LJ Daily Answers: 29 December 2008

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Happy Holiday season to all! Whatever holiday you may or may not celebrate, we hope all is well with you at this, the end of the year. Let's roll!



1. Andrew Wiggin is the titular character in which short story written by Orson Scott Card?

Number of people who thought of The Simpsons' Chief Wiggum: 19

"heh..heh-heh...you said 'tit'...heh". - doomgirl and 11 others. Yes, this joke is four years old, and we're milking it as hard as Orson himself.

"Tits and Ass in one Q/A -- Score!" - glamsith

"Chief Wiggins, P.I. The character was titular because he had a nice set of man boobs." - demon_666

"Is that the guy who wrote Jurassic Park and all those books?" - babybokal

(No, he's dead now. -CV)

"Wiggin is Wiggin', y'all." - autumnrain

"I play my Orson Scott Card in defensive position and gain 700 points of exposition. Your turn, Yugi!" - mattwolf

(-1, Yu-Gi-Oh. Still better than the -2 you would have gotten for Pokemon. -CV)

"Are You There, God? It's Me, Andrew Wiggin." - pocketmouse

"I've never read it. There are many things I've never read, like A Sale of Two Titties, by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author." - stagemanager

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"I started to read this once and my head exploded." - ginalin
"I tried to read Orson Scott Card on vacation, but a storm came up and washed the book overboard. totally not kidding. I think God was telling me something, so I never tried to read Card again." - faery_wing

"Ender's Game, which I enjoyed immensely when I was twelve, but will no doubt soon be made into a flick with badly portrayed child geniuses and lots of big explosions." - sasquatch_223

(Starring Will Smith as Andrew "Ender" Wiggins! -CV)

"Ender's Game, which is also the name of the now emaciated cash cow Card still attempts to milk, which he just give up the ghost on and find another. The cow is so dried up, in fact, I suspect it's kept in a jar with a label 'Instant Cow, just add water'" - seferin

(I think he's insignificant next to Anne McAffrey. -CV)

"Mmm, Ender's Game. Read that at the age of 11. I think it had something to do with how I turned out." - jessicamariek

(...and how many planets have YOU blown up, young lady? -CV)

"Ender's Game: See, Mom, It's IMPORTANT for Me to Play Video Games" - dogofthefuture

Correct Answer: "Ender's Game"

(Yes, short story. Yes, I know there were novels. There was more than one novel in which he was the titular character. Only one short story/novella/WTFever, though. See? Tricksy! -CV)



2. A thermodynamic process or reaction in which energy is absorbed in the form of heat is called what?

"Ask Blagojevich. He would know--he's taking the heat these days." - faery_wing

"A cat. That's why you always see them sleeping in sunbeams. They're recharging their lasers, batteries, teleportation devices, etc. It's also why they like to sleep on your face when it's cold out (when it's not cold out they do it because they want to kill you)." - theninth

(Damn dirty kitties. -CV)

"It's Christmas. I don't have to think about science on Christmas, damnit." - fleshfailure and six others

"Thermodynamics is when you drop your thermos while you're driving and then it rolls around under the seats." - dogofthefuture

(Which really just makes you wonder how Isaac Newton figured it out all those centuries ago... -CV)

"I can sure absorb your heat, if you know what I mean." - stagemanager, doing better than the five folks who just said "SECKS"

"The hot flashes I get every night?" - primavera

"How the Human Torch works?" - freezer818

"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" - raienna

"Who cares, as long as it makes a loud noise and flash when it explodes!" - woap

"Winter visiting my in-laws. Or summer visiting them, really. They absorb all our energy." - judith_s

"Landothermic; the result is the observer being encased in Carbonite. Not to be confused with Landrothermic, which gives you a peculiar transverse mohawk 'do." - etcet

"I always remember which one is endothermic and which one is exothermic because I know the xenomorphs had an exoskeleton." - thesecondevil

(And this week's gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation goes to... thesecondevil! -CV)

"Endothermic--The word a geek engineer friend of mine once used to describe a burrito fart. I've wondered ever since if that's true." - ginalin

"Endothermic, or implosion. e.g. The Stock Market" - seferin

"Endothermic reaction - which is what happens when I crawl into bed and stick my feet on palmer_kun's legs. I certainly feel more energetic once I've thawed my toes. Heh." - soberloki

"Endothermic, which happens to be the name of the HVAC service company Snoop Dogg opened on the side, in case music didn't work out for him." - squeegibo

(Thermodizzle in the rizzaction! -CV)

Correct Answer: Endothermic

"Is it wrong that I just sang that in my head to the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus? 'ENNNN-dothermic!'" - distaff_exile



3. Who was the mythological character who was granted eternal sleep (and, thus, eternal youth and beauty) at the request of Selene, the moon goddess?

(-2 for everyone who knew this as a result of too much Sailor Moon. Not even having all the Sailor Scouts combine together to form Sailor Voltron and cut motherfuckers up with some Sailor Blazing Sword could have made that series good. -CV)

"HOLY SHIT, A QUESTION WHERE 'YOUR MOTHER' IS NOT AN IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS RIBALD ANSWER. I shall alert the press." - etcet

(Not so fast, young Padawan. - TL)

"'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' It's less well known that Keats also said, 'Your mom is an agony forever.'" - seekingferret

(You have strange definitions of 'ribald' - AL)

"Narcoleptica." - dogofthefuture

"Eternal sleep? At someone else's request? Isn't that physician-assisted suicide? Isn't that illegal?" - mathnerd

"God I hope it's Endora. And the rest of the cast. I'm so tired of the arguing over Dicks." - amymich

"Someone who could've just used NyQuil. Even Denis Leary has sung its praises." - finding_rowan

"Whoever it is, it's the opposite of Keith Moon." - kenshardik

"Dick Clark" - zihuatanejo, drbear

(Alas, the stroke woke him up in 2004... - TL)

"Shoot, I actually used to know this, it wasn't Adonis, it was some other boring but hot dude, hence my answer : Some boring but hot dude who is not Adonis" - tytaniastrange

"That would have been such a let down. When she said 'Let's sleep together', he thought that he was getting lucky." - demon_666

"Tara Reid, but it was all a lie. I've seen her boob job." - soberloki

(Apparently, she's gotten 'em fixed. - TL)

"OH MY GOD I was just up until 6:30 this morning finishing a paper eternal sleep sounds SO GOOD right now ahhhhhhhhhh. " - babybokal

"Greek gods were all so gay. Fanfiction thinks it invented slash, but the Greeks invented it 3000 years ago. " - ginalin

"Sleeping Beauty. And she would've got away with it too, if it hadn't been for that darned Prince! " - sarcastro

(+1, Scooby Doo – LL)

"The Eternal Sweeper Lord Wootsaydiditagin lives in the Elf Only Inn, where he works as head janitor. Oh wait, did that say eternal Sleeper?" - mattwolf

(+1, Elf Only Inn... come back...! -TL)

"Endymion son of Endymioff, son of Begynymion (they probably recycled names)" - seferin

"Rip Van Winkle, eternal youth and beauty sure but you still have to cope with a massive beard." - thesecondevil

"That sounds like something that would only happen to an evil character, tricked into eternal beauty but you have to sleep through it. Disney taught me that only good people are naturally beautiful." - rhiannonjk

"What is it with the Greek/Roman gods and 'Forever'? You'd think giving someone the trots for a month or a winter coat in the middle of Summer would be enough. But NOOO! You - spend eternity asleep! You - push this rock forever!" - freezer818

"I realize that nothing in greek mythology makes any damn sense anyway...but what the HELL is the point of eternal youth and beauty if you're not awake to enjoy it?" - doomgirl

"Yet another victim of mythological date rape. Selene has him cast into eternal sleep so she can always visit him, and bears fifty children to him? I suppose he got off better than other mythological characters, he didn't have to do it with a swan. " - mujubius

Correct Answer: Endymion

"Poor Endymion. What's worse? Effectively being killed by a goddess for no other reason than her whimsy? Or having sex with a goddess at least fifty times and sleeping through the whole thing?" - falconpain



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
That's great,
it starts with an earthquake,
birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.

"seriously, you people need a new playlist. I don't even want to know what's in the LJDQ iPod." - faery_wing

"If I was in an aeroplane, I wouldn't be too worried about an earthquake either. The birds might be a problem, but *insert joke about Samual L Jackson having taken care of the motherfuckin snakes on the motherfuckin plane here*." - selenityshiroi. Many others recalled the wonders of SoaP.

"LEON-ARD BERN-STEIN! (It's the 'FIVE GO-OLD RINGS!' of pop music)" - theninth

"It is perhaps the only socially acceptable time to scream Leonard Bernstein's name at the top of your lungs. Unless you're underneath him, but that's another ball of wax." - kristinmachina

"I bet there are maybe twelve people total in the world who know more lyrics to this song than just 'mumble mumble mumble mumble LEONARD BERNSTEIN LEONID BREZHNEV mumble mumble mumble mumble...' I, however, am not one of them." - babybokal, rosefox and everyone except...

"BERENSTAIN BEARS!! Which one was Leonard? Was that the dad?" - doomgirl

"songs that won't leave my BRAIN, EVER. Assholes." - monroe_nell, squeegibo

"It's The End of the World as WE Know IT! Are there any REM songs that aren't perfect to slash your wrists to?" - ginalin

(Shiny Happy People? -CV)

"'Always Look At the Bright Side of Life', Monty Python" - germankitty

"Someone should tell Mr. Stipe that that shit don't rhyme..." - ajmcoqui

"Someone did tell REM that Lenny Bruce was a little bit dead at the time of the song, right?" - falconpain

(The undead have no fear. -CV)

"What I've never understood is why Lenny Bruce isn't afraid. I mean, it's the end of the world as we know it." - orgdotnews

(Maybe he's in one of those stocked fallout shelters with mujubius... -CV)

"Perfect for the lazy Sundays I spend in my ramshackle fallout shelter under the ground, polishing my shotgun, eating powdered food and mumbling about how the fools just won't listen. NB: Polishing my shotgun is not a euphamism." - mujubius

"Back before the internet, I once tried to write out all the words to this song by listening to it on cassette, playing a little, writing it out, rewinding, listening again. I never did get through the whole thing... The moral of this story is that the past sucked. Viva la technologie!" - marasca

Correct Answer: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.

"That song was the best thing to come out of the movie Independence Day. Well, that and Randy Quaid." - tweeti



5. American football players Tony Gonzalez, Jason Witten, Jeremy Shockey, and Antonio Gates all played which position?

"There's a nun joke in here somewhere." - sskipstress

(Really? Where?? - TL)

"Fry service, with additional training in drive-thru. Sometimes front end, but not after that incident with Tony and the milkshake machine." - soberloki

"They all played Riff Raff in 'The Rocky Horror Show' - interestingly, all in the same production at the same time. Kooky!" - kenshardik

"Crouching (What? It's football, everyone crouches)" - seferin

"The one appointed by their coaches." - n2_the_void

"The Flying Lotus... no wait, what kind of position were you talking about?" - tytaniastrange

"They've all played as Double Entendres, I believe. Pretty sure that's a position." - dogofthefuture

"Down... tight... end... pass... zone... thing. Yeah. Down tight-end pass-zone thing. That's the one." - stgreyhounds

"Based on the apparent theme I'd have to say end... backer? Is that a position? All I know is quarterback and I'm not even sure what that is. " - lookingforwater

"Ugh! American football! I'm going to guess and say quarterback, on the grounds that you listed four of them, which is enough for a full back. " - sir_ophiuchus

"Aw c'mon. This one isn't fair to those of us across the pond! Who don't have a copy of the Karma Sutra!" - autumnrain

"Erm. I know nothing about American football, so I'm going with either "endbacker", "wicket keeper" or "right-winger" (oh no, that was Alberto Gonzales)." - many_from_one

"I do not recognize such sissy nancy games as American football. REAL men play RUGBY. And eat Marmite. And drink tea." - mathnerd

"...zzzz...Huh? Sorry, dozed off when I realized this question was about football." - yunami

"I only watched football when I was brought to games in person with my dad. As a result, if it deals with anyone on an American football team that isn't the 49ers, I wasn't allowed to be a fan of them unless I wanted to be reminded in the middle of the stadium that it would be a long 200-mile hike home. So...who?" - slaygirl

"Those sound like foreign last names, and everybody knows that foreigners are only recruited to American football to be kickers." - rhiannonjk

(Or they're soccer players... at least that's how they did it at my high school. - TL)

"Oh god I am dying to say tight end but I know for a fact that's it's wide reciever." - ifeedformula

"What they do in their bedroom is their business." - b_hulsmans

"Ever think about just how gay football sounds? Tight ends and wide receivers and all that spandex.. The crouching and the fact that the ball often gets held at groin level and everyone's grabbing for it...." - theninth

"I hope it was tight end. *licks lips in a predatory fashion* ;) " - canuckdesz
"I will be ogling the cheerleaders while the womenfolk squee over the boys in tight pants. " - etcet
"Oh check out the tight ends on those guys! Almost as good as the Brazil volleyball players. " - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Tight End

"David Beckham still gets paid more for doing less. 'Nuff said." - n5iln

(I didn't realize that "Look pretty while running around" was a footie position. - TL)



6. How do you feel about the end of the year?

"It's only the end of the year on the Gregorian calendar. If you're using the Discordian calendar, or the 'pataphysical calendar, or the Aztec calendar, or the Chinese calendar, all this New Year's business is just claptrap." - grayjedi and a few other wise guys

(True enough. But if you're capable of telling the difference between December 31st and January 1st, then you know exactly what's going on. Also, you're 95% likely to have a day off of work. So nyah. -CV)

"With my fingers. How else am I supposed to feel things, especially at midnight when the year actually ends and I can't sense them with any of my other senses? It's dark at midnight, you know." - raienna

"It rather depends if it is the silky smooth one or the end with spikes on." - miss_whiplash

"I'm turning 22 a week after New Year's. Six months from now I will be out on my ass looking for a job and an apartment. I'm...how you say...a little freaked." - babybokal

"It's not really over 'til inauguration day." - lookingforwater and several others

"It involved ljdq, which means it's drinktastic." - finding_rowan

"I love it! 2 weeks off to abuse my liver and stay up all night surfing porn! " - blindgeoff

"Excellent, it's the end of christmas carols for another three months" - zihuatanejo

"To quote a professor of mine: 'One year closer to sweet, sweet death.' He's really a rather fatalistic person." - fyrefaery

"2008 was good. Art school. Good friends. Non-hardcore illegal substances, hardcore...what married people do. Also discovered LJDQ, the cherry on top." - amymich

"This year has been so crappy for so many people, I think we should make an effigy of it, throw it under a bus and back over it several times, trample it under a stampede of long horn cattle, then burn it while we all get drunk and then piss on it." - ginalin, seferin

"I fucking LOATHE New Year's Eve, independent of the animatronic cadaver Dick Clark has become. Yes, please, remind me of all the shit I failed to accomplish in the past twelve months, and drunkenly set unattainable expectations for the twelve to come. Fuck that noise." - etcet

(Your bitterness tastes like sweet candy. -CV)

"I'm in Hawaii through January 1st. The end of the year rocks!" - marasca

"Pretty good, actually. Though it takes me until Nov. to get used to writing the new year on personal checks..." - ajmcoqui

(Painfully true... -CV)

"The harsh old year ends.
The new year shines bright with hope.
GIN, PUDDINGS FOR ALL!!!!" - tweeti

"That's great, it started with Lombardo, lights and drinks, a party hat
Dick Clark is not afraid.
Eye of a camera man, listen to Auld Lang Syne
World serves its own drinks, designated drivers.
Counting down from ten, nine, eight, six, five--what?
Little streamers flutter from up high, ball lights
Fire in the skies, represent America in a program televised from New York streets

Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the police breathing
down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, stroke, fireworks. Polar Bear Plunges!
Fine then.
Uh oh, overflow, 'toxicated idiots, but it'll do. Resolute, resolute.
2008 is ending
Listen to the countdown
Tell me with the new year and the old year in the right
Right
You mistletolic, egg hypnogtic, four, three, two, one
Feeling pretty psyched

It's the end of the year as we know it
It's the end of the year as we know it
It's the end of the year as we know it and I feel fine
It's the end of the year as we know it and I feel fine" - mistyraven

(+5, excellent parody. -CV)



And thus endeth the year's quizly goodness. Tomorrow will of course still be a new quiz, but the answers will arrive next year. We hope you've had lots of fun playing, and of course we hope you keep on playing and come back week after week, month after month, and aye, even year after year. I'm sure our New Years Resolution will be something akin to "drink more gin, eat more pudding, and put up more funny quizzes". Although not sure how we can do that last one, since there are only so many weeks in the year in the first place... but we'll worry about that later. Something something.

The point is, thanks for being here, Happy Holidays, and all the best for the New Year!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL&TL

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