ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 7 July 2008

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1. What were the call signs of Officer Frank Poncherello and Officer Jon Baker?

"Ooh, CHiPS! I watched it for the motorcycles. Hey, they acted just as well as the people did, and got a lot less pay for the same stunts!" -

etumukutenyak

"CHiPs and Dip. " -

pyllgrum

"Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" -

newbia

(No, that was that other show. Fonzie did not cameo. -CV)

"'Will Police for Food'?" -

fmh

"The Ambiguously Gay Duo! " -

miss_katelynne

"Laverne and Shirly" -

sometimespez

"Jean-Luc Picard and Number One" -

illogicalvulcan

"Chip and Dale?" – Anonymous (aka

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t)

"'Top' and 'bottom'." -

spatialrift47

"hookers and blow" -

killabee886

"Starbuck and Boomer." -

bluetourmaline
"Starbuck and Apollo" -

david_deacon

"Maverick and Goose." -

psywildfire

"Cheech and Chong" -

marasca

"Peaches and Cream" -

angelchicken

"Goose and Ice-man" -

smokedglass7429
"Maverick and Goose" -

psywildfire

"All I know is that in that Scrubs fantasy with Carla and Elliot dressed up like them...that was hot. So very, very hot. This worries me." -

lots42

(That worries me too. -CV)

"'Marco' and 'Pod Six'" -

thepikey

(+1, Sealab. Also, Pod Six is jerks. -CV)

"LET THE POWER OF PONCH COMPEL YOU!" -

fizrep

(+1, Zorak. -CV)

"'Ponch' and 'that guy who hangs around with Ponch,' sometimes shortened to 'Ponch's friend' and 'hey you'." -

ctakahara

"Punch and Judy." -

woap,

scyllacat
"Ponch and Judy" -

distaff_exile
"how I loved their mirthful puppet shows. Jon pantomiming the removal of his sunglasses while Ponch brutally beats a suspect with his nightstick." -

tarpo
"Ponch and Judy! Book 'em, Dan-o! Murder, she wrote! I can't work with these old-fogey questions." -

bad_latin

"7 Mary 3 & 4 Yes, the fact that I knew that off the top of my head does make me feel a little dirty." -

hellziggy

Correct Answer: 7 Mary 3 and 7 Mary 4

2. How does the Chinese festival Qi Xi translate, and when does it take place?

"Knowing the chinese something like 'festival of the flowing yasmine blossom in spring time' and probably taking place in december." -

b_hulsmans

"'Let the Rivers Turn Red With the Blood of the Running Dog Imperialist Lackeys'. Mandarin is a surprizingly conscise language." -

thepikey

"National 'Assholes how know all the 2 letter Scrabble words' Day is celebrated July 7th.. Unless its on a triple word score then its the 21st." -

tarpo,

dreamsphoto,

fizrep,

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t,

holdouttrout,

marasca

(Yeah. I hate those jerks. -CV)

"My inner scrabble player got hung up trying to figure out how many points 'Quixotic' could theoretically be worth. Lessee... 2x triple word, 2x X (8), and 3 for C, assuming some poor fool provided one of the vowels. 33 for the letters, times nine (triple, triple) for a nice, tidy 297 points. Thus, this festival, whatever the fuck it is, takes place on 29 July. QED." -

etcet

"I have no idea. I learned all my Chinese from watching 'Firefly'." -

distaff_exile,

bending_sickle

"No idea. Despite Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you'll be gratified to know that actual Chinese people cannot fly." -

david_deacon

"That's pronounced like 'key she', right? So is it Female Locksmith Day? Taking place on, um, the lockiest day of the year?" -

portkey
"I hate it when I lose my Qis." -

spatialrift47

"The Chinese festival Queasy takes place in the spring; here, we call it Cinco de Mayo!" -

gixi,

kittycatness,

stormyskies

"Qi xi is the Chinese word for 'squeegee' and it takes place on the day that people wash their cars." -

woap

"'Eater of quarters', and it takes place when all the good arcade games are taken.
Silly i_calql8; Qix is for kids! -CV

