LJ Daily Answers: 16 November 2009

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Why hello there Daylight Savings Time! Even though you're a thoroughly useless and outdated concept, we'll still use you to make a light-themed quiz. Because... well, why not?

1. What was the longest running soap opera in television history?

"Soap operas: Crack for house-wives who aren't stealing their kids' Ritalin." - demon_666

"Fox News" - 6 of you
"C-Span" - dorei, cmzero, illogicalvulcan

"Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes" - wiredwizard

"The OJ trial" - drbear, zihuatanejo

(Nah, Johnny Cochrane put that one down quick once he invoked the Chewbacca Defense. -CV)

"If I'm not mistaken, the collective of all the pro wrestling shows. They KNOW drama. And body oil." - dextradawn

"Late Night With David Letterman. 'Paul, can we have some infidelity music over here? Hey-o!'" - thepikey

"As the Shopping Mall Turns" - spiralgirl1

"Veterinarians' Hospital, the continuing storrrrrrry of a quack that's gone to the dogs" - i_calql8

(+1, The Muppet Show. -CV)

"Election 2008- took too much time on the lead-up, though." - katiebgood

"The one just before Bugs Bunny came on after school. That thing took FOREVER to get over." - bassnote

"Only soap I ever watched was Passions, and that was in the 90's with THE CREEPY FUCKING DOLL TIMMY. I'm fairly certain it ate the brains of all the other cast members. Which would explain the acting." - lyzz13

"That's got to be days of our lives, that show has been around since the middle ages. As have most of its cast by the looks of things." - b_hulsmans

"As the World Turns. Fundamentalists believe it began a decade ago, but scientists believe it was on in 1956. Fundamentalists accused scientists of hating Television, and should be burned at the stake." - seferin

"Guiding Light, which lasted some 72 years, which in soap opera years is roughly nine weeks" - houseofknaus

"Guiding Light, which I rarely watched because it was on at 9am and I preferred a soap called Sleeping in Bed at that timeslot." - la_trombonista

"Guiding Light. Cause of death: All those fucking judge shows!" - kristinmachina

(Deep down I know that the best daytime show ever would be Judge Maury Povich. I would watch that until the end of creation. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Guiding Light"



2. "Sandman" character Delirium was once known by what name?

"A little word association for a late afternoon and not enough sleep. Sandman=sandbag=teabag. Teabagger Jones." - dorei

(...well, I definitely was not ready for that. -CV)

"You say "Sandman" and my brain automatically goes 'Exit light..enter night. Take my haaaand! We're off to NEVER NEVER LAND!' *airguitar*" - ifeedformula, lins_arosa

(Damn you, Metallica, and your inhumanly challenging Rock Band songs. -CV)

"Interestingly, Ambien used to be named Delirium, but like many drug companies, they soon learned honestly is not always good for sales" - angelprojekt

"Thank you, Neil Gaiman, for reminding us that true happiness only leads to true madness." - mathnerd

"Her name was McGill, but she called herself Lill, and everyone knew her as Nancy." - shogunsquirrel

"Claire the Loon" - i_calql8

"Bjork" - lookingforwater

"Ladyhawke" - drunken_hedghog, yayworthy

"chaosvizier" - zihuatanejo

"The Goddamn Batman." - thepikey

"Do I have to return my geek card if I don't know this?" - sskipstress

(I'm afraid so. -CV)

"Is it cheating if I ask Neil Gaiman directly? I follow him on twitter." - badgerbabe

(If he answers, then sure, full credit. -CV)

"Twilight until the sparkly vampires sued over the name" - wiredwizard

"That's my favorite character, and I think the answer's Delight, but Delirium tells me to say: DVDA" - mark_laura

(Now that's just nasty. -CV)

"There was a time in her career where she went by 'D-Lizzy', but she doesn't like to be reminded of it." - darthparadox

"Dee-Lite. Groove is in the heart. I have a fish!" - primavera

"Afternoon Delight" - majorsamfan

"Was or is she Turkish? Then she might be eaten up, being Turkish Delight!" - kagomeshuko
"It makes me wonder whether a Turkish Delight would be hallucinogenic if you left it out for too long." - maggiebloome

"Delight. Like so many people she was more interesting after she went completely batshit." - fmh

Correct Answer: Delight

"(Little-Known Surname: Atdeendofdetunnel)" - angel_of_olore

"In other news, Neil Gaiman just had a birthday! Happy Birthday!" - raphsody606



3. Sylvester Stallone and Viggo Mortensen star in which 1996 disaster film?

"Hang on, Viggo Mortensen getting all sweaty? Ooh, this is one for my Netflix queue!" - distaff_exile

"Mm, crazy-mouth and crazy-eyes. Together, they fight crime!" - broken_moons

"Judge Hidalgo. Or maybe it was Hidalgo Dredd." - sskipstress

(I would definitely watch the first one. Second one, not so much. -CV)

"I'm going to assume it involved a scientist who knows the world will end but no one believes him, a rugged military man or cop, an adorable child, a beautiful wife (or wives), and a dog. The dog will have a bandanna around his neck." - lookingforwater

(You've got at least three correct. -CV)

"Barb Wire. A classic disaster if there ever was one, and I'm sure Stallone's chest size trumped Pam Anderson's, anyway!" - germankitty

"Trick Question - Aren't all Sylvester Stallone movies a disaster?" – too many of you buggers, half of whom threw Viggo under the bus for good measure

"Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" - 9 of you

"2012: Rambo And Aragorn Make a Porno." - maggiebloome

"Lord of the Boxing Ring. 'Arwyn! YO, ARWYN!'" - kristinmachina

"" - alexiel_neesan

"I spent five minutes thinking about this and have decided that Rambo would kill Aragorn, but Aragorn would kill Rocky." - seekingferret

"half of me wants to see that, and half of me wants to pull my eyes out of my sockets." - orgdotnews

"Wrong film but my geology teacher last year showed some of The Core in class. Terrible movie. Then again, the class was Rocks for Jocks." - kaerran

"Don't get me wrong, I love disaster movies. (I even liked Deep Impact, and Volcano), but I could not stand this one. Maybe it's Stallone. Maybe it was the Judging Amy Chick. I don't know. But 2012 starts tomorrow with Hottie McHotterson John Cusack, who I am still certain will show up at my house with a boombox and a mix tape and marry me one day. <3" - lyzz13

"'Daylight' - a film notable for having less than five minutes of daylight in it." - packbat

Correct Answer: "Daylight"



4. Artists Lori Kanary and Mark Beekman have each held world records in creating the largest versions of what toy?

"I wonder how many of the LJDQ'ers come up with 'dildo'..." - b_hulsmans
"Yeah, this is where people break out the pictures or giant dildos, isn't it?" - broken_moons

(To be fair, here's a work-safe version of the World's Largest Dildo: -CV)

"" - germankitty

"They're called Kanary and Beekman, are you serious?" - yayworthy

"Blue kanary in the outlet by the light switch, Who watches over you, Make a little birdhouse in your soul" - mathnerd

(+1, TMBG. -CV)

"I long to combine the concepts behind questions 3 and 4 to create a disaster movie about a gigantic, world-record Slinky(r) escaping the enormous, world-record stairway built to showcase it and taking out a major city. " - liandriel

"Happy Fun Ball." - drbear

(Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball! – LL)
(Still legal in 16 states! – CV)

"" - umbralcorax

"I was going to say 'Barbie', but then I realised that they're actually called blow-up dolls..." - demon_666

"If it's not LEGO, it's irrelevant!" - wiredwizard
"It has to be something to do with Lego. Weird large shit is always made out of lego, like that big ball on Mythbusters. Life-sized lighthouse?" - drunken_hedghog

"It's log! It's log!" - thepikey, mandydax, freezer818, i_calql8

(+1, Ren and Stimpy. It's better than bad, it's good! – CV&LL)

"Teddy Ruxpin. The result rampaged all over Tokyo until taken down by Godzilla." - cmzero

"" - ifeedformula

"Lite Brite, which was immediately followed by their holding the world record for the world's most expensive electric bill." - bellapalmera
"However they both met untimely ends at the hands of Al Gore for creating an equally large carbon footprint." - bassnote

"Really ljdq? LITE Bright, when everything else is LIGHT?" - kagomeshuko

(You clearly were not around for Question #5 on Cube Week... -CV)

"" - its_what_we_are and several others

"Did they create the toy or did they create pictures on the toy?" - tweeti

(Well, I guess they had to do both; if they wanted to make a giant picture, they would either have to buy a crapload of Lite Brites and stick them together to make one huge uber-grid, or build an individual mega-grid. -CV)

Correct Answer: Lite Brite



5. "10538 Overture" was the first song produced by which band?

"I daresay that song might need more cowbell." - dextradawn

(That pretty much goes without saying. -CV)

"Vegeta and the Kakarots. Original title was "OverNineThousandture"" - october_tempest

"Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem." - ejia_arath03

"Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture, and 1812 goes into 10538 5.8 times. So a band of 5.8 Tchaikovskys. (The designated .8 has to keep his right arm off the stage at all times, it's very uncomfortable.)" - cmzero

"the year 10538, which was the year of a great war in the Dune universe, therefore Feyd Harkonnen, therefore Sting, therefore the Police! Booyah, grandma, booyah!" - mandydax

"The English guys with the big fiddles. Yeah, I said big fiddles. NudgenudgewinkwinkknowwhatImean?" - mathnerd

"I've always wondered... are they a 'light orchestra' that's electric, or are the an orchestra for the electric light community?" - blindgeoff

"Aren't MOST lights electric?" - kagomeshuko

(Well, I guess so, if you ignore torchlight, candle light, sunlight, moonlight, firefly butts, sunny delite, Bud Lite, Coors Lite, Alpha Flight, sleight of hand... -CV)

Correct Answer: Electric Light Orchestra

"Or as they've re-billed themselves in these greener times, the Compact Fluorescent Light Orchestra." - billfl



6. What lights up your day?

"The sun" - 26 of you
"...which, oddly, also lights up my night, although by proxy of the moon." - spiralgirl1
(Not everyone thinks this is a good thing... -CV)
"Certainly not the sun. I live in Portland." - orgdotnews
"I'd say something cliche' like "the sun"...but really? What really lights up my day is a good fuck. Because really, who cares if the sun comes up when you're getting laid?" - conjure_lass

"Coffee" - kenakeri, raphsody606
"Chocolate" - wiredwizard
"coffee and chocolate" - germankitty
"Zydrate" - angel_of_olore
"vicodin" - lots42
"Porn" - freezer818

"I like ludicrous socks" - shogunsquirrel

"

Every. Damn. Time." - drunken_hedghog

"Yoooooooou liiight up myyyy liiiiiife.." - houseofknaus, scifantasy, blindgeoff, tweeti
""So many nights I sit by my window
Waiting for chaosvizier to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark but then
Tuesday's LJDQ comes along
You light up my life
You give me hope
To carry on
You light up my days
and fill my nights with song" - majorsamfan

(Mmmm, musicalicious. +5 for a nice song version... -CV)

"NOT hearing Debbie Boone sing 'You Light Up My Life.'" - drbear
"When I was in 3rd grade, I learned 'You Light Up My Life' in sign language. I still remember all of the words and most of the signs. I lead a sad, sad life" - sskipstress

(Oh, sorry, we missed the NOT part. We hope sskipstress makes it better. - CV&LL)

"I built a toaster oven at work that goes up to 1000 degrees Celsius. If you stand near it too long you get a tan. Being a mad scientist lights up my day." - seekingferret

"definitely *not* the lighter for my bong." - illogicalvulcan

(Of course not. -CV)

"Seeing my answers in the LJDQ! Which means 6 days out of the week just plain suck because of the deceptive advertizing of the 'Daily' part. (At least, until I figured out I could go back into the archives any time I wanted. But that's not quite the same, more like 'fluorescent lighting' as opposed to 'daylight'.)" - thepikey

"The wailings and lamentations of students who screwed around in class for 17 weeks of school, and then ask if there's anything they can do to avoid a failing semester grade. My standard answer: Yes, there is--prayer." - i_calql8

"My computer screen, I accidentally slept through daylight. If only Daylight Savings actually saved some daylight, like in a jar or something, that you could then release when you needed it. Sophistry!" - maggiebloome

"My shiny lava lamp which ... totally isnt... distr-oooh look at how pretty the ... sorry what was I saying?" - yayworthy



And there you have it. More quiz, more light, more gin, more pudding, more everything!

Thanks to everyone who played; we hope you enjoyed this latest round, and we look forward to seeing you again tomorrow for more quizly goodness. As an advance note, due to technical issues, we may have a delayed quiz next week. We'll see what happens. But don't go anywhere; the quiz is still around, and the business of funny is still booming.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[mathsnerd]

Three quotes and a +1! This is why I got up at 6 am. :)

[dorei.livejournal.com]

so far, my Monday is actually shaping up pretty good!

Got a bonus in one of my online games early this morning, left for work on time, had no problem in traffic at all, found a good parking space, and now I've gotten a couple of mentions in the LJDQ.

Much better than my oh-so-fired Saturday.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay! My funny isn't broken! ♥

(But my circadian rhythms sure are...)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's ok, you've got 17 years to get your cicadan rhythms back to normal.

...wait, that word I'm using doesn't mean what I think it means...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hey, that is a pretty good Monday. I should get me one of those.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Funny, I got up at 6 am to go to work and stuff. ;-)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Quad quotage for moi--trip solos and a group think--and +2, to boot. Life, outside of teaching, is good.

[mathsnerd]

Psh, work. My first lecture is at 10 am. :D

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

Carp, i'm part of an alphabet of groupfunny. :P oh well.

[germankitty]

Hey, a triple whammy after a week of forgetting to play; not bad! (Pity I couldn't bring the funneh with Metallica and Sting, like ifeedformula, lins_arosa and mandydax, respectively!)

And yay SFW picture (which incidentally turned up under a Google search for "World's largest dildo". Hmmm ...)!

(Which reminds me -- I've long wanted to ask whether googling for pictures/videoclips counts as cheating. I mean, you have to have an idea of the funneh already to use for search terms ...?)

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Yay..two quotes and somebody else obviously had the same idea as me. Teehee. I like that. :D

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

I wish I had an icon that cool. :D I'd love my own Boom De Yadda icon.

Dunno what I'd put on it, but still..that's cool.

[alexiel-neesan.livejournal.com]

One quote? Okay, next time I'll try the 'answer everything in doodles' except I'll be a lot more drunk.

[raphsody606.livejournal.com]

*happy day* God Monday's suck and thank all that is holy for LJDQ

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Wow, I flake for a month or so and you show me the love when the prodigal quizling comes back. Counting the group mentions, FIVE out of SIX.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

You are truly learning the seekrits of the LJDQ, young padawan.

[its-what-we-are.livejournal.com]

A little sad that I am thinking like several others. OR, maybe I'm happy because we're ALL GENIUSES! But, wait...no, it's definitly sad.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS.

You're just their talented spokesperson because you had the picture. That puts you a step ahead.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You are one with the Borgmind! Join us, it's bllliiiiisssss...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I do not believe I have ever been called "holy". But I accept your thanks and compliments in the spirit with which they were intended. ;-)

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Yay, two quotes and a group-think!

"You say "Sandman" and my brain automatically goes 'Exit light..enter night. Take my haaaand! We're off to NEVER NEVER LAND!' *airguitar*" - ifeedformula, lins_arosa

I hear "Exit Sandman" and my brain automatically goes, "Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please...now pitching for the New York Yankees...Number 42...Marianno Rivera...Number 42." It is a happy song. We miss you, Bob Sheppard.

"Blue kanary in the outlet by the light switch, Who watches over you, Make a little birdhouse in your soul" - mathnerd

I thought that was a "Pushing Daisies" quote. Fans know what I mean. Still made me happy.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I did like the doodles. They were cute. Drinking and doodling is hereby fully endorsed.

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

I know one Metallica song and it's because of Rivera. The opening chords automatically go to the happy part of my brain.

Oh, Bob Sheppard. :(

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

"I built a toaster oven at work that goes up to 1000 degrees Celsius. If you stand near it too long you get a tan." -seekingferret

Wait, don't regular toaster ovens do that? Or is that just me and my pasty Welsh skin?

[dextradawn.livejournal.com]

Two quotes! Whoo hoo! *cowbell dance*