ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 24 March 2008

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"Beer, not just for breakfast anymore!" -

braynstorm

"Two beer quizzes in a row? Is this a good example for the children, mods? At the tender age of seventeen and a half,I myself feel violated." -

neblinaclara

Good thing you missed out on our gin and whisky quizzes, then...

1. What is the term for the plasma atmosphere of the Sun, best seen during total solar eclipses?

"You mention 'plasma,' and the first thing in my mind is Egon Spengler shouting, 'DON'T CROSS THE BEAMS!'" -

infintysquared

(Because that would be bad. -AL)

(+1, Ghostbusters. -CV)

"Not sure, but apparently 7 days after you see it you die." -

nhudris_embrace,

germankitty

(+1, The Ring. -CV)

"You know, it's that thing, where once upon a time you were falling in love? But now you're only falling apart? Hmm, there's nothing I can say. Oops, wrong kind of total eclipse." -

bad_latin

(+1, Bonnie Tyler. -CV)

"M-m-m-myyyy Corona!" - 15 of you

"Nothing rhymes with Cindy Crawford after nine CORONAS." -

cold_clarity

(+1, ~~Weird Al Yankovic~~ someone mistaken for Weird Al Yankovic. -CV)

"On my friend's birthday, we were sitting at the bar. I ordered a Guinness (for him) and an Abita Amber (local microbrew, for me). The bartender gives me an Abita and a Corona, and a lime...in the Amber." -

caffeineod

(Fired. -CV&AL&LL)

"The only thing I know about the sun is that the heat and light from the sun come from the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, carbon, boron, chloron, fluoron, moron, and estrogen." -

jade_sage

(It looked like you were doing pretty good until you invented "chloron". -4. -AL)

"When suddenly, and without warning, there was this TO-TAL E-CLIPSE OF THE SUN! *diiing*" -

wrestlingdog

(+1, Little Shop Of Horrors. -CV)

"PLASMA! LASER BEAM PEW PEW" -

electric_worry

"Solar, I barely know'er!" -

faeriedragon

"The Smashing Orangey Bit." -

puredeadthingy

"Ooh! Ooh! The corona! And those big pretty arch-things that pop up when the magnetic field get all effed from the rotation are imaginatively named coronal loops! And the corona's way hotter than the actual surface, much like a TV star's persona compared to the actual human in question." -

reticent_lass

"Also, you shouldn't put lime in your Corona. Otherwise you're violating Man Law." -

kittycatness

"Much like the plasma atmosphere of the sun, Corona without lime sears away your soul and beckons insanity. I wonder what would happen with the sun's corona if we put lime in it." -

woap

"Important safety tip: one cannot safely watch an eclipse through beer goggles." -

laughingacademy

"The corona is NOT best seen during solar eclipses, unless you REALLY want it to be the last thing you ever see. My science teacher yelled at me for ten whole minutes once when he saw me looking at an eclipse." -

nakedblueninja

"The corona, source of a good large fraction of the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which is why looking directly at a total solar eclipse is nearly as dangerous as looking directly at the sun. If more people knew this--at least when their cognitive processing isn't scrambled from Corona--and therefore wore sunglasses on eclipse days, there'd be a lot less eye damage from eclipse-watching. This has been your public service announcement of the week." -

mercuryblue144

Correct Answer: The corona

"Apparently the sun is made of crappy Mexican booze?" -

jessicamariek

2. Name the two actors who have played the character of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"Brom was one. Then he died, and a big blue lizard made this giant Snow White crystal coffin-type thing with her mind as an apology for letting Luke 2.0 live." -

reticent_lass

(-1, Eragon. -CV)

"Ian McKellan and Samuel L. Jackson? (If it wasn't that way, it should have been.)" -

neblinaclara

"Dick Sargent and Dick York." -

i_calql8

(-1 for gratuitous dick jokes. -CV)

"I'm still trying hard to erase those three prequels from my memory. Well, except for the Tusken Raiders throwing stuff at the pod racers - reminded me of home." -

madkestrel

"That guy who thinks he's the Scottish Ben Affleck and that guy who played Smiley in all those spy movies." -

david_deacon

"There can be only one. Alec Guinness. Oh! Now I want Alec Guinness to be in a Highlander movie. That'd be awesome. Except for the part where he's dead and shit. Or am I confusing him with Peter O'Toole again?" -

illogicalvulcan

(Alec Guinness: dead and shit. Peter O'Toole: not dead, not in Star Wars. Peter Cushing: was in Star Wars, is now dead and shit. -CV)

