ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 11 February 2008

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For the record, this quiz gave us the highest number of youtube video links ever. Many, but by no means all, were for #2. Ah youtube, is there no end to your insidious insanity?

Also, someone said today was their birthday. Happy Birthday!

1. Who utters the line "These go to eleven", and in which movie?

"The number 11! The low budget version of the number 23." -

b_hulsmans

"IT'S THAT ONE GUY IN OCEAN'S 11, RIGHT?" -

fullmetalkatu

(You meant Julia Roberts, and they were speaking about the depths of her gaping maw. -CV)

"Dirk Diggler in "Boogie Nights"" -

drbear

"Khalil Roundtree in This is Boyz II Men" -

fictionalsolace

"Sting, in This is The Police. " -

electric_worry,

darthparadox

"Chuck Norris in Jurassic Park." -

wrestlingdog

(No, but I would definitely go see that movie. -CV)

"Count von Count. He followed with 'Eleven, thingies! Ha ha ha ha!'" -

dragonsong

"I'm really sad with myself, because my first thought was 'that's from that movie about AC/DC.' Then I thought it was the clock striking 13 in 1984. Then I remembered it was in a British accent and that I was made of fail." -

smokedglass7429

"That would be Pippin, in an otherwise unknown deleted scene from "Lord of the Rings". He explains to an oblivious Ranger that eggs and bacon only go to eleven, and after that, Hobbits must eat again, or risk low blood sugar episodes. Thus, Elevensies." -

thalassatx

"That would be my ex-girlfriend, who had a fetish for nipple-tweaking. I still shudder at the memories. So many nipple-tweaking encounters go unreported. My friends, don't be caught in the same trap I was." -

infintysquared

"For some reason I'm thinking Hamlet. But that's tragically wrong. 'Cause it's about heaven. Although they do rhyme... Wow, I should write a rap about it. 'And so those eleven scales went to heaven. WHATTTTT. GET CRUNK NOW YA'LL.'" -

30_cent_whore

"Nigel Tufnel, to Rob Reiner (as hizzownself). Look, just because it looks like I'm smuggling a small armadillo in my trousers, Lovellama, you're simply going to have to restrain yourself. " -

etcet

(

i_calql8 will kill you if you try anything… -LL)

"This is Spinal Tap. An epic documentary about our favorite fake band, WYLD STALLIONZ!" -

speckled_llama

"I know this only because it was quoted in a favorite bandom fic of mine. In shame, I decline to respond. " -

elucreh

"I sat here for a few minutes trying to figure out which piggie eleven was, until I remembered that people generally only have ten piggies. Off to a blazing start, me. " -

madkestral

" Everything should go to eleven. It's much easier to write and type. -CV

" -

umbralcorax

"After watching "Spinal Tap", everyone says it. " -

pyllgrum

Correct Answer: Nigel Tufnel, played by Christopher Guest, in "This Is Spinal Tap."

"Which is a lot funnier than when Guest played Count Rugen in "The Princess Bride" -- that would have been funny if he had told Westley, "What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?" *Westley cries* "Interesting. Oh, by the way, this goes to eleven." " -

rosefox8

2. Which literary character celebrated his eleventy-first birthday?

(20 of you mentioned Leonard Nimoy's musical talents. 11 of you were kind enough to link to the video. I will share the horror. -CV)

"'Eleventy Billion' 'Mr. Reeves, that's not a number.' 'Yet.'" -

angelchicken

(+1, Celebrity Jeopardy. -CV)

"Strom Thurmond. Then he punched a black guy. " -

lots42

"Dick Clark." -

first_seventhe

"The Mad Hatter" - four of you

"Has anyone else been tempted to use the number 'eleventy' when writing a check? Anyone?" -

blindgeoff

"I do remember Paddington Bear would always go down for Elevenses with the greengrocer. That bear taught me a stout appreciation for orange marmalade." -

infintysquared

"I'm reminded of how, in the Conrad Stargard series, Conrad implemented arithmetic in base 12 and thus you could have eleventeen (which is 23 in base 10) and eleventy (which is 132 in base 10). " -

syrazemyla

(I think you and I are the only ones who ever read those books… - LL)

"Proof that weed does have medicinal values right there." -

wumbawoman

"The guy who was the evil doctor in From Hell, but in this case, he was only sparingly evil, not a doctor, and from Middle Earth." -

sometimespez

"Bilbo Baggins, from whom I learned never to accept gifts of jewelry." -

melayneseahawk

"Poor Frodo, Bilbo gets a birthday, Frodo gets a quest that will pretty much fuck him up the rest of his life. This is why I stay away from my relatives, I'm not cleaning up their mess. " -

killabee886

"WTF kind of name is "Bilbo"? Like it's equal parts sex toy, boat sewer and plague sore. Bleah! " -

motown_deserter

"Which one didn't?! Gandalf, Belgarath, Polgara, Poledra, Bilbo Baggins, Saruman, Dumbledore, Elrond, etc etc etc... They all live to be a billion or so. It's like the SPN version of Highlander out there!" -

wiredwizard

(While they all did indeed reach age eleventy-one and more, I'm willing to bet that a fair number of them did not "celebrate". Maybe Gandalf and Dumbledore; they seemed pretty hip to a party. Elrond though? BOOOOOOOORING. He probably rented "Point Break" and focused his hatred. -CV)

"'I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.' has to be one of the greatest speech-lines ever." -

silmaril

Correct Answer: Bilbo Baggins

3. Which fashionable television personality was born on 11 November 1969?

"Will you EVER have a quiz where I DON'T get a -50 for claiming ageism?" -

ntlespino

(Nope. You'll just have to accept it: Things happened before you were born. Great things. Terrible things. Momentous things. Also, we're all older than you, and that makes us cranky. -CV&AL&LL)

"Fashionable? Television? I should know this, 9 chances out of 10 he's gay (if it is a he, if not then I really couldn't be bothered) " -

b_hulsmans

(Give the man a cookie! -CV)

"Tim Gunn/Heidi Klum" - 9 of you

"Isn't every television personality supposed to be fashionable?" -

syrazemyla

(Mr. T is a television personality. Would you like to embrace his fashion design? -CV)

"E11en Degeneres? Woody A11en? Ke11y Ripa?" -

mark_laura

"Are fashionable people born, or are they made? " -

buzz

(I'll go with "constructed". -CV)

"Teehee, 69. " -

melayneseahawk,

umbralcorax
"[insert joke about 69ing here] (Heh... I said insert AND 69) -

kestrel127

"Anderson Cooper has great fashion sense. I'll take a ticket to that gun show any day. " -

queeniexb

(You and me both. w00t! – LL)

"Just because Gaetano Bresci is Italian doesn't mean he's fashionable. And i don't think they even had television back in 1869" -

fictionalsolace

"they're a Scorpio, which makes them A-okay in my book." -

iamza and 4 other scorpions

"Please, let this be a hottie with a scantily-clad pic link! Please, let this be a hottie...." -

thepikey

"Is Paris Hilton really that old? I guess the Botox helps, but still." -

fax_celestis

"Not JFK, he was busy being assassinated. " -

smokedglass7429

(Um, no. – LL)

"Woulnd't the question be better posed as who was born on 11 November 1111? " -

gorghte

(Shut up. – LL)

(Besides, 69! It's always funny. -CV)

"11+11+1969=1991, which is palindromic and very mystical and stuff, so clearly someone who became famous in the early nineties. (Yup, I have nothin'.)" -

silmaril

(Numerology- it's not just for hacks anymore. -CV)

"Fashionable? Like the hosts of those makeover shows? But that date would make him/her nearly 40, people that old aren't allowed to have anything to do with the public's view of fashion from what little I've seen." -

avron

(Well, I'm not quite that old, but I definitely should not have anything to do with anyone's sense of fashion. No way. -CV)

Correct Answer: Carson Kressley

4. Who wears jersey #11 for the Philadelphia Phillies?

"…the Philadelphia Philies? Unless they are playing whatever sport that is mounted on groundhogs, that's a horribly unimaginative nickname. " -

opportunemoment

"Half of Rudy Guliani. The other half wears #9." -

teh_antisecks

"I plead ignorance on account of nerdity. " -

fax_celestis

"I'm obscurely bothered by the massacre of the word "fillies". But then I suspect no team wants to be named after a bunch of young female horses..." -

ladykalessia

"The Phillies? That’s the best the City of Brotherly Love can do for a team name?" -

laughingacademy

(Well, the Philadelphia Brotherlovers didn't go over so well... -CV)

"...wait, that's not a hockey team...*confused Canadian*" -

palapaloozaa

"I played Trivial Pursuit during the Super Bowl, sorry. Did I miss any bare nipples?" -

ginalin

(Fortunately, no. -CV)

"I live in northern New Jersey. Not only do we belong heart and soul to New York City, we also consider anyone who lives next to Philly a hick. And kinda scary." -

nirejseki

(I live in north Jersey too, and I agree with this comment. It's ok, AL, I still like you despite your unwholesome love of Philadelphia. -CV)

"I really don't care about the Phillies. They aren't my team, after all." -

photosinensis

(They aren't anybody's team, trust me. -CV)

"The Phillies? Are they the ones who make the cheesesteaks? Yum! I could use one right about now, with all the extras." -

etumukutenyak

(A #11 is a cheesesteak, extra cheese, and pearl onions. -CV)

"They're in the league with the Houston Housties, the Los Angeles Losangies, and the Wichita Wichities." -

syrazemyla

"Is that the freaky mascot? What the fuck IS that thing? I look at that abomination and say to myself "Surely there is no God!" (Ang, you got some 'splainin' to do)" -

thepikey and several others

"My 6'2" husband wears a size 8, so I'm assuming it must be either Godzilla or King Kong." -

germankitty

(Godzilla's never been to Philly before. Guess it's Kong. -CV)

"Oh.. only the guy who WON THE FRICKIN' MVP AWARD LAST YEAR! BOOYAH!" -

umbralcorax, being one of six people who actually knew the correct answer

Correct Answer: Jimmy Rollins

5. According to song, what do you get on the eleventh day of Christmas?

"Dammit, LJDQ! I just got those goddamned songs OUT OF MY HEAD!!" -

nihilistbear

(Come on, it's always the right time for Christmas carols. -CV)

"A huge visa bill" -

b_hulsmans,

drbear,

i_calql8

"Nothing, I'm Jewish." -

rosefox8

"Nothing, 'cause I ain't been nothin' but bad" -

kandelschwartz

"a town devoid of rats." -

songquake

"A storage bin." -

lots42

"There are eleven days of Christmas? Holy crap, we are doing things wrong in Germany!" -

zenkatze

"Does it matter? I'm just gonna take it back to the store on the thirteenth day of Christmas. " -

electric_worry

"It didn't go that far. I remember the seven packs of smokes and the five golden toques though." -

thepikey

(+1, The MacKenzie Brothers. -CV)

"In the Sesame Street version, it's "eleven broken buildings," which is so much awesomer than pipers. Yes, I am 29 years old and I still watch Sesame Street. You got a problem with that, bitch?" -

illogicalvulcan

"The entire premise of that song is ridiculous. Who would want any of those things? Other than the gold rings, they're pretty much useless. Give me some sharks with frikin' laser beams on their heads. Give me some cool gadgets and gizmos. Give me something AWESOME. " -

photosinensis

"The only line I remember from that song is "a partridge in a pear tree," which, like, thanks, what would I do with a partridge that is up in a tree? Give me a partridge that is already plucked, and, preferably, roasted please. " -

silmaril

"O-on the eleventh day of christ-mas my twu love gave to ME..eleven..swans a-swimming! Ten ..gmf a-gmfing! Nine ..lesbians leaping! Eight..swans..ducks a-ducking! Seven..horses neighing! Six..players playing! FIVE GOLD RINGS! yada-yada-yada" -

etumukutenyak

"It's eleven monkeys mating or eleven pantsuits swimming or somesuch. Me, I'm always running in from another room going "FIVE GOOOOLD RIIINGS!" " -

quasar360
"FIVE GOOOOLD RINGS (this response was sung by me, my wife, my cat, my dog, and someone who was in the next room who popped his head in just to sing that, and then left) " -

umbralcorax

"Something totally gay like lords a-leaping. Or maybe stoners piping. I could totally deal with eleven ladies dancing, but I don't know where I'd put all the poles. " -

motown_deserter

"Eleven pipers piping, which is still not as annoying as my one teenager practicing his bassoon every night." -

madkestrel

"I think it was (mentally sings entire annoying song)...pipers? " -

fmh

"Piper Perabo, Piper Laurie, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Peter Piper, the Pied Piper, Piper Jaffray, Billie Piper, Piper Halliwell, and 3 members of the Boghall and Bathgate Caledonia (Bag)Pipe Band. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!" -

mark_laura

(You would have gotten a +1, but you put Rowdy Roddy Piper third instead of first. That's just criminal. -CV)

Correct Answer: Eleven Pipers Piping (plus gifts from the previous ten days)

"Don't trust the song. In real life, all you get on the eleventh day of Christmas is leftover turkey and an extra three pounds on your ass." -

first_seventhe

11. In the spirit of question #1, is there anything that you would rate as an eleven on a scale of one to ten?

"Well, apparently this question is an eleven on a scale of one to six. So that's something." -

darthparadox

(That's how awesome we are at the

ljdq. Our 6 is like everyone else's 11! -AL&CV&LL)

"Marduk, you totally rule!" -

thepikey

(I totally already knew that. -Marduk)

"Ninjas playing electric guitars while flying through the air while on fire is an eleven on the scale of AWESOME" -

asrimal

(That is pretty damn awesome... but then again,
You can't see Obi-Wan and Yoda because they're providing security and managing the band. Also, they're filtering out the skanky ho's who want to sleep with the drummer because he's hung like a Wookiee. -CV

You can't see Obi-Wan and Yoda because they're providing security and managing the band. Also, they're filtering out the skanky ho's who want to sleep with the drummer because he's hung like a Wookiee. -CV

. -CV)

"This song." -

ladykalessia

(The madness... The horror! -CV)

"MONKEYS! MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY!" -

kestrel127

"Bacon, the candy of meats." -

oboe_dude

"I would definitely rate the sentence: "It's Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear here, and I need some rockets." as an eleven on a 'DANGER' scale. " -

dracothelizard

"That probably-spoilery Indiana Jones 4 photo. With the boxes. *flail*" -

opportunemoment

"My wife." -

fmh,

umbralcorax,

antinomic
"My husband." -

miladygrey

(And in conclusion, wives are three times better than husbands. Get one today! -CV)

"My

tweeti. (Does that get me off the hook for Valentine's Day?)" -

drbear

(Any man with even an ounce of experience knows that NOTHING gets you off the hook for Valentine's Day. Go pony up for some flowers, big guy. -CV)

"SEX! (probably 'cause it's been 3/4 of a year since I had any!) " -

wiredwizard

"having sex in a vat of warm (not hot!) chocolate with Matthew McConaughy (cuz he's kinda hot) and Daniel Radcliffe on top of a mountain." -

ifeedformula

"The pain of getting your femur bone cracked in half during childbirth." -

electric_worry

(Who the hell were you squeezing out, Godzilla? -CV)

"How much I want some coffee right now. " -

woap

"My book (which comes out on March 4 but my editor sent me my copies today. Sooooooooo beautiful!)" -

madkestrel

(Congratulations! -AL&CV&LL)

"I'm a realistic person. Nothing goes beyond 7 in my book. That way, I'm either not disappointed or I'm pleasantly surprised. " -

natt_barn

"January 20, 2009 - Bush's last day in office. " -

jmthane

"Well, I wouldn't rate it as such, but the wife tells me I'm an 11 in the sack. Apparently being the only man to ever bring her to orgasm colors the judgement. " -

fax_celestis

"The cleavage on Charmed. GODDAMN that shit is SWEET. " -

lots42

"How pleased are you that your new power adaptor has finally arrived and you can use your precious, precious laptop again?" -

crystalcazzie

"So, lately my mind has been running in constant "that's what she said" and "pants" mode, which naturally means that I must respond with: Your mom. " -

quasar360

"I was going to say "your mom" but she just wasn't that good last night. " -

squeegibo

"Well... Cillian Murphy's bum in tight jeans does come to mind. " -

soberloki

"I really, really want to answer "my cock" for this. I've never felt more depressed about being female. " -

first_seventhe

(How about your breasts? – CV&AL)

"Breasts. They jiggle. How can you not love them? " -

greenspyders

"The visceral satisfaction of not just winning a game of RISK, but crushing your opponents in the process and holding onto Asia for an entire game. Man, that was awesome. " -

morganashkevron

"Tectonic plate porn, as measured on the Richter scale. " -

nirejseki

"The cute new girl at the office across from mine. Sigh. Could we do a theme where y'all give me ideas and suggestions? " -

uncut_diamond

"I think my answer to that question would fall under the category of Too Much Information. " -

nihilistbear

"Bombay Sapphire and tonic, served with ice cubes made from frozen lime, orange, and pomegranite juices! " -

blindgeoff

(Ooooooooooo… CV&AL&LL)

And there you have it. ~~Eleven~~ Six more questions down the tubes. We're we11 on our way though the month of February, and a jo11y good time is being had by a11. Thanks for playing, and te11ing everyone about us; we'11 be back again tomorrow for more terrifica11y good quizness.

Also, if you're in the American Northeast, stay warm. It's naughty outside. The temperature's gone to eleven. Fahrenheit.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

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