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OCmike's Humpday Challenge (Thursday Edition)

There is only one rule: No more than one correctly answered question per person, per hour.

1. What is Sanjaya’s last name?

2. How many career fights did John L. Sullivan lose?

3. What do the tv show “TJ Hooker” and Bon Jovi have in common?

4. What position did Brian Urlacher play in college?

5. What position did William Cohen hold in the Clinton Administration?

6. What’s in a Mai Tai?

7. Who was the first black woman to compete at Wimbledon?

8. What do the TV shows “Hotel” and “The Greatest American Hero” have in common?

9. What is guar gum?

10. What is “impedance”?

11. What MLB record did Hank Aaron set: Runs Batted In, Home Runs, or Total Bases?

12. Who did Calvin Coolidge refer to as “Our American Girl”?

13. Who was the first Asian-American to win an Olympic gold medal?

14. In physics, what is “impulse”?

15. What actor do "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" and "Old School" have in common?

5. sec def

10 resistance to AC

10. The opposing force to the sine wave of an alternating current.
Internal opposition (resistance) due to the caused magnetic field of alternating currents positive and negative sine waves.

Lest ways that's kinda what I recall...

15. What actor do "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "Jurassic Park: The Lost World" and "Old School" have in common?

That would be this guy:



Vince Vaughn

4 - Safety

7. Who was the first black woman to compete at Wimbledon?

Althea Gibson

9. Guar gum is a thickener used in many food products, like ice cream.

11. All of them

8. Connie Sellecca (sp?) was in the cast of both.

BSmack wrote:11. All of them

Dammit! I thought I could at least get one fish on the line.

Couldn't you answer the Sanjaya question instead? I know you know the answer... :D

Goober McTuber wrote:Althea

Rumor has it, she was one of those Brown Eyed Women.

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean

Dinsdale wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:Althea

Rumor has it, she was one of those Brown Eyed Women.

I thought all women had a brown eye.

Talking a lot about less and less
And forgetting the love we bring

#1 Malakar

Heard his name on the radio this morning :)

12: Gertrude Ederle

13. Kristi Yamaguchi

2. none?

OCmike wrote: [
2. How many career fights did John L. Sullivan lose?

One...to "Gentleman" Jim Corbett.....

6. Rum and Mai Tai mix.

OK, light rum, dark rum, orange curacao, orgeat and lime juice is one variation.
And yeah, I looked it up.

#2. one loss, two draws.

back in the days of 80 round fights.


edit:

dammit. missed it by THAT much.

Felix wrote:

OCmike wrote: [
2. How many career fights did John L. Sullivan lose?

One...to "Gentleman" Jim Corbett.....

Yep.

white rum
dark rum
orange curaçao
Orgeat syrup
fresh lime juice

I used to also add a pineapple juice mix, back in the days when I drank these til I fell down.

Mister Bushice wrote:#2. one loss, two draws.

back in the days of 80 round fights.

bare knuckled rounds were a lot different.....

I blame the Marquess of Queensbury.....

12. Who did Calvin Coolidge refer to as “Our American Girl”?


Grace Coolidge...based on the Girl Scout Magazine of the same name. (completely guessing here)

Mister Bushice wrote:white rum
dark rum
orange curaçao
Orgeat syrup
fresh lime juice

I used to also add a pineapple juice mix, back in the days when I drank these til I fell down.

One thing that's cool about Hawaii is that just about every bar has $1 Mai Tais as a way of getting people in the door. Of course, they're of the Mikey variety and not like you describe, but they still go down waaaaay too easy.

#6 Mai Tai...original version

Light rum, dk rum, sour mix and splash of grenadine.

There have been many bastardized versions with fruit juices, but those came along later. This recipe used to adorn the label on the Meyers Dark Rum bottle.

Never heard of one with grenadine in it.

Here's what Wikipedia says:

Recipe #1 — The Original Trader Vic Formula - 1944

2 oz of 17-year old J. Wray & Nephew Rum over shaved ice
Add juice from one fresh lime
1/2 oz Holland DeKuyper Orange Curacao
1/4 oz Trader Vic's Rock Candy Syrup
1/2 oz French Garnier Orgeat Syrup
Shake vigorously.
Add a sprig of fresh mint
Recipe #2 — "Old Way" Trader Vic Mai Tai Formula - 1997

1 oz Fine Jamaican rum (15 or 8 year old)
1 oz Martinique rum (St. James)
1/2 ounce Orange Curacao
1/2 ounce Orgeat syrup
Juice from one fresh lime (about 3/4 ounce)
Mix and serve as in the Original Formula
Recipe #3 — Today's Trader Vic Mai Tai

This recipe is very close to what Trader Vic's restaurants apparently serve today:

Ingredients:

1 oz gold rum
1 oz dark rum
1 oz triple sec
1/2 oz lime juice
1/2 oz Orgeat syrup
Garnish: maraschino cherry, pineapple, mint sprig
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass over crushed ice. Garnish with fruits and mint, and serve with a straw.

Recipe #4 — Don the Beachcomber Mai Tai

This version is much closer to what Don the Beachcomber served in his restaurants. It can be garnished with various fruits, as in the above recipe. Falernum, which is now difficult to obtain in the United States except from a single supplier in Seattle, is a flavored Caribbean syrup with a very different taste from the Orgeat syrup used in the Maitai #1.

Ingredients

2 oz (or 1/4 cup) water
3/4 oz or 1-1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 oz or 2 tablespoons fresh grapefruit juice
1 oz or 2 tablespoons sugar syrup
1 oz or 2 tablespoons dark rum
1-1/2 oz or 3 tablespoons golden rum
1/2 oz or 1 tablespoon Cointreau or triple Sec
1/4 oz or 1/2 tablespoon Falernum syrup
2 dashes or scant 1/2 teaspoon Angostura bitters
1 dash or scant 1/4 teaspoon Pernod or other anisette-flavored pastis
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a tall highball glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with fruits and serve with a straw.

Recipe #5 — Pineapple Variation Mai Tai

4 oz orange juice
4 oz pineapple juice
1 oz Rose's lime juice
1 oz dark rum
1 oz light rum
1 oz triple sec
1/2 oz grenadine
Recipe #6

Fill a collins glass with ice. Add:

¾ oz. Light Rum
¾ oz. Dark Rum
½ oz. Amaretto
½ oz. Triple Sec


Fill with:
½ Orange Juice
½ Pineapple Juice


Float ½ oz. of Grenadine on top

Recipe #7

Ingredients

2 ounces Jamaica rum
Juice of 1 large lime (or 1-1/2 ounces lime juice)
1/2 ounce orange curacao
1/2 ounce orgeat
1/4 ounce simple syrup
Garnishes

Mint sprig
Glass

Use a relatively large glass
Instructions

Pour rum over shaved ice
Add juice of one lime, orange curacao, orgeat, and simple syrup
Garnish with a mint sprig

OCmike wrote:Never heard of one with grenadine in it.

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

OCmike wrote:

Mister Bushice wrote:white rum
dark rum
orange curaçao
Orgeat syrup
fresh lime juice

I used to also add a pineapple juice mix, back in the days when I drank these til I fell down.

One thing that's cool about Hawaii is that just about every bar has $1 Mai Tais as a way of getting people in the door. Of course, they're of the Mikey variety and not like you describe, but they still go down waaaaay too easy.

Used to go to a Friday Happy Hour at this chinese place that did that with these awesome Maitais. Damned if I know how I made it home those nights.

Dead Head mai tai:

Brown eyed women and red grenadine

Dinsdale wrote:

OCmike wrote:Never heard of one with grenadine in it.

The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

I had just backed outta that post thinking the same thing, scary.

Mister Bushice wrote:

OCmike wrote:

Mister Bushice wrote:white rum
dark rum
orange curaçao
Orgeat syrup
fresh lime juice

I used to also add a pineapple juice mix, back in the days when I drank these til I fell down.

One thing that's cool about Hawaii is that just about every bar has $1 Mai Tais as a way of getting people in the door. Of course, they're of the Mikey variety and not like you describe, but they still go down waaaaay too easy.

Used to go to a Friday Happy Hour at this chinese place that did that with these awesome Maitais. Damned if I know how I made it home those nights.

Did they cost two dollars and burn like hell?

Mikey wrote:

Mister Bushice wrote:

OCmike wrote: One thing that's cool about Hawaii is that just about every bar has $1 Mai Tais as a way of getting people in the door. Of course, they're of the Mikey variety and not like you describe, but they still go down waaaaay too easy.

Used to go to a Friday Happy Hour at this chinese place that did that with these awesome Maitais. Damned if I know how I made it home those nights.

Did they cost two dollars and burn like hell?

What does sex with a phillipino hooker have to do with a Mai Tai?

Sorry OC, we were looking for ...

"Drink down a bottle and you're ready to kill"

and would have accepted for 1/2 credit

"Daddy made whiskey and he made it well"

Never got the Grateful Dead, it's music, lyrics or fanatical following.

I'll take my "F" and try to make it up with extra credit by the end of the quarter.

Looks like OCMike's gettin' on.

I drank down a bottle and I'm ready to kill.

In 1920 when he stepped to the bar
he drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar
In 1930 when the Wall caved in
he paid his way selling red eye gin