" -

i_calql8

"Like every other decent festival worth its salt, it translates as 'Let's get together and drink ourselves into oblivion while singing raucous and bawdy songs (in this case in a tonal language)'. And it takes place right after the wine train comes in." -

bluetourmaline

"The Night of Sevens. Also called Chinese Valentine's Day or Magpie Festival. And it falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar. I have no idea why melons and young girls are involved. No, wait, never mind. Do I want to know?" -

rosefox8

(Naughty girl, using the internet to cheat. That's a -50, and no melons for you this month. -CV)

"I'm so glad I'm not Chinese. If I had to show my domestic skills on 'The Night of Sevens', I'd disgrace my family's name and I'd be locked in a tower forever." -

mathnerd

Correct Answer: "The Night of Sevens", on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month

3. Which Western movie features Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, and James Coburn in a remake of a film by Akira Kurosawa?

"The anime SF remake 'Samurai 7' is worth a look too - the first thing that happens is that a dude CUTS A SPACESHIP IN HALF with a SAMURAI SWORD. From the OUTSIDE. While they're IN SPACE. It is AWESOME." -

rikchik

"Billy The Kid and I" -

fizrep
"The King, McQueen and I" -

kristinmachina

"KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! TETSUOOOOOOOOOOO!!" -

blunder_buss,

rosefox8

(That would be the other Akira. -CV)

"I'm going to play the 'I probably wasn't yet born when that came out'" card and say Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, because that's just what this quiz needs: a cock in a frock on a rock." -

spatialrift47

"Silly mods, Steve McQueen isn't a movie star...he's a rat!" -

raepixy3

"7 swords for 7 heads in a duffel bag." -

akiyasan

"'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly'? … or at least, that is how I remember these three guys." -

scyllacat

"'Katana Hot Tin Roof', the moral of which is 'Sais doesn't matter.'" -

i_calql8

(+2 because AL isn't looking. -CV)

"Star Wars. Hey, I heard it was a Kurosawa remake..." -

jennielf
"Not Star Wars, that other one that rips off Seven Samurai..." -

marasca
"Akira Kurosawa made a version of The Ten Commandments?! WHAT?!" -

psywildfire

"It is not possible for me to make funny out of the awesomeness that is The Magnificent Seven. Instead, have STILL MORE AWESOME.

" -

etect

(Where the hell is Leia? – AL&LL)

(Backstage "roadie", if you know what I mean. And I think you do. -CV)

"The Magnificent Seven. I much prefer the TV show. *drools over Eric Close*
I kinda wanna see 'The Seven Samurai' - it's a classic and all, but I don't like Tom Cruise.....OH WAIT.. " -

4492

(CRUISE?!?!? In Seven Samurai!?! Them's fightin' words… - LL)

"The Magnificent Seven. That lineup has the most sheer testosterone ever put onto celluloid. Chuck Norris should wear a dress next to that cast." -

thepikey
"I can feel the testosterone from here, and they have all been dead for years." -

cmseward

"Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in the same movie?? I think my ovaries just fainted." -

miss_katelynne

"This is one my favorite movies of all time, The Magnificent Seven, if only because Yul Brynner has a shiny bald head *nod nod*" -

raphsody606

(Other films you might enjoy would be Star Trek TNG anything, X-Men anything, and those Matrix movies where Lawrence Fishburne talks jibba-jabba. -CV)

"I liked the Seven Samurai better, because they aptly illustrate the theme, 'Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.'" -

bluetourmaline

"How many IMDB profiles did you need to pull out to spell that question?" -

puredeadthingy

(My movie trivia knowledge is above average, but I did have to check to make sure I spelled Yul's last name correctly. Which I did. Whee! -CV)

Correct Answer: The Magnificent Seven

4. Which play by Aeschylus describes the war between Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of Oedipus?

"Wasn't Aeschylus a doctor? Or am I mixing him up with Asclepius? I do that all the time." -

ctakahara

"Hai my naem is Greak Myetheologey and I haeve a deiphthoeng proebleam." -

alya1989262

(Huh huh, you said diphthong. -CV)

"Can you please repeat the question without sneezing so often while asking it." -

tarpo

"Did you ever think Greeks had short form names back then like we do now? Then it would be a war between Clay and Poly, Odie's kid." -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"You'd think if someone were poly and nice, they wouldn't start wars. But nooo... Polynices insisted on giving poly a bad name." -

judith_s

"The Seven-Year Itch." -

jmthane

"Seven Mothers for Seven Brothers" -

thepikey

"Son of a Mother Fucker." -

woap

"Don't Tell Uncle-Dad the Babysitter/Mistress/Sister's Dead." -

mistressjennfer

"The Ultimate Yo Mama Joke." -

drbear

"My Dad is Creepier Than Your Dad" -

bad_latin

"'Hey Josephus!' - 'Hey, motherfucker!'" -

speckled_llama

(+1, History Of The World, Part I. -CV)

"How did Oedipus have sons considering his complex?? Unless he had sons who were also his half-brothers....EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!" -

tweeti,

angelchicken

(Back in the old days, we had a tradition here at the Quiz, where every time we traumatized a quizling, we'd take a drink. Time to reinstate the old ways, starting here. -AL&CV)

"I can imagine it going like this - 'Your mom!' 'Dude, she's your mom too!' 'Wait, is it mom, or grandmom?' 'Dude, let's not get into that, okay?'" -

blunder_buss

"Dude. The only names the Quizlings will recognize from this question is the guy who sexxed up his mommy. It's like that Far Side 'Ginger' joke. '...What LJDQers hear. Blah blah blah blah SEX blah blah blah INCEST SEX BOOBIES.'" -

lots42

(Case in point to immediately follow. -CV)

"Wait..wasn't Oedipus that guy who hated his father and had wanted the hotsexytime with his mom?" -

ifeedformula
"Aeschylus was also the one who wrote the creepy one where Oedipus killed his Dad and did his Mom, wasnt he?" -

cmseward
"I keep reading that as "Which play by Zlkjdpok describes the war between Lkejroiwef and Qwekfjjoei, the sons of Oedipus." Every damn time, because everyone and their mother knows Oedipus, but the other three? Zip." -

bending_sickle

"He had sons? didn't he learn children suck when he murdered his own father?" -

b_hulsmans

“We have to do something to torture ourselves for being cursed by this horrid family—If we’re lucky, maybe we’ll be dead at the end” -

scyllacat

"I don't know, but I bet it was an awesome day on Springer: My parents are mother and son, and I'm going to kill my brother. Also the Klan." -

smokedglass7429

"300's lesser known cousin 7. Less heaving man flesh but more shouting to make up for it." -

thesecondevil

"Seven Against Thebes, the first-ever Moussaka western (classical-Greek precursor to the spaghetti western)." -

germankitty

"The Seven Against Thebes which was always my capital city in Civilization. And the Russians were always smitten. Or smoted... I fail at irregular conjugation." -

raphsody606

(The question is smoot. -CV)

"'The Seven Against Thebes.' Or its alternate title, 'The Magnificent Seven Go Greek.'" -

rosefox8

Correct Answer: Seven Against Thebes

5. What was the title of Iron Maiden's seventh album?

"Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!" - oodles of you. +1, Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.

"RUUUUUN TOOOOO THEEEEEE HIIIIIILLLLLLLSSSS..." - 6 Rock Band playas out there, represent.

"Iron Maiden Balboa. I dunno, didn't it work for Rocky's seventh whatever?" -

animagiblender

"What's an 'album'?" -

freezer818

(We hate you. -CV&AL&LL)

"'Sting Is Better Than Us'? And that's saying something!" -

4492

"Iron Maiden is coming to Germany in a month. See me headbang! Woo-hoo!" -

germankitty

(+5 if you send us pictures of you rocking with Iron Maiden. -CV)

"Iron Maiden was always such a cheery and optimistic band. You had to be, to get over being trapped in a metal box with hard spikes in it" -

newbia

"One of my professors likes to start class each day by telling us about medieval torture devices." -

speckled_llama

"like metalheads could read well enough to notice the album title." -

cmseward

"Yes, We're Still Alive" -

dreamsphoto

"Because Metalheads Will Buy Anything" -

i_calql8

"Ferrous Hag" -

fizrep
"Tin Crone" -

nadat

"After this one, we'll be totally deaf." -

drbear

"'We know you don't care but we keep shoveling this crap to sell Eddie shirts' peacked at #7 on the billboard charts.. and sold a TON of shirts." -

tarpo

"If Ozzy named it, it's probably Auuhn Nah Guuuh?" -

gixi

"This One Only Goes to Seven, Sorry" -

distaff_exile

"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO RECORD THIS IN A CAVE. WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS." -

spatialrift47

(+1, Iron Man. -CV)

