Not a Quiksand Puzzle, 2nd Edition, Pretty Easy

[Marmel]

1 Name the college team whose mascot is a gobbler. Virginia Tech - VPI

2 This man wrote Primary Colors, but didn’t admit it. Klein - digamma

3 Who was most famous for, “Hi-dee, hi-dee, hi-dee, ho?” Cab Calloway - Ronnie

4 What do Ru Paul and Portia have in common? Cross-Dress - Tred

5 What Midwestern preacher was God going to take home if he didn’t raise enough money? Roberts - dac

6 Joseph Smith is to L. Ron Hubbard as ? is to ? Latter Day and Scientology - SplitP

7 Name the sport with a penalty for icing, and tell me what icing is. Hocket, etc.. - cuervo

8 What religion might follow the Ram Bam’s rules? Judiasm - dac

9 Who is Lady Brett Ashley? The sun Also Rises - Tredwel

10 A captain in the US Armed Services is promoted one grade. What’s her new rank? Cover both bases. Major, R. Admiral - dac

11 What are the real roots of x^2 – x – 12 = 0 ? 4 and -3 - Quiksand

12 What city are you in if you’re served by Gatwick? London - albion

13 What can we do together if the ink is black and the page is white? Tredwel - see below for details

14 The Stanley company makes tools, but which Stanley uses his tool the wrong way with Blanche? Streetcar - VPI

15 Who pointedly showed us a Sunday afternoon on the grand island of Jatte? Seurat - KWhit


17 If you win second prize in a beauty contest, how much money must the bank give you? $10 - cuervo

18 How many sharps in C? 0 - cuervo

19 What’s a 1 followed by 100 zeros? googol - VPI

20 Who was the second man on the Moon? Buzz - VPI

21 Why is Enoch unique? [O. Test & not dying - dac[/b]

22 Who painted night hawks? Hopper - Quik

23 Xanadu was sung by a blonde, and described by a dope-fiend (and interrupted by a visitor from a village). Name the blonde, the fiend, and the village. John, Coleridge, Porlock - Quik

24 American success: he became president without being elected to either office. Ford - Ronnie

25 Stamps come in all different colors. Why would anyone want green stamps? prizes (see below) - digamma

26 Add another city that fits: Hartford, Pierre, Albany. State Capital - rjol

27 Ivory Snow soap girl that got dirty. Marylin Chambers - cuervo

28 Name the Canadian that occupies the equivalent of #10 Downing St. Jean Chrétien - ctmason

29 What’s the difference between a diminished fifth and an augmented fourth? No diff. - KWhit

30 Peter Parker has two jobs. What are they? photo and husband

31 Peter Piper did some gardening, right? picked a pack... - ctmason

32 Iago was a villain’s parrot in one story, and a villain in another. Name them. Alladin and Othello - Ronnie

33 What’s a safety in American football if he’s not a player? If he is a player, is he offensive or defensive? Tackle in endzoen, defense - Quik

34 Who is the Greek god of war? Ares - Tred

35 If a mole isn’t digging in your garden, then what does it measure? molecular - Tred

36 What is the purpose of backstiching in cross stitch? outlining - Jeeber

37 What two ships came along for the Santa Maria’s historic voyage? Pinta, Nina - rjol

38 Tyler was the first, and Ford was the last (so far). VP moved up without being elected to Pres. - cuervo

39 Who is Regis Philbin’s wife? Joy Philbin - cuervo

40 He couldn’t be King and get married, so he chose the divorcee. Edward the 8th - dac

41 He was King and wanted a divorce, so he started the Church of England. Henry VIII - cuervo

42 Who was Chico, and who was the man? Prinze and Albertson - cuervo

43 What is a tort? wrongful act etc... (see below) - Quik

44 What’s eight the hard way? 2 fours on a pair of dice - digamma

45 What animal did Schroedinger suggest? cat - Ronnie

46 How many ships did her face launch, and who was she? 1000, Helen of Troy

47 Who owns the nuclear power plant in Groening’s fiction? Mr. Burns - rjol

48 A house is twice as old as its furniture was when the house was as old as the furniture is. The sum of their ages is 49 years. How old is the house and how old is the furniture? 28, 21 - cELEVAL

49 Where could we find Luke and Laura? General Hospital - cuervo



Question 16 was deleted...

