ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 28 July 2008

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We were going to highlight the quiz in bright yellow font, but that's just damn hard on the eyes. Consider yourselves fortunate.

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

"Please tell me those lines weren't supposed to rhyme. I just died a little inside." -

cygna_hime

"I don't know, but I kissed a girl and I liked it. A lot. That one time. At band camp." -

uncut_diamond

"'I should have listened to my old man.'
'Why, what did he say?'
'I don't know, I wasn't listening.'" -

aynisha

"I bet that's exactly what the passengers of that Qantas flight with the hole in the hull were singing..." -

lady_deirdre

"…it sounds like the beginning of the plot of Beebo Brinker! Is this week's theme on 1950s lesbian pulp novels? (If not, can you please have one soon? I would rock that one.)" -

callirhoe

"George W. Bush, 'Jenna, please quit shooting heroine'" -

rollinstrane

"Regretting Hanging Upside Down on the Bottom of Cloud City by Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance Rock Band." -

mcclintock,

allie_the_neko,

ntlespino

"'The Kid Who Picked on Clark Kent' by OW, MY FUCKIN' NUTZ!" -

etcet

"The (adjective) (noun) by (color) (noun) and the (plural noun)" -

jrho

"I think it's gonna beee a long long tiiime... (I'm actually pretty good at identifying Elton John songs, and Rocket Man is only his most popular one.)" -

cmseward

(Yeah, but this ain't it. Epic Fail!! – CV&AL&LL)

"'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John. However, there is a prime joke in here about how Elton John could EASILY be considered either the Wizard or Glinda due to his flashy outfits." -

fox_gloves

"Can't you just see some blend of Bonsoir Lune and The Wizard of Oz? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Goodbye Scarecrow, Goodbye Cowardly Lion, Goodbye Winkies. Now I'm terrified." -

mathnerd

"I *still* want to know what it sounds like when the dogs of society howl. Those lyrics makes as much sense as 'take me to the pilot of your soul.'" -

fragbert

"'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John. Although it's doubtful that Sir Elton's ever been anywhere near a farm except to pick up some old tractor wheels for use as eyeglasses." -

billfl

"Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Thank you (seriously) for giving me flashbacks of 7th grade. My best friend Kim and I played this album nonstop for weeks--WEEKS, I tell you--while we pined for various pimply cuties and bemoaned our flat chests. Goodtimes." -

pfflyernc

"Elton John: Because Bowie just wasn't gay enough." -

kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Elton John, "Goodby Yellow Brick Road"

2. What is the oldest national park in the United States?

(Unsurprisingly, over 30 of you referenced pic-a-nick baskets, jelly, and ursines of unusually high intelligence. Move along. -CV)

"If he's elected, it will be John McCain's Birthplace" -

drbear

"You still have national parks in the US?" -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

(Yes; only half of them are slated to be turned into oil fields this year. -CV)

"Your mother. Still gets a lot of traffic, from what I hear. Those year-round passes were a really good investment, I gotta tellya." -

etcet

"Twin Peaks, AKA Dollywood" -

jessicamariek

(Oldest, not tallest. -CV)

"Clearly the only park, which is Central. Right? The vastness of my British knowledge is astounding." -

rain_explodes

(Yeah, we do have more parks over here. Next time we'll talk about Britain's oldest national park, "Scotland". -CV)

"Something we probably used as an excuse to put its residents on reservations." -

distaff_exile

(Nah, we dumped all those guys into the Grand Canyon. -CV)

"I'd suggest you go looking for the national park that's always grumbling about how things were much better back in its day, and these young whippersnappers that pretend to be national parks nowadays need to shape up or find out that their life has passed by, and they have nothing to show for it but a bunch of shabby T-shirts with ridiculous slogans printed on them." -

sjl

"Since Yosemite has a bunch of pictures of old rough riding Teddy than I'll go with him founding that park first. The coolest national park is the Rosie the Riviter museum." -

mcclintock

(Yosemite should have pictures of Teddy next to Sam. That would make it much cooler. -CV)

"I knew a man named Yellowstone National Park. He had two brothers, Ranier National and Yosemite National. If ever parents were cruel to their children, it was Mr. and Mrs. Park." -

squeeful

"Yellowstone. You can tell because everything yellows with age. Except for yellow cheese, that goes green." -

nadat

"Yellowstone, because we had to make Wyoming cool somehow." -

killabee886

"So let's see; built San Fran on a massive fault line, built heaps of towns in tornado valley, and built Yellowstone National Park next to one of the world's biggest supervolanoes. Do you Americans like tempting fate?" -

blunder_buss

(Home of the brave, baby! – LL)

"Only one stone is yellow, and it's hardly a proper stone: sulfur. Sulfur is most commonly associated with rotten eggs and/or hell. So Yellowstone National Park is a clearly an attempt to remove people from the sweet air-conditioned indoors and expose them to the devilish park of bugs." -

woap

"Yellowstone National Park! Where my dad wouldn't believe me that I heard a bear until the night he opened the tent door and met a bear." -

mathnerd

"Did you know that right next to Yellowstone, we have The Grand Teton National Park? Did you know that Teton = BOOB in French? DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A PARK CALLED THE GRAND BOOB NATIONAL PARK? Thanks, France, for bringing us a little flavor to our history." -

cold_clarity

(Just goes to show, once in a while the French do something right. +5 to any quizlings who send in a picture of themselves at Big Boob Natl. Park. -CV)

Correct Answer: Yellowstone National Park

3. What book by Fred Gipson deals with the Coates family and their dog?

(Quizlings who cried at this question: 8 13 16 22.
Mods chuckling evilly at weepy quizlings: 1.
I'll be here all week, folks. -CV)

"There's no theme again, is there?" -

kristinmachina

(Nah, that was a one trick pony. There's a theme here. Truly. -CV)

"Oh good lord. I misread that as 'the Goatse family.' The internet has corrupted me." -

profsparky

(-1 because eeeeewwww. -CV)

"Necromancer 3: Zombie Puppies!" -

illogicalvulcan

"Scooby-Doo and the Body Mass Index, in which the titular dog is put down due to complications resulting from massive consumption of Scooby Snacks." -

wowwhony

(To quote everyone else on this quiz, "huh huh, you said titular". -CV)

"101 Dalmations would be ironic, because they protect them from becoming coats." -

mcclintock

"Coates somehow made me think of J.M. Coetzee, and I've got general tidbits about Waiting for the Barbarians floating around my head, now. See, I'm literate! I just haven't ever actually read Old Yeller. Damn you for making me feel my literary penis is inadequate." -

unwritten_dirge

"Dog books? What is up with the quiz this week? Its like when the writers of Jeopardy get hammered and say 'Ya know what.. Screw it.. Last 2 categories are Potpurri and Starts with Meh!'" -

tarpo

"There's a Gipper joke in there somewhere, I just KNOW it." -

pfflyernc

(You're thinking of Reaganator 2: Son of the Gipper. -CV)

" I'm going to have to lump this under question six, 'Things I Am Afraid Of'. -CV

" -

the_zaniak

"I thought PETA had this book banned due to cruelty to imaginary animals?" -

canuckdesz

"Old Yeller? I'm pretty sure that was a book. I dunno; I ended up with Where the Red Fern Grows for my nationally-mandated unit of Classic Children's Literature Where the Dog Dies." -

cygna_hime,

david_deacon

(Yeah, me too. Old Yeller was overrated. WTRFG had all the action. -CV)

"Old Yeller, who just wanted those kids to get off his lawn and doesn't understand why things had to go down the way they did." -

revieloutionne

"Is it Old Yeller? Wait... the theme isn't 'things that scar you as a child' is it? If it is, I don't want to do the rest of the questions." -

jwpandabear

"Old Yeller, or How I learned to stop worrying and shoot my dog." -

nitasee

"Old Yeller, or, Y’Aint A Man Less You Kin Shoot Yer Dawg." -

laughingacademy

"Old Yeller, aka Frontier Cujo" -

i_calql8

"Old Yeller, who just wanted those kids to get off his lawn and doesn't understand why things had to go down the way they did." -

revieloutionne

"Ol Yeller, otherwise known as the SADDEST FUCKING STORY KNOWN TO MAN. With a surprisingly catchy/annoying theme song." -

wrestlingdog

"The Saddest Rabies Vector Evar. Re-titled in early 1956 so it would no longer be rejected by the Newbury folks... they thought it was a study." -

soberloki

"Yeah, as if the worst case of PMS ever wasn't getting me down this week, you had to throw in an Old Yeller reference. Now I want to rip somebody's throat out while eating a quart of Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey and sobbing hysterically." -

elbiesee

"Kids, rabies is a mean, mean disease. Don't give your dog rabies, or you'll have to shoot him like..er, a rabid dog." -

etumukutenyak

"New, from the makers of Hemlock breakfast cereal!
If you get the food bag with the Golden Bullet, you win a trip to Old Yeller's Yeller Food Factory! -CV

If you get the food bag with the Golden Bullet, you win a trip to Old Yeller's Yeller Food Factory! -CV

Because doesn't YOUR dog deserve to be shot to death, too?" -

captainsblog

"SPOILER ALERT! Old Yeller dies at the end." -

fragbert

Correct Answer: Old Yeller

4. The 17D vaccine is used to prevent which disease?

"You know. If you sold the asking of question 4 each week you could help someone answer their homework and make a little beer money on the side." -

tarpo

"Big boobs? though why anyone would want a cure for that I don't know" -

b_hulsmans

(...and cue 29 other "small chest, huge knockers" comments from the crowd. Be nice, all. Don't disrespect a nice B-cup. Besides, the obvious boob joke is on the next question. -CV)

"17D would be a HORRIBLE bra size. I should know, I have enough trouble finding 30G. No,

chaosvizier, you can't have a picture." -

aynisha

"They don't tell you WHAT the shots are for. First your mom says you're going to disneyland and the next thing you know, you're strapped in a chair getting stabbed with needles with the assurance that it's 'good for you'. BAH!" -

jwpandabear

(For the record,

jwpandabear is now wearing bra size 17D . -CV)

"And just which crossword puzzle did you take *this* question from?" -

jmthane

"l33t is a disease now?" -

elvenpiratelady

(Has been for years, ma'am. It's approaching pandemic status. -CV)

"Boogie Fever" -

nitasee

"Cooties" -

allie_the_neko

"Polio, a disease which afflicted the OTHER President Roosevelt." -

spiralgirl1

"The Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu. Gallons of the vaccine remain available, because, seriously, who doesn't like to rock or boogie woogie?" -

i_calql8

"Knight to Rook disease - it causes chess pains." -

uncut_diamond

"Contrary to popular belief, Old Yeller did not cause yellow fever. The mosquitos weren't yellow, either, although that would've been cool." -

rosefox8

"Yellow Fever. But there's only one sure cure for it - MORE COWBELL!!!" -

billfl

"Yellow Fever. Not to be confused with 'Saturday Night Fever,' which can be treated by playing A-19" -

blindgeoff
"There is no way to prevent SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER." -

cold_clarity

"LOL Cat Syndrome" -

akiyasan

"Yellow fever. Not to be confused with the blues, the mean reds, Scarlet fever, Puerpural fever, the Black Death, or Screaming Yellow Zonkers." -

laughingacademy

(You forgot the Green Apple Splatters, Blue Balls, and the Purple Nurples. -CV)

"I got vaccinated for Yellow Fever when I went to Peru in high school. Gotta love having a needle jabbed in your ass." -

shel99

"'yellow fever', so named because racist pigdogs thought that only Asians could catch it." -

fax_celestis

Correct Answer: Yellow Fever

5. In which film do we find the character Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD?

"I dare you to drink a shot of gin for every mammary joke you'll get in this one." -

lady_deirdre

(Looks like I'm going to have to buy the two-gallon jug, then. -CV)

