ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 8 Nov- err, December 2008

Welcome back everyone! Sorry it's been so long... but everything's back to normal now and things can get underway again and this week's theme was Things That Begin With Q, because I've been in Qatar for the past 19 days and it's about as cheesy a theme as we could come up with. Don't be hatin'. Anyway, let's rock and roll!

1. Who was Inspector Gadget's boss?

"He had a boss? That's scary. Managerial staff are almost always more incompetent than their workers- I would hate to see what a goof up the BOSS was." -

jwpandabear

"Go go googlecheat!" -

kestrel127

(Today's

ljdq Fun Fact:)
"did you know that the word 'gadget' comes from the name of the French company, Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, which built the Statue of Liberty?" -

squeegibo

"i have no freaking clue, but you bet your ass i remember Dr. Claw. actually, i aspire to one day become a disembodied robot hand and sexy smoker's voice." -

blackfrances

"I think Dr. Claw was the beginning of my lifelong fascination with villains. The spooky voice! The cat! I mean, how can you hate someone who loves his cat that much?" -

dark_sekretlove

"Dr. Claw just sat on that big chair all day and bossed minions around, or sometimes issued an ominous threat... Maybe if he got up off his lazy mastermind ass and actually did something himself, he wouldn't have been foiled as often as he was." -

songbird06

"You know, I watched that show for YEARS and feel justified now that I can in some way use the knowledge...
...great. And now I've completely forgotten his name." -

jaxraven

" I should know this, my brother watches it enough and --- ooh wait! Chief Kwimby! Hey, all those DVDs did pay off." -

sparklinblossom

"I wanted to say Mayor Quimby, but I'm pretty sure that's the guy from the Simpsons." -

silk_knickers

"Quimby, who I maintain is a masochist with some kind of explosion-related fetish. Why else would this guy hide in mailboxes that he knows Gadget will inevitably blow up?" -

silent_r_infork

"Chief Quimby was often in need of a 'Go Go Gadget, punch in the nuts.'" -

hotpantsgalore

Correct Answer: Chief Quimby

"P.S. This comment will self destruct in 10 seconds." -

smellmyfeet

2. The United States FBI Academy is located in which town?

"I don't know, but God help the man who tries to hold up its convenience store." -

amberdulen

"Kwantaco. Evrything I eva lernt abowt lyfe, I lernt from the X-Files. Pitea it didnt teech me how to spel anything but the shows titel - vizyul meediar and all that." -

vayshti

"The one conveniently located reasonably close to where Hannibal Lector was held. It would have been a much different movie if she had to travel to the west coast every time she needed to chat about dead farm animals and fava beans" -

tarpo

"Every time I drive by signs for Quantico, I wish I could go there and train. Then I realize that I'd have to do a lot of real work, and I just go home and eat pudding instead." -

potassiumman

"Quantico. Unless someone is being treated inhumanly. And then it's known as Quantmo, cousin of Gitmo." -

its_what_we_are

"Quantico. Why do I even know that? I'm Australian."

severedscythe

"Quantico, right down the road from my brother's house. It's made for some interesting family gatherings, and we don't let the kids go wandering in the woods anymore." -

deza

"Every time I drive by Langley, Virginia, I wonder why we advertise the location of the headquarters of the place where covert ops are supposedly run from TO THE WORLD. Does this make sense to anyone else?" -

raphsody606

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to... wait, The X-Files already told everyone? Fine. It's Quantico." -

falconpain
"My family has a deep-seated distrust of all covert government operations. Before I went to Panama last summer, my grandfather spent half an hour explaining to me that I was in danger of being tricked into becoming a mole for the CIA in Latin America. (Not a spy, a mole. Evidently there's an important difference.)" -

babybokal

"Ooh, ooh, Quantico! I know this because a friend of mine plans to go there. Sure, he might be in a wheelchair, but I think Q has already demonstrated how deadly those can be." -

blunder_buss

"Why would they choose to put it in Virginia? So that all the trainees seem stunningly intelligent next to the rednecks?" -

palmer_kun

"FBI Acadamy, huh? The real question is- Do you get extra points for successfully sleeping with the professor with out getting caught??" -

hotpantsgalore

"Quantico, which is an old Native American word meaning "land full of mosquitos so bad only white men would want it"." -

etumukutenyak

"My sister and I have been having a marathon rewatch and have come to the conclusion that, basically, Skinner is totally a ninja." -

vega_ofthe_lyre

"QuantiCo, which makes federal agents you can count on!" -

silk_knickers

(I would love to see what kind of warranties federal agents have... - TL)

"Quantico, which just sounds like an an alcoholic drink to me. "Quantico, on the rocks."" -

dark_sekretlove

"Isn't it Quantico in Virginia? Is it possible I know this because of a Patricia Cornwell novel? Ahhh, so *that's* what shame feels like." -

angelchicken

"The same town as the FBI dropout bar, and the Military recruitment station..." -

mujubius

Correct Answer: Quantico

3. Pietro Maximoff is better known by which moniker?

(Number of people who thought this question was related to a porn star - 44.)
(Number of people who think all our questions are related to porn - 244.)

"Yackov Smirnoff" -

fyrefaery

(In Soviet Russia, Maximoff Pietros y- eh, feh, never mind. I'm sick of that joke. -AL)

(Another

ljdq Fun Fact:)
"...there is no 'q' in the Russian alphabet. The LJDQ would have to be the ЛЙДКЮ." -

etumukutenyak

"Comic books?! Grrrr... I just about broke my back moving

angledge's huge box of comics today... next time I'm using them to start the BBQ. Word." -

hotpantsgalore

(Let's use an interactive process to figure out how many minus points

hotpantsgalore should get for threatening to burn my comic book collection. Someone start a comment thread, & everyone who thinks she deserves another -1, add a comment! -AL)

"Maxi-moff? Is that like a rank higher than Grand Moff? I'm not sure Tarkin would approve." -

cholma

"Wait..he wasn't the amazing Master of Fart-ology was he? The guy who could play a flute with his butt?" -

ifeedformula

(...what? -AL)

"Mg, also known as QuickAg" -

i_calql8

(You meant Hg, not Mg. Stick to teaching math. -AL)

"Slowgold." -

the_zaniak

"Quicksilver! Pietro Maximoff was just Marvel's answer to The Flash. He's really moody, too, probably because the Flash is still more popular." -

adria_rhiannon

"Quicksilver. Not to be confused with The Flash, especially when they are having their super fast way with you. How embarrassing to call out 'Oh! Flash!' when the blur is actually bluish and NOT red." -

demon_666

Correct Answer: Quicksilver

4. What was the theme song for The Doris Day Show?

(Folks who confused Doris Day with Sadra Dee: 12. -CV)

"Not to be rude or anything, but how old are you guys?" -

demon_666

(Significantly older than a large number of our player base. Now git off our damn lawn, whippersnapper! -AL&CV&LL)

"Just as a general rule, if a name or phrase can be found in 'We Didn't Start the Fire', it's too old for us." -

reticent_lass

"Songs you will probably get as answers: Day-O, That'll Be The Day, Day Tripper, One Fine Day, Another Day, Great Day, Good Day Sunshine, A Foggy Day (in London Town), A Day in the Life, Oh Happy Day... " -

4you_blue_jway

(That does cover most of them, true... -CV)

"When I was little, my grandmother had a friend named 'Doris' and I couldn't remember her name but I could remember 'Door' so I called her 'Doorknob.' And they all still adored me - isn't that amazing?" -

rhiannonjk

"Was everyone just too lazy to name tv shows in the 50s?" -

jrho,

rikchik

"Is Doris Day code for Carl Marx?" -

malrunus

"I'm Secretly Sluttier Than Marilyn Monroe." -

kristinmachina

"I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike..." -

raienna

(Just a few questions too early... -CV)

"Doris Day Tripper" -

paradoxotaur

"come on, you know she was dying to bust out one day with Baby Got Back" -

faery_wing

"That song about Will Smith's acting talents. You know, 'whatever Will be, Will be.'" -

drbear

"It's a Beautiful Day - U2" -

a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"'Doris Day' sounds like an old-lady name. It also sounds like that type of show you'd watch when you were home sick and 'Murder She Wrote' wasn't on." -

morgana006

"Sunday, Monday, Doris Day! Tuesday, Wednesday, Doris Day! Thursday, Friday, Doris Day! Saturday, Doris Day!" -

orgdotnews

Correct Answer: Que Sera Sera

5. For the fifth question of the quiz:
Guess what form of poem this is.
Today’s answers form a clue.
They have a pattern, yes they do!

"Bet ya expected something sarcastic and witty, eh? Your poetry question killed the humor and replaced it with emo-ness. Nice work. I'm going to go mope now." -

n2_the_void

"Poetry is for sissy-girls and guys trying to get laid." -

paradoxotaur

(So, which one are you? -AL)

"We hate iambic pentameter!" -

ntlespino

(+1, Moonlighting. -CV)

"It is not haiku.
I don't give a flying flip
About your pattern." -

rhiannonjk

(I'm such a helpful mod, I edited your original answer to make it an actual haiku. -AL)

"Dig it, daddy-o
Since I don't know
The other answers
It's like a cancer
I have no idea
What it be, yeah?" -

orgdotnews

"structured poetry is so 5th grade" -

spiralgirl1

"Some quizmasters wrote up a clue
For LJDQ-ers to do
The question was deep
but we were asleep
when they taught this in grade number two" -

drbear

"AABB rhyme scheme with inconsistent meter. F--, see me after class." -

schizospider

(Awwww... -AL)

"It's a wobbly quatrain, since the third line has only seven syllables with nothing to balance it out." -

woap

"It is now prediction time:
'Twenty answers here will rhyme'
Sad to say, it could be worse
Quatrain's better than free verse" -

falconpain

"Methinks 'tis 'quatrain' you were looking for.
Alas, you missed the rhyme scheme by a mile.
And worse -- you lost the meter at the door!
What's left for me to do is mock ... and smile." -

germankitty

"Walt Whitman's revolutionary breaking of formal verse was one of the most important developments in the history of poetry-- because it meant people could stop writing lousy quatrains like that one." -

alkion04

"AABB...
doublet...couplet...what be we?
LJDQ
Guess I don’t have a clue

Chaos, Angle, Llama, Trish
LJDQ mods aren’t vain
They drink, they read
They board the Quote Train." -

majorsamfan

(Gooooooo TEAM! - CV&AL&LL&TL)

Correct Answer: Quatrain

(Note that quatrains can have an ABAB or AABB rhyme pattern. The main requirement is four lines and some kind of rhyme scheme. -CV)

6. What is another name (derived from the Latin phrase for "as newborn babes") for the first Sunday after Easter?

"There's no football on, so who cares?" -

grayjedi
"Hunchback Sunday would be a great for a football event." -

potassiumman

"Mercy Sunday - the only Sunday where the Dallas Cowboys don't punch the Eagles in the nuts." -

hotpantsgalore

"Pentecost, Michaelmas, Annunciation, Epiphany, Ascension, Candlemas... if I keep naming Catholic holidays, I'll get it right eventually, right?" -

alkion04

(...theoretically, yes. -CV)

"Abortion Sunday" -

blackfrances

(+1, tasteless. -CV)

"Newborn babes? Is that the day the Olsen twins turned 18?" -

squeegibo

"The Day My Family Stops Going To Church Until Christmas" -

ollieoxinfree

"The day Church is no longer draped in purple, and is thus much less pretty." -

schizospider

"Eat Twenty Cadbury Cream Eggs Day" -

alanna_liadon

"So Zombie Jesus has really soft skin?" -

morgana006

(He was bathed in perfumed oils earlier. I think it helps. -CV)

"Hey, you're in America now! Speak Spanish!" -

n5iln
"El sabado primero despues de Pascua." -

silent_r_infork

"Sweeps Sunday where we find out whether Jesus' rising from the dead stunt had any impact on the ratings." -

thesecondevil

"its white sunday, which is a good day to have a white wedding." -

blacksunrising

"Is it wrong to make the mental leap from Quasimodogeniti to the Hunchback of Notre Dame's dangly bits, or am I just plain mental?" -

germankitty

(Yes, it is damn wrong. -CV)

"Mmm, newbown babies. Baaacon." -

woap

(+1, more or less accurate. -CV)

Correct Answer: Quasimodo Sunday (also Low Sunday, White Sunday, and St. Thomas Sunday)

7. Easy lyrics question! Name the song and the band:
Just a man
With a man's courage
You know he's
Nothing but a man
He can never fail
No-one but the pure at heart
May find the Golden Grail

"Is it finally Sting?" -

jrho

"Brave Sir Robin" -

woap,

forgedpixels,

drbear,

babybokal

"You have the word Grail in there.. All you are going to get are Monty Python references!" -

tarpo

(Right on 22 counts. -CV)

"Wasn't this on that episode of The Beverly Hillbilles where Jethro thought he was Robin Hood?" -

freezer818

"The only "Q" artist I can think of is Queen Latifah, and that's good enough for me." -

etumukutenyak

"Haha... at first I thought it was Mr. Roboto by Styx... of which my five foot native Japanese professor once said 'I hate that Mr. Robot song! Every time I hear it, it makes me want to kick someone!'" -

paradoxotaur

"Is it the theme to Quantum of Solace? Cause if they're talking about Daniella Craig, I'm pretty sure Sean Connery and his brambly yam sack will have something to say about that." -

spiralgirl1

(+1 for the term "brambly yam sack". -CV)

"My Future Husband by My Dreams" -

jwpandabear

"I don't know, but I read it to the tune (and with the ferver) of DVDA's 'Now You're A Man'." -

schizospider

(+1, Orgazmo. -CV)

"Wait. This guy's just a man, and yet he's pure of heart and never fails? Either someone here has ridiculously high standards, or this is Queen's tribute to the great hero Gordon Freeman." -

falconpain

"Princes of the Universe by Queen" -

wiredwizard

(Right band, wrong song/movie. -CV)

"You are officially responsible for my girlfriend and I launching into a rousing 'FLASH! Ah-aaah! He'll save every one of us!' Which is incidentally a safer Queen song to sing with one's girlfriend than 'Fat Bottomed Girls'." -

mujubius

(...fair enough. -CV)

"Was that a song about The Flash, that comic book character?" -

blacksunrising

(Different Flash. -CV)

"'Flash Gordon', by Queen. I knew the song for years before I saw the movie. It lived up to all of my wildest fantasies." -

the_zaniak

"Woohoo! Flash! by Queen! One of the best B movies of all time! Too many exclamation points!!!!!" -

mattwolf

Correct Answer: Queen, "Flash's Theme"

8. Who was the Aztec creator god, sometimes referred to as The Feathered Serpent?

Number of Road To El Dorado references: 11.
Number of Final Fantasy references: 7.

"Zuma is a computer game based off of Aztecs and discovering their gold and makes me feel like a conquistador or, at least, someone who likes to defeat the ancient Aztec gods with colored balls and a clever little frog as my sidekick." -

____absolution

(I still don't know what's up with the frog. -CV)

"Kahlua, God of Mudslides" -

freezer818

"I'm protesting this question. It's always the damn snake. Why doesn't Tlaloc get any love?" -

palmer_kun

(Because Tlaloc isn't even worth 10 Scrabble points. Quetzlcoatl's got the Q and the Z right there. Even Tezcatlipoca is more valuable. Tlaloc should have invested in more rare consonants. -CV)

"We haven't done the Aztecs at school yet. Unless it's a mutated Basilisk?" -

sasquatch_223

"Zeus" -

yayworthy

(Zeus's "serpent" did get around a lot... and he disguised himself as a swan once... and... nope. No credit. -CV)

"Samuel L. Jackson, who eventually got tired of these mother******g snakes on this mother******g plane of existence." -

i_calql8

"Quizalotl, who also founded the tradition of pub quizzes so popular around the world. Luckily we no longer cut out the heart of the lowest scoring player though." -

sciamachy

(Thank you for coming up with the new penalty for webcheating. -CV)

"'pretzel coats for all'" -

jechocochan

"Quesocoatl, also god of cheeses." -

profsparky

"Quesadillacoatl. Now with added cheesy tastiness." -

girlambrosia

"Quetzal Overcoatl is the cheap Chinese fake you can get for $10 in New York." -

woap

"Sounds like one of the Ancient Pokémon -- 'Quetzalcoatl, I choose you!'" -

germankitty

"Quetzocoatal, which would make an excellent name for my penis." -

etcet

(I hesitate to ask where the "feathery" part comes in. -CV)

"Quezlcoatl, who, come to think of it, looks an awful lot like Trogdor. Perhaps he is a dragon-snake-bird-thing." -

squeegibo

"Qzetchoktyol.. eh.. Its got a q and a z in it i'm sure.. and a ol around the end.. Aztec names are basically the south american equivilant of Polish Jews." -

tarpo

Correct Answer: Quetzalcoatl

9. Lay it on us: What do you like and/or dislike about the Quiz? We can take it.

"I like that I don't actually have to know anything to play." -

heroine_is_hot
"That when I don't know the answer I can actually say 'Fuck it, I don't know' and make shit up. That didn't work out so well in my school exams." -

selenityshiroi

"Like? Getting proof every week that the world still has a sense of humor. Also, the little commentaries on the answers that y'all add are wicked funny." -

jaxraven

(Y'all? Wicked? That's quite the hybrid American accent you're sporting. -AL)

"It gives me something to do at work." -

loopyuk

(The

ljdq: wasting corporate resources since 2004. -AL)

"Funny is hard!" -

dark_sekretlove

"Like? Gin, pudding and ~~puns~~ funny stuff. Dislike? Not actually done every day." -

etumukutenyak

(Sorry folks, we have jobs & families & stuff. -AL*CV&LL&TL)

"i dislike the fact it's not actually daily, but paradoxically enough, i like the irony that presents." -

flamingbentley

(+1, finding the silver lining. -AL)

"What I like about you is you keep me warm at night. What I dislike about you is you are all so freaking smart! I feel like a total non-funny airhead after I answer the quiz questions. And yet, I keep coming back for more...which means you must be really good in bed, LJDQ." -

its_what_we_are

(CV, did you...? -AL)
(No, I have a gf kthx. LL? -CV)
(Happily married! TL? -LL)
(I told you I'd do anything to keep my mod job! -TL)

"I dislike the fact that LJDQ isn't pronounceable as a word. 'Ljdq'. Try it!" -

the_zaniak

(We recommend you try calling it "the quiz". -AL)

"Too hard to smuggle the gin into work that I need to play properly!" -

blindgeoff

"It needs a car chase." -

fizrep

"Sometimes you print too many answers. They take forever to read, and a some of them aren't that funny. I think you could trim them by about a third." -

marasca

(This complaint is surprisingly valid. -AL&CV)

"I dislike the lack of ponies as a reward system." -

thesecondevil

(Hey, I gotta munch on something while I'm grading here. -CV)

"Lyrics. DUDE WTF." -

lots42

"You really need some more non-american centric questions!" -

b_hulsmans

(Well if any of the non-American quizlings would volunteer to guest mod, maybe we could work on that problem! But so far, the only folks to guest-mod have been American. Thus our reign of cultural hegemony continues... -AL)

"Acknowledge my brilliance, fuckers, that's all that I ask." -

primavera

And that's the way it is. Thanks all for playing, thanks for enjoying, and thanks for being patient. And stuff. Extra thanks to guest mod

trishalynn, and thanks to Flash Gordon, and what the hell, thanks to everyone! Hope you had a happy Thanksgiving if you celebrated, and welcome to the Christmas season, where I'm sure we'll be cheesy enough to have a Christmas-themed quiz. And Happy Eid to all our Muslim players out there. And... that's all.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL&TL

EDIT: WTF Subject line? November? I'm totally loopy here.