# Weirddave's immitation Bricker challenge **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245 "2001-04-17T04:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/21 "2001-04-18T08:22:24Z")
Links to all previous Bricker Challenges and their imitators: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=17942](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=17942) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18362](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18362) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18158](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18158) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18433](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18433) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18704](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18704) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20014](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20014) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52293](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52293) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18740](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=18740) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19203](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=19203) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20478](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20478) [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20584](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20584) These should help clarify the rules, pupose, customs, etc. I’ll get back to posting answers in a moment. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/22 "2001-04-18T12:30:21Z")
\*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, as well as other pagan temples, ordered by Roman Emperor Theodosius I, in the name of Christ, and certainly influenced by Bishop Ambrose _7. My troops lay siege to the Countesses’ Motte and Bailey. What am I doing?_ Well, motte and bailey is a style of castle, but I can’t find any reference to any specific countesses having a castle that was ever laid seige to. _11. Raped and left for dead when her Shin’a’in clan was massacred, she foreswore sex to get her revenge._ Tarma, from the Oathbound \*48. A flying ostrich carries me aloft against my enemies. WTF? \* You’re playing the early eighties arcade game Joust. \*37. “Oh no no no, I’m a rocket man, Rocket man,----------------.“ \* burning out his fuse up here alone ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/23 "2001-04-19T06:49:26Z")
43 = Ronald Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/24 "2001-04-19T07:12:17Z")
Ahhhhh, fuck it. I can’t even get a popular thing like a Bricker challenge right. ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/25 "2001-04-19T07:35:06Z")
I think the problem is trying to make it like Bricker’s Challenge. You should call it: Weirddave’s Super Challenge ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/26 "2001-04-19T07:53:35Z")
But then people would confuse him with “Super Dave Osborne” and who the hell would want that? ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/27 "2001-04-19T08:46:36Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first to answer these (comics geeks, goths, I’m looking at you): **13. Morpheus triumphed over entropy in a duel with a demon using what?** Hope **25. They are seven in number and endless in aspect. Name them.** Dream, Death, Desire, Delirium, Despair, Destruction, Destiny ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/28 "2001-04-22T18:46:59Z")
Here goes. Pirated ones have asterisk… 1 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 2.\*Dr. Harry Wolper 3.\*Slats 4 Torching the Library at Alexandria, Christians for Theodosius I 5.Woodstock. 6.General Bee. 7.\*Attacking a castle 8…The Fonz teaches brassiere removal 9. Three years house arrest punishment for a reprehensible stain on America’s honor. 10.\*Sgt. York Division Air Defense System 11.\*Tarma 12. NASA blunders Mars Observer mission by not correctly converting units 13.\*Hope 14. To explore strange new worlds, yadda yadda 15. For the same reason you can’t park a Cadillac in a closet, you bozo. 16. 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. Wendy’s spokesperson Clara Peller 20. Black and White the game? 21. Oh, dear, Buffy, we can’’t find affordable housing in New York City anywhere! 22. Zaccheus 23. Prometheus 24. Baltimore Ravens 25. pride, sloth, greed, gluttony, wrath, lust and envy 26. Enterprise 27. Ozymandias 28. \*Tim Bayliss 29. Carol Burnett 30. Because The Newhart Show is \*off the air 31. The hot pasta cooks the egg-cream mixture. What am I making? A noodle omelet? 32. What vegetable takes three years to produce the first edible crop, but can keep bearing for over 100? 33. Hemispherical cylinder heads 34. Smells the same to me 35. Herb Tarlek from WKRP 36. \*Second place vote getter becomes VP? 37. Burning out his fuse up here alone…And I think it’s gonna be a long, long time…(used search engine) 38. Ground for a two-pronged plug 39. Breath (I also like iampuhna’s “Spotlight”) 40. _Richard the Lionhearted, the guy shot him with an arrow 41. Baltimore 42. Garfield 43. Ronald Reagan 44. mY wAY. 45. cremation of Sam McGee 46. Medical attention and transport 47. Brilliant and funny musician who also had a bit role on MASH_ 48. Joust! Definitely. 49.\*I like Chinese 50. \*Elbow Room by Schoolhouse Rock A time limit would have been a good idea. Thanks for the quizzes Bricker and Weirddave, keep 'em coming. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245/29 "2001-05-01T07:14:04Z")
Does anyone feel like finishing this? There is a case of beer on the line after all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirddaves-immitation-bricker-challenge/62245.md?page=1)