ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 11 January 2010

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"WTF? When did LJDQ get this hard?" -

marasca

New year, new brains! Come on, work those little neurons and synapses!

1. What is the official street address for the First Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom?

"The bank of We Have All Your Money Suck It Slags." -

severedscythe

"Is that the one that ends with 'Cupboard under the stairs?'" -

rhiannonjk

"I'm sure his unofficial address was an offshore account in the Caribbean." -

phrench_phried

"#10, Wall Street." -

jmthane

"55 Show Me The Money Lane" -

rikchik

"Harriet Jones, Prime Minister" -

mandydax

(+1, Doctor Who – LL)

"P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney." -

babybokal

(+1, Finding Nemo. -CV)

"Heaven??? He is Lord, after all." -

tweeti,

majorsamfan

"An oyster shell. 'I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm independently wealthy, I'm socially secure! Mineminemine, all mine!'" -

thepikey

(Consequences schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich. +1, Daffy Duck. -CV)

"221B Baker Street." - Way too easy

"Mr Prime Minister - also known as 'that git'. No. 10 Downing Street, London, Englerland, UK. (The only door with no handle on the outside, trufax - I seen it on the tele). " -

7tree_hugger

"Realistically it's 11 Downing Street because Gordon and Alistair are so doing it. Why else does Darling still have a job?" -

drunken_hedghog

"The First Lord of the Treasury is, of course, Hugh 'Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?' Grant." -

jinxedlioness

"Number 10 Down dooby doo down Downing Street" -

sskipstress

Correct Answer: 10 Downing Street

2. What is described in Chapter 20 of the book of Exodus in the Bible?

"SNAPE KILLS MOSES" -

johnwwells

"Begetting. Also some other stuff." -

rikchik,

david_deacon,

frequencyshift

"Some boring shit about someone falling over or something. I don't even know. I just skip to job 40 or (SPOILER ALERT) the fun shroom dream at the end." -

severedscythe

"That's the part where Eve starts working nights as a stripper to support Adam's apple habit, right?" -

marasca

"Circumcision for Dummies" -

neumeindil

"The definitive explanation of the missionary position." -

jhirat_dai

"Chapter 20? Don't these people know when to wrap up the plot?" -

thefannishwaldo

(Little known fact: Robert Jordan ghost-wrote the Bible as a warmup to the Wheel of Time. -CV)

"Probably something that completely contradicts the ten commandments. 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL.' Flipflipflip. 'STAB ALL THE BABIES.' I mean seriously, I'm not making this shit up. That book is all over the place." -

lots42

(Killing doesn't count when it's babies. -CV)

"The Holy Handgrenade of Antioch" -

ifeedformula,

mandy347

"Satan and Moses battle for the world in a wicked cool motocross minibike race!" -

mattwolf

(Actually, it was a horse race, and the movie was called "Hidalgo". -CV)

"The first use of VoBBP: Voice over Burning Bush Protocol. It didn't catch on." -

mandydax

"The Ten Plagues, which I believe was, in no particular order was: The Nile turning to blood, frogs, locusts, lice, boils, birds, alligators, killer bees, dogs that spit bees, and sharks with freakin' laser beams on their heads." -

kristinmachina

(Pharaoh totally would have given in from the start if sharks with friggin' laser beams were plaguing the Nile. -CV)

"The Lord Jehovah giving unto the Jews these 15 *crash* Oy! These 10 Commandments." -

mistressjennfer,

ntlespino,

etumukutenyak

(+1, History of the World [pt 1] – CV&LL)

Correct Answer: The Ten Commandments

3. Who was the original author of the quote "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all"?

"Sting" - 9 of you

"Obviously somebody who never met Oedipus Rex" -

sjl

(He definitely never saw it coming. -CV)

"Someone who has never been viciously dumped by a cruel bitch just because she couldn't work out what to get me for my birthday. A one-way ticket to Dumpsville isn't what I meant when I said anything, Laura!" -

drunken_hedghog

"Tiger Woods. God, I'm so obvious." -

drbear,

tweeti,

drbunsen

"A divorce lawyer" -

seferin

"A virgin. An old one, no less." -

mattwolf

"The New York Giants." -

seekingferret
"Cub's fans" -

akiyasan

"Bon Jovi -- the line wasn't badass enough for the final version of 'You Give Love A Bad Name'." -

germankitty

"Alfred Hitchcock. It was an ironic line, right before the lead murders his wife." -

angelprojekt

"Captain Picard. He went seven years without banging Mrs. Crusher. What a loser. She was all but throwing herself on him." -

lots42

"Wait, can a poet be an author? And while we're at it, can chili be considered soup? Is stew soup? Is chili a stew? And another thing--is a hot dog a sandwich or not?" -

i_calql8

"I wish instead he'd have written, 'Alas, she is in sooth not that into thee.'" -

peaseblossom03

"Alfred Lord Tennyson, who obviously wrote that before the advent of community property laws." -

notorious_oit

Correct Answer: Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. The Davis Cup and the Fed Cup are competitions in which sport?

"Cups tend to be trophies in fancy upper-class sports like golf and yachting. I'm going to go with Unicorn Polo. (I'll feel pretty silly if it turns out to be hockey.)" -

rikchik

(Hockey is the Stanley Cup, plebian! – LL)

"Fed Cup? Reminds me of the Federation. Which reminds me of.. um, Star Wars? so, if it's a sport, then I suppose it's some kind of race with high-tech thiggums and The Force." -

angelicbuttons

(Star TREK had the Federation, Wars had the Republic. Plebian! – LL)

"HORSES. NO CRICKET. NO SHIT UHM. UHM. SOME SPORT WITH BALLS." -

severedscythe

"I'm not sure, but it sounds like it should have something to do with groin kicking." -

thefannishwaldo

"Brassiere modeling" -

drbear

"I'm pretty sure that D Cup and F Cup are classes in wet tee shirt contests." -

phrench_phried

"The PGA Pub Crawl, which also includes the Junior Sippy Cup and the Crunk Cup." -

kristinmachina

"Tennis, the only sport Belgians are good at. That and tax evasion, but it's going to be a while before that becomes an official Olympic event." -

b_hulsmans

"Calvinball" -

distaff_exile

"Quidditch. Damn Gryffindors, always winning. The matches are totally rigged!" -

mandy347

"I saw a guy named Federal or Federer or something playing tennis on TV once, so I'll go with tennis for Fed." -

majorsamfan

(By some strange twist of something not quite resembling logic, you got the right answer. Go you! -CV)

"Stand back and watch my mad skills as I kick some serious butt in Wii Sports Tennis!" -

jigawattica

"The only sport involving bouncing balls, tight outfits and a lot of moaning not practiced in the bedroom: tennis." -

usmu

"Tennis (or not Tennis, that is the question... whether tis nobler in the mind to take a plastic bag of sarnies or to take arms against the queue in the strawberry tent. - Oh no, that's Wimbledon isn't it? Oops.)" -

7tree_hugger

"You know what I just realized? Nobody ever actually uses those cups. What a waste. If I had a cup like that, I'd fill it with ice-cold lemonade. Topped off with a curly-straw." -

kchasm

Correct Answer: Tennis

"Ten is WHAT?" -

jinxedlioness

5. What was the sequel to Alistair MacLean's novel "The Guns of Navarone"?

"After the talk of 'cups' in the last question, I'm kind of stuck on breasts and how great mine behaved today." -

kittycatness

(...errr, what did they do that constituted "good behavior"? -CV)

"The Bullet Holes of Navarone" -

drbear,

sskipstress
"The Corpses of Navarone" - three of you
"The Guns of Navartwo" - four of you
"The Crime Scene Investigators of Navarone" -

angelprojekt

"Guns of Navarone 2: The Quickening. Hardly anybody saw it. Straight to airplanes." -

david_deacon

"Guns of Navarone 2: Gun Harder." -

la_trombonista

"The Guns of Navarone II: the Squeakquel" -

laughingacademy

(-1 for that Alvin and the Chipmunks abomination. -CV)

"The Balls of Provolone" -

phrench_phried

"Oooh, Harrison Ford's Star Wars follow up! Force Ten from Tattoine." -

majorsamfan

"Ten Little Indians" -

kristinmachina,

mandy347, ANONYMOUS

"Click, Click BOOM" -

neumeindil

(Better than Boom Boom Pow, that's for sure. -CV)

"There was actually a series of books and movies here."The Huns of Navarone" was followed up some time later by "The Puns of Navarone". There's also a sister film called "The Nuns of Navrone". A planned sequel
set in Mexico called "The Runs of Navarone" however, was never made. Much later, someone wanted to make a sequel that wound up never getting made. It was called "The Sons of Navarone". Then someone wanted to make a feel good weightloss movie called "The Tons of Navarone". But that fell through. Literally. When they tried to get the cast together for a read-through, they fell through the floor." -

umbralcorax

(Clearly you left out the porn version, "The Buns of Navarone". -CV)

Correct Answer: "Force Ten from Navarone"

6. What are your plans for the next decade?

"Same as every decade, Pinky. To take over the world!" -

sjl,

laughingacademy,

illogicalvulcan

"I can't plan for the rest of the day, and you want to know my plans for the decade? Don't die." -

seferin and several other plan-less quizlings

"Does it sound uninspired if mostly I aim to maintain the status quo? Honestly things are pretty OK, and if we all stay a) alive and b) out of jail, I think we can call it a successful decade." -

wint3rhart

"Well, I started the decade by getting fired, so I should probably do something to get a job." -

seekingferret

"Maybe get married, buy a house. But in the immediate future, visit the four other continents I have not yet visited. Australia or South Africa in 2010! Rio in 2016! Antartica in 20okmaybenot." -

kristinmachina

"Watch more of my childhood idols die and complain about kids these days as spray paint becomes acceptable clothing." -

sushimustwrite

"When the end of this decade hits, I'll be 42. I think we all know what that means." -

umbralcorax

(It means your home will be bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Probably on a Thursday. -CV)

"Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat." -

primavera

"Sex. Lots of sex. Did I mention the sex?" -

distaff_exile

"Your mom, every night for the next ten years. She gave me a discount." -

photosinensis

"Keep kicking ass and taking names." -

akiyasan

(No bubblegum? – LL)

"The only plans I'm familiar with have FREE BIRDSEED in them." -

johnwwells

(Those plans don't even work for super-geniuses... -CV)

"I'll take the Rapture for 10, Alex." -

majorsamfan

"Finally get that flying car" -

bigmo76

(You'd have crashed it anyway - LL)

"I'm going to take over the world. I think I've got it right this time. The trick will be to get the llamas on my side. I've already got the camels, I think, but it never hurts to have a backup plan." -

kittycatness

(She that controls the llamas, controls the universe – LL)

"I don't have it all figured out yet, but it definitely involves sex, booze, and pudding. Speaking of (or speaking of booze and pudding, at least), I was recently at a party at which we injected Kahlua into cream puffs. It didn't work quite as well as we'd hoped, but I think we were on to something. I'm wondering if I might be able to make pudding out of Bailey's. Just imagine: creamy, delicious pudding shots! This just might be my path to millions!!" -

marasca

(Mmmm, Bailey Pudding Puffs. OM NOM NOM. -CV)

"I plan to spend the next several years developing an immunity to iocane powder." -

angelprojekt

"Someday I'll get my book published, thus gaining acceptance for my fetish of wearing leather-patched tweed jackets." -

mattwolf

And there you have it - the first complete quiz of the New Year! The theme is ten, because it's 2010, and that's all clever and shit. Yeah, you know you love it. Let's just move along. Hope everyone has had a happy holiday season, and let's get cracking for a new year full of new quizzes and new funnies!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

lots42.livejournal.com

"Obviously somebody who never met Oedipus Rex" - sjl

(He definitely never saw it coming. -CV)
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What are you talking about? He definitely saw his mom coming.

Ok, gross. Even for me.

From:

drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com

The Ancient Greeks were the true inventors of creepypasta (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Creepypasta)

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

I think she blindsided him.

From:

neumeindil.livejournal.com

Thank you. I didn't get here early enough to make that joke, but someone had to.

From:

lots42.livejournal.com

"Someday I'll get my book published, thus gaining acceptance for my fetish of wearing leather-patched tweed jackets." - mattwolf
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We all know I Xander and Andrew had innapropiate thoughts about Giles.

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

I'm sure by "inappropriate" you meant "murderous". ;-)

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

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