ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 20 August 2007

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A winter-themed quiz is the logical choice to follow a summer-themed quiz. If you're expecting spring and fall next, guess again! Our hearts are icy chunks of rock that will show no pity or mercy or-

oooo, chocolates!

1. Colonel Willis Corto was reconstructed as a character named Armitage by which non-human entity?

"What 'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" - seven of you
"I DEFY YOU! I REFUSE TO SAY "whatchoo talkin about, Willis?"! TAKE THAT, LJDQ!" -

skfromstamford

"Kaaaaaahn?" -

kokopellinelli

"Unicron" -

gojirasaurus

"Snow Miser" -

oboe_dude

"by the Borg. That's right, I'm showing my geekness." -

killabee886,

elf_of_doriath

(Rock on. \V/ - LL)

"It was a cut scene from the episode where Q turned the Enterprise crew into Robin Hood characters." -

illogicalvulcan

"Doctor Doom. 'Behold, Reed! Fear the power of Armitage!' 'Hey, Strecho, was that one of the guys from Three Musketeers?' 'Thing, you ignorant fool!'" -

lots42

"Cthulu." -

mistressjennfer
"H.P. Lovecraft is... PEOPLE!" -

faeriedragon

"Shelley Winters" -

wowthatisminty

"Every time I see 'Armitage' I see 'Mortimer', which just reminds me of a crow." -

puredeadthingy

(Someone needs to up the prescription on their glasses. -CV)

"Wintermute, although it was really his sister Summertalk who did all the hard work. See: sexism is still embedded in our conciousnesses even when we become AIs." -

etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: Wintermute

2. What play tells the tale of King Leontes's lost daughter, Perdita?

"I don't know about all that, but isn't Trans-Siberian Orchestra the shit?" -

therealchon

(Fair enough. Half-credit. -CV)

"Perdita! The answer has to be 101 Dalmations!" -

raepixy3 and many others

(Looks like Pongo has some splainin' to do! – LL)

"Where on earth is Perdita?" -

b_hulsmans

"'Road to Perdita', starring Tom Hanks as her dad- and sadly he dies at the end." -

katiebgood

(It's never sad when Tom Hanks dies at the end. -CV)

"I think I saw this on Unsolved Mysteries." -

elbiesee

"'Lost daughter Perdita'? Seeing as 'perdita' means 'lost', isn't that like naming the hero 'Hiro' or the villain 'Dr Evil'? Let us pause and mourn the death of creativity." -

woap

(Dear William Shakespeare:

woap thinks you're an uncreative hack. So there. -CV)

"In the history of names, has there ever been a better one for a lost daughter? But how did they know she was going to be lost when they named her? Or is it a self-fulfilling prophecy?" -

watergal
"It's like naming your child Debauchita and expecting her to stay chaste." -

marasca

"the first time I read this play, I thought, 'Wow, Shakespeare's managed to out-springer even The Jerry Springer Show!'" -

iamza

"The Shakespeare play in which that guy totally got eaten by a bear. Best stage direction ever." -

3jane and

miladygrey and

roscrea and aw, hell, a ton of you theater geeks.

Correct Answer: The Winter's Tale

"This is one of those obscure Shakespeare plays that only English majors know about, isn't it?" -

jrho

(Yes. Yes it is. -CV)

3. More fun with lyrics! Name that tune:
We'll have lots of fun with mister snowman
until the alligators knock him down

" True, they make no sense, but you'll be singing it this way now forevermore.

True, they make no sense, but you'll be singing it this way now forevermore.

" -

gorjirasaurus

"'In the store -- there's a teddy,
Little straps -- like spaghetti,
It holds me so tight,
Like handcuffs at night,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear...'" -

scifantasy

(A perennial favorite – LL)

"Dammit, now I have a Christmas Carol montage stuck in my head. Thanks a lot, LJDQ." -

raepixy3

"Knowing this week's theme is doing no good, because I can't ingest enough drugs to make any goddamned sense out of those lyrics. Pass the gin and whatever the winter-equivalent olive surrogate might be." -

etcet

"I have no idea, but I'm envisioning it to be something from 'Free to be you and me'" -

lbmango

"Don't Eat the Yellow Snow by Frank Zappa" -

utforsker

"e.e. cummings tries
his hand at
songwriting

(some may say he shouldn't have given up
his day job)" -

puredeadthingy

"Is this some messed-up Cajun bayou version of a Christmas song? Like 'Bourbon the Gunkman' or 'Grandma got ron over by a trailer, again'?" -

littlelion2k

"This is the rare punk version of Frosty the Snowman, written by Elvis Costello and Johnny Rotten." -

etumukutenyak

"Mr. Snowman, bring me a dream... Don't want a Gator, because he is green" -

infintysquared

"I don't know what the hell part of the world you're living in that you can have alligators and snow. I'm pretty sure it's an either-or situation." -

jrho

"The alligators only knocked him down because they wanted his top hat. Alligators in top hats are sexy." -

marasca

"I swear this song is set in Florida, because the alligators don't fuck around - they know there ain't no snowmen 'round these parts, so fuck you Winter Wonderland, I like it hot." -

girl_who_is1337

"Snowman? Alligators? WTF? Apparently this is the Love Theme from 'An Inconvenient Truth'." -

i_calql8

"Frosty Does Miami. Which could also be a CSI:Miami episode. I mean think of it, someone murdered using liquid nitrogen, and they have to get the bits and pieces of him from the 'gators. Epic win. (ter)." -

ntlespino

"Watch Dean Martin, Andy Williams et al. rotate merrily in their graves because of "alligators". Or commit seppuku with icicles." -

germankitty

"Srsly? That's the second line? I thought other kiddies were the culprits." -

copperpixie

(They are, they are… - LL)

Correct Answer: Walking in a Winter Wonderland

(Ok, I'll fess up, those aren't the real lyrics. It's a myth based on misheard lyrics. But honestly, it's better with alligators. You know I'm right. -CV)

4. In the satirical comedy "The Loved One", the roles of the Glenworthy brothers were played by which actor?

"I don't know, but the roles of Glenfiddich and Glenlivet were consumed by my liver." -

infintysquared

(You and

angledge might fight over those "roles"... -CV)

"Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins" -

jrho

"Alexei Sayle, although I may be confusing the Loved One with the Young Ones." -

therealchon

"I'm guessing that they are identical twins. Therefore: Nicolas Cage" -

lbmango

"Eddie Murphy" -

72degrees,

marasca,

pirho_maniac

"Walken. He's in everything. You know, it still fits the theme. Walken in a winter wonderland." -

wowthatisminty

(There's an icon out there of that. Makes my eyes bleed.

ramblinsuze should be along with it soon. Wench that she is… – LL)

(Three hours later...)

"Glenworthy sounds Irish and Colin Farrell is an Irish actor, so I'm going to say... it's Sting, right?" -

ramblinsuze, using this icon:

"Acting + Winter makes me think of Tilda Swinton because she played the White Witch. Actually, as many things as possible make me think of Tilda Swinton, she's hot." -

copperpixie

"Wasn't the guy who played 'Bill' in 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure' named Winter? I'm guessing it's him." -

rikchik

(Yes, his name was Alex Winter. No, he's not the guy we're looking for. Nice try, though. -CV)

"Jonathan Winters can out-crazy Robin Williams" -

etumukutenyak
"he was also Mork's (Robin Williams) child who hatched from a giant egg." -

ginalin

(Like father, like hatchling. -CV)

Correct Answer: Jonathan Winters

5. Chamonix, France was the first site of which sporting event?

"I'm betting any comers a gin and pudding that at least 7 LJDQers will refuse to answer this question because it relates to sports." -

skfromstamford

(Amazingly enough, this was probably the first

ljdq sports-based question ever asked in which a great outcry was NOT raised. Not a single one. I think French mockery overcame sports loathing. -CV)

"Competitive Surrendering! " -

72degrees,

reliantfc3,

elf_of_doriath,

ginalin,

jade_sage
"The home team wins every year." -

gojirasaurus

"Losing a war? Eating/making cheese? Kissing? Being pansies? ...I don't like the French. But then, who does? Do the French even like themselves? " -

allie_the_neko

"Mass ennui. This is the French, after all. " -

coolteamblt

"The Squeezeing of the Charmineaux" -

etcet

"Chamonix? Cham on you!" -

wowthatisminty

"Tour de Doping Scandals" -

jrho

"I'll have to go with the Winter Tour De France. They had to cycle uphill, in the snow, both ways!" -

judith_s

"the snubbing of the Americans, which they are good at." -

killabee886

(Yeah, but nowadays, who isn't? -CV)

"Dogsledding. Clearly the French poodles took the victory." -

palapaloozaa

"Me, I'm still waiting for winter Grand Prixs to catch on, where the drivers have to drive down a ski slope in a turbo-boosted Formula 1 Grand Prix car with skis instead of wheels, and no brakes. Just for kicks, and to get the audience at home involved, I think the drivers should get bonus points if they collect spectators on the way down." -

iamza

"1924. Good times, when athletes still used rum (and probably pudding) to enhance their performance." -

germankitty

"must be the winter olympics. oh! but the winter olympics weren't called the winter olympics were they? they were part of the summer olympics til... er... some point. is this a trick question? er, i'm going to go with "the world winter games" or something like that. (it'll be the bloody winter olympics now, won't it?)" -

roscrea

(Almost. They were first called the International Winter Sports Week, but then retroactively titled the First Olympic Winter Games. You can have 1/3 credit. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Winter Olympic Games

"somehow I have the idea in my head that the only women's event was golf." -

bluetourmaline

6. What's your favorite aspect of winter?

"It ends." - Quite a number of you

"My discontent." -

mistressjennfer

(Ooooh, how literary of you. -CV)

"ALL OF THE BUGS DIE." -

elf_of_doriath,

akiyasan

"Previous winters, my favorite bit was emphatically never my siblings hitting me with snowballs. This coming winter, I has Plans. My boyfriend's from Arizona. He's coming to visit me in Snowyville for Christmas. He's not going back till I've hit him with a few snowballs. " -

mercuryblue144

"Watching the fire on TV. I get a little excited when the hand comes out and puts another log on the fire. It's an amazing tradition I have with my brother. " -

palapalooza

(...I have nothing to say. -CV)

"Gosh, what shall I choose? The shoveling of 30 feet of snow off my roof? The ice that glazes my front steps? The fact that it lasts almost 8 months? IT'S ALL SO EXCITING." -

kokopellinelli

(Alaska has not been kind to you, has it? -CV)

"Doing stuff with my kids I guess. I'll make snowmen or take them to a decent hill with the sleds or something. I can appreciate some good snow and their mum doesn't really do 'cold' so usually it's just us." -

fmh

(That's nice. Just watch out for those alligators. -CV)

"Christmas is good. I like Christmas. No work, presents, large haunches of roast meat, free-flowing alcohol, small children in a sugar-induced stupor roasting on an open fire..." -

miladygrey

"I like it when there's frost and each blade of grass and clover is delicately traced in ice, but now I'm in SoCal where seasons are nonexistent. It's a cold day in OC when it dips down to 60." - [Unknown site tag]

"My land's native seasons are Drought, Fire, Flood, and Earthquake. Care to explain this whole 'winter' thing?" -

reticent_lass

(Sounds like another Californian. -CV)

"Pulling down your pants and sliding on the ice." -

ginalin

"Watching the snow falling softly, silently covering my tracks as I escape." -

jade_sage

"The joy of watching my Buffalo Bills win yet another Super Bowl. Wait, that's not right. How about, the lovely drunken stupor I fall into after the Bills find yet another creative way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." -

illogicalvulcan

(

angledge is a Philadelphia Eagles fan. I do believe she will drink with you. -CV)

"winter clothes. I know that sounds a little vain. But because I have such pale skin it is nice to not burn two seconds after I step outside in summer...plus I look cute in boots and scarves." -

killabee886

"The effect of cold on the female nipple. There are some women who could be coatracks. I don't mention male nipples 'cause that would be just eww. " -

therealchon

"Kicking the Winter Lord's giant frosty ass." -

gojirasaurus

(+1, CoH. -CV)

"Watching the snow falling softly, silently covering my tracks as I escape. " -

jade_sage

"OH, that's SO easy... it isn't a hundred and fuck outside in the winter! " -

blindgeoff

"I live in a place where it gets to be 40 below without windchill. I'm just happy when I can go outside without worrying about my eyeballs freezing. " -

oboe_dude

"Standing at midnight during a gentle snowfall under a full moon, seeing the flakes swirl blue under the silver glow of the moonlight, and the world is silent but for the wind and my heartbeat and my breath." -

infintysquared

(-1, being all poetic and shit. -CV)

And that's that. Winter is no doubt smiting our antipodean colleagues as we speak, bringing forth lethal blustery winds and blinding snowfalls to drive them to the utmost despair. Then again, maybe not. They might all just be inside eating pudding and drinking cocoa. Mmmm, cocoa.

And in other news, summer's pretty nice up here. Oh yeah.

Thanks for playing, everyone, especially new players trying it out for the first time. Enjoy! Share! Spread the word!

Also, welcome (back) to school for those of you heading to college this month. Study hard, so that you might learn. But leave room for quizzing, because all work and no quiz makes you dull students.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

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Can't help it. Vincent is just such a cool name. It makes dorky people cooler. Just look at Jan-Michael Vincent. Thanks to that last name, he is ten times cooler than he really should be. And someone here should be old enough to remember Disney's "The Black Hole" starring wee robot V.I.N.C.E.N.T. And no one can deny the awesomeness of Vincent Price. So, Carole's in good company.

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

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