ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 18 February 2008

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"I am shocked you did not use a Vanilla Ice question anywhere in here. And now I will have Ice Ice Baby in my head all day." -

shinga
"Dear

ljdq, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Now I've got 'Ice Ice Baby' running through my head and it's all your fault. I'll kick it, all right. And have a word with your mother." -

ladyvyola

I knew someone would fall for it.

"I notice you've themed this quiz rather unconventionally for the season. Is someone feeling cynical about Cupid's special day?" -

neblinaclara

Nah, we're all feeling pretty well loved here. But we've used up Hearts and Love themes already, so might as well give our bittersweet Quizlings a turn too.

1. Val Kilmer played which character in the movie "Top Gun"?

"Tom Cruise is an anagram of Ice Tumors, you know." -

elvenpiratelady

"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth--but I can show you the money if it'll get me quoted. I know that bribing the mods is kind of risky business, but I'm willing to take the chance since you HAD to pick the old Tom Cruise movie that I don't know any trivia about." -

cold_clarity

(I suppose yours was indeed an impossible mission. -CV)

"The Asshole. Which is strange, considering Tom Cruise was in the movie." -

cmseward

(There's a difference between "asshole" and "nutjob". -CV)

"Cold As Ice by Foreigner. What? This isn't the lyric question?" -

gorghte
"is it bad I now have Foreigner stuck in my head? Because I think it is." -

domestik_fucker

(It took

pfflyernc two questions to get the Foreigner earworm. He is stronger than you... but not much. -CV)

"there were actors in that movie?! As a red-blooded-heterosexual-American-He-Man, I only noticed the Hott, Hott, Grumman-on-McDonnell-Douglas action!! OOOOH BABY! Slip that sidewinder up his afterburner, Iceman!!" -

blindgeoff

(And the

ljdq reaches a new low with Fighter Jet Porn. -CV)

"I've never seen the movie, but have been on the ride. Was he the guy in the gift shop trying to sell me useless crap?" -

killabee886

"Red Leader" -

wiredwizard

(Cut the chatter, Wedge. -CV)

"I swear there was a guy named Spoon in that movie, but no one believes me." -

squeegibo

"Batman." - 11 of you
"Bobby Drake." -

scifantasy,

lazdixi,

girl_who_is1337
"The Saint" -

billfl
"Madmartigan...yeah, I know that wasn't Top Gun - I like him better with long hair." -

madkestrel

"The only Val Kilmer movie I've ever liked is 'Top Secret!'" -

drbear

(Not even Real Genius? – CV&LL)

"The one that smiled just a little too intensely in a way that made me think of a serial killer. And he showed off his very big teeth...the better to eat you with, indeed!" -

ellistrae and several others

"Honestly, the one time I watched the movie all the way through I was either staring at Kelly McGillis or waiting for her to come back onscreen." -

stephe

"Iceman, not to be confused with the robotic Ice Man, who was defeated not by the weapon of Fire Man (also not to be confused with a fireman, since Fire Man sets things on fire rather than putting fires out,) but by that of Elec Man. Which made no sense at all. Fire melts ice! FIRE MELTS ICE!" -

potassiumman

(No more drugs for this man. -CV)

"When I was an undergrad, a bunch of us were watching "Top Gun" in the lounge in this dorm, and this guy comes in and is bitching about the cinematography. During the volleyball scene. So we taped his mouth shut. " -

cjtremlett

(Well done! – LL)

"What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think he played? He's the Goddamn Batman. " -

euphoric_goth,

thepikey

"Val Kilmer was Tom Cruise's Huckleberry. " -

rhiannonjk

"I'd have paid money to see him cometh." -

pfflyernc

"Ice, who almost got to battle Mr. Freeze if George Clooney and the nippled batsuit hadn't gotten in the way." -

germankitty

Correct Answer: "Ice/Iceman"

2. What is the common name for the solid form of carbon dioxide?

(Number of people who used the word "sublimate": 9.)

"Ann Coulter's Soul" -

blindgeoff
"Dick Cheney's Heart." -

umbralcorax

"Crystal Meth. Minus all the fun parts." -

cold_clarity

"Los Angeles smog--'It's air you can sink your teeth into!'" -

i_calql8,

lady_lilith

"thats the stuff they encased han solo in." -

kira_snugz
"Carbonite." -

speckled_llama

"I think liquid nitrogen is so much cooler. Dip your enemy's head in the bucket and watch it shatter like glass! Fun for the whole family!" -

madkestrel

"Substance Not To Be Crafting Dildos From Despite The Nifty "Smoke" Effect, Thank You" -

etcet

"Dry Ice. It's two different flavors of Bud all in one!" -

billfl

"If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?" -

noelleleithe,

thanks4thefish

(+1, Steven Wright. -CV)

"Raise your hand if you DIDNT have a halloween party in your garage as a kid and use dry ice to make it extra specially spooky!" -

rhiannonjk

(Hell, even as an adult it works! -CV)

"'Good times --> bad times' by way of plastic shards to the face." -

3771

"Dry ice, which you should never, under any circumstance, touch, lick, or fondle suggestively." -

allie_the_neko

"Dry ice, helping people quote the opening of MacBeth without looking too moronic for centuries." -

killabee886

"Dry ice? Slightly related to the topic, my cousin and I once had this long debate when we were kids on how you could have dry water. I don't remember what side of the argument I was on, all I know is that I probably won, because he's an idiot. " -

shinga

"Dry ice. I’ve never understood how they can use it for special effects on stage without freezing the actors’ feet off. Which doesn’t stop me from staring at their shoes in hopeful fascination. One day…" -

lady_deirdre

"Dry ice. Man, I hate that stuff. There's nothing like trying to load a fogger in the middle of a quiet scene, and the thing lets out a shriek to wake the dead the minute the dry ice hits the metal block." -

pocketmouse

"Dry Ice. Capable of propelling fruit very rapidly out of a homemade mortar. Don't try this at dorm." -

rikchik

"Dry ice. I know this because my dad was a chemistry professor, and he used the stuff all the time. In fact, his hands ended up being calloused enough from handling the stuff that he could pick up chunks of it without gloves. I tried that once. I don't recommend it." -

stephe

"I once swallowed a lump of this shit once, and let me tell you, that trip to the E.R. was not in any way 'cool'." -

docrefa

Correct Answer: Dry Ice

3. In the book "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew travel to which country to begin their descent?

"Judging from the theme, Isopotamia." -

ntlespino

"I always figured that the title wasn't literal! I assumed it was some existential journey with a feel-good ending." -

rhiannonjk

"to the center? what happens when they reach the magma layer? Only Mister Peabody and Sherman can make that journey." -

killabee886

"They went to the land of the ice and snow, with the midnight sun and where the hot springs blow." -

3771,

kerowyn47

(+1, Led Zeppelin. -CV)

"Mordor, The Land One Does Not Simply Rock Into" -

shinga

"Well if two guys are going to go anywhere and "descend" it must be in Amsterdamn! Pot Cafes and Red LIght Districts!" -

writersblock_va

"They go to the French city of Nice!" -

thepikey

(It's not really that nice. -CV)

"Brock? Brock Samson! Damn! Just the kinda shit he'd be tied up. Damn secret agents never know when to give up." -

lots42

(+1, The Venture Brothers. -CV)

"somewhere where the nice Europeans could use the natives as labor." -

pocketmouse

"You know how one day you get drunk, play with matches and burn down an entire bookshelf? Yeah, then you put out the fire, your throat gets sore from all the smoke so you chew some ice to numb it a bit... and see #2." -

docrefa

"New Jersey. If there was a hole that leads to the center of the earth, it would be there." -

ghostrider65

(Hax. -CV)

"logic tells me iceland, so it must be finland! or norway, which isn't as good as kenya." -

kira_snugz

(Nothing is as good as Kenya. -CV)

"Vatican City.. Because it was the Holey Land! Get it? Hilarious." -

tarpo

(...isn't Israel the Holy Land? -CV)

"Don't kids always try to dig a hole to China when they're younger? We did. And we ended up breaking the lawnmower." -

first_seventhe

"China, everyone knows if you dig through the center of the earth you "dig to China" What kind of childhood did you have not to know this?" -

becky_gardens

(A Chinese childhood? -CV)

"Greenland is the icy one, and Iceland is the green one. Whose bright idea was that?" -

scifantasy and several others

"It actually would make sense to go to Iceland to begin going to the Earth's core, because of it's high latitude. The rotation of the Earth causes it to bulge at the equator, so they high latitude would make the journey shorter. Aren't you glad I told you that? Isn't knowledge of our dear planet much more rewarding than something witty and/or crude? (In case I'm wrong, (.)(.) lolz look they're boobs). " -

elf_of_doriath

(That only works on two of us! – LL)

(Oh stop. You like boobs too and you know it. -CV)

"Did you know that in Iceland, the Country of the Future they have heated sidewalks, and hydrogen-powered flying busses?" -

potassiumman

(I reiterate: No More Drugs For This Man. -CV)

Correct Answer: Iceland

4. Tracy Lauren Marrow is better known by which stage name?

(People guessing Ice Cube: 17
People guessing Vanilla Ice: 29
People stuck with "Ice Ice Baby" in their heads: 33)

(Oh, and People guessing L.L. Cool J.:

david_deacon.)

"Vanilla Ice? I loved him in the Ninja Turtles movie." -

lazdixi

"I think if I go into show business, I'm going to perform under the name Cairpirinha. I'm sweet and tart and hit you upside the head like a gold brick. It's the closest you can get to a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster that I've found. (The scorpion on the cachaça label should have been my first clue.)" -

ladyvyola

"tonya harding, aka 'say goodbye to your kneecaps bitches!'" -

kira_snugz

"Tracy Lords? My husband has a thing for her, a huge thing, if you know what I mean" -

becky_gardens

"Cold Miser. A.K.A. Mr. Snow, Mr. White Christmas, or Mr. Forty Below." -

billfl

"Ice-enhower" -

potassiumman

"Boo-Boo-Kitty-Fuck" -

docrefa

(+1, Jay and Silent Bob – CV&LL)

"Well, of course, she must have three different names.
First of all,
there's the name
that the family use daily,
A name that is peculiar, and more dignified,
and of course, let us not forget the
Deep and inscrutable singular Name." -

infintysquared

(+1, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. -CV)

"When I was a kid, you only heard all three of your names if you were in serious trouble with your mama." -

madkestrel

"Was she red marrow or yellow marrow or a vegetable marrow? Inquiring minds want to know." -

sskipstress

"For a second i thought that last name was Morrow with the first initials T and O, and, if this person was a porn star, it'd be a bad name to have, because we all know Tomorrow never comes." -

umbralcorax

"His parents might as well have hung a 'whoop my ass' sign on his back." -

fmh

(Apparently, that was the point. -CV)

"Ice-T. Now comes in three flavors -- lemon, peach and badass!" -

germankitty

"Rule number one for criminals in NYC: If Ice-T is coming at you, confess. And don't run." -

zihuatanejo
"Is that Ice-T? 'cause I gotta tell you, that makes me groan every time I watch Law and Order (dun dun)." -

killabee886
"Ice T. Fascinating career. From 'Cop Killer' to Detective Tutuola in what, ten years? Certainly beats out Ice Cube and (shudder) Vanilla Ice." -

stephe

"I think the 90's child in me always wished Ice-T would end each episode of SVU with an inspiring rap about the day's events and the lessons everyone's learned. Sadly, they never accepted my suggestion. Oh well. Maybe when Law & Order SVU: The Animated Series comes out." -

teh_antisecks

Correct Answer: Ice-T

5. In chemistry, a set of compounds with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae are called what?

"Ohoho. Icey, what you did there." -

ejia_arath03

"Two chemistry questions? I can shenanigans." -

naraht
"dur? gah? meh? uhh I like potatos" -

tarpo

"I'm a history major, not a doctor, Jim!" -

thalassatx

"The æ is one of my favorite diphthongs out there. Just say it. Æ!" -

fictionalsolace

(Huh huh, you said diphthong. -CV)

"Democrats." -

drbear

"Mormons" -

mistressjennfer

"Ikea furniture" -

illogicalvulcan

(Full credit, because you speak the truth. -CV)

"A dirty science lie. It does it because Jesus says so, just stick with that and we're good." -

shinga

"The only chemistry I know anything about is the chemistry of LOVE, baby!" -

ellistrae

"I'm sorry, you lost me at chemistry. I only passed that GCSE cos my teacher liked to leer at me. His wife topped herself in the oven, tragic, but not an excuse to look down my blouse." -

rebeccas_star

"Mighty Morphing Minerals!!" -

palapaloozaa

"Whut cho talkin bout Amedeo Avogadro, its 'Diff'rent Structures!'" -

writersblock_va

"All I know is the generic narcotics are better then the name brand. DAMN good vibes. Almost makes the crippling migraines worth it." -

lots42

"Isotopes. They live in their city called Isotopolis, but they have a problem with vermin - Liceotopes and Miceotopes. If they like you, they call you a Niceotope. The red light district is called Viceotopes and it's their main export, apart from Riceotopes." -

elvenpiratelady

(Hey, if you gotta be wrong, be spectacularly so. -CV)

"ISOMERS!! God, this quiz is like a chemical engineer's nerdgasm!" -

first_seventhe

" Mmmm, pictographicalicious. -CV

" -

quasar360

"Few people know that Princess Ariel and her twin sister Aretha are isomermaids." -

spatialrift47

"I know this one! It's like glucose, fructose, and galactose! Gluke, fruke, and galack! YAY SCIENCE." -

raepixy3
(59 hours later...)
"Wow, I just reread my answer and realized that I never actually said 'isomer'. But now I did. Yay SCIENCE!" -

raepixy3

Correct Answer: Isomers

"Add some cool speakers and you get stereoisomers." -

etumukutenyak

6. Where do you go to chill out?

"I do not chill. I wait." -

zihuatanejo

"I'm already so cool that if I were to chill out it would trigger the next ice-age!" -

blindgeoff

"In Soviet Russia, going out chills YOU." -

docrefa

(Apparently, Michigan is like Soviet Russia, according to 6 of you. Wisconsin too, for

drbear and

tweeti. -CV)

"In Arizona, there is no place to chill out. Well, unless you live in Flagstaff. Lucky bastards." -

i_calql8

"I be in da Club." -

uncut_diamond

"Riverside Pig'n'Whistle. Those oddly named British pubs baffle and amuse me...and get me drunk!" -

sometimespez

"Pod 6!" -

iamza
"Anywhere but pod 6. It's full of jerks. " -

the_antisecks

"I'll just hang out for a while at my Fortress of Solitude." -

thepikey

"To

ljdq! Where the gin and pudding flow, and everyone always knows your username." -

rikchik

(Though we don't always spell it correctly. – LL)

"To my computer, where I load up UT2004 and relax by running over my enemies with the biggest truck I can find. I think this is good practise for my driving lessons." -

mrpyro

(+1, UT2004. M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL! -CV)

"I retreat to my private reading room, relax with a good book, and listen to the lilting gentle sounds of my kids whining and crying on the Other side of the bathroom door. I'm going to install soundproofing soon... " -

writersblock_va

"Nowhere near the ex-boyfriend who liked to play with refrigerated glass dildos, I can tell you that. There are some meanings of "chill out" I can do without, thankyouverymuch." -

deza

(Yowza. -AL&CV&LL)

"I go to the library. Seriously. I am a bibliophile by nature and all those books, the smell of all that ink typed upon all those pages tends to mellow me out quite a bit. Books are my crack." -

ifeedformula

"Let's see. I've got fuzzy slippers, a cable remote, a laptop with wifi, a well-stocked liquor cabinet, and a pizza place that delivers.... I'm thinking I'm not going anywhere." -

ladyvyola

"I just hide under my desk until the voices stop." -

billfl

"I like to burrow under my covers, like a large ground-burrowing animal of some kind. Or perhaps one that lives in a cave? Cave-burrowing, is there such a thing?" -

jade_sage

"I call up Lando Calrissian and ask for his special carbonite treatment. Very chill." -

spotts1701

(I hope he gives you an ice-cold Colt 45 with that. -CV)

And there you have it! Interrupting Valentine's Week with an Ice-theme may seem cold, but that's ok; we'll heat things up a bit later somehow. Somewhere.

Happy President's Day for anybody who gets today off of work; I do, which is admittedly why this quiz is late this morning. Afternoon. Whatever.

Thanks for playing, and tune in tomorrow for more!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Current Mood: cool
Current Music: ICE ICE BABY!