"'Not as hot as Hayden Christensen' and 'Not as hot as Harrison Ford'." -

freezer818

(That's SIR Not as hot as Harrison Ford, thank you. -CV)

"Alec 'Stop asking me about that stupid space movie' Guinness and Ewan 'This is the one movie series I didn't get naked for' McGregor." -

rikchik, noting that several others commented and Ewan McGregor's propensity for displays of wang

(LL would like to state that she has never, for some strange and incomprehensible reason, seen this mythical member of Ewan McGregor's. She hopes (very much so, thank you very much) to have rectified this by the time these answers are posted. AL&CV have also never seen Mr. McGregor's Man Meat; however, they are planning to keep it that way.)

"Why yes I have seen Obi-Wan's corona. He shows it off often enough..." -

revieloutionne
"Sir Alec Guiness is thankfully unnaked in all movie roles." -

jrho

"Alas, his name is not Gregor McEwan, or we'd be having a two-for-one drink special." -

caffeineod

"Alec Guinness and that St. Pauli Girl." -

watergal

"When Darth Vader cut down Alec Guinness, was he planning to save the body to make Black and Tans?" -

thepikey

"As an eight-year-old I performed one of the great doubletakes of all time when I realized that Herbert Pocket in the David Lean film of Great Expectations was a young Obi-Wan Kenobi. Now I’m haunted by the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is writing Star Wars/Dickens!verse crossovers. 'Use the Force, Pip...'" -

laughingacademy

"If Ewan MacGregor looks like Alec Guiness when he gets old, he'll be lucky." -

cjtremlett

"These are not the actors you are looking for." -

captainsblog

Correct Answer: Alec Guinness and Ewan Mcgregor

(No, there is not a Mcgregor beer. There is a McGregor winery and a Red MacGregor beer. Close enough. -CV)

3. What Japanese mythological creature resembles a horse with scales and horns or antlers and is known for sensing truth and lies?

"The... beer monster." -

theninth

"The first mythological creature that comes to mind is the chupacabra, but I'm pretty sure that's wrong." -

neblinaclara

"fanfic writers got to the mythological canon over there, too, huh? Seriously, look at that fucking description - that's like the combination of a dragon, a pony, and Wonder Woman. Some 11 year old just had their first orgasm and doesn't know why." -

etcet

"Godzilla's cousin, Rambeer" -

thalassatx

"I am pretty damn sure I saw it on Care Bears!" -

bluetourmaline

(-1, Care Bears, who do not bounce here and there and everywhere. -CV)

"Damned if I know, but I think that I can safely assume that, since it sounds manga-ish, tentacle porn is involved. " -

speckled_llama

(Pft. CV wishes. – LL)

"Was this ever covered in Xena? Cos if not, then I don't know. " -

crystalcazzie

(-1, using Xena for knowledge. -CV)

"If it doesn't morph into something big and robotic it ain't japanese." -

b_hulsmans

"This creature can sense itself, because obviously you made this bullshit up." -

fizrep
"I'd say you're making this shit up, but the Japanese are crazy. *hides*" -

melayneseahawk

"I dunno. How many hit points does it have?" -

watergal

"The Kirin! Look what Magic: the Gathering has taught me! " -

woap

"I don't care if it isn't the kappa. Supposedly they suck out your life force THROUGH YOUR ASS. In case anyone didn't catch that: THROUGH. YOUR. ASS. I think this explains the entirety of Japanese porn." -

alexmegami

"The wild horned porygurafu is in fact admissible as court evidence. If you can get one to show up." -

faeriedragon,

undeadgoat

"The Qilin is Chinese. Assuming that's what you're referring to, because I don't know any other scaly deer things." -

electric_worry

(You are correct. But the Japanese borrwed the myth and changed it into something else. They're sneaky that way. -CV)

"I knew there was something wacky in that wasabi sauce." -

faery_wing

"A keyring is also good for holding your keys. Wait, what? That's kirin? ... Never mind." -

infintysquared

"The famed Kirin Carpenter: binges when you're telling the truth, purges when you're lying" -

captainsblog

Correct Answer: The kirin

"As opposed to the K-Y-rin, a magical animal known for secreting water-soluble lubricants." -

thepikey

4. Who is player #12 on Manchester United's current roster?

"I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A FREE MAN!!!" -

i_calql8

"Why did it have to be ~~snakes~~ soccer?" -

electric_worry

"First you want sports answers, then you want foreign sports answers - what's next, extraterrestrial sports answers?" -

rikchik

"All we need to know about football is that SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!" -

prettylily

(Full credit, as always. -CV)

"Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck.... GOOSE!" -

infintysquared

"I do not know the names of soccer, sorry, football, players, except for David Beckham, and I think 'Becks' is a stretch." -

shogunsquirrel

"Wouldn't it be awesome if it was Count Duckula? I used to love that cartoon. That and Danger Mouse. I miss little Penfold at times..." -

seraphic_slayer

"I don't know, but my birthday is 12/12, so I didn't learn whether you were supposed to write the month or the day first until I was like 11. Then later I found out they do it the other way around in Europe, so when I messed up, I wasn't wrong, just prematurely cosmopolitan." -

undeadgoat

"I didn't know they assigned jersey numbers on the amount of feet a player has to kick a ball with:
I think that's player number 38. His Nike endorsement was worth millions. -CV

I think that's player number 38. His Nike endorsement was worth millions. -CV

" -

germankitty

"Old and Busted: Player #12
New Hotness: Client #9" -

fizrep

"Viktor Krum." -

elfie_samurai

"Ed Grubermann" -

wiredwizard

"Wait, 11 players on a soccer team...... TRICK QUESTION! It's a pint glass dressed up as a player!" -

faeriedragon

"Heineken - because soccer players have nice heinies." -

emilyap

(I only know about rugby players. French ones. – LL)

"Ben Foster: Australian for soccer player." -

braynstorm

Correct Answer: Ben Foster

5. What was the first trademark registered in England?
(Hint:
)

"Is this a trick? Will I be banninated for web cheating if I click that link?" -

katzies

(Surprisingly, no. We're not that mean. Well, maybe a little. -CV)

(And, just to get it out of the way, "boobies", "cleavage", and "titflowers" are NOT legitimate trademarks. Nice try, everyone. -AL&CV&LL)

"Flowers in boobs? Poor Puss in Boots never had a chance." -

killabee886

"That was a Page 3 Girl in the 1640s." -

drbear

"... For once It's my mom. Huh." -

revieloutionne

"I can totally write you a three page paper on the composition, line, and meaning of that painting, but that will not tell me the answer to this question. *le sigh*" -

melayneseahawk

(Proof once again that majoring in Art does nothing for one's future. -CV)

"Considering that her reflection really shouldn't be where it is, I'd say defective mirrors." -

lady_deirdre

"The intestine-squeezing corset?" -

seraphic_slayer

"Judging by those hideous bangs, I'd say the Flowbee." -

bad_latin

"My hairstyle. The bar wench stole my hair! It looks better on me, although she is rocking the that-drunkard-just-vomited-on-my-clean-floor forlorn expression." -

emilyap

"Wait, is this like those pictures where you have to figure out what's missing? if so, totally a bottle opener. All that booze and no way to get to it, that's why she looks so damn sad." -

labellementeuse

"Pink triangles??!?!!?! England trademarked teh gay? And here I thought it came from those wily Greeks, whaddya know." -

thepikey,

speckled_llama

"Is that a bottle of Bass in the lower right corner?" -

laughingacademy

(Why, yes; what a coincidence! -CV)

"Daddy may have sung tenor, but that momma has Bass." -

yedijoda

"Bass Beer... 'Ever so much better than dead fish with the same name!'" -

blindgeoff

"Obviously it was filed by a dyslectic who saw that picture, said 'Pale Ass Babe,' and had trouble filling out the forms." -

captainsblog

"You know, I have a dream, that one day I'll get to NYC and random into the Cash Cab, which I'll win because I've played the LJDQ and learned such wacky facts as this one." -

madkestrel

Correct Answer: The Bass Red Triangle

"Not to be confused with Citgo's red triangle, beloved by Bostonians." -

rikchik

6. What's your favourite non-American beer?

"BRAINS! I've never had it. It's just fun to go into bars, pubs, and beer stores and say 'Hey, do y'all have brains in here?!'" -

theninth

"I don't drink beer. I drink Midori Sours. Two of them and I'm swearing like a sailor. True story." -

lots42

"What is it with y'all and the beer? Haven't you tried rum?" -

madkestrel

(Rest assured, AL&CV have tried a large number of non-beer-class alcoholic beverages. We're not sure about LL, but she has kids, so I'm sure alcohol is a necessary part of her day. -CV)

"You can keep your fancy ales! You can drink 'em by the flagon! But the only brew for the brave and TRUUUUUUE comes from the Green Dragon!" -

elfie_samurai

(+1, LOTR:ROTK. -CV)

"I can tell you that in *counts* 32 days, baybee! And I suspect there will be gin, if not pudding, at the festivities." -

melayneseahawk

(Come on, drink up. All the other illegals have been doing it. -CV)

"I don't drink beer myself, but I pick Molson's Ice, because it makes my husband happy and sometimes he dozes off before the game is over and I can steal back the tv zapper. " -

ophelialaughs

"St. Pauli Girl, for two reasons that have NOTHING to do with beer." -

drbear

(

tweeti is from St. Paul? -CV)

"Whatever's being served by the sturdy, buxom Nordic girl." -

bad_latin

"Heineken...the beer for Jamaicans who don't like Red Stripe or Guinness..." -

deadlydiva

"Guinness/Smithwicks half-and-half, though if

chaosvizier is buying, I'll have a Vielle Bon Secours, thanks." -

shogunsquirrel

(If you find me, and find it, then I'll spring for a pint. If we're splitting the whole bottle, then we're going dutch. -CV)

"Warsteiner Dunkel: Because only German beer is really beer." -

woap

"Optimator Spaten, as the perfect vehicle for FLAMING DOCTOR PEPPERS!" -

fizrep

(Word up. Drink up! -CV)

"Gulden Draak - because bipedal locomotion is for sissies." -

herm42

"Oh, there was this raspberry dark beer thing that was heavenly. Oh, how I wish I knew what it was, or even where I drank it. Oh, what a night. Oh, what a beer." -

emilyap

"I have a local microbrewery called the dodging duck. It's on a local river and ducks cross the street...so I hope the undodged ducks aren't an ingredient." -

smokedglass7429

"I once chugged a pint of Stella on a whim. Admittedly it was a drunken whim." -

sometimespez

" If it's good enough for Her Majesty's Forces, then it's good enough for me. -CV

" -

david_deacon

"pick a beer, any beer" -

b_hulsmans

(I choose C) All Of The Above. -CV)

"One time in Brussels my host insisted I couldn't visit Belgium without trying beer. On the menu (4 pages of different types of beer!) we found peach beer. It tasted like peaches, and resembled beer about as much as a 7ft tall drag queen in a sequined dress resembles Mother Teresa. Best pint I ever had!" -

lady_deirdre

"La Fin du Monde, largely on the basis of the name." -

laughinacademy

(I tried that once. It didn't taste as apocalyptic as it implied. -CV)

"Guiness. I like my beer as black as my soul. But a perfect night is drinking your way around the world by trying different beers." -

cjtremlett

"Guinness makes my boyfriend all lovey-dovey, so it gets my vote." -

jessicamariek

"Guiness because it makes me smart. And you mom hot!" -

gorghte

Most Popular Answer: Guinness

And that's it for our beer-battered themes. Tune in next time when we have a decidedly non-alcoholic theme, so that everyone can sober up and utilize those brain cells to the best of their ability. It'll be a hoot.

Thanks all for playing, and welcome aboard to any first-timers here. Everyone's welcome! Even if you don't drink beer. Now go on, tell your friends about the quiz, so we can acquire more funny.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

captainsblog.livejournal.com

No, there is not a Mcgregor beer. There is a McGregor winery and a Red MacGregor beer.

Damn right on the first. Fine Finger Lakes vintners at the top of a hill so steep it took out the tranny on my '87 Pontiac (lovingly named Cruela de Bonneville). After that, we joined their mail-a-bottle program known as the Clan Club. With a C, not a K; no cracker could ever navigate that hill in a hooded robe.)

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

Oh Finger Lakes, you are so tasty and yet so dangerous. Must do more wine tasting... yum.

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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