ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 26 May 2008

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Even though it's Memorial Day, the quiz must go on! So happy Monday, and enjoy!

1. Fun with literature! Name the play from whence this passage hails:
"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear."

"Dude, that is so totally fae." -

fizrep

"I wish I could apply that passage to the hour and a half I spent watching the horror that was The Star Wars Holiday Special." -

holdouttrout

(There is no undoing the horror that is the Star Wars Holiday Special. -CV)

"Hamlet 2: Havana Nights" -

palapaloozaa

"Why is it that sometimes Shakespeare sounds as if he were a high school student faced with 'Write a Poem about Anything; just make sure it rhymes!' homework?" -

germankitty

"Robert Sean Leonard made me cry watching 'House MD' last night and now you just totally reminded me of 'Dead Poet's Society'. I need a tissue." -

theninth and several others. +1 to everyone who remembered "Dead Poet's Society".

"Thank 'Dead Poet's Society'
Taught 'Dream', o' Shakespeare, acc'dent'ly,
Thank, too, Netflix, which help'd me on,
My quest for Leonard, Robert Sean." -

katiebgood

"Oh My God a Shakespeare query
Classic verse doth make me merry
The answer to this it may seem
Is A Midsummer Night's Dream" -

confusedpuppy

(+1 to both, waxing poetic. -CV)

"Yakko: If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended:
Dot : 'If the actors in our show made you mad, it'll be OK if you
look at it this way:'
Yakko: That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear,
Dot : 'You fell asleep on your butt and dreamed the whole thing.'" -

drbear

(+1, Animaniacs. -CV)

"I know what you did last Midsummer Night." -

canuckdesz

"Puck was the original closet transvestite. Oh, come on, you know that fairyboi was so playing dress-up in Titania's closet while she was off kissing ass." -

deza

"The only play in my Shakespeare class that my old fart of a teacher couldn't make boring. There's a guy with an ass's head. Seriously! You can't make that boring if you tried!" -

kallaneboi

"Shakespeare thought Midsummer Night's Dream sucked so bad he wrote in an apology. Why can't modern movie makers be so polite?" -

woap

"That a pretty weak apology for a crappy play like Midsummer's Night Dream in my opinion. 'Just pretend you were asleep and dreamed it.' My dreams don't cost hard cash like a play or movie fairy boy." -

mcclintock

"it's the only bit of any of the plays I can remember, and only because I was fairy and theatre obsessed at age 8." -

opportunemoment

"Everyone totally gets down to a bisexually animalistic orgy at the end. Shakespeare's a kinky bastard." -

jrho

Correct Answer: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

2. What television show described itself as "a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man... who does not exist"?

"Can I Be Any More Vague?" -

alya1989262

"The Geiko Caveman show" -

gabriels_mommy

"The Woman's Ideal Guy." -

fizrep

"Nowhere Man: The World is At His Command" -

quasar360

(+1, The Beatles. -CV)

"Mister Roger's Neighborhood." -

dhole

(Well, he did spend a lot of time in the land of make-believe... -CV)

"csi miami! because that much over acting is hiding something thats not there at all." -

kira_snugz

"Manimal. He spent more time being a beastie than a spy/hero." -

canuckdesz

(I'll give you a +1 for being the only person besides me who ever saw Manimal. -CV)

"DEEDOOODEEEDOOODEEEDOOOOO! Sorry, whenever I hear those dulcet tones of the Twilight Zone, it's like Insta-Boner(tm)." -

frostycakes

(...yowza. -CV)

"Before they invented versions that look like people, the Cylons, in their search for the answer to life, the universe, and everything, built K.I.T.T." -

sskipstress

"The invisible man? Who does exist I suppose and doesn't cast a shadow, so erm actually it can't be that can it. Ah... poo." -

spiffington

"I want to say The Fugitive. I can't resist the allure of capturing the one-armed man, plus the guy dyed his hair with shoe polish. Shoe polish! It doesn't work." -

perfect_beaker

"Night Shadows? No, wait, I’m thinking of Dark Shadows. Um, that other vampire show...Forever Knight? Kolchak the Night Stalker? Night Gallery? Damn, TV needs to get out in the sun more." -

laughingacademy

(Good vampire recap... too bad it's not one of them. -CV)

"Ritter Reiter (*so* much cooler than his American counterpart Knight Rider)" -

mathnerd

(+1, because that is funnier in German. Go figure. -CV)

"I don't know. But the voice-over guy probably made it sound really dramatic. 'A shadowy flight...into the dangerous world...of a man...who does not exist...'" -

seldear

"General Lee > KITT. That is all." -

caffeineod

(Them's fightin' words, pardner. -CV)

"The show with a car that's far smarter than it's driver" -

buzz

"Is it bad that I had a crush on the car?" -

deza

(Depends on how you used the stick shifter. -CV)

"Knight Rider, starring KITT, the car with the sexy voice. I seem to remember some guy in there too, but he was kinda homely and had bad hair. ...Who cares about that anyway. KITT!" -

raisedbymoogles

Correct Answer: Knight Rider

"Forget the car that drives itself and talks, I want the flying car.....where are the flying cars they promised us dang it?!?!" -

tweeti

3. What is the more common name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major?

"Shakespeare and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik? Who kidnapped our

ljdq and left us with culture?" -

sestree

(Number of G-string jokes: yeah, you all know who you are. -CV)

"'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' 'G, Major, I think so, but how long do you think we'll have to play this crap before everyone falls asleep and we can take over the world?'" -

adalger

"I think they used it to sell McDonalds stuff too with a kid on piano at one point." -

mcclintock

(No, I think that was Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. -CV)

"Strings is like an Engrish version of Sting, right?" -

akiyasan

"Make-Out Music for Nerds" -

marasca

"They usually call it Serenade No. 14, 'cause 13 is bad luck." -

shel99

"More Annoying Inconsequential Stuff for the Viola Section: Saw Away, No One Can Hear You Anyway" -

quasar360

"Ich weisse was du machten wie eine Nacht letze Mai. Wow, I hope my German is close to correct, else this could be embarrassing." -

illogicalvulcan

(Your German is, alas, fugly. However, full credit for good memory. +1. -CV)

"People should take more pick-up lines from classical music. Wanna make a little 'Night music?' Fermata ritardando!" -

confusedpuppy

"When I was little I always thought it was called 'little nichtmuzik' which means 'cousin music' in dutch. or 'gay music' depending on how you translate nicht. but I was small and pure and innocent then so I didn't think of the second translation." -

b_hulsmans

"Eine Kleine Bork Bork Bork" -

wowthatisminty

"eine Kleine Kurt Wagner. R-R-R-Rock me Alan Cumming!" -

finn2

"Eine Kleine Nicdt Music, by PDQ Bach." -

canuckdesz,

mezzolibra,

theninth

"Eine Kleine Nacht METAL! How could you not want to totally headbang with a head of hair like those guys? Beethoven throwing the horns, Bach spitting fire, Grieg biting the heads off of unsuspecting Belgians...." -

etcet
"Mozzie Gets His Groove On, motherf***ers!" -

wiredwizard
"Rock Me, Amadeus. Mozart's passion for his fellow composer was legendary." -

gorghte,

i_calql8

"My daughter used to have a toy of five electronic blocks in a base. Each block played about 2 measures of that damn song, and you could change the order they played in by what order the blocks were in. The batteries in that particular piece of parental torture stopped working pretty quickly, let me tell you." -

deza

"Oh!
I know!
I'll get this answer right!
But,
to make,
it funny is my plight.
I love...
to take the Daily Quiz...
although weekly it is...
and some weeks I'm remiss..." -

peaseblossom03

(+5, awesomeness. -AL&CV&LL)

Correct Answer: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music)

4. In the graphic novel "Watchmen", Hollis Mason and Dan Dreiberg were the older and younger versions of which heroic figure?

"Darkwing Duck" - 14 of you, which is six more "Darkwing Duck" answers than we got for #2

"Sam Vimes" - 9 of you

"Would that be NightRider? As played by The Hoff?" -

kittycatness

(Two questions too late. -CV)

"My teachers always told me comic books would rot my brain. Personally, I think gin does a better job." -

sskipstress

"When I was young I wasn't allowed to read graphic novels, when I got old enough to read them, I had kids and couldn't read them because I didn't want them finding them and reading them, I guess I can get around to it now because

sskipstress isn't having any babies she just keeps getting more fish." -

csflick

"Weren't they the bartender and doctor on Northern Exposure?" -

dhole

"Guy With Changeable Names... uhhh... Night!" -

shogunsquirrel

(Actually, it ended up being Name With Changeable Guys... -CV)

"The safest answer in my childhood Sunday school class was Jesus, and I think I'll stick with that." -

raphsody606

"Did John Carter ever time travel? I don't think it'd be all that tricky for the planet that invented radium bulbs and gladiator chess to come up with the Barsoom flux capacitator." -

reticent_lass

(+1 for knowing about John Carter and Barsoom. Most impressive. -CV)

"The Ambiguously Gay Duo" -

i_calql8

(+1, SNL. -CV)

"Nightwatcher? No, that's Raphael. Such an adorable jackass." -

raisedbymoogles

(+1, TMNT. -CV)

"Cogsworth. After Belle and the Prince got married, he started up the secret society of superheroes, named the 'Watch'men. His second in command was Big Ben." -

confusedpuppy

"Night Owl! The bastard lovechild of Batman and the Blue Beetle, which is a mental image that I did not need." -

flipthefrog

"THE DARK KNIGHTS WHO SAY NI." -

shadowsburn

"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." -

radicaldreamerr

(+1, Batman. The original one. -CV)

"fuck those two. It's all about Ozymandias. If I had three wishes, I'd waste one on something stupid and impulsive. Then, when I realized what the hell I was doing, I'd wish to be as totally fucking awesome as Ozymandias (Bubastis included). Guess what the third one would be." -

fizrep

(Well, since you already have a busty fiancee... I don't know, a coke? -CV)

"NiteOwl! He gives a hoot! Plus he hooks up with the slutty supertramp at the end." -

mcclintock

"Nite Owl, who obviously didn't save the world with his amazing powers of spelling." -

opportunemoment

(He was l33t before his time. -CV)

Correct Answer: Nite Owl

5. What director/producer/writer is responsible for such films as "Praying With Anger" and "The Happening"?

"Uwe Boll" -

wiredwizard,

bluetourmaline

"The Happening makes me think of 'What's Happening' and that annoying J.J. guy. DYNO MITE!" -

ifeedformula

"I'd like The Happening to dispense with the plot about relationship drama and just feature 90 minutes of people offing themselves in ever more grotesque and clever ways." -

fizrep

"George Lucas. 'There has been an incident. The first step is loss of speech. The second is physical disorientation. The third is suicide. We urge you, not to watch The Phantom Menace.'" -

lots42

"Praying with anger sounds like it should be someone like Jerry Falwell." -

cmseward

"I wonder if deaf folks went to Signs thinking they could understand it better than a regular movie." -

mcclintock

"The only movie of his I've actually watched is 'Signs', which kind of freaked me out up until the part where the aliens were killed by water. I always wondered if they were related to the Wicked Witch of the West, and if dropping a house on them would have the same effect (but pretty much anything dies if you drop a house on it)." -

kallaneboi

"I feel like it's all whats-his-name's fault. Frank Miller and whores!" -

akiyasan

"M. Night Shamalamadingdong." - pretty much everyone
"WHAT A TWEEEEEST!" - ...and another 10 of you

"can't he get a normal name? like Allan Smithee or something?" -

b_hulsmans
"Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan just doesn't roll off the tongue the same way, does it?" -

silkandchrome

"M. Night Sha-Na-Na. 'The Village' would have been so much cooler with Bowser. Actually, any film would have been cooler with Bowser." -

kristinmachina

"What does the M stand for? Nobody knows. OMG IT'S A BIG MYSTERY- oh wait it's on his IMDB page. I call spoiler!" -

opportunemoment

"M. Night Shyamalan, our generation's answer to Alfred Hitchcock, but only if you forget about the complete and total lack of follow-through with the whole suspense thing." -

mezzolibra

"My idea of heaven is waking from a coma to find I have a dozen or more new M Night movies to watch. My idea of hell is having someone spoil them all for me before I get started." -

dreamsphoto

(You get credit for being the only person to give him thumbs up. -CV)

Correct Answer: M. Night Shyamalan

6. What do you like to do at night?

"Your mom." - 11 of you. This time, I did see it coming.

"Things I Did Last Night." -

shel99

(Ok, that I did not see coming. Fair enough. -CV)

"I wear my sunglasses at night." -

rikchik,

dhole>,

radicaldreamerr,

mistressjennfer,

sskipstres

"Writing, socializing, cooking, fine dining, I like pina coladas and gettin' caught in the rain....wait a minute." -

mezzolibra

"To sleep, perchance to dream...(but no nightmares!)" -

majorsamfan

"I like to belch and fart, but I mostly like to fart." -

csflick

"I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars" -

blindgeoff

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"I am at the age where sleep is the most important thing of all. More important than food, more important than sex. If I'm lucky, I'll dream about sex. But sleep is more important." -

ifeedformula

"Sleep. I'd make a terrible vampire, between that and my love of garlic." -

peaseblossom03

"I fight crime, if by 'fight crime' you mean 'try to find a spot in my own (double) bed that is not occupied by cat'." -

elvenpiratelady

"I used to work night shifts, so I'd be awake all night long. Alone. While everyone was asleep. And people wonder why I'm 30 and not married." -

kristinmachina

"I like to transform and roll out." -

raisedbymoogles

"Lie in bed and dream of all the sex I've missed out on, ever since I got married." -

i_calql8

"I couldn't think of anything funny. So I typed Night into Google Maps to see if there was a town called night somewhere in the world. Inexplicably, I was directed to a town called Oulu in Finland. Looks like a nice place. Looks of good fjordage. I suspect I'd like drinking there. But then that's true of most places." -

marasca

"how about you guys? What do you do at night??" -

spiffington

If we had our way, LL would be cavorting with the manly cast of Stargate: Insert Spinoff Here, AL would be in hour 73 of her epic Civilization marathon, and CV's liver would have finally gone belly-up from being pickled in gin, champagne, or very good beer. Alas, we never have our way, so we have to settle for sleep. -AL&CV&LL

And that's the way it is.

Thanks for playing all; hope those of you who had a long weekend enjoyed your long weekend. Everyone else, we'll see you tomorrow with a new quiz to challenge the senses! And by challenge we mean not really, except for the sense of humor, which is the key sense to challenge. Really, we're not challenging your taste. You can't eat Quiz!

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

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I decided to look up KITT's voice on a lark, and do you know what?

KITT is voiced by the same guy as Boy Meets World character Mr. Feeny. I must now gouge out my eyes every time I hear KITT's voice and think, "Damn, that's sexy".

Unless I can somehow brain-bleach this info away... Hmmm...

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