Marmel
07-10-2003, 02:36 PM
As were the other ones, credit for the puzzle goes to 'Bricker from SDMB'.
The use of google or other internet searches are frowned upon until the group is truly stumped. Of course, I have no way of stopping you from googling.
Here they are and best of luck:
1. What’s the name of the physical law that talks about how things like light and gravity become weaker the farther away the source is? Is it reverse-something-or-other?
2. I’ve always wondered what might have happened. You see, when I was twenty-one, I was picked up near Mobile, Alabama by a nice traveling family, and got a ride all the way to Tennessee with them. Things got a little hot and heavy with their sixteen-year-old daughter, but I never followed up with her. Who am I?
3. Best translation of “Kyrie Elieson?”
4. Who is credited, in stories chock full of urban legendy-goodness, with paying for the island of Manhattan with trinkets worth less than $30?
5. If Nathan Brazil gets back to the Well, the Universe could end.
6. According to Giles, there’s another Hellmouth in what Buckeye State city?
7. What is it that Pam House, Kimberly Dugan, Georgia Thomas, and Alison Parker have in common?
8. What device permits the user to issue commands to the Winged Monkeys?
9. In Unix systems, 'ls –l' is the rough equivalent of what in the DOS world?
10. In addition to the many other social ills caused by incestuous relationships, we can add the possibility that your union may be opposed by Fricka and aided by a daughter of Wotan who herself ends up deep in magical sleep surrounded by magical fire. I hate it when that happens.
11. He killed the Butterflies – or had them killed – and it probably cost him his job and his life. Not that he was all that popular before.
12. Describe the character Janeane Garofalo played on “Seinfeld.”
13. In my still-to-be-written screenplay remake, Emma doesn’t die. She discovers her husband Charles is not a mere country doctor, but a spy for the French intelligence service. Rodolphe Boulanger is an enemy agent, and Léon Dupuis a well-meaning sap. She rediscovers her love for Charles when he has to prevent a French revolutionary group from blowing up a huge bomb in Yonville l'Abbaye. I hope to get Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Charles and Jamie Lee Curtis to play Emma. What should the title be?
14. What real-life burglar played a real-estate bad guy on Miami Vice?
15.
05 For x=1 to 4
10 For y=4 to 1 step –1
15 Print x,y
20 next y
25 next x
30 end
How many numbers does this program produce?
16. Where should you be in order to watch Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving perform? How about Pinky, Inky, Blinky, and Clyde? Where do they work?
17. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
18. Poor student thinks he’s in great moral shape, but despises his pawnbroker, and so decides to kill her.
19. No, no. You have got it completely wrong. John Savage was deer hunter, no legs; John Voight was coming home, couldn't feel his legs.
20. How many terms did Amidala serve as the head of state of Naboo?
21. What radioactive gas is possibly seeping into your basement right now, a product of the breakdown of uranium in soil, water, and rocks?
22. Who is the owner and head chef at Mesa Grill and Bolo, in New York?
23. My ISP has just assigned me a whole subnet: 206.13.188.1 through 206.13.188.254. What subnet mask should I use if I have four different locations with fifty workstations each, and I wish to route IP to all of them?
24. Name three people that have read “Be Your Own Windkeeper.”
25. Do you have a personal guess about what was thrown off the Tallahatchee Bridge?
26. What unit of measure is equal to the distance to an object having a parallax of one second?
27. Who narrated the newsreel series that debuted in 1934 and whose title suggested the progression of history?
28. What actress played the character that marries Ulises on Amigas y Rivales?
29. What is the chemical formula for the amino acid that figured prominently in Jurassic Park?
30. Who was Steve Austin’s boss?
31. Flynn preceded Casey, and so did Jimmy Blake.
32. I’ve been invited to participate in a plan which will pay an ever-increasing annuity to surviving members of the plan, with the last surviving member receiving the windfall. My question is… what is this thing properly called?
33. What human led the first exploration of the Ringworld?
34. What word refers to the threaded fastener that holds a lampshade to the harp?
35. Why is this night different from all other nights?
36. What constellation should I try to locate if I wish to gaze rapturously at the Horsehead Nebula?
37. What is the name of the protagonist in Where The Wild Things Are?
38. You know – for kids.
39. I said over and over and over again, this dance …
40. What type of curve, mathematically speaking, is made by a cable hung between two poles?
41. I’m nobody – who are you?
42. The Warsaw Pact was the East’s answer to NATO, but what authority should I read if my international baggage is lost?
43. Name Jonny Quest’s dog.
44. It’s French, and it means a governmental “hands-off” policy – what is it?
45. I went back in time without using a machine and fell in love with Julia; we both escaped a terrible fire set by Andrew Carmody. I brought her forward to the 20th century but she couldn't handle it, and we both decided to live in her era -- the 1880s. Who am I?
46. Name the name that’s associated with great chocolate and riding naked through town.
47. Who was the Chief Justice of the United States before Rehnquist?
48. In Into The Woods, what items must be retrieved to reverse the curse of barrenness on the Baker’s Wife?
49. What Rush song signaled the despair and loss of abilities that is the natural result of aging?
50. How did Rosalind Shays die?
The use of google or other internet searches are frowned upon until the group is truly stumped. Of course, I have no way of stopping you from googling.
Here they are and best of luck:
1. What’s the name of the physical law that talks about how things like light and gravity become weaker the farther away the source is? Is it reverse-something-or-other?
2. I’ve always wondered what might have happened. You see, when I was twenty-one, I was picked up near Mobile, Alabama by a nice traveling family, and got a ride all the way to Tennessee with them. Things got a little hot and heavy with their sixteen-year-old daughter, but I never followed up with her. Who am I?
3. Best translation of “Kyrie Elieson?”
4. Who is credited, in stories chock full of urban legendy-goodness, with paying for the island of Manhattan with trinkets worth less than $30?
5. If Nathan Brazil gets back to the Well, the Universe could end.
6. According to Giles, there’s another Hellmouth in what Buckeye State city?
7. What is it that Pam House, Kimberly Dugan, Georgia Thomas, and Alison Parker have in common?
8. What device permits the user to issue commands to the Winged Monkeys?
9. In Unix systems, 'ls –l' is the rough equivalent of what in the DOS world?
10. In addition to the many other social ills caused by incestuous relationships, we can add the possibility that your union may be opposed by Fricka and aided by a daughter of Wotan who herself ends up deep in magical sleep surrounded by magical fire. I hate it when that happens.
11. He killed the Butterflies – or had them killed – and it probably cost him his job and his life. Not that he was all that popular before.
12. Describe the character Janeane Garofalo played on “Seinfeld.”
13. In my still-to-be-written screenplay remake, Emma doesn’t die. She discovers her husband Charles is not a mere country doctor, but a spy for the French intelligence service. Rodolphe Boulanger is an enemy agent, and Léon Dupuis a well-meaning sap. She rediscovers her love for Charles when he has to prevent a French revolutionary group from blowing up a huge bomb in Yonville l'Abbaye. I hope to get Arnold Schwarzenegger to play Charles and Jamie Lee Curtis to play Emma. What should the title be?
14. What real-life burglar played a real-estate bad guy on Miami Vice?
15.
05 For x=1 to 4
10 For y=4 to 1 step –1
15 Print x,y
20 next y
25 next x
30 end
How many numbers does this program produce?
16. Where should you be in order to watch Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving perform? How about Pinky, Inky, Blinky, and Clyde? Where do they work?
17. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
18. Poor student thinks he’s in great moral shape, but despises his pawnbroker, and so decides to kill her.
19. No, no. You have got it completely wrong. John Savage was deer hunter, no legs; John Voight was coming home, couldn't feel his legs.
20. How many terms did Amidala serve as the head of state of Naboo?
21. What radioactive gas is possibly seeping into your basement right now, a product of the breakdown of uranium in soil, water, and rocks?
22. Who is the owner and head chef at Mesa Grill and Bolo, in New York?
23. My ISP has just assigned me a whole subnet: 206.13.188.1 through 206.13.188.254. What subnet mask should I use if I have four different locations with fifty workstations each, and I wish to route IP to all of them?
24. Name three people that have read “Be Your Own Windkeeper.”
25. Do you have a personal guess about what was thrown off the Tallahatchee Bridge?
26. What unit of measure is equal to the distance to an object having a parallax of one second?
27. Who narrated the newsreel series that debuted in 1934 and whose title suggested the progression of history?
28. What actress played the character that marries Ulises on Amigas y Rivales?
29. What is the chemical formula for the amino acid that figured prominently in Jurassic Park?
30. Who was Steve Austin’s boss?
31. Flynn preceded Casey, and so did Jimmy Blake.
32. I’ve been invited to participate in a plan which will pay an ever-increasing annuity to surviving members of the plan, with the last surviving member receiving the windfall. My question is… what is this thing properly called?
33. What human led the first exploration of the Ringworld?
34. What word refers to the threaded fastener that holds a lampshade to the harp?
35. Why is this night different from all other nights?
36. What constellation should I try to locate if I wish to gaze rapturously at the Horsehead Nebula?
37. What is the name of the protagonist in Where The Wild Things Are?
38. You know – for kids.
39. I said over and over and over again, this dance …
40. What type of curve, mathematically speaking, is made by a cable hung between two poles?
41. I’m nobody – who are you?
42. The Warsaw Pact was the East’s answer to NATO, but what authority should I read if my international baggage is lost?
43. Name Jonny Quest’s dog.
44. It’s French, and it means a governmental “hands-off” policy – what is it?
45. I went back in time without using a machine and fell in love with Julia; we both escaped a terrible fire set by Andrew Carmody. I brought her forward to the 20th century but she couldn't handle it, and we both decided to live in her era -- the 1880s. Who am I?
46. Name the name that’s associated with great chocolate and riding naked through town.
47. Who was the Chief Justice of the United States before Rehnquist?
48. In Into The Woods, what items must be retrieved to reverse the curse of barrenness on the Baker’s Wife?
49. What Rush song signaled the despair and loss of abilities that is the natural result of aging?
50. How did Rosalind Shays die?