ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 19 October 2009

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Tis the season for candy and more candy! Which means sugar! Which means... well, we're scrounging for quiz ideas again. Wheeee!

1. The films "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun" relied heavily on the writing talents of which two brothers?

"The Coen brothers" - 11 of you, all of whom get a -4 for Fargo and No Country for Old Men, and a +2 for Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski.

"Groucho and Harpo Marx." - 5 of you

"The Blues Brothers" - 3 of you
"The Wachowski Brothers" - 3 of you
"It's a hundred and six petabytes into the matrix. We have half a stick of ram, a packet emulation of cigarettes, the CRT is dark, and we're wearing VR sunglasses. Hit it." -

etcet

"Larry, Darryl, and his other brother Darryl. The second Darryl never gets writing credit though." -

flawed_karma
"The other Daryl was a no-talent hack." -

marasca

"George and Ira Gershwin" -

neumeindil

"Cheech and Chong" -

wint3rhart

"The Smothers Brothers" -

la_trombonista

"Super Mario Brothers" -

kristinmachina
"Check the deleted scenes on the DVD for when Leslie Neilsen eats a mushroom, grows to twice his size and jumps on William Shatner." -

lots42

"Bob & Doug McKenzie" -

wiredwizard

(+1, Strange Brew. Screw you,

fragbert, I like that movie – LL)

"When you say brothers, do you mean children of the same parents, or do you mean black people?" -

seekingferret

(I essentially mean "not the Wayans brothers". -CV)

"The Wright brothers, for whom the plane reference is obvious and the naked reference... well, its no wonder they've been keeping that hidden." -

yayworthy

"If I made a reference to my two breasts, would that be completely inappropriate? And if so, would it really matter?" -

kittycatness

(Totally inappropriate unless accompanied by photographic media. -CV)

"Cain and Abel." -

mattwolf

(I think that was the film "Murder in the First". -CV)

"What you call 'talent', I call 'letting-their-penises-do-the-talking'" -

demon_666

"Leslie and Shirley. Despite both having girls names, only Shirley got upset.. which, in the manner of all good siblings, meant Leslie had to write about it in every script." -

vayshti

"Statler and Waldorf." -

wrestlingdog

"The Smuckers - ah, the sweet smell of success, no one ever asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up because of their last name, so it was a huge shock when they started writing movies." -

majorsamfan

"The Zucker Brothers, pioneers of the 'tell 1000 jokes in your movie and if 5% of them work the audience will be laughing non-stop' school of filmaking..." -

blindgeoff

"*tries to think of a quote, head explodes from overload of Zuckerisms*" -

csi_tokyo3

(They are made of awesomesauce – LL)

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." -

david_deacon
"Those two guys who swore never to talk about Macho Grande" -

germankitty
"Tell me, CV, you ever been to a Turkish bath?" -

cholma
"CV, do you like gladiator movies?" -

thepikey
"Roger and Victor Oveur" -

syrazemyla

Correct Answer: David and Jerry Zucker

2. What was the original name of the cereal whose mascots have included Cliffy the Clown, Sherriff Quick Draw McGraw, and Dig 'Em Frog?

"Dig 'Em Frog? WTF? Of all the phrases I'd associate with frogs, Dig 'Em isn't one that springs to mind. Was he some sort of escaping POW or something?" -

lins_arosa

(Well, all his scenes from "The Great Escape" ended up on the cutting room floor, so he had to turn to commercials for pay. -CV)

"A sheriff?? 'Drop that gun and hand over the Sugar Smacks, and no one gets hurt.'" -

marasca

"Krusty-O's! With Flesh-Eating Bacteria Inside!" -

csi_tokyo3

"Colon Blow." -

drbear

"Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs" -

wiredwizard,

wrestlingdog,

darthparadox,

puredeadthingy,

blindgeoff,

i_calql8,

bloodyjohnvane

"Sociopuffs - everything a growing psycho-killer needs! Part of a complete breakfast (weapons not included)." -

quasar360
"Other mascot names include Jack the Chipper, Hit 'Em Bundy and Lizzy Bathory." -

damanique

"Scooby Smacks" -

wint3rhart

"I grew up on Super Sugar Crisp, hawked on TV by Sugar Bear. Then one day I had to eat it soggy after having watch The Fantastic Voyage, and the image of the nerve falling down and crushing that guy just totally grossed me out, and I could never eat it again. The Fantastic Voyage stole my favorite cereal from me! *sob*" - adalger.dreamwidth.org

(I'm going to have to give Isaac Asimov the +1 for this. -CV)

"Cliffy the Clown is an awful name. Cliffy isn't even an adjective, and if it was, I doubt clowns would be on there. Damn clowns. Dirtying up my quiz and making no sense in it." -

actuallyspatula

"I just realized that Dig 'Em Frog looks far too similar to Freddo Frog. Yellow shirt and all. I could go for some honey and chocolate right now." -

yorp

(Fair enough. -CV)

"They later changed the name to 'Honey, I Smacked the Kids' to sound healthier" -

majorsamfan

"Is this Honey Smacks? I honestly wouldn't know what that cereal tastes like because i'm a poor bastard who has to buy the knock-off brands like 'Honey Slaps' and 'Quasi-Puffs of Honey'. WOE IS ME. " -

conjure_lass

Correct Answer: Sugar Smacks

(Yes, the original name. Somewhere in the 80's it changed to Honey Smacks. -CV)

3. The "Brawl in Montreal" on 20 June 1980 pitted Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán against which Olympic gold medalist?

"'Brawl in Montreal'? Okay, now that totally shatters my stereotypically American idea that everyone in Canada is nice and polite and peaceful. Way to go LJDQ for ruining my dreams." -

conjure_lass

"Ravishing Ronald, the Denatured Boy" -

csi_tokyo3

(+1, Bugs Bunny. -CV)

"YO, ADRIAN" -

quasar360

"This must be the funniest nationality: Panamanian... say it with me: Panamanian!" -

b_hulsmans

(Strangely, their patriotic Loony Toons spinoff, "Panamaniacs!", never really gained worldwide popularity. -CV)

"Even though I know the answer, I'm instead going to give props for using the military/european date format." -

etcet

"The American Hockey Team" -

rhiannonjk
"For some reason, I assumed this question was about ice hockey, and I'm disappointed to see that isn't the case." -

lins_arosa

"Simon Le Bon-Bon?" - adalger.dreamwidth.org

"Mr. T" -

akiyasan

(Yo pitio el fool. -CV)

"Popeye" -

wrestlingdog

(Remember, kids: spinach is not a steroid. -CV)

"Pick a card, any card! Will it be the Age Card? ('If you weren't alive in 1980, go back two spaces.') Will it be the Boxing Card? ('If you don't follow boxing, move up three spaces.') Or will it be the Olympic Pyrite Card? ('10 years from now, nobody will remember who won in the Olympics. Automatically lose the game.')" -

wint3rhart

"His name was Rio, and he dances on the sand..." -

kristinmachina and a dozen other Duran Duran fans

"Rick Durán, thus creating the historic event known as Duran vs. Duran, and forcing a certain Birmingham-based synthpop band to switch their name from the first-thought Da-Duran-ran-ran-da-Duran-ran to Duran Duran, as it was certainly shorter and also more macho." -

amphelice

"Strongbad" -

thepikey

"Brian Boitano" -

primavera

(He was too busy travelling through time to the year 3010 to fight the Evil Robot King and save the human race again. -CV)

"Shawn Johnson. She's not as young or as cute as that media would like you to believe!" -

angelprojekt

(Unlike those Chinese gymnasts... -CV)

"Mary Lou Retton" -

flawed_karma,

drbear,

umbralcorax

"Tonya Harding" -

spiralgirl1,

lots42

(She won the last round thanks to a well-placed crowbar shot to the knee. -CV)

"Top Three Wittiest People in History:
1)Mark Twain
2)The guy who does New York Post headlines
3)The guy who comes up with boxing bout names like 'Thrilla in Manila' and 'Brawl in Montreal'.
...
5634) The Wittiest LJDQer" -

seekingferret

(You mean this guy?...)

"Not to be confused with Timbuktu's 'Melee in Mali', Beijing's 'Brawl Near the Wall,' or the famous 'Bout in Butte' in Montana." -

i_calql8

Correct Answer: Sugar Ray Leonard

4. What college football bowl game is traditionally held on New Years Day in New Orleans, Louisiana?

"FYI, trying to get a good night's sleep in the French Quarter when LSU is playing in the Sugar Bowl is useless. Unlike a regular night in the French Quarter, when fights between transvestite hookers are more likely to keep a person from sleeping." -

rhiannonjk

"Whatever it is, it'll end in fights and drunkeness." -

b_hulsmans

(Oh, that could be any sports game. Why hello there World Cup! -CV)

"New Orleans doesn't observe days like we do, there's just 'Drunk' and 'Not drunk'." -

lots42

"Hopefully, the one where it rains a lot so all the football players go skidding on the field like Keystone Kops on ice." -

syrazemyla

"Does this have anything to do with putting keys in the bowl and later telling the kids 'Daddy and this nice lady were just playing football together!'?" -

demon_666

"The Jambalaya Bowl." -

csi_tokyo3,

wint3rhart

"The Porcelain Bowl" -

flawed_karma,

neumeindil,

conjure_lass
"The Hangover Bowl" -

kittycatness,

drbear,

i_calql8

"The 'Show Us Yer Tits' Bowl" -

spiralgirl1

"Pour! Some! Sugar on meeeeee!" -

tears_of_nienna

"The Blue Tarp Bowl. 'To the roofs!'" -

thepikey

(+1, FEMA. -AL)

"Whichever one it is, they play it on Mardi Grass" -

majorsamfan

"The Sugar Bowl. Not to be confused with the Salt Cellar on Boxing Day, or the Pepper Pot on Twelfth Night." -

germankitty

"Due to modern health concerns, the Splenda Bowl." -

distaff_exile

Correct Answer: The Sugar Bowl

"Somehow the Gumbo Bowl or the Crawfish Bowl never had the same ring." -

kristinmachina

5. The documentary "Funky Monks" describes the time spent by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a "haunted" house while recording which album?

"Heh heh, you said 'bum'." -

packbat

"'Give it Away'. I have no idea if that's one of their albums, but I totally love doing dishes to that song." -

kittycatness

"I once had a copy of that documentary. But I was working for a radio station, took the eighth, ninth, and tenth callers, and the station manager told me- 'You have to give it away, give it away, give it away now.'" -

umbralcorax

(*rimshot* -CV)

"Brass Monkey! That funky monkey! Brass monkey junky, that funky monkey!" -

thepikey and 9 other funky monkeys

"Thelonius Assault" -

i_calql8

(You can have +0.1 because you're probably the only person here who knows who Thelonius Monk is. -CV)

"Having been exposed to some of the more... interesting examples of Japanese animation, I'm a little leery of anything with 'sex magic' in the title." -

darthparadox

(That's fair. -CV)

"Why Religion Scares the Be-jeezis Out of Me." -

thefannishwaldo

(They didn't even get the power of Christ to compel them. -CV)

"This Is Chili Pepper" - adalger.dreamwidth.org

"Voodoo Heroin. No? Well, it should have been, because Voodoo Heroin would be an awesome name for an album." -

la_trombonista

"O Man We're Stoned - shit, the walls are bleeding" -

7tree_hugger

"One of my friends used to swear her house was haunted. We tried calling ghost busters, but I guess they were too busy or something." -

acm28

"All their albums. Whenever RHCP are in a house, that house is haunted." -

angelprojekt

"Blood, Sex, Sacrifice, Virgin. Oh wait, that's my Friday night." -

puredeadthingy

"Blood Sugar Sex Magic, made when Anthony Keidis was hot and got the booty to prove it. Oh, who am I kidding? I wouldn't throw him out of bed now, either." -

marasca

"I imagine the RHCPeppers sitting around in a pool of Blood, Sugar, and Sex, wishing they had Magic to clean it all up." -

rhiannonjk

"With a judicious application of punctuation (Like, 'Blood Sugar? Sex Magic!'), it could be an ad for diabetes medication that's way more fun than insulin sticks/needles ..." -

germankitty

"Blood Sugar Sex Magik Dolphin Scarf Hydrogen Monograph Banana--Sorry, I though we were playing a free-association game." -

tears_of_nienna

Correct Answer: "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"

6. What's your favorite sweet treat?

"Sadly, far too many. No longer do I resemble a Chippendale dancer; more like a Chips Ahoy dancer." -

csi_tokyo3

(I totally hear you. Now quit bitching and pass the Kit-Kats. -CV)

"I'm a big fan of the Bach Orchestral Suites." -

seekingferret

"This is a cruel, cruel question to ask someone who just started Weight Watchers. I see everything is normal in mod-land." -

marasca

"Frozen fruit drinks. Preferably with some sort of alcoholic connotation." -

kittycatness

"Must...not...cave...to...tempta--YOUR MOM." -

tears_of_nienna
"YOUR MOM covered in Nutella, because as we established last week, I am addicted to the stuff" -

quasar360

"PixiStix with a Jolt chaser." -

flawed_karma

"Pop Rocks and Coke. I like to live dangerously." -

sskipstress

"Those little candy bananas. I would live off those if living off those wouldn't kill me." -

actuallyspatula

"Frozen Yoghurt, which I call Frogurt. It comes with a free choice of topping. The topping contains potassium benzoate. That's bad." -

elvenpiratelady

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"Licking hot chocolate off Alexander Skarsgard's chest" -

damanique

(Ohhh god. I'll be in my bunk. – LL)

"Nathan Fillion covered in chocolate." -

neumeindil

(I'm going back to my bunk – LL)

"I'll take that over chocolate any day -

zxwx

(Hell with it, I'll be in my bunk all night – LL)
(In other news tonight,

lovellama went blind. -CV)

"Reese's Peanut Butter Cups! The typo for this was 'Rhesus Peanut Butter Cubs'." -

jmthane

(The typo for my last name is Lepers. :*( - LL)
(...*snort* -CV)

"S'mores." -

thefannishwaldo

(It was a happy day when I learned to make them in the microwave. – LL)

"'Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs' If it's good enough for the president of G.R.O.S.S., it's good enough for me!" -

cholma
"…with marshmallows" -

umbralcorax

"Why, that would have to be

angledge and

lovellama of course. Followed closely by pudding." -

thepikey

(-1, sucking up to the mods – AL)
(+1, sucking up to the mods – LL)
(How did I get left out of the sucking? -CV)

"Dark chocolate. So dark that it's not sweet but bitter. Because I am a bitter, bitter woman." -

amphelice

"I love pudding but I never purchase it. I like to encounter pudding, like at restaurant dessert bars and such. 'Oo, pudding!', I'll exclaim, delighted at the sudden encounter. Strange, I know, but that's just how it is with me and pudding." -

mattwolf

"The souls of puppies." -

lots42

"Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream with chocolate jimmies. JIMMIES, DAMN YOU, THEY'RE CALLED JIMMIES. BACK ME UP ON THIS, PHILADELPHIA." -

wrestlingdog

(You're asking Philadelphia for backup? It barely works for the Eagles; it's probably not going to work for you. -CV)

"I'll go with Dark Chocolate, especially eaten with nuts (when can we get together for a treat,

chaosvizier?)." -

majorsamfan

(I can't be certain, but I think I just got referred to as "dark chocolate with nuts". I'm going to call that a compliment, and good day to you all. -CV)

And there you have it. As a special treat, everyone should say Happy Early Birthday to the ever-brilliant and wonderful

angledge; her birthday's tomorrow, but saying it now will make Monday feel better. That's called thoughtfulness.

Thanks for playing everyone, hope you enjoyed, and remember to tell your friends. And come back tomorrow for more. Because there will be more. Lots more! Oodles more! MOOOOORRRREEEEEE!!!!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

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I know who Thelonious Monk is! "Monk's Mood"! "Blue Monk"! "Bye Ya!" "Round Midnight!" Infectiously catchy oversyncopated jazz piano with an air of a mystery I can never quite grab onto.

From:

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Ah well. It's official:

i_calql8 just lost his +0.1 points. Easy come, easy go.

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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