# Trivia Challenge - Because Bricker Makes Me Feel Stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888 "2005-08-27T18:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/1 "2005-08-27T18:58:49Z")
While I much enjoy the various [**Bricker**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=326341&highlight=challenge) [Trivia](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=327896&highlight=challenge) [Challenge](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=325423&highlight=challenge) threads, they generally cause me to wander off muttering to myself because I cannot answer more than one or two of the questions. Okay, so he is smarter than I am. But here, at least, is a trivia challenge, all of whose questions I can answer off the top of my head. So there. All are welcome to play, of course, and especially, add your own. No prizes beyond the vaguely unsettling realization that you have a head just as stuffed with irrelevancies as I do. [ol][li]Who is Sulva? What road does she walk? Why is the womb barren on one side?[/li][li]What is the significance of this sequence - 1s2, 2s2, 2p6?[/li][li]What time of day did the captain of the _Lydia_ come up on deck, and why didn’t the first lieutenant speak to him? [/li][li]What is the price on Murph Costigan’s head? (Hint: ten less than Virgil’s.)[/li][li]What did Your Humble Narrator drink to sharpen him up and get him ready to use his britva and get some pretty polly, Oh My Brothers? [/li][li]Who flew “the Marvel of the Age” thru the heaven’s stormy rage?[/li][li]What did Mary demonstrate in her interview in Minneapolis that her boss hated?[/li][li]How much life insurance did Sam say Iva’s husband had? (No children, and she didn’t like him anyway.)[/li][li]He threw a milkshake into Ace’s face at the end. What did he write at the begining in order to win his Oscar? [/li][li]Who killed Goliath? His name did not start with D.[/li][li]What did Mike H. find out about Juno in the last word of the novel?[/li][li]What do you have to do in order to see Wilbur Whately’s brother?[/li][li]Prince Conn’s mother was named Zenobia. What did his grandfather do for a living?[/li][li]“They reckon ill, who leave me out, when me they fly.” Who am I?[/li][li]What did the murderer of Enoch Drebber die of?[/li][li]Why did Jill want to kill Auric? Wny did the person who killed Jill not speak clearly?[/li][li]When he was angry, the gorilla-bite scar turned red. Who was he?[/li][li]When you wave hands like clouds and ride the sun wheel, what are you doing?[/li][li]Who thought there was nothing like hay when one is feeling faint?[/li][li]What happened to Ivrian’s father while he was torturing Mouse? (This was before Mouse changed his name and acquired Scalpel and Cat’s Claw.)[/li][/ol] Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/2 "2005-08-27T19:37:33Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > [li]What did Mary demonstrate in her interview in Minneapolis that her boss hated?[/li] Spunk. As to the rest, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Now I feel stupid. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/3 "2005-08-27T19:40:12Z")
#5 - “milk plus” at the Krova Milk Bar. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/4 "2005-08-27T19:41:12Z")
Well, I’m stumped. Except for #5. Milk plus drencrom Slee ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/5 "2005-08-27T19:47:36Z")
All correct so far. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/6 "2005-08-27T20:02:55Z")
I’ve got 4 off the top of my head [li]What is the significance of this sequence - 1s2, 2s2, 2p6?[/li] They’re the electron shell configuration for Helium, Beryllium, and Neon - beyond that I don’t know [li]Who killed Goliath? His name did not start with D.[/li] Elahan. Somewhere in 2 Samuel [li]What did the murderer of Enoch Drebber die of?[/li] Jefferson Hope died of an anuerism (A Study in Scarlet) [li]Why did Jill want to kill Auric? Wny did the person who killed Jill not speak clearly?[/li] Auric killed her sister. OddJob who killed Jill Had a cleft palate (Goldfinger) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/7 "2005-08-27T21:16:50Z")
Crap! #4 is from E.E. Smith’s Triplanetary, and my copy is in storage. Was it something like 90 million on Costigan, and 100 million on Virgil Samms? Something like that. Bounty on their heads, anyway. #7 - Spunk. “I hate spunk.” - Lou Grant. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/8 "2005-08-27T21:34:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Crap! #4 is from E.E. Smith’s Triplanetary, and my copy is in storage. Was it something like 90 million on Costigan, and 100 million on Virgil Samms? Something like that. Bounty on their heads, anyway. **Saint Cad** is four for four. But **silenus** , you are correct that it comes from Triplanetary, and is a bounty. But the currency is wrong. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/9 "2005-08-27T21:57:26Z")
I can’t answer but like one of those. Scylla is to Shodan as Shodan is to Bricker. If Shodan is an idiot compared to Bricker what does that make Scylla? I guess it’s fortunate that I can’t think hard enough to work through the ramifications. Scylla Second Order Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/10 "2005-08-27T22:01:53Z")
Just think of yourself as above such mundane nonsense. Or contribute some ridiculously obscure trivia no one could possibly know. Then preen. Like “who holds the record for fastest victory in the history of Olympic judo?” Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/11 "2005-08-27T22:33:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Who thought there was nothing like hay when one is feeling faint? The White King. “I didn’t say there was nothing better. I said there was nothing like it!” ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/12 "2005-08-27T22:47:46Z")
**Shodan** , your questions are unique in that they make me _want_ to know the answers. This one especially: When you wave hands like clouds and ride the sun wheel, what are you doing? Is this something to add to a list of things to do before I die? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/13 "2005-08-27T23:20:35Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] [li]What time of day did the captain of the _Lydia_ come up on deck, and why didn’t the first lieutenant speak to him? [/li][/QUOTE] I was too lazy to go upstairs and look this up, but [thanks to Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0316289329/ref=sib_fs_top/103-7950888-4562232?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00C&checkSum=o2I675fZX81EHYdgbsDwxS2qDZJWmkyMzrRAUyIudK8%3D#reader-link) I didn’t have to. Not long after dawn, and the first lieutenant didn’t speak to him because the captain liked to spend the first hour of the day lost in thought. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/14 "2005-08-27T23:23:40Z")
1. tai chi ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/15 "2005-08-27T23:26:06Z")
1. Alice in Wonderland ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/16 "2005-08-27T23:30:05Z")
1. I’m guessing at least one grandfather was a Cimmerian Barbarian. Can you make a living doing that? ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/17 "2005-08-28T00:49:30Z")
1. He threw a milkshake into Ace’s face at the end. What did he write at the begining in order to win his Oscar? ‘I love Skyway Soap because…it’s as pure as the sky itself!’ ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/18 "2005-08-28T01:09:38Z")
> [@Aguecheek](#): > > 1. He threw a milkshake into Ace’s face at the end. What did he write at the begining in order to win his Oscar? > > ‘I love Skyway Soap because…it’s as pure as the sky itself!’ Damn. And I loved that book. My only excuse is that I haven’t read it in 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/19 "2005-08-28T02:28:04Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I was too lazy to go upstairs and look this up, but > [thanks to Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0316289329/ref=sib_fs_top/103-7950888-4562232?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S00C&checkSum=o2I675fZX81EHYdgbsDwxS2qDZJWmkyMzrRAUyIudK8%3D#reader-link) I didn’t have to. > > Not long after dawn, and the first lieutenant didn’t speak to him because the captain liked to spend the first hour of the day lost in thought. I just reread this one last week. Here’s a followup from the one I’m rereading now: What was the mysterious, rhythmic thumping sound that the captain heard from his cabin, that stopped when he came up on deck? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/20 "2005-08-28T03:24:36Z")
> [@Random](#): > > I just reread this one last week. Here’s a followup from the one I’m rereading now: > What was the mysterious, rhythmic thumping sound that the captain heard from his cabin, that stopped when he came up on deck? Bush’s wooden leg. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888.md?page=2)