LJ Daily Answers: 8 September 2009

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

First squares, then cubes! Is there no end to our unoriginality?


1. What is the world's top-selling puzzle game, and possibly the world's best-selling toy?

"It's fun for a girl and a boy." - froggie_girlkel

"It's Log!" - silk_knickers, squeegibo, a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t, laughingacademy

"LJDQ Brand Chastity Belts (Your Mother Edition). Easiest game in the world, but that's sort of the point." - etcet

"The Bible" - pyllgrum, judith_s

"Julius Caesar: Crossing the Rubixcon" - cholma

"My remote control. I've had this thing for five years, and I still have no idea how half the damn buttons work." - i_calql8

"World's worst time-waster. Before the Internet, anyway." - iambickilometer

"Russia's weapon of mass frustration." - flipthefrog

"Ikea Furniture" - neumeindil

"Tetris" - la_trombonista

"DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN RUBIX CUBE!" - kristinmachina

"Is it sad that I immediately thought of the weird cartoon about the Rubik's Cube that was some sort of alien from outer space? Had a couple of ethnic kids to tote it around and a voice that sounded suspiciously like those Gremlin things, too." - traveller_blues

"WHY MAKE A FUCKING TOY SO HARD YOU CAN'T FUCKING FINISH IT?" - eelylove

"Rubik's Shattered Chunks of Plastic Scattered Across Your Floor" - blindgeoff and 8 others

"That one with the square stickers you have to take off and move" - zihuatanejo and 11 others

"" - usmu

"'What's a rubik cube and a man got in common? The longer you play with one, the harder it gets.'" - dk2022

"Frustration." - neblinaclara

"how do people who are colorblind solve a Rubik’s Cube?" - jinxedlioness

(It's much easier for them, since red and green are the same. They only have to solve five sides! -CV)

Correct Answer: Rubik's Cube



2. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
gots to get a job cuz I was a high school dad
Wish I got paid like I was rappin' to the nation
but thats not likely, so here's my application

"Song of just about every male behind the counter at McDonald. What rhymes with 'ya want fries with that?'" - nitasee and thirteen others

"I always end up trying to fit rap lyrics over the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme... because I'm white." - wrestlingdog

"Beethoven's ninth. Beethoven was in da hood!" - b_hulsmans

"Spongebob Cube Pants" - jkabley

"The Fresh Prince of Harvard" - lucky_lyon

"We don't need no education" - germankitty

"'please see attached napkin for the CV' by IDA MANNN." - yayworthy

"Sting has kids? I guess all that tantric sex had to lead somewhere." - laughingacademy

"I Got the No Birth Control Blues" - thefannishwaldo

"This was the original version of 'What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?'" - ntlespino

"He turned to rapping cos he wasn't good at wrapping, says Popeye the sailor man. Toot toot!" - anticarnation1

"If I ran a business, anyone who said 'gots' while applying would be thrown out so hard they would bounce." - syrazemyla

"I should have played D&D in the library instead of having sex with cheerleaders, by The Popular Jocks" - mattwolf

"Kevin Federline, How to knock up a Pop Star" - seferin

"Zac Efron - 'This is what High School Musical 3 did to me'" - gigglingpixie

"WoW!!! A rapper graduated high school....I'm speechless." - tweeti

"Maybe Ice Cube should stop rapping about birds and start filling out more applications." - blacksunrising

"I have to disagree with Ice Cube, a bird in the hand isn't worth more than a bush. Pot's expensive." - zxwx

(And today's important trivia note: Ice-T is in Law and Order SVU. Ice Cube is not. Move along. -CV)

Correct Answer: Ice Cube, "A Bird In The Hand"

"Was Ice Cube ever really famous? I swear he's been washed up since he came on the scene 80 years ago." - froggie_girlkel



3. According to the Bible, what were the dimensions of Noah's ark?

"I’m American. We don’t use the metric system." - nitasee

"That's a rather personal question, don't you think?" - conjure_lass

"bigger than a breadbox" - raienna

"Just too small so the unicorns didn't fit?" - acm28
"not big enough for a dinosaur or two." - poster_glomper

"Why did he have to let spiders aboard? Why???" - jinxedlioness

"I always wondered how much gopher porn they needed to get that many cubits of gopherwood." - iamraffiki

"Two words. Poop deck. LOL. Poop." - lots42

"Totally cube-ular, dude." - kittycatness

"It did not have dimensions. It was a portable hole. They are any size you need them to be." - doomgirl

(Most folks thought it was a TARDIS. Portable holes are funnier. -CV)

"A dimension of sight, a dimension of sound, a dimension of mind." - i_calql8, kristinmachina

"32D-21-35" - wiredwizard, thefannishwaldo, eleventh_guard, marilyth

"Lions over there, zebras over there and elephants in the middle as meat shields." - severedscythe

(Someone's gotta be the tank. -CV)

"What kind of lights did Noah use on the ark? Flood lights!" - ANONYMOUS

"What in the hell is a cubit anyway? Honestly, the translators of the bible changed so much, couldn't they have changed the unit of measure for Noah's arc so we could understand how big it was supposed to be? I'm sure there's some way to make women look evil in doing that." - spiralgirl1

(As opposed to the way women normally look? -CV)

"For sale: large houseboat, one careful owner, suitable for a large family with several pets. Has some really very minor amounts of animal poo in the hold, would benefit from a good cleaning. 350 x 50 x 30 cubits, plenty of room to add a swimming pool, squash court or secret submarine dock. Seller accepts no responsibility if item turns out to be apocryphal." - jhirat_dai

Correct Answer: 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits

"Riiiiiight... what's a cubit?" - Bill Cosby and 22 others
"I don't believe the bible mentioned Jello Pudding Pops though." - tarpo



4. What art movement came about through the innovations of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque?

"Drug induced" - seferin

(Really, that could be any art. -CV)

"The Bowel Movement" - marilyth, a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t, amorsalado, mattwolf

"Q-Bert is considered an art movement?" - cholma, mark_laura, i_calql8
"One of the seminal works was 'Nude Descending a Colored Pyramid'." - syrazemyla

"Oh you mean those guys who started that picture puzzle movement where the picture was on movable tiles and then you had to unscramble them to get the picture right?" - blacksunrising

"'Lets paint while drunk and call it art.' Jackson Pollack actually perfected the scam method." - drunken_hedghog
"Jackson Pollock>>>>>Picasso" - ANONYMOUS

"Oh hey, I know that second guy. He had his own TV show. Braque Presents the Braque Show Starring Braque." - umbralcorax

(Did he have a green mantis friend named Zoraque? -CV)

"Money for Nothing" - germankitty

"If they'd have used pyramids, would it be prismism?" - 4you_blue_jway, yayworthy

(Well, everyone knows that pyramids are really just triangular cubes. -CV)

"Country music! You know, 'Achy Braque Heart'." - spatialrift47

"Brushes? We don't need no stinking brushes! Just little happy trees." - akiyasan

(Bob Ross, the Chuck Norris of painting – LL)

"Cubism. It's awesome that they were trying to show multiple vantage points at once, as if they were higher-dimensional creatures." - rikchik

"I got dragged through every museum on the Continent as a child. It scarred me for life. Scarred!" - mathnerd

"I don't get cubism. I also don't get Gertrude Stein, who is totally the literary equivalent of cubism. Noses and breasts and verbs and gerunds all willy-nilly..." - tears_of_nienna

"All I can think of are those poor people whom Picasso painted portraits of, they who had such ugly disfigured faces..." - demon_666

"As Professor Henry Higgens would later say: 'The Boobs on the Nudes are mostly made of Cubes'" - blindgeoff

"Cubism. That is to say, the art of giving a big Fuck You to proportions and perspective." - iambikkilometer

