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1. What opera by Mozart tells of the love between Tamino and Pamina?

"I wonder what the portmanteau would be for this couple. Tamina? Pamino? Minmin?" -

la_trombonista

"Ta-mino, Tah-mino, Pa-mina, Pa-MI-na, let's call the whole thing off!" -

kristinmachina

"Sounds like a love affair in the haberdashery department. Will Pashmina ever remember her love, Tamino Knit? Will Tamino ever escape the clutches of the wicked Queen Crochet? And will the lothario Sizeseven Needle finally find a perl to call his own?" -

drunken_hedghog

"I didn't think there would be that much of a romance between a Ford Torino and a Panera Bread, but I suppose all it would take is one parking-brake mishap." -

etcet

"Tamnino and Pamina make a porno!" -

eelylove

"The Pamina Monologues" -

dogofthefuture

"Die Flutermaus" -

darthparadox

"The Girl called Ipamina. She passes by all tan and young and lovely, but Tamino can do nothing but watch sadly and ooh and aah." -

vayshti

"West Side Story. Because even Mozart can appreciate the need to solve problems by having a rumble." -

theylovetostare

"If it's not the one with Bugs Bunny in it, I have no clue." -

fictionalsolace

"The Magic Flute. It's the source of the immortal quote 'A man, a plan, a canal - Pamina'." -

billfl

"The Magic Flute. They were arguing over their boyfriend's... you know, maybe I should keep this PG-13." -

distaff_exile

(-1, exercising restraint. -CV)

"Mozart was a total pervert. Wonder what *he* did with his 'flute' at band camp, huh?" -

adalger

"I reserve the right to kidney-punch anyone who makes a 'Rock Me Amadeus' reference to this one." -

umbralcorax

"I was surprised to learn it's full of Masonic symbolism. From the title, I always assumed it was just Mozart bragging about his junk." -

filmbuff

"Zauberflöte! Which is only one letter away from meaning 'Clean Flute' instead of 'Magic Flute'." -

kadharonon

"I play the flute. Sadly it is not a magical one. But I did go to band camp... with long red hair. And guess what movie was just coming out? Yeah. What fun that was. Sadly band camp is not actually that exciting. Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble about it." -

t_sica

Correct Answer: The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)

2. NBA player Larry Bird had a famous on-court rivalry with which other basketball star?

"Larry Bird. Giving white basketball players hope since the 1980's." -

umbralcorax

"I'm sure there's tons of Basketball jokes to be made here, but all I can think of 'Hoops, I Did It Again'. My Net worth is plummeting. This is Foul. Get this sealed by the Court!" -

billfl

"For some reason, I see this question and my musically-driven brain starts going 'Bird, bird! Bird is the word..bird bird bird. Bird is the word." Thanks for the earworm y'all." -

ifeedformula

"Shaka Khan" -

wiredwizard

"Harry Potter" -

wrestlingdog

"Air Bud" - 11

"All I can say at this point is that it's definitely not Gimli the dwarf. I'm english and this sport is only played by girls in posh schools over here." -

jhirat_dai

"nothing can top the epicness of Bird's commercials with His Airness Jordan--'Nothing But Net'." -

kristinmachina
"I recall they were fairly amusing until they brought in Charles Barkley. Then they jumped the shark." -

thepikey

"Michael Jordon/Dr. J." -

filmbuff,

etcet

"All five of the Harlem Globetrotters. Their final on-court showdown was reminiscent of the battle between Uma Thurman and the Crazy 88, except with basketballs and slapstick instead of samurai swords." -

mattwolf

"The entire roster of the Orlando Magic, obviously." -

david_deacon

"I'm a Brit, so the only name I know associated with the NBA is Magic Johnson, whatever his real first name is. I'm guessing his parents didn't actually call him Magic. Unless they were chavs." -

lins_arosa

"This would be funny if the rival was named 'Harry Cat'. Although, giving 'The Bird' to a 'Magic Johnson' is actually amusing, too, because the Johnson could stick up for himself, if you know what I mean..." -

demon_666

"Hey baby, wanna see my Magic Johnson? It can do the 'sword impaling the girl in the box' trick." -

syrazemyla

Correct Answer: "Magic" Johnson

"They were rivals because otherwise shippers would refer to them collectively as 'Larry Bird Johnson'." -

many_from_one

3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
'Cause I drive my baby every way

"A driveable baby? No wonder GM went bankrupt." -

umbralcorax

"Cindy Brady, How I paid for Theech Therapy" -

seferin

"'Bitch gotta get her own car,' by Ike Turner" -

sifrid

“'6p more than a cheapskate' by Clutchingat Straws." -

yayworthy

"his baby should've at least offered to drive sometimes or reimburse him for the gas money." -

kamalloy

"'Magic Carpet Ride', Steppenwolf. (Hey, Old!School!Rock is WAY better than 80s pop!)" -

germankitty

(I'm pretty sure The Who has never qualified as 80's pop. And the song in question is older than "Magic Carpet Ride". -CV)

"Thruppence sounds like 'Throw up hence', which is not something you want to do while your driving with your baby (whether that be your boyfriend/girlfriend or actual, y'know..baby. The kind with the diaper)." -

ifeedformula

(Hot Karl, aisle 6. -CV)

"Wouldn't that just be nine pence? What would that be, anyway, nonapence? And how many shillings would that be? Silly Brits and their weird monetary systems. Any system that requires different fractions to convert is wrong." -

uadlika

(The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated. – LL)

"rock lyrics just aren't the same these days, are they? Especially not since decimalisation." -

lins_arosa

"I don't know, but it sounds kind of British and makes me want to watch Mary Poppins again." -

ginalin

"That's like...three centuries compressed into one verse." -

puredeadthingy

" This school bus was real magic. The Who used a different kind of magic, if you catch my drift. -CV

" -

filmbuff and several others

Correct Answer: The Who, "Magic Bus"

4. Marvel Comics character Illyana Rasputin often went by which alias?

"Ra-ra Rasputin, Russia's Greatest Love Machine." - seven of you

"I don't know, but it's Marvel so I'm sure she's died and come back to life several times by now." -

filmbuff,

kamalloy

"There's only one Alias, and it starred Jennifer Garner, hallowed be her bikini" -

seferin

"In Russia, alias finds YOU." -

distaff_exile,

etcet

"Molotov Cocktease" -

david_deacon

"Natasha Fatale" -

squeegibo,

7tree_hugger

(+1, Bullwinkle. -CV)

"Ivana Humpalot" -

gigglingpixie

(+1, Austin Powers. -CV)

"Delirium." -

rachelkachel

(+1, Neil Gaiman – LL)

"Witchblade" -

reticent_lass

(That's that other comic. Ms. Rasputin did not get her own TV show, after all. -CV)

"Ensign Chekov" -

mattwolf

"x-Men Dead Little Sister #34" -

freezer818

"Rasputin? I am forced to wonder what kind of idiot names a comicbook character after a psychotic magician who kills people." -

ifeedformula

(Curiously enough, Ms. Rasputin was magically gifted, eventually went crazy, and... killed people. Go figure. -CV)

" Should have seen this coming, really. -CV

Should have seen this coming, really. -CV

" -

zxwx

"Magik, Majik, Magick, one of those trendy synonyms that ends with a "k". I can't remember which. I'm half expecting someone to call her 'M4j1ck'." -

syrazemyla

(Marvel may be many bad things, but at least it's not l33t. Yet. -CV)

"Magik, who never really learned to spell due to the Russian education system." -

ginalin

Correct Answer: Magik

5. What story by O. Henry tells of a couple that exchanges a most ironic set of Christmas presents?

"This was a particularly stereotypical couple so the woman received an iron for her important washing and the man received a metal sheet for his important metalwork." -

yayworthy

"Weren't the names of the three wise men Gold, Frank Incense, and Murr?" -

david_deacon

"No, a 'most ironic' set of Christmas presents would be say, selling the baby to buy new rims for the car, and selling the car to buy toys or something for the baby. Or maybe that's a felony, not irony. I can never get the two straight." -

uadlika

"That one ranks right up there with 'The Little Match Girl' on the list of Christmas Stories That Really Kind of Suck. See also: New Who, 2007, 'Voyage of the Damned'" -

reticent_lass

"A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Return Line." -

ctheb

"I don't know, but how do you define an ironic set of presents? Are we going by the dictionary definition, or the Alanis Morrisette one, where things aren't so much ironic as a bit of a bugger? Silly woman. A drawer full of spoons when all you need is a knife tells me either you need to do some washing up, or you're looking in the wrong place." -

lins_arosa,

spiralgirl1

"Odds that an XKCD comic will be posted by people as a response to this question, 1:1. I'd post it myself but i'm too lazy. :P" -

umbralcorax
" Theft of the Magi

" -

fictionalsolace

"The autobiographical tale of O Henry and Dear Liza and their hilarious exchanging of buckets, straw, axes, stones and water." -

vayshti.

germankitty

"'Brief Expectations' (He gets her underwear, in return receives punitive sentence of a month on the couch for conduct unbecoming)" -

7tree_hugger

"The Greatest Gift? Something like that. I know the girl cut off her hair to sell it; hopefully she looked like the Natalie Portman type of bald and not the Britney Spears type." -

the_soundof

"When I was little, I thought for a while that it was 'Gift Of The Magpie.'" -

rosefox8
"The Gift of the Magpie - every year they'd go out and steal shiny things to give to one another." -

jhirat_dai

Correct Answer: The Gift of the Magi

6. Can you do any special tricks? Tell us about it!

"I can solve a Rubik's cube in about two minutes, and I can almost juggle." -

rachelkachel

"I can go from 0 to bored in 0.6 seconds." -

wiredwizard

"With absolutely no training in the matter, I can swap accents at the drop of a hat. I was a very linguistically confused little girl, once." -

distaff_exile

"I can twirl my penis like strippers do with the nipple-tassels. Bet you really wanted to know that. (I have several other Stupid Penis Tricks, as well.)" -

adalger

"I teach dogs to do tricks, does that count? My schnauzer can twirl like a ballerina, jump like a fish, speak, sit up and beg, shake hands and roll over. I can only do two of those things." -

ginalin

"I can twist my tongue like noone else. And I don't look nor behave like a cow." -

magiczna

"I can make beautiful women disappear. Consult my LJ for details." -

david_deacon

"I have an uncanny knack for attracting gay men. Seriously, I've been hit on in earnest more times by men than women." -

freezer818

"…I can do this thing with my fingers where I bend them all the way back. I learned that this is not normal by watching Jack Bauer torture someone and thinking 'You pussy, I can do that without blinking.'" -

drunken_hedghog

"Not since

lovellama took out the restraining order." -

etcet

(How long does that have still to run? – LL)

"I did manage to tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue- but I was about nine at the time. Not really sure what that says about my childhood." -

katiebgood

"No, but I can say I'm forever wigged out by the woman that can squirt milk through her eye." -

akiyasan

"I can eat five Jaffa Cakes in a minute. Which is over the world record, so I'm told. Get in." -

many_from_one

(What? Five? Pfft. Next time I get a box, you're on. – LL)

"I can get dressed in about a femtosecond if it turns out the 'empty' house under construction next door has a workman on the roof" -

recticent_lass

"I can reforge Narsil and summon the armies of the dead. But still not King." -

thepikey

"I know the difference between an African and European Swallow." -

seekingferret

"I have no front teeth, I have dentures (long story), so everytime I'm annoyed at someone I flip 'em out and then they're like OMGWTFLOLZ! and i sit there going 'I don't know what your talking about. YOUR FUCKEN TRIPPIN HO!'" -

eelylove

"I can type with my tongue*. Watch: lkoiokb ni asm tytpinhjgt witghb m hyb toin guye *Don't try this at home, kids; keyboards taste terrible." -

poifaerie

"I can straighten my frizzy, curly thick hair in only 5-7 minutes!" -

jenny_1981

(Why the hell would you do that?!? - LL)

"This one time at band camp, I showed this trick to Tamino and Pamina..." -

mandydax

"I can do a dead on voice impersonation of Marvin the Martian. May not seem like much, but if ever there's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom that doesn't happen, I'll be prepared!" -

umbralcorax

"I can bend a spoon! (If you give me a hard frozen tub of chocolate ice cream)." -

the_soundof

And there you have it. Through the magic of the internet, we bring you this magically delicious quiz in the hope that we can spread your magical laughter across the world. And if that doesn't work, then we'll just release the laughing gas and call it a day.

Thanks again to everyone who played; as always, it's you guys who bring the funny. So go on and spread the word! Tell your friends to come and play. We want everyone to enjoy!

See you all again tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel.

Rock on!

AL&CV&LL

Current Mood: magically delicious
Current Music: It's A Kind Of Magic - Queen

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etcet.livejournal.com

FOUR. (Yes, I am among the broken user tags in the "Alias Finds You" camp)

Boo. Yah.

I'm totally an internet celebrity this week.

http://www.wow.com/2009/06/09/15-minutes-of-fame-discover-your-inner-shrinkgeek/

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etcet.livejournal.com

Hey, it's *your* restraining order, I'm just obeying it.

You can't honestly expect me to remember little details like "Don't be in the same state as I am, you pervert" in addition to "six hours after hell freezes over." ;-)

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chaosvizier.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-06-15 02:05 pm (UTC) - Expand

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germankitty

"(I'm pretty sure The Who has never qualified as 80's pop. And the song in question is older than "Magic Carpet Ride". -CV)"

Oh. Um, oops? The Duran Duran version (the only one a quick Youtube search brought up) is, though ... *shamefacedly hands in her Who Fan credentials*

And I'm kinda miffed that my answer to #4 wasn't credited in any way; is there no love for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the awesomeness that was ~~Ilya Kuryakin~~ Young!David McCallum?!?

But yay, double quotage still!

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