The rules for this challenge can be found in The Bricker Challenge #1.
Links to previous contests can be found in Arnold’s Imitation Bricker Challenge #3
I’ll stick with offering a case of beer for the prize. If the winner doesn’t drink beer, I’ll offer a pound of of genuine Denver Jolly Rancher Candies.
Deadline is April 9th, Midnight MDT
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He passed a sign that he should have seen, saying “shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend.” What was he carrying?
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At rest, it’s 100.00 meters long. What length do I measure it if it’s moving at one half the speed of light?
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When I tossed my prize “for the fairest” I knew I would cause all sorts of trouble, but I had no idea the consequences would be immortalized in literature for millenia.
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If you need your hair cut, you might go to this comic strip character’s father.
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We won enough money here to get to Lisbon by playing #22 on the roulette wheel.
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Monty Python notwithstanding, what is the capitol of Assyria?
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I’m an unevolved mouse pokemon of the electric type. What’s my name?
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When you shine a light on a metal plate, it emits electrons. Interestingly enough, if you increase the intensity of the light, more electrons come out. If you increase the frequency of light, the electrons come out faster. I won the Nobel Prize for explaining why!
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The author of a thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops and the scientist who calculated the optimal way to dunk a biscuit both won this prize. Name the prize and the organization.
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He dissed my homies so I ripped off his arm and nailed it to the wall. Then I went after his momma.
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Golias helped show me the Commonwealth. I met a lot of interesting folks there whom you may have read about. My name is Clarence, but most people call me by this epynomous nickname.
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What is the first name of the author of this challenge?
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I sold some paintings, played the bongos, and I was in a band in Brazil. I won a Nobel Prize for fooling around. I could even fix radios by thinking! Who am I?
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Who was the first black man to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard?
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Yes, I really sang, “When love congeals - it soon reveals / The faint aroma - of performing seals” in this song. Name the song and the artist. Extra credit for the writers.
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She found the moth in the computer, giving rise to the term “bug”. Who is she?
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Callimaco uses this epynomous substance to seduce Lucretia, a married woman, in this biting Renaissance satirical comedy.
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What is the term for fear of the number 13?
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My ancestor Elijah C. invented this beverage that must be distilled from at least 51% corn, aged for a minimum of two years in new white oak barrels that have been charred, unadulterated in the bottle and made in a specific US state.
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According to the author, this feature is a metaphor for the character’s “inability to control his environment; or he’s just glad to see you.”
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He said, “God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we’ll find it in the nature of that thing.”
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It’s a poem by Keats, not a statement of back wages!
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This native of Mauritius became extinct 83 years after it was discovered.
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This professional athlete’s alma mater was founded by and named for his great-great-great-great grandfather.
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This country’s government sits in a different city than its capital. Name the country, the capital and the seat of government.
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There are exactly 5108 of these in a standard 52 card deck.
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If you’ve been paying attention, you would know that this particle, and its associated field, is conjectured to give rise to the mass of all other particles.
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This singer fronted for Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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Who was Seward, and why was he considered a fool?
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This Beat poet probably hung out with Kerouac and Ginsberg, but he might have just gone trout fishing.
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I learned computer programming at this University, founded just after the civil war. Our cheer starts with a reference a transposition of “Chalk Rock”, the name for the limestone outcropping found on the hill where the campus is located. Our mascot has boots for kicking our opponents, of course! The school colors are Crimson and Blue, to honor Harvard and Yale. The name of the town where it resides has a special interest to me.
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If I’m an actor, I superstitiously never call this play by its real name, referring to it instead as “The Scottish Play”.
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If you ask me the pitcher’s name, I’ll tell you tomorrow. But I’ll tell you the catcher’s name today. What am I talking about?
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By what cause did Henry Lindfield acheive the dubious distinction of being the first to die in 1898? Since then, twenty million people have died from this cause.
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These objects, usually billions of years old, emit hundreds of times more light than an entire galaxy. They are probably powered by massive black holes.
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According to NPR, as of April 3, 2000, these two companies were the largest in terms of market capitalization. Sorry, Bill!
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'N Sync’s album “No Strings Attached” is #1 on the chart! Who’s chart?
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Ooh ooh! The actors who played Herman and Grampa Munster also appeared together in two episodes of this earlier sitcom.
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This movie star and her partner received a patent in 1942 for a frequency-switching systems for torpedo guidance.
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What’s a mulligan?
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How many rings of power did Sauron make?
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If you do well enough, your LSAT or GRE will get you in here, but your post-1994 SAT or CEEB doesn’t count at all, neither does your post-1989 ACT.
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Miraculoulsy, they overcome a 13-game August deficit, winning 35 of their last 49 games and going on to defeat a heavily favored opponent in the World Series in five games. “Those last two months of the season, everything that could possibly go right went right for that team. It was an amazing thing to be around. It was a magical thing.”
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These two galaxies are the closest to the Milky Way.
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Antonin, Clarence, David, John, Ruth, Sandra, Stephen, and William.
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What did Inigo say to the six-fingered man?
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What does “SCSI” stand for?
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I devised a system of encoding data on cards through a series of punched holes. My “Tabulating Machine Company” was a predecessor to IBM. One of the first uses of my invention was to tabulate the 1890 Census.
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Dinah Shore, Ed Asner and The Mary Tyler Moore Show had more of these than any of their peers.
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Whopat opis yopour fopavoporopite copolopor?
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.