"Cubism, the Legoland for the art world." - nitasee

"Some scientist with waaaaay too much time on his hands once studied Picasso and discovered that people with heavy migraine attacks paint similar stuff." - b_hulsmans

"Six-faced Regular Polyhedronism, until their people met with the marketing people and came up with a catchier name." - active_apathy

"I shall found an art movement based on Hypercubism!" - zihuatanejo

Correct Answer: Cubism



5. On 15 February 1898, the U.S.S. Maine sank off the coast of which island?

"There's an island in the shape of cube?" - kagomeshuko

"Cube-a? Really LJDQ?" - acm28

(Yes, really. Have you not yet figured out that nothing is beneath us? -AL&CV&LL)

"SPAAARTAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" - etcet, blindgeoff

"Let this be a lesson...stay away from Witch Island!" - drbear

"Rhode Island" - puredeadthingy, sharnjilraedan, ntlespino

(Its endeavors to kill off other small states in order to gain in rank really never got very far... -CV)

"Ellis Island" - neumeindil

"Coney Island" - tony101

"Staten Island" - domestik_fucker

"Atlantis" - jinxedlioness

"Gilligan's Island" - primavera, tweeti, mattwolf

(Longest three-hour tour of duty ever. -CV)

"Ilsa Nublar" - wiredwizard

(Velociraptors: fast, intelligent, and surprisingly handy with advanced explosives. -CV)

"Remember the Sunwell. For the Horde!" - jigawattica

"Isles of Shoals -- if only because the islands have cool names like 'Duck', 'Shag' and 'Smuttynose'!" - germankitty

"Rubik's Cube Island would make a great movie. 'Move the second line! The second line! With the red blocks! Come on, man, the sharks are RIGHT BEHIND US!!'" - oldstarnewshine

"Middle Intercourse Island" - bending_sickle

"Did it start a major international crisis? That wouldn't surprise me. 'THE AMERICANS HAVE SUNK THEIR OWN SHIP OFF OUR SHORES! MAN THE DEFENCES!'" - opaltiger, cholma

(Come on, don't be hating. That's our best trick! -CV)

"I bet it sank because a whole lot of Cubans climbed aboard, confused by its name, thinking that it was actually part of the U.S. and they could claim immigration status." - demon_666

"My great-great-grandfather was born that day. Obviously, he's the reincarnation of the Maine." - syrazemyla

(It would have been even better if he'd been the guy who invented the game "Battleship". -CV)

"They say that loose lips sink ships. Does that mean that if the crew of the U.S.S. Maine just never spoke to each other, they would have survived?" - babybokal

"You guys had a Navy back then? CUTE!" - drunken_hedghog

"Shhhh. Be careful or you'll give away the series finale of Lost." - amorsalado

"I was pretty sure this happened at the same time as the Cuban Missile Crisis until I saw the date, so thanks, LJDQ, for proving once again how useless high school history was." - flipthefrog

"I thought I was just supposed to Remember the Maine! I was supposed to Remember the Island, too?" - seekingferret

"The rain (and pain) on the Maine came mainly from Spain (and I theme the bomber's name was Kurt Cubain)." - mark_laura

"The USS Maine was one of the baddest battleships of its time. it didn't sink: The ocean rose up around it." - fizrep

"I can't make a joke about this! Too Soon!" - tarpo
"How can we trade with the Spaniards now that we live in a post-2/15 world?" - zihuatanejo

"Ironically, the USS Cuba sank of the coast of Maine in 1988. Believe it, or not. Hint: not." - jhirat_dai

Correct Answer: Cuba

"O.K., so you all had a crappy Valentine's Day. But don't you think that's a little extreme there, sailor?" - diannelamerc, umbralcorax, conjure_lass



6. What decorates your cubicle? And if you don't have one, how would you decorate your future cubicle?

(For some strange and disturbing reason, "blood/guts/body parts" was the most popular answer. Remind me never to apply for jobs where you all work. -CV)

"Well, i'm a mortician so...dead bodies decorate my 'cubicle'. Isn't that lovely?" - conjure_lass

(Well, ok, in your case we can make an exception. -AL&CV&LL)

"Thanks for pre-emptively crushing my soul. I'm a fresh-faced second-year at university!" - puredeadthingy

"When you grow up you'll be put in a container called a cubicle. The bleak oppressiveness will warp your spine and destroy your capacity to feel joy. Luckily you'll have a boss like me to motivate you with something called fear." - jinxedlioness

(+1, Dilbert. And if it's not a Dilbert quote, it really should be. -CV)

"I have a picture of dragons fighting against zeppelins in my cubicle. Also, a mess of papers fighting against my sanity." - seekingferret

"Audrey III" - iambickilometer

(Doctah! +1, LSoH – LL)

"My purple Swingline stapler, a receipe for wondrous punch, and a piece of artwork done by a coworker." - froggie_girlkel

(This answer is worthless without said recipe for said wondrous punch. – LL)

"Only stuff that belongs to the office. It makes for easier cleanup when I lose my job." - jmthane

"My dorm room's about the size of a cubicle. You can almost fit a bed in there!" - acm28

"Nothing. I'm not really a nail polish kind of girl." - florahart

(+1, because I had to actually take time to think about this joke. Bravo. -CV)

"a sign that says:
'This is your ass. 0
This is your ass in jail ( )
Any questions?'" - uncut_diamond

"Rice Crispie Treats and bitches." - waya_adanvto

"A Mary Engelbreit calendar, a collection of chocolate bar wrappers, many maths reference books, reminders for medical appointments I never keep, a shovel, a sack of quicklime, a roll of old carpet...." - mathnerd

"I'm a stay at home mom. My cubicle is decorated with Prozac and Vodka." - amorsalado

"I have a giant monkey that takes my place when I'm on vacation. The best part is when I come back I can ask, 'did you touch my monkey?'" - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

"I'd tape to the walls the most embarassing pictures I could find of my co-workers on Facebook." - poster_glomper

"My cubicle has skulls, rubber duck Mardi Gra beads and a picture of PeeWee Herman." - doomgirl

(Ok, I give: What do these three things have to do with each other? -CV)

"My hatred will be given physical form and will hover over it like a menacing hummingbird." - syrazemyla

"Little stuffed bears everywhere and every ljdq quote of my that was quoted plastered on the wall, along with the mods' pics....well, all the icons anyway." - tweeti

(We love our obsessive fans! A little upset to share real estate with stuffed bears, but I suppose we'll deal. -AL&CV&LL)

"I've got a Periodic Table with cartoons illustrating the uses of all of the elements... did you know Krypton is used in flourescent tubes, UV lasers, flash bulbs, and atomic clocks?" - blindgeoff

(Sorry, that's a little too much education this early in the morning. -CV)

"" - domestik_fucker

"I would decorate my cubicle in a rubix colour. IF ANYONE TOUCHED SOMETHING. I WOULD KNOW. AND THEN I WOULD SPEND THE REST OF MY FUCKING LIFE TRYING TO REARRANGE IT SO IT WAS PERFECT AGAIN. Fuckers." - eelylove

(One of my office mates was like that. And I was the guy that would go touch things and move them ever so slightly. -CV)

"Postcards of different places around the world. It makes up for the lack of a window." - akiyasan

"an empty cookie tin from last Christmas, but it's debatable whether that's decoration or litter." - http://adalger.dreamwidth.org

"I'm a nurse, so we don't have cubicles, but if I did... PLAYPEN BALLS!!!" - kristinmachina

"I'd decorate my cube with birthday decorations. Cause seriously, I just turned 33 on the 3rd of the 9th month. Get it? Get it?!" - lewd_pixie

"I recently acquired a poster with some of the best Pink Floyd album covers recreated on the backs of naked women with body paint. You may want to read that sentence again, let it sink in." - opaltiger

