing?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Cigars. Blech!</FONT>

  5. What happens in football if a fumble goes out of bounds? Be complete.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>A fumble that goes forward and out of bounds will return to the fumbling team at the spot of the fumble unless the ball goes out of bounds in the opponent’s end zone. In this case, it is a touchback and the opposing team gets the ball on their 20 yard line.</FONT>

  6. How many different straight flush hands are there?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>40. (A straight flush is 5 sequential cards in the same suit. Ace can be played either high or low. 10 possible straight flushes in each suit, 4 suits, 10x4=40.)</FONT>

  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.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Theologian par excellence of the Reformation, John Calvin is best known for his “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” written as a theological introduction to the Bible and a vindication of Reformation principles. </FONT>

  8. I can’t decide between annuals and perennials. Help me.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Annual flowers only bloom for one season. Perrenials come back every year. I’d recommend perennials, that way you don’t have to replant your flowers every year.</FONT>

  9. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Sherlock Holmes, if you ask Holmes. If you ask Lestrade, he’ll tell you Holmes didn’t even exist.</FONT>

  10. Under what circumstances in chess does the capturing piece not end up on the captured piece’s square?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>A pawn, attacking a square crossed by an opponent’s pawn which has just been advanced two squares in one move from its original square, may capture this opponent’s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. This capture may only be made in immediate reply to such an advance, and is called an “en passant” capture.</FONT>

  11. Seven is a lucky number at the craps tables, but David, Rennie, Tom,
    Abbie, John, Lee, and Jerry might not agree.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Jerry Ruben were “The Chicago Seven” who were charged with conspiring to start a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They were each sentenced to five years’ imprisonment plus a $5,000 fine, but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed all convictions in November, 1972. </FONT>

  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?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo and Alexander Dumas wrote about him.</font>

  13. Hello, I am Edmund. I like faeries and royalty – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Known to his contemporaries as “The Prince of Poets,” Edmund Spenser wrote “The Faerie Queene”</font>

  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.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>C.S. Lewis’s, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, details the adventures of four siblings, Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan. Lucy discovers the magical world of Narnia by entering a wardrobe. In Narnia, animals live in homes and can speak. She returns to the real world and tells of her adventures. Eventually, all of the children journey to Narnia. They soon learn that Narnia is being controlled by the evil White Witch. The children join forces with the King of Narnia Aslan in order to battle the White Witch.</font>

  15. Hello, I am Edvard. Ironically, I secretly can’t stand any kind of shouting at all.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>
    You’re Edvard Munch and you painted “The Scream.”</font>

  16. My grandmother was Nana, but how many luftballons were there, according to Nena?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Ninety-nine</font>

  17. I’m not a gud speler but I have some boxight oar. What kind of mettle is in my future?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>bauxite is a mixture of hydrated aluminum oxides usually containing oxides of iron and silicon. A noncrystalline substance formerly thought to be a mineral, bauxite is claylike, ranging from white to brown or red in color, and is the chief source of ALUMINUM and its compounds.</font>

  18. “And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, and near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>
    From William Wordsworth’s, Guilt and Sorrow" (Stanza 41)</font>

  19. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial> Not quite. In Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” Laurey is confused about her love for Curly, and about Jud, of whom she is terrified. But she has used Jud’s invitation to make Curly jealous, so Curly goes to see Jud in his smokehouse and he paints a picture of just how popular Jud would be at his own funeral (where he sings “Poor Jud is Dead”) and they have an angry confrontation about Laurey. But Curly leaves Jud very much alive.</font>

  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?
    **<FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Well Now, lets assume Caesar takes a breath which contains 0.5 L x 0.044 moles/L or 0.022 moles of air (at atmospheric pressure, remember). With Argon present at 0.94 mole%, this is 0.022 moles x 0.0094 x 6.022 x 10 ^23 atoms/mole = 1.245 x 10^20 atoms of Ar from just one breath.

Bwahahahaha, now that about sums up how much sense this question makes… LMAO… Okay, my real answer is, Cylinder Volume Theorem The volume V of any cylinder with radius r and height h is equal to the product of the area of a base and the height.
V=(PI)(r^2)h So in this case, it would be (pi)2^2(3) = Volume of the cylinder… 3.14(4)(3)=37.68</font>**

  1. First Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>When is Easter, Alex?</font>

  2. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?
    <FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd contains one of Agatha Christie’s most famous “twist” endings. It’s narrated by Dr Sheppard. It turns out that Dr. Sheppard is the murderer and the story ends with him putting his manuscript in a mailbox and killing himself.</font>

  3. If Janet Reno wer

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Well it would seem that we already have to modify one of our answers. Now that we’ve posted ours, I took a glance over everyone else’s and I see one that I misinterpreted. Please change our answer to #35 to be:

<FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.
Perhaps she’ll die!</font

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

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Again, didn’t look at the other responses.

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  1. Who wrote about the winds of war?

Herman Wouk?

  1. Inspector Lestrade wasn’t quite as smart as this guy.

Sherlock Holmes.

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

They were the Chicago Seven; activists on trial for their actions during the '68 convention riots. And don’t forget, they were originally eight. Bobby Seale was first gagged and handcuffed to a chair, then separated for his own trial. Allegedy, he was too loud and disorderly, but I didn’t know it was possible to be more so than Abbie Hoffman. BTW, Seale was black.

  1. Hello, I am Edmond. Along with Peter, Susan, and Lucy, I discovered an oddity in one of the pieces of furniture in the house.

One of the four Pevensie children, from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the first volume in The Chronicles of Narnia.

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

  3. Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?

Oklahoma. Curly is baiting Jud and telling him the only way he’ll get respect is by offing himself. Mr. Rilch loves that scene–Rod Steiger can out-act Gordon MacRae without saying a word!

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

Easter.

  1. Who murdered Roger Ackroyd?

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

Kennedy?

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

Steamboat; the Alaska purchase.

  1. The stage has Tonys, the screen Oscars. What do television shows have? How about commercials?

Emmy’s; don’t know. Should, but don’t.

  1. 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.

  1. 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 guess she’ll die?

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

Port vs. starboard?

  1. 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.

Ha ha. Alfred Hitchcock.

  1. Doing crank calls is better than doing crank. Why?

Crank is crack, or maybe speed or crystal meth, that’s superconcentrated. It also has glass shards in it.

  1. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?

Uh…I haven’t seen Damn Yankees in years, so there may have been something she didn’t get. But generally she does.

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

Bilbo Baggins.

  1. Folsom, Joliet, Leavenworth, Attica. Add one.

Sing Sing, San Quentin.

  1. Bugs Bunny:Mel Blanc::Bart Simpson:?

Nancy Cartwright.

  1. What’s the difference between sleet and freezing rain?

Is there one?

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

Bruce Springsteen?

Boy, that was pathetic.

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

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You know – I did do a poor job on phrasing question #20… but let me see if, rephrasing, I can save it. Here’s what I meant to say:

Forget “oblong”. We have a rectangular solid, with sides 3(pi), 4, and 5. Out of that solid, I carve a cylinder of radius 2 and height 3.

What is the volume of the resulting solid?

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I am hereby amending two of my answers.

20. <strike>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?</strike>
We have a rectangular solid, with sides 3(pi), 4, and 5. Out of that solid, I carve a cylinder of radius 2 and height 3. What is the volume of the resulting solid?
<strike>Maybe I’m missing something, but I would say that your oblong solid could be a “rectangular” solid with sides 3pi, 4, 5 and volume 60pi.</strike>
48<font face=“Symbol”>p</font>

40. Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?
Some people will mention Dinah Shore, but Sarah Vaughan’s version went higher in the charts in 1955. The song is originally from “Damn Yankees.” Lola’s seduction attempt (at the urging of Applegate) of Joe was a failure.

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Hey Arnold? Are you sure its 48pi and not 48? Don’t the pi’s cancel out?

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Ok, let me see if I understand this new explanation of the math question (#20).

You have a solid rectangle and you remove a portion of it in the shape of a solid cylander. You want us to tell you the volume of what’s left of the original solid now that they cylander has been removed.

Ok, the volume of the solid rectangle is 3(pi)45. If you calculate for pi as 3.1417, that makes the volume of the original rectangle 188.502.

The volume of the cylander is pir[sup]2[/sup]h. Again, allowing for pi=3.1417, that makes the volume of the cylander 3.141743, or 37.7004.

So the volume of the original rectangle (188.502) minus the volume of the cylander (37.7004) = 150.8016 remaining volume.

I still haven’t figured out how Arnold came up with 48pi, but 48pi (with pi=3.1417) = 150.8016, which is the same result I came up with, so 48*pi would be correct if you’re not solving for pi.

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

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Ok, how loudly can we say, DUH!!?

pi345 = 60pi = volume of rectangle.

pi43 = 12*pi = volume of cylander.

60pi - 12pi = 48*pi remaining.

LMAO - I can be such a moron sometimes!

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

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All together now…

<center><font size=“6”>DUH!</font></center>

How about if I remember to make all of our corrections in one post next time?

We’d also like to modify our answer to #28. Chocolate is the one that came up with that answer, and in the course of verifying it, I couldn’t find any reference to Gesell’s participation in any way, shape or form in the Watergate trials. I’m not saying that he wasn’t involved as others here have suggested, just that I couldn’t find any support for that, and chocolate can’t remember where she might have found it.

What I did find, however, is that Gesell presided over the Iran/Contra trials. Therefore, we’re going to say that what Sirica and Gesell have in common is that they’re both judges who presided over trials accusing Presidents and other high-level government officials of illegal activities.

<font size=1>Side note: Too bad Gesell couldn’t have gotten Reagan to resign his office in shame like Sirica got Nixon to do.</font>

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

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I now declare Bricker Challenge #5 over, with the winner posting fifty correct answers… Arnold, a hearty congrats!

I still have your contact information from last time, and am assuming your choice remains the same – if not, let me know.

Well done!

I will post everyone’s scores here a bit later this evening… as always, everyone, a truly impressive showing!

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Well, that wouldn’t have been wrong, but in this case, your sister was on solid ground. Gerhard Gesell not only ruled on the Cox firing, but he presided over the trial of Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy when they were accused of conspiring to deny civil rights to Dr. Fielding after breaking into his office looking for confidential material on his patient, Daniel Ellsberg.

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Hey there Bricker! We’ve been waiting for the results with bated breath.

I don’t mean to pick nits, and you know I love ya, Arnold, but…

Arnold posted:

Now, while I realize that he correctly identified the origin of the reference to poor Jud being dead, he didn’t actually answer the question, did he? The answer is NO, Jud is not dead at that point. I believe that chocolate and I were the only team that came up with the correct, and complete, answer to that one. :slight_smile:

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

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True – but my code word for requiring that level of detail is usually “be complete” or something like that. In this case, it was sufficient to identify where the quote came from.

Without question, your team had the most correct and complete answer… and it’s always good to cover bases by providing as much detail as possible… but in this instance, Arnold’s answer was enough to gain credit for the question.

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Of course I respect your ruling, Rick, and congratulate Arnold.

However, respecting your ruling and agreeing with it are two separate things. And I really don’t agree at all. I fail to see how simply giving a reference to a direct question is sufficient information. For instance, what if someone answered the question about the diagnosis for the old woman who ate the fly simply as “it’s from a nursery rhyme”? You asked what the diagnosis would be and the correct answer is “perhaps she’ll die.” Are you saying that simply knowing it was from a rhyme would have been sufficient to have gotten credit? If someone had answered the question “Is it true that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets?” as “Hey, that’s a song from Damn Yankees,” would that have counted? Or did you want to know the answer - does she get what she wants, yes or no?

And likewise, you specifically asked “Poor Jud is dead – except that he’s not, at that point, is he?” Well? IS HE? Yes or no? I can’t tell from Arnold’s answer. Sure, he knows what it’s from, but I still stand by my contention that he didn’t answer the question. And that doesn’t mean that he didn’t answer the question “completely.” He simply didn’t answer the direct question that was asked. (And I’m not pointing the finger at him, personally. He’s not the only one that didn’t answer it. It’s just that he was credited with the win in spite of that fact.)

So are you really saying that for every question you ask, if you don’t specifically state that we’re to “be complete” that we are free to give partial answers that show we have an idea of what you’re referring to without actually giving the answer to the specific question?

Boy, I’m making this sound like “winning” is more important to me than it really is. It’s not about whether I win or not. Even if someone else answered all 50 before me, but after Arnold’s reply, I’d still stand by my feeling that Arnold’s answer was not an answer to the question that was asked, just because he knew you were referring to that play.

Ok, end of rant.

Congrats again, Arnold. You did a great job!

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

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I wasn’t aware of these challenges until our get together at CCBC. What did Arnold win?

“Age is mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” -Leroy “Satchel” Paige

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Shayna, as is your wont, you make some compelling points.

Let me see if I can sort of illuminate my thinking, though, and perhaps it’ll make some sense.

You’re right on track about the old lady and the spider: answering that it was from a nursery rhyme or song would gain only 1/2 credit; it was necessary to answer the question about the diagnosis to get the whole question… because the diagnosis was a critical part of the question being asked.

But that’s an illustrative example for another reason: you could get the whole point just for saying, “Perhaps she’ll die.” Because that short phrase confirms that you know the rhyme AND it answers the predicate question-within-a-question.

Let us contrast:

Here, an answer that consisted only of ‘yes’ would be worth nothing, because even though it answers the predicate question correctly, it doesn’t show an understanding of what clarifying butter entails. For all I know, the response is a 50-50 guess, and so it fails to earn any credit at all. The predicate question is not always the important part of the puzzle.

Another type of question is the simple:

No hidden predicates - you just have to come up with the reference.

Confusingly, there are times in which the predicate is a red herring.

Here, you get nothing except an appreciative nod from the quizmaster for knowing the La Cage Aux Follies is a gay male burlesque/drag queen show. The gravamen of the question is knowing the steam engine and the purchase of Alaska.

With that framework in mind, let me turn to:

In framing the question, the first draft was, “Poor Jud is dead. Explain.” But in rereading it, I thought it might be too unfairly obscure; although I have seen Oklahoma about 70 zillion times, I recognize that it’s not for everyone. So I tried to think of some way to make people focus on the phrase “Poor Jud is dead,” without leading them astray in search of actual dead people named Jud.

Thus was born the question in its final form.

So you see… the question began life as a simple one, and transformed itself into one where the predicate seemed important - but only because I was trying to make it easier.

But in my mind, I had locked in on simply supplying “Oklahoma” as sufficient for the answer, without any distinction for detail about the play itself… because when I framed the question, the detail wasn’t important. Saying “Okalahoma” was analogous to saying, “Perhaps she’ll die.” It showed you got the reference.

Now, along you come, and make the very accurate point that the question as written isn’t completely answered by the simple reference to Oklahoma. But by the time you brought that point up, I had already “graded” several entries - as well as declared a winner - using the standard by which I had previously decided to accept “Oklahoma” as fully correct.

If I had insisted on the full explanation, no one could be heard to complan… because you’re absolutely right; it should be answered in full. But hopefully this explains why mine wasn’t a random, arbitrary decision to give full credit for half the answer… even if, upon reflection and analysis, it was a shortsighted decision. :slight_smile:

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A case of beer, winner’s choice as to brand, as long as it’s reasonable.

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