# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**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, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/21 "2005-08-28T03:30:56Z")
Ayup. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/22 "2005-08-28T12:45:34Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > 1. > > I’m guessing at least one grandfather was a Cimmerian Barbarian. Can you make a living doing that? You can if you are a blacksmith. Perhaps some hints for the remaining are in order: > [@](#): > > Who is Sulva? What road does she walk? Why is the womb barren on one side?Merlin asks this riddle of Ransom in the third book of the trilogy. > What is the significance of this sequence - 1s2, 2s2, 2p6? - Answered by **SaintCad** > What time of day did the captain of the Lydia come up on deck, and why didn’t the first lieutenant speak to him? Answered by **Finagle** - it is from the opening of Beat to Quarters, by C. S. Forrester > What is the price on Murph Costigan’s head? (Hint: ten less than Virgil’s.) Answered - almost - by **silenus** - it was actuall fifty grams of radium - Triplanetary, in the Lensman series. > 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? - Answered by **snakescatlady** - A Clockwork Orange > Who flew “the Marvel of the Age” thru the heaven’s stormy rage? He sometimes rode with a monkey named Mitch - and danced if you pulled his strings > What did Mary demonstrate in her interview in Minneapolis that her boss hated? - Answered by **ivylass** - Mary Richards had spunk. Lou Grant hated spunk. > How much life insurance did Sam say Iva’s husband had? (No children, and she didn’t like him anyway.) - Hint: Iva’s last name was Archer. > He threw a milkshake into Ace’s face at the end. What did he write at the begining in order to win his Oscar? - **Aguecheek** got it. Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, by Heinlein > Who killed Goliath? His name did not start with D. **SaintCad** again. There are two Goliaths in the Bible. > What did Mike H. find out about Juno in the last word of the novel? H = Hammer > What do you have to do in order to see Wilbur Whately’s brother? > Prince Conn’s mother was named Zenobia. What did his grandfather do for a living? - See spoiler above. > “They reckon ill, who leave me out, when me they fly.” Who am I? > What did the murderer of Enoch Drebber die of? **SC** got these A Study in Scarlet. > Why did Jill want to kill Auric? Wny did the person who killed Jill not speak clearly? Goldfinger - Oddjob had a cleft palate. > When he was angry, the gorilla-bite scar turned red. Who was he? > When you wave hands like clouds and ride the sun wheel, what are you doing? **beagledave** for this one - try _tai chi ch’aun_, **Zoe**! > Who thought there was nothing like hay when one is feeling faint? **Leaper** was first here. > 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.) Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/23 "2005-08-28T13:02:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Just think of yourself as above such mundane nonsense. I have a friend who sucks at Trivial Pursuit. He maintains that it’s because everything he knows is important. Other than the milk, you’ve got me stumped. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/24 "2005-08-28T19:40:30Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > I have a friend who sucks at Trivial Pursuit. He maintains that it’s because everything he knows is important. Now there is a man who has wasted his opportunities. 🙂 More hints, maybe? [ul][li]What do you have to do in order to see Wilbur Whately’s brother? The brother looked a lot more like the father than Wilbur. Think about that when you are Dunwich your guessing.[/li][li]They reckon ill, who leave me out, when me they fly." Who am I?Think transcendentalism poetry.[/li][li]When he was angry, the gorilla-bite scar turned red. Who was he?The rain might be Tess, and the fire Joe, but he called the gorilla Bolgani.[/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.)Scalpel was his sword, and Cat’s Claw his dagger. His buddy’s sword was Graywand.[/ul][/li] Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/25 "2005-08-28T22:01:21Z")
Number 6 is, of course Mike Mercury in “Supercar”. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/26 "2005-08-28T22:35:58Z")
I’m just grateful to have found a Shodan post that didn’t have “Regards” at the end. Do I get a prize? I’ll have to start one of these someday. I’ve got scads of useless junk floating around up there. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/27 "2005-08-29T05:16:14Z")
17: Tarzan, but I think the scar was from his scalp being partially torn off from a blow, not a bite, if I remember right. 20: I don’t know since I haven’t read all the books, but Graywand was Fafhrd’s sword, so it has something to do with the Lankmar books by Fritz Leiber. 13: Something to do with Conan? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/28 "2005-08-29T08:15:52Z")
Wasn’t Wilbur’s father Yog Sothoth? So to see his brother you’d either have to summon him or drink something interesting (Tikkoun Elixir?) to expand your visual senses. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/29 "2005-08-29T12:49:02Z")
> [@Steve Wright](#): > > Number 6 is, of course Mike Mercury in “Supercar”. Bingo! I got my wife the complete series on DVD for her birthday. > [@Sleel](#): > > 17: Tarzan, but I think the scar was from his scalp being partially torn off from a blow, not a bite, if I remember right. Yes, it is the Tarmangani himself, but I thought the gorilla tore off the piece of his scalp with his teeth, the afternoon that Tarzan first broke into his parents’ cabin and found his father’s knife. > [@](#): > > 20: I don’t know since I haven’t read all the books, but Graywand was Fafhrd’s sword, so it has something to do with the Lankmar books by Fritz Leiber. Correct. Specifically, the first short story featuring the Gray Mouser - ‘The Unholy Grail’. > [@](#): > > 13: Something to do with Conan? See spoiler in response to **Finagle**. > [@Quartz](#): > > Wasn’t Wilbur’s father Yog Sothoth? So to see his brother you’d either have to summon him or drink something interesting (Tikkoun Elixir?) to expand your visual senses. No, you didn’t have to summon his brother - he lived upstairs in the farmhouse. There were two ways to see him, according to Wilbur’s diary. One was the method they used after he got loose, the other was to make the Voorish sign. Regards (especially to **Feydeau** ), Shodan ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/30 "2005-08-29T14:33:26Z")
#17, corrected (sort of, and IIRC) It is Tarzan, but he had found the knife earlier and cut himself on it. Then while he was reading a picture book, he was attacked by Kerchak, boss of the Great Apes (_not_ a gorilla), who bit his scalp half off before Tarzan accidentally found the knife again. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/31 "2005-08-29T15:43:02Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > #17, corrected (sort of, and IIRC) > > It is Tarzan, but he had found the knife earlier and cut himself on it. Then while he was reading a picture book, he was attacked by Kerchak, boss of the Great Apes (_not_ a gorilla), who bit his scalp half off before Tarzan accidentally found the knife again. No, it was definitely Bolgani the gorilla who tore the hole in his scalp. Tarzan didn’t kill Kerchak until much later, to become King of the Apes. I sometimes wonder if Burroughs realized the Freudian implications of Tarzan killing so many father figures. Next batch of hints: [ul][li]Who is Sulva? What road does she walk? Why is the womb barren on one side?Merlin asks this riddle of Ransom in the third book of the trilogy. After Ransom has returned to the Silent Planet (and from the planet of the floating islands). [/li][li]How much life insurance did Sam say Iva’s husband had? (No children, and she didn’t like him anyway.) - Hint: Iva’s last name was Archer. Do some Spade work and figure this out![/li][li]What did Mike H. find out about Juno in the last word of the novel? [/li]H = Hammer. And Juno is the “queen” of the gods. The author, also named Michael but went by Mickey, bet his publisher he could write a novel with the punch line in the last word. [/ul] Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/32 "2005-08-29T16:04:29Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Next batch of hints: > [list][li]Who is Sulva? What road does she walk? Why is the womb barren on one side?Merlin asks this riddle of Ransom in the third book of the trilogy. After Ransom has returned to the Silent Planet (and from the planet of the floating islands). [/li] > Regards, > Shodan Damn, it!! I’m at work and the answer is at home… of course since it’s been a few years for me since reading it I might have to reread the whole thing to find it. (no great hardship ;)) ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/33 "2005-08-29T22:15:58Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > No, it was definitely Bolgani the gorilla who tore the hole in his scalp. Tarzan didn’t kill Kerchak until much later, to become King of the Apes. > > I sometimes wonder if Burroughs realized the Freudian implications of Tarzan killing so many father figures. I had to go check ([from Gutenberg, of course](http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/78)), and neither of us got the chronology correct. It was “Terkoz, son of Tublat,” one of the great apes, who scarred his forehead, but he was already king at that time, and the gorilla fight was clearly long ago. These quotes are in order, the first a few pages before the other two. > [@Edgar Rice Burroughs](#): > > Kerchak was dead. > > Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him > master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the > Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, > and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild > cry of the conqueror. > > And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes. > [@Edgar Rice Burroughs](#): > > Tarzan did not repeat his warning signal, but instead > rushed bodily upon the waiting Terkoz. > > Never had the ape-man fought so terrible a battle since > that long-gone day when Bolgani, the great king gorilla had > so horribly manhandled him ere the new-found knife had, by > accident, pricked the savage heart. > [@Edgar Rice Burroughs](#): > > Scarcely had they fought a dozen seconds ere they were > rolling upon the ground, striking, tearing and rending–two > great savage beasts battling to the death. > > Terkoz had a dozen knife wounds on head and breast, and > Tarzan was torn and bleeding–his scalp in one place half > torn from his head so that a great piece hung down over one > eye, obstructing his vision. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888/34 "2005-08-30T00:05:42Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > I had to go check ([from Gutenberg, of course](http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/78)), and neither of us got the chronology correct. It was “Terkoz, son of Tublat,” one of the great apes, who scarred his forehead, but he was already king at that time, and the gorilla fight was clearly long ago. > > These quotes are in order, the first a few pages before the other two. You’re right. Ka-goda! 😃 Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-because-bricker-makes-me-feel-stupid/318888.md?page=1)