The Bricker Challenge, Series Q

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The rules for this are as posted previously. A quick recap: these are not all straightforward questions. If I ask, “Is the quality of mercy strained?” the right answer would not simply be, “No.” The correct answer will say something like, “Well, in Portia’s speech in ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ she says it’s not.” Your answers must show that you got the reference, as well as answering whatever the nominal question is.

The prize is a case of beer, winner’s choice as to brand, as long as it’s reasonable and the winner is of legal age. Godiva chocolates of equal or lesser value (or greater value; we can discuss specifics) may be substituted for the beer at the winner’s request.

I am the final arbiter of points, correct and incorrect answers, and can do as I please in all things great and small. The winner is the first person to post fifty correct answers, or the person with the most correct answers posted by 8 PM EST Christmas Day. There is no rule against stealing others’ answers, I merely count how many you’ve posted.

That said… good luck!

  1. A rap singer may be heard saying, “Yo yo yo!” But what sort of music might be associated with Yo Yo Ma?
  2. How long is Foster’s Camptown racetrack?
  3. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
  4. Admittedly, I probably didn’t choose the best way, in April of 1993, to try to get Steffi Graf back to the number 1 ranking in tennis. Who am I?
  5. With all this talk about father-and-son Presidencies, I’d like to point out that I was President, and so was my grandson. What was my campaign slogan?
  6. Picture a square, with vertices at (0,1), (0,2), (1,1), and (1,2). Now we rotate this square about the x-axis. What is the volume of the resulting solid?
  7. In Spanish, Tia is what you’d call your aunt, but in medical circles, you might wish your aunt had a TIA instead of a stroke, right?
  8. Charlie Daniels told the story of the wager of a soul versus a pretty heavy violin.
  9. In an effort to save my wife, my mind ends up in the body of a dragon, and I’m just wondering why we called humans ‘Georges’ and what the names of my companions were?
  10. Not counting Max, in what units might torque be measured?
  11. When I see lipstick to be kissed, I can’t stop - I can’t stop myself.
  12. Mind the gap.
  13. It’s almost counterintuitive, but tacking and jibing let you go against it.
  14. Holden ends up in a sanitorium, you know.
  15. I was stuck up there going in circles while Buzz and Neil had all the fun.
  16. According to these ads, hamburger is not chopped ham - it’s chopped steak.
  17. What were the basic rules of the $25,000 pyramid?
  18. She opened a box and got terrible troubles - and hope.
  19. Pocahantas led Lewis and Clark west, right?
  20. In the city most relevant to #12, what famous madam runs her house near a circus?
  21. Tell me a bit about the wings of Sandpiper Air.
  22. I told my grandfather I bought Cisco stock, and he asked about Pancho stock. What the heck is the old man talking about?
  23. One is mv while the other is mv^2.
  24. What is the total resistance in a circuit containing a 2-ohm, 3-ohm, and 6-ohm resistor in parallel to each other?
  25. Complete: “My dear guests - I am Mr. Roarke, your host…”
  26. What “world leaders” appeared in Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Two Tribes’ video?
  27. How did I legally move my piece backwards in Monopoly?
  28. My friend the lawyer looked at my Furby and said, “Res ipsa loquitur.” Was he right?
  29. Some people have alleged that when the AFL and CIO merged, the leadership was mean.
  30. A tattered Canadian flag is not the best way to describe Maple Leaf Rag, is it?
  31. Anthony Blake, a wealthy and talented illusionist, wanders around helping people in need - motivated by his own misfortune in being falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned. What am I describing?
  32. Calaf determines to marry the haughty Peking ice-princess, but he must first pass the challenge of answering three riddles of hers - and one wrong answer means instant death! What are we watching? (And for extra credit… what were the riddles?)
  33. Dibenzylamine (C14 H15 N ) combusts to produce carbon dioxide (C O2), water (H2 O), and nitric oxide (NO). Balance the equation, and sorry about not having subscripts.
  34. According to the 2000 Grammy Awards, who was the Best New Artist?
  35. George McGovern was elected President - of Massachusetts!
  36. But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night I saved the life of Ringo.
  37. Sergeant Hulka, according to Private Winger, is the platoon’s big toe.
  38. For what crime was Billy Sol Estes convicted in 1963?
  39. What “Clue” suspects were, respectively, associated with the military and with academia?
  40. Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper, too?
  41. What happens to the Master Builder at the end of the Ibsen play?
  42. My friend just made a bunch of money “selling short.” What is he talking about?
  43. What are the four basic propositions of Buddhism?
  44. It wasn’t scotch or bourbon fighting back, but rather the farmers in western Pennsylvania.
  45. Duke has been Ambassador to China, general manager of the Washington Redskins, and just lately a would-be presidential candidate trying to get the Reform Party nomination. But he’s usually in just one spot in the papers - why?
  46. Who is the murderer in the hit song “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?”
  47. Rathbone is his laboratory rat, to whom he accidentally transferred too much of his brain in an experiment gone wrong; Elena is his niece, guiding us through solving the puzzle of restoring her uncle brain. What’s going on?
  48. Who is the publisher of the answer to the question, in this Bricker Challenge, which carries as its number the greatest prime number in the Challenge?
  49. What company manufactured the “O-rings” now blamed for the Challenger explosion?
  50. What do Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle have in common?
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Lemme go with the ones I know, and I’ll be back for more…

