LJ Daily Answers: 15 October 2007

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"I have no clue as to most of the answers, but I'm newly 21 and inebriated, so I should give it a shot." - lafourchette

No, you should give YOURSELF a shot. Carry on.



1. What poet is the originator of the phrase "Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die"?

"the only name that comes to mind right now is Richard Dean Anderson, and I don't think that's right, somehow." - unithien_rerith

(Right rhythm, wrong name. -CV)

"Oh, god, I dislike poetry. Except for haiku, because they are mercifully short." - sashayaki

(Theirs not to reason
Why; Theirs but to do and die.
By Al Tennyson. -CV)

"I am increasingly shocked at the lack of knowledge I have of literature. But then I remembered that the only poems I've read are the few forced on me by the British Education system. Me and the world have functioned pretty fine with this arrangement thus far so I think I'll go with what works." - selenityshiroi

"I don't know, but I'd hate to work for him." - elbiesee

"I don't know, but me thinks he started the whole 'woe is me, my inner-darkness knows no bounds' movement." - b_hulsmans

(Whoa, that's a lot to pin on one guy. -AL)

"Awww, man! See, if you had used this for the lyrics question instead of the poem question, then I would know the answer to the lyrics question, since that's almost the line from the KMFDM song 'Legions of Me'. But noooooo, you have to go and make this one the poem question, leaving me once again flailing in a mire of the unknown. Thanks a lot." - nakedblueninja

(You're welcome. We aim to displease. -AL)

"I think they carried a positive charge at the time, making them anodes." - blindgeoff

"Ever since my mother pointed out that 'Charge of the Light Brigade' follows the same meter as 'The Night Before Christmas,' I can't stop myself from going 'Dash away, dash away rode the 600.' It makes the Crimean War lose some of its gravitas." - illogicalvulcan

"A computer game version of Risk I once played would allow to set 'do or die' as the attack setting for a given province, which meant that it would automatically keep rolling until the province was taken or you ran out of army to throw at it. For each failed roll, it would recite that very couplet of 'Light Brigade' before stubbornly trying again. Thus my forces were crushed trying to punch through Siam, but I learned poetry in the process, so it's all good." - cmzero

(We are very familiar with that version. Oh, the good old days... -AL&CV)

"Alfred, Lord Tennyson. I've always wanted to have a title that would allow me to use a comma in my name. Sadly, I don't think writing smut is likely to get me ennobled." - deza

"Ahh, Tennyson...taking poetic license to historical events since 1809. Everyone knows that you only need 300 men for an heroic last stand!" - wint3rhart

(This is Britain, not Sparta. -CV)

"Why can't I be Loz, Lady Enger8, huh?" - lozenger8

"A1fr3d, L337 10y50n" - faeriedragon

"Hey, when did they start making a rank of card called 'Tennyson'?" - unwritten_dirge
"Oh wait. I just got it! Ten-nyson. I see what you did there." - morganashkevron

Number of Quizlings who knew the answer because of the movie Clue: 19.

Correct Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson



2. Whose wife "could eat no lean"?

"..and why does she always get the seat next to me on the airplane?" - i_calql8

"Why it was Mr. Lean of course. And BOY was he disapointed, cause she made him go 'south of the border' every time if you get my drift.." - writersblock_va

"Whoever marries Kirstie Alley" - wiredwizard, peaseblossom03

(Ouch. -CV)

"Micheal Schiavo's wife couldn't, that's for sure." - woap, fictionalsolace

(Double ouch. -CV)

"Jenna Jamison, everything she 'ate' was thick." - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

'Well, that's certainly an odd allergy she's got there. I'm going to bet it was someone biblical, as all sorts of weird shit happened in the Old Testament, and a lean allergy is pretty weird." - dracothelizard

"Jack Sprat. First cousin to Jack Squat, Jack N. Apes, Jack Ass ... " - germankitty

"Jack Sprat, nursery rhyme character, not to be confused with Jack Spratt, nursery crime detective. " - soloecal
"DI Jack Spratt, Nursery Crime Division. " - scifantasy, falar, others

"His wife has the right idea; I'm allergic to healthy food too." - maisontv

"Another answer from the dusty recesses of my life, I disliked this rhyme intensely because fat is disgusting, and the woman was only allowed to eat the fat, 'course I didn't realise as a child that she actually wanted to eat the fat. Anyway, it was Jack Spratt and his wife, who never really had a name, which I thought was a bit mean too. " - distractogirl

"Jack Spratt. Clearly they were gamers and/or SCAdians. And possibly into S&M, but that's probably a mental image better left unpainted... " - marasca

"That would be Jack Sprat? Spat? One of those something-gooey-hitting-the-floor-sounding words. " - wint3rheart

"Have you noticed that everyone in nursery rhymes is named Jack? Jack & Jill, Jack Sprat, little Jack Horner... I don't know who Jack was, but he must have been servicing all the wholesome poets in England. " - kestrel127

Correct Answer: Jack Sprat



3. In “The Magnificent Seven”, he was named Vin; in “The Great Escape” he was named Virgil. What is the actor’s real name?

"What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'?" - spatialrift47

"I play the age card and take my -20 like a man." - ntlespino

(It's -50, & if you're playing it then you must take it like a crying leetle boy. -AL)

"Wait, so my cousin Vinny was really a famous Roman poet? I thought he was from the Bronx." - newbia

"Vin, Virgil. Judging by the pattern I guess Viggo" - lemurstew

"I keep picturing the bastard love child of Vin Diesel and Virgil. Now I need to bleach my brain. Are you happy?" - deesarrachi

"No, not Hugo Weaving!" - puredeadthingy

(+1 for avoiding our trap. -AL)

"Steve’s just there in jeans and a T-shirt, disguised as an American man! He runs out, jumps on his motorbike, knocks a guy over, and within 15 minutes, he’s in the border of Switzerland... and this is from Poland! If you don’t know the geography, it goes... Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon... and then Switzerland." - saint_vincent23, hippiedancer

"In the immortal words of Cheech and Chong, 'oh, wow, you drive just like Steve McQUEEN, man!'" - drbear

"Steve McQueen was a pheromone machine" - katiebgood

"Terrence Steven McQueen. I'd call him Terry, but he'd probably punch me from beyond the grave." - illogicalvulcan

"...my wonderful father who has previously attempted to help me with the LJDQ and failed miserably has managed to give me an answer today - Steve McQueen. If it's wrong I shall confiscate his Kitkats." - distractogirl

Correct Answer: Steve McQueen.

(So distractogirl, let your dad keep his chocolate. -AL&CV&LL)



4. What author sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman"?

"Gerald Turner and Edward Overdrive, authors of the popular song "Taking Care of Business"." - nakedblueninja
" I love Richard Bachman and all of the BTO songs!!! " - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"Burt Bacharach. He didn't want to stray too far from his roots." - ladyiapetus

"Dick Beethovenman. He never understood how his friends figured it out..." - nadat

"so he really wanted to be a dick? tee-hee I'm 12 again. " - killabee886

"Dickie Bach? God, I have no clue, but that is some fun nickname action. " - maid_line

"Stephen King. Who, I might add, had the decency to actually *recover* from his life-threatening health problem in order to finish his long-assed book series." - cmseward

(Haa haaaaaa... -CV)

"It's funny, he co-writes a book about the Red Sox and they win. I believe another sacrifice to the Maine woods is in order." - princessstarr

"By day, he's bestselling author, Stephen King, but when darkness falls in Castle Rock, Maine, he fights the dastardly underworld of untuned harmonies as The Bachman." - iamza

"By day he is Wolfgang Amadeus, but by night he is Bachman! Bringing in criminals in 3/4 time." - pirho_maniac
"he wouldn't have worn his jocks over his pants, because I don't think they had underwear Bach then." - elvenpiratelady

Correct Answer: Stephen King

"You can't use the past tense anymore. Richard Bachman released a book this summer with a forward by Stephen King, thus redefining the word hubris." - illogicalvulcan



5. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
"No one's gonna drag you up
To get into the light where you belong"

"Fa with your silly questions. After three years, I finally have my revenge on Sting, or, I saw this and thought of the quizlings and their need for revenge . . . on Sting." - xgreenjudasx

"There are four lights!" - akiyasan

(+1, ST:TNG. -CV)

"So stay down there and bartend in the dark, emo kid." - whiski_sour

"I have no clue so I'll tell you about my day, I played with fish sperm to probe(heh) DNA. I'm fairly certain my lecturer was hitting on me, and then I had lunch. FISH SPERM!" - niroby

"Hypothesis: No one's gonna drag you up/To get into the light where you belong
Proof: I’m all alone in the dark now baby/I’m all alone in the dark now baby/I’m all alone on my knees at last/Alone in the dark
But: Love lifts us up where we belong/Where the eagles cry on a mountain high/Love lifts us up where we belong/Far from the world below/Where the clear winds blow
Conclusion: All you need is love, love, love is all you need. " - iamza

"OH MY GOD I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE LYRICS QUESTION" - nakedblueninja, speaking for the masses

(We have finally found our audience. -LL&AL)

(Our only satisfaction is the earworm that plagued so very many of you. -CV)

"This would be a song never played at vampire/zombie mixers, that's for damn sure." - etcet

"The ABBA of Gen X!" - writersblock_va

"I know everyone else is going to do it...but...'All your Ace(of Base) are belong to us!!'" - hippiedancer

(Nope, it was only you. -AL)

(Later edit: And palapaloozaa. -AL)

"Ace of Bass" - scyllacat, cearalaith, deza, elbiesee

"Oh Ace of Base, they're the best thing to come out of Sweden since ABBA, and ABBA was the best thing since the vikings...somewhere down the line, something went horribly, horribly wrong." - killabee886

(+1 for connecting Vikings to Europop. -AL)

"Opposite side/hypotenuse, by Ace of Bass" - i_calql8

"I love Ace of Base! Every song sounds the same...and it's a great fucking song! And the song is 'I Saw The Sign'." - droptheleash622

"How many minutes would you actually believe that I got those two lines stuck in my head as I try to remember the title? 15? 30? Nah, close to 120 (two freakin' hours!). But now, my age card happily reminds me that it's '(I Saw) The Sign' by Ace of Base. I actually danced to that song! In front of an audience! Watch my hips gyrate!" - 7dragon_zodiac

Correct Answer: Ace of Base, "The Sign"

"I saw the sign, but it didn't open up my eyes. I demand a refund!" - slave_to_anime

"*headdeskheaddesk* make it stop!" - kira_snugz



6. What's your favorite game?

"any game that has the prefix 'strip'" - b_hulsman

"M*A*S*H Trivial Pursuit, at which I pwn everyone else in my family. " - ladyiapetus

"ljdq, of course!" - 21 of you. Suckuppery is tasty.

"The Hokey-Pokey. After all, that's what it's all about!" - musicwolf

"Co-ed naked twister. So many ways you can enjoy that game without even trying." - gorghte

"This is one of those leading questions like 'Does my bum look big in this?' or 'Would you like to go to see this event this weekend?'. There is the answer you want to give and the answer they want to hear that will guarantee your own personal safety. I'm gonna go with This Quiz. " - selenityshiroi

"One that might very well get me kicked off LJ. All I'll say is it involves me, my equally legal girlfriend, and leather. " - deesarrachi

"Oooo, this is a tough one. It's either 'Hide the Salami' or 'Doctor,' unless I'm feeling like kicking butt, in which case it's Carcassone with a bottle of gin to keep the river flowing. " - deza

"The game of looooooooove, babee! " - drbear

"Guitar Hero. Yes, I'm a complete dork and I'm proud of it!" - halo4

"DiabloII" - wiredwizard

(LOOKING FOR BAAL? -AL&CV)

"Bioshock - I killed a lady with a bag of potato chips." - woap

(Those things are notoriously bad for you, after all. -CV)

"In spite of the obvious card theme, I'm wondering how many will name World of Warcraft anyway. (I will defy the herd and admit I am a proud City of Heroes addict.)" - cmzero

(Only 5 WoW die-hards fessed up here. -AL)

(Anyway, Heroes are better. CoH/CoV represent! -CV)

"Blackjack. I get more respect for my math abilities at a blackjack table than I ever did in my classroom. " - i_calql8

"Scrabble. With themes. Sometimes I play it by myself. Well not really by myself. Sometimes I bring out my friend the Bottle of Wine. " - palapalooza

"" - soloecal

"Passive aggressive mind games. Oh sure, it's not my favorite game, but it's the one I play most often. " - kestrel127

"Dungeons and Dragons, for which I am now writing my own material. I can feel my nerdcred rising even as we speak. " - fax_celestis

"i like a rousing game of make me a sandwich bitch, everynow and then" - kira_snugz

"One-Handed Bra-Removal." - lots42

"'What's the one game where you never win and are always looking for a rematch?' 'Sex.' " - falar

"Egyptian Ratscrew- it's violent and has a dirty name. " - princessstarr

"Saying 'psuedo' over and over again until it loses all meaning as a prefix and just sounds funny. " - vmisery

"Stepping on the light tiles in stores. Because the Dark ones are lava. Yes, I'm 22. Yes, I still play this." - c0llect


And there you have it. Our cards are on the table. We had a nice full house of quizlings playing this week; guess work and school left you all empty-handed. That suits us just fine; it warms our hearts to see you all playing.

Thanks for playing, all, especially new players, and tune in tomorrow when we do it again!

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL