LJ Daily Answers: 18 January 2010

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1. David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone starred together in which 1975 cult classic?

"I have NO idea what movie this is, but I must go find a copy immediately, because it sounds like epic win to me." - ifeedformula

(Prepare for disappointment. -AL)

"The Rocky Horror Fighting Show" - seekingferret

(Probably would have been better than the Picture Show. -AL)

"Lowlander (1975, Paramount) A test run for another, more popular movie, Lowlanders tells the story of two sheepherders who discover they are immortal, and spend that eternity in one valley, tending 700 generations of the same flock. Several lifetimes of laughter, tears and sheep jokes couldn't save this three hour snoozefest. One star." - mattwolf

(It would have rated higher if they kept in the twenty-three minutes of unrated sheepfucking footage. -CV)

"i don't know. i just wanted to comment to say that my husband was carradines stunt double for an episode of kung-fu the legend continues. thats the only peice of carradine trivia i know." - kira_snugz

(Awesome! -AL)

"A movie made in 1975 that is set in the year 2000 where the US was destroyed by a financial crisis? Kind of spooky when you think about what has gone on in the past couple years . . ." - jigawattica

(Actually, we...hadn't considered that. -AL&CV&LL)

"It wasn't until 2AM during a movie marathon at San Diego Comic Con that I realized why my dad always made jokes about how many points people were worth while we were driving." - greenspyders

"How many points for running over the pony before someone else asks if they can have it?" - n5iln

(None. You can't have the pony, & you can't have points for the pony either. -AL)

"Bonus points for taking out the doctors and nurses!" - cholma

(Serves them right for not being in Haiti by now. -AL)

"DC Beltway 2010" - squeegibo

"We're 2010 already and 2000 was nothing like it was supposed to be. I call false advertising and I want my money back!" - phrench_phried

(+1 to phrench_phried for the most appropriate icon. -AL)

"Deathrace - where more than the pink slip was at stake." - majorsamfan

Correct Answer: Death Race 2000



2. Who was Johnny Quest's bodyguard and tutor?

"Two 11-year-old boys, two middle-aged men. No, there was nothing funny going on in that show." - theninth

"Race Bannon and Dr Quest: best gay parents evar!" - nitasee

"Isn't that the show with the kid that should be in school but for some reason can run around all over the world beating up innocent bad guys?" - b_hulsmans

"I could never stand the turban guy. Even as a kid, I knew what Anglo-Indian relations being set back years looked like when I saw it." - kchasm

"Wasn't it a monkey? Or I am mixing this up with Speed Racer?" - akiyasan

"For a short while, Johnny Bravo. He taught young Quest about women, hair gel, and the Monkey." - pirho_maniac

"Whitney Houston" - gigglingpixie

(I think you meant Kevin Costner. -CV)

"Oddjob" - ifeedformula

"Brock Samson" - greenspyders, david_deacon, laughingacademy, n5iln, thepikey

(+1, The Venture Brothers. -CV)

Correct Answer: Roger "Race" Bannon

"C'mon, man, why do you have to bring Race into this?" - drunken_hedghog



3. What is the common name for the Alameda Whipsnake?

"Al. Al Whipsnake." - kchasm

"Indiana Jones Bullwhipsnake" - ifeedformula

"What? Alameda Whipsnake IS a common name! This is exactly the reason Linnaeus came up with the Latin genus/species system of naming, because a gosh-darned animal would get several common names just because people felt like it. If science did whatever it felt like, we'd have pills to cure erectile dysfunction and no cure to cancer! GOD." - pookykabuki

"AAAAA! Kill it! Kill it with fire!" - seferin

"Nuclear Wessels" - cholma, wildshadowstar, i_calql8

(+1, Star Trek IV. -CV)

"Dick in a box" - laughingacademy

"Now that is an awesome band name!" kristinmachina

"That sounds like the love child of Princess Leia and Snidely Whiplash." - nitasee

"I think you may get a looooot of pornographic answers for this one." - gigglingpixie

(Why should this quiz be any different? -AL)

"No idea, but now I have a new (ultra-secret) code name for my boyfriend's little friend. Thanks, LJDQ!" - babybokal

(Dear babybokal's boyfriend: Sorry about that. Our bad. -AL&CV&LL)

"The I-880 (I guess you might have to be from the SF Bay Area to get that.)" - majorsamfan

(Eh, it goes with the DC Beltway answer in #1. -AL)

"Whipsnake sounds like that really kinky member of Cobra that all the officers tend to go off and be alone with. Except for Tomax and Xamot. They share that 'special' time. Sometimes without Whipsnake." - lots42

"Striped Racer, cousin to Speed Racer" - mandydax

"Isn't Alameda the place where the Mythbusters blow everything up? I'm gonna have to go with the Build Team Black Adder." - uncut_diamond

(Ah yes, an excellent use of logic, which predictably got you nowhere near the correct answer. -AL)

"Alameda -> the bomb range where the Mythbusters always blow stuff up -> things going fast... I'm going with Striped Racer" - quasar360

(Now see, quasar360 properly renounced logic, strung some vaguely connected ideas together, & came up with the correct answer. Well done. -AL)

Correct Answer: Striped Racer



4. In Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile", who is the military officer who assists Hercule Poirot in solving the murder?

"You know what, I'd never go anywhere if Poirot was going too. It'd just be too dangerous." - lins_arosa

"Admiral Adama" - uncut_diamond

(It was just one murder, not the annihilation of the human race. And it's not like it was a mystery whodunit there. Pesky Cylons. -CV)

"Colonel Mustard. At the discotheque. With a pince-nez." - quasar360
"Colonel Mustard with Tut's Curse in the Conservatory" - cholma
"Colonel Race Mustard, on the Lido Deck with the Life Preserver" - majorsamfan

"Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart." - theninth, jmthane

(+1, Doctor Who. -CV)

"Erwin Rommel" - thepikey

(The magnificent bastard was busy elsewhere at the time. -CV)

"Poirot ate a lot, so I'll say Cap'n Crunch." - drbear

"I'm guessing Courtney Love, because she's always in de Nile." - pookykabuki

"Roadblock from the G.I.Joe team. Okay, no, but that would be awesome. Especially if it was the horribly racist rhyming cartoon version." - lots42

(They shot him twice
And then he dropped;
This wretched killer
Must be stopped! -CV)

"Sgt. Slaughter" - i_calql8

"General Disarray" - squeegibo

(+1, South Park. -CV)

"Inspector Closeau" - ntlespino

(+1, The Pink Panther. -CV)

"Captain Hastings" - 7tree_hugger, elaran, mattwolf

(He appeared in the other Poirot books, but not this one. -CV)

"" - ifeedformula

"Colonel Race, noted for his ability to detect clues that others have previously missed. If only today's policemen were more like that--clearly, what we need today is more Racial profiling." - kchasm

Correct Answer: Colonel Race



5. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene

"And then the shark bit Samuel L. Jackson's head off." - 7tree_hugger

(+1, Deep Blue Sea. -CV)

"*Knock knock* Who's there? Landshark!" - akiyasan and 7 others

"Me at Halloween this year:
" - jigawattica

"They have a Jaws game for the XBOX. You play as the shark and you get to eat people. This game could actively punch me in the eye and still be awesome." - lots42

"You say poe-tay-toe, I say poe-tah-toe, you say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe" - sonadora9, kagomeshuko, leia_starwalker, yayworthy

"If black:white and bark:bite, then shark:???. I'll take 'SAT Questions From Hell' for 100, Alex." - kristinmachina

(Obviously the answer is "shite". -CV)

"

" - germankitty

"'You're always wrong', by my MIL. It's on the same album with 'You'll never amount to anything'" - mattwolf

"I should probably be more funny about this, you know, but goddamnit, it's hard to make a joke on Freddy Mercury and not feel like I'm kicking a puppy." - sifrid

(Cue the following puppy kickers: -CV)

"Song Freddie Mercury Wrote While High #735" - freezer818

"Am I the only one who is sad that Queen Elizabeth II and Freddie Mercury never recorded anything together?" - mandydax

(...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say yes. -CV)

"What did Freddy Mercury really know about fat-bottomed girls?" - theninth

Correct Answer: Queen, "Bicycle Race"



6. What's your favorite sport (for watching, doing, or whatever)? Why?

"A sport I like DOING? Ha ha hee hoo hoo hah hah oh such fun stuff." - drbear

"Aussie football--almost constant action, no pads, high scoring, more fun, and fewer players who think the sun rises and sets on them. I'm guessing the sports page down under doesn't read like a police blotter, too." - i_calql8

(First sentence, totally true. Second sentence, debatable. -CV)

"Coed jello wrestling (pudding division)" - thepikey

(For a +1, name the current reigning world champion. -AL)

"I love marathons. Especially of Law and Order: CI." - babybokal

(I prefer Star Trek or Twilight Zone myself. -CV)

"Channel surfing. Because I have massively powerful thumbs." - pirho_maniac

"As a girl I must say: screw Brazilian volleyball team!" - magiczna

(We totally agree with the idea of screwing the Brazilian volleyball team. -AL&CV)

"As a non-sports person, I say baseball. It’s the only sport I know of you can bring a book, read and still not miss the action." - nitasee

(See also: Golf. -CV)

"Dance. I don't care what other people think, dancers are athletes, and dance is a sport. It just happens to be more graceful and elegant. Some might argue that it's not butch enough to be considered a sport, but I'm pretty sure that male dancers, who not only can withstand a point-shoe to the dangly-bits but can also catch the equivalent of a 120lb football while maintaining grace and poise; are far more butch than most football players." - spiralgirl1

(While I completely disagree that dancers are more butch than football players, I will accept dance as a sport. Sort of. -AL)

"Basketball. Used to be I only liked watching college basketball 'cause it was entertaining, but then I smoked my boyfriend in Wii basketball, so now I'm convinced I'm good at playing, too. :)" - sonadora9

"Hockey, because it has super-gigantic man-beasts with knives on their feet dashing around trying to form a Higgs-Boson by smashing into each other. Science and sports finally come together." - pookykabuki

"Hunting. Always useful for the eventual zombie apocalypse." - ntlespino

"Other kids games are all such a bore!/They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!/Calvinball is better by far!/It's never the same! It's always bizarre..." - laughingacademy

"Fencing. Stabby stabby stabby" - zihuatanejo

"Politics. There are no rules, it's full contact and occasionally, someone dies." - uncut_diamond

"I loved playing rugby for three main reasons -
1) Every team MUST have a hooker;
2) It was part of my job to grapple with fairly fit young women, often in mud, in t-shirt and shorts;
3) I got to take out a week's worth of tension during an eighty-minute match, and could then go and have a drink with the opposition because what happened on the pitch, stayed on the pitch.

Plus our coach was hot." - drunken_hedghog

(Wow, you've nearly convinced me to take up rugby. -AL)

"BASEBALL, because hunky guys with nice asses wear tight pants and do amazing plays, and also because if you're in the sun and burning up you might as well have a beer and amazing things to look at, and ALSO I didn't get pregnant last year LJDQ! Resolution kept!" - sifrid

(Well ... done? -AL)
(... I've read this answer six ways from Sunday and I still can't grasp it all. -CV)



And there you have it. We're racing through the new year at full steam, and of course supporting a race for the cure. Sort of. Thanks for all who played, and keep playing; hope you all still enjoy this fun-filled wacky hijinks-laden party that we're running.

We're still Punning For Charity here, so if you feel like helping out and getting a free pun, bring it on. Thanks to all who've already donated; you rule.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL