LJ Daily Answers: 3 August 2009

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1. Until the passing of the Treason Act 1814, what was the punishment for men guilty of high treason in Great Britain?

"What, women can't be traitors, too???? Chauvinist pigs!" - ramblinsuze

(Not at all. They simply received a different punishment which involved being burned at the stake. -CV)

"THE COMFY CHAIR" - theninth, la_trombonista, callirhoe, squeegibo
"NI! NI!" - mandydax
"A spanking, a spanking!" - dragon_within
"Cutting down the mightiest tree in the forest wiiiith....A HERRING." - edoraslass
"Being chased off of a cliff by a dozen naked women. No seriously, I saw it in a documentary once. It was on the BBC!" - lecoto

(+1's all around for assorted Monty Python silliness. -CV)

"I'd go with castration, it's a lot more fun than killing perfectly good slave labor." - b_hulsmans

"They were required to sit through Celine Dion Concerts and fed scones yet provided NOTHING TO DRINK." - rhiannonjk

"Getting worked over by Simon Cowell. Death by scorn!" - thepikey

(Which is possibly worse than death by scone. Possibly. -CV)

"They were forced to eat English cooking." - uncut_diamond

"Having two midgets pantomime pulling your insides out." - kauricat

"Surgical removal of the stiff upper lip." - seekingferret

"Thank you for calling the treason helpline. If you have committed treason, press 1. To hear your option again, press #. You have selected 1. Please be hung up. Please be hung up. Please be hung up." - yayworthy

"" - usmu

Correct Answer: Hanged, Drawn and Quartered



2. Brothers Peyton and Eli Manning both play which American football position?

"Tight end" - 15 of you

"On top" - 5
"Missionary" - 3
"Sixty-nine" - 2
"Downward Facing Dog" - edoraslass

"Seeker" - wiredwizard

"The 'I make more money then you' postion" - xsimply_tragicx

"NFL and United Way: Spend time with your kids, so Peyton Manning doesn't." - is_bel

(Full credit. -CV)

"product placement spokesperson" - peaseblossom03, thepikey, motown_deserter

"Is it the one where the guy sticks his hands up some fat guy's crotch from behind? And if so, why is this acceptable behavior?" - majorsamfan

"Has anyone seen the Toyota commercial where Eli Manning is trying to buy a Toyota and his salesman cheats him at fantasy football? What's the message, that Toyota salesmen are crooks? Someone was fired over that one, I promise." - seekingferret

"I was glad when Eli got his Super Bowl ring though, must have made family dinners a lot less awkward." - shogunsquirrel

"In the same team? Or is it all dramatic when they meet, like when it's Venus vs Serena in tennis and the media seems to expect a catfight?" - puredeadthingy

"Well, when Peyton's playing the Pat's, and Eli's playing the Eagles, I'd say the position is flat on their backs." - umbralcorax

"Their dad, Archie, was also a quarterback. There was another brother that was a reciever - if he had just followed the flow and been a Quarterback, they could have had a full dolla dolla bill in the family!" - rhiannonjk

"I think of it whenever I go to this market where you have to pay a quarter for your shopping cart, when you return it, you get a Quarterback." - ginalin

Correct Answer: Quarterback



3. According to "Pulp Fiction", what fast food order is dubbed the "Royale with Cheese" in France?

"LJDQ: destroying diets since '04." - puredeadthingy

(And still going strong! I ate two pounds of bacon on vacation. Wheeeee! -CV)

"Krusty Burger With Cheese" - theninth, digitalraven, lecoto

"Omelette du Fromage" - kauricat

(+1, Dexter's Laboratory. -CV)

"Diner waitresses call it a Drag Wimpy Through Wisconsin. I think 'Meat with a Sheet' is a good name too." - majorsamfan

"J'en ai assez de ces mère-baisant hamburgers dans ce mère-baisant film!" - drunken_hedghog

"I have HAD it with these melonfarmin' shakes on this melonfarmin' tray!" - many_from_one

