The Bricker Challenge, Series Q

[Ogre]

Fraid Cork’s right out, so I’ll have to catch you during some Southeastern DopeFest.

[City_Gent]

*Originally posted by Bricker *
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*Originally posted by Spiritus Mundi *
**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 **

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

• Rick **

Spiritus stole the O-ring one from me, so unless I have other wrong answers, I beat him to 50/50. Let me introduce my new attorney, Mr. David Boies

[Iolanthe]

*Originally posted by Bricker *
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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.
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“The Next time I say ‘let’s go some place like Bolivia,’ let’s go some place like Bolivia!” - Butch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The next time I promise myself that I’m putting together a team for these challenges, I’m putting together the damn team.

Very well done Spiritus. (And everyone else I stole from, especially Phil.) Congrats.

[City_Gent]

Oh, and by the way, No. 23 B was “twice the kinetic energy”, not just “kinetic energy”. You wrote mv^2.

Nyaah, nyaah

[Arnold_Winkelried]

You bastards! This was my first chance to go to MPSIMS today! Spiritus Mundi, I hate you with a blazing hate hotter than a thousand suns. :mad:

[Ogre]

mmv^2 means mv[sup]2[/sup], city gent

[Ogre]

I mean mv^2 means mv[sup]2[/sup].

[douglips]

1. Yo-Yo Ma plays cello, so ‘classical’.
2. Camptown racetrack’s five miles long, oh, doo-dah day.
3. You get a beating like Dan Rather did once in a lifetime. Hopefully less.
4. Gunther Parche stabbed her at a match in April 1993.
5. William Henry Harrison ran under the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!”
6. You have a cylinder-donut shape, outer radius = 2 inner radius = 1, height = 1. The volume of a cylinder is pi * r[sup]2[/sup] * h, so the volume of our shape is the volume of a cylinder of radius 2 minus the volume of a cylinder of radius 1. The answer is thus: 4pi[sup]2[/sup]*1 - pi[sup]2[/sup] * 1 = 3 * pi. (units[sup]3[/sup])
7. 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.” Chicken in the bread pan, pickin’ out dough…
9. “The Dragon and the George,” by Gordon R. Dickson
10. Newton-meters, foot-pounds, inch-pounds.
11. Lou Christie, “Lightning Strikes”
12. The London Underground warns you to mind the gap so you don’t trip and sue. Oh wait, they’re British, they don’t sue.
13. Sailing against the wind. Not quite a Bob Seger tune.
14. JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.
15. Michael Collins was Command Module pilot waiting for Neil and Buzz to get back from walking on the moon.
16. Only if you use A-1.
17. List items that fit the category. Do not say any words in the name of the category. Keep your hands in the little bondage accessories.
18. Pandora. The only think left in the box of horrors was hope.
19. Wrong. Sacajawea did.
20. Madame Tussaud’s wax museum is near (in?) Picadilly Circus.
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. Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine…
23. Momentum is mv, Kinetic energy is (.5)mv[sup]2[/sup]. So, the answer is ‘momentum and twice Kinetic Energy’.
24. Parallel resistors: Total resistance R[sup]-1[/sup] = sum of all (r[sub]i[/sub][sup]2[/sup]). So, 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1 = 1/R: R = 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. Furbies sure do talk to themselves alot. I want to program my palm pilot to insult them.
29. George Meany was the leader.
30. Scott Joplin, pimp-daddy ragmaster wrote Maple Leaf Rag.
31. In another life, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. It’s Bill Bixby 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 fromyour 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. 4C[sub]14[/sub]H[sub]15[/sub]N + 73 O[sub]2[/sub] — 56CO[sub]2[/sub] + 30H[sub]2[/sub]O + 4NO
34. Christina Aguilera. Pfeh.
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. From Lorne Greene’s “version” of Ringo.
37. Bill Murray, what a crack-up he was in “Stripes”.
38. “Financial & Trust Improprities.”
39. Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum.
40. Be a pepper, drink Dr. Pepper…
41. He builds a castle in the air, loses his moral compass, and becomes god. But that’s just Spiritus’ interpretation.
42. You borrow shares of stock and sell them at market value. If the price goes down, later you can buy them at the lower price and the difference is your profit. If the price goes up, you may be forced to buy them no matter how high the price has gone, so you could lose big also.
43. 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 the great drunk/high playboy in Trudeau’s Doonesbury.
46. “Little Sister” did it. I hate you for making me remember this song.
47. You’re playing “The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain”
48. Sierra Online
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 (now Thiokol Propulsion, a division of Cordant Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Alcoa Corporation).
50. They all were created by Beatrix Potter.

[douglips]

Damn! I need to type/steal faster.

I’d like to point out that I got the right answer to 23, but City Gent beat me to that even. Gosh I suck.

Next time see if I help you guys out with Krishna.

Well played, all, and hats off to Bricker for taking time away from his new bride to provide entertainment for all of us.

[douglips]

*Originally posted by Ogre *
**mv^2 means mv[sup]2[/sup], city gent **

Yes, and neither is “Kinetic Energy”. Both are, however, “Twice kinetic energy”.

OK, enough pedantry - I’m off for the weekend. Thanks again, all, especially to Phil from whom I so artlessly stole so many answers.

Not that it did me any good.

[waterj2]

I’ve heard that kinetic energy used to be defined as mv^2, I guess with the units being diferent. Anyone able to check my assertion that Estes was convited in '65 not '63?

[manhattan]

Oh, sure. I spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the SDMB for months and months. Do you post a Bricker Challenge? Nooooooooo.

I go to Pyroto for a couple of lousy hours, and ba-da-bing, ba-da-bang, a Bricker Challenge.

And Pyroto is taking away my damn mountain.

Merry Christmas, indeed.

Seriously, though, good to see these back!

[Weirddave]

well, everyone owes me for #47-48. And Chernenko.

[pldennison]

See if I ever research Puccini operas for you buncha ingrates again!

Props to Wolverine on balancing that chemical reaction, though. I haven’t done one of those in . . . 15 years, and I’m not about to start again now.

[Joe_Cool]

I’m happy to say I got Dr. Brain & his publisher on my own, as well as all the math & science questions (though I didn’t catch the missing 1/2 on mv^2).

I knew or found most of the other crap myself, but I definitely stole the latin & dragon answers. Thanks, guys.

[Falcon]

*Originally posted by manhattan *
**Oh, sure. I spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on the SDMB for months and months. Do you post a Bricker Challenge? Nooooooooo.

I go to Pyroto for a couple of lousy hours, and ba-da-bing, ba-da-bang, a Bricker Challenge.

And Pyroto is taking away my damn mountain.

Merry Christmas, indeed.

Seriously, though, good to see these back! **

But come on, Manny…you got to have fun with Soup all day!

[Spiritus_Mundi]

Spiritus stole the O-ring one from me, so unless I have other wrong answers, I beat him to 50/50. Let me introduce my new attorney, Mr. David Boies

I did indeed steal the O-ring from you, but it’s your own fault: you just left it lying around waiting to be cracked.

Now, in the interests of justice and fair play, let me point out that you:

1. Failed to completely answer question 9.
2. Did not account for all possibilities in question 27.
3. left a hanging chad in your chemical equation.

Oh, and:
23. Momentum is mv, Kinetic energy is (.5)mv2. So, the answer is ‘momentum and twice Kinetic Energy’.

[Lux_Fiat]

This is what I get for working nights. Damned sun-dwellers. Anyway, congratulations, Spiritus. Don’t think of it as “theft.” Think of it as “standing on the shoulders of giants.”

[douglips]

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Spiritus Mundi *
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23. Momentum is mv, Kinetic energy is (.5)mv[sup]2[/sup]. So, the answer is ‘momentum and twice Kinetic Energy’.

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I’ve never seen a more brilliant answer to this question.

[Bricker]

If there are no substantive challenges to Spiritus’ win… today is the day to make it official.

Prize may be split into two shipments of two six-packs each… Merry Christmas!

• Rick