ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 13 August 2007

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1. Who was the female counterpart to Steve Austin?

(I suppose we could have specified "not the wrestler", but hell with that; Stone Cold needs love too. -CV)

"Jane Austen" - six of our more literate quizlings

"I was always confused by this show. Turns out I was misunderstanding it as 'The Byronic Woman.'" -

theninth

"Jamie Summers (sp?), the Bionic Woman. She cost 7 million. That was either due to inflation or the fact that women parts just cost more in general to maintain." -

ginalin

"Seven of Nine. No, wait: that must be the remake." -

watergal

"Mmmm....Emma Peel." -

sskipstress

(Wrong show, but good taste nonetheless. Half-credit. -CV)

"The PMS Avenger, but she only works four days a month. Anyone got a problem with that?" -

i_calql8

(+1, Mystery Men. -CV)

"I got nothing. Except a disturbing mental image of Steve Austin in a dress. Damn you, LJDQ!" -

unleashedfreak,

kenshardik,

coolteamblt

"Kurt Angle. Come on, you know he's a woman inside." -

barbarienne

"I'm such an idiot; I kept trying to figure out how Jamie Wagner fit into the theme..." -

mistressjennfer

"if Lindsay Wagner is pushing the SleepNumber bed, then she *really* is overdue for a bionic tune-up." -

jmthane

"Jamie Sommers, The Bionic Woman. A well-liked series that NBC has decided to dig up for the express purpose of beating it repeatedly with a shovel until it is dead and unrecognizable. -

spotts1701

(True dat. – LL)

"I always thought Steve Austin's counter-parts came from NAPA...silly me." -

n5iln

"Margaret Thatcher, the stone-coldest woman alive. Although Condi Rice is trying to give her a run for her money." -

viperonaleash

"There was no 'female counterpart'. He just liked to feel pretty sometimes. " -

vmisery

Correct Answer: Jamie Summers

2. Crazy lyrics time! Name the song, the musical, and the original artist:
One of these mornings you gonna rise up singing
You gonna spread your little wings and you'll take to the sky
But 'till that morning there ain't nothing gonna harm you

"You want the name, artist, AND the musical? Would you be happy with this cookie instead?" -

woap

"Singing in the morning is likely to get you beat up by all the non-morning people. Singing is a national health hazard. Save yourself: don't sing!" -

iamza

"I rise up singing every morning. Or I would, if I lived the musical Oklahoma. But I don't so I guess I just told an untruth." -

angelchicken

"Musical? *runs screaming in terror* There's something horrifying about people breaking out into choreographed song and dance." -

lyme

"Those lyrics are so crazy, I just can't sleep. I'm so excited, I need to be. They've got me crazy, and it feels alright." -

skfromstamford

"Colonel Mustard, in the Drawing Room, with the Candlestick!" -

infintysquared

"Jesus Christ Superstar" -

reliantfc3

"Flying Monkey Lullaby, sung by the Wicked Witch of the West." -

kokopellinelli

"I started to go for a joke about 'Summer Lovin' from Grease, but that put this really interesting picture in my head of John Travolta in his drag getup from Hairspray singing this as Bess... And then I had to go find the brain bleach..." -

mistressjennfer

"I'm from the South, so the answer to this question is always: Freebird! " -

karmaschild
"Chuck Norris. He cleared the Expert level of Guitar Hero without even touching the console. Then he roundhouse-kicked that damned Free Bird all the way back to Lynyrd Skynyrd." -

i_calql8

(Ah Freebird, the bane of GH2 players everywhere. -CV)

"Isn't it in poor taste to be funny about 'Porgy and Bess?'" -

illogicalvulcan

(This is the

ljdq. Poor taste is our bread and butter. -AL&CV&LL)

Correct Answer: "Summertime", from Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin. OK, I should have said "original composer". But whatever.

3. Who is the lead guitarist for The Police?

"*trick question senses tingling*" -

thepikey

"Donna Summers." -

mistressjennfer

"Van Halen. I know that's wrong, but it'd be awesome." -

fax_celestis

"Finally! The answer really is Sting! I knew if I waited the time would roll around. So what do I do now?" -

girl_whi_is1337

(Get back in line 'cause that ain't the answer. – CV&AL&LL)

"Sting! Like a butterfly. Float like a bee. Bork bork bork! Buggerit! Millennium hand and shrimp!" -

illogicalvulcan

(And the

spiffington Award for Total Gibberish this week goes to...

illogicalvulcan! -CV)

"Sting. There are no other members in The Police, it's all just Sting in clever disguises and funny hats and moustaches. Their concerts used highly advanced puppets to make it look like there were other people there." -

lyme

"Sting! (No, he's the singer, not the guitarist. So it must be...) Sting! (Dammit, my instincts are too strong! Must not...) Sting Sting Sting! (Gah!)" -

cmzero

"You want people to say Sting because his name is Gordon Sumner, but I caught wise to your shenanigans." -

spotts1701

"I thought Sting changed his name because an English teacher named Gordon didn't exactly convey "born to rock." Really, it was to avoid the Summer/Sumner thing." -

shogunsquirrel

"The guy who isn't Sting. And the drummer is the other guy who isn't Sting." -

kenshardik,

karmaschild

"Hah hah, you can't fool me. They don't actually use lead, he's a GRAPHITE guitarist!" -

infintysquared

"Andy 'Why the hell can't I have a cool, single name, like that wanker schoolmaster playing bass?' Summers" -

blindgeoff

"I was so disappointed in myself for not knowing the names of all the members of The Police that I vowed to commit them to memory at their concert last week after Sting announced them. So... ANDY SUMMERS!!!" -

bonobomeg

Correct Answer: Andy Summers

4. Name that film!
"We should have a plan. Angela Lansbury always had a plan."

"I call that film factually incorrect. Angela Lansbury was never a member of the A-Team." -

iamza

"Angela Lansbury always had a plan because Angela Lansbury was incredibly sexy. " -

skfromstamford

"No matter how good your plan, it can always be foiled by those meddling kids and their dog. " -

kenshardik

"Angela Lansbury makes me think of Jerry Orbach, as does the episode of Law & Order I'm watching right now." -

umbralcorax

(Would that they could have hooked up and produced mystery-solving babies together. -CV)

"Any movie with the byline, 'We wish we were as smart as Murder, She Wrote' is pretty well deserving of its present obscurity, don't you think?" -

etcet

"No, Hannibal Smith always had a plan. McGyver always had a plan. Jim Phelps always had a plan. Angela Lansbury just had this irritating voice that made people confess to murder just so she'd stop TALKING." -

i_calql8

"Wait, wasn't she the creepy evil mother in the original version of Manchurian Candidate? I had to watch that in school once, and I was kinda freaked that the nice old lady from that TV show that old people liked to watch was secretly EVIL. " -

lyme,

david_deacon,

jrho

(She also played a western brothel madam opposite Judy Garland once. What range! – LL)

"I swear to all the gods, real or imagined, that if this is from the remake of the The Manchurian Candidate, someone in Hollywood will be bitch-slapped. " -

illogicalvulcan

"Murder, They Screamed" -

ntlespino

"Angela Lansbury rocks. I never knew until a couple of weeks ago that she voiced the teapot thing in Beauty and The Beast. Newsflash: The internet - not just for porn. Who knew?" -

4492

"Angela Lansbury should have stayed away from any sort of planning. If you really want a plan, stay the hell away from Angela Lansbury. Everyone she knows dies. Poor woman is all alone in the world." -

irianamistifi

"I Know What You Did Last Summer or, The Rise and Fall of Half a Dozen Acting 'Careers'" -

morganashkevron

Correct Answer: "I Know What You Did Last Summer"

5. What is the architectural term for a horizontal, supporting beam or girder set above an opening in an external wall?

"That depends, was that opening supposed to be there? if it was: it is called 'that there horizontal beam above an opening' if not it is called 'a lawsuit waiting to happen'" -

b_hulsman

"Error 756: Unable to reconcile theme 'summer' with architectural feature 'beam/girder'. Refresh or contact LJDQ's operators." -

germankitty

"Was it a piece in my Lincoln Log set? Because otherwise there is no way I know this one either." -

killabee886

"I'm going to tell you exactly what I told my 11th grade math teacher: I AM NEVER GOING TO BUILD A BRIDGE, HOUSE, or DIG A LAKE. Therefore, the hell with your cosines and algorithms!" -

saint_vincent23

"Am I alone in thinking that Christopher Titus would make an -awesome- Howard Roark if they remade The Fountainhead? And, for shits and giggles, Ben Affleck could be Peter Keating, Ian McKellen could be Ellsworth Toohey, and Rebecca Romijin could be Dominique Francon. Get me Peter Jackson on the phone, NOW!" -

etcet

(And the

ljdq Non Sequitur Award this week goes to ...

etcet! -CV&LL)

"The only architectural term I know is a load-bearing boss, where you kill the big baddie and that makes the whole complex blow in some sort of Gotdamerung-type finale." -

thepikey

"It's a lintel, which has nothing to do with the theme. There's another architecture term for a special floor joist called the Summer Beam which, while thematically consistent, makes me picture Bob Vila in a Sailor Scout uniform and...ew. Maybe it's time to cut back on my HGTV and DIY time." -

morganashkevron

"The only obscure architectural term I know is quoin, but I might have made that one up." -

jrho

(No, surprisingly enough, you did not make that up. -CV)

"Something Jack Burton can get hit on the head with if he shoots it." -

n5iln

(+1, Big Trouble in Little China. -CV)

"Buttrous Buttrous Gali" -

akiyasan

"FLYING BUTTRESS! Whether or not that's the answer, I don't care. It sounds like it should be some kind of ultra-awesome violent attack. In fact, I think I may have to make up a COV toon called 'The Flying Buttress' and have it run around just smashing into things." -

lyme

"Flying buttress. Breast summer just isn't as funny to me." -

theninth

(Number of other people who giggled at "flying buttress": 18. -CV)

"If the theme is butts, I lose." -

fax_celestis

"Breastsummer. And the only reason I know that? It was the Word of the Day from wordsmith.org TODAY! This is some marvellous reference to question #3, and that wacky synchronicity, I'm sure." -

barbarienne

(Is it web cheating if the web tells you before you read the Quiz? – LL)

(Nope; this is safe. The power of coincidence is strong indeed. -CV)

Correct Answer: Breastsummer

6. What's the most fun you've had this summer? (Southern Hemisphere dwellers can use last summer if they want)

"The Great Rubber Duck Race was a huge success this year, though all of the ducks we used are currently believed to be somewhere in the vicinity of Iceland. We decided to extend the racecourse, and will now be announcing the winning duck as the first to reach American shores. (Fortunately, none of the ducks have valid travelling papers, so we're anticipating the return of all rubber ducks on the first available flight from New York, complete with an American Rubber Duck Homeland Security escort)." -

iamza

"Beating my mom at miniature golf." -

tzeentch

(Oooo, parental smackdown! w00t! – LL)

"Well my upstairs neighbours have been having loud sex at ridiculous times of the day (oh, there they fricken go again, I cannot even make this up), so I started a friendly albeit unnoticed competition to see who could have the loudest rowdiest sex. So far it's them:2, me:0. But I have a secret weapon... " -

palapalooza

"Kissing my girlfriend. Yes, I am a big, soppy Love Goober, and I'm not afraid to admit it! " -

kenshardik

(Awwwww… :*) – CV&AL&LL)

"My exam results come on the 16th. That'll be super-fun! " -

puredeadthingy

"I had a sore throat. My doctor prescribed a weekend with lots of alcohol, sex, and hot tubbing to make it all better. I LIKE this new doctor... " -

thepikey

(Is his name Dr. Nick Riviera? – CV&AL&LL)

"Shooting an M-16 at a bachelor party. What the hell else was I going to do in Idaho?" -

kestrel127

(Drink vodka? – LL)

"i got told that i should check out the amazing concert line ups at the local festifal, and when i asked who was playing, they said 'Bruce Cockburn! You'd love him!' and then i laughed until i had to sit down." -

kira_snugz

"I'm spending the summer looking for a job. So I'll have to say, playing spider solitaire, when I'm supposed to be looking for a job." -

irianamistifi

"I got a job. Job is good. Starving bad!" -

naraht
"I got fired from my job! (But not for playing

ljdq.)" -

jmthane

"Dropping my dodgeball off the top of the parking garage at work, just to see how high it would bounce." -

utforsker

(And? Inquiring geeks want to know too. – LL)

"It's a toss up between seeing Transformers and getting laid. I'm not saying the sex was that bad; I'm saying the movie was that good." -

jrho

"Riding the Anaconda. And screaming in pleasure as it undulated." -

neblinaclara

"Well, there was band camp..." -

n5iln

"I ruled over this land. And I called it... this land." -

speckled_llama

"I went to Napa Valley and got drunk on 1 oz. of Australian Rose. God bless the Australians and their cheap and destructive wine." -

viperonaleash

"You're mocking me, aren't you. You know all I've done this summer is pack and unpack and repack, and you're mocking me." -

elf_of_doriath

"Well, I was having fun 'til my daddy took the t-bird away." -

liliana76

"Ooooo, most fun? That's hard. I mean, it could be ChewToyBoy, or the online dating guy, or hey--summer's not over yet, and I'm in a military town..." -

deza

"Well, in December I got divorced. That was fun. Apparently he was 'feeling trapped' by '*having* to look after' me. I got 'Albatross' engraved in the wedding ring he returned to me. In his presence. When he asked, as I knew he would, I took great pleasure in answering, 'Because you apparently don't want me hanging around your fucking neck.' Boo-ya." -

ghymoreid

"Doing the

ljdq!" - 11 of you beautiful but perhaps slightly fun-deprived people

And there we go. Summer (or maybe winter, depending) continues its seasonal pace, and it makes for a good theme. As good as any other word, I suppose. Hopefully everyone's enjoying their season and vacation and whatever else they might be doing. Tune in tomorrow for more fun-filled action-packed quizly goodness, and thanks for playing!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Current Music: Freebird

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From:

deza.livejournal.com

Having multiple kids in the house has once more drained my funneh, although being a bit of a tramp is apprently worth quotage.

Mental note: get rid of kids, have more sex. Do NOT have more kids, get rid of sex. Important distinction there.

From:

etcet.livejournal.com

The line forms behind me, lads.

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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