"The 0.1133980925 Kilogrammer" - bellapalmera, rhiannonjk, blindgeoff
"Because of the metric system, they don't know what the fuck a quarter pounder is." - sheblobbers

"'Fire ze missiles!!' - 'But I am le 'ungry.' - 'Zen eat a Royal avec Frommage, and zen fire ze missiles!!'" - mandydax

"The one that says 'Badass Motherfucker' on it" - squeegibo

"The Holiest Of Holies. Except that cheese isn't what we generally think of as a dairy product." - stagemanager

"It's a Quarter Pounder with cheese, which I'm sure they serve in What. SAY WHAT AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKER. SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!" - houseofknaus

"huh, huh, you implied 'pound'er'" - mark_laura
"Quarter? Pounder? I barely know her!" - kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Quarter Pounder with Cheese

"and probably mayo, cheese eating surrender monkeys" - fmh



4. What was the sequel to Henry Rider Haggard's novel "King Solomon's Mines"?

"I dunno, but Henry Rider Haggard is a great Porn Star Name." - mandydax

(It absolutely is. Full credit. -CV)

"King Solomon's Yourses" - 13 of you

"King Solomon's divorce after the queen found out about his diamonds." - b_hulsmans

(Which must have gone down badly, because I think the Bible says he had 300 wives... -CV)

"King Solomon's Visit From The ASPCA Re: Illegal Use Of Canaries" - edoraslass

"King Solomon's Empty Caves." - rhiannonjk

"King Solomon's Mimes" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org/

"King Solomon's Wines" - pirho_maniac

"King Solomon's Whines." - yeclec

"King Solomon's Wind Farm" - houseofknaus

"King Solomon's Mines II: Electric Boogaloo" - david_deacon, many_from_one

"I Went to King Solomon's Mines and All I Found Was This Lousy Quarter" - ramblinsuze

"Shaft Goes to Africa" - thepikey

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" - lecoto

"I always get confused between Quatermain and Dr Quatermass. One of them involves Africa, the other aliens and rockets. Somehow I don't think there's that much commonality here..." - lins_arosa

(You at least get full credit for spelling his name correctly. -CV)

"Alan Quartermain Gets Fucked-Up on Opium" - digitalraven

"Alan Quartermain Does Something Unbelievably Stupid, and is played better by Sean Connery than by Richard Chamberlain." - ginalin

"I've always wondered if the real Allan Quartermain got any residuals from those novels." - deza

Correct Answer: Allan Quatermain

(That's right, spelling counts. It's a quarter-trick question, see? -CV)



5. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
Walking side by side with death
The devil mocks their every step
The snow drives back the foot that's slow
The dogs of doom are howling more

"I'm supposed to make a Sting joke here, right?" - kauricat

(Pretty much, yeah, that's how it goes. Watch this... -CV)

"Sting, 'All Dogs go to Heaven'" - squeegibo

"Wait, isn't that one of Psalms?" - deza

(Clearly one of the less upbeat ones... -CV)

"Every Christmas, without fail, my mother plays that 'barking dogs Christmas' cd. And every year, it's just as fail-tastic." - ifeedformula

"I'm saddened to learn that apparently not all dogs go to heaven. Thanks for bursting my bubble, CV." - katiebgood

(Traumatizing another quizling, check. Drink up! -CV)

"Coincidentally, my huge dogs started barking and growling once I read the question. Thanks LJDQ, you just cursed my dogs." - queeney

"'Go, Balto, Go' by the Smashing Pumpkins." - la_trombonista

"Happy Happy Joy Joy by Ren and Stimpy" - seferin

"Don't Worry Be Happy by Black Sabbath" - wiredwizard

"'Release The Hounds' by Mr. Burns." - demon_666

"I See Dead People by The Sixth Sense" - usmu

"Wyld Stallyns - Chess with death" - b_hulsmans

"Edward Cullen's and Jacob Black's song of FAIL." - is_bel

"I'm guessing Quarterflash...do any of the kids around here even remember them? Heck were they *born* yet???? I'm so old. Soooooo ooooooold." - ramblinsuze, shogunsquirrel, stagemanager, blindgeoff
"They also did 'Harden My Heart', which was likely their happiest tune." - kristinmachina

"OMG! You found the long-lost extra verse to 'The Immigrant Song'!" - mark_laura

"There's only 3 things Steven Hyde loves Camaros, LED ZEPPELIN, and French Fries! In that order!" - xsimply_tragicx
"Zeppelin? Oh, my God! That's a band, right?" - jigawattica

(+1, That 70's Show. -CV)

"Much like my pockets when I need something from a vending machine, my response is 'no quarter'." - umbralcorax

(That or "Where did I get all these goddam pennies?" -CV)

Correct Answer: Led Zeppelin, "No Quarter"



6. Where do you see yourself in twenty-five years?

"Dude, I don't even know what I'm having for lunch today." - kauricat

"This is going to turn out like that time I went to the bathroom and when I got back everyone in my French class understood the subjunctive, isn't it? Damn." - katiebgood

"In the mirror" - arabwel, majorsamfan, http://adalger.dreamwidth.org/, kagomeshuko

(*rimshot* -CV)

"Who cares?!?! Today is my birthday!" - dragon_within

(And in 25 years, it will be your birthday again! Neat! -CV)

"On my throne watching over my dominion." - b_hulsmans
"Ruling the world from my Space Platform, of course!" - blindgeoff

(I guess that means World War IV should be starting in 26 years... -CV)

"I'll have the death sentence in 12 systems." - umbralcorax

(+1, Star Wars. -CV)

"Learning the lyrics to 'When I'm 64'." - theninth

"That would be when I'm 69. I plan to be busy pretty much that whole year, except during refractory periods." - mark_laura

"Hopefully still alive, hopefully still married. Maybe by then we'll have finished decorating this house, too. That would be nice." - lins_arosa

"Connected to the Matrix, sitting my virtual porch, and telling upstart hackers to get off my virtual lawn and laughing at the lost 404 tourists." - canuckdesz

"In this exact same place on a Thursday night filling out your LJDQ quiz! Now the real question is: Will you guys still BE here 25 years from now?" - is_bel

(Well, all things considered, CV has subsisted on a diet of bacon, gin, and hot pockets for years now. His days are probably numbered in the hundreds at best. AL spent time as a strict vegetarian and got diabetes for her troubles, so things are looking grim there. LL was doing ok, but having children sucks out more life energy than vampires. So... I guess it's ZOMBIE LJDQ FOR ALL! BRAAAAAIIIINS!!! -CV)

"According to Mao, a Great Leap Forward takes 5 years. So in twenty five years I'll be 5 leaps ahead. Unless I hit a chute." - seekingferret

"" - david_deacon

"Dead. I'm requesting gin and pudding in my casket, to keep playing the LJDQ in the afterlife." - deza

(Hell, when we pass on, we're building a giant pyramid to house us and our horde of quizlings so that we can move on into the afterlife doing what we do best. So get your shit packed up, guys. -AL&CV)

"'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-wiredwizard!!" - wiredwizard

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"Hopefully retired, I'll be old enough. I'll just pop open a bottle of gin, sit back and relax with my harem of Brazilian volleyball players, and occasionally take time for a safari trip to Kenya to see lions with my friend the Goddamn Batman." - thepikey

(You forgot the pudding. I'm pretty sure there will still be pudding in 2034. -CV)

"In 25 years, I will be a University Professor, carefully shaping the minds of our future leaders. HAHAHAHAHAHAAA, YOU'RE ALL SCREWED!" - drunken_hedghog



And that's the way it is. We've done 250 quizzes now! That's a quarter of a kilo! That's a lot of quizzicaliciousness. And if we're lucky, we'll survive long enough to reach a thousand. But that's all dependent on everyone continuing to play. So keep playing! Keep bringing in new people! The more the merrier here at ljdq. Because that's how we roll.

See you tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL