LJ Daily Answers: 13 July 2009

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, meisjedegaze! We hope you celebrated in proper ljdq style, eating pudding and kittens and washing them down with fine gin. Or something like that.


1. The Agatha Christie mystery “And Then There Were None” was made into numerous film versions, most of which were entitled...

"Who ate all the cookies?!?!" - dragon_within

"The Most Awesome Murder Mystery Ever That No-One Can Solve Because It's So Fucking Hardcore" - eelylove

"Murder She Wrote, Part ___" - freezer818
"Somebody Else is Dead. Who Invited the Old Lady?" - adalger

"Fatal Subtraction" - angelprojekt

"I know the theme, but not the answer, so I will defer to Lemmy Kilmeister and merely shout 'THE ACE OF SPADES, THE ACE OF SPADES!' repeatedly while throwing the horns." - etcet

"I am ashamed to say that my only Agatha Christie experience was the Dr. Who episode with the giant bee." - greatleaps
"She stole alot of nursery rhymes for the titles of her novels. And she disappeared that one time for like ten days. Apparently she was with the Doctor, so everything's alright." - mira_isis

"And After That, Negative One" - seekingferret

"'And then there were how many?' 'Five!' 'Three, sir.' 'Three!'" - babybokal

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)

"Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." - la_trombonista

"Seven little indians, but then the South Asian Dwarves Anti-Defamation League got wind of it and they were all renamed 'toffs stabbing each other in a train or something'." - jhirat_dai

"Ten Little Racially Offensive Epithets" - lady_deirdre, primavera, gamerchick02, judith_s, b_hulsmans, ANONYMOUS
"Learning to Count down from Ten Things that will be renamed in the future because of insensitive word choices" - vayshti

"Ten vertically challenged Native Americans" - fictionalsolace, becky_gardens

"Ten Little Indians. It doesn't just beat any Final Destination movie, it ties it to a tree, watches it beg for life and then takes a chainsaw to it the long way." - ntlespino

Correct Answer: "Ten Little Indians"



2. Whose wife "could eat no lean"?

"I blame this entire rhyme on the MALE CONSPIRACY against women." - adria_rhiannon

"You used this question before I became a member of LiveJournal (I read the archives)." - la_trombonista

(+1 for reading our archives. Hell, +1 for remembering our archives. That's better than I can manage on some days. -CV)

"Vernon Dursley" - wiredwizard

"Mr. Roseanne Barr" - cholma, drbear

"Mr. Rosie O'Donnell." - uncut_diamond

"Doctor Atkins" - seekingferret, blindgeoff, ANONYMOUS

"David Beckham's - no wait his wife could eat no fat... or anything by the looks of her." - secret_weapon

"Lot's. She was a strictly low-protein and high-salt person." - johnwwells

"My husbands wife. ::sigh::" - bkwrrm_tx, vayshti, jigawattica

"I always wondered if Jack from Jack and Jill, Jack the Giant Killer, and the Jack that jumped over the candlestick were all the same Jack as Jack Sprat." - adalger

(Actually, when they teamed up with Little Jack Horner, they were known as the Jacks In Five. -CV)

"My father used to call me Jack Sprat because I only ate the tops of broccoli and my best friend only at the bottom. Perfect pair until she moved. Dumb broccoli bottoms." - greatleaps

"DI Jack Spratt, Nursery Crime Investigations. Eventually remarried." - scifantasy

"Yo momma's so fat, she's married to Jack Sprat." - umbralcorax

"Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn't keep her
Since pumpkins don't have too much fat
She ran off with old Jack Sprat" - kadharonon

"Jack Spratt's wife -- she of great fame and yet, sadly, without name." - iamza

"Jack... well, let's maintain privacy on the internet and not mention his last name, shall we? I mean, we already know his wife has a medical condition, and that's pretty personal stuff. No need for full names, I think." - angelprojekt

Correct Answer: Jack Sprat



3. In “The Magnificent Seven”, he was named Vin; in “The Great Escape” he was named Virgil. What’s his real name?

"Kal-El, Last Son of Krypton" - wiredwizard

"Jesus" - eelylove

"Batman" - freezer818

"A GQ Motherfucker!" - akiyasan

"Sacha Baron Cohen" - drbear

"Diesel" - vayshti, ifeedformula, adalger, the_jenny

"Jack Motherfucking Palance, who, even dead, can do more one-armed push-ups than I can." - etcet

"Charles Bronson" - 7tree_hugger

(No, he was one of the other seven. -CV)

"Virgil's real name was Publius Vergilius Maro." - judith_s

(Uh, we're thinking of another Virgil. -CV)

"Thorace-bog, er, Whatchamazog, um, Thorax-and-a-bog? No? Four-yacks-and-a-dog? Laxative-log? Sapsucker-frog? Susan?" - deza

(+2, The Tick. EAT BRAAAAIIINS! -CV)

"What's so magificent about the number 7 anyway? Its all sharp angles and no subtlety. Now 8. That's a magnifcent number. Its got curves in all the right places, and it knows how to be the cube of 2. Take THAT number seven." - umbralcorax

"Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." - fictionalsolace

(+1, V for Vendetta. -CV)

"Lightning McQueen" - demon_666

(+1, Cars. Well, maybe just +0.5; that was Pixar's lamest. -CV)

"Steve McQueen, founder of McQueen's College, Cambridge (most people don't pass the degree, opting instead to escape halfway through on motorbikes)." - many_from_one

(+1, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. -CV)

"Steve McQueen... which isn't his real name, but you knew that already. You sneaky mods, you!" - dragon_within

"I remember two things about The Magnificent Seven: 1) Yul Brenner starred in it and 2) Steve McQueen is hot. Oh, and only 3 people made it out alive. That's three things." - adria_rhiannon

Correct Answer: Terence Steven McQueen



4. What song by The Police (featuring Sting!) features salmon, butterflies, foxes, gulls, whales, and even people, all in grave distress?

"Why do Blue Turtles have such strange dreams?" - cholma

"Do butterflies have ears? Snakes don't, which lends a whole new level of stupid to the concept of Parseltongue." - lady_deirdre

"CV's Lunch Menu." - deza

(Well, I might pass on the butterflies... -CV)

"What no lions?" - ANONYMOUS

"Sounds like a mash-up of Bambi and Terminator 2" - fictionalsolace

"Sounds like somebody needs to call Captain Planet." - ifeedformula

(There's never a right time to call up that blue-skinned hippie. -CV)

"Who knows, but it sounds like one of those earth shirts with butterflies and stuff that hippies wear." - gamerchick02

"Hee hee... grave distress... rolling over in graves... geese walking over graves... DEATH IS FUN!" - adria_rhiannon

"Noah's Ark (and the 'grave distress' was because they couldn't find any dry land to bury any animals who keeled over)" - thefannishwaldo, katiebgood

"Every Breath You Take From Animals" - napier
"Don't Stand So Close To Me" - freezer818
"The Earth is Dying (and No One Seems to Care)" - jmthane
"I've always thought that having a song titled Murder by Numbers sung by a band called The Police was kind of ironic..." - iamza

"It could be any of them, frankly, he's not the clearest singer." - jhirat_dai

"We're Sending Our Love Down the Well." - la_trombonista

(+1, The Simpsons, featuring Sting. -CV)

"Isn't this the same old thing as yesterday?" - mattwolf

"I can tell you that Sting graduated from Newcastle the same day as my Boss got her PhD. His was Honorary though. Her's much harder to achieve. I guess what I'm trying to say is: my boss > Sting." - 7tree_hugger

"There's a sale on our Gabardine suits todayyyyy.... over thirty percent off of yesterdayyyyy.... KING OF SUEDE. I'LL ALWAYS BE KING OF SUEDE." - etcet, scifantasy

(+1, Weird Al Yankovic. -CV)

Correct Answer: "King of Pain"



5. What is the Dead Man’s Hand, and who is the dead man in question?

"Not even I am tasteless enough to go for the Michael Jackson glove joke, sorry, CV." - katiebgood

(That's ok; we have other quizlings for that... -CV)

"" - sifrid, speaking for felixdiecat, jigawattica

"There are an awful lot of dead men. So I'm going to say Billy Mays is the dead man and the Dead Man's Hand is Oxyclean. .. What?" - angelicmuse18

"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town." - kristinmachina

"I used to know this. Motorhead tells me it's sixes and sevens, though." - primavera

(No credit for either you or Motorhead. -CV)

"All I can think of right now is a Sherlock Holmes story I read that involved a deadly jellyfish. Man, was that a cop-out." - babybokal

"That would be the right hand of the Undertaker, delivering the Chokeslam from Hell. Its still real to me dammit." - umbralcorax

"This is an urban myth. Sitting on your hand for ten minutes before you crack one off does *not* make it feel like someone else is doing it!" - jhirat_dai

"The Dead Man's Hand is something my older siblings had from time to time while we were growing up. Their hand would do something bad, then point at me, at which point it would become a Dead Man's Hand. That night, something icky would invariably appear mysteriously in their bed or bathroom." - angelprojekt

"Thing Addams" - vayshti, seekingferret, distaff_exile, iamza

"Your guess is as good as mine..." - puredeadthingy

"Just what every girl needs..zombified accessories!" - ifeedformula

"
I'm not sure who's it is, my dog just brought it home the other day..." - deza

(Even zombie women need some self-lovin' sometimes. -CV)

"Is the Dead Man's Hand connected to the Dead Man's Chest upon which there are 15 other dead men?" - spiralgirl1

"The hand that touches me while I am sleeping at night. You know, it's dead because 'You woke me up for what?!!!!'" - demon_666

"Dead Man's Hand is the one that gropes me without my permission." - sskipstress

"Trick question! It's taken from a hanged criminal as they die on the scaffold, preserved in a church, attached to a candle to light the way for fiends and vagabonds. So it could be anyone hanged in the 1800s." - ntlespino

(Full credit, since that's also the correct answer. Perhaps we could have specified "in the game of Poker". Carry on. -CV)

"A-A-A-8-8-8. It should be obvious why Hickock was killed for that." - johnwwells

(Hickok hax. -CV)

Correct Answer: Aces over Eights (both black Aces and both black eights), held by Wild Bill Hickok at the moment of his death



6. What’s your favorite game?

"Strip Mahjong" - wiredwizard
"Strip Puzzle Quest" - freezer818
"Strip Great Dalmutti" - blindgeoff

"Calvinball! (determined to get a group +1 if nothing else). In truth, shitface. Highly adictive and easy enough to play even when drunk. Played my way round the Youth Hostels of northern Italy, found it a great way to make new friends. Also some enemies [I don't always play fair]." - 7tree_hugger

"I'm partial to any of the 'rummies'." - fmh

"Mindgames" - vayshti, jmthane, ntlespino, angelprojekt

"Slap and Tickle" - distaff_exile

"Chasethedogaroundthehouse" - spiralgirl1

"I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head! It was comedy magic when he had the duel with the 'I'm squeezing your face!' guy." - jhirat_dai

"Sardines, which is like hide and seek only just one person hides and then if you're found they hide with you. I remember trying to cram all my friends into the shower with me...aaah, good times." - puredeadthingy

"'Good morning, Doctor Falken. Would you like to play a nice game of Chess?' 'No, Joshua, I want to play Global Thermonuclear War.' 'A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.'" - etcet

(+1, Wargames. -CV)

"HI, my name is jigawattica and I am a WoW-aholic." - jigawattica
"Rockband owns my soul and is second only to cute puppies. Its.. so sad." - angelicmuse18
"Katamari Damacy is the best game. How can you beat rolling stuff up and making it into stars and planets? It's awesome." - mira_isis
"When I was younger it was Super Mario 3, cause he was a racoon that could fly! Was a bit confused as to why the racoon was flying, but it was AWESOME!" - dk2022

"Hide the pickle" - ifeedformula
"Hide the Salami" - deza

"King Mao! Would you like to learn how to play?" - katiebgood

"The game of love, baby, the game of la-la-la-la-love." - drbear

"ljdq!" - 7 of you. Full credit and free pudding for all!



And there you have it. The name of the game was part of a game - if you follow cards, we have here a royal straight of Ten-Jack-Queen-King-Ace. That's worth mucho points and stuff.

Thanks to all who played, especially to those who delurked and gave it a shot for the first time. Welcome! Go on, play some more! It's fun for the whole family! It's better than Hot Pockets! Get your friends involved and go to town!

See you all next time for another special edition of the quiz!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of scared to ask how to play Shitface...

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

(+1, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. -CV)

Wait... that wasn't a The Great Escape reference? I'm confused.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thrice quoted!
To be quoted thrice is quite nice
But not as nice as gin and pudding
So don't be spooding
Enjoy gin and pudding!

[yayworthy.livejournal.com]

One for many_from_one [*applause*] and a woo LJDQ groupthink for me. Mmm, pudding :)

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

Actually, the original title of Ten Little Indians was far more offensive. I won't repeat it here, but you can Google it.

[kallaneboi.livejournal.com]

Just googled.

Hmmm... my literature teacher in junior high failed to mention THAT particular title when we read the book.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Note to self. Jasper Fforde references and Weird Al Yankovic both equal instant quoting.

[katiebgood.livejournal.com]

Two and a half quotings! Yay! (And admittedly, Hugh Laurie holding a rat would be a little obscure for the Steve McQueen answer, as I couldn't find a macro and he was, therefore, unlabeled.)

Always good to know that there are other quizlings ready to go where I fear to tread.

[secret-weapon.livejournal.com]

Yay! My first time and I got quoted!

Never let it be said the Spice Girls were good for nothing! One of them got me a spot here!

[dk2022.livejournal.com]

So did not see the theme. I best stop with the peroxide before -- oh shiny red ball! :D

I gets free pudding! :D Awesomesauce!

:: Goes read Half Blood Prince :: Should I dress up to watch the movie?

[puredeadthingy.livejournal.com]

Thank God I wasn't the only person to hesitate when it came to that question!

[katiebgood.livejournal.com]

Just so long as it is not a reference to xXx. Usually I can enjoy Vin Diesel's movies, but when he made it over that fence in that one motorcycle jump I actually yelled at the screen. You pay homage to Steve McQueen, yes, but you do not upstage him. Diesel should have missed the jump and admitted, "Still not McQueen."

[deza.livejournal.com]

A foursome and a +2! WOOHOO!!!!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

True, but Indy drove through a college on a motorcycle, and that was much funnier. Besides, a Great Escape reference is obvious given the question. ;-)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Step One: Drink a whole mess of alcohol.
Step Two: Shit comes out of your face.
Step Three: Profit!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

...spooding?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That is correct... and that's probably why it wasn't in the question. Most of the film adaptations used "Indians" instead of "[you-know-what]".

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Weird Al is always good.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ok, fair enough; the Spice Girls are good for MOSTLY nothing.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yes, dress warmly because the theatre will probably be air conditioned. Also, shoes and shirt are usually required attire at movie houses. So yes, dress up.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

So few people appreciate the old animated "The Tick" cartoon. Which is a shame, considering how over-the-top crazy it was.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Someone's always here to go the distance, no matter how horrible.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Pudding for all!

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I missed playing, apparently. Oh yes, Life Was Happening. Oh, well. See you tomorrow!

[deza.livejournal.com]

*boggle* How can anyone not appreciate The Tick?