"The fact that I knew five album names of theirs is embarrassing enough, given that I'm a middle aged soccer mom. Seventh Son, since it's the seventh album. Yes, their later albums often included the number. I'm so uncool for knowing that." -

judith_s

(The fact that you're a soccer mom who does know this makes you tres cool. +1 for you. -CV)

"But what do you get when the seventh son of a seventh son has a seventh son, other than a twisted tongue?" -

woap

Correct Answer: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

6. What brings you luck?

"Bathing in the blood of virgins. Keeps me young, too." -

animagiblender

(Whew, I'm safe. You guys? – LL)

(We're good. Way good. -AL&CV)

"My eyes deceived me when I first thought the question said 'What brings you fuck?' And then I could only reply BERSERKER!" -

akiyasan

(+1, Clerks. Did you just say "making fuck"? -CV)

"I can't be the only person who read this question as 'What brings you fuck?' Sadly, nothing. Nobody appreciates a good calculus-themed pickup line these days. " -

bad_latin

(

i_calql8 would… - LL)

(In your defense, your grammar conjugation porn did get me tingly in my trousers. -CV)

"Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kinda forgot. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and could blow your head clean off, you just gotta ask yourself just one question: 'Do you feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" -

i_calql8,

etcet

(+1 for summoning the power of Clint Eastwood. -CV)

"The Flying Spaghetti Monster is my guide and protector. 'Even though I walk through the Valley of the Diet of Atkins, I will fear no carbs, for you are with me; your Sauce and your Noodles, they comfort me.'" -

thepikey

(Ramen. – LL)

"a midget's foot. As small as a rabbit's foot, but a lot easier to catch." -

b_hulsmans

"Gwynneth Paltrows head in a box." -

tarpo

(+1, Se7en. -CV)

"In the case of LJDQ, actually playing seems to help my chances." -

rachelkachel

(Like we always say, we're pretty good, but we have not yet evolved to the point where we can psionically draw the funnies directly out of your brains. God knows, we've tried. -AL&CV)

"Follwing people who buy lottery tickets and mugging them. ($5500, 6 free tickets, and a $20 gas card, so far)." -

freezer818

"Apparently hail does. It hailed here about a month ago and now we are getting a new roof on the house, new siding, new gutters, and a new roof on the garage for FREE! Yup, definitely hail." -

hellziggy

(Go you! – CV&AL&LL)

"Boobs. I'm serious about this. I really am. Much luck in my life has involved breasts. I am not complaining." -

lots42
"I have boobs. I don't need any of your 'luck'." -

kittycatness
"My Swedish heritage, red hair, big boobs, it's gotten me lucky quite a few times." -

killabee886

"They say fortune favors the bold, so I always type in bold fonts. Never seems to help, so I guess I should try something new." -

buzz

"Who needs luck? I have an AMEX Black Card." -

smokedglass7429

"I eat a bowl of Lucky Charms every morning, after I steal them away from that damned leprechaun." -

miss_katelynne

"I'd like to know how a bizarre genetic mutation of a small plant is supposed to be lucky. It's not! That little four-leafed clover is probably mocked and shunned by the other clovers for it's misfortune. :( " -

blunder_buss

"Karma karma karma karma karma
Boy George sure hasn't aged well... -CV

" -

portkey

"Weighting the dice." -

scyllacat

And there's your lucky quiz. Today is the seventh day of the seventh month, but not Qi Xi, because this year it's on the 7th day of the 8th month. Cheeky lunar calendar.

For those of you who had a nice long fireworks-laden weekend, hope you had a good time, and got well rested, and all that. For everyone else... happy Monday! Thanks for playing, and come back again! Soon! Real soon! Like tomorrow! And bring a friend! It's good for you.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

Current Music: Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!

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From:

rikchik.livejournal.com

IIRC Tanabata, the Japanese version of Qi Xi, is celebrated on July 7. Sadly, due to time zones it is already 11:16 pm in Japan, so you only have 44 minutes left to celebrate.

(Oh, and w00t quoted!)

From:

scifantasy.livejournal.com

I suppose it was a forlorn hope to think that someone would refer to the universe having been created on Tanabata last year...

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

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