The rules for this challenge can be found in The Bricker Challenge #1.
Differences:
The prize offered, instead of a case of beer, is a box of swiss chocolate.
The deadline will be judged from the time appearing on your post.
The deadline for this imitation Bricker challenge is Friday, 3 March 2000, midnight, or when someone posts 50 correct answers.
I will try (but don’t promise) to post intermediate scores.
Have at it!
P.S. This time, I tried to make the questions specific enough that there would be no doubt as to what answer is expected.
P.P.S. Here are links to the previous challenges.
Bricker Challenge #1
Bricker Challenge #2
Bricker Challenge #3
Bricker Challenge #4
Bricker Challenge #5
imitation Bricker Challenge #1
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Whose voice says “You’ve got mail” on AOL?
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What motto (a “three K” motto) was used to represent the duties of a german hausfrau?
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If I’m blowing “Peg o’ My Heart” on my Hohner, what instrument am I playing? (no X-rated answers please.)
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At happy hour, we started discussing the DOS attacks that have plagued major internet sites (like Yahoo! and Ebay in the second week of February 1999). I said “It’s the companies’ fault! Instead of running MS-DOS, they should upgrade to Windows already.” Nerdy Jane started laughing at me, but after I got her in a headlock she explained to me what a DOS attack was. (explain what a DOS attack is)
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In what city is the world’s tallest building?
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I am still pelted with fan mail for having written theme music named for the L & L siblings, and many of those fans write to me how that tune reminds them of their favourite childhood television special programs. (name the composer and the tune)
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When in my belgian home I first drew these small blue characters (for another comic strip), I little knew they would spawn their own comic strip, then television shows and a dutch hit song in 1977. (name the characters and their creator)
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Which cape is the southernmost point of Africa? If you think you know the answer, don’t get your hopes up! You might be wrong.
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Speaking of south, what’s the southernmost national capital in the world? (name city and nation)
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I was imprisoned in my youth for my political beliefs, but later I made it all the way to president of the country. Unfortunately for me, my presidency was cut short (I barely missed making it to the 1990’s) and after I was tried on Christmas day, you saw the bullet-ridden bodies of my spouse and me in your newspaper. (name the politican and the spouse)
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This hero of mine is most remembered, not for serving his country as a paratrooper, but for another accomplishment. I live in his hometown, and don’t begrudge the crosstown traffic drive to go see his memorial rock in the zoo. (name the famous person.)
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I vividly remember last New Year, when I got to play on an animal’s body part in my place of worship. Everyone complimented me on my prowess. (name the body part, and explain why I was expected to do what I did)
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Hi, I’m Libby, and the riddle I’m asking you to solve is to tell me why my 1985 victory made me so dog-tired. (give Libby’s full name, and explain what she won)
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In the nazi death camps, Jews were made to wear yellow stars, and communists red triangles. What were Gypsies made to wear?
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What is the only Central American nation that does not border the Caribbean Sea?
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In this movie, a tramp is driven crazy by his factory job, goes to prison, works as a singing waiter, and finally finds love. I am the the director, writer, star, producer, and I wrote the music score. Who am I, and what’s the title of the movie?
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I have a brown skin, green flesh and black seeds, grow on a vine, and am sometimes called a gooseberry, but I’m more commonly known under this name in the USA.
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London - Throgmorton Street – New York - ?
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As you might know if you saw the recent broadway musical about me, I claim to have invented the sweet sounds of jazz music in 1902.
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I made my living as a German businessman, but ironically I used my earnings to write tracts discussing the evils of business. I am credited in co-authoring with my friend Charles an 1848 document that manifestly had a great influence on 19th and 20th political thought. Who am I?
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In my natural form, on Earth you can find me mostly as one of two stable isotopes, isotope 14 (99.63 percent) and isotope 15 (0.37 percent).
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I’m a small, semiaquatic, oviparous mammal. What’s my name, and what part of my body is poisonous?
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In this mansion, countless murders have been committed and solved. Many of these murders have happened in the ballroom, billiard room, conservatory, dining room and kitchen, as well as in the four other rooms, which are… (I’ll give you a clue: there’s no bedroom.)
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What is the fourth letter in the alphabet of the language that gave us the word alphabet?
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Who won the 1999 US Major League Soccer cup? Who lost in the final? What was the final score?
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In the middle of a desert, next to my legs still standing upright, my shattered head sneers at you. If you saw what I accomplished in life, you would despair, but in a twist of poetic irony, there’s nothing left of my works. What’s my name?
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I’m another colossal statue in the sand, but unlike the previous one, I’m in pretty good shape (maybe because I’m lying down instead of standing.) The only noticeable thing missing is my nose. Approximately how old am I?
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If push came to shove, I would be hard-pressed to state my favourite piece by american dancemeister T.T., but maybe it would be her 1979 work “Baker’s Dozen.” (what does T.T. stand for in this sentence)
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((11/29) + (13/41)) / ((37/79) + (3/5)) = ?
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This italian professor of semiotics is best known to the general public for his novel about murders in a medieval monastery. (Name the author and the novel.)
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This is the flag of which country?
http://www.geocities.com/jacquesrk/sd/guatemala.jpg
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Let’s get physical!
The SI unit for work is the _____. One _____ of work is done when a force of one _____ causes a displacement of one _____.
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In this African country, a proposal to introduce islamic law in one of its states has led to recent rioting (21-22 February 2000).
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Eric, Graham, John, Michael, Terry and Terry could always make me laugh. What are their last names, and why does J.P. Sousa come to mind when I remember seeing them on TV?
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I want a house to live in, but I’m too poor to buy one, so I decide to build it myself. But no sooner have I picked up the hammer, than an ex-POTUS shows up with a crowd of people to help me. Who is this person, and what organization do these people belong to?
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This large family was almost trapped in Austria when the Nazis showed up, but their hearts sang when they escaped over the mountains to beautiful Switzerland. What’s the family’s last name, and which musical told their story?
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After another night of too much partying, I woke up yet again in a foreign hotel room. For the life of me I couldn’t remember where I was, but I could make an educated guess of what country I was in when I heard someone in the corridor say “Ziko syoukai wo sasete kudasai. Watasino namaeha Hiroshi desu.”
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