  1. Cello music
  3. Ask Dan Rather. (Or REM, for that matter.)
  5. Tippecanoe and tyler too.
  8. It’s fun when the Devil Went Down to Georgia, isn’t it?
  12. You’re in the London Underground, aren’t you?
  14. Oh man, been a while since high school, but are you referring to Catcher in the Rye?
  16. A-1 steak sauce.
  18. Pandora
  19. Nope. It was Sacajawea.
  20. Madam Tussaud, near Piccadilly Circus.
  25. WELCOME to Fantasy Island. :wink:
  27. Got a chance card saying “Go back 3 spaces.”
  39. Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum
  40. Nah, I’ll leave that to Dr. Pepper.
  42. Buy stock on borrowed money, then when it goes down, sell. You make the difference.
  44. Whiskey Rebellion.
  45. Because he’s in Doonesbury!

Hrm. Knew 17 right off the bat. I know a few more, but can’t remember specifics…I’ll add more later. And WOO that this is back!!!

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Late add: 46. Vicki Lawrence

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OK, first run through. No reference material, no other posts visible when I wrote this.

  1. Classical cello music
  2. Camptown racetrack’s five miles long
  3. What was said to Dan Rather by a person shooting at him
  4. The guy that stabbed Monica Seles (I think that was who)
  5. Old Hickory???
  6. annulus
  7. ???
  8. “Devil went to Georgia”
  9. ???
  10. Newton meters or foot pounds
  11. ???
  12. Slogan of the London Underground (which is not a politcal movement, I looked it up)
  13. The wind (four years on my high school sailing team pays off)
  14. Catcher in the Rye?
  15. Conrad? (definately a C name)
  16. ???
  17. ???
  18. Pandora
  19. Nope, Sacajawea
  20. Toussad
  21. Run by the Hackett Brothers out of Nantucket, reruns are on USA
  22. ???
  23. momentum and kinetic energy
  24. 1 ohm
  25. I’ll have to look this up, my copy of the Fountainhead seems a good place to start
  26. ???
  27. You went directly to jail, you didn’t pass go, you didn’t collect $200.
  28. Yep, it does indeed speak for itself, however much you want it to stop
  29. ???
  30. probably a piece of ragtime music
  31. ???
  32. ???
  33. ??? (supscripts and superscripts are easy in vB, just use {sup} or {sub})
  34. ???
  35. Don’t forget DC (also, some people think Charlestown Navy Yard was closed out of revenge by Nixon for this)
  36. ??? (these get harder as you go along)
  37. Stripes
  38. ???
  39. Col. Mustard and Prof. Plum
  40. ???
  41. ???
  42. Selling something he does not posses yet, but will buy later at a hopefully lower price (see the end of Trading Places for an example)
  43. ???
  44. The Whiskey Rebellion
  45. Short shrift is generally given to former governors of American Samoa
  46. ???
  47. ???
      1. ???
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Oh, thank you Bricker! I sure have missed these. Maybe I can actually get some of these :wink: …

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You haven’t been married very long, have you?

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Ooops. Volume not name.

  1. 9.4248

Also, for the rules (assuming they haven’t changed):
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=17942

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And a couple that have not had answers yet:

30 - The Maple Leaf rag is indeed a piece of ratime music, composed by Scott Joplin
31 - “The Magician”, a television show starring Bill Bixby
50 - I think these are all characters created by children’s author Beatrix Potter.

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What I’ve gotten so far and a question -

  1. Violin
    2 5 miles
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8 Devil went down to georgia - fiddle of gold
    9
    10 foot pounds
    11 Light-ning is stri-king aga-in …
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16 A1 steak sauce
    17
    18 Who was Pandora?
    19
    20
    21
    22
    23
    24
    25 Welcome - to Fantasy Island!
    26
    27
    28
    29
    30 Scott Joplin might not appreciate it, no.
    31
    32
    33
    34
    35
    36
    37
    38
    39
    40 No, but my husband drinks that swill so I’m sure he would.
    41
    42
    43
    44
    45
    46 The little sister
    47
    48 The Straight Dope?
    49
    50 They are all friends/creations of Beatrix Potter.

What is the protocol for blatantly copying off other Doper’s lists? I wasn’t sure whether to include answers already submitted or not. Is the question considered answered by the first Doper to post their answer?

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49 - Morton Thiokol

And they still have the balls to use the space shuttle on some of their stuff…

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More, with a little research:

  1. “tippecanoe and Tyler too” (I feel so stupid)
  2. A-1 Steak Sauce
  3. selling $35 million worth of non-existent fertilizer tanks.
    I believe it was '65, though
  4. Morton Thiokol
  5. Lucie is of course correct, they are Beatrix Potter characters.
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As far as the rules go, there is no prohibition against stealing others’ answers. That is, if poster A posted 49 correct answers, and poster B happened to know the 50th question, he could re-post all of A’s answers along with his own and win.

You may also post and repost yourself as you change your mind, or discover more answers.

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As usual, first review is off the top of my head. Researched answers to follow.

  1. Cello.
  2. Ask Dan Rather. Or Michael Stipe of REM.
  3. Tippecanoe and Tyler too!
  4. Devil went down to Georgia.
  5. The wind.
  6. Just couldn’t catch all those children in the Rye, I guess.
  7. Would you put ketchup on your steak? No, you’d use A-1 Steak Sauce.
  8. Pandora.
  9. Nah, that was Sacajawea. Or Sacagawea, depending upon your spelling.
  10. You drew the Chance card telling you to go back 3 spaces.
  11. Actually, it was George Meany.
  12. In the 1972 Presidential election, McGovern only won Massachussets and the District of Columbia.
  13. Oh, please. All movie affecianados know that while Colonel Mustard was a military man, Professor Plum was actually a psychiatrist with the World Health Organization.
  14. So drink Dr. Pepper!
  15. A contract made where you promise to sell someone a certain amount of a certain stock at the time-of-the-contract-current price. The buyer (considered “buying long”) expects that the price of the stock will go up, so in a few days/weeks/months he’ll be buying the stock at a cut rate. You, however, are “selling short”, and expect that before the time period is up, the stock price will have fallen, thus allowing you to buy it cheap and sell it at a previously fixed high price.
  16. The Whiskey Rebellion of the late 18th Century was the first insurrection in the new United States of America, and was quickly dispersed by troops sent in by President Washington.
  17. That would be Raoul Duke, who also was Governor of American Somoa. Duke is a character in the comic strip “Doonesbury” by Garry Trudeau, and based heavily on Hunter S. Thompson.

17 out of 50. Pathetic.

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  1. It might be classical cello, but it also might be bluegrass, if you buy the new CD “Appalachian Journey.”
  2. Five miles long, so we gwine to run all night. And all day.
  3. Dan Rather didn’t know, and Michael Stipe never understood.
  4. My name is Gunther Parche, and I stabbed Monica Seles!
  5. William Henry Harrison ran under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”
  6. Zero. That isn’t a square.
  7. Probably. A Transient Ischaemic Attack results in symptoms similar to stroke, but they are temporary (24 hours or less).
  8. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Fire on the mountain, run, boy, run!
  9. “The Dragon and the George,” by Gordon R. Dickson. First of a series of 8, I believe.
  10. foot-pounds
  11.  Lou Christie, “Lightning Strikes”
  12. Indeed, or you’ll be hit by the train in the Underground.
  13. The wind, provided you’re sailing.
  14. “Catcher in the Rye.” Some of the people who read it end up there too.
  15. “Hey, Command Module Pilot is an important job!” said Michael Collins.
  16. The deee-licious A-1 Steak Sauce. I even use it on veggie burgers.
  18. Who was Pandora, Alex?
  19. As if. You don’t see her face on the Sacajawea dollars.
  20. Mme. Tussaud.
  21. Well, there’s Brian Hackett—he’s the funny, easygoing one. And there’s Joe Hackett—he’s the serious, businesslike one. And their employees, Fay and Lowell.
  22. You’re trying to tell him you bought stock in network equipment maker Cisco Systems, and he’s kidding you about that avenger of the Old West, the Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho.
  23. Momentum; kinetic energy.
  24. 1.2 ohms
  25. “Welcome . . . to Fantasy Island!”
  26. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
  27. You got a “Chance” card ordering you to do so.
  28. He sure is. Those damned things don’t stop talking til ya smash them.
  29. It was. The leader was a big Meany. George Meany, actually.
  30. It’s really more of a jaunty piano tune by Scott Joplin.
  31. . . . starring Bill Bixby as “The Magician”
  32. We are watching “Turandot,” an opera by Puccini. The Princess is the title character. The riddles are: (1)” What is the name of the phantom which spreads its wings at night over the black infinity of humankind, which is invoked by all, but which disappears at dawn? What is this thing which is born every night and which dies every day?" Answer: Hope. (2) It flickers like flame, but is not flame. Sometimes it rages, sometimes it is languorous. When one is defeated, it grows cold, when one is victorious it is hot." Answer: Blood. (3) “Ice that sets you on fire, but which becomes icier from your fire. One who, setting you free, makes a slave of you. One who, taking you as a slave, makes you a King. What is this frost which gives off fire?” Answer: Turandot. Calaf gets them all correct.
  34. Christina Fricking Aguilera.
  35. He was also elected President of the District of Columbia. That and Massachusetts were all he got in the electoral college despite receiving more than 30 million popular votes nationwide.
  36. I like Jimmy Dean’s version better than Lorne Greene’s, anyway.
  37. At least before he got “blowed up” in “Stripes.”
  38. “Financial & Trust Improprities.” You know—fraud, swindling, etc. His case was a landmark one in getting cameras out of courtrooms.
  39. Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.
  40. Do I look like David Naughton to you? Although Dr. Pepper is better than Pepsi.
  42. He sold stock he did not yet possess, in anticipation that the price would go down. When it did, he used the proceeds of his short sale to purchase enough shares to cover, pocketing the profit.
  43. The Four Noble Truths: 1. Suffering exists. 2. Suffering arises from attachment to desires. 3. Suffering ceases when attachment to desires ceases. 4. Freedom of suffering is possible by following the Eightfold Path.
  44. The Whiskey Rebellion.
  45. He’s a character in “Doonesbury.”
  46. “Little sister,” the narrator of the song.
  49. Morton-Thiokol, which apparently is run by people who majored in Bad Publicity.
  50. They all were created by Beatrix Potter.
    45 out of 50. Read 'em and weep.
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Here’s one
33. 4C[sub]14[/sub]H[sub]15[/sub]N + 73 O[sub]2[/sub] — 56CO[sub]2[/sub] + 30H[sub]2[/sub]O + 4NO

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Oh yeah,

  1. He was thinking of The Cisco Kid’s sidekick.
  2. Afterwards, you went your seperate ways (he west, you east), met again, he repaid you for the favor, died, then you went on to star in Bonanza.
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I’ll post interim totals later, but I would like to commend pldennison on the styke of his answers - perfectly suited for this contest, pld!!

  • Rick
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  1. Cello music
  2. 5 miles long, doo da, doo da!
  3. Ask Dan Rather - the mugger did.
  6. Pi cubic units - P*Radius squared * 1 unit thick.
  7. Maybe - a Transient Ichschemic Attack is considered a “ministroke”
  8. “My name is Johnny, and it might be a sin, but I’ll take that bet, and you’re gonna regret, ‘cause I’m the best that’s ever been!” But I liked the “Ballad of the Uneasy Rider” better.
  9. Um, St. George is involved here, isn’t he?
    10.lbs.-Feet.
  10. Lightning Striking Again, chauvinist artist’s name unremembered.
  12. “Stand by to come about”; “Aye, Cap’n - Helm’s Alee!”; “Steady as she goes”. We’re obviously sailing.
  14. Apollo 11, first moon landing, too lazy to look up astronaut #3’s name. I’ll settle for half credit on this one.
    16.A1 Steak sauce, of course.
  17. Not by about 150 years. Pocahantas led John Standish astray. Sacajawea led Lewis and Clark west.
  19. From the TV show “Wings”
  20. The Cisco Kid, a 1950’s TV western
  23. “Welcome… To Fantasy Island!”
  25. Draw the “Go back 3 spaces” card
  27. True - George Meany
  28. Maple Leaf Rag - by Scott Joplin?
  29. A 70’s TV show called “The Magician”, starring Bill Bixby

36.Um… “He rode east, and spread terror near and far, while I rode west, to wear a star”. A record done by Lorne Green, spoken, not sung. I think the flip side had him singing the theme song to “Bonanza”. All I remember was “With a gun and a rope and a hat full of hope, we planted our family tree”
37. And he retired and announced a franchise for Hulkaburgers. From the movie “Stripes”, with Bill Murray.
38.
39. Col. Mustard and Professor Plum.
40. I’m a pepper, you’re a pepper… The Dr. Pepper jingle
41.
42. Selling stock he doesn’t own. He’s betting the price of the stock declines.
43.
44. The Whiskey Rebellion, about 1800. One of the new federal government’s first challenges about taxation, I think.
45. The Op-Ed page, or the comics page. He’s one of Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury characters.
46. Little sister - she don’t miss when she aims her gun.
47. Uh… Pinky and the Brain? No, no, not them… I’ll ponder it some more.
48. Siddhartha?
49. Morton Thiakol
50. Dickens characters, I think.

Whoo hoo, 33 answered! Oh, wait, #47 was a little flip. OK, 32. Well, there’s some half-credit answers, and some guesses, too.

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I bow to Phil’s superior knowledge, but I believe he has at least two mistakes. By my count, there are only four questions that are left unsolved total, though. I’m givig people the benefit of the doubt if they sound knowledgeable, though. At the moment, I’m seriously considering taking a later bus home from college just so I can keep playing.

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I’ll have no possibility of winning this, but I’ll post off the top of my head answers to the questions I think I can (without looking at other answers). No responsibility for the correctness of any of these (which may range from pretty darn sure to wild assed guess).

1. A rap singer may be heard saying, “Yo yo yo!” But what sort of music might be associated with Yo Yo Ma?
Perhaps I can ask my local hard-core, bad-assed, rocking, classical cellist?

*2. How long is Foster’s Camptown racetrack?

  1. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?*
    And why did R.E.M. sing about the question that Dan Rather was unable to answer when he was accosted on the way in to work?

4. Admittedly, I probably didn’t choose the best way, in April of 1993, to try to get Steffi Graf back to the number 1 ranking in tennis. Who am I?
I can’t remember, but I have a knife-in-the-back feeling about it.

*5. With all this talk about father-and-son Presidencies, I’d like to point out that I was President, and so was my grandson. What was my campaign slogan?

  1. Picture a square, with vertices at (0,1), (0,2), (1,1), and (1,2). Now we rotate this square about the x-axis. What is the volume of the resulting solid?*
    While I’m thinking about this one, I’ll order one pi a la mode.

*7. In Spanish, Tia is what you’d call your aunt, but in medical circles, you might wish your aunt had a TIA instead of a stroke, right?

  1. Charlie Daniels told the story of the wager of a soul versus a pretty heavy violin.*
    I’m having a devil of a time thinking of this one, but perhaps if I go down to Georgia and fiddle on a hickory stump, it’ll come to me.
    *9. In an effort to save my wife, my mind ends up in the body of a dragon, and I’m just wondering why we called humans ‘Georges’ and what the names of my companions were?

  2. Not counting Max, in what units might torque be measured?*
    My foot pounds over this question (and I wonder whether, were I back in his day, I would find that Newton meters these things).

*11. When I see lipstick to be kissed, I can’t stop - I can’t stop myself.

  1. Mind the gap.*
    I don’t know, cause we New Yorkers are asked to “stand clear the closing doors,” and are unfamilar with this underground gap trivia.

13. It’s almost counterintuitive, but tacking and jibing let you go against it.
I’m sailing back and forth, fighting my way upwind in my battle to answer this question.

14. Holden ends up in a sanitorium, you know.
Well, anyone who gets this will have caught a rye answer.
15. I was stuck up there going in circles while Buzz and Neil had all the fun.
I think I’ll be Collins my friend Mike to find about this.

16. According to these ads, hamburger is not chopped ham - it’s chopped steak.
I’ll need a hamburger helper on this one.

17. What were the basic rules of the $25,000 pyramid?
Someone once asked me this, but I could answer only by giving him words and phrases that didn’t contain the answer itself.

18. She opened a box and got terrible troubles - and hope.
Wasn’t there a similar story of a pan Dora lifted the lid of to let bad stuff fly out of?

19. Pocahantas led Lewis and Clark west, right?
I’ll bet you a Sackie Dollar she didn’t.

20. In the city most relevant to #12, what famous madam runs her house near a circus?
Again, as a New Yorker, I wouldn’t know, but if one were to open here, I’d wax nostalgic about past times, square as they may have been.

21. Tell me a bit about the wings of Sandpiper Air.
If this question were any more difficult, they’d make a sitcom about it.

*22. I told my grandfather I bought Cisco stock, and he asked about Pancho stock. What the heck is the old man talking about?

  1. One is mv while the other is mv^2.*
    When started thinking about this question, I had some momentum, but ultimately I didn’t have the kinetic energy to find the full answer.

*24. What is the total resistance in a circuit containing a 2-ohm, 3-ohm, and 6-ohm resistor in parallel to each other?

  1. Complete: “My dear guests - I am Mr. Roarke, your host…”*
    It’s plane, plane that there’s no anwser to this. Bricker must have been in the welcome world of fantasy island when he wrote this question.

*26. What “world leaders” appeared in Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Two Tribes’ video?

  1. How did I legally move my piece backwards in Monopoly?*
    Well, if you don’t do it legally, you’ll go directly to jail but there is a chance that there is a legal way. Perhaps someone in my community will bump their chest into the right way.

28. My friend the lawyer looked at my Furby and said, “Res ipsa loquitur.” Was he right?
I don’t know. Did the thing speak for itself?

29. Some people have alleged that when the AFL and CIO merged, the leadership was mean.
I don’t know about the whole leadership, but by George there was a Meaney at the top.

30. A tattered Canadian flag is not the best way to describe Maple Leaf Rag, is it?
I’d be Scott free on the answer to this question were I in Joplin, MO.

*31. Anthony Blake, a wealthy and talented illusionist, wanders around helping people in need - motivated by his own misfortune in being falsely accused of espionage and imprisoned. What am I describing?

  1. Calaf determines to marry the haughty Peking ice-princess, but he must first pass the challenge of answering three riddles of hers - and one wrong answer means instant death! What are we watching? (And for extra credit… what were the riddles?)

  2. Dibenzylamine (C14 H15 N ) combusts to produce carbon dioxide (C O2), water (H2 O), and nitric oxide (NO). Balance the equation, and sorry about not having subscripts.*
    I was always better at rodent psychology, like the time I dipped 4 moles into dibenzylamine, put them in a tank with 73 moles breathing pure oxygen, and finding out at the end of the experiment I got 4 moles acting like they are on laughing gas, 30 moles that were all wet, and 56 moles exhaling at the same time.

*34. According to the 2000 Grammy Awards, who was the Best New Artist?

  1. George McGovern was elected President - of Massachusetts!

  2. But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night I saved the life of Ringo.

  3. Sergeant Hulka, according to Private Winger, is the platoon’s big toe.*
    If I were in the army, I’d have the stripes of anyone who called me a big toe.

*38. For what crime was Billy Sol Estes convicted in 1963?

  1. What “Clue” suspects were, respectively, associated with the military and with academia?*
    I mustard known the answer to this at one time, but I plum forgot it.

40. Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper, too?
No, doc, I’d rather be a Pibb.

*41. What happens to the Master Builder at the end of the Ibsen play?

  1. My friend just made a bunch of money “selling short.” What is he talking about?*
    With friends like that, I’d check my portfolio, because he could have been borrowing stock, selling it and planning to buy it back later.

*43. What are the four basic propositions of Buddhism?

  1. It wasn’t scotch or bourbon fighting back, but rather the farmers in western Pennsylvania.*
    Questions like these make my stomach heave in whiskey rebellion.

45. Duke has been Ambassador to China, general manager of the Washington Redskins, and just lately a would-be presidential candidate trying to get the Reform Party nomination. But he’s usually in just one spot in the papers - why?
I don’t know, but I’m sure there’s a comic answer if we strip away the extraneous bits in this question.

*46. Who is the murderer in the hit song “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?”

  1. Rathbone is his laboratory rat, to whom he accidentally transferred too much of his brain in an experiment gone wrong; Elena is his niece, guiding us through solving the puzzle of restoring her uncle brain. What’s going on?

  2. Who is the publisher of the answer to the question, in this Bricker Challenge, which carries as its number the greatest prime number in the Challenge?

  3. What company manufactured the “O-rings” now blamed for the Challenger explosion?*
    There may be morton one answer of it, but I can’t thiokol of it right now.

50. What do Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle have in common?