Weirddave's immitation Bricker challenge

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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These were fun. Unfortunately, Bricker has been rather busy lately, so I thought I’d take a stab at it. Obviously, this is but a pale immitation of the original, but lets try to have fun. My questions are a lot less likely to be technical in nature, as by training I am a Historian, but the rules are the same. First person to get all 50 right wins a case of beer or a box of Godiva chocolates if underage. I am the final arbiter of right and wrong answers. Knock yourselves out!

  1. Spicoli chose Van Halen, but for 3.5 million. They’ll play your birthday too!
  2. I cloned my dead wife until Boris showed me it was a fools dream.
  3. At takeoff and landing, you use them for lift, an uncommanded deploy, and they’ll give you fits.
  4. Blow up the Smithsonian, The National Gallery and the Library of Congress, and you’ll come close to scope of this tragedy, ordered in 391 by who, in who’s name?
  5. Get together on Max Yauger’s farm.
  6. I forever branded Thomas Jackson as “Stonewall” by yelling, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians” at First Manassas.
  7. My troops lay siege to the Countesses’ Motte and Bailey. What am I doing?
  8. Ayyyyyyy! I showed Ritchie how to do this on a radiator.
  9. Three years house arrest punishment for a reprehensible stain on America’s honor.
  10. Cutting edge mobile air defense-If you’re attacked by a latrine fan.
  11. Raped and left for dead when her Shin’a’in clan was massacred, she foreswore sex to get her revenge.
  12. Letterman’s take? “Apparently you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist”
  13. Morpheus triumphed over entropy in a duel with a demon using what?
  14. What is the 5 year mission of the Enterprise?
  15. According to Cecil, why can’t a human impregnate a cat?
  16. You are entering a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
  17. Bastard boss told me if I have time for leaning, I have time for cleaning.
  18. He kept stolen KGB plans to sabotage America’s infrastructure in his mattress.
  19. Where’s the beef?
  20. Never before seen, a White held the key to the planet’s salvation!
  21. Oh, dear, Buffy, we can’t find affordable housing in New York City anywhere!
  22. He climbed a tree, the Lord to see.
  23. Don’t play with fire or you might wind up serving birds liver.
  24. We practiced in Philly, and played in College Park, but brought the league championship home to another city.
  25. They are seven in number and endless in aspect. Name them.
  26. Planes from this ship sank Kaga. And yes, most history texts get it backwards.
  27. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.
  28. Wow! A bisexual Buddhist detective!
  29. Do you have to pull on your damn ear every show?
  30. Why can’t you book a room at the Stratford Inn?
  31. The hot pasta cooks the egg-cream mixture. What am I making?
  32. What vegetable takes three years to produce the first edible crop, but can keep bearing for over 100?
  33. Dude! Awesome 70’s muscle machine! But why’s it called a Hemi?
  34. Is that a YONI or an ICHTHYS?
  35. As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
  36. Without the 12th Ammendment, Gore would be VP today! Why?
  37. “Oh no no no, I’m a rocket man, Rocket man,----------------.“
  38. Why do all my plugs have a wide side and won’t fit in the socket?
  39. Light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.
  40. Laughed at a poor soldier using a frying pan for a shield. Big mistake. Who and why?
  41. 1st city in America to have gas streetlights
  42. I probably would have survived the assassination attempt, but a Doctor probed for the bullet with dirty instruments. What president was I?
  43. California Uber Alles? We’ve got a bigger problem now. Who?
  44. Play this at my funeral, but not Frankie’s, Sid’s.
  45. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but what’s the queerest they ever did see?
  46. What do you need if you need “Dustoff”
  47. Brilliant and funny musician who also had a bit role on MASH
  48. A flying ostrich carries me aloft against my enemies. WTF?
  49. They come from a long way overseas, but they’re cute and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.
  50. “There were plenty of fights, to win land rights, but the west was meant to be.” Genocide as a happy children’s song!
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My Way!!!

(To my credit, I’m not an idiot who only knows the answer to one Sex Pistols-related question; I’m just too lazy to think about the rest. . . )

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14 - To seek out new life and new civilizations. To explore strange new worlds. To boldly go where no man has gone before.

16 - Next stop - The Twilight Zone

18 - Alger Hiss?

23 - Prometheus

29 - Carol Burnett

36 - Until then, the second-place guy became VP.

39 - his breath

41 - Philadelphia?

42 - Abe Lincoln

44 - My Way

48 - Joust?

49 - I Like Chinese…

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  3. Flaps
  4. Christians under Theodosius I because it held so many non-Christian works
  15. It’s like parking a cadillac in a closet
  16. Twilight Zone
  29. David Letterman
  38. For grounding
  39. Fire
  40. King Of England, soldier shot him with an arrow
  41. Philidelpia???
  42. Lincoln
  44. My Way
  46. Medical attention (Dustoff is a medevac)
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A Sex Pistols fan but not a Dead Kennedys fan, interesting. I’m new, what are the rules to this game?

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Ha! DynoSaur and I had the same guess for 41, so it must be right!

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Dead Kennedys. Too easy for the runamuck teenage punks like me, Dave. Try harder.

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See what I mean? Would the answer to 43 be “Dead Kennedys” or “Ronald Reagan”? I really like beer…

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It would not be about Ronald Reagan because California Ubber Alles was about former California Governor Jerry Brown (Hence my AOL screename President Brown). Only We Have a Bigger Problem Now is about Reagan. Therefore, Dead Kennedys would be the correct answer.

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Rules are basically open season. You can steal from someone else. The 1st person to post all 50 right wins.

Me too! And I AM a DK’s fan. Saw them live at WUST radio hall in DC in like 85. GREAT show. Jello threw me off the stage. hehe.

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And…This will be the only time I help like this, for 43 think hard on WHAT the question actually is.

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<1. Spicoli chose Van Halen, but for 3.5 million. They’ll play your birthday too!>

This wouldn’t be “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever”, would it?

<2. I cloned my dead wife until Boris showed me it was a fools dream.>

Creator?

<4. Blow up the Smithsonian, The National Gallery and the Library of Congress, and you’ll come close to scope of this tragedy, ordered in 391 by who, in who’s name?>

I thought this was the Library at Alexandria, but perhaps you mean “Theodosius . . . ordered that all the temples of Alexandria should be destroyed.” Found here.

<5. Get together on Max Yauger’s farm.>

Woodstock. That’s harder than it should have been for me . . .

<6. I forever branded Thomas Jackson as “Stonewall” by yelling, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians” at First Manassas.>

General Bee, according to this.

<7. My troops lay siege to the Countesses’ Motte and Bailey. What am I doing?>

This one might be a stretch, but “The first castle of Huntington is to be identified with Turret Castle, a motte and bailey 1 mile south and east of the current fortress.”

<8. Ayyyyyyy! I showed Ritchie how to do this on a radiator.>

Um . . . maybe this answers the question without having to explain it?

<9. Three years house arrest punishment for a reprehensible stain on America’s honor.>

This link proved useful . . . “As far back as 1953, retired Lieutenant General James A. Van Fleet, who had commanded the U.S. 8th Army in Korea (and whose son was among the POW/ MIAs), was quoted in the New York Times as saying that ‘a large percentage of the 8,000 American soldiers listed as missing in action are still alive.’”

<10. Cutting edge mobile air defense-If you’re attacked by a latrine fan.>

I will NOT link to ChiefScott’s thread . . . I will NOT link to ChiefScott’s thread . . .

But I think this might be what you mean? “$13 billion was blown on the Sgt. York Division Air Defense System, which became world infamous when it ‘locked on’ a Fort Bliss latrine fan rather than a simulated enemy aircraft.”

<11. Raped and left for dead when her Shin’a’in clan was massacred, she foreswore sex to get her revenge.>

Just a guess, but this site talks about the Shin’a’in clan. “The book Oathbound is the first book in the Vows and Honor series. It is about Kethry , a mage out on a journey to help women in need and serve justice , and Tarma , a Shin’a’in sword-sworn who swore a blood oath to revenge the death of her clan.”

<12. Letterman’s take? “Apparently you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist”>

Hmm . . .. ““After we lost the Mars Observer [last year], Jay Leno said, ‘I guess that shows that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist.’””

<14. What is the 5 year mission of the Enterprise?>

There are several parts to this . . . Space; the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five year mission to
explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before.

<15. According to Cecil, why can’t a human impregnate a cat?>

For the same reason you can’t park a Cadillac in a closet, you bozo.

<16. You are entering a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.>

The Twilight Zone

<17. Bastard boss told me if I have time for leaning, I have time for cleaning.>

Dilbert?

<18. He kept stolen KGB plans to sabotage America’s infrastructure in his mattress.>

Best Defense, 1984, featuring Dudley Moore?

<21. Oh, dear, Buffy, we can’t find affordable housing in New York City anywhere!>

BTVS?

<<22. He climbed a tree, the Lord to see.>

Zaccheus.

<24. We practiced in Philly, and played in College Park, but brought the league championship home to another city.>

The Baltimore Ravens? I venture that as a guess only because you’re such a fan.

<25. They are seven in number and endless in aspect. Name them.>

Seven deadly sins? Pride, sloth, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and envy.

<26. Planes from this ship sank Kaga. And yes, most history texts get it backwards.>

According to this site, “On 4 June 1942, during the Battle of Midway, dive bombers from USS Enterprise (CV-6) inflicted fatal damage on Kaga. She sank later that day.”

<27. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.>

Ozymandias. I believe by Shelley. This one I know.

<28. Wow! A bisexual Buddhist detective!>

Might it be that? "Kyle Secor’s bisexual Buddhist Tim Bayliss, . . . "

<32. What vegetable takes three years to produce the first edible crop, but can keep bearing for over 100?>

If we can consider bamboo a vegetable . . .

<33. Dude! Awesome 70’s muscle machine! But why’s it called a Hemi?>

I don’t know what you’re looking for specifically, but this is certainly something.

<34. Is that a YONI or an ICHTHYS?>

Long ago and far away, Christians called eachother ICHTHYS. Maybe that’ll help someone else.

<36. Without the 12th Ammendment, Gore would be VP today! Why?>

Electoral College. More specifically, “The candidate receiving the highest number of electoral votes would then become PRESIDENT, and the runner-up would become VICE-PRESIDENT.”

<39. Light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.>

That might be either air or the spotlight.

<40. Laughed at a poor soldier using a frying pan for a shield. Big mistake. Who and why?>

From this site, it appears that “The battle between England and France was at full force. Richard spent the next five years rebuilding his French empire, during which time the deadline for his peace with Saladin passed. Richard the Lionhearted died in battle. This death was not one from a grievous wound from an honourable foe, but from a single arrow. This lucky bolt was fired by a lone archer in Aquitaine carrying a frying-pan as a shield.”

<41. 1st city in America to have gas streetlights>

This says that "In 1816 gas streetlights went into service in Baltimore, . . . "

<42. I probably would have survived the assassination attempt, but a Doctor probed for the bullet with dirty instruments. What president was I?>

Lincoln?

<43. California Uber Alles? We’ve got a bigger problem now. Who?>

The Dead Kennedys and “President Brown”?

<45. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but what’s the queerest they ever did see?>

Billy Bishop. Or, more specifically, “Robert Service, ‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’”

<46. What do you need if you need “Dustoff”>

This?

<49. They come from a long way overseas, but they’re cute and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.>

I like Chinese.

<50. “There were plenty of fights, to win land rights, but the west was meant to be.” Genocide as a happy children’s song!>

Elbow Room by Schoolhouse Rock?

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Pun, just answer. If you think I’m gonna follow a dozen links, you’re nuts. And some of them were wrong anyway. A lot were right, tho

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  2. Dr. Harry Wolper
  3. Flaps
  4. Christians under Theodosius I because it held so many non-Christian works
  5. Woodstock
  6. Brigadier General Barnard Bee
  7. Lay siege to a castle
  8. Hug
  10. Sgt. York Division Air Defense System
  11. Tarma
  12. Losing the Mars Observer
  14. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To explore strange new worlds. To boldly go where no man has gone before.
  15. For the same reason you can’t park a Cadillac in a closet
  16. Twilight Zone
  17. Pointy Haired Boss
  22. Zaccheus
  23. Prometheus
  24. Baltimore Ravens
  25. [wo]man vs. nature, [wo]man vs. man, [wo]man vs. the environment, [wo]man vs. machines/technology, [wo]man vs. the supernatural, [wo]man vs. self and [wo]man vs. god/religion
  26. Yorktown and Enterprise
  27. Ozymandias
  28. Tim Bayliss from “Homicide: Life on the Street”
  29. David Letterman
  30. It’s a TV Show
  33. The hemispherical combustion chamber
  36. Second-place guy becomes VP because there was no electoral college
  38. For grounding
  39. His breath
  40. Richard the Lion-hearted, soldier shot him with an arrow
  41. Baltimore
  42. Lincoln
  43. Jerry Brown
  44. My Way
  45. Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee
  46. Medical attention (Dustoff is a medevac)
  48. Joust
  49. I Like Chinese
  50. Elbow Room by Schoolhouse Rock
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OK, off the top of my head, without looking at any posted answers:

1. Spicoli chose Van Halen, but for 3.5 million. They’ll play your birthday too!
Uh, Fast Times at Ridgemont High?

3. At takeoff and landing, you use them for lift, an uncommanded deploy, and they’ll give you fits.
I’m gonna guess the flaps

4. Blow up the Smithsonian, The National Gallery and the Library of Congress, and you’ll come close to scope of this tragedy, ordered in 391 by who, in who’s name?
The destruction of the Library at Alexandria, and I’m going to assume someone named Ptolemy was involved

5. Get together on Max Yauger’s farm.
And by the time they got there they were half a million strong.

22. He climbed a tree, the Lord to see.
What’s his name,… the tax collector

32. What vegetable takes three years to produce the first edible crop, but can keep bearing for over 100?
horseradish, maybe

33. Dude! Awesome 70’s muscle machine! But why’s it called a Hemi?
Due to the hemispherical cylinder heads

34. Is that a YONI or an ICHTHYS?
Trying to figure it out by smell?

36. Without the 12th Ammendment, Gore would be VP today! Why?
He did have the second highest total of electoral votes, thus giving him the vice presidency according to the pre-12th Ammendment Constitution

38. Why do all my plugs have a wide side and won’t fit in the socket?
Like the aforementioned presidential election, the issue is polarizing. Specifically, the plugs are polarized, while the sockets aren’t.

42. I probably would have survived the assassination attempt, but a Doctor probed for the bullet with dirty instruments. What president was I?
A doctor? Try several doctors, Mr. Garfield. Plus an inventor with the first metal detector who once wrote a National Geographic article under the pseudonym H. A. Largelamb.

Well, that was relatively dissapointing for me. Now let’s see what others have.

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Oh, yeah, I should have mentioned the Ozymandias one as well. I freakin’ knew that! And, yes, it was by Shelley.

The tax collector’s name was indeed Zacheus (sp?). And, incidentally, wasn’t it “Yasgur”?

And now, let’s try some research.

12. Letterman’s take? “Apparently you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist”
Let’s just say that if they went for engineers instead, they never would have lost the Mars probe.

*9. Three years house arrest punishment for a reprehensible stain on America’s honor. *
The court-martial’s original sentence of a lifetime of hard labor was more appropriate. If there is only one thing Nixon deserves to burn in hell for, it’s issuing that pardon. We held the Nazis responsible for their actions at Nuremburg, categorically rejecting the “following orders” defense, sad we can’t hold our own military to those standards. (Ooops, sorry about the rant)

The rest of your questions have me confounded at the moment, but I’ll pull through.

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These things used to be much more popular. Either the questions are too hard(which I doubt, most of y’all are smarter than me), or no one cares anymore. shrug Saves me the cost of a case, I guess.

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Wow - I don’t check MPSIMS as often as I should!

Here’s my first, non-stolen, non-researched try. :slight_smile:

  1. Spicoli chose Van Halen, but for 3.5 million. They’ll play your birthday too!
    A “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” reference, but I can’t go further than that…

  2. I cloned my dead wife until Boris showed me it was a fools dream.

  3. At takeoff and landing, you use them for lift, an uncommanded deploy, and they’ll give you fits.
    Slats, which I determine from the Crichton book “Airframe,” which dealt with a disaster caused by slats deploying unexpectedly.

  4. Blow up the Smithsonian, The National Gallery and the Library of Congress, and you’ll come close to scope of this tragedy, ordered in 391 by who, in who’s name?
    Destruction of the library at Alexandria - but I’m drawing a blank on the who…

  5. Get together on Max Yauger’s farm.
    And celebrate Woodstock…

  6. I forever branded Thomas Jackson as “Stonewall” by yelling, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians” at First Manassas.
    General Barnard E. Bee

  7. My troops lay siege to the Countesses’ Motte and Bailey. What am I doing?

  8. Ayyyyyyy! I showed Ritchie how to do this on a radiator.
    The Fonz, ever helpful, showed Rich how to unsnap a girl’s bra using a bra-wearing radiator in his “office.”

  9. Three years house arrest punishment for a reprehensible stain on America’s honor.

  10. Cutting edge mobile air defense-If you’re attacked by a latrine fan. Infamous Sgt. York Division Air Defense System, which locked on to a fan rather than an aircraft in testing.

  11. Raped and left for dead when her Shin’a’in clan was massacred, she foreswore sex to get her revenge.

  12. Letterman’s take? “Apparently you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist” Commentary on NASA’s failure to convert metric to English measurements, which resulted in the loss of the Mars probe.

  13. Morpheus triumphed over entropy in a duel with a demon using what?

  14. What is the 5 year mission of the Enterprise?
    To explore strange new worlds… to seek out new life, new civilization… to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  15. According to Cecil, why can’t a human impregnate a cat?
    For the same reason you can’t park a Cadilliac in a closet.

  16. You are entering a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.
    There’s a signpost up ahead - your next stop is Rod Sterling’s “The Twilight Zone.”

  17. Bastard boss told me if I have time for leaning, I have time for cleaning.

  18. He kept stolen KGB plans to sabotage America’s infrastructure in his mattress.

  19. Where’s the beef?
    In Wendy’s ad campaign, spoken by little old lady Clara Pell.

  20. Never before seen, a White held the key to the planet’s salvation!

  21. Oh, dear, Buffy, we can’t find affordable housing in New York City anywhere!

  22. He climbed a tree, the Lord to see.

  23. Don’t play with fire or you might wind up serving birds liver.
    A remarkably unfeeling sentiment for poor Prometheus, whose reward for bringing fire to mankind was eternal torture chained to a rock while birds tore at his innards.

  24. We practiced in Philly, and played in College Park, but brought the league championship home to another city.

  25. They are seven in number and endless in aspect. Name them.

  26. Planes from this ship sank Kaga. And yes, most history texts get it backwards.

  27. Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.
    *A traveller from an antique land, who saw the head of statue of Ozymandias half-buried in the sand. Shelley’s immortal commentary on the inability of anything man-made to be immortal. :slight_smile: *

  28. Wow! A bisexual Buddhist detective!

  29. Do you have to pull on your damn ear every show?

  30. Why can’t you book a room at the Stratford Inn?

  31. The hot pasta cooks the egg-cream mixture. What am I making?

  32. What vegetable takes three years to produce the first edible crop, but can keep bearing for over 100?

  33. Dude! Awesome 70’s muscle machine! But why’s it called a Hemi?
    The cylinder heads are hemispheres.

  34. Is that a YONI or an ICHTHYS?

  35. As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
    WKRP’s Mr. Carlson’s pathetic justification for shelling a Cincinatti suburb with turkeys.

  36. Without the 12th Ammendment, Gore would be VP today! Why? Prior to the 12th, the presidential runner-up was the VP.

  37. “Oh no no no, I’m a rocket man, Rocket man,----------------.“

  38. Why do all my plugs have a wide side and won’t fit in the socket?
    In an effort to prevent you from annihilating yourself, your plugs are polarized, ensuring that the hot side doesn’t connect to an external metal portion of the appliance.

  39. Light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.
    Breath.

  40. Laughed at a poor soldier using a frying pan for a shield. Big mistake. Who and why?

  41. 1st city in America to have gas streetlights

  42. I probably would have survived the assassination attempt, but a Doctor probed for the bullet with dirty instruments. What president was I?
    Garfield - also had a metal detector brought in to find the bullet, but it got confused by the bedsprings.

  43. California Uber Alles? We’ve got a bigger problem now. Who?

  44. Play this at my funeral, but not Frankie’s, Sid’s.

  45. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but what’s the queerest they ever did see?
    The night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, when I cremated Sam McGee.

  46. What do you need if you need “Dustoff”

  47. Brilliant and funny musician who also had a bit role on MASH

  48. A flying ostrich carries me aloft against my enemies. WTF?

  49. They come from a long way overseas, but they’re cute and they’re cuddly, and they’re ready to please.

  50. “There were plenty of fights, to win land rights, but the west was meant to be.” Genocide as a happy children’s song!

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Incidentally, in other challenges, Bricker used to tell us how many we had right.

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Really? I don’t remember that. Well, 32 right so far, one 2/3 right, and one that you answered, and obviously you know what it is, but you didn’t say what it is.