LJ Daily Answers: 24 August 2009

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And for the eighth month of the year, the theme is 8! And in case you're wondering how many times we've cheesed out and used "single-digit number/number of month" as the theme, well, it does happen every once in a blue moon or two.

1. Who was the father of King Edward VI of England?

"Henry the Eighth, I am, I am!" - 41
"Edward V" - 10

"King Edward VH" - seekingferret

"Edmund Blackadder, that black cod-pieced rapscallion!" - mattwolf

"Whoever got the queen pregnant" - drbear

"Biggus Dickus" - uncut_diamond

"Prince Humperdink" - elvenpiratelady

"Darth Vader" - squeegibo

"Ethelred the Unready, which has to be the worst sobriquet for a king ever. 'We got invaded, and I wasn't ready for it.' 'You are now the Unready.' 'Damn.'" - syrazemyla

"Alan Rickman. Turns out there was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine." - katiebgood

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"He smelled of elderberries, anyway." - thepikey

"Prince Albert in a Can" - piney61

"the first historical example of what can go wrong when retired athlete doesn't have enough to do with his money." - neumeindil

"Ah, Henry VIII, one of my all-time favorite political leaders. He also founded the Church of England, which is (sort of) what I am. How cool is that my religion was founded by a philandering, possibly syphilitic fat guy?" - wrestlingdog

"Henry Vee Aye Aye Aye" - dk2022

"He was the fattest, greediest, sleaziest man in history. Plus, a big fan of chopping off heads. Something tells me he wouldn't have got along with Marie Antoinette. Except for the cake thing, of course." - demon_666

Correct Answer: Henry VIII

"who according to Showtime, never got fat and still scored teenage ass into his 40's. It's good to be king." - kristinmachina



2. In the film "Kill Bill", what is the name of the gang that the heroine fights before she duels with O-Ren Ishii?

"The 88 Red Shirts" - seferin, blindgeoff

(They were after she cut them up... -CV)

"The Sharks/The Jets" - presently, itolkienfreak, umbralcorax, syrazemyla, theylovetostare, conjure_lass, wrestlingdog

"The Bloodhound Gang" - thefannishwaldo

"Those jerks in Pod Six" - many_from_one

"The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants II" - kittycatness

"Ocean's 11." - darthparadox

"Fox Force Five" - jigawattica

"The Furious Five" - elvenpiratelady

"The Wang Gang" - seekingferret

"The Wu-Tang Clan" - packbat

"Customs. Who lets someone just carry a katana through an international airport?" - mattwolf

"The Hand. And don't let Wolverine catch you calling him a heroine." - angrysunbird

(It could have been Elektra... -CV)

"The Green Hornet 88s? No, GH was the boss. Ah! The Kato 88s!" - cholma

"The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. It never occurred to me before, but that actually does sound like the title of a bad-ass chop-socky film. The sequel could be Crouching Tiger, Cat in Hat." - laughingacademy

"I don't know. But she should have called Caine. He can help her." - uncut_diamond

(Ironically, in this movie, Caine is exactly the last person from whom she would want help. -CV)

"IG-88" - squeegibo

(+1, The Empire Strikes Back. -CV)

"Something to do with 88, right? Or the Kazuka. Or is it Yazuka? One of those." - ephart

(...close enough. -CV)

"I wonder if moviebodycounts.com just takes the 88 at face value or someone actually sat and counted." - shadowkeeper

"In the German dub, it was the Fighting Ramen-Steins. Because they made an awful red stein on the parquet flooring once The Bride was done with them." - traveller_blues

"Imagine a clash between the Crazy 88s and the Axe Gang from Kung Fu Hustle." - csi_tokyo3

(I'd pay good money to watch that movie. And hey, +1 for Kung Fu Hustle anyway, because that movie is crazy whack. -CV)

"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." - david_deacon
"I knew the answer off the top of my head, because someone mentioned it in yesterday's answers." - alkion04 and a few others

Correct Answer: The Crazy 88

"DAMN YOU NOW I HAVE THAT STUPID WOO-HOO, WOO-HOO-HOO SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD!" - 4492



3. The Lear Jet corporation was responsible for which format of musical recording and playback?

"I'm sorry, but it's a violation of RIAA to divulge that information. I'm in enough trouble already." - deza

"Phone sex" - seferin

"Streaming. Get it? Jet stream? Ahahahahahathis isn't getting quoted..." - falconpain

(-1, but at least you're getting quoted. -CV)

"The combination Chinese cooking device and music player known as the wok, man." - drbear

"Their music always sounded a bit plane to me." - darthparadox

"Elevator music. Yes, those are the bastards you need to punish." - angrysunbird, jennielf

"I just got back from a week at That Park Which Shall Not Be Named But Is DEFINATELY NOT DisneyWorld. I heard more crap music there than I've ever heard in my life, so my musically inclined brain is kind of fried right now." - ifeedformula

"Barely relevantly, I still have my spice girls tape." - yayworthy

(-1, Spice Girls. -CV)

"Guess I'll have to buy The White Album again." - umbralcorax

(+1, MiB - LL)

"My favorite part of being born in the 80's is that I completely missed 8-track tapes! And my aunt's favorite part of being born in the 50's is that she completely doesn't remember 1969." - angelprojekt

"Obviously it involves numbers but I think I'm too young to know what it is. ... A-Track?" - angelicmuse18

(Oh wow. -CV)

"You say responsible, like they have something to be blamed for! I thought 8-track tape saved a whole generation from turning to drugs, mainly because the tape was continuous and they thought they were stuck in a time loop." - demon_666

(I think they only thought that when they were listening to the 8-track while doing the drugs... -CV)

"Seriously? We have to blame rich fucks' private jets for the 8-track? I wonder who takes the fall for LaserDisc...." - etcet

"The theme says 8-track, but really, it goes to 11" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

"Did you know that 8 track tapes are approximately the same size as Pop Tarts? I think they are worth the same amount of money now too. mmm....pop tart..." - doomgirl

(Pop Tarts are definitely tastier than 8-tracks. So are regular tarts, for that matter. Mostly. -CV)

"No, children, there was no 'shuffle' button on 8-Track." - kristinmachina

"Player pianos could proved too dangerous with bad turbulence, so they went with 8-tracks instead." - majorsamfan

"I hear the things make good hockey pucks." - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Stereo 8, or 8-track



4. Dick Van Patten starred as the head of the Bradford household in which television series?

"I didn't know there were TVs shows with numbers in them." - angelicmuse18

"Dick Van Patten sounds like a porn star. So I'm going for Eight Simple Rules For Screwing My Daughter." - drunken_hedghog

(At least we didn't use Dick Van Dyke this time... -CV)

"Huh huh, you said 'dick'" - 8 was enough of you

"PENIS VAN LESBIAN! Sorry, I had to." - lots42

(Fair enough; someone had to go there. many_from_one, ephart, and http://adalger.dreamwidth.org, don't think we don't see you there. -CV)

"You lost me at 'Dick van Patten'" - b_hulsmans

"Is this that show with the Olsen twins? Does anyone else but me feel dirty that they think those girls are hot when you watched them grow up on television?" - conjure_lass

(They were butt ugly as babies, and they're butt ugly now! – LL)

"You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!" - lins_arosa, speaking for a few other Spaceballs fans. +1's all around.

"Dynasty? All I know about Dynasty is big shoulder pads, big hair, Joan Collins and the fact that "nasty" is in the title. Really, that's not great marketing." - 4492

"Ocean's 8." - spiralgirl1

"I'm killing all these careers." - drbear

"Birth control, you stupid son-of-a-bitch! Use it! Wrap that goddamn rascal, fer fuck's sake!" - thepikey

"It's a Vagina, Not a Clown Car" - piney61

"Laughter ensues as a harried father waits for his precocious brats to leave his house so he can start his life again. Dick van Patten stars in 'Patten Pending'" - i_calql8

"Punky Brewster" - david_deacon

(Hand check! Also, link is SFW, so go ahead. -CV)

"Does it count if the only TV family with a vaguely similar family name I know has at least enough members to fit the theme? Because then it's gotta be the Brady Bunch..." - germankitty

(True, the Bradys were a total of 8, 9 with housekeeper. But not quite the same. -CV)

"Wouldn't it have been awesome if they'd spun-off the movie Patton into a family sitcom?" - seekingferret

(Oh, yes, I can see it now. Patton is retired and living in suburbia with his no-nonsense wife and three spunky kids, and his neighbor Mr. Hitler keeps getting involved in wacky schemes that backfire, leading of course into hilarious hijinks and maybe some chase scenes. Dwight and Benito, the gay couple across the street, provide extra campy comedy on occasion. Airing this fall on the WB. -CV)

"8 Is Enough, which as we all know is a lie. 1 is Enough, unless the little monster is screaming in the grocery store line, crying during a movie, or starting a food fight in a restaurant, in which case 1 is More Than Enough." - neumeindil

(I still can't stress how wrong it is to bring a baby to see Terminator: Salvation. Seriously. -CV)

"Eight Is Enough, a lesson neither the Octomom nor Jon & Kate absorbed." - laughingacademy, bkwrrm_tx, labellementeuse, falconpain, cholma

"How lame is it to know one pop culture reference only because it was mentioned in another show? 'Eight is Enough' was the slogan the Republicans used against Santos as being just another Bartlett, in the final season of The West Wing." - alkion04

(You're right, that is lame. -1. -CV)

Correct Answer: Eight is Enough



5. What was the name of Augustus Caesar before he became the first emperor of Rome?

"Augustus Seizehim" - seferin

"Brian" - katiebgood
"Biggus Dickus" - blindgeoff

"Octopussy" - aries_jordan

"Homer? If it was Homer, I'd have changed it, too." - edwardina

"LEEEEERROOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYICUS JEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNKIIIINSSSSSIUS!!!!!!!!" - mattwolf

"Auggie Doggie" - ginalin

"Augustus Gloop. Not surprisingly, he didn't command much respect." - i_calql8, teh_antisecks

"I think that particular factoid got overwritten with '8675309 is a prime number' last year." - packbat

"They say Latin is a dead language, if it were spoken by vampires and zombies, would that make it an undead language?" - umbralcorax

"Augustus 'I WILL be Caesar. Oh yes..I WILL be Casear.' NonCaesar. Famous for inventing the pizza. Pizza pizza!" - ifeedformula

"Oooo! A gladiator! - LL)

"Octavia. Or was that his butler?" - darthparadox

"Otto Octavius" - sing1118
"right up there with 'Remus Lupin' in the Annals of Foreshadowy Character Names." - laughingacademy

"Orange Julius Octavius" - tweeti

(I think that was his uncle. -CV)

"the Roman Formerly Known as Octavius" - zihuatanejo

"Hmm..looking back at history, I see the octopus-like tendrils of Cluefulness creeping towards me, so clearly this was Octavian, or Octavianus, or maybe Octavianissimus." - etumukutenyak

"I know 'Xena' isn't really the most reliable source for any information, but I honestly learned it here before I picked up a book." - shadowkeeper, illogicalvulcan

(*cringe* -CV)

"Everything I know about the Roman empire, I learned from HBO" - sskipstress
"Om nom Octavian. Even more om nom Pullo. I need to go watch Rome again. And maybe have a cold shower. 'scuse me." - 4492

"Octavian. But it's the current month, August, that is named after him, not October, which used to be the eighth, but is now the tenth, and August IS the eighth month, not the sixth, so that all works out. I guess." - alkion04

"Rocky Balboa, who in Rocky VIII goes back in time and becomes the Emperor of Rome. It still brings tears to my eyes every time I watch him standing on the Senate steps, all the people walking away as he shouts 'OCTAVIAN!'" - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

(I...think I missed that movie. -CV)

Correct Answer: Octavian, or Gaius Octavius

"Heh heh. He said 'Gaius'" - chezmax



6. Tell us about your lucky number. Or tell us about spiders. Or whatever. It's free association time!

"I can say eight in eight different languages: Eight, Ocho, Huit, Octo, Oχτώ, Otto, Acht, and finally Wyth." - drunken_hedghog

"Spider! He is our hero! Spider! Get rid of. Spider! Step on spider. Spider! We love you Spider! Awwwwwwwwwww...I promise not to kill you." - laughingacademy

(Full credit. -CV)

"The spiders want me to tapdance... and I don't want to tapdance." - kittycatness

(+1, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. -CV)

"[Out of consideration, I will cut all spider pictures. This one has a spider eating a bird. A WHOLE BIRD. Take that, winged menace. -CV]" - opaltiger

"Nothing good can come from any creature with that many eyes and legs." - seferin

"drbear must kill every spider that comes anywhere within my sight or vicinity or house. They all must DIE!!!!!!" - tweeti

"anything with more than four legs is icky. Or no legs. Really, I think we should purge the earth of any creature that isn't cute and fuzzy." - chezmax

(I'm afraid I am doing quite the opposite. OM NOM NOM KITTY. -CV)

"Our downstairs bathroom is full of spiders. Some of them don't move, and I thought "oh good, they must have died". Then someone told me it's just that spiders shed their skin. So now they're still there but they leave their skincorpses lying around. Thanks for that, someone." - many_from_one

"I'm one of the few people who actually seem to like spiders. People give me this look of utter horror when I tell them I encourage spiders to live in my yard and the ones that manage to make it into the house are dumped back outside...alive." - ifeedformula

(People! Hmph. Nuthin' wrong with spiders, my first tattoo was of a spider… - LL)

"Octupi have 8 legs, only they don't cos two of them are arms, how's that work?" - 7tree_hugger

"There used to be money called pieces of eight. Spiders have eight legs. Ergo, there must have been a civilisation that used spiders as currency (as for dead or live spiders, I'm too terrified to find out)." - elvenpiratelady

"Whatever numbers win me the effing Powerball." - angelicmuse18

"I'm going to college in three weeks! Just three weeks before I escape from my family. ...I hope my mom doesn't read LJDQ. Sorry Mom." - acm28
"Three more weeks to FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!" - acm28's mom

"42 - It's the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything." - wiredwizard and a few others

"My lucky number is your mom's cell phone" - etcet

(I really don't know how I never see this coming. -CV)

"I guess my lucky number is three, since I was born on a 3rd, I'm a triplet, and my breasts are three cup sizes bigger than my sister's." - la_trombonista

"My lucky number is 68...it means you do me and I'll owe you one." - doomgirl

"I like the number 2. It's a good number of martinis, and a good number of breasts." - illogicalvulcan

"I gotcher lucky number right here, in my pants. And all the ladies say it is prime." - thepikey

"My lucky number is 13, just because I was born on the 13th AND in 2013 I'll have my birthday on friday the 13th!" - b_hulsmans
"Would you believe 8? My birthday being 8th August, born 1980, so I turned 8 on 8/8/88??" - weselan

(Both very kickass; I was born on 5 May, so I was sure I would become a Mexican Superhero on 05/05/05. Alas, all I did was get drunk on tequila and think I was a superhero. Close enough for my purposes, though. -CV)

"My lucky spider is the tarantula. When I have him around, people I don't like just seem to disappear!" - seekingferret

"Speaking of lucky numbers, does Little Bit of Luck give anyone else nightmares?" - kristinmachina

(He is admittedly creepy. -CV)

"Today I learned that rhodopsin is a violet pigment in the rods in the retina of the eye. When exposed to light it breaks down into opsin and and retinal losing its purple hue." - sskipstress

"I spent today arguing on the internet. Everyone point and laugh." - angrysunbird

(HAHA! – CV&AL&LL)

"Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart" - majorsamfan

(+1 for bringing us Fun With Lyrics. -CV)

"I'm listening to a band at the moment called Elliot Minor. I'm not entierly sure why they're called that, but they sound like bodyjar on CRACK crossed with blink 182 with a liberal pinch of fucknuts." - severedscythe

"My kid keeps asking what has seven legs and 10 noses. Apparently it's an alligator. The extra three legs and 9 noses are in his stomach. He's 6. The kid, not the alligator." - judith_s



And there you have it. Hope you all had a gr8 time playing this week; if you got quoted, then celebr8, but if not, don't be h8ing, and try again tomorrow. Don't be l8 on that d8, because f8 does not w8, and you must s8i8 your funneh mand8. Everyone will be el8ed when this aggrav8ing paragraph is over, except for the 8 or 8y8 or so who are wondering if I will use the word masturb8. There. I said it.

See you all tomorrow!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL