Not a quiksand puzzle, Vol 4.

[Marmel]

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?

[cthomer5000]

44. laissez-faire

[dacman]

15) 16 or 32 depending on whether each x,y set is 1 number or 2

23) 255.255.255.0

[dacman]

25) Billy Joe McAllister -- except he "jumped"

[Butter]

21. Radon

22. Bobby Flay

[Airhog]

9. Dir

15 8

16 Price is right?

20 1

21 radon

45 Leopold?

22 206.13.188.x

[dacman]

9) dir /p

[dacman]

26) a light-year

[QuikSand]

just a few quickies...

21. Radon
26. parsec
38. hula hoop, from The Hudsucker Proxy
43. bandit
46. Godiva

[Bee]

Originally posted by QuikSand
just a few quickies...

21. Radon
26. parsec
38. hula hoop, from The Hudsucker Proxy
43. bandit
46. Godiva

Shouldn't that be quikies?

[Butter]

16. An arcade.

[QuikSand]

47. Warren Berger
50. she fell down an elevator shaft

[TredWel]

3. Lord Have Mercy
16. The arcade (Pinky, Inky, Blinky & Clyde are the Pac-Man ghosts)
32. Tontine
39. ...is going to be a drag (Over and Over, Dave Clark 5)
40. Parabola?
41. I'm nobody too.
46. Godiva
47. Berger?

[QuikSand]

#11 sounds like it's from a short story called (maybe) "The Sound of Thunder" by, I think, Ray Bradbury. Though I may be wrong here... it's been around 20 years since I read it.

As I type, my confidence with this weakens...

[Butter]

45. Doc Brown from Back to the Future

[Bee]

14. G. Gordon Liddy

[Bee]

34. I think it's a finial (sp?). I have no idea how to spell it.

[Qwikshot]

#3 Christ have Mercy.

[Marmel]

More incorrect answers than the previous versions.....here is the update as of Quikshot:

1
2
3 Tredwell - Lord Have Mercy
4 ronnie - peter minuit
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14 Bee - G. Gordon Liddy
15 dacman - 16 or 32
16 Tredwell - a) No answer yet b) Pacman
17
18 ronnie - crime and punishment
19
20
21 butter - radon
22 Butter - Bobby Flay
23
24
25 dac - billy joe mcallister
26 Quiksand - parsec
27
28
29
30
31
32 Tredwell - tontine
33
34 Bee - finial
35
36
37
38 Ronnie - Hudsucker Proxy
39 Tredwell - Is going to be a drag
40
41 Tredwell - Emily Dickenson
42
43 Quiksand - Bandit
44 cthomer - laissez faire
45
46 Quiksand - Godiva
47 Quiksand - W. Burger
48 Ronnie - 1, 2, 3,4 see below
49
50 Quiksand - elevator shaft

[Bee]

9 dir |more

[Butter]

40. A parabola?

[Marmel]

no on 9 and 40 guys.

On 9, the 'dir /' part is correct, but the part following the '/' has not been answered correctly yet.

[Bee]

20. I'll guess 2 terms.

[Bee]

49. Tom Sawyer is the only Rush song I can remember.

[dacman]

9) dir /w

[dacman]

40 is basically an upside down parabola, which for the life of me, I can't remember the correct term for.

[dacman]

Nevermind...nothing to see here.

[Marmel]

1 Ronnie - Inverse square law
2
3 Tredwell - Lord Have Mercy
4 ronnie - peter minuit
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14 Bee - G. Gordon Liddy
15 dacman - 16 or 32
16 Tredwell - a) No answer yet b) Pacman
17
18 ronnie - crime and punishment
19
20 Bee - 2
21 butter - radon
22 Butter - Bobby Flay
23
24
25 dac - billy joe mcallister
26 Quiksand - parsec
27
28
29
30
31
32 Tredwell - tontine
33
34 Bee - finial
35
36
37
38 Ronnie - Hudsucker Proxy
39 Tredwell - Is going to be a drag
40
41 Tredwell - Emily Dickenson
42
43 Quiksand - Bandit
44 cthomer - laissez faire
45
46 Quiksand - Godiva
47 Quiksand - W. Burger
48 Ronnie - 1, 2, 3,4 see below
49
50 Quiksand - elevator shaft

[Bee]

27. ANother wild guess at Edward R. Murrow

[Butter]

31. That's a line from Casey at the Bat.

[dacman]

Originally posted by TredWel
3. Lord Have Mercy

I'm about 99.9% certain that this is correct, Marm, so I'm wondering if you just missed it.

edit: nevermind, I'm blind.

[Bee]

30. The OSI...I hope that's good enough, I can't remember the guys name that he reported to.

[JeeberD]

12. She was the female version of Jerry, and at one point his love interest.

30. Vince McMahon

37. Max?

[Wolfpack]

9) dir /w
12) A female Seinfeld
16a) Bingo, bango, bongo is a golf game, though I don't know how Irving fits into that
20) 2

[Marmel]

A few more correct answers:

1 Ronnie - Inverse square law
2
3 Tredwell - Lord Have Mercy
4 ronnie - peter minuit
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12 Jeeber - female equiv. Of Jerry
13
14 Bee - G. Gordon Liddy
15 dacman - 16 or 32
16 Tredwell - a) No answer yet b) Pacman
17
18 ronnie - crime and punishment
19
20 Bee - 2
21 butter - radon
22 Butter - Bobby Flay
23
24
25 dac - billy joe mcallister
26 Quiksand - parsec
27
28
29
30 Jeeber - Vince McMahon (there is another answer)
31 Butter - Casey at Bat
32 Tredwell - tontine
33
34 Bee - finial
35
36
37 Jeeber - Max
38 Ronnie - Hudsucker Proxy
39 Tredwell - Is going to be a drag
40
41 Tredwell - Emily Dickenson
42
43 Quiksand - Bandit
44 cthomer - laissez faire
45
46 Quiksand - Godiva
47 Quiksand - W. Burger
48 Ronnie - 1, 2, 3,4 see below
49
50 Quiksand - elevator shaft

[Bee]

I guess I had the wrong Steve Austin...

[JeeberD]

Originally posted by Wolfpack

16a) Bingo, bango, bongo is a golf game, though I don't know how Irving fits into that

16b. Pinky, Inky, Blinky, and Clyde were the names of the ghosts in Pac-Man (or was it Ms Pac-Man?)...

Edit: Nevermind, been answered...

[dacman]

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?

Hmmm...if 255.255.255.0 is wrong then I'm guessing the question was trying to push you toward having 4 subnets (1 subnet would have 254 usable addresses for 200 work stations, so you don't NEED more the 1 subnet).

So....I'll guess 255.255.255.128 (4 subnets)

[Marmel]

Closer there, dacman.

[dacman]

Oops, 255.255.255.128 is only 2 subnets (my brain is fried, can you tell?)

Try 255.255.255.192

[Marmel]

there you go!

There was actually quite a bit of debate on 192 vs. 0 being the correct answer here in the original posting of this question. 'Bricker' held to the 192 as the correct answer, but there were some links provided that may have put that into some doubt. I got lost midway through that debate though, and gave up trying to figure it out.

Either way, you are correct now for sure, since you answered both ways.

[dacman]

I think if the question were worded that you had 200 workstations each in 4 locations that would logically push you to the 192 answer because the 0 answer would not leave you with enough addresses.

[sterlingice]

9. dir (tho, I'm not sure what bearing the -l has)

36. I think that's the one in Orion's belt

40. Parabola

SI

[dacman]

40) Hyperbola !!!! Geez, I can't believe it took me that long to think of it.

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by dacman
40) Hyperbola !!!! Geez, I can't believe it took me that long to think of it.

Wouldn't a hyperbola be 2 wires hung between 2 poles?

SI

[Buzzbee]

8. Crystal Ball? (Wizard of Oz)
13. True Lies
49. I...I think I'm going bald

[lynchjm24]

2 is a reference to the Sonny and Cher song Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves - the song that is playing on the Chercrow Simpsons episode. I don't have an answer to the question though.

[lynchjm24]

I'm embarassed for remembering this:

24: Monica, Phoebe and Rachel

[lynchjm24]

35 is religious, something to do with the Jewish faith I believe.

[3ric]

9. dir /a
29. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)