"he puts the lewd in deluded" -

sometimespez

"...Is that PhD psychology? Because if it is I think we just got the answer to whether or not the inmates are running the asylum." -

natt_barn
"But does he have a PhD in Horribleness?" -

speckled_llama

"The Dolly Parton Story." -

drbear

"Barbarella" -

jmthane

(You would think so, right? -CV)

"A Tale of Two Titties?" -

elbiesee

"Debby does Doctor Dallas" -

uncut_diamond

"If he's not an OB/GYN, I'll be severely dissapointed." -

revieloutionne

"Dr. Boob: I'm Touching Your Tits for a Reason" -

vzg

"I am Curious - Yellow. Or possibly the Case of the Jaundiced Bewbs." -

thalassax

("I Am Curious, Yellow" did get quite a few votes. Alas, wrong votes. -CV)

"Who in their write mind would create a character by the name of Mr. Boob. Sounds like it's not a movie to let little children watch. What's his secretary's name, Blomy Jentley?" - ANONYMOUS
"I believe that was the title of the last porno I watched in a hotel." -

david_deacon

"All I saw was 'Hillary boob'. Are we sure that this wasn't a secret biography of like... Bill Clinton? The one the press didn't advertise and isn't pre-signed by the pickle himself? " -

kittycatness

"That name has unfortunately conjured a clip of Ron Jeremy and Hillary Clinton playing doctor.
Ron: I'm going to need to check your heart rate.
Hillary: Oh, doctor! That's not a stethoscope!
Bwow chick-a bwow BWooow!" -

marasca

"A porno flick? 'A hot feeling between your legs you say, Miss Ticklepussy? Then let's HAVE A LOOK.' *bow-chicka-bow-bowww*" -

blunder_buss

"Sorry, I just can't get past the thoughts of 'Paging Dr. Boob. Paging Dr. Boob.' 'Dr. Boob to the delivery room, please.' 'Dr. Boob needs more suction here.' etc., etc. Yup, I'm 12." -

pfflyernc

"Wouldn't it be neat to see a remake of 'The Little Mermaid' with the Yellowsubmarine and the Beatles running about in the background?" -

canuckdesz

" Forget tits and ass; he's got TITS OF BRASS! -CV

" -

fox_gloves

"The first time I saw Yellow Submarine was after I'd been up for 23 hours straight doing basically nothing but eat sugar. I had to go to bed because I couldn't distinguish between reality and the movie." -

aynisha

Correct Answer: Yellow Submarine

"I still think it's neglect to allow small children to watch that movie without parental supervision." -

mathnerd

6. What are you afraid of?

"I drop ice cubes down the vest of fear! " -

laughingacademy

"Fear is the mind-killer." -

etcet

(+1, Dune. -CV)

"I FEAR NOTHING! Except big spiders, and medium spiders, and snakes, and french people, and small spiders, and ants, and old people, but other than that? I FEAR NOTHING!" -

b_hulsmans

(So how do you feel about old French spiders? -CV)

(And some other stats:
Your Mom: 7
Fear itself: 10
Spiders: 17
Not getting quoted on the

ljdq: 18 -CV)

" They grow 'em big down in Australia, mates. -CV

" -

fox_gloves

"Kudzu. That shit is taking over." -

jrho

"Thinking up answers for this quiz. Hence, this being my first participation." -

rain_explodes

(There, see, that wasn't so bad, was it? Nothing to be frightened of. Oh, and watch out for that lion behind you. -CV)

"Accidentally posting the LJDQ answers to my office e-mail." -

drbear

"Ending up in a van DOWN BY THE RIVER, of course." -

pfflyernc

"Being colorblind, I'm afraid of a 'red' or a 'green'

ljdq. Plznobadcolorzkthx." -

fax_celestis

(Ours is an evil laugh. – AL&LL)

(You're in luck. We already did a red-themed quiz, complete with red font and a green-themed quiz, complete with green font. Aren't you glad you missed them? -CV)

"Falling, though one should remember falls don't kill ya, landing does." - ANONYMOUS

"Republicans." -

woap,

notorious_oit
"Democrats. Hatehatehatehate 'em. Make me feel all oogy." -

therealchon

"Water deep enough to go over my head, because I float like a brick and swim like a Sherman tank with holes drilled in the bottom. I suspect I drowned in a past life..." -

jmthane

(I fully agree with you. Me and water, we're not very good friends. -CV)

"Now that I've ridden Disney's Expedition Everest a couple of times, the yeti. Holy freaking crap I thought I was going to crap my pants when they yeti came flying out of the shadows in the mountainside to loom over me screaming at the top of his lungs. I've never been so scared in my life." -

ifeedformula

"I have a completely irrational fear of flying kites. They scare me shitless and I have NO idea why." -

raphsody606

"Chuck Norris." -

nitasee

"That the hokey-pokey really *IS* what it's all about." -

fragbert
"That '42' really is the ultimate answer." -

freezer818

"Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands." -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"The white, scuzzy bubbles mysteriously appearing in the hot tub. I don't want to know who did what in there. I can guess *shudder*" -

unwritten_dirge

"There is two kinds of fear. Rational and irrational. Being afraid of realtors is irrational." -

wrestlingdog

"I'm afraid of seeing a former disgruntled student of mine at the fast-food drive-thru. I always inspect my food after leaving when that happens." -

i_calql8

"Dogs with a mouth full of bees so that when they bark it shoots bees at you." -

asrimal

(+1, Simpsons – CV&AL&LL)

"Yeah, it's sad, believe me, missy,
When you're born to be a sissy,
Without the vim and verve,
But I could show my prowess,
Be a lion, not a mow-ess,
If I only had the nerve.
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dandy-lion —
A fate I don't deserve." -

soberloki

(+1, The Wizard Of Oz. -CV)

" GAH UNDEAD CHILDREN SO CREEPY. -CV

" -

fizrep

(Full credit, because that movie was creepy. -CV)

"Mice, especially the ones that HIDE IN YOUR GROUND-FLOOR ROOM AND SURPRISE YOU BY NIBBLING ON YOUR TOES WHEN YOU GET UP AT 4AM TO USE THE TOILET." -

puredeadthingy

"Hansophobia- fear of awakening in the middle of the night singing 'mmmmbop'
Ang-ophobia- fear of being beaten over the head for bad puns like that last one." -

captainsblog

"Zombies. No, seriously. The way they can always just pop out of the ground right behind you and now some of them can freaking RUN, and all it takes is one bite, and now I'm really, really glad I work on the third floor and away from the door, so I'd get a good head-start while they ate my coworkers..." -

nadat

"The toys coming to life at night. Small Soldiers was a horror movie to me, and don't even get me started on that bloody clown doll in Poltergeist. Makes you wonder who the real demon was, the beast or the parents..." -

madkestrel

"The Spanish Inquisition. Their primary weapon is fear and surprise...surprise and fear...And ruthless efficiency. And a fanatical devotion to the Pope....Can I start this quiz over?" -

illogicalvulcan

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"Jellyfish. And chickens. Chickens and jellyfish. Creepy little buggers, the both of them. Oh, and the end of the universe in a huge fiery inferno." -

confusedpuppy

And there you have it - another color of the rainbow, bent to our will and made into a humble quiz theme. And, wonder of wonders, we still have lots of other colors to choose from. So stay tuned! A veritable spectrum of quizzes await, in all their coloriffic glory!

Meanwhile, thanks for playing, keep on trucking, fear not, and tell your friends about the quiz. It's full of comedy! Like Roseanne Barr, only less full, with more comedy. I think. Pretty sure.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

Current Music: Yellow Submarine

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i-calql8.livejournal.com

*trudges out of bed
*checks LJDQ
*smiles at the multi-quotage
*disappointed that his clever Elton John ice cream flavor puns missed the cut
*looks back at the multiquotage and smiles again, the oversight forgotten
*starts to trudge back to bed, then sees 'Unbeatable Banzuke' is on, and sits down to watch
*watches that moronic "Lee and Ann-Marie" eharmony ad, and gives the couple two years, tops

Rock on!

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

You know we don't believe you. Ice cream is for children. I don't think you're allowed to have ice cream after age 45. ;-)

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

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