"I have a plush rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by my monitor. And at the end of the day, I like to RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!" - umbralcorax

"I escaped the cubicle farm for good! Of course it took a complete mental breakdown to do it, but I find the padded walls will hold a much more impressive collection of Dilbert strips. They took away my stapler though. O.K., but I warned you...." - diannelamerc

"" - spatialrift47

"I'd coat the whole damn thing with black markerboard and draw on it with fluorescent markers. It'd be like a rave every day!" - fizrep



And that's the way it is. Thanks for being patient as we experience a minor delay due to travelling and such. Unfortunately, we're about to experience a major delay (as happens every September), when extreme work actions claim AL and CV in their vile clutches. So we'll be running some quizzes during the month, but no answers will be compiled until perhaps that last week of September. Don't despair; we're not going anywhere. We're just on hold briefly.

Thanks again for playing, especially those of you who are new to the quiz. Welcome aboard, and we hope you come back again, and with reinforcements. More is always better.

That's all we've got; Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

Quadripedal quotage and the coveted 1st comment! I LOVE short weeks!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's EXTREEEEEEEME! Good start to the new month. Bravo!

[severedscythe.livejournal.com]

My Torterra is the tank [/end pokemon nerdery and also /wrists]

hooray, got a quote!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Good old Pokemon, teaching children to enslave animals in tiny spherical prisons in order to get them to fight. Truly the best idea for a cartoon ever!

My bad

[froggie-girlkel.livejournal.com]

Here's the receipe for Wondrous Punch:

One shot Bacardi Gold
One shot Bacardi White
One shot Myers rum
One shot Bacardi 151
small splash of orange pineapple juice
small splash of sweet and sour mix
pinch of grenadine

Re: My bad

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And finally, the answer to the years-old question "Where has the rum gone?" is here: It's in froggie_girlkel's punch bowl. All of it. Seriously.

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

a 2 fer after a little break.. This pleases me

[mathsnerd]

A 2fer for me as well, after months of inactivity. Woo!

[4you-blue-jway.livejournal.com]

Hey, I got a quote!

I really need to answer these more often...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's true! Scientifically conducted studies show that answering quizzes leads to a significant increase in the chances of being quoted. SCIENCE DOES NOT LIE, BITCHES!!!

[germankitty]

Yay, 200% improvement! AND I pwned i_calql8, too! Good week, that!

(And yet I'm a little miffed that the Cube Goodies for #6 didn't make the cut. Hmph.)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Pwnd? What color is the sky in your world today, girl? It's three and three, using your very own scoring system. Move along, people...no pwnage to see here. :P

[conjure-lass.livejournal.com]

Three quotes and a comment! Booyah!

*Does the underwear dance*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You look... balder than I expected.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

See? It's a great day when you surprise yourself! That's why I love my complete lack of short, middle, and long term memory. Every day's something new!

[bluealoe]

So I gather next week's theme is four-dimensional squares? And the week after that will be five-dimensional squares?

[mathsnerd]

*thinks up good tesseract jokes*

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Trip quotage! Possibly one of my most uninspired efforts yet, and they never doubted me for a second.

Btw, you guys still trolling for guest mods?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Depends on whether you're volunteering or not... Do you dare apply for the backstage pass?

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

I said it before and I'll say it again:

However much it is in spans and cubits and the other odd things, it always comes down to three football fields.

Which kinda speaks of some kinda forward looking thinking, cos how else would the voices in his head know that the only way of measuring things in the 20th and 21st Century would be to compare them to football fields, London Buses or Wales?

*sulks from lack of quotage. Wishes she could find the funny well again*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

What most folks don't realize is that, like most of the Bible, that passage was the result of some phonological misrepresentation. You see, the original passage drew from archaic Greco-Roman mythology, and the Ark was supposed to be 300 cupids by 50 cupids by 30 cupids. And Cupid, while he does look like a mischievous baby, was actually big for his size, measuring a full 45 inches head to toe. They needed cupids because otherwise the animals might not mate and reproduce. Dinosaurs proved immune to all those hormonally charged arrows, and that's why they're dead. Like this joke.

Cheer up; the funnies will find you again. You'll see!

[amorsalado.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! After a year's absence, I got three quotes my first time back. It's almost sad how little it takes to make me feel accomplished!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I guess you were saving up all the funnies for this moment! Now let the momentum carry you forward! Keep on playing! PLAY!!!!

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

"Ilsa Nublar" - wiredwizard

(Velociraptors: fast, intelligent, and surprisingly handy with advanced explosives. -CV)

They're creative little bastards, that's for sure...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Like I said a few weeks ago, don't bother me with all this pandemic nonsense until velociraptor flu hits the streets. Then I'll start paying attention.

[neumeindil.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo, 2 quotes and a group think. :D Blood can be a very good color for cube decoration, btw. I don't understand the general objection to red in small spaces...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, red as it stands isn't so bad. But then blood dries and gets all dark and cakey, and isn't as exciting an option for decoration. However, I suppose repeated applications of fresh blood on a daily basis would overcome that particular issue.

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

Jackson Pollack and colonialist sentiments to the rescue! I'm now off for a Shish-Kabob flambéd with vodka. It's supposed to be gin but I believe that is called sacrilege around here.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to make do with whatever liquid is available.

[many-from-one.livejournal.com]

man, i suck. I used up all my energy on PUZZLES and ting.

yayworthy gots two though, woo!

[yayworthy.livejournal.com]

Woop!

[miss-whiplash.livejournal.com]

You remember all the TV robot tyrants in the sixties that blew up when offered a paradox to solve. Well I did a passable impression of one trying to imagine what the sixth side of a five-sides solved rubick cube looked like!

Does not compute! Does not compute!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

ERROR! ERROR! RETICULATING SPLINES!

[dk2022.livejournal.com]

I knew the obvious joke would get in there. I just wish I could be funny without someone else's lines. :|

Thanks for the cheer up ljdq peeps. I failed my practical driving test today cause the driving examiner sucked! He cared more for other drivers than what I was doing, grading me on other peoples fuck ups. :: Screams :: So anyways, thanks for cheering me up a bit. :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Cheeky driving tester... that's ok, you'll pass next time. And remember, you don't need a license to quiz. All you need is a computer and an internet connection, and nowadays, any schmuck can do that. ;-)

[syrazemyla.livejournal.com]

Four quotes and a comment! This makes my day!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Bravo! You taste like success!

[cholma.livejournal.com]

3 plus a group think! I think that's a new Cho record! Go me! :)
(I should've known the Bill Cosby one was too obvious!)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

In the words of a certain military strike force, "YOOOOOOOOOOO CHOOOOOOO!"

[chezmax]

"I recently acquired a poster with some of the best Pink Floyd album covers recreated on the backs of naked women with body paint. You may want to read that sentence again, let it sink in." - [info]opaltiger

I've seen that poster. It's quite awesome, but I wouldn't put it up in my cube :)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Some cubes are more open-minded to artistic expression than others, I guess. More power to him.

[uncut-diamond.livejournal.com]

Being quoted by you guys is the best thing to happen to me all day. I crawled out from under my bed and took off my crash helmet just to say that.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We aim to please! Glad we were worth emerging into the daylight for!

[tweeti.livejournal.com]

Triple quotage for me....whooopeeee!!!!


And I can rhyme too....*grinz*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Three for thee, tweeti! Yippee!

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

yay! I got a quote. Where's that island in the shape of a cube now? :P

I'm glad, though, that I was not the only one thinking "legos" when it came to cubism.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, Wyoming's in the shape of a square, so you could just dig it out and slap it in the ocean to make a big cubical island. Really, no one would notice.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Two quotes and a shared quote--worth the extra day's wait!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We're always worth the wait! Except maybe that time when we weren't.