The Bricker Challenge, Series Q

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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You might be right. I am pretty sure is was Gorby. Hard to mistake that forehead in a latex mask.

Of course, I am still hoping that Bricker wanted all parts of question 9 answered, so I can sneak in on a technicality.

ogre
You got a couple of characters wrong for the first book, but I’ll throw a beer at ya if I win anyway.

You are missing the position of the square in relation to the x-axis. The easiest way to think of it is to get the volume of the cylinder of radius 2 and subtract the cylinder of radius 1.

(pi - pi) unit[sup]3[/sup]

Man–this thread moves fast. Every time I post there are new replies waiting for me. (lousy slow ass internet connection!)

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No. Not correct. It forms a ring, not a disc.

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4pi unit[sup]3[/sup] - pi unit[sup]3[/sup]

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  1. Classical (cello).
  2. Nine miles.
  3. Your Benzedrine (?)
  4. Gunter Parche.
  5. “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.”
  6. 8?
  7. Yes, a transient ischemic attack is less serious than a stroke.
  8. “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
  9. ??? (Pretty embarrassing when it sounds like it might be a lit question, but it’s not ringing any bells.
  10. Newton meters.
  11. ??
  12. London Underground
  13. The wind?
  14. Catcher in the Rye
  15. Michael Collins
  16. A-1 Steak Sauce
  17. ?
  18. Pandora.
  19. No – Sacajawea did.
  20. Madame Tussaud?
  21. ??
  22. “The Cisco Kid”
  23. ???
  24. ???
  25. “Welcome to Fantasy Island”
  26. ???
  27. “Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go.” (Assuming you are somewhere between Jail and Go.)
  28. Yes, the thing itself DOES speak.
  29. They were lead by George Meany.
  30. No, it’s a piece of music by Scott Joplin (?)
  31. ???
  32. Turandot.
  33. ???
  34. Christina Aguilera
  35. Um … the University of Massachussetts?
  36. “Ringo” by Lorne Green.
  37. ??
  38. Swindling.
  39. Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.
  40. Um … “The Five Little Peppers and How they Grew”?
  41. Damn, another lit question I don’t know…
  42. Making money while the stock market is falling (sorry, I don’t know the specifics of how, although I suspect it’s illegal.)
  43. ?
  44. The Whiskey Rebellion.
  45. He’s a character in the comic strip Doonesbury.
  46. The singer.
  47. ??
  48. ???
  49. Fuller O’Brien.
  50. They’re all Beatrix Potter characters. (Whoo hoo, a literature question I DO know. Guess I’ll be writing my dissertation on children’s books.)
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Chernenko. Link,Link, and Link.

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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. 3*pi cubic units
  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. friends:
    Aragh
    Dafydd Ap Hywell
    Danielle
    and Sir Brian Neville-Smithe as the George.
    Humans were Geoege because they all look alike inside of their tin cans.
  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.
  17. 30 seconds to describe ten items in category X. Don’t use the word you’r trying to describe.
  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 ohm
  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.
  33. 4(C14 H15 N) + 73O2 = 56CO2 + 30H2O + 4NO
  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.
  41. He builds “castles in the air.”
  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.
  47. You’re playing “The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain”
  48. Sierra Online
  49. Morton-Thiokol, which apparently is run by people who majored in Bad Publicity.
  50. They all were created by Beatrix Potter.
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So what’s wrong, Rick? AFAICT, we all agree.

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49 The Viton O-rings were manufactured by the Parker Seal Company and used in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motors, prime contractor: Morton-Thiokol

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  1. What “world leaders” appeared in Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Two Tribes’ video?
    Chernenko & Reagan
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  1. Chernenko and Reagan
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Damn math & science. I’m sure that someone else has already won, but as I keep begging for these, here is what I’ve answered & stolen (bonus - Calaf’s riddle to Turandot):

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?
    Cello music

  2. How long is Foster’s Camptown racetrack?
    5 miles

  3. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

    Ask Dan Rather. (REM song too.)

  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?

    The man who stabbed Monica Seles, Gunter Parche.

  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?
    I’m William Henry Harrison, and my slogan was “Tippecanoe, and Tyler too!”

  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?
    3 pi.

  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?
    Yes. A TIA is a Transient Ischaemic Attack, a possible precursor to a stroke, but not as bad or as permanent.

  8. Charlie Daniels told the story of the wager of a soul versus a pretty heavy violin.
    In “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”

  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?
    From “The Dragon and the George,” by Gordon R. Dickson. Humans were George because they all look alike inside of their tin cans. Companions were an english wolf, a welsh archer, a red-headed temptation, and, of course, a George.

  10. Not counting Max, in what units might torque be measured?
    Foot-pounds

  11. When I see lipstick to be kissed, I can’t stop - I can’t stop myself.
    From “Lightning Strikes,” by Lou Christie

  12. Mind the gap.
    On the London Underground.

  13. It’s almost counterintuitive, but tacking and jibing let you go against it.
    The wind. These are sailing terms.

  14. Holden ends up in a sanitorium, you know.
    In Catcher in the Rye? Really?

  15. I was stuck up there going in circles while Buzz and Neil had all the fun.
    Mike Collins, the 3rd astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

  16. According to these ads, hamburger is not chopped ham - it’s chopped steak.
    A1 Steak Sauce

  17. What were the basic rules of the $25,000 pyramid?
    List items that fit the category. Do not say any words in the name of the category. Keep your hands to yourself.

  18. She opened a box and got terrible troubles - and hope.
    Pandora

  19. Pocahantas led Lewis and Clark west, right?
    No, Sacajewa did.

  20. In the city most relevant to #12, what famous madam runs her house near a circus?
    Madam Tussaud

  21. Tell me a bit about the wings of Sandpiper Air.
    They are from the tv show “Wings”

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

  23. One is mv while the other is mv^2.
    Momentum, kinetic energy

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

  25. Complete: “My dear guests - I am Mr. Roarke, your host…”
    “Welcome to Fantasy Island.”

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

  27. How did I legally move my piece backwards in Monopoly?
    I drew the Chance card that said “Go back 3 spaces.”

  28. My friend the lawyer looked at my Furby and said, “Res ipsa loquitur.” Was he right?
    Yes. The Furby does speak for itself.

  29. Some people have alleged that when the AFL and CIO merged, the leadership was mean.
    The leader’s name was George Meany

  30. A tattered Canadian flag is not the best way to describe Maple Leaf Rag, is it?
    Better to call it a musical masterpiece by Scott Joplin.

  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?
    A tv show starring Bill Baxby as “The Magician”

  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?)
    The opera Turandot. The riddles are:
    “What is the phantom that is born every night, in every heart, yet vanishes each dawn?” Answer – Hope (“la speranza”)
    “What is it that burns like a flame when you dream of conquest, yet grows cold when you hesitate?” Answer – Blood (“il sangue”)
    “What is the ice which sets you afire; which frees you even as it enslaves you?” Answer – Turandot
    Calaf’s riddle to Turandot “Learn my name by dawn, and I will set you free (and accept death.)” Answer (after much more plot & singing) – Love (“Amore!”

  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.
    4(C14 H15 N) + 73O2 = 56CO2 + 30H2O + 4NO

  34. According to the 2000 Grammy Awards, who was the Best New Artist?
    Christina Aguleria. Part b – Is anyone under the illusion that the Grammys have any taste? Part c – Does anyone think she can actually sing?

  35. George McGovern was elected President - of Massachusetts!
    In the 1972 election, McGovern won MA and DC. That’s it.

  36. But a spark still burned, so I used my knife, and late that night I saved the life of Ringo.
    From the song sung by Lorne Greene or Jimmy Dean.

  37. Sergeant Hulka, according to Private Winger, is the platoon’s big toe.
    From the movie “Stripes”

  38. For what crime was Billy Sol Estes convicted in 1963?
    Financial & Trust Improprieties

  39. What “Clue” suspects were, respectively, associated with the military and with academia?
    Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum.

  40. Wouldn’t you like to be a pepper, too?
    From a Dr. Pepper ad

  41. What happens to the Master Builder at the end of the Ibsen play?
    He gets to the top, then falls into the quarry and dies.

  42. My friend just made a bunch of money “selling short.” What is he talking about?
    Selling Stock that he did not possess, hoping that the price would go down. When it does, he uses his profit to buy enough shares to cover his sale, and pockets the difference.

  43. What are the four basic propositions of Buddhism?
    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. It wasn’t scotch or bourbon fighting back, but rather the farmers in western Pennsylvania.
    The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.

  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?
    He’s a character in the comic strip Doonesbury.

  46. Who is the murderer in the hit song “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia?”
    the little sister, the narrator of the song.

  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?
    We are playing “The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain”

  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?
    Sierra Online

  49. What company manufactured the “O-rings” now blamed for the Challenger explosion?
    Morton-Thiokol

  50. What do Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle have in common?
    All creations of Beatrix Potter.

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I had to chuckle at the comment above that Thiokol was a leader in Bad Publicity: they did not, as Spiritus now notes, even manufacture the rings for which they took the heat!

I think this puts Spiritus into the 50 for 50 club. Taking a cue from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, I am calling this Challenge for Spiritus.

Let the requests for recounts begin :slight_smile:

  • Rick
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  1. Cello music
    2- five miles ( do dah, do dah)
  2. Ask Dan Rather. (Or REM, for that matter.)
    4-Gunther Parche, patron saint of Jeff Gululee
  3. Tippecanoe and tyler too
  4. Pi r square? no pie r round! 3*pi cubic units
    7- well, if your aunt has a Transient Ischemic Attack, it’s not a GOOD thing…
  5. It’s fun when the Devil Went Down to Georgia, isn’t it?
    9- The Dragon and the George,” by Gordon R. Dickson. friends:
    Aragh
    Dafydd Ap Hywell
    Danielle
    and Sir Brian Neville-Smithe as the George.
    Humans were Geoege because they all look alike inside of their tin cans.
    10- foot pounds
    11- 'lightning strikes"
  6. You’re in the London Underground, aren’t you?
    13- " The summer wind, keeps blowing in…" Wind
  7. Oh man, been a while since high school, but are you referring to Catcher in the Rye?
    15- Michael Collins- this is actually my oldest memeory. I was 2 and I remember Mom making me watch the moon landing.
  8. A-1 steak sauce.
    17- 30 seconds on the clock, you cant use the name of what you are describing in the description. You can’t use your hands
  9. Pandora
  10. Nope. It was Sacajawea.
  11. Madam Tussaud, near Piccadilly Circus
    21- well, if you wanna fly from Nantuckett, Joe and Brian Hackett will take you there.
    22- your grandfather obviously watches too may old TV shows, eh, Cisco? The Cisco Kid, 1950
    23-Momentum, kinetic energy.
    24 1/2+1/3+1/6= 1. One ohm
  12. WELCOME to Fantasy Island.
    26- Reagan and Chernenko
  13. Got a chance card saying “Go back 3 spaces.”
    28- I’d say you better beware with one of those things. " let the buyer beware"
    29- Well, not mean, but meany- George Meany
    30- Scott Joplin wouldn’t think so
    31 “the magician” Where the illusionist got big and green when he was angry…no, wait…
    32-ahh, hell, i’m just gonna c&p Phil’s answer- her got it right :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.
  14. 4C(14)H(15)N + 73 O(2) — 56CO(2) + 30H(2)O + 4NO Trusting Wolverene- I’m not a chemist!
    34-Ms, Agularia, come on down! You15 minutes of fame are over, hopefully.
    35-sure- in 1972. the McGovern/Shriver ticket carred only Mass and DC
    36- If you wanna sing “Ringo”, go ahead. I’ll humm the theme from “Bonanza”
    37- “That’s the fact, Jack!” Stripes
    38-he was a swindler. But did he conspire to shoot JFK???
  15. Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum
  16. Nah, I’ll leave that to Dr. Pepper.
  17. he builds “castles in the air”
  18. Buy stock on borrowed money, then when it goes down, sell. You make the difference.
  19. Suffering exists, you suffer because of your wants and dedires, Suffering ends when wants and desires end, you can achieve this by following the eightfold path
  20. Whiskey Rebellion.
  21. Because he’s in Doonesbury!
  22. “little sister don’t miss when she aims her gun”
    47- you’re playing “The lost mind of dr. Brain”
    48- Published by Sierra online
  23. The Viton O-rings were manufactured by the Parker Seal Company and used in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motors, prime contractor: Morton-Thiokol .
  24. Beatrix Potter characters
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Shit. Yer right. I’m an idiot. I was thinking the question said to rotate about the y-axis. Yikes.

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Woo-hooo!!!

Who says it doesn’t pay to steal teh results of other’s labor.

I’ll ne hiring a team of lawyers immediately to handle the recount requests and challnges.

BTW – can I have the prize split? I owe Gaudere at least a six by now (Guinness, of course).

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…and that means I got myself one (1) beer, courtesy of Spiritus Mundi! Redeemable…someday, somewhere.

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True and true, Mr Ogre.

So, what’s your 20? Are we even on the same continent? If I heave one from florida will you be able to catch it?

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If you can put that sucker in Montgomery, Alabama, I’ll put on my biggest catcher’s mitt for it!

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Hey, if we’re doing prize-splitting, can I make a claim for anything? I’m sure some of those answers were mine.

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Absolutely. In fact, some of yours were even correct. :wink:

My arm will get tired if I try to throw a beer to everyone, though. Tell you what. In this thread I am offering to buy a round for any Doper that meets me in a pub in Cork Ireland. Meet me there on the 13[sup]th[/sup] and the beer shall be yours.

Alternatively – I’ll be happy to stand a round the next time I see ya.