[albionmoonlight]

12. London

[rjolley]

11) -3 and 4 or (x+3)(x-4)
26) Indianapolis
31) Yes, he picked a peck of pickled peppers
37) Pinta and Nina
47) Mr. Burns
49) On All My Children

[cuervo72]

49 - Port Charles (General Hospital)
47 - C. Montgomery Burns
42 - Freddie Prinz, Jack Albertson
41 - Henry VIII

[SplitPersonality1]

6 Joseph Smith is to L. Ron Hubbard as ? is to ?

Mormonism & Scientology

[cuervo72]

39 - Joy Philbin
38 - VP who was elevated to the position rather than on the ticket
37 - Nina, Pinta
27 - Marilyn Chambers

[VPI97]

1 Virginia Tech...and it's a "Fighting Gobbler" :)
14 Stanley Kowalski (Streetcar)
19 Googol
20 Buzz Aldrin
30 Photographer & crime fighter
46 1000 and she was Helen of Troy

[SplitPersonality1]

Should we limit the number of answers we give to give more people a chance at some of these? Just a thought.

[cuervo72]

17 - $10
7 - Ice Hockey, sending the puck past the opponent's goal line from your side of the red line, where the opponent touches the puck first and could not have reached the puck before it crossed the goal line
18 - 0

[digamma]

2. Joe Klein
25. Green stamps were collected for prizes in the 60s or so, I can't remember the name of the company.
38. A Vice President takes over for a sitting President.
43. An injury causing action for which you can sue.
44. double 4s in craps.

[ctmason]

1) Virginia Tech Hokies

2) Jourlaist Joe Klein wrote Primary Colors, but first released it anonomously

3) While Cab Calloway didn't invent "scat-ing" he is most famous for his rendition of Minnie the Moocher in which he used said phrase.

10) She is now, O-4, a Major

14) Stanley Kowalski messed with Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire"

19) A google

20) Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

24) President Gerald Ford was never elected to an Executive office.

28) Jean Chrétien

30) Peter Parker has actually held down multiple jobs, but he is best known as a freelance photographer and Spider Man. To be technical, at one point he did hold down a job as both photographer and a research assistant at NYU.

31) Peter Piper did pick a peck of pickled peppers, which is impossible.

32) Iago was the parrot of Jafar in Disney's "Alladin" and was Othello's Lieutenant in Shakespeare's play.

49) General Hospital

[cuervo72]

Ok, I'm about done anyway.

[KWhit]

15. George Seurat

18. 0

19. Google

[dacman]

7) Oral Roberts
10) Army/USAF/USMC new rank is Lt. Colonel -- Navy/Coast Guard new rank is Rear Admiral
11) -4 and 4
17) $10
18) Zero (0)
19) a googol
20) Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
21) He walked with God and "was no more" implying he did not die.

[KWhit]

29. Nothing

[TredWel]

4. Famous Cross-dressers (Portia in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure)
13. "Together we learn to read and write"
22. Toulouse-Lautrec?
34. Ares
35. The amount of molecules of an element/compound in a solution

[Celeval]

4: Crossdressers
11: 4, -3
17: $10
19: Googol
20: Buzz Aldrin
34: Ares
41: Henry VIII
42: House is 28, Furniture is 21

[dacman]

10) Doh! -- Try this:
Army/USAF/USMC new rank is Major -- Navy/Coast Guard new rank is Rear Admiral

[Marmel]

Some of your answers are on the right track, but do not get full credit. :)

[Marmel]

Hmmm...I am not familiar with the Spiderman comics, and I think this must be where the answer I have is coming from.

If you saw the first challenge, you would know these are not my questions and answers. Spiderman/Superhero/crimefighter, etc... is not the 2nd job. Photographer is one of them.

[Marmel]

11 - Very close, but some of you had the positive/negative signs wrong (according to my answer)

13 - I need the full verse or what it pertains to actually.

21 - In regards to the above answer, what actually makes your answer unique?

[QuikSand]

A few off the top of my head...

11. 4 and -3

22. Edward Hopper

23. Olivia Newton-John, Samuel Tayler Coleridge, (A man on business from) Porlock

24. Gerald Ford

33. Tackle in the end zone for two points; defense

34. Ares

35. Avogadro's number (6.022 x 10^23 or something like that) of anything (usually atomic particles)

43. An unintentional act causing harm to another

48. House is 28, furniture is 21


edit - numbering error

[dacman]

40) Edward the 8th

[Marmel]

Only about a half dozen to go. Good work so far.

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by SplitPersonality1
6 Joseph Smith is to L. Ron Hubbard as ? is to ?

Mormonism & Scientology

I don't dispute that this is the "correct" answer, but the construct really needs to have three of four elements to be a fair question. I'd also be comfortable logically with answers like:

Ty Cobb and Ted Williams


Not what he had intended, of course, but... what can you do?

[dacman]

Originally posted by Marmel
21 - In regards to the above answer, what actually makes your answer unique?

Not really sure what you're getting at. He's not the only biblical character who supposidly didn't die (Elijah is the other). Origin of the word unique? Enoch<==>unique ??? Somehow I don't think so.

[Marmel]

You are extremely close there dacman. He is not the only biblical character who didn't die......

Think of where in the Bible each occurs.

[TredWel]

Originally posted by Marmel

13 - I need the full verse or what it pertains to actually.


It was a song performed by Three Dog Night in the 70s, but was written well before that. Going off of memory here, the whole verse is something like:

The ink is black, the page is white
Together we learn to read and write
The child is black, the child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight
A beautiful sight

Have I displayed enough embarassing musical knowledge for you yet?

[dacman]

A couple of guesses:

8) Judaism

36) To keep the stitch from pulling out if/when the end of the thread is pulled on

[Marmel]

Tred - Good!

You smart guys need to get over to the first edition of this puzzle and try to get the ones missing. I told you this one was easier. :)

[Marmel]

dac - 8 is correct, 36 is not

[cuervo72]

9 - the former Melanie Hamilton

edit: don't know what I was thinking here - was somehow combining "Rhett Butler" and "Ashley Wilkes" into "Brett Ashley" :)

[TredWel]

9. The love interest in "The Sun Also Rises"

[ctmason]

To answer marmel, Peter Parker has washed dishes, been a research assistant, and for several issues tried his hand at teaching science at a public school. In addition to his freelance photography and duties as your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

To say that he HAS two jobs is simply untrue and completely incorrect, nay...total intentional subterfuge and distortion of the truth.

Therefore, your quiz is rendered null, and you must leave this place, never to return. I wouldn't show your face at any Spider-Man conventions either...

[rjolley]

30) Peter Parker was a wrestler and a photographer.

[Marmel]

MY answer is not a traditional job at all.

I'll let it hang out there for a while longer, and reveal what I have....maybe somebody will be able to explain it.....or maybe it is just wrong. :(

[dacman]

Originally posted by Marmel
You are extremely close there dacman. He is not the only biblical character who didn't die......

Think of where in the Bible each occurs.

Both OT. Enoch=Genesis Elijah = ???? (later on though)
The only biblical character who didn't die before the flood? If that's not it, I'm at a loss.

[digamma]

Originally posted by QuikSand

43. An unintentional act causing harm to another



Not to quibble, but torts are not necessarily unintentional. Intentional torts make up a great deal of the body of the law. Marmel's description in the answers above "wrongful" is probably more correct.

[rjolley]

Ok, how about Peter Parker is a photographer and Mary Jane's beau. Mr. Jameson's whipping boy?
The Web Slinger?

How about another hint? :-)

[Marmel]

digamma, I see where you are coming from. I am trying to not get TOO picky with correct answers since many of these are pretty wide open... I agree that wrongful is a better word, but I think we both know that Quik had the general idea going there.

dac, the only person mentioned in the Old Test. that did not die. I will give you full credit there.

[Marmel]

Originally posted by rjolley
Mary Jane's beau
How about another hint? :-)


Right there!

Husband is the job I was looking for.

Does that make sense to you guys (I admit I am not a big Spidey fan at all).

[Marmel]

Only #36 is left in this quiz.

[dacman]

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05381b.htm

(Elias is to Elijah as Catholic is to Protestent)

Anyway a couple of exerpts

The loftiest and most wonderful prophet of the Old Testament

...Elias vanished still more mysteriously than he had appeared. Like Enoch, he was "translated", so that he should not taste death.

[JeeberD]

36 What is the purpose of backstiching in cross stitch?


It's usually used to outline/border an object...

[Marmel]

Nice Jeeb, that completes this quiz.

if you guys like these, I have a bunch more I can post in the future. Or are they just tedious?

[JeeberD]

I knew that doing cross-stitch with my mom would come in handy some day... :)