(with apologies to Bricker)
I hope Bricker won’t mind, but I’ve decided to emulate the master and propose the imitation Bricker challenge. Tastes great, but less calories. The rules for this challenge can be found in
Bricker’s 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, 18 February 2000, midnight, or when someone posts 50 correct answers.
I will try (but don’t promise) to post intermediate scores.
Have at it!
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Our rotten and vicious language caused some stir when we were interviewed on British Television, but those young english kids (punks!) liked us anyway.
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When the teacher asked little Andy what DNA stood for, he had no problem, but he was stumped by G,A,T,C.
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Hello, my name is Jacques, and I started my illustrious career by clumsily chasing after a rare and rare-coloured gem and the cat-burglar that stole it.
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Bonjour, je m’appelle Jacques, et je travaille a l’Elysée.
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Ahoy there! I’m also Jacques, and Grace Kelly’s husband was happy to fund my aquatic research.
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I’m another Jacques, and I got a Nobel Prize for my work (in 1965), and I could surely tell you the answer to question 2.
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When I bought my Berlitz book, I didn’t expect a sentence to be missing. Could you help me out and replace the “…” with the missing sentence?
Quanti sono i giorni della settimana?
Sono sette.
Quali sono?
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I’m sitting down to a spicy plate of Kim Chi, and looking forward to it, so can you guess my probable country of origin?
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I have no problem with Kim Chi, but I’m not a foreigner. I’m Jim Chee, a native of North America, and I’m a police detective. What’s my jurisdiction?
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I’m a function, but I’m unique, because my antiderivative is equal to my derivative, and is even equal to me! (disregarding those pesky constants)
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My last name was de la Serna, and my first name Ernesto, but my fight against imperialism brought me fame under another name.
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I say Guinea, you say Conakry. I say Mongolia, you say …
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Match the molecule to its common name.
CH[sub]4[/sub],C[sub]2[/sub]H[sub]6[/sub],C[sub]3[/sub]H[sub]8[/sub],C[sub]4[/sub]H[sub]10[/sub]
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I am famous enough to have a U.S. state capital named after me, but I was also the 19th century prime minister of which country?
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Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin were the real leaders of our gang, but for some reason, journalists slapped my name on it next to Andreas’.
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With my horde of horsemen, I founded a vast land empire, some say the largest in history.
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I believe I’m just as talented as Matt Damon, if not more, and I played Tom Ripley before him, in a 1960 movie.
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I might not be as famous as my (fictitious) compatriot William Tell, but I achieved glory by my heroic act at the battle of Sempach, when I opened a path for freedom.
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Elizabeth Barret Browning was affectionately nicknamed The Portuguese, but I’m the real thing: the most famous, authentic Portuguese 16th century poet.
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Everyone remembers “I, Claudius”, the PBS series, but I actually played Claudius in the series!
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I might have copied some of my fables from Aesop, but my twelve books of tales are nonetheless a fountain of wisdom.
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When my dance troup performed this ballet with their springing step, the ritual applause almost turned to a riot in Paris. I blame my “henchman” Igor.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t mind all the publicity he got from “Jurassic Park”, but since he was the star of the story, from his point of view a more accurate title might have been chosen.
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Since I’m the closest star to the Earth, you would think more people would know my name.
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I thought I would be the first to land on the moon, but when I got there, I saw a Belgian reporter with a funny haircut, his white terrier, a sea captain, an absent-minded professor and some other comical characters. Who are these people?
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My “Nude descending a Staircase, No. 2” was refused in Paris, but loved in New York.
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I only wrote one opera in my life, but wouldn’t you know it, the French troups were occupying Vienna the first time my beautiful story of conjugal love was performed, and those army people wouldn’t know a good opera if it fell on them.
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White: Bishop e6, King f6, Pawn f7, Bishop g7.
Black: Pawn g6, King h7.
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In “The Thin Man” novel, what actually happened to the title character?
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On Valentine’s day, many might have cause to remember the Mayans and the Aztecs, and their discovery of the properties of Theobroma cacao. Why?
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Raised as a cowherder, gone to war as a charioteer, great lover, prankster, flute player, I was killed by an arrow shot in my heel, my only vulnerable spot, but now, after my death, many revere me as a God.
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U should know the name of this U.N. Secretary General (1961 - 1971).
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This grunge band at one time claimed that their name came from a great-grandmother’s peyote preserves, but later explained that they were joking.
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This sport has teams of four players. One of those players is called the lead, and one the skip, but the captain of the team is the skip, and not the lead.
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My name could be translated as “Captain Nobody”, and I swore never again to put foot on land, but to live on the bounties of the ocean, in this novel.
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Steve Miller spoke of “the pompatus of love”, but what did he mean by that?
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I am an armless statue, found on the Greek island of Melos, but I’m now far from my home country. In what museum could you see me?
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This pacific island gave birth to Oceania’s only indigenous hand-writing system to predate the 20th century, called rongorongo.
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“Able was I, ere I saw Elba.” Which 19th century historical figure would have been justified in quoting this palindrome?
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In which sport did Justin Huish win a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta olympics?
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When Calvin said to Hobbes “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?”, whom was he quoting?
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Miscegenation was an important theme in this american musical, which also featured a song about the Mississippi.
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My PC uses ASCII, but who uses EBCDIC?
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What do englishman Michael Caine, american Sylvester Stallone, Brazilian Pelé, and swede Max von Sydow have in common?
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On the cover of the Beatles’ album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, who can you see gazing directly at the viewer over John Lennon’s right epaulette?
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Henry V of England, immortalized by Shakespeare, was a member of which royal house?
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As a mass of relatively moist air ascends, the lower pressures prevailing at higher levels allow it to expand. In expanding, the air cools adiabatically (i.e., without heat exchange with the surrounding air) until its temperature falls below the dew point, upon which the air becomes supersaturated. The excess water vapour that it contains then condenses onto microscopic dust or smoke particles called condensation nuclei. This process rapidly gives rise to droplets on the order of 0.01 mm (0.0004 inch) in diameter. These droplets, usually present in concentrations of a few hundred per cubic centimetre, would then form a …
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In this police station, roll call always ended with “And hey, let’s be careful out there.”
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This planet is found at approximately 786,375,000 kilometers from the sun.
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In the late 19th century, a frenchman came up with this system for identifying criminals, but his system was soon supplanted by the more accurate method of fingerprinting.
