ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 17 August 2009

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Heat wave! Summertime makes this chunk of North America pretty darn hot, so we're going to share a bit of the good (or bad) weather with everyone else on Earth. The heat is on!

1. What is the term for the measure of energy required to increase the temperature of a substance by a certain interval?

"SCIENCE! I am blinded." -

kristinmachina
"I can honestly state that I did not understand a word you just said." -

eelylove

(That happens a lot around here. -CV)

"I AM SRS SCIENTIS. I KNOW WHATS GOING ON." -

severedscythe

"You couldn't just say 'one gram of water one degree Celsius'? I mean, I know we all hate the Metric system, but we're all stuck eating it." -

etcet

"A Depp. The full technical term is a Johnny-Depp, but most professionals use the shorthand." -

katiebgood

"It's not what's cool, it's what you do with your dancing shoes." -

ifeedformula

"I am currently increasing the temperature of my substance by many intervals." -

oldstarnewshine

(This sentence disturbs me for some reason. -CV)

"In senior year of high school chemistry class, my teacher actually gave credit to a girl who wouldnt have passed otherwise when she answered, 'What is a joule?' with 'a stone in a ring.'" -

aliaspiral

"I was tempted to say something I'm sure, but the power of the thing named beer is mightier, so I forgot what I was supposed to write. Can it be beer, this term, anyway?" -

alexiel_neesan

"The Horni. Developed by Sir Richard de Horni, he used willing parlour maids, who were themselves enthralled by his instrument." -

drunken_hedghog

"An intervention. No, wait, that's what happens when Mom finds out about the hookers and blow." -

deza

"Phlogiston" -

darthparadox

"Fire" -

freezer818

"Intercourse" -

sifrid

"A Quantum Leap" -

thefannishwaldo

"12 parsecs, course." -

florahart

(+1, Star Wars. -CV)

"A degree? I've got two of them, but it's not helping me get the right answer." -

vayshti

"A calorie, not to be confused with a Calorie, which is actually 1000 calories." -

la_trombonista,

the_jenny

"They're called tequila shots. The more a girl has, the hotter she thinks that sleeze next to her at the bar is." -

demon_666

(Hey, I am not a sleeze... I mean, would you like another shot? -CV)

"It takes about 5 joules to increase the temperature of an Orange Julius by one degree centigrade." -

sskipstress

(And yet it only takes one Orange Julius to decrease the temperature of your brain by one hundred degrees centigrade. OW BRAIN FREEZE!!! -CV)

"The amount of force needed to accelerate a one-kilogram fig at a rate of one meter per second per second would be one 'fig newton.'" -

david_deacon

"Specific heat - one of the many weapons at the disposal of Chuck Norris, I assume." -

operatic_diva

Correct Answer: Specific heat capacity

"Hotness, on the other hand, is the measure of energy required to increase *my* temperature by a certain interval. (and by 'temperature' of course I mean 'johnson')" -

mark_laura

(As opposed to "hammer"? – LL)

2. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
What to do on a night like this
Music sweet - I can't resist
We need a party song - A fundamental jam
So we go rum-bum-bum-bum
Yeah we rum-bum-bum-bum

"Fundamental Jam? Sounds like a politically correct term for anal lube." -

conjure_lass

"I heard 'funereal jam', so that means Dance Macabre." -

elvenpiratelady

"Other than strawberry, the only fundamental jam is The Jam." -

yayworthy

"Those two 'yupyupyup' guys from Sesame Street sang backup to this, right?" -

katiebgood

"Such mastery over the English language can only come from the Black-Eyed Peas. Right?" -

sochitelya

(Clearly you have not met the crown prince of vocabulary, Mr. Snoop Dogg. -CV)

"Tom Bumbumdill's Summer Nights" -

the_jenny

"I like rum. I like bum. But the combo? Not so much. Seriously, never play around with alcohol near mucous membranes." -

judith_s

"Mmm...rum. Mmmm...bums... My weekend plans are set." -

illogicalvulcan

"Well, it mentions rum... and bums... so I'm guessing Jack Sparrow's cover of "What What in the Butt"?" -

mistyraven

"Pour Rum Up My Bum, 30-odd Foot of Grunt (Russell Crowe is SO GORGEOUS. Shut up.)" -

stagemanager

"A party song that goes rum bum bum bum is not a good party song, unless it is sung at a gay party." -

b_hulsmans

"That sounds like a bad date..first you get drunk with rum. Then he touches your bum bum. A lot." -

ifeedformula

"Rum ... bum ... sounds like someone's going to have an awkward conversation in confessional pretty soon..." -

packbat

"Rum Bum sounds like an affliction caused by drinking too much coconut alcohol and not enough Gin. Painful." -

drunken_hedghog
"I prefer to go rum-and-coke myself." -

cmzero

"Little Drummer Boy: The Remix" -

bellapalmera,

drbear,

ntlespino,

kagomeshuko,

wrestlingdog,

freezer818,

ephart,

germankitty,

angelprojekt
"Hot Hot Hot Drummer Boy, a calypso cover by Buster Poindexter of the classic Christmas song" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

"The Butt Song by Sir Mix-A-Lot" -

tweeti

"Winnie the Pooh and Cocktails, Too, by A.A. Milne" -

i_calql8

(Where "A.A." stands for "Alcoholic Animals". -CV)

"I'm guessing that when CV karaokes this, he sings 'So we go gin-bin-bin-bin/Yeah we gin-bin-bin-bin'." -

mark_laura

"No hot, hot, hot Sting? I'm disappointed." -

gamerchick02
"don't even get me fucking STARTED WITH STING! I mean, WHO THE FUCK STUDIES TANTRIC SEX AND TAKES 9 FUCKING HOURS TO HAVE SEX?! Thats like me saying 'KAY! Gonna hve sex now babe! Better take the day off work!' WHO THE FUCK HAS TIME TO DO THAT?!" -

eelylove

"Don't you just love it when even the bands forget the words? I mean, really, that's all it is when there are lyrics like 'rum-bum-bum-bum' or 'fa-la-la-la-la' or any of that Irish 'ai-the-tittlie-idle-dum' stuff." -

jmthane

Correct Answer: Buster Poindexter, "Hot Hot Hot"

3. What 1988 buddy cop movie partnered Arnold Schwarzenegger with James Belushi?

"Quiz, you do know you can't just make movies up, right?" -

illogicalvulcan

"Fact: For the German (dubbed) releases of ALL his movies, Arnie NEVER got to use his own voice. The reason? His strong Austrian accent (trust me, it's even worse than in English) 'doesn't suit the characters he plays'. *snerk*" -

germankitty

"The Govenernator should stick to what he knows: Cyborgs from the future and California politics." -

ifeedformula

(It is no secret that California ranks #1 in the United States in terms of being protected against temporal invasions. -CV)

"How is Buddy Cop related to Buddy Holly?" -

sskipstress

(They're cops only on holidays. -CV)

"K-9. Dont ask me who was the dog." -

aliaspiral

"Lets Try And Find A Co-Star Schwarzenegger Won't Try To Sleep With." -

drunken_hedghog

"Twins" -

jmthane

"How The Terminator Got His Groove Back" -

puredeadthingy

"Cops and Slobbers." -

drbear

"Kindergarten Blues" -

ntlespino

"James and the Giant Unintelligible Speech" -

florahart

"My Drug is Steroids. What's Yours?" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

"Red Dawn" -

david_deacon

(Half-credit. -CV)

"Hot Fuzz" -

kittycatness,

elvenpiratelady

(Half-credit here too. -CV)

"ZOMG Ahnuld Does 48 Hours" -

wiredwizard

"Junior. I still don't understand how Belushi knocked him up." -

thepikey

"The Odd Couple 2: Electric Boogaloo not to be confused with The Odd Couple 1: You mean I'm related to DeVito?" -

vayshti

"Is that the one where Arnold is the spy and James Belushi is the stay at home one who has no idea what the other does? Yeah.. I didn't like the scene where Belushi dressed like a hooker and danced for Arnold." -

tarpo

"suddenly I'm assaulted with images of a mix of Terminator and Mister Freeze in a cop uniform with a signing blue brother riding shotgun. I'm not sure I drank enough for that. Thank you LJDQ." -

alexiel_neesan

(I'm not sure I've ever drank enough for that. And I've drank quite a lot. -CV)

"Red Heat was the first movie I remember my father taking me to see. I was eight. He didn't seem to care that it opens with a naked Arnold Schwarzzeneger killing someone in a Russian bath house. But I remember... Oh, how I remember... *twitch*" -

adria_rhiannon

"In barely related news, the first naked tits I ever saw were in the Roy Scheider cop movie Blue Thunder." -

etcet

"Apropos of nothing, I watched Blues Brothers again last night, and what a work of genius. It's got everything: great music, Princess Leia with a flame thrower, and the unnecessary destruction of a whole lot of police cars. What's not to love?" -

babybokal

"SRSLY? You children of the 80s are bringing back "Red Heat"? When you could've gone with 'Body Heat' or even 'White Heat'? (Now I'm picturing Ahnold saying 'You shootn't vear dat botty' and 'Top uv de vorld, Ma!')" -

mark_laura

(Hey, I love me some Schwarzenegger. The man can do no wrong. Besides, can you imagine Arnie in "In The Heat Of The Night"? "Dey cahll me Mistah Tibbs!" -CV)

Correct Answer: Red Heat

4. What is the unit of measurement used to indicate detectable amounts of capsaicin and capsaicinoids?

"SCIENCE! I am blinded, again." -

kristinmachina

"A bust. Which is where the phrase 'Bust a Cap' comes from" -

seferin

"The morgan. It's measured by going up to a pepper and asking 'Got a little capsaic in you?'" -

seekingferret

"The capsainator" -

bellapalmera

"Capsacin -> Caps -> Cap in your ass -> Gangster -> Scarface -> Little Friend -> Mini-Me. So, one Troyer." -

cmzero

"I read that as 'delectable' and clearly that's someone trying to say Captain while pissed and now I'm just back to the drunken pirates again." -

opportunemoment

"I flunked Nutrition 4 times please don't remind me." -

sifrid

(I don't think there's anything nutritious to be found here. -CV)

"Milliliters -- as in, the amount of drool produced by female fans when Dave Navarro was a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers." -

germankitty

"All I know is to never ride in anything with a Capissen 38 engine, because they fall right out of the sky." -

aliaspiral

(+1, Serenity – LL)

"I thought capsaicin was the stuff you rub on you when you get old." -

tweeti

(We've secretly replaced the medicated ointment this nursing home usually uses with one million strength capsaicin cream. Let's see what happens... -CV)

"Some friends of mine would argue that there's no such thing as a non-detectable amount of capsaicin. I call them wimps." -

babybokal

"I cured my dog of her food-stealing habits by leaving a couple chili peppers on the counter one day. I've never seen a dog drink so much water before." -

wowwhony

"SCOville Unix, the hottest operating system ever!" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

"Scovilles measure the heat of peppers, and thus are the antithesis of the Megafonzie, which measures coolness." -

i_calql8

"Wasn't there a manufacturer Scoville that made food processors? Am I overthinking this now?" -

stagemanager

"The scoville, named after Scoville Redenbacker, inventor of Popcorn a la diablo." -

mark_laura

"Pure capsaicin has a Scoville rating of approximately 16 million, which means a teaspoon of capsaicin would require approximately 78 metric tonnes of sugar syrup to dilute to the point of not being able to detect the heat in the solution." -

darthparadox

"My fiancé got to try a sauce that was a million Scoville Units on his last deployment. This bar would dip a toothpick in the sauce, then touch it to your food. He saw a man try it first, and he wisely decided to ask for the sauce at the *end* of his meal so he could enjoy dinner first, then cry all night." -

angelprojekt

"Is there a direct connection between it and the amount of time afterwards you spend in the bathroom? I wonder what the conversion between scoville units and toilet paper used is." -

tarpo

"I don't know the name for the unit of measure, but I can tell you that the best detection instrument for any kind of hot-pepper-anything-residue on one's fingers is, ahem, the very delicate skin of, ahem, parts of the body generally kept from public view by most people." -

florahart

(That would be what is commonly referred to as a "bad touch". -CV)

Correct Answer: Scoville Heat Unit

"I don't actually know the answers to any of the questions this week, I just want you to know that I have currently got a 15% capsaicin solution rubbed into my hands and I have tried EVERYTHING in the last twenty hours to make the BURNING STOP and nothing is succeeding and I hate everything right now and DAMN THE PEPPERS, PEOPLE, DAMN THE PEPPERS, and damn the quiz for mocking my pain. Detectable amounts of capsaicin indeed. Hell yes I can detect this, and I am five minutes away from cutting off my own hands. THANK YOU AND GOOD-NIGHT." -

rainbowjehan

5. Shaquille O'Neal led what team to the NBA Eastern Conference finals in 2005?

"He led them there, but despite the heat he couldn't get them to drink." -

mattwolf

"I felt a great disturbance, like millions of ljdq players crying out in horror of a sports question...and then falling silent." -

killabee886

(This was, oddly enough, our most well-received sports question ever. Go figure. -CV)

"If only Shaq were Michael Jordan, I would know! ...actually, that's probably not true." -

angelprojekt

"The Squealing Eels? The Peeling Keels? ... I'm going to be so disappointed when this turns out not to rhyme with 'eel'" -

opportunemoment

"The Crazy 88. There's not really 88 of them. They just like to be called The Crazy 88. I guess they thought it sounds cool." -

i_calql8

(+1, Kill Bill. -CV)

"Harlem Globe Trotters! It's the only baseball team I know." -

judith_s

(Your awesome display of sports knowledge has stunned me. -CV)

"They might be giants" -

felixdiecat

"Space Jam 2" -

wiredwizard

"The Cubs" -

thefannishwaldo

(No, I said "victory". -CV)

"KAZAAM!!!!!!" -

conjure_lass,

cmzero,

demon_666,

cscottd

"When I was a kid, I used to think that the lyrics to 'Shaft' were actually about Shaq. 'You see this cat Shaq is a bad mother--(Shut your mouth)'" -

mistyraven

"The Miami The-Next-Person-To-Say-It's-Not-The-Heat-It's-The-Humidity-To-Me-Gets-A-Barometer-Up-The-Jacksy." -

drunken_hedghog

"ANY TEAM THAT SHAQ TOUCHES IS TAINTED, TAINTED, HE WAS ONCE A LAKER HE WILL ALWAYS BE A LAKER AND THEY, THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS, STOLE IT, THEY STOLE IT BY PLAYING BETTER AND HAVING MORE MONEY AND ALL THAT JAZZ FROM THE NUGGETS YOU HEAR ME THEY ARE THIEVES." -

sifrid

"I don't get the singular-team-name thing. What's an individual player on the Heat supposed to be called? A Joule? A BTU?" -

darthparadox

(I guess that makes a player on the Orlando Magic a Potter. -CV)

Correct Answer: Miami Heat

6. What gets you hot?

(First, some obligatory photographs. This, courtesy of

etcet. NSFW, NSFW, and NSFW, courtesy of

david_deacon. This, courtesy of

cmzero. Brazilian Women's Beach Volleyball, a perennial favorite requested by

kristinmachina,

thepikey, and

mattwolf. And some man-flesh, to be fair, courtesy of

germankitty.)

"Man, even thinking about being horny makes me horny. It's a medical condition." -

spiralgirl1

"Yesterday I ended up sitting across from a colleague with a very attractive Irish accent. I was...how you say...rather hot and bothered." -

babybokal

(I totally understand where you are coming from. -CV)

"Sunburns. My skin is vampire pale." -

seekingferret

"Anger! Anger leads to hatred which leads to suffering." -

akiyasan

(+1, The Phantom Menace. -CV)

"Having sweet algebraic nothings whispered in my ear at night." -

sushimustwrite

(Hey baby, wanna factor my polynomial? -CV)

"Right now, this laptop is overheating part of my leg. I don't know if that counts." -

lins_arosa

"Basslines. Long, hard, complicated basslines." -

kittycatness

(I'm not sure I'd have called my "bassline" complicated... -CV)

"Nothing anymore, thanks to my stepdad, who has decided it would be a good idea to install two air conditioners and never turn them off. Had I balls, they would be frozen off." -

oldstarnewshine

"I really don't like summer, unless it's Summer Glau." -

alexiel_neesan

"You, baby" -

sochitelya

(...which one? There's three of us. -CV)

"

tweeti. If I say anything else, I'm a dead man." -

drbear
"Mrs.

zihuatanejo" -

zihuatanejo

"Global Warming! I hear polar bears will soon be the new Alaskans. That's one step closer to actually having an intelligent Alaskan governor!" -

demon_666

(They can see penguins from their house. -CV)

"Gillian Anderson, wearing only pudding, serving me my gin and tonic... and asking if I'm ready to eat dessert yet." -

blindgeoff

(And there goes my full-on robot chubby. -CV)

And there you have it. This smokin' hot quiz will hopefully bring you warm joyful warmth and heating hotfulness. If you can't stand the heat, hide out for a day when a new quiz will bring a new non-heat-related theme, and you'll be ok.

Thanks to everyone who's playing despite the heat. If it's not hot where you are, you have no excuse; get up and play! Hell, even if it is hot, go play. You'll feel better. Truly.

See you all tomorrow, same hot-time, same hot-channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL