LJ Daily Answers: 12 February 2007

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This week's theme, in case it's somehow not completely obvious right now, was the color blue. Behold, a font gimmick, for your pleasure. And now, some answers, for more pleasure.



1. What popular theater company’s current tour, "How to Be a Megastar 2.0", features music by Tracy Bonham and Fischerspooner?

"I know as much about theater as some stereotypically sports-averse generalization knows about sports." - etcet

"How to Be a Megastar 2.0...I think I saw a reality show like that once." - pride4u2

"Blue Man Group, whose members make $$$$$$$$$$$$ for playing with food and throwing paint around and beating on noisy things and doing other shit I got spanked for when I was five." - chaobell

"Fischerspooner. Aquaman's little known enemy, known for rampant dolphin sex (it was the sixties, the writers were high). His final appearance was in Batman where the Joker pushed him off a two foot high ledge. He died anyway." - lots42

"Did you ever see that Blue Man Group? Total ripoff of the Smurfs. And the Smurfs! They suck." - scifantasy

(+1, The Simpsons. -LL)

"In Soviet Russia, Fischer spoons you!" - chlaal

"Fischerspooner? But I hardly know her." - sskipstress

"Ficherspooner? Bonham? ... a Fish, a Spoon, and a Ham Bone ... I'm gonna guess it's tonight's dinner?" - dragonierzapp

"I'm not sure, but I can assure you that no one sane has seen this musical." - fireworkfiasco

(And I can assure you, you've never been so wrong. -AL)

(Also: it's not a musical. -CV)

"I'll have a Jaegermeister to go with that Fischerspooner, just because of Fahrvergnugen, or however you spell that." - etumukutenyak

"Oh, I'm a redneck. Our definition of theater involves bug zappers and beer." - whiski_sour

"Who eats fish with a spoon, really? YOU EAT IT WITH A STRAW. DUUUH." - kokopellinelli

(This answer makes my stomach hurt. -AL)

"Fishing with spoons is ineffective." - noted by many

"There was an appearance by Blue Man Group at a Royal Variety show and they were meant to shake hands with the Queen after the show, but the paint was wet so they wouldn't stretch their hands out. They also didn't speak, to tell her why. So there was just a tableau of the Queen and three half-naked, dripping blue painted men, looking at each other uncomfortably until she moved on." - shadowed_guise

"" - jacques_louis

Correct Answer: Blue Man Group

"wait! doesn't hotpantsgalore work for them???" - songquake
"I think AL put this in just because hotpantsgalore recently became the 1500th Quizling and used to work for them." - marasca

(All true! So what did hotpantsgalore have to say about this wonderful question, crafted in her honor? -AL)

"Actually Fisherspooner isn't on the tour...Dumbass." - hotpantsgalore



2. What George Gershwin composition combines elements of classical music and jazz into a piece for a solo piano and jazz band?

"Didn't Gershwin play the Riddler in Batman? What has he got to do with music?" - antinomic

(Frank Gorshin (rest in peace) had nothing to do with this question. -CV)

"Rhapsody in Blue, located on the jazz spectrum somewhere between Benny Green and Mood Indigo." - i_calql8

"My dad has to be careful when he practices that opening clarinet solo, 'cause Mom always comes downstairs and drags him up to the bedroom. WHERE THEY PLAY YAHTZEE. LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." - astridsdream

"Rhapsody in Blue, which I only remember because it was on Fantasia 2000. Woo cartoons! They help you learn!" - gogogidget and a few others

"Gershwin wrote 'Summertime', so given the theme I'm pretty sure it's gotta be 'Summertime Blues', later covered by The Who." - lazarusloafer

"Kyle's Mom is a Stupid Bitch, in D-Minor" - barbarienne

(+1, South Park. -CV)

"Since I don't know the answer, I'll just perform an air drum solo." - whiski_sour

Correct Answer: Rhapsody In Blue



3. What baseball team, trailing in the bottom of the ninth inning, won the 1993 World Series after Joe Carter hit a three-run, walk-off home run?

"Huh? You had me 100% on track until the bit where you started using, like, words." - shadowed_guise

"Baseball, that's the sport with the sticks and the butt-grabbing, right?" - sskipstress

(Well, the butt-grabbing could be anything. -CV)

"…when I thought the theme was elephants, I was contemplating the possibility of a baseball team of drunkards. Now I'm just like, ZOMG ORIOLES ARE BLUE. But Orioles don't play baseball. That's just silly." - viperonaleash

(Orioles are orange and black and in Baltimore they play baseball. Sigh. – LL)

"Manning. I'm sure there's a Manning involved in every sport. Here's a Manning, there's a Manning and another little Manning. Manning Manning BALL!" - akiyasan

"I boycott this question on the grounds that baseball sucks." - marasca

(And there's our official sports-hating stereotype, for the record. -CV)

"The Blu Sox?" - woap

"I bet all the Blue Jays cried, even though there's no crying in baseball. Except for tears of boredom." - morganashkevron

(+1, A League Of Their Own. -CV)

"The Blue Jays logo from that time scared me a bit. The bird is one sweater vest short of being a sexual predator.
" - paradoxotaur

Correct Answer: Toronto Blue Jays



4. What is the largest species of animal living on Earth?

(Note to chershey: The only reason your picture isn't going up is because some folks read this at work and stuff. -CV)

"Baleen is such a silly word. Baleen. Baleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen." - banshea

"The Silverbacked Mother-in-Law. Native to the Eastern American Seaboard, this creature has been sighted as far away as Hawaii. Under no circumstances should you attempt to make eye contact; this species is aggressively territorial." - fizrep

"Besides the 'Better get a bucket' guy from Monty Pythons Meaning of Life? that would be the blue whale." - killabee886

(Monsieur Creosote! – LL)

"Bluepachabra"- tweeti

"Galactus. Oh, wait...you mean living on Earth, not living on Earth. Besides, Earth isn't much more than a lunch break for him...too small. Unless he's on that South Beach diet. Literally." - n5iln

"That Mackenzie boy's head. It's HUGE! His head's like Sputnik. Spherical, but pointy in parts." - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

(I was going to give you a +1 For 'So I Married An Axe Murder', but it was a bitch to type out your user name so I'm taking it back. – LL)

"Now I have Star Trek IV in my head: 'Admiral, there be whales here!' Oh LJDQ, always there to step in lest I start to forget my inner geek." - chlaal

(Surprisingly, only a few went to the world of Star Trek for this question. -CV)

"Based on what I have been told, it's a toss up between the blue whale and the 'your mother' species, which may in fact be the same creature." - woap

"it used to be Oprah, but since she's in one of her skinny phases, I'll go with the blue whale." - cmseward

"I want to say blue whale or sperm whale, but I'm probably wrong, because 'blue whale' is too obvious, and then I'll be mocked by you." - dracothelizard

"Well, the blue whale for the largest singular animal, but a coral reef is the largest super-organism made from a species. Blue whale, impaled on the Great Barrier Reef!" - shadowed_guise

Correct Answer: The Blue Whale



5. What is the name of the three-year-long era in the career of Pablo Picasso that followed the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas?

"Friends? Are we talking friends a la Rimbaud/Verlaine or seriously just friends?" - pride4u2

"the 'I'm *so banging Carlos's Wife' period" - wiredwizard

"The 'Yay! Carlos is finally leaving me alone!' era." - hellziggy

"I'm sure it's the 'blue period' but for the life of me I can't suss out a theme this week...." - stagemanager

"He's dead. What does it matter?" - utforsker

"My dad always told me to take an Art History course. I should have listened to him. The moral of this story children? Listen to your parents or you won't ever know the right answers for the LJDQ." - confusedpuppy

"The Bleu Period, during which Picasso drowned his sorrows in stinky cheese." - marasca

"The Blue Period. Which just led me to the thought, 'Do aristocratic women have blue periods?'" - lyme

"The Blue Period, meaning no buns in Smurfette's oven this month." - i_calql8

"Blue period. Menstrual joke or punctuation joke? Menstrual joke or punctuation joke? Oh, fuck it, I've got a headache. Make your own funny." - whiski_sour

"Blue period! I thought I had one of those once, but as it turns out the pads I bought just have a blue strip in the middle..." - shinga

"I realize that the answer to this is 'The Blue Period', but I was unaware that Carlos Casagemas was the reason for it. I learned something new today!" - starryeyes203

(Our work here is done. -LL)

"omg.. I cheated on this one and googled: no wonder the man was crazy: his full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispín Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso... I'm thinking kindergarden must have been a nightmare for him while he tried to learn how to spell his name.. can you imagine the teasing he got? From now on Pablo Picasso should be known as 'Bob'" - the_difference

Correct Answer: The Blue Period



6. If you were going to sing the blues, what would be your lyrics?

"I haven't suffered enough to sing the blues." - utforsker

(Here, have a -100. NOW SING. -LL&CV&AL)

"Anything that wasn't written by Eiffel 65. Although it probably will be because that song gets stuck in my head whenever the word "blue" comes up. Thanks so much, LJDQ! It will require lots of gin to drown this ear worm..." - banshea

(Dozens of you mentioned Eiffel 65. -AL&CV&LL)

"One thing for certain, it would not start with 'I woke up this mornin''. That would be a total lie. In fact it probably is when most blues singers sing it too. You didn't wake up in the morning. You 'woke up 'round noonish' (ba DA na NA nah.)" - peaseblossom03

"I don't sing. S'really best for us all that way." - fmh

"More recently I've been singing the greens as I was poisoned by food." - jrho

"It’s not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played." - cmseward

(And now, a whole mess of lyrics. -CV)

"We are gonna play Blue's Clues!
We are gonna play Blue's Clues!
We are gonna play Blue's Clues!
'Cause it's really fun!
(I have a 3-year-old. Ack.)" - adalger

"I got a bellyful of whiskey and a head full of gin / The doctors say it'll kill me but they don't say when." - the_misha

"...from a friend of a friend back in college:
The first line of a blues song
Is always sung a second time.
I say the first line of a blue song, is always sung a second time.
So by the time you get to the third line
You have time to come up with a rhyme

The second line of a blues song
is always the same as the first
oh, the second line of a blues song
is always the same as the first
So by the time you get to the third line
you have a chance to come up with a verse

The Third line of a blues song
is always very short
Yes the third line of a blues song
is always very short
YEAH the third line is short." - lbmango

"Get up in the morning/And I see just one inch of snow/
Get up in the morning/And I see just one inch of snow/
But I see the people panic/
Like they've never seen the stuff before..." - thecuckoo

"I have sung the blues. Our high school had a janitor named Bob Knober. We sang the Bob Knober blues. It went something like this:
'My name is Bob Knober
I clean toilets every day.
My hair is dyed blond
but brown my mustache stayed
My name's on my shirt
but I don't let that get me down.
My business is dirt
but I can't let them see me frown...
oh I got the Bob Knober blues'" - paradoxotaur

"0000CC/You broke the/Heart inside of me/Oh, can't you see
006699/Devour me like/Grapes from a vine/Bruise this soul of mine
0066FF/You took the/very little I had left/my lungs and breath
I got me those...blue shade Blues" - shadowed_guise

(And these lyrics win our Geek of the Week Award. -AL)

(Congratulations, here's your -1. -CV)

"Dun da da da dun. Go to school all day.
Dun da da da dun. Work my brain to the bone.
Dun da da da dun. (Or at least squishy stuff.
Dun da da da dun. 'Cause brains don't have bones.)
Dun da da da dun. Do advisor's work for 'er.
Dun da da da dun. Or I don't get paid.
Dun da da da dun. Study so hard.
Dun da da da dun. Don't have time to get laid.
Dun da da da dun. And it's the graaaad studennnnnnt bluuuuueeeees." - baseballchica03

"Those third-grade kiddies, they nothin' but hyper.
Those third-grade kiddies, they nothin' but hyper.
And my first-graders, they're barely out of diapers.

And my second-graders, they're so inattentive.
Yeah, my second-graders, they're so inattentive.
And them child abuse laws prevent the proper incentive.

I got the elementary blues, yeah, stand up and shout it.
I got the elementary blues, yeah, stand up and shout it.
Yeah these ain't no baby blues, ain't no doubt about it." - astridsdream

"Working for a non-profit, helping out the needy
Extra-strength Lysol got me feeling high and greedy
Watching out for pee, wiping off the drools
No, I'm sorry lady, I didn't steal your jewels
Damn these Medicaid Nursing Home Blues." - niki4jm

"Woke up this morning (ba da ba da)
And you were gone (ba da ba da)
Last night was kinda freaky (ba da ba da)
When I tried on your thong (ba da ba da)
I didn't think you'd leave me (ba da ba da)
You said nothing's wrong (ba da ba da)
What am I supposed to do (ba da ba da)
With this ache in my dong?" - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"I'm stuck in Las Vegas, seeing the Blue Man Group...
They're butchering Rhapsody in Blue, oh poop!...
But things could be worse, I could be watchin' the 'Jays...
And eatin' whale meat from trays...
God Damn!... I am Blue... Period!" - blindgeoff

(Nice recap. -CV)

Correct Answer: "I do not sing the blues. I cause them." - chaobell


And them's the quiz-playin' blues. Hopefully this theme didn't have too many of you feeling blue. If you gots too much o' dem blues, go here and warm back up again.

Thanks to all for playing, especially those who are new here. Hope you enjoyed your visit, and of course come back again sometime soon... like tomorrow, when we have another quiz up.

Thanks also to lovellama, who's been a great guest mod while we've been having a bit of a busy time at work and stuff. Most appreciated!

Tune in tomorrow for more quiz, when the theme might be "Colors That Rhyme With Urple", or something.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL