- Inspector Clouseau
- Jacques Cousteau
- Korea
- Che Guevera
- Ulan Bhator
- Otto von Bismarck
- Ulrike Meinhof
- Genghis Khan
- Sol
- Chocolate
- Achilles
- 20,000 League Under the Sea
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- IBM Mainframe
- Lancaster
- Cloud
- Hill Street Station
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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.
Sex Pistols -
When the teacher asked little Andy what DNA stood for, he had no problem, but he was stumped by G,A,T,C.
Guanine, Adenine, Thymine and Cytosine -
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.
You bear a remarkable resemblance to Peter Sellers, but your name is Inspector Jacques Clouseau. The gem is the Pink Panther, so named because if you stare into it, you can see a pink panther. The cat-burglar is the famous British playboy, Sir Charles Lytton, who looks amazingly like David Niven. -
Bonjour, je m’appelle Jacques, et je travaille a l’Elysée.
Le President of France, Jacques Chirac -
Ahoy there! I’m also Jacques, and Grace Kelly’s husband was happy to fund my aquatic research.
Jacques Cousteau, funded by Prince Ranier -
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.
Dr. Jacques Monod, and you won in genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. -
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?
…
Lunedì. Martedì. Mercoledì. Giovedì. Venerdì. Sabato. Domenica. -
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?
Korean, or American
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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?
Well, since you’re a fictional character created by Tony Hillerman, you are a police officer for the Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners Area of the southwest, likely the Ute Mountain Indian Reservation -
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)
e^x -
My last name was de la Serna, and my first name Ernesto, but my fight against imperialism brought me fame under another name.
Che Guevera -
I say Guinea, you say Conakry. I say Mongolia, you say …
Ulaan Bator -
Match the molecule to its common name.
CH4, C2H6, C3H8, C4H10
Butane, Ethane, Methane, Propane
CH4 - Methane, C2H6 - Ethane, C3H8 - Propane, C4H10 - Butane -
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?
Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s Iron Chancellor, also the capital city of North Dakota -
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’.
You must be Ulrike Meinhof, and you and your buddies were part of the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army of Fear? Terror? Anyway, the RAF), a German terrorist outfit in the early 1970s. -
With my horde of horsemen, I founded a vast land empire, some say the largest in history.
Ghengis Khan, with some help from his grandson Kublai Khan -
I believe I’m just as talented as Matt Damon, if not more, and I played Tom Ripley before him, in a 1960 movie.
Alain Delon, "Purple Noon" -
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.
Arnold von Winkelried of Unterwalden, my friend with delusions of grandeur -
Elizabeth Barret Browning was affectionately nicknamed The Portuguese, but I’m the real thing: the most famous, authentic Portuguese 16th century poet.
Camões -
Everyone remembers “I, Claudius”, the PBS series, but I actually played Claudius in the series!
Derek Jacobi -
I might have copied some of my fables from Aesop, but my twelve books of tales are nonetheless a fountain of wisdom.
Jean de la Fontaine -
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.
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, a legendary performer with Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes -
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.
Cretaceous Park, around 70 million years ago -
Since I’m the closest star to the Earth, you would think more people would know my name.
Sol, or Helios our sun -
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?
Belgian reporter - TinTin
White Terrier - Snowy
Sea Captain - Captain Haddock
Professor - Calculus
Characters from the Belgian comic “The adventures of Tintin” by Herge -
My “Nude descending a Staircase, No. 2” was refused in Paris, but loved in New York.
Marcel Duchamp -
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.
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Fidelio -
White: Bishop e6, King f6, Pawn f7, Bishop g7.
Black: Pawn g6, King h7.
White to move, mate in 1.
Pawn to f8, promote to a knight, Checkmate -
In “The Thin Man” novel, what actually happened to the title character?
He was a murder victim -
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?
It is used to make Chocolate -
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.
Krishna -
U should know the name of this U.N. Secretary General (1961 - 1971).
U Thant -
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.
Pearl Jam -
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.
Curling -
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.
Captain Nemo - 20,000 Leagues under the Sea -
Steve Miller spoke of “the pompatus of love”, but what did he mean by that?
Nothing really depending on who you believe, for more check here -
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?
Venus de Milo - Louvre, Paris -
This pacific island gave birth to Oceania’s only indigenous hand-writing system to predate the 20th century, called rongorongo.
Easter Island -
“Able was I, ere I saw Elba.” Which 19th century historical figure would have been justified in quoting this palindrome?
Napoleon Bonaparte -
In which sport did Justin Huish win a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta olympics?
Archery -
When Calvin said to Hobbes "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
The fat lady has sung!
Let’s hear a big round of applause for Omniscient, winner of the imitation Bricker challenge!
Boy, you people are good. There were a few in there that I thought would be very hard to answer. Once again, this board is the best and the brightest.
Omniscient, if you want your prize, please e-mail me.
Final results will be available shortly, please hang on to your hats.
Grrr… You never woulda won if I hadn’t given you Krishna.
Just kidding - congratulations!
Final scores:
ChrisCTP: 6
Fretful Porpentine: 20
Bricker: 16
TaleraRis: 33
John Larrigan 24 1/2
Ag80 - 1
Shayna/Grace/Chocolate - 45
Random - 19
Pixoid - 47
Trout Mask Replica - 19
douglips – 47
Boucanier - 15
Omniscient - 50
The answers:
<font color=“Purple”>1. Our rotten and vicious language caused some stir when we were interviewed on British Television, but those young english kids (punks!) liked us anyway.</font>
A: The Sex Pistols.
Band members Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones and Paul Cookwere interviewed on 1 December 1976 by Bill Grundy on The ‘Today Programme’. The interview became front-page news due to the language they used on the air.
<font color=“Purple”>2. When the teacher asked little Andy what DNA stood for, he had no problem, but he was stumped by G,A,T,C.</font>
A: Guanine, Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine are the four bases of which DNA nucleotides are made.
<font color=“Purple”>3. Hello, my name is Jacques, and I started my illustrious career by clumsily chasing after a rare and rare-coloured gem and thecat-burglar that stole it.</font>
A: Inspector Jacques Clouseau, played by Peter Sellars, was thebumbling detective in the “Pink Panther” series of movies.
<font color=“Purple”>4. Bonjour, je m’appelle Jacques, et je travaille à l’Elysée.</font>
A: Jacques Chirac is currently the french president, and his officeis located in the Elysee Palace in Paris, the french “WhiteHouse.” http://www.elysee.fr
<font color=“Purple”>5. Ahoy there! I’m also Jacques, and Grace Kelly’s husband was happy to fund my aquatic research.</font>
A: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the ocean explorer, received part of the funding for his work from Monaco (whose prince was Grace Kelly’s husband), and Cousteau became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1957.
<font color=“Purple”>6. 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.</font>
A: Jacques Monod, french biochemist, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for his work on operons (gene complexes that affect the synthesis of messenger RNA). By the way, he is also famous for his book “Le Hasard et la nécessité” (1970; Chance and Necessity) which argued that the origin of life and the process of evolution are the result of chance.
<font color=“Purple”>7. 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?</font>
Quanti sono i giorni della settimana?
Sono sette.
Quali sono?
…
A: Lunedi, martedi, mercoledi, giovedi, venerdi, sabato e domenica.
(Italian for: How many days are in the week? There are seven. What are they? Monday, Tuesday, etc…)
<font color=“Purple”>8. 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?</font>
A: Korea.
Kim Chi is a spicy Korean dish made with cabbage.
<font color=“Purple”>9. 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?</font>
A: Jim Chee, detective in Tony Hillerman’s novels, is a Navajo police officer in the Navajo Tribal Police, and his jurisdiction would be the Navajo Reservation on the Arizona-New Mexico border. (I don’t expect the legal definition, since I don’t know it myself, but your answer should indicate that this is a Native American policeman working on a reservation.)
<font color=“Purple”>10. 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)</font>
A: e[SUP]x[/SUP]
<font color=“Purple”>11. My last name was de la Serna, and my first name Ernesto, but my fight against imperialism brought me fame under another name.</font>
A: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was nicknamed Che, and became famous as the rebel fighter Che Guevara in Cuba and Bolivia.
<font color=“Purple”>12. I say Guinea, you say Conakry. I say Mongolia, you say …</font>
A: Ulaan Bator.
Conakry is the capital of Guinea, Ulann Bator is the capital of Mongolia.
<font color=“Purple”>13. 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]
Butane, Ethane, Methane, Propane</font>
A: CH[SUB]4[/SUB] Methane, C[SUB]2[/SUB]H[SUB]6[/SUB] Ethane, C[SUB]3[/SUB]H[SUB]8[/SUB] Propane, C[SUB]4[/SUB]H[SUB]10[/SUB] Butane.
<font color=“Purple”>14. 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?</font>
A: Prussia (or Germany).
Bismarck, capital of South Dakota, is also the last name of Otto von Bismarck, prime minister of Prussia, and chancellor of Germany (so I would accept both answers.) Bismarck was one of the main architects of the German Confederation which became the German Empire.
<font color=“Purple”>15. 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’.</font>
A: Ulrike Meinhof.
The Baader-Meinhof gang was the name given to them by journalists, but the urban terrorists preferred the name “Rote Armee Faktion” or Red Army Faction. Baader, Ensslin and Meinhof all died in prison, apparent suicides, in 1976 and 1977.
<font color=“Purple”>16. With my horde of horsemen, I founded a vast land empire, some say the largest in history.</font>
A: Genghis Khan.
I won’t count Alexander the Great as a correct answer, because I mentioned horsemen, and Genghis Khan’s army was formed exclusively of cavalry (at least in the beginning.)
<font color=“Purple”>17. I believe I’m just as talented as Matt Damon, if not more, and I played Tom Ripley before him, in a 1960 movie.</font>
A: Alain Delon.
Alain Delon played Tom Ripley in a movie based on Patricia Hightower’s book “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” The 1960 movie, “Plein Soleil” (english title: Purple Noon, or Full Sun, or Lust for Evil) was directed by René Clément.
<font color=“Purple”>18. 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.</font>
A: Arnold Winkelried.
In the Battle of Sempach (1386) the Swiss Confederation successfully defended itself against attempts by the Habsburgs to subjugate the Swiss. The battle became famous and was made particularly unforgettable to the Swiss because Arnold Winkelried sacrificed his life for the cause. With the words “I want to create a path for freedom”, he is supposed to have gathered as many enemy spears as possible and drawn them into his own body. This created a gap in the Habsburg phalanx which allowed the confederate forces to break through and eventually win the battle. Winkelried’s example was used in the 19th century to illustrate the readiness of the individual to make sacrifices for the common cause.
see painting here: http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/mythen/english/ch3.html
<font color=“Purple”>19. Elizabeth Barret Browning was affectionately nicknamed The Portuguese, but I’m the real thing: the most famous, authentic Portuguese 16th century poet.</font>
A: Camoëns.
Luís Vaz De Camoëns
b. c. 1524, /25, Lisbon
d. June 10, 1580, Lisbon
Portugal’s great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572; The Lusiads), which describes Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route to India. Camões had a permanent and unparalleled impact on Portuguese and Brazilian literature alike, due not only to his epic but also to his posthumously published lyric poetry.
Even though Antonio Ferreira is a 16th century Portuguese poet, I’m going to maintain that the answer should be Camoëns.
For example, see this article <A HREF="http://www.britannica.com/bcom
Congrats, Omni! And thanks, Arnold! That was fun.
How did I blow it? Let me count the ways.
<dl>
<dt>Chaucer vs. La Fontaine
<dd>
Despite the above evidence of Aesop’s influence over Chaucer, the Tales were broken into ten fragments, not twelve, and
fountain of wisdom was a dead give away.
I = suck[sup]1[/sup].
<dt>Ferreira vs. Canoes
<dd>[has this to say about [url="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06049b.htm"]Ferreira](http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/">The Catholic Encyclopedia[/url):
However, the same source said something about Canoes forever winning over the hearts of Portuguese for work ethic or something like that (can’t connect to it right now.)
I = suck[sup]2[/sup].
<dt>The Rite of Spring
<dd>OK, I was clueless about the Ballets Russes. I don’t feel bad about this one.
I = suck[sup]2.5[/sup].
</dl>
Thanks, Arnold! That was fun, and at least I had a chance seeing as how you weren’t competing.
Next time, though, I’m witholding one or two critical answers until I know all the rest.
<font size=-2>Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare…</font>
Thanks, Arnold. Once again, we had fun playing.
Congrats to Omniscient!
Some questions though…
(And again, it’s not about whether we win - clearly we can’t, since we didn’t even answer them all. I’d just like some clarification)
Of the 48 we answered, I’m having a hard time finding where we lost 3 more points. Clearly we were wrong about Henry V, so that accounts for 1 of the 3 missing points, but where are the other 2?
I’m guessing you only gave us half credit for #22 for knowing the name of the ballet because of what you said in your reply with the answers you accepted. However, as far as I’m concerned, that’s really all you asked for. I know you came back later and said that some of your questions might require 2 answers, and in your example I can see what you mean. However, in this question, “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,” I only see that you are asking for this ballet, not the name of the troupe. If you had wanted to know the troupe as well, you really should have said, “name the ballet and the troupe that performed it.” I absolutely do not see that the question requires identifying the “narrator” of the question, even though you said that was what you meant when you posted the correct answers. What you meant and what you actually asked are entirely different things. I watch a LOT of Jeopardy and they often phrase questions like this and never want both the narrator and the predicate question answered.
Same goes for question #17. Did we only get half credit for that, too? Again, you did NOT (IMO) ask what movie. This time, you are clearly asking who the narrator was.
#27 - same question.
So what exactly did we miss?
And btw, Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota, not South. Pierre is the capital of South Dakota. 
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Shayna:
For question 22 (The Rite of Spring) I realized that many people weren’t giving the answer I expected, and that’s why I tried to clarify later with the “hint”. If it’s any consolation to you, I didn’t treat you any differently than I did the other posters, and I also think the questioner should have the right to clarify questions if they see the question is confusing. (That was one of the issues in contention in Bricker Challenge #5). That being said, if I ever do another questionnaire, I will be sure to make my questions more specific next time. I will point out though that most people, when they mentioned “The Rite of Spring”, named the composer, but if you’re going to name the composer, why not the choreographer, who in my mind would be more important in a ballet?
Anyway, here’s what I counted as wrong answers for the Shayna/Grace/chocolate team
10 - no answer
22 - didn’t mention Diaghilev/Nijinsky
31 - Achilles instead of Lord Krishna
45 - no answer
46 - House of Tudor instead of House of Lancaster
Five questions wrong out of 50 gives a score of 45.
And yes, Shayna, my bad, Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. I knew that too (because I checked before I posted the question), but my brain misfired. :o
douglips, don’t feel bad. You did very well on your first post. You will notice from the other Bricker challenges that no one (IIRC) wins from their first post.
And I’m not the person that you need to watch out for. Keep your eye on Shayna/Grace/chocolate, watch out for Omniscient’s wicked strategy, and I think it’s lucky for everyone that Bricker is so busy with work these days.
As far as withholding answers, that’s a big part of the strategy of the game. If you have an answer that no one else is getting, you might want to wait with it, but then there’s the chance of getting pipped at the post if someone posts all the correct answers before you do. In your case, you were the first to know about Lord Krishna, so that was your “ace in the hole.” The strategy there would be to read the previous posts, compare their answers with yours, and do some investigation when the answers are different. Of course, that’s very time-consuming.
Anyway, I hope all had a good time, and I apologize again for the vagueness of some of the questions.