LJ Daily Answers: 6 October 2008
Oct. 6th, 2008 09:37 amAfter a week of storms, we decided to dedicate this week to that jolly old ball of warmth we call Mr. Sun.
1. What automobile marque owned by Nissan Motor Company was discontinued as of 1981?
"The time-travelling DeLorean" - 6 of you
"MARQUE? Is that like Jacque or Ricque or what?" -
"'Marque'? I'm pretty sure Nissan isn't a British company. Damn Brits and their extra 'u's..." -
"What the hell is a 'marque'? We spell that 'mark' here in the U S of A, nancypants. Go find somewhere else to peddle your perversions. " -
"oh god i read that as "adorable marquee" and now my head is filled with sideways-scrolling puppies." -
"Was it that one that spoke? That quasi-sultry female voice saying, 'The key is in the ignition,' or, 'The door is ajar.' I didn't understand until later in life why my dad loved that car." -
"Toyota. Oh, wait, that's only in their dreams." -
"Skyline. OMG RACECAR VROOM VROOM SQUEEE." -
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" - "Wasn't it the symbol for Man? Or, no wait. That's Volvo, isn't it?" -
"Fnord Motors, because no one could ever remember what their car looked like...only that it scared them." -
"It isn't Mitsubishi's Pajero, but hey, I just gotta share that they marketed that car in Spain, where it translates to Mitsubishi's Wanker" -
"Nissan Motor Company Two Thousand. Or NIMCOTT. Thank goodness Knight Industries took up the design, or David Hasselhoff would have been lacking a sweet ride." -
"Does anyone else think that "crossover" vehicles look like station wagons? Didn't we spend most of the 70s and 80s in station wagons? Why would we want to go back?" -
"That would be the Nissan Dachshund." -
"Our 510 had a bellypan. You could take a run at snowdrifts and scoot up and over them like spit..." -
"Datsun, the vehicle which would have been driven by Sun Yat-sen if he'd lived that long. Totally." -
"Datsun. They changed the name when the parts factory exploded. All the workers there remember the day it rained Datsun cogs." -
"the changeover from Datsun to Datsun-Nissan to Nissan-Datsun, to Nissan was slow enough even for Americans to follow. We should have done the change to metric like this. (Pounds --> Pounds-Kilos --> Kilos-Pounds --> Kilos)" -
"Even Datsun wasn't immune to the weird 70's automotive fashion of fake wood laminate paneling." -
"D-D-D-Datsun, folks!" -
Correct Answer: Datsun
2. What TV comedy featured John Lithgow as the leader of a team of aliens investigating the Earth?
"That show with that incredibly squinty French guy!" -
"The Coneheads." -
"Wasn't that the one where he kept yelling at his wife, 'Jane you ignorant slut'?" -
"V" -
"Na-noo na-noo!" -
"Law and Order: Alien Visitors Unit" -
"And what did their probe into the earth find?" -
(Klingons orbiting Uranus, nyuk nyuk. -CV)
"I almost said that movie he was in with the whole Grover's Mill alien shebang, but since I can't think of the name of the movie (and I've been trying to for days now, why haven't I looked it up??), I'll just shut up." -
(Besides, we used that one a few quizzes back. -CV)
"I thought 'TV Comedy' implies fiction. Aliens *are* investigating the Earth, everyone knows that!" -
(Can I get a Hail Xenu? Hallelujah! -CV)
"I vaguely remember seeing that show at one point in time. I didn't understand it. Perhaps because I was reading a book and talking on the phone at the same time. Less multi-tasking might be a good idea." -
"The Earth is not the third rock from the sun; that ignores all of the assorted space debris. It just goes to show that astronomers have NO respect for anything smaller than their egos, like Pluto, asteroids, and kittens." -
"Some people do not believe the great actor John Lithgow ever stooped so low as to do a TV series. Those people have never seen the comedic genius that is the cast of 'Third Rock from The Sun'." -
"3rd Rock from the Sun made me sad, because there wasn't enough sci-fi. It was just people pretending to not understand people. Sit Coms sucks." -
"The Only Show Where We Actually Liked To Watch Old People Flirt." -
"You mean John Lithgow isn't really an alien? I always thought he was, with that forehead of his. You can land 747's on that thing." -
(Probably from the same planet Joe Biden and Gerald Ford are from. -CV)
"Well, I wasn't what the obje***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM THE BIG GIANT MOD: THERE IS NO MESSAGE, ONLY ZUUL! TRANSMISSION ENDING IN 3...2...1...***nd on Sarah Palin's legs." -
"3rd Rock from The Sun, which is where I developed my powers of Going To Hell For Looking At The Pretty Boy Who Is Waaaaay Too Young." -
"Best stroke of genius they had was bringing in Bill Shatner to eat the scenery as their supreme leader. God knows he can't act subdued or anything, it was a natural fit." -
"Third Rock from the Sun, which makes me wonder now if it was a preemptive social commentary on the status of Pluto as a planet." -
Correct Answer: 3rd Rock From The Sun
"not to be confused with 30 Rock, which I totally thought was going to be about aliens before I actually saw it." -
3. What is the common name for Helianthus annuus?
"that looks like anus. Hee. I'm sorry, I'm clearly a 12-year-old boy." -
"*sniggers* Heh...Hehehe...I want to say 'Heathen anuses' (anii?) but I can also see 'Alien anuses'...in conclusion? Kevin Kline." -
(Nice save there. -CV)
"I totally (mis)read that as Hello anus. I will never look at sunflowers the same way again...or Hello Kitty, for that matter. Damn you, LJDQ. " -
"how the helia should I know?" -
(+1 for not making the anus joke. -CV)
"Squeeky Cheeks, it's the condition where you put helium up your buttocks and your farts sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks doing Christmas songs." -
"John Sununu. What an awesome name that guy has. Not quite a Bhoutros Bhoutros-Ghali, but a hell of a lot easier to spell." -
"Scientific Names would be so much easier if they worked more like they did in Looney Tunes. Like where theTasmanian Devil is classified as Batshitticus Eatius." -
"The Year of the...Sun-Ants. Yeah, I haven't taken Latin since I was eleven." -
(And I for one welcome our new solar insect overlords. -CV)
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"I wonder how it would have sounded if System included that in 'Toxicity'... 'Eating Helianthus Annuus seeds is the past time activity...'" -
(Rejected lyrics, take four. -CV)
"To keep the birds away from your sunflower seeds, tie pantyhose over the sunflower heads (NOT the birds' heads). Then you'll have a lot of really tall, sinister looking lollipops guarding your house." -
"Logic will prevail! Helianthus: sounds like helios, which means the sun, 2 latin names mean flower, 1 + 2 = Sunflower!" -
(...I'm not sure logic prevailed here, even though the correct answer was reached. -CV)
"Tasty, Toasted, Salted Baseball Snack Seedplant" -
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA! Sunflower! Didn't even have to look it up. I'm seeing a buttload of Latin lately... I even got Rickrolled in Latin recently. It was... strangely awesome." -
"Did you know that the sunflower is one of the only flowers not commonly used for 'he loves me, he loves me not'?" -
"Sunflower, of which the seeds are utilized in professional sports to indicate manliness by spitting the shells upon the ground. Ergo, disgusting habits = manliness." -
(Sunflower seeds? I thought that was chaw! -CV)
Correct Answer: Sunflower
4. What arena is home to the University of South Florida's basketball and volleyball teams?
"I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a million LJDQers moaning about the sports question and then...silenced." -
"Please, someone, post the Brazilian volleyball picture, just because the question references volleyball! *waits anxiously*" -
(Well, since you did say please...
-CV)"Since "AT&T" was already taken by the San Francisco Giants, dyxlectics united to get the arena named "A T&A Arena." Can't imagine why....
" - "I didn't even know South Florida had anything but hurricanes and old people, let alone a university." -
(You forgot alligators. -CV)
"Cocaine Boat Center" -
"Rimshots'n'Aces Stadium?" -
"There's time for sports between binge drinking and public displays of nudity?" -
(Well, I always find time. -CV)
"The SURFACE OF THE SUN. It's very hot basketball and hotter volleyball. I mean, seriously. Take the Brazilian beach volleyball team, put them on the surface of the sun, and you have the hottest thing in the universe." -
"'Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind' stadium. I was thinking the women’s teams could be called 'Little Miss Sunshines' but I don’t think the guys would go for it." -
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" - "Basketball and volleyball mean indoor sports, they tend to call those centers instead of arena. It's in Florida, which means Mikey Mouse or Oranges, but this is South Florida, so it's likely to involve Cubans or maybe Jews. The Bubbi Disney Naranja Center." -
(And logic takes another one to the mean bean machine. -CV)
"SUNderdome! Two teams enter! One team leaves!" -
(Would that more sporting events ended up this way. -CV)
"Florida sport and I are not on speaking terms. The Rays knocked out the Yankees. The Marlins knocked out the Mets. As far as I'm concerned, Florida can sleep on the couch!" -
"CSI: Miami. How many scantily dressed games of volleyball can they show before David Carradine fixes up his sunglasses and cuts to a dead body chopped up in funny pieces?" -
"Isn't Florida by definition, well, South? Do we really need to specify?" -
(Well, the plain-bellied Sneetches live in the North, and aren't cool enough to have a stadium. The star-bellied Sneetches live in the southern half of the state, and they got corporate sponsorship and a free stadium to boot. Very sad tale. Truly. -CV)
"Ohh, that would go well, the basketballers trying to get nothing but net and the volleyballers glaring at them for knoking the nets about..." -
"It should be Corona Stadium, and they should give away free Corona (cerveza mas fina) or even Corona soft drinks ('every bubble's passed its FIZZical!')." -
"Well, it must be named after a corporation since all stadia and arenae are these days. And it has sun in the name, and it's in Florida. So it must be the Sunkist Arena (or Sunkist Center, or Sunkist Bowl, or something of the sort). If it turns out to be the Sun-Maid Park I'll be annoyed." -
"The Sun Dome. I know this because I ate at the Perkins across the street from the Sun Dome last week (I live in MD and was visiting relatives in FL). Are you stalking me LJDQ?" -
(No we're not, but if we were, we would totally tell you not to sing in the shower like that. -CV)
"The Sun Dome. The only reason I know the answer is because I used to drive by it on my commute. What's far more interesting is the Museum of Science and Industry, which is right across the street, featuring a giant blue Imax dome and a life-size T-rex made out of recycled metal." -
Correct Answer: The Sun Dome
5. Who wrote the following passage?
Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
"Translation: Make love, not war!" -
"I got distracted by the word prolonged." -
"I predict: 5 of 'Not Karl Rove', 4 of 'Not McCain', 3 of 'Not George Bush', 2 of 'Not Ahmedinajad', and a partridge in a pear tree. Or Ben Franklin." -
"No one in the US government, that's for certain." -
"I bet he was Russian. Those Russians always seem to be in long wars." -
(It's tough for them; they have no choice but to get involved in a land war in Asia, and we know how that will turn out. -CV)
"That's obviously the 'Sting' answer for this quiz, but I don't recognize the lyrics. Must be a B-side." -
"i'm going to guess a hippie, therefore it must be ghandi." -
"Sunny Bono." -
"Mr. Peabody?" -
(Quiet, you. -CV)
"Sarah Palin, asked if she knew the name of anybody in the military." -
"It was back when the land bridge existed between northeast Asia and Alaska, so he may in fact have been standing in Sarah Palin's backyard at the time. She was out field-dressing a moose and missed it." -
"Er...Shakespeare? Henry the Third? Sting? McCain? Gordon Brown?" -
(Interesting choices there... Brit, Brit, Brit, Yank, Brit. Is McCain an honorary Brit? Does the UK wish to adopt him as their own and take him off our hands? That's jolly good of you chaps, wot wot! -CV)
"Churches and hills are nice. So is summer. CHURCHILL!" -
(Logic is pleased not to be even remotely involved with this answer. -CV)
"Sun Tsu - whom I believe is a unlockable character in Dynasty Warriors 8 (Fear his writing brush/scroll combo of doom!)" -
"The Art of Tort by Su Yu" -
"Sun-Tzcreen, in The Art of Tan." -
(Lesson One: The Spray-On is an abomination; those who make use of it shall be ridiculed and then put to death. -CV)
"Sun Tzu Shrimp, #14 on the menu at my favorite Chinese restaurant ever, located, of course, next to the Lotsa Pets and Stuff store" -
"Mitchell: Winning shows strength. Winning without fighting shows true skill.
Teal’c: Oh, you are a student of Ancient strategies.
Mitchell No, Landry said it to me. I think he was quoting Sun Tzu. Or it could have been Dr. Phil." -
"Sun Tzu whatever that dude's name is who wrote the Art of War. Chinese guy, I think. Old book. One time I read part of it! But since I don't have a war, I didn't pay attention." -
"Sun Tzu wrote that how many years ago? And some people STILL haven't figured it out!?" -
(That's because no one made a blockbuster movie out of it. And no, that Wesley Snipes film doesn't count. -CV)
"This book inspired the only criminal act of my high school career--I stole it from the school library. It sits in pride of place on the shelf, accumulating warm and vengeful feelings." -
(When the library police come a knocking, I'm ratting you out. -CV)
"How come it's always The Art of War? Where's The Music of War? The Fashion of War? The Mouthwash of War?" -
"And then there were his no-good peacenik brothers, Sun-Rice and Sun-Tset." -
Correct Answer: Sun Tzu in "The Art Of War"
6. Now that the storm has passed, what do you like to do on sunny days?
"Sunny days, sweepin the clouds away...on my way to where the air is sweet!
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?" -
"And by Sesame Street, I mean the old school street, the one I enjoyed as a kid before Cookie Monster became an outcast for eating too many cookies and that damned
"'Day of the daytime star - the clouds are filled with fear and forced to flee!' - english->klingon->english translation of 'Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away'" -
(Only a true Geek Of The Week would turn Sesame Street into Klingon. Here's a -1 and a prosthetic forehead ridge. -CV)
"Ha, I live in the North of England. Sun?" -
"Same thing we do every day, Pinky: try and take over the world." -
"The same thing we do every week, Pinky. Play LJDQ!" -
"the same thing i do on rainy days: laze around on the internet and pretend i have a life." -
"Go to football games! Especially if they're the kind with free beer." -
"Send little boats down the newly swollen streams... then pretend to be Gozilla and destroy them." -
"Stay inside and play Rock Band." -
(Sweet, tasty Rock Band. -CV)
"Frolic naked amongst the daffodils." -
"Nap in the sun and inevitably get awkward-shaped sunburns." -
"Watching Wallstreet collapse while politicians bicker. Its good to already be poor." -
"Call my weather wizard & bitch that I ordered thunder & lightning not sunshine and threaten that if he doesn't fix it AFSAFP I'll sic the flying monkeys on him again. =mwahahaha!=" -
(That's why I hired Cobra and Destro's Weather Dominator Inc. for my meteorological needs! -CV)
"Kodachrome gives us the nice bright colors. It gives us the greens of summers. It makes you think all the world's a sunny day. Oh, yeah." -
(I got a Nikon camera. – LL)
"Complain about the resultant humidity." -
"Depends on if there's snow on the ground. Sunny snowy days, with just the right amount of cold makes for perfect powder. You know where I'm going with this, cuz this whole mountain is made of snow! Do you realize the street value of this mountain??" -
(I can't move my right arm! – LL)
"Ironically it is raining cats and dogs at the moment. Or as we like to say: it's raining old wives." -
"Stay inside and avoid the sunlight. YES I KNOW I HAVE FREAKISHLY SMALL PUPILS, SHUTUP, I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM." -
"The sun is evil, and ought to be destroyed. I am a creature of the night." -
"Wear shades" -
(The future isn't that bright. -CV)
"Stay the hell out of them. They hurt my eyes, blister my skin, and make me thirsty. Fuck that noise. I'm not coming out until that Flaming Ball of Hurt has left the sky." -
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" - "Well, I have Swedish skin, so I either stay inside or put on 3/4ths of a bottle of sunscreen to check the mail. It's ok, my boobs are fantastic." -
(And that's what counts in the end. -CV)
"Sing epic songs about how I can see clearly now that the rain is gone?" -
"beer garden." -
(Sweet tasty Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria, NY is great for summer days. -CV)
"You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals..." -
(+1, doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel. -CV)
"Go punting on the River Camb. You can see all sorts of interesting things up close: nettles, trees, more nettles, ducks, hissing geese, spitting swans, grass-snakes, log-crocodiles, skinnydipping pensioners. It's an eye-opening experience (unless you fall in, in which case I'd advise closing every orifice as tight as you can because that water is filthy!)" -
"Drink Sunny D, watch a Sonny Tufts movie, listen to some Sonny and Cher, try to figure out which Muslims are Sunnis, and take pride in the fact that I'm so bright, my mother called me Sun." -
And there you have it- sunshine, easily packaged and delivered straight to you via the magic of the internet. Feel free to thank us for this bright sunshiny day we've given you.
Thanks as always for playing; keep on coming back and bringing more funnies! And tell your friendslists about us, so we can get more players and more funnies. Pimping is good! It's what's for dinner!
See you all tomorrow, same time, same channel.
Rock On!
AL&CV&LL
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Date: 2008-10-06 02:07 pm (UTC)Bush Approval Rating Temporarily Skyrockets
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Date: 2008-10-06 02:12 pm (UTC)I definitely saw that on Metaquotes. It was full of win.
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Date: 2008-10-06 02:50 pm (UTC)I am kicking ass. WOOHOO!
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Date: 2008-10-06 02:51 pm (UTC)WILL you get out of my head already?!? I answered with something about Shatner as well!
Oh, and does my answer to #3 mean the mods and/or other quizlings will pool resources to get me my favorite perfume for Christmas, like I asked?
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Date: 2008-10-06 03:04 pm (UTC)Wait...you took the theme from Sesame Street in Q6, but rejected my Brady Bunch tune?
...well, okay, I can understand that. Upon review, good non-call, there.
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Date: 2008-10-06 03:14 pm (UTC)bad enoughright to warrant you getting whapped with limp noodles! *grins evilly*(no subject)
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Date: 2008-10-06 03:33 pm (UTC)Still 1 full quaotage and 1 gang quotage. I is happy bunny.
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Date: 2008-10-06 06:12 pm (UTC)You know, until the douchebag hipsters started flooding my local bar. (Yes, circumstances had me move out of Astoria three years ago. It's still my local bar. So there!)
"That's obviously the 'Sting' answer for this quiz, but I don't recognize the lyrics. Must be a B-side." - thepikey
*giggle*
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Date: 2008-10-06 07:09 pm (UTC)+i, Pun of the Week.
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Date: 2008-10-06 07:20 pm (UTC)I was surprised no-one put the Mach 5 in for Question 1...
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Date: 2008-10-07 01:58 am (UTC)Anyway, thank you so much. :)
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Date: 2008-10-07 06:20 pm (UTC)I was kinda drunk when I took the quiz last week, so I was quite surprised to see *anything* here from me as I literally don't remember answering. I'm a bit worried now!
(Interesting choices there... Brit, Brit, Brit, Yank, Brit. Is McCain an honorary Brit? Does the UK wish to adopt him as their own and take him off our hands? That's jolly good of you chaps, wot wot! -CV)
Gordon Brown is Scottish! Completely different! And er, no - you can keep McCain, ta. We've got enough to be worried about over here atm, thanks very much!
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Date: 2008-10-07 10:54 pm (UTC)Also, I no can use this icon no more. *pout*
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Date: 2008-10-08 01:44 pm (UTC)Don't worry, I'm sure you'll do something to regain your GOTW title. Eventually.
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Date: 2008-10-14 01:52 am (UTC)I dunno. You might want to ask David Caruso.
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Date: 2008-10-21 03:16 am (UTC)+1, Paul Simon.
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