LJ Daily Answers: 6 August 2004

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to guess that there's a theme here and that it has to do with indians. If I'm wrong, hilarity will ensue. Even if I'm right, hilarity may still ensue since I only know the answer to one or two of the questions." - marasca

(Nice guess on the Indian/Western theme. It applies to nearly every answer. But, as the great Richard Dawson often noted, "Survey says?"

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The theme of the quiz is cards, in memory of the death of Wild Bill Hickok on 2 August 1876 (see #5). Better luck next time! -CV)

(I'm obliged to apologize for the enhanced level of difficulty in this week's quiz. My horoscope for the week said to be merciless and unyielding, and I'm certainly not one to fuck around when Jupiter's passing through Sagittarius and stuff. -CV)

1. The Agatha Christie mystery “And Then There Were None” was made into numerous film versions, most of which were entitled...

"Cake or Death?" - spiffington

(+1, Eddie Izzard.)

"Let's go with Obvious Guesses for $200, Hans. What is 'And Then There Were None?'" - angledge

(Let’s go with “No Obvious Answers In This Quiz” for -1. -CV)

"Murder She Hoped?" - krick

"And Now there is Some" - ghostwriterxx

"And Then There Was One More: The Revenge of the Revolutionary Demon Machine from Hell" - funkyplaid

"Austin Powers, International man of mystery" - matt_ledgerwood

"Incidentally, the reason I chose "Hastings" for my nom de internet was in homage to one of Christie's recurring characters, Captain Hastings, whom I fell madly in love with when I was thirteen. Yeah, I never really dated in high school." - afterwards

"Ten Vertically-challenged Native Americans" - impulsezip

(Very PC. You’re an inherently good person. -CV)

Correct Answer: Ten Little Indians

(For verdandiweaves, pisica, and deinemuse, who found or knew the original name of this story, "Ten Little Ni**ers", note that that was the name of the book when first published. Only the Russians and British had the audacity to produce a film and TV version respectively using that title. Most other versions used "Ten Little Indians" because, well, you know. -CV)

2. This President of the United States was nicknamed “Old Hickory”.

"Dickery Dock, the president who was part man part clock all monster." - matt_ledgerwood
"President 'Dickory Dock'- Mouse activist and general keeper of grandfathers and their time" - spiffington

"I'm guessing Old Hickory was an older president, say Roosevelt?" - verdandiweaves

(Older. -CV)

"Aristotle. Hemlock, hickory, who knows." - perkyczarlet

(Not that old. Not a president. Not killed by Hemlock. -CV)

"The one played by Morgan Freeman." - djdysfunction

(Nope. -CV)

"I love Millard Fillmore!" - ghostwriterxx

(As do all good people. But all the love in the world won't make this the right answer. -CV)

"Too lazy to Google; I'll guess Woodrow Wilson." - d4b
"William Taft. He was a fatass, but he gave new meaning to the term 'morning wood'." - fizrep
"Huh-hu-hu . . .wood." - xgreenjudasx

"Andrew Jackson, the blanket-wrapped geezer pictured on the $20.00 bill. I bet he HATES the peach color of the new bills." - angledge

"Andrew 'Get the fuck off our land, goddamn indians!' Jackson" - marasca

(Although my knowledge of American history is a bit rusty, I'm fairly certain he did not phrase it exactly that way. -CV)

"Jesse Jackson... See the resemblance!" - deinemuse

(Hmmmmmmm... Nope. I do not. -CV)

"This is a trick question. Al (I'm made of wood) Gore was never President." - krick

Correct Answer: Andrew Jackson

"You know what's funnier presidential trivia? - Illinois is Land of Lincoln even though Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Also, William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub." - pisica

3. In “The Magnificent Seven”, he was named Vin; in “The Great Escape” he was named Virgil. What’s his real name?

"Victor Von Doom" - matt_ledgerwood
"Vin Deisel... Yo Vinnay!" - ghostwriterxx
"Vin Diegil" - fizrep
"Vippy?" - d4b
"Virgin" - notevenu
"Voltron – Defender of the Universe" - impulsezip

"Vic Vega, the guy who would go on to be named in many of Tarantino's films, due to his obsessive compulsion with all things 'V'. He is famous for his vigour and vim, and voracious vicissitudes when variably vacillating betwixt very vociferous villains." - funkyplaid

(Verily, I vouch for the veracity of your verbiage. -CV)

"'He is VIGGO, your words are like the buzzing of bees to him!' Strangely enough, I don't even remember where this quote came from." - angledge

(Oh, so close to receiving a +1 for Ghostbusters 2... -CV)

(Let's review our players' use of the letter "V" so far, shall we?


Pretty good... except for Vippy and Vin Diegil. -CV)

"Bob. Or Doug. I swear I'm still not Canadian." - pisica

(Keep trying, hoser. -CV)

"Web cheaters?!? We don’t need no stinken web cheaters. James Garner." - xgreenjudasx

(That's right. Stand up and take pride in your answer, even if it was the other guy. -CV)

"Ah, 'The Magnificent Seven,' yet another American classic ripped off from a samurai movie." - b7cy

(Remember, kids, stealing is wrong, except in filmmaking. -CV)

"We got rockstars in the Whitehouse
All our popstars look like porn
All my heroes hit the highway
They don't hang out here no more
You can tell me on my cellphone
You can page me all night long
But you won't catch this freebird
I'll already be long gone
Like Steve McQueen
All we need's a fast machine
And we're gonna make it all right." - seolta

(+1, Sheryl Crow.)

Correct Answer: Steve McQueen

"Steve McQueen, motherfucker" - djdysfunction

(I stand corrected. -CV)

Correct Answer: Steve McQueen, motherfucker

4. The actor/musician who played Feyd Rautha sang this song which features salmon, butterflies, foxes, gulls, whales, and even people, all in grave distress.

"Animal Crackers in My Soup. That damn song is sick. Eating all those poor defenseless animals...and putting them in soup first so they have to struggle for their very lives. *sniff* Man, I'm hungry." - doomgirl

"All I can think of when you said Rautha is Tu-atha, tu-atha, turn me into a goat, a squirrel, please oh please let me turn into an old hag so I can battle the other old hag and maybe save the universe." - perkyczarlet

(Everyone meet the proud first winner of the spiffington Award For Complete Gibberish, Miss perkyczarlet! -CV)

"Dunno the name, but it's the inspiration for Dennis Kucinich e-cards." - afterwards


"Gonna take out my shotgun because my baby done run off with a park ranger and his goddamned yacht the day my dog died" - sskipstress

(God bless country music. -CV)

"Something they play on the easy listening station for depressed people over 40." - tiegra

(I haven't seen The Police take a beating like that since The Terminator. -CV)

"Sounds like some sick version of noah's ark or something. I think musicians should stay off drugs. " - deinemuse

"What do we have a one Sting song minimum now?" - djdysfunction
"This is like the DQ of Pain today. Double you tea eff?" - fizrep
"Curse you and your Sting obsession!!" - xgreenjudasx

(Philistines. -CV)

Correct Answer: King of Pain (by Sting & The Police) (Lyrics Found Here)

"All these years I've been singing along to that song and had no idea what half the lyrics were." - marasca

5. What is the Dead Man’s Hand, and who is the dead man in question?

"Dead man's hand is a candle made from the fat of a hanged man. Each finger is lit, like a candle. Voodoo origin." - verdandiweaves

(Now that’s something you don’t read about every day. +1, Super Freaky. -CV)

"The Dead Man's Hand is a position mentioned on page 32 of the Kama Sutra. I'm not sure who the dead man is, but he seems to be double-jointed and his companions are both triple-jointed. Yum." - sskipstress

"Aaarr! It be rumoured to be the skeletal remains o' lost hand o' the greatest pirate that e'er sailed the high seas!! A fearsome figure he were, my dear. Tall as a shire horse and strong as a bear with it. An' you'd nary want to get up on the wrong side o' that fellow nor cross him any which way for fear you be split in an instant from navel to neck by the sharpest sword you ever saw. Folk say he stole that sword from the son of the emperor of the lands of the east when he took his crew out pirating that way many years ago, but who can say for sure. Tales say as he lost his right hand in the process an'all. All's i can tell you is..." - seolta

(Okay now, put down the bandanna and the eyepatch and BACK AWAY FROM THE PARROT real slow-like. -CV)

"A pair of aces and a pair of eights. I only know this because I saw a movie with Morgan Freeman. The villain was played by some completely forgettable and crappy actress (perhaps Ashely Judd?), and Morgan Freeman's character somehow discovered her evilness by knowing that her computer password was "aces & eights" for reasons that probably made no sense whatsoever. And that movie was called? Anybody? Seriously, I don't remember the name." - b7cy

(Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? ... Right. The answer is Along Came A Spider, and it did not have Ashley Judd in it. That was Kiss The Girls. -CV)

"Dead man's hand is when a guy is beating his meat for so long that it becomes numb and tired. The dead weight is known as dead man's hand. The dead man in this case would be owner of the hand." - ghostwriterxx

(And the LJDQ Toiletbowl Humour Award goes to... ghostwriterxx! -CV)

"What dead man? What do you know? *clicks safety off*" - doomgirl

(Stand back, everyone. She might invoke Texas's 'He Needed Killing' defense. -CV)

"Ah; this one I know: It's the switch in the cab of a train to ensure that the engineer is still alert." - d4b

(Dead Man's Handle. Half-credit. -CV)

"The Dead Man's Hand is NOT his foot." - notevenu

(Can't argue the metaphysical truth of that one. -CV)

"42" - tiegra

(Contrary to popular belief, this is really only the answer to Life, The Universe, And Everything Else That Is Not The LJDQ. Douglas Adams was going to amend his works accordingly, but then he snuffed it. -CV)

Correct Answer: Aces over Eights (a pair of aces and a pair of eights), held by Wild Bill Hickok at the moment of his death

(+1 to everyone who learned the answer by watching too much Deadwood on HBO. -CV)

6. What’s your favorite game?

"Centrifugal Bumble Puppy" - impulsezip

(+1 if and only if this game involves real puppies and real centrifuges. -CV)

"Blowing Bubbles At The Cat. (He thinks they are Magic Bugs that live in a bottle. Just wait until I bring him catnip bubbles at Christmas!)" - pisica

(Attempting to peddle drugs to felines, +1. -CV)

"Sleeping Bag Sliders- involves packing the bottom of the stairs with various bits of padding, quilts, pillows, rugs etc in a big pile. You climb to the top of the stairs and get in your sleeping bag and speed down towards the 'pile o' stuff' and crash land." - spiffington

(Party at spiffington’s tonight. Bring your own bedding, padding, and medical insurance. -CV)

"Rummy would be my favorite card playing game since I'll keep it in the theme, even if the theme wasn't intentional." - deinemuse

"Kiss That Thing.
Not as entertaining as it sounds. HA! Who am I kidding! This game is the fuckshittity-shit.
Imagine, if you will, three women, a bottle of gin, an open thoroughfare.
Game is as follows:
Ladies spot a young man, young woman, group of teenagers, large dog, cyborg walking down the road. Lady the First calls out 'I can kiss that thing in 5 words or less.'
Lady the Second takes up the challenge and calls out, 'I can kiss that thing in 3 words or less.'
The bidding is continued until someone calls the lowest bidder’s bluff and screams out 'KISS THAT THING!!' Then the person with the lowest bid has to oblige.
...And that’s how I got herpes in both my eyes." - xgreenjudasx

"In my younger days, back in the Pennsylvania hinterlands, we used to enjoy many a spirited game of Laser Tag. Except we didn't have the actual Laser Tag equipment, so we just used .22s. We kept it safe by only allowing shots to the extremities. If you shot someone in the head or the chest, you were totally out for that round." - b7cy

"And who can resist a good game of Skullball once in a while?" - marasca

"Beach volleyball. Or strip poker." - perkyczarlet

"Hide and seek or sardines in an old ruined castle... and then there is strip poker" - seolta

"While naked, baby oil twister can be fun, it's also quite messy and pretty much guarantees loss of security deposit..." - sskipstress

(There's a whole lot of potential nudity going on up here. I like it. -CV)

"My favorite game is spin the bottle...nekkid." - ghostwriterxx

(BYOB, everyone. -CV)

"Why, the LJ Daily Quiz, of course." - doomgirl
"LJDQ of course" - tiegra

(Shameless flattery. +1. -CV)

"It WAS LJDQ until this obscure batch of questions." - krick

(Sacrilege! -1. -CV)

"My favourite game is tricking people into thinking I'm actually enjoying spending extra time immobilised in front of the computer late at night, trying desperately to think of something witty and poignant as the answers to certain quiz questions moronically posed by folk with even less to do in their sad, little lives than I. Do I win?" - funkyplaid

(Oh, I’m afraid you lose. Big time. Smithers, release the hounds! -CV)


That's it for this round, ladies and gentlemen. Tune in next week when angledge returns to moderate my aggressive quizmaking tendencies. As well as making this funnier. Thanks again to everyone who's playing- keep on plugging the quiz whenever you can, like evils did here. We're all about shameless self-promotion.

Also, in honour of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Monday, make sure you say hello to a native resident of your country. Even if you oppressed them badly a few hundred years ago.

Rock on,

Ang & Hans

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[pisica.livejournal.com]

Hey, whya screening comments?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Oops, my bad. Let's try that again!