LJ Daily Answers: 1 June 2009

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1. Who is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

"Zombie Winston Churchill" - seekingferret

(The Deadcoats are coming! The Deadcoats are coming! -CV)

"Hugh Grant" - majorsamfan, piney61

(+1, Love Actually. -CV)

"Optimus Prime" - 10 of you. Autobrits, roll out, wot wot!

"Dan Brown" - kagomeshuko

"Alton Brown" - 10 more of you, OM NOM NOM

"My friend just told me 'I always thought Winston Church Hill was a place.'" - actuallyspatula

"Benjamin Desreili. Desreili should always be the prime minister when it isn't Winston Churchill." - glamsith

"Margaret Thatcher will always be the Prime Minister in my heart." - la_trombonista

"I totally want to see Judi Dench elected Prime Minster. But I'm American, so take that in stride." - kamalloy

(I'm sure that when they make "Iron Lady: The Movie", Judi Dench will be first in line to play Maggie. -CV)

"Gordon's alive!" - david_deacon

"What can Brown do for you?" - mark_laura

(Well, he can't fix the country's economic crisis, but he can deliver packages overnight, and will offer you a free share in Northern Rock if you call now! -CV)

"A reader of 'Train Enternainment Weekly'." - orgdotnews, thepikey

"Reputedly Gordon Brown. Unfortunately he's being so ineffectual that he could have been replaced by a three-week old baby ferret who made decisions by throwing dung at a board and no-one would have noticed." - drunken_hedghog

"I can't believe you are linking delicious chocolate to Gordon Brown. I don't even care if I'm not allowed to do this, -3 for making me envision his face when I have a Mars bar." - puredeadthingy

(Guess you should have been holding a Snickers instead. -CV)

"At the moment, Gordon Brown. But don't be surprised if he 'steps down' or 'gets trampled by rabid chipmunks' before next Monday." - selenityshiroi

(It would take quite a large number of chipmunks to successfully "trample" a human being. Unless "chipmunks" is a euphemism for "Scots". -CV)

Correct Answer: Gordon Brown



2. What were the two previous team names of the Baltimore Orioles?

"Heh heh, you said 'orioles'." - many_from_one

"You know, Orioles looks like of like 'areola' if you're not careful. Just saying." - kittycatness

"Orioles? They sound like some sort of bodily orifice, like earholes. Or arseholes? Were they the Baltimore Arseholes?" - lins_arosa

"All I know about Baltimore I learned from Hairspray." - puredeadthingy

"Oreos. Hungry. Mrrgh." - 22 of you

"I have no idea what an Oriole is, and can only conclude that it is some kind of Oreo-creole hybrid - biscuitty and French." - the_funmonkey

"The Baltiless Fig Newtons and the Baltimini Crackers" - seferin
"Baltisame Orioles and Baltiless Orioles" - yayworthy
"Baltiless and Baltaverage" - mark_laura

"The Andioles and the Bothioles." - fizrep

(Many Bothioles died to bring us this misinformation. -CV)

"The Bad News Bears and the Mighty Ducks" - drbear

(I hope their next incarnation is the Purple Cobras. -CV)

"Robins and Batmen" - florahart

"The Cleveland Browns. Maybe they'd be better as a baseball team..." - tears_of_nienna

"They should call them the Baltimore Brewing Brown Birds and call it good." - majorsamfan

"They were once known as the Milwaukee Brewers, but attendance drooped." - jhirat_dai

(Attendance probably drooped because they stopped brewing beer for the fans. -CV)

"Can we not talk about my beloved Orioles? I mean, as a native Baltimoron, (yes, I spelled it that way on purpose; you have to be a moron to cheer for the Orioles every year) it's drilled into you from birth that YOU MUST CHEER FOR THE ORIOLES, NO MATTER HOW BADLY THEY SUCK. And that the Yankees are the devil's spawn." - japeningrish

"Milwaukee Brewers then St. Louis Browns before settling on being the skid mark on the underpants of the AL East..." - anjak_j

Correct Answer: The Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Browns

"The name Alabama Hotpockets was taken." - ctheb



3. Who was the engineer who was involved with the creation of both the V-2 and Saturn V rockets?

"Could it be... Satan?" - napier

"" - severedscythe

(+1, The Authority. -CV)

"Someone with too little V in their life, apparently. Seriously, dude, give the other letters some love. I go salsa dancing with an L on Wednesdays and she's pretty good." - aesriella

"All I know about engineers is this: the optimist sees the glass as half-full. The pessimist sees the glass as half-empty. The engineer sees the glass as twice as big as it needs to be." - peaseblossom03

"T-Rex!" - thepikey

"Victor Von Doom" - wiredwizard

"Zefram Cochrane" - selenityshiroi

"Montgomery Scott" - fmh, the_soundof, akiyasan, thefannishwaldo, la_trombonista, elvenpiratelady. Poor Geordi only got 1/3 of the love.

"Gunther Vent? I vonder vhere Gunther went?" - cholma

(+1, Apollo 13. -CV)

"" - darthparadox

"Eva Braun" - david_deacon, jkabley

"Wehrner von Braun, whose autobiography was 'I Reach for the Stars (but sometimes I hit London)'" - drbear

"Once zee rockets come up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat's not my department, says Wernher von Braun!" - 8 13 of you

"Gather 'round while I sing you of LJDQ;
If you're feeling peckish for something Trebekish,
Spout out a factoid that ain't even true -
And you'll be a master of LJDQ!

Quotage you'll surely be clinchin',
If you reference penis or Pynchon.
'Zese dick jokes are endless! Is zere no taboo?
It's Freudian,' says Wernher, 'zis LJDQ!'" - johnwwells

Correct Answer: Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun

"now immortalized as the guy on packages of Brauny® paper towels." - mandydax



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the artist and the song:
When I hold you in my arms
I know that I can't do no wrong
and when I hold you in my arms
My love can't do me no harm

"Happiness is a Pre-Nup." - johnwwells

"OJ Simpson, Obsesssion" - seferin

"Y'know, the way the lyrics sound, it makes it seem like the only reason his love isn't stabbing him to death with a prison shank is because he's got her in a death grip." - frequencyshift, aesriella

"You know, maybe it's just me, but that last line rather looks like the singer is using his mistress ('you') as a human shield against his wife ('my love'). How messed up is that?" - broken_moons

"I've now got 'Bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town' going through my head. Could a junkyard dog take King Kong? Enquiring minds want to know!" - kamalloy

"Why do you always pick cheesy emo bands?" - ignis_mcgruff

(James Brown may be many things, but I'm pretty sure "emo" is not one of them. -CV)

"AAAUGH! I just finished a paper on double negation, don't you talk to me about no 'can't do me no harm'! AAAUGH! Even worse, is 'wrong' supposed to rhyme with 'harm'? And 'arms' with itself? Ay-yay-yay." - kuzujuk

"I saw James Brown in Dublin about 6 months before he died. He didn't try to dance or do the splits or anything, thank god. I don't think any of us would have been mentally prepared for that." - the_funmonkey

"'Happiness is a Warm Gun'. As opposed to the official LJDQ song, 'Happiness is a Warm Gin'." - many_from_one

(I like my gin and tonic on ice. GLUB GLUB. -CV)

"There's a brand of soy milk called 'so good' here in australia that used that song in their ads. Every time I hear that song, I feel like a glass of soy milk. And I hate the stuff!!" - chickybee32

"I think I'm getting the theme here and if I'm right then this song must be by the Godfather of Tacky Jewelry, Crazy Hair and Pimp Coats." - limegreenjillo

"'I Feel Good', or in JB's naitive tongue: 'HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HUH HAH! GOODFOOT! HAI!'" - freezer818

Correct Answer: James Brown, "I Got You (I Feel Good)"



5. What political controversy in early 20th century England focused on animal experimentation, especially vivisection?

"The Island of Dr. Moreau" - seekingferret, napier, johnwwells

"The NIMH affair" - la_trombonista

"No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - uncut_diamond

"If I recall correctly, a bold effort to create the perfect monkey butler. It was a failure, thus leading to the disintegration of the British Empire as we know it." - the_funmonkey

"The debate was stopped when some angry protestors threw a cow into the Commons." - puredeadthingy

"We were dissecting pigs hearts, and I stuck my thumbs in each artery and made it dance. For some reason it weirded out my classmates. Can't imagine why" - severedscythe

"Not the Scopes monkey trials. I tell ya, that 4-H summer camp audience never knew what hit them!" - glamsith

"Repo! The Veterinary Opera" - fmh

"Pet of Frankenstein" - broken_moons

"The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street. On slow days, Sweeny would dabble in the lucritive word of pet grooming." - kristinmachina

"The Great Pathetic Whining by People who Don't Understand Animals are Made of Meat." - adalger

"The dissection of Clifford, aka the Big Red Dog Affair." - cmzero

(Ironically, John Ritter's autopsy proved stunningly uncontroversial. -CV)

"Vivisection is an unnecessarily jolly word for a fairly nasty process. It's like if lethal injection was renamed 'handysquirt time'." - many_from_one

(I would totally choose "death by handysquirt". -CV)

"The Brown Dog affair, where it was proven that animal activists lack creativity in naming affairs" - operatic_diva

"The Brown Dog Riots, over whether cruel experimentation on animals was really necessary to prove that students and townies will fight over anything." - rissaofthesaiya

Correct Answer: The Brown Dog Affair



6. Chocolate: Good, bad, both, neither? Discuss.

"Not one of my favourite foods after a couple of years of working at Cadburys..." - anjak_j

"You know that commercial where the guy sprays deoderant on him and he turns into chocolate? That is the only case where chocolate is bad. His smile is that of madmen who can only feel pain." - actuallyspatula

"Fuck you LJDQ, I have approximately $3 and several apples to my name, and you spent the quiz talking about prime ribs and oreos and V-8 and animals (mmm, meat). I am so hungry and chocolate would be lovely, thank you very much." - pookykabuki

"It's the next best thing to sex" - seferin

"Chocolate: teacher, mother, secret lover." - elvenpiratelady

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"Chocolate does not fit into your puny moral categories. CHOCOLATE *IS*, AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN. IT IS THE ALPHA AND IT IS THE OMEGA." - the_funmonkey

"I pretty much lost my virginity for chocolate fudge cake. Draw your own conclusions." - aesriella

(Your... virginity... tastes like chocolate? -CV)

"Good on ice cream, bad on chicken nuggets." - theylovetostare

"I ate chocolate fondue last weekend. And dipped bacon in it. So yummy, so wrong." - thepikey

"You've just reminded me that I have a bar of Cadbury's Bournville with Orange Pieces on my computer desk. Can't discuss. Mouth full." - selenityshiroi

"Work of the Devil, I tell you. Which is not a bad thing at all." - distaff_exile

"I like my lovers like I like my chocolate: Dark and bitter." - tears_of_nienna

"Laura loves white (don't say "it's not *real* chocolate" around her)" - mark_laura

"White chocolate > dark chocolate. Search your feelings, you know it to be true." - many_from_one

(Racist! White chocolate supremacist! Fie on thee! -CV)

"I love all kinds of chocolate--dark, milk, or white! However, I don't like chocolate with nuts. Hey, I might be sexist, but at least I'm not racist, right?" - mistyraven

"Judge Fudge's ruling: 'I ain't got time to be good, bad, both, or neither. I'm far too busy being delicious.'" - mandydax

"Bad for me (diabetes), good for me (calming down tweeti)." - drbear

"Chocolate is excellent. It is the cure for all ills, and the only thing men have to combat the two deadly monsters 'PMS' and 'Scorned-Woman'. Especially if it's ice wine filled chocolates. Holy crow, that's good stuff." - canuckdesz

(Mmmmmm, ice wine. -CV)

Correct Answer: "I don't really care what anyone thinks about chocolate, but if they don't like it, can I have theirs?" - hinotori



And there you have it. The theme was brown because... bulls and bears are brown. Sometimes. Sometimes not. Eh, whatever. Brown it is!

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Rock On!

AL&CV&LL&TL

Comments

[severedscythe.livejournal.com]

AHA oh god I got a +1. I feel so special. THANKS GUYS.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's special time! But not special education time. Most of us are above that by now.