LJ Daily Answers: 20 April 2009

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

This week's theme is the snatural follow-up from last week's quiz. This is because I have no shame.



1. "Protect Ya Neck" was the debut single for which hip-hop group?

"Chiro and the Practors. or were they the hip-pop group?" - faery_wing

"If they'd stop bumping hips and leave hopping to frogs and bunnies, they wouldn't break their necks!" - majorsamfan

"Sounds like a black version of The Phantom of the Opera. 'Keep yo hand at the level of yo eye, biatch.' I don't think many people will get this which makes me sad." - gigglingpixie

(I think I'm a bad person for laughing too hard at this. -CV)

"Marie and the Antoinettes. Sadly, the group was separated shortly thereafter." - jadencheetah

"The Hip-Hop Hillbillies! Oh wait, their tune was 'Protect Yer Red Neck'." - mattwolf

"The Chickenhead Gang. They look like total fools when their heads get cut off." - fax_celestis

"I'm guessing this is the theme song for turkeys at Thanksgiving." - adria_rhiannon

"The Donkey Punch Group" - meloglas

"The Nearly Headless Nicks. The title of the song was a warning to us all that we should, indeed, protect our necks, or we'll end up like them." - umbralcorax

"MC Boleyn and DJ Kat Howard. They were quite retro." - azdaja_dafema

"The Sunblock Boys. Also referred to as SPF 30 (by those of us in the know)" - its_what_we_are

"Wu Tang Clan is the best thing to come out of Staten Island." - kristinmachina

(Arguably one of the best backhanded compliments I've ever seen. -CV)

(My mom's the best thing to come out of Staten Island! Wait, what? - LL)

"I was trying to say something clever about bees here, because it's, ya know, the Wu Tang Killer Bees and all. Thirty seconds later, I now have an image of Ol' Dirty Bastard and Method Man beating the hell out of Nicholas Cage while he screams, 'Oh god not the bees!'that needs to be made into a .gif. Thanks, LJDQ." - teh_antisecks

(And this week's spiffington Award for Total Gibberish goes to... teh_antisecks! -CV)
(I revoke this awarding of the spiffington Award for Total Gibberish, 'cause I, sadly, know what he's talking about. – LL)
(I rest my case. -CV)

"Oh, crap the Wu-Tang Clan. I know this because my tragically bogan partner has all this crappy country music and in its midst are the Wu-Tang albums featuring profanities, abuse and murderous thoughts. I never thought I'd say this, but I'll take the country music, thanks." - demon_666

Correct Answer: The Wu-Tang Clan



2. What James Bond film featured Indian tennis star Vijay Amritraj?

"Is that Indian with a dot or Indian with a feather?" - faery_wing

(+1, rampant cultural insensitivity. -CV)

"Slumdog Millionaire" - mercuryblue144, teh_antisecks

"I know! It was that one where Bond used that really cool gadget, chased somebody in a vehicle and humped this really hot chick!" - mattwolf

(...Yes, that one. -CV)

"Wow, this must be before my time... and I thought I was old. I mean, I'm getting into gardening." - lins_arosa

"I call shenanigans. I watched all the Bond flicks and I never saw no 'Vijay' dude, the only characters ever are James Bond and some hottie he's seducing. I have never seen anyone else." - thepikey

(You obviously missed the one where he was seducing TWO hotties. -CV)

"" - spiralgirl1

"Eh View to Eh Kill." - johnwwells

(I said Indian, not Canadian, eh. -CV)

"I'm going to name my next dog 'Dr. No', just to confuse house guests. 'Doctor, No! Down boy! No Doctor, no!'" - squeegibo

"From Russia with 40-Love" - seekingferret, many_from_one, darthparadox
"30-Love and Let Die" - drbear
"You Only Serve Twice" - la_trombonista, i_calql8, anticarnation1

"Stop staring at my Vijay-jay!" - kristinmachina, etcet, blindgeoff, kittycatness

"Originally titled You Have Been Served, the producers liked the Chinese translation better, Woman With The Cephalopod Vagina" - howeird

"Octopussy- now more commonly used to refer to the interestingly odd lady with a litter of 8 babies." - ginalin

Correct Answer: Octopussy



3. In Olympic weightlifting, what are the two types of lifts currently competed?

"Have you seen the size of their thighs? They are SMALL HAMS! I wonder what they taste like?" - raphsody606

"When I was in Beijing for the Olympics, the Chinese fans would cheer on the team with a slogan that roughly translates to "More Gas! More Gas!" Which is what happened to me after two straight weeks of Chinese food." - kristinmachina

"I prefer World's Strongest Man competitions. Much more macho, imho." - kittycatness

(I love The World's Strongest Man. That show is worth hours of pure comedy. -CV)

"The bend and snap" - angelprojekt

(+1 and -1, Legally Blonde – LL)

"Facelift and tummy tuck." - mercuryblue144

"Chairlift and ski lift." - yayworthy

"Stiletto and Platform. Pumps don't really count." - jadencheetah

"Up and Down? All I know is they make weird grunting noises like pigs in heat." - gigglingpixie

"The Steroid Stretch and The Bodyoil Benchpress. I'm glad I double checked my spelling because I almost submitted the boyoil benchpress, which would have been really creepy." - mattwolf

"I got nothing except a remembered sports commentator's quote from the Olympics: 'Here comes Gregorianova of Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning and it was fantastic!'" - jhirat_dai

"Clean and Jerk, followed by Flush the Sock (or, in some variations, Toss the Banana Peel)" - the_antisecks

"Frank-N-Furter: '...the snatch, clean and jerk.'
Audience: 'OFF!'" - jmthane
"He'll do push-ups, sit-ups, do the snatch, clean and jerk
He thinks dynamic tension must be hard work." - adalger

(+1, RHPS. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Clean and jerk" and "Snatch"



4. What is the common name for the AGM-84 series of missile systems?

"The SLAM, I think...?? Isn't this the wrong category for Phallic shaped weapons of mass destruction?" - ginalin

(The SLAM and the AGM-84 were the same. They bundled them up under a "normal" name. Half-credit for you. -CV)

"The 'I KILL YOU' system. " - accountingwitch

(SILENCE! I KILL YOU! -CV)

"Wasn't AGM-84 one of the bounty hunters in The Empire Strikes Back?" - mattwolf

(Poor IG-88, he never gets any respect. -CV&LL)

"WOPR, or 'Joshua'." - many_from_one
"Want To Play A Game?" - adria_rhiannon

(How about a nice game of chess? -CV)

(DQ Fun Fact: Back in one of the early iterations of the Daily Quiz, the answers were fed into a database called WOPR. Alas, WOPR is lost to the dotcom crash, along with its storehouse of comedy gold. -AL)

"Someone set us up the bomb!" - kristinmachina

"The Deadonator" - teh_antisecks

"Missle Weesiana" - angelprojekt

"Trash 80" - squeegibo

(You must be as old as I am to make that joke. -CV)

"crotch rocket" - 4 of you

"All missiles should be called scuds. It's certainly what they'd leave in my pants if I saw one airborne." - vayshti

"Man, I bet Ahab wishes he had some of those! Hey Moby, suck it!" - thepikey

"One more thing I'm not allowed to roof-mount on my car." - etcet

"Unless it's the thing keeping Tony Stark alive I don't know." - azdaja_dafema

"Well it used to be called the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, but that was too much of a mouthful." - jigawattica, wrestlingdog

"It's used by the Navy and it's called the 'Harpoon-tang.'" - david_deacon

(Only when they're on shore leave. -CV)

"I'll take a guess, is it the 'Punani'?" - demon_666

(Right joke, wrong word. -CV)

Correct Answer: Harpoon



5. Ward, June, Wallace, and Theodore are the family members in which 50's TV sitcom?

"Ward, weren't you a little hard on The Beaver last night?" - like we didn't see that coming

"How should I know? I may be older than any other quizling, but I'm not THAT old!" - germankitty

(Playing the age card, even when you're older than the rest of us, still gets you -50 and us sticking out our tongues and going thpppppppppt. -AL&CV&LL&TL)

"You idiots! These are not them! You've capture their stunt doubles!" - faery_wing

(+1, Spaceballs. -CV)

"The Osbournes" - b_hulsmans
"Juuuuuune!" - thepikey

"The Chipmunks" - freezer818, puredeadthingy, meloglas

"The Waltons? Wallace Walton seems kinda harsh though. Oh wait... Are they the family from Happy Days? I dunno. I'm only 21. I barely know anything!" - dk2022

(::headdesk:: - LL)

"I know their surname's Cleaver. Doesn't strike me as a 50s sitcom sort of surname. Strikes me as a horror-flick sort of surname: 'OHMYGOD HE'S COMING FOR ME WITH A MEAT CLEAVER!'" - mercuryblue144

(Your answer is not entirely without merit, according to teh_antisecks. -CV)

"Ray Romano stars with Jerry Mathers in 'Everybody Loves Beaver', new this fall, only on Fox." - i_calql8

"OH DEAR GOD MY FATHER'S BEEN UNEMPLOYED SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER AND ALL HE DOES IS WATCH RERUNS OF LEAVE IT TO BEAVER. AND BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. AND ANYTHING THAT AIRS BETWEEN 11AM AND 3PM WITH A JUDGE IN IT." - schizospider

"I always thought 'Beaver' was an inappropriate nickname for a child. 'My big brother called me 'Hymen' till I was twelve.'" - angelprojekt

"I always thought Beaver Cleaver would make a great porn star name." - drbear

(Nothing wrong with cleaving a beaver, if you know what I mean. -CV)

"He's called Theodore? I've never actually seen the show but always presumed Beaver was short for Beaversley or Beaverington or Beaverbuildsadam. Beaverbuildsadam Cleaver." - anticarnation1

"Screw the Cleavers, i like the Buttertons better. I mean everyone knows that food is better with butter! Just slap on some butter and the eating gets better." - jigawattica

"I had NO idea that beaver was a dirty word until someone asked me what the strangest thing I had ever eaten was and I replied, 'Beaver...it's kind of fatty and has a greasy taste to it' and the ENTIRE group started choking, laughing, crying, and gagging on their barbeque. I was talking about the small woodland creature, not the OTHER beaver." - its_what_we_are

Correct Answer: "Leave It To Beaver"



6. What's your favorite candy?

"You did not just call my vagina candy! Although, now that I think about it, it has been a lollipop stand-in on a few intimate occasions..." - demon_666

(And this week's ljdq TMI Award goes to... demon_666! -CV)

"Dark chocolate with nuts. Take that any way you like." - ginalin

(Let's call it "Almond Joy". -CV)

"Come to the dark side, Luke - chocolate, that is. Brown gold. Hershey/Dove/See's/Ghirardelli tea." - majorsamfan

"I like my chocolate like I like my women. Uncontaminated." - starryeyes203

"I like a Bit O'Honey now and then, but my Sugar Daddy loves to give me his Zagnuts." - angelprojekt

"The kind that you get from strangers." - have_at_you

"Don't ask me, I'm diabetic. I suck on rocks." - drbear

(Now now, you can still have fun with diabetes. -CV)

(I hate you. -AL)

"I like a guy who's tough but sweet. He's so fine he can't be beat.
I want Candy..I want Candy." - ifeedformula

"I want some Turkish Delight." - dk2022

(That candy comes off much better in "The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe" than it does in real life. Yuck. -CV)

"Ah, Candy! She could do this thing with her inner thigh muscles that.... Er... Reeces' Pieces." - freezer818

"Eyecandy" - fax_celestis, azdaja_dafema, meisjedegaze, ntlespino

"Let's get the smutty answer out of the way first. (Moderately SFW, although office firewalls will probably chastise you. -CV)" - david_deacon

"Barring this or this, I'm willing to settle for a lifetime supply of Belgian chocolate." - germankitty

"Really, this should have been obvious (again, moderately SFW... -CV), and now I know what david_deacon wants for his birthday, Halloween, Easter, and Christmas..." - etcet

"I like psychologically traumatize my sister, an avid teddy bear collector, by slowly consuming gummy bears in as torturous a way as possible. First, I nibble off their little ears, then their little paws. By the time I'm done with their ritual disembowelment, she's crying. Did I mention she just turned 30? Yeah. It's fun." - adria_rhiannon

(+1, just because. -CV)

"Not jellybeans. Never has been jellybeans. Guess who got an Easter basket full of jellybeans? (Seriously, Mother, next year, whatever you plan to spend on my Easter candy, give it to me in cash. I will buy my own candy. Or crackers or books or whatever. We will all be happier.)" - mercuryblue144

"Candy mountain. I'm sure I'll keep my kidneys, but my pancreas is another issue." - vayshti

"Fruit snacks. Vitamin goodness disguised in every oversweetened bite!" - accountingwitch

(Bah! Your vitamins belong not in candy goodness! Fie on thee! -CV)

"why the ever-lasting gobstopper, of course. " - faery_wing

(The snozzberries taste like snozzberries! – LL)

"Some people say that beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy, but really, chocolate takes that place for me. Beer is good, but chocolate is just amazing. Chocolate beer on the other hand..." - lins_arosa

"Creme Eggs. I don't care that I'm the only person who eats them when it's not Easter... it just makes them cheaper. Nom." - many_from_one

(Rest assured, you are not the only one. -CV&LL)

"Anything that melts in my mouth and not in my hand." - tweeti

(drbear, your services are required. -CV)

"Smarties. Because if its true you are what you eat, thats what I want to be." - umbralcorax

"Your Mom is a giant tart. She's sour, gets that sticky goo all over your fingers, and frankly doesn't taste all that good. But a quarter will get you all the Your Mom you can stomach." - thepikey

"Pretty much anything with marzipan in it. I tried making marzipan once, but it killed my blender." - darthparadox

(I used to love marzipan, and then I OD'ed on it, and now I can't stand the stuff. Cheeky candy. -CV)

"Anything chocolate with caramel flowing through it. Just caramel, none of those futzy nuts or whipped-so-stiff-it-can't-be-eaten nougat. Chocolate and caramel are BFF's and need no help. TYVM." - corbaewench, raphsody606

"If it has peanut butter in it, it's my favorite. Unless it's a peanut butter coated beaver (by which I mean...well, do I really need to clarify here?)" - its_what_we_are

"A Mars bar stuffed inside an Oreo. A Moreo if you will. Sometimes I stud the damn thing with Skittles. Dee-lish. I'm not weird." - anticarnation1




And that's the way it is. Just accept it and move along.

Thanks for playing, everyone! Twas a nice light week; everyone must be on post-Easter/Passover vacation. Hopefully we'll get everyone back this week for more quizly goodness. Go and play! Welcome new players; play more! Become veterans! Get great veteran rewards, like, uh, stuff! It's good! And tell your friends! Pimp the quiz out! Get great pimping rewards, like, uh, more stuff!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL&TL

Comments

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

FOUR QUOTES! And one groupthink! I HAVE THE FUNNEEEEEEH!

"Sounds like a black version of The Phantom of the Opera. 'Keep yo hand at the level of yo eye, biatch.' I don't think many people will get this which makes me sad." - gigglingpixie

I LOL'd, too. If they can make The Wiz, then...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You have done well, young padawan. You come close to the great achievement of a perfect six. And from there, total enlightenment.

[gigglingpixie.livejournal.com]

My thinking exactly :) x