LJ Daily Answers: 3 September 2007

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"True or False: Alicia Silverstone peaked in hotness in 'Clueless'?" - etcet



1. Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, and Ms. White were among the murder suspects in which film?

"Grab a Crayon and Color Me Murdered!" - stevietee

"Red Green and white.... The Italian Job? Those Italians, so full of national pride, I bet when they're not napping, they just are painting everything green, red and white." - irianamistifi

"Fashion disaster 101" - akiyasan

"The Sesame Street Files: Case of the Kolorblind Killer" - herm42

(I'd pay good money for Law&Order: Muppet Victims Unit. -CV)

"Reservoir Dogs: The Director's Cut after Quentin Tarantino catches whatever infected Eddie Murphy around 1995." - barbarienne

"Did they really make a movie out of a bored game? Surely there is a limit to the madness, and it comes before that." - unithien_rerith

"They made a movie?! out of a freakin' BOARD GAME?! Ye Gods. That's worse than Yu-Gi-Oh!" - fictionalsolace

(I swear to you, Clue the movie is NOT worse than Yu-Gi-Oh. Don't even go there. -CV)

"How do those Parker Brothers sleep at night?" - slave_to_anime

(Probably on beds stuffed with money. Granted, it might only be Monopoly money, but still. -CV)

"Cluedo!" - the majority of our non-American contingent. Note, however, that the question asked not about the game, but about the movie. Yes, the game is named Clue or Cluedo. The movie is only named Clue. Sorry; you all lose.

"I want some Clue-doh now. That would be awesome. It would give you clues as to what you were trying to mould." - 4492

"The movie that set me on the path to murdering singing telegram delivery girls at every possible opportunity" - tarpo

(Oh please. Everybody does that. -CV)

"That'll give you bees" - 5 of you

"there are no bedrooms, because the game makers didn't want players uttering the phrase 'Miss Scarlet did it in the bedroom with the candlestick.'" - i_calql8

"Clues Gone Wild 4 : We Did It In The Library With A Candlestick" - fizrep

"'Murder by death!' is a far better movie than 'Clue' any day." - lbmango

Correct Answer: Clue



2. "Detective" Steven Burns and his azure canine companion were the original hosts of which television series?

(Speaking for tormented adults everywhere:)
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" - potassiumman

"Law & Order: Special Toddlers Unit" - stevietee

"You Can't Do That on LJDQ!" - jrho

(+1, old skool Nickelodeon – LL)

"Doesn't anyone remember Foofur?" - kokopellinelli

"They had a song for EVERYTHING. Getting the mail, finding clues, opening bags of dogfood, picking up trash - you name it, they sang it." - morganashkevron

"::sings:: 'We just got a letter, we just got a letter, we just got a letter, wonder who it's from?' It's our third clue! You know what that means! We sit in our Thinking Chair and think, think, THIIIIIINK!" - etumukutenyak

"We're all gonna play Daily Quiz/We're all gonna play Daily Quiz/We're all gonna play Daily Quiz/because it's a really fun game!" - peaseblossom03

"I'm going with Clue's Blues" - ferociousjeanne

(You did that on purpose, right? -AL)

"Thanks to the clever inclusion of the word 'azure' I'm able to deduce this to be 'Blue's Clues.' I'm too old to have seen this myself, and I forgot to raise children, so thanks for the hint LJDQ!" - blindgeoff

"Dammit, I was 15 deep into Googling 'detective shows with dog lead character' before I noticed 'azure'." - ntlespino

(Hoo boy, -50 for webcheating & as an additional punishment, you are sentenced to watch a 24-hour Blue's Clues marathon. -AL)

"CSI: Blue's Room, source of such popular children's songs as 'Follow the funny smell!' and 'Guess what the blacklight shows!'" - drmutant

"Steve left because he was a big druggie, which is pretty funny. It's also funny because the network told kids he went to college instead, but really the two are the same thing." - shannon_sue
"Rumors persist to this day that Steve died of an overdose (forcing his replacement on the show with a 'double'). Of course if this show was all I was famous for, I might consider faking my death to get away..." - spotts1701

(I'll admit I'm surprised at all the sordid gossip associated with a kids show. Maybe I'm naive. -AL)

"I thought Steve was pretty hot and was sad when they replaced him." - shinga
"I admit that guy was cute. In kind of a gay twink sort of way." - ginalin

"C'mon....are you serious? Blue's Clues is an answer for an LJDQ question. The world is going to hell in an orange, green-slime covered basket." - deadlydiva

Correct Answer: Blues Clues

"Blue's Clues, a mid-season replacement for Heliotrope's Isotopes, which for some reason didn't attract many young viewers." - mark_laura

(+1 for using the word Heliotrope. -CV&AL)





3. Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus of the French Sûreté was driven mad by which of his subordinates?

"Now that's something to put on your resume. 'Drove superior mad.'" - clare_dragonfly

"Sounds like fun doesn't it - sending your boss mad. Then he can be a mad wanker, instead of just a wanker." - sometimespez

"Inspector Javert. Oh, wait, wrong French cop story." - elbiesee

"I was so disappointed when I was a little kid and got to stay up to watch a Pink Panther movie, only to discover it had nothing at all to do with the animated pink panther. Bait and switch, I tells ya." - peaseblossom03

"Who among us hasn't watched the Pink Panther cartoons? With the jazz accompaniment? Little to no dialogue, lots of slinking pink panthering around? You can't get any better than that." - etumukutenyak

"Dammit, LJDQ! Now I have the theme from that movie stuck in my head!" - photosinensis

(Trust us, you are not alone. -CV&LL&AL)

"csflick has all of the Peter Sellers Pink Panthers on Beta in the basement." - sskipstress

(She's not taking the fall for that… - CV&AL&LL)

"My husband who has the whole series on Beta and DVD in the basement!" - csflick

"Henry Mancini, who drove him insane by earworm." - barbarienne

(Reason #45,222 to hate the French - spelling their language sucks:)

"Clueseau" - vampirespider, bunyip, girl_who_is1337
"Cluesou" - nadat
"Clouseaux" - shannon_sue
"Clauseau" - jessicamariek
"Closeau" - fax_celestis
"Clousseau" - fmh
"Clusoe" - reliantfc3
"Cluso" - bosswolf
"CLUESO, BECAUSE THE PHONETIC SPELLING IS FUNNIER." - shinga

"The cluepacabra!" - littlelion2k

"Clouseau! Which is also the name of a very famous belgian group (which sucks by the way)" - b_hulsmans

(Thank you for the warning. -AL)

Correct Answer: Inspector Jacques Clouseau

"I have trained my houseboy, Kato, to attack me whenever I play the LJD--nnghgghh *assorted crashes and fighting noises*" - i_calql8



4. The first Tango T600 electric sports car, produced by Commuter Cars in Washington, is owned by whom?

"It was purchased by the human resistance and sent back in time to protect John Connor." - slave_to_anime

(+1, Terminator series. -AL)

"Someone who got the clue that we need to be more environmentally friendly, but completely blew the 'don't buy the first edition, let them get the bugs worked out first' clue." - jmthane

"Al Gore. He plugs it into the same outlet that he himself uses to recharge his robot batteries." - csi_tokyo3

(Here we have an example of GOOD guessing...)
"Ok. The theme is clue (why? We may never know) and I can only assume that it is a famous person with 'clue' in their name. I'm going to go with it being a man too, since only a man would buy the first produced of anything... unless it was a designer shoe. I'm also going to guess actors, since I don't actually have any idea as to the answer and I can think of a couple of places to go with clue and actors. Tom Cluse? George Clue-knee? Clue-nt Eastwood? (P.S. Sorry...)" - distractogirl

(...and BAD guessing...)
"I don't know, but I'll be you the answer has the word 'clue' in it!" - girl_who_is1337

"A car question? Couldn't you give us lyrics or even a sports clue? My answer is Sting (out of spite and stubbornness)." - morganashkevron

"George Clooney, I know this because he and Cary Grant are at the top of my list of "men whose slippers I'll put under my bed"!" - csflick

(You too huh? The line starts over here. – LL)

"I'm guessing it's that rich liberal heartthrob, George Clooney. He and his pig and his smile ride around without burning gas." - rikchik

(His... pig? -AL)

"George Clooney. Smart, sexy, and eco-friendly. No funneh here, just drool." - germankitty

Correct Answer: George Clooney

"Even hippies have midlife crises" - smokedglass7429



5. When a cold front overtakes and undercuts a warm front, forcing air up from the Earth's surface, what kind of front is created?

"For some reason I am reminded of war AND of badly written porn. I think that's quite a feat for you guys." - dracothelizard

"Oo, I think I saw the result of this sort of manouver on the M25 recently." - uninvitedcat

"windy" - kerowyn47
"CLOUD FIGHT!!!" - kenshardik
"A transgender front?" - ferociousjeanne

"A Mafia Hit Front, since we don't need no cold fronts undercutting the family business, capice?" - deza

"An occluded front, which is also the word for what you see in censored R-rated movies. " - rikchik

"Eminence Front" - tarpo, sweetpea86

(+1 classic rock, -1 The Who – LL)

"I was getting all excited because I knew all the answers! Then I got to #5. Science has foiled me again." - whiskeygirl8

"I don't know, but I do know if it's bad enough FEMA will show up and screw everything up. (I work for FEMA so I can say this. XP)" - diefbaby

(Hey... I remember you. Are you still in Baton Rouge? -AL)

"The cold front was a man. The cold front was a storm. The cold front was a storm-man. *dananana* Rainin-atin' the village. Rainin-atin' the peasants. Rainin-atin' the people and the THATCHED ROOF COTTAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES *dananana* and the cold front comes in the NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!" - unithien_rerith

(*mods all stare at each other* OK, that right there is fucked up. -AL&LL&CV)

"round here, we call that a flood. Of course, all weather fronts bring flooding around here." - photosinensis

(Where is here again? -AL)

"A clusterfront! Ever farted in a hot tub? It's kinda like that." - kestrel127

(Worst. Meteorology lesson. Ever. -AL)

"An afterglow front. Sometimes the warm front will even make pancakes while the cold front showers." - jacques_louis

"A clue front? Seriously? Is there something called a clue front? 'cause...that'd be lolarious." - vampirespider

"An occluded front, which is also the word for what you see in censored R-rated movies." - rikchik

"If the answer to this is an occluded front I am going to hunt down CV and strike him down in his home."

(chaosvizier's home can be found at 1-)
(Shut up. -CV)

"Occluded, arguably the only phallic *and* yonnic meteorological symbol on the map. " - i_calql8

"Occluded. And that's about the only thing I remember from my Gen. Ed. Physical Geology course that I needed to get out of college. That and some geology professors think themselves above petty things like grammar. " - nadat

(Bastards, every dammed one of them – LL)

"I've occluded many a front in my day." - etcet

Correct Answer: An occluded front



6. Do you think your quiz mods need to get a clue? Here's your chance to tell us what you think we need to do to get with the program.

"First, to get with the program you need to buy the program. You can do that by a monthly fee of $9.95 on my account! only $9.95 people!" - b_hulsmans

"More gin and pudding for everyone!" - photosinensis, jrho, blindgeoff, utforsker, viperonaleash, rivetkitten

"It's all about the marketing! If you want to get more participation, you need something that'll bring in the customers! How about 'Free Pudding Fridays'? 'Gin & Tonic Tuesdays'? I know free pudding and booze would have me entering every week!" - jo_chan

"Also, another LJDQ meetup, since there hasn't been one in FOREVER." - rivetkitten

"more cookies would be nice. I've just discovered dark chocolate peanut brittle cookies, and let me tell you - cookie-gasm!" - sometimespez

"You need to give out cash prizes. In particular, you need to give them to me." - barbarienne

"More pics of hot brazilian volleyball chicks. Like a brazilian more pics!" - fizrep

"More quizzes! More questions! And, most importantly, more boobies!" - littlelion2k

"You need to post more big pictures of yourselves." - bluetourmaline

"I'd like a pony." - katiebgood

( -CV)

"By watching Red Dwarf. Go on, you'll love it." - rebecca_star, crystalcazzie

(Possible. There is a lot of Red Dwarf love in this group. -CV)

"More cowbell." - jacques_louis

"With as many clues they dropped in this quiz, they should have NO problem finding the Program, they just need the right Frequency. Maybe they should ask Kenneth?" - writersblock_va

"I'm drunk. Yall are fine enough now, but when I'm sober that may be adifferent story." - smokedglass7492

"When I was in grad school, the computer staff people had a "clue stick" that they would use to dispense clues and chase away bogon particles. I always wanted one of those." - lbmango

"Ask more questions about books. It's giving me an inferiority complex, because there are always questions about songs and none about books, so I start to feel stupid, and that means I perform poorly in school, and that's why I killed him, Your Honor." - cygna_hime
"it's not like I need to hit y'all upside the head with a clue by four, but less sports questions would be nice?" - kestrel127, 4492
"Don't be afraid of the sports questions! Not all quizlings live in a pasty white, flabby nutshell." - elbiesee

"Put your taskbar on the side of the screen instead of the bottom. That way you just have to glance at the corner of the screen to see time, date, and day of week, instead of mousing over the time to see date and day. *nods sagely*" - mercuryblue144

(That was... deep. -CV)

"Like Mary Poppins, you are practically perfect in every way...but then, I've been doing a lot of weed lately, so, you know, you may not want to give too much thought to...um...wait, what was I saying? Do you smell popcorn? I know, right?!!" - sweetpea86

"Two words: Chippendale dancers. As a threatening reminder if we haven't played the quiz that week." - puredeadthingy

"Not ever be late posting the week's quiz. You totally ruined my (and probably other quizlings') week last week." - raepixy03

(Fair enough; our bad. -CV)

"I think you're doing just fine. And I'm not just saying that to get a bonus point. I am, in fact, saying it to get two bonus points." - kenshardik

"On LJDQ,
There's insufficient haiku.
Catch a fuckin' clue." - mark_laura



Now that you're all clued in to this week's theme, we can continue with our long weekend and go back to drinking and eating. And more drinking. See you all tomorrow!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL