LJ Daily Answers, 30 July 2004

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

(First off, a big thank-you and honourable mention to evils, whose epic recounting of the true story of the first lunar landing brought chuckles and smiles all around. Being that her entry is longer than the Daily Answers itself, though, we won't post it, and so the rest of you will just have to trust us on how good it was.

Secondly, this week's theme is in honour of the first lunar landing on 20 July 1969. You know, you'd think that 35 years later, we might have gotten to Mars or something... Also, as a bonus, this month has a blue moon (see question #5) on Saturday, 31 July 2004.

And with that being said, onward to the answers! -CV)


1. Name the Sting song from Dream of the Blue Turtles that is based on Anne Rice's novel, "Interview With A Vampire".

"I'm goth yo! I'm goth yo! I'm goth goth gothier than goth yo!" - ghostwriterxx

(Do Goths say "yo"? -AL)

(I believe no Goths, Vampires, or Turtles, nor Sting himself, say "yo." -CV)

"I had no idea that Sting could read." - sindefy

"Got the album some where here, but I just can’t be bothered to move." - matt_ledgerwood

(+1, Lazy Bastard. -CV)

"What the hell is up with the Blue Turtles?" - doomgirl

"I asked this girl I knew if she knew the answer to this question, and she told me, 'Quit stalking me! I'm calling the cops!' God, women can be such a pain." - legend_minus

"And since when does chaosvizier have interest in Anne Rice?" - deinemuse

(There are TWO moderators for the LJDQ. One of whom happens to love Sting. -AL)

(The other of whom happens to love live female jello wrestling action. Oh, no, that's both of us as well. -CV)

"I'm guessing the word 'moon' is in the title." - lizature

(Lucky guess. -CV)

Correct Answer: Moon Over Bourbon Street

"Though usually you see tits, not moons." - perkyczarlet

(And aren't we all the happier for it? Oh yes we are. -CV)

2. Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?

"Neil Armstrong. Unless this is some trick question." perkyczarlet

(Would we do that to you? -AL)

(No trick this time, but let's see what others thought... -CV)

"Neil Armstrong...or Neil Gaiman. I can never tell them apart." - impulsezip

(Neil Gaiman is the one with a blog: officialgaiman. -AL)

(He also was the one who did not go to the moon. -CV)

"Lance Armstrong" - ghostwriterxx

(Yeah, he rode his bike all the way there. -AL)

"Lance Armstrong! Oh, wait... Neil Armstrong? Or was it Buzz Aldern? This right here is proof that I shouldn't become a history teacher." - marasca

(Stick to art history. -AL)

(For the record, marasca lives about three seconds from the Smithsonian Air And Space Museum. She has absolutely no excuse whatsoever. -1. -CV)

"Tintin and Captain Haddock." - jallora

(From the obscurest part of Obscuropia. At least, for our American audience. +1 because I love those books. -CV)

"We're off to Button Moon,
to follow Mr. Spoon,
Button Moon.
Space travel was invented by Mr. Spoon and his washing up bottle rocket!" - spiffington

(-3, COMPLETE GIBBERISH. -CV)

"The first guy that got there." - stagemanager
"Some guy in a big puffy suit." - pisica
"Was it the man? The man in the moon?" - hollyinpa

(The three of you get to share the -1 equally. -CV)

"This does not count as illegal Googling, as I'd recently found it on my own, a few weeks ago: Armstrong flubbed his historic 'one small step' remark." - d4b
"His first words were: "Houston, I have *such* a boner right now." - funkyplaid

(I'm glad you two were around to straighten that up for the rest of us. -CV)

"ARM STRONG... HULK SMASH!!!" - deinemuse

Correct Answer: Neil Armstrong

"We landed on the moon? I must've have missed it..." - spiffington

(Well, it was only THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. I'm sure you'll hear about it sooner or later. -AL)

3. What happened after the cow jumped over the Moon?

"Now you're talking my kind of language. Gotta love those nursery rhymes!" - hollyinpa

"Dog laughed, dish spoon ran away, film at eleven." - impulsezip

"That slut of a dish ran away with my wife." - xgreenjudasx

(So, xgreenjudasx, how is it that you had a wife? Are you from Massachusetts or something? -AL)

"Fork ran away with the spoon." - lizature

(And they had the cutest lil' baby sporks you ever did see. -CV)

"My mom says that the fork had a mid-life crisis and wanted a spoon that was financially dependent on him so that he could feel like he was important. Apparently he was banging the spoon long before the cow actually jumped over the moon." - sindefy

(That's quite the editorial spin your mom put on that nursery rhyme. -AL)

"Since it was a crescent moon at the time, the cow tore its udder open on the point, got a horrible tetanus infection, and subsequently died." - krick

(Udder infections are usually referred to as "mastitis". -AL)

(??? -CV)

(What? My undergraduate degree is in agricultural engineering, deal with it. - AL)

"The Little Dog wrote a book about the cow’s exploits entitled, 'What Daisy did next'. According to him she got her udders embiggened and became the star of an adult-rated straight-to-DVD film called 'Daisy does Dallas'." - evils

Correct Answer: The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.

"The hussy!" - d4b

4. What are the names of the two moons of Mars?

"Well, I didn't know Mars had a moon, or two." - jallora
"Mars ain't got no moons!" - seolta

(The LJDQ - it's all about the learnin'. -AL)

"Titan and... Loosen?" - d4b

(-1, wrong planet. Titan is a moon of Jupiter. -1, awful pun. -AL&CV)

"My second guess would be Lucy and Ricky, but that’s my standard Trivial Pursuit fail-safe." - xgreenjudasx

(Fail-safes sometimes fail. -AL)

"Romulus and Remus." - matt_ledgerwood
"Bob and Doug?" - pisica
"Beavis and Butthead." - doomgirl
"Phobos & Joey." - krick
"Moon 1 and Moon 2?" - hollyinpa
"Kang and Kodos?" - djdysfunction
"Art & Garfunkel? Tate & Lyle? Lift & Separate? Beef & Chicken?" - blu_matt

(No, Canadians, no, I hate "Friends", no, Best Simpsons Characters Ever, no, no, Bwaaahahaha, and no. -CV&AL)

"Here's my question for you, oh mighty quizmasters: Does Earth's moon have a name other than The Moon?" - marasca

(No. Longer answer here. -AL)

"Phobos looks like the motherfucking DEATH STAR baby!" - thereject

(I do believe you're thinking of Mimas, moon of Saturn. -CV)


"Phobos and Deimos. Yay for playing endless DOOM ][ !" - fizrep

(Never let it be said that children learn nothing from playing computer games. -AL)

Correct Answer: Phobos and Deimos

"Meaning 'fear' and 'panic'" - spiffington

"They are also the names of our SQL servers at work since we name everything after Star Wars or spacey stuff." - deinemuse

(This week's morsel of good advice: Don't put precious material on servers which are named 'fear' and 'panic' respectively. -CV)

"I did web cheat for number 4, I forgot we aren't supposed to do that huh?" - spiffington

(Your honesty is appreciated, lass. Firing squad, shoot to wound! -CV)

5. What is a "blue moon"?

"An anagram of "Lube'n'Moo", a sex-aid product for cows when they're a bit on the dry side." - blu_matt

(Oh, you mean Bag Balm? -AL)



(Again, ??? -CV)

(You learn all kinds of things in agricultural engineering! -AL)

"This isn't all that rare, actually; I seem to recall a citation saying that it'll statistically happen once every two and a half years. Simple stats would seem to yield an even more common result: A lunar cycle is 28 days plus a few hours, an average calendar month is 30 days plus a few hours, which gives you roughly two pairs of days when this can occur (1st & 29th, and 2nd & 30th), meaning on average, one blue moon every 15 months or so." - d4b

(Ladies & gentlemen, meet our new Geek of the Week! - AL)

(By the way, that title comes with a free -1. -CV)

"You give the answer in the question below : something that happens very rarely." - jallora

(Such little faith in your moderators. Do you think we'd have made it that easy? -CV)

"A gay bar in Philly." - thereject

(Also correct, full credit. -AL)

"A moon that badly needs Zoloft(tm)" - krick



(Anyone else think this thing looks kinda like the Moon? -AL)

(I think it looks kinda tasty, myself... -CV)

"Hotter than a yellow moon; burns helium? Moon during the "moving away from the Earth" part of its orbit? Just another day on Mars? A singularity?" - phlegm_noir

(Random stabs in the dark, -1. Good geeky guess on the blue-shift, +1 -AL)

"I'm not sure but I know it makes Snoopy really happy and he dances on the roof of his dog house." - sindefy

(+1 for making me imagine the Snoopy Dance. -CV)

"Beer. And good beer at that." - xgreenjudasx

(Full credit. Too bad the brewery was bought out by Coors. -AL)

"I’m not too sure, but is it something like this?" - evils
NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!! (and when I say that, I mean 'don't click this link unless you're ok with naughty pictures.' -CV)

(Today's LJDQ NSFW Award goes to evils! -CV)

(Only the second Quiz & already we've got pr0n. What a bunch of prodigies! -AL)

Correct Answer: Second full moon in one calendar month.

(Man, I can't believe this entire question went on without a naked Smurf joke. -CV)

"Smurf ass." - djdysfunction

(Thank you. +1. -CV)

6. Tell us something that you only do "once in a blue moon" (and if you're not familiar with this saying ... tell us something that you do very infrequently).

"Get a divorce. I have 8 wives, and 6 of them are really getting on my nerves." - legend_minus

(Now accepting applications to be the next ex-Mrs. legend_minus. -AL)

"Could be giving blowjobs in hyperspace or could be knitting with my eyes closed. Much the same thing, really!" - evils

(After giving the matter a lot of serious consideration, I simply cannot equate hyperspace blowjobs with blind knitting. I tried my best. -CV)

"Attempt to fellate myself." - krick

(What inquiring minds want to know is, did you succeed? -AL)

(Not all inquiring minds want to know this. -CV)

"I strip tease in public once in a blue moon, but that usually requires plenty of alcohol and an audience." - deinemuse

(Everyone, check out deinemuse's user pics & tell me how many of you would volunteer to 1) buy drinks & 2) form part of the audience. -AL)

"Every once in a while, I rip my clothes off and run through the woods in back of our house. They call me nature girl." - ghostwriterxx

(CV, you have some crazy roommates. -AL)

(Yeah, but boy do I love those Alcoholic Nature Days. -CV)

"I infrequently say never." - phlegm_noir

"Drink alcohol." - spiffington

(-5!!! -CV)

(Let's see, that's a -3 for gibberish, -5 for non-inebriation, & the firing squad for WEB CHEATING. CV just doesn't like spiffington this week. -AL)

(Dear spiffington,
I'm sorry I tried to give you -8 points and have you shot. angledge assures me that you're a good person. I'll be nicer next week. -CV)

"I rarely get to sing anymore, which is yet another example of how worthless a musical theatre degree is. BFA = Would you like fries with that?" - xgreenjudasx

(Yes please. -AL)

"Get laid." - seolta

(The LiveJournal Daily Quiz- Trying to get quizzers laid since 12 days ago. -CV)

"I've rarely called my mother a 'nincompoop', which very nearly resulted in my head being torn clean off the first time." - funkyplaid

(The structure of this sentence indicates that you did not, in fact, learn your lesson that first time. -CV)

"On rare occasions, I've been known to actually enjoy opera." - fizrep

(On rarer occasions, he's been known to gush over Gilbert and Sullivan. -CV)

"Drop my keys and bend over to pick them up. I'll never make that mistake again." - thereject

(Especially when that opera-loving fizrep's around. -AL)

"Every once in a blue moon, I get very silly and write witty, nonsensical stuff. So don't hold your breath for next week." - stagemanager

(Drop by & say hi every once in a while, OK? -AL)

(Better make it quick. I'm holding her breath for her, and she's looking a bit blue in the moon, if you know what I mean. -CV)

"Manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." - djdysfunction

(+1, Clerks.)

"Once in a blue moon I vacuum my house. (Every other blue moon I clean the bathroom.)" - sindefy

(This week's LJDQ Good Housekeeping Award goes to sindefy. -AL)


Nice showing this week, everyone. We had 26 respondents & 43 people watching this community. Tune in Monday for a brand-new quiz. This week we will also have a cameo guest appearance by angledge as a LJDQ contestant instead of a moderator. Something about a dissertation to write, no time to grade Quizzes ... it's all a blur.


Anyway... stay good, drink responsibly, and most importantly, keep bringing in the fresh vict- err, players. Especially you. Yeah, you know who you are. Moon Man is watching you, and he is NOT happy.

Rock on,

Hans & Ang.

Comments

[verdandiweaves.livejournal.com]

Oh, I missed this one, and I actually knew some of the answers - as well as obviously being the only one who did not buy into the propaganda that we ever landed on the moon...

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Really? So how is it I can set up a telescope in my backyard & spot the lunar lander bases on the Sea of Tranquility?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. We simply... corrected those contestants who thought otherwise. Don't fight the conspiracy.

[verdandiweaves.livejournal.com]

I can only say - very powerful spray guns - the rest is tooo hush hush

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, I am not in fact Canadian. But my Cultural Awareness extends to that country north of my own, where people say 'eh?' a lot.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Oh pisica, there's no reason to be ashamed of your Canadian-ness. We at ljdq accept everyone for who they are.

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

Unless you suck, and then you will be mocked.

Ah hell, we'll just mock you anyways.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You might not be... but Bob and Doug sure are.

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

I was scrolling through LJDQ, rubbing BagBalm into my poor chapped udders-um-hands like a good Vermont hippy when that picture came up.

It was one of those moments when I fear someone is going to walk into my office and see their PSO curled up on the floor in mirth, something glimmering and sticky on her hands, skirt akimbo and cheeks red.

Thank you QM'S!

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

Bag Balm sounds like a scrotal sac ointment. Tell me I'm wrong. Please. Please?

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

::blink blink:: I know you're wrong . . . way wrong.

But in such a right way.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Bag Balm is used to prevent the cows from getting chapped udders from milking machines. My grandpa (lifelong farmer) also used it to treat every human ailment from sunburn to catarrh.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Yep! Eh!

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Bbb...but...I'm not Canadian!!! Not even a little!

[xgreenjudasx.livejournal.com]

That's no excuse for Canadian-leanings.

The Great White North only wants to lure you into a false sence of security. Then, before you know it, BAM, national health care for everybody.

Sneaky bastards.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I dunno... I'm looking at this cat picture of you and thinking, "Man. Look at those beady little Canadian eyes on that thing."

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Nope, the cat's Romanian. Check my user info page for the details. (And note that the cat went to the AMERICAN embassy, not the CANADIAN one. Smartest cat in Romania, that's what I say.)

P.S. Cat is not me.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Ew, bad national health care.

[evils.livejournal.com]

I'd like to apologise for getting carried away with Question 2. I therefore promise to keep taking the special tablets and submit shorter answers next time! ;-)

[angledge.livejournal.com]

We loved Question 2. But in the interests of keeping the length of the Daily Answers under 45,000 pages, we couldn't post the whole thing.

You might notice that we loved a lot of your other answers as well!

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that this isn't a serious quiz, to wit I never saw any prizes of cash or booze volunteered... otherwise I would have been able to answer 5 out of 6, because I know bugger all about Sting, even though my aunt knows him.

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

;-)

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

I know officially know Too Much(tm).

Beady eyes

[djdysfunction.livejournal.com]

are one sign, but watch out for the flapping head.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

P.S. Cat is not me.

Ah... well, ok. But just in case any of you other players out there are, in fact, cats, it's ok, the ljdq is open to all species. Even Canadians.