LJ Daily Answers: 6 August 2007

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmm... smooth.



1. What is the common name of Bombyx mori?

"YOU da bombyx mori, duh." - captainsblog

"Boxymoron!" - ANONYMOUS

"Bambi's Mom" - akiyasan
"Bambi's mom? I don't think Disney gave her a name." - jrho
"don't you hate how Disney movies always kill off the mothers? What did we do to deserve that, really?" - anonymisty

"One of the funniest bits on Animaniacs ever. BUMBIE'S MOM IS DEAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA." - drbear

"it sounds rather... explosive? Most likely something I wouldn't want to be around when it has to take a poo." - leaper182

(A Silkworm Missile might be what you're thinking of... -CV)

"THE MAD MIDNIGHT BOMBER WHAT BOMBS AT MIDNIGHT! BOOM BABY BOOM!" - cearalaith

(+1, The Tick. -CV&LL)

"Isn't that the name of one of those Bollywood actors...wasn't she in 'Delhi Nights'?" - ghostrider65
"Bombyx Mori sounds like it would be an awesome porn star name." - nakedblueninja

"Boba Fett; Bornbyx Mori being his given name and Boba Fett his better-known stage name." - mistressjennfer

"Now I'm going to have "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush" stuck in my head all frikking day. Thanks, LJDQ." - deza

"My crazy vegetarian roommate won't wear silk because the worms have to die to get the casing. She also won't let me kill spiders in the kitchen. I'm going to have a steak tonight. Bloody. Revenge is a dish best served rare with a side of potatoes." - silensy

"It was a very bad day for me when I first found out that the glamorous, sensuous fabric I adore comes out of an insect's ass." - zellieh

Correct Answer: Domesticated Silkmoth

"I wonder if some crazy geneticist is trying to engineer a polyesterworm." - spotts1701



2. What 1983 film featured Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and an unsafe nuclear facility?

"Did it involve Kurt Russell in silk boxers? Then I don't care." - marasca
"I think I saw a porno like that once... " - elfie_samurai

"it's the picture where Bombyx Mori got his start, playing 'Man #3'." - billfl

"Are you calling Cher an 'unsafe nuclear facility'?" - fragbert and many others

"Sonny and Chernobyl, the Motion Picture" - faeriedragon

"Did the unsafe nuclear facility get top billing, or was this still during the era where unsafe nuclear facilities had to fight to even be mentioned in the opening credits?" - kenshardik

"damn if the idea of a radioactive Meryl Streep doesn't excite me. I mean, I can't stand her normally, but make her bright glowing green and 50 feet tall, and now you're talking more my style." - lyme

(... -CV&AL&LL)

"I would like to tack on the phrase 'in a non-sexual way'." - lyme

(Oooooohhhh. -CV&AL&LL)

"So I married a Radioactive Nymphomaniac" - writersblock_va
"Snow White and the Seven Uranium Rods" - woap
"Big Trouble In Little Chernobyl" - cearalaith
"The Big Trouble in Little China Syndrome" - i_calql8

"Big Trouble in Terra Volta" - cmzero

(+1, CoH. -CV)

"Report on the Efficacy of the Nuclear Safety Commission: The Movie." - bluetourmaline

"go watch Cher be a lesbian without the kinky underrooos. Bonus points - she was doing a morticians assistant. How twisted was that?" - sestree

Correct Answer: Silkwood



3. Prince Kheldar of Drasnia usually travels under which simple name?

"Bob, because it's clearly the fake name of choice. Nobody questions Bob! " - timydamonkey, who did not realize that 19 other people did, in fact, question Bob

"The Artist Formerly Known as Prince?" - no, but nice try everyone

"Simple Simon of Silklandia." - sestree

"Ferdinand von Richthofen" - jrho

"K-Dras" - cearalaith

"Rumple-silkskin!" - captainsblog

"Funny, he doesn't look Drasnish." - kenshardik

(+1, Spaceballs. -CV)

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" - stagemanager

(Never an inappropriate time to use that. -CV)

"The Prince of Persia offof that computer game for old PCs?" - grapefruitzzz

(+1 because I loved that game. -CV)

"There are some who call him... Tim." - knight_errant

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)

"I've never heard of him, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he's a fictional character. 'Prince Kheldar of Drasnia' is about as cliche a fantasy name as you can have without hitting the keyboard blindly and sprinkling in some random apostrophes." - caffeinod

(Snicker – LL)

"I think his name should be 'Slick'. You know, like, slick like any author who can trundle out the same rubbish time and time again and still have the rubes buy it." - sagaciouslu

(Despite the fact that I enjoyed the books, I cannot deny the accuracy of your statement. -CV)

"If Silk and Velvet had a baby, would they name it Polyester?" - leaper182
"Cotton, Lycra, Corduroy and Rayon." - silensy
"Chiffon, Cashmere and the family black sheep, Burlap." - germankitty

Correct Answer: Silk



4. What did Ferdinand von Richthofen call the ancient network of trade routes that connected Asia with the Mediterranean?

"Marco....Polo....MARCO....POLO" - jrho, ginalin

"Der tradeRoutzen (or is it die? or dem? AUUGHHH!) " - faeriedragon

"The Sopwith Trail, which was patrolled by a strange breed of big-nosed dogs wearing pilot's helmets. " - anonymisty

(For the record, that was his nephew. -CV)

"I bet it's called Sony Highway now." - woap

"Das Camelbahn" - ANONYMOUS

"The Kessel Run" - mistressjennfer

"A series of tubes." - lots42, infinitysquared, cmzero, silensy

"Do they measure earthquakes on the road with the Richthofen scale?" - nirejseki

"I think I take 'Richtofen' in my daily dose of vitamins." - tweeti

"He originally called it the Yellow Brick Road, but the name was owned by the Disney Corporation and they threatened to sue his Prussian arse. He wasn't as scary as his nephew, you see, who was something of a brawler and trademark robber-baron." - angrysunbird

"he probably called it something like "Die Wuermflossenstrandbahn der Oest" (Sorry, my keyboard doesn't support umlauts and ess-tsets) He loved those long German compound nouns!" - blindgeoff

"Recently, Dreyers bought the rights to the name and is now making a vanilla-with-a-swirl-of-chocolate under the same name. It also contains Mongolian raiders, marshmallows, and candied silkworms. I don't expect it to last." - fax_celestis

"How many teensy worms does it take to pave a road from Asia to the Mediterranean?" - themommage

Correct Answer: The Silk Road



5. Which variety of chicken is especially notable for its puffy plumage and its black bones and skin?

(Amazingly, only therealchon took us into "choke your chicken" jokes. -CV)

"Plumage? What? My chicken always comes in a red and white bucket with an old dude on the front. I don't wanna know what you all are eating." - cearalaith

"Col. Sanders Silky Hot Fudge recipe. Finger lickin' ... ugh, I can't finish that sentence." - drmutant

"The Norwegian Blue Silky. Well noted for its physical strength, beautiful plumage, and love of sleeping on its back." - blindgeoff, kenshardik, mistressjennfer, dracothelizard, i_calql8, captainsblog

"The Mutant ones, raised downstream and downwind from the Unstable Nuclear Facilty noted in #2. Ze Shute LAZERS From dere Eyze!" - writersblock_va

"I never notice a chicken's plumage; I'm always more concerned with their evil little eyes and their sharp beaks. " - zellieh

"I live in California; we don't have chickens. We have happy cows. " - katiemariie

"My aunt had a chicken she called Silly Chicken. She followed everyone around and talked all the time, even in her sleep. And she slept ON the dog. I don't know how that dog didn't bite her head off." - whiski_sour

(Wait, so your aunt talked all the time and slept on the dog? – LL)

"Black bones?? This is why I'm a vegetarian. " - chaal

"Black bones and skin? Something tells me chaosvizier overcooked his dinner..." - serenebean

(You have no idea. -AL)

"Gallus ninjicus" - faeriedragon

"omg it's a lynching" - palapaloozaa

(+1, completely tasteless. -CV)

"See, it's all about the BLACK chicken, isn't it? Why don't you ask me a question about how the WHITE rooster always be enslavin' the BLACK chicken?" - infinitysquared

"Shaft! It's a bad motherclucker." - marasca

"The Pimpin' variety!" - fragbert

"Foghorn Leghorn's evil twin, Lighthouse Leghorn" - jrho

"Baba Yaga's" - puredeadthingy

(Ooooh, very nice. -CV)

"Silkchicken. I have no clue. I'm just winging it." - meggieks

"Call them what you will -- Bantam, Rhode Island Red, Black Silk, Peacock -- they're all the same tasty chickeny goodness." - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: Silkie



6. Make up an acronym that goes with this week's theme. If you didn't get the theme, make one up.

(First, the folks who made stuff up:)

"STING -- Some Theme I Never Got" - i_calql8

"Lovely Jiggly Delightful Quarks!" - woap

(huh huh, jiggly. -CV)

"The Quiz From U.N.C.L.E. -- Universally Nonsensical Cerebral Livejournal Exercise. " - stagemanager

"Q.U.I.T : Quiz Unintelligible, Indicate Theme." - nakedblueninja

"G.R.O.S.S. : Get Rid Of hard-to-guesS themeS" - oboe_dude

(+1, Calvin and Hobbes. -CV)

"BOMB. Boredom while Overnighting in Minnesotan Buildings." - serenebean

(At least you weren't a Bystander On Minneapolitan Bridges. -CV)

"IDIOKS (I Dunno, I Only Knew Silkwood!)" - cearalaith

"P.A.A. - People Against Acronyms." - kenshardik

"P.E.T.A.I.S. People Ejecting Tasty Animals Into Space." - lots42

(-1 for flagrant waste of tasty animals – CV&LL)

"I'm going to use this question to declare my support for the Committee for the Liberation & Integration of Terrifying Organisms & their Rehabilitation Into Society." - crystalcazzie

(+1, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. -CV)
(Our knowledge of Red Dwarf is limited to about... zero, so we don't actually know this. Tune in next week when our ignorance continues! -CV&AL&LL)

"Please Recognize One Can Really Avoid Some Tasks Inventing New Acronyms Thanks Everyone" - killabee886

"DILLIGAF. Does It Look Like I Give A Fuck?" - whiski_sour

"Oh Man Go Walk Through Freaking Bushes & Brambles Quietly." - palapaloozaa

"PANTS. People Advocating Ninja Teachers in Schools." - lyme

"So... it's like that?" - grapefruitzzz

(And now, the in-theme answers:)

"Suck Is Life, Kiddo." - mistressjennfer

"Selma Illcitly Loves Krusty" - alliesutherland

(Eeeewwww. -CV)

"Silk Is Lovable and Kin-- Okay, no." - leaper182

(Pansy. – LL)

"Secret Interwebz Love Knockers." - b_hulsmans

"Slides Into Lost Kilts." - meggieks

"Sheep Innocent of Lawyer Killing" - iamza

"Stupid Is, Like... Kute!" - marasca

"Silly IngLish Knnnnnniggits!" - screaming_death

"Silly Ideas Linked Kromulently. 'Embiggen Your Mind, Support LJDQ's S.I.L.K. Program!'" - blindgeoff

"SpiceGirls-IceT-Limouzeen-Kanye. The Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young of Generation Z. BY the way, how come CSN&Y didn't go by S.Y.N.C.?" - drmutant

"Stockings Itching Lumpy Knees Start Ideas Like Keeping Self In Lengthy Knits." - themommage

"Seriously, Is this the Last Kwestion?" - illogicalvulcan

(Yes. Yes it is. -AL&CV&LL)



Hopefully this week's answers feel silky-smooth to you on this fine Monday morning (or whatever time of day it is for you). Remember: just because it comes out of a worm's butt doesn't mean it's automatically bad.

Thanks all for playing; we know it's summertime and you could be out there doing better things like enjoying nature and watching movies and abusing the intartubes. But resist their siren call and stay the course. The quiz soldiers on, like Britain in most recent postapocalyptic movies. Be British. Be a good quizling.

See you all tomorrow!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, quizlings - this quiz may have set a record for most strings of capital A's ever!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (I had a few left over from the Bumbie's Mom answer.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's a shame Bumbie II wasn't captioned "The Wrath of Khan." That would have been the perfect screamshot.

[jrho.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Four in one week. This ties my personal best LJDQ results.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, impressive! Indeed you are powerful, as the Emperor has foreseen.

Statistics are FUN!

[germankitty]

Whoa.

Today's quotage marks the day where -- statistically speaking -- I've managed to get an answer quoted each time for exactly half a year. (Okay, so I missed out on 11 quizes. But I was on vacation without internet access once and have 5 double quotes to my name. We are now in week 32 of 2007. The math goes as follows:

11 misses minus 1 absence = 10
10 misses made up for by 5 doubles = 5
32 minus 5 = 27

27 quotes equal EXACTLY half a year.)

Go me!

Yes, I have too much time on my hands today. I probably also am guilty of slightly fudging my statistics -- but who doesn't, to make themselves look good?!?

Re: Statistics are FUN!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Fudging statistics is a time-honored tradition. Even in ancient Rome, the caesars were known to have murdered statisticians for presenting less-than-savory numbers. It is only just that you continue in this grand path.

[buzz.livejournal.com]

While I didn't get to play this week due to moving, I have to give serious props to whoever came up with question 3, since I am an Eddings fan myself.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

That was a combined effort by me & CV. We're geeks, you know.

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

w00t!

Me foist triple!

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Your average has been on the rise. We've got our eye on you.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

SRSLY!

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

I should have put "aunt" instead of "grandmother" on the sleeping on dogs comment... :P

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And thanks to strange and terrible magics, it's like you did! ;-)

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

Wootsauce. You quoted the one I wanted you to! (The rest of my answers were sort of crap, weren't they?)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Happens. They can't all be winners, after all.

[skfromstamford.livejournal.com]

Worm excrement: fertilizer, fabric
Mammal excrement: fertilizer
ergo:
worm>mammal
worms are high in protein, too!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I think mammals are also high in protein, as well as other naturally delicious flavors. I think Mammal > Worm in terms of food source.

[crystalcazzie.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to use this question to declare my support for the Committee for the Liberation & Integration of Terrifying Organisms & their Rehabilitation Into Society." - crystalcazzie

(+1, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. -CV)

Red Dwarf, man! Rimmer!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen enough Red Dwarf yet. But I do recognize a C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S. when I see one.

[miss-tress.livejournal.com]

This will teach me to not participate every week. A perfect oppurtunity to make a Slurm reference and I missed it.*sigh*

[sestree.livejournal.com]

oooo two quotes. This just goes to show that either y'all were desperate or I excel when it comes to my rather rednecked roots.

On a non funny note - I heard the coverage on WBBZ in Ponca City Oklahoma when the story about Karen broke. Talk about a trip down memory lane - whooooaaaa flashbacks.

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

w00t! Double quotage!!

Thank you, kind mods!

[whiski_sour]

Wait, so your aunt talked all the time and slept on the dog? – LL

Yes. And so did the chicken. But my aunt takes pills for that now. And the chicken died. We didn't eat though. At least I don't think we did.

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Glad your aunt is doing better. Bummer on the chicken though.

[silensy]

Whoo, three quotes and a tasty steak. How could it be better?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Steak does make some things better, true.

HUH? QUOTED?

[themommage.livejournal.com]

::Struggles out of well-deserved slumber to check quotes status:: HMMMMMMMMMM!! ::Smugs oneself back to sleep::

[mistressjennfer.livejournal.com]

wow. and i thought my acronym sucked.
3 quotes and a group mention. woo hoo! i so totally rock. either that, or you're so totally desperate for entrants. :P yes, i know the truth; when everyone's back from their summer vacations, i shall go slinking off into the quiet darkness where all the non-funny folk lurk...

[katiemariie.livejournal.com]

First time I play in a year and I get billed as katie. If you're trying to break my spirit, you're too late.

(And, by the way, Katie from New York, if I find out this is some mass conspiracy to steal my identity, I will find you and I will kill you.)

[katiemariie.livejournal.com]

And then I forget how to use lj-tags. OMG WORST DAY EVAH!!!!111

[sullen-hearts.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to use this question to declare my support for the Committee for the Liberation & Integration of Terrifying Organisms & their Rehabilitation Into Society." - crystalcazzie

(+1, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. -CV)

Red Dwarf, dude. Really.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, so I hear. I haven't had a chance to view and absorb the entirety of Red Dwarf. It's on the list.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

A triumphant return from my brief self-imposed hiatus produces flopping trip quotes. Score one for the old guy. So, 'dja miss me?

Never hurts to suck up to the hosts with a Sting, Monty Python, or Big Trouble in Little China reference either. I'm not proud.

This brings my total number of quotes to 99. Next week, the century mark! Perfect way to offset the start of yet another depressing teaching year ahead.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

See, now you're just daring me not to quote you ever again. Leaving you hanging at 99 would be the most excruciating torture.

What's that, magic gin bottle? He'll be ok? No more quotes for him?

Well, that's that. The Magic Gin Bottle has spoken, and I heed its awesome 80 proof wisdom. ;-)

[serenebean.livejournal.com]

TWO quotes? Apparently, all I have to do to get quoted is stay up until all hours with nothing to do! Rock on. Also:

(At least you weren't a Bystander On Minneapolitan Bridges. -CV)
lol. I thought about saying something tactless about that, but decided it was too soon. XD

[germankitty]

Don't worry about being tactless -- somebody already beat you to it the next day!

metaquotes [LiveJournal] strikes again!

[baader-meinhof.livejournal.com]

YES! I knew Calvin and Hobbes would get me somewhere someday!

[deza.livejournal.com]

Damn, my funneh deserted me. I can't imagine why--my roommate and I both brought our kids home this week, so we've gone from two hot chicks living alone to two hot chicks and four kids. o.0

Hopefully I can redeem myself next quiz.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even two hot chicks cannot withstand the awesome brain-sucking soul-draining power of four kids. I weep for your loss. Get better soon!

[arib.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to use this question to declare my support for the Committee for the Liberation & Integration of Terrifying Organisms & their Rehabilitation Into Society." - crystalcazzie

(+1, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. -CV)

Actually, C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S was from Red Dwarf. The Committee to Liberate Itinerant Treedwellers (An offshoot of Liberate Apes Before Imprisoning Apes) is from Jay and Silent Bob.

:-)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There you go. That's the quote I was looking for.

"I AM THE C.L.I.T. COMMANDER!"

[palapaloozaa.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was going to get a huge 'slap in the face' or something for my atrocious comment. I actually asked my roommate if that was too tasteless before I typed it in there....She was like "ooooooh that's baad"....

I hope I didn't offend anyone seriously.