ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 4 February 2005

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"there's some kind of greek letter theme working here." -

lotusbiosm
"I love that physics taught me Greek." -

calankh
"Do Greek Alphabits use the greek alphabet?" -

sskipstress

Yes, the theme this week was Greek Letters. Why? Just because, that's why. Let's get right into it, shall we?

1. Bruce Banner was transformed into the Incredible Hulk by which strange energy source?

"Lithium Ion Batteries" -

designadrug

"is that the one with mathew broderick, and he's like, a man who studies worms or something? and there's that nuclear bomb thing in japan that causes things to mutate." -

therhythmthief

(Congratulations, we have no idea what you're talking about. -CV)

"Wasabi. It’s the only explanation for the color." -

kokopellinelli

(A bit of wasabi overdose does bring out the anger. Or at least the pain. -CV)

"Caffeine. 'Hulk want Grande Latte! or Hulk smash puny Starbucks!'" -

richcsigs

(Anyone else wish the Hulk WOULD smash Starbucks? Cheeky overpriced coffee shop. -AL)

"Did he buy it at GNC?" -

ciara_belle

"Green-bull energy drinks. The failed predecessor to Redbull." -

jacesan

"Happy Fun Ball" -

neilx

(Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball. +1 for remembering when SNL used to be funny. -CV)

"Nutra Grain: Iron Man Tough!" -

limegreen_sloth

"Spam emails that go 'ENLARGE YOUR UNIT--TODAY!'" -

evilstorm

"When I was a kid, we used to cluster all around the microwave in the hope that we'd get really aweseome superpowers. Someone should really do a study on how many kids got cancer because of that." -

sanguinary

"Funny story, when I was a kid I was terrified of the Hulk. Absolutely refused to watch the show (this was during the run of the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno series). One night, my dad was taking Alka-Seltzer and thought it would be funny to tell me that it would turn him into the Hulk. I started crying and ran off. My mom still has a picture of me sitting under the dining room table, sobbing, with my fingers in my ears. Thanks, dad! Way to traumitize me!" -

badgerbabe

(Note to everyone: childhood trauma is ALWAYS funny. -CV)

"Bruce Banner was transformed by the power of alliteration, in a very special episode of "Sesame Street" featuring the letter B and its cousin, the Greek letter beta." -

delordra

"really, was the Incredible Hulk considered a superhero? I seem to remember a lot of perfectly good cars dying because of him. DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT THE CARS ANYMORE!?" -

actualfiction

"You know, usually when people get exposed to gamma rays it just kills all their bone marrow and collapses their immune system. Bruce Banner got off lucky and should stop being such a whiny bitch about it." -

silk_knickers

(Thank you for providing this refreshing alternative point of view. -AL)

"I always thought he looked better as Lou Ferigno, anyway; he really should have stayed mad all the time." -

ajmcoqui

"did anyone ever try just giving Dr. Banner some Valium or something?" -

tiercel

"Do you think the Hulk's sperm is green too, with little green angry faces with tadpole tails?" -

mlewys

Correct Answer: Gamma Radiation

"What really happened, and they aren't telling you, is that he ate a cane toad while at a frat party, on a dare. That's one of these bad boys:

He ate it whole, on a dare. Has never been the same since. You could be like him! Eat cane toads. Get superpowers." -

calankh

2. In which film was Charlton Heston the sole survivor of a biological holocaust?

"You mean he's not? You lied to me, Heston. YOU LIIIIIIED." -

aki

"What is it with you and the Charlton Heston films?" -

roadparty

(The same thing that's with us and Sting's music. -AL&CV)

"say holocaust, i think hitler. say biological, and i think genetic engineering. therefore, it must be a movie where they clone hitler and he kills men after having sex with them. (we all know he was gay). i believe it was called 'the conquests of test-tube hitler'." -

therhythmthief
"Oooh, is it that one where there's only three people left and every time there is a flash of light anyone who isn't actually dying at that moment disappears, and they end up having sex?" -

silk_knickers

(You two are seeing some very interesting movies. And I want in. -CV)

"I'll have to go with NRA Propaganda Video Delta - Guns are Needed to fight off the Zombie Hordes after all Hell Breaks Loose." -

mcclintock

"It would suck to be the sole survivor. and I can't imagine that movie is any good. No romance, no adventure, no fighting, no ninjas. Just one dude walking around a wiped out planet. psh." -

ovariescanbefun

"Soylent Green Acres, where he uses the remains of humanity as fertilizer for his farm so he can eat." -

neon_mongoose

"Look, the only four Charlton Heston movies I know are Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes, Ten Commandments, and, uh. Dammit! I lost one! So I am going to say Ben-Hur. Leprosy was a biological holocaust. Maybe Jesus was an alien?" -

prettypinkkitty

"I know what 'The Ten Commandments' is really about. But it doesn't change the fact that Moses stood by while tons of people were afflicted with boils, frogs, hail and the killing of their first-born. As a Christian, I have a real problem with that part of the Bible sometimes." -

trishalynn

(Although I do see your point, I'm trying to imagine Moses trying to talk God down, while the archangel Gabriel listens in. Hmmm...
God: "Pharaoh thinks he can out-Taurus me? I'll show him. Let's see, what's in my bag of plagues today?"
Gabriel: "Dude, do the frog thing. I love that."
God: "Okay. Frogs it is. Alert the amphibious squadron!"
Moses: "Ummmm... 'scuse me, God, your humble servant here and all. I think maybe you could, you know, settle down a bit today. Just send Pharaoh a scathing letter of protest or something?"
God, Gabriel: "........BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Oh Moses, you so funny."
And there you have it. Not even Charlton Heston's awesome power can stand up to Yahweh. He's tough. -CV)

"Oops! (Or Why It's a Bad Idea to Drop the Test Tube When You're Making Biological Weapons)" -

nicole_dyria

"I don't know, but I've always wanted to see that one episode of the Twilight zone with the nuclear holocaust and the guy in the bank vault." -

ririkit
"That Twilight Zone episode where he breaks his glasses in the library." -

akiyasan
"Was that the one where Charlton Heston was glad everybody else was dead so he could read his books in peace, and then he broke his glasses?" -

crostfingrs
"I think I saw a Twilight Zone episode like that. Didn't it star Shatner? And wasn't it called Omega Man?" -

lyzz13

(You folks need to brush up on your Twilight Zone trivia. That was Burgess Meredith. Shatner was in the airplane gremlin one. -CV)

"I hate every ape I see from chimpan-a to cimpan-z
no you'll never make a monkey out of me
Oh my god, I was wrong!
It was earth all a-long.
You've finally made a monkey
*yes we've finally made a monkey*
yes you've fin-ally made a mon-key out of me!" -

allieg

(+1/2 for the Simpsons, only because I like the "Help Me Dr. Zaius" song better. -CV)

"'Somehow in the midst of all the killing and skin-eating, we forgot the love.'
'Yeah, ain't that always the way, you get nuts with the skin-eating.'" -

silver_u_glass

(And that takes care of our Simpsons quota for the day. -CV)

"The Omega Woman. He survived, but at what cost?" -

drewbeartx

Correct Answer: The Omega Man

3. Vitamin A is derived from which chemical, found notably in cod liver and carrots?

"Cods have livers?" -

kittenbabe

"Who’s the person who first picked up a cod liver and said, 'Mm, I’ll bet this has some tasty nutritional vitaminy goodness in it!'? Because they deserve to die." -

kokopellinelli

"Cod liver and carrots...? Thanks, now I'm never going to be able to eat carrots again. Next you'll be telling me that apple pie and McDonald's cheeseburgers have something in common. Bastards." -

nekoama

(Both apple pie & Mickey D cheeseburgers are part of a balanced breakfast. And now you know! -AL)

"Isn't cod liver a little grandma-y for this quiz?" -

fyreflyblue

"I once had a biology teacher that said semen tastes like cod liver oil." -

evilstorm

(I'm afraid to ask what grade you were in when this happened. -AL)

"I can not answer this question because I'm vividly remembering seeing a drunk howl "codpiece liver!" and laughing hysterically. Wish I was making that up." -

silent_r_infork

"There's also a fucking lot of vitimin A in spinich, but I don't think that brings me any closer to the answer." -

marasca

(No. No it doesn't. -CV)

"Riboflavin? I'm not even sure that's a chemical." -

vampirespider

(I'm sure it is. Just as I'm sure you're wrong. -CV)

"Whatever it is, it makes my baby's poop really green and weird." -

crostfingrs

(And the LJDQTMI Award this week goes to...

crostfingrs! -CV)

"I don't know, but if cartoons are any implication, the same chemical keeps speech impediments at bay; thusly explaining Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd's desire to capture Bugs and his elusive carrots." -

shigogouhou

"Chemical-X, which has the added health benefits of giving you huge cute eyes and the ability to fly, kick ass, and look adorable." -

littlemoose

"Gamma gobulin. You'd think that would be what made the Green Goblin, but nope, ain't the case." -

mcclintock

"if you eat a lot of carrots and not much else, you'll turn orange." -

bummerfly
"My mom used to try and keep me from eating so many carrots (I was at like two bags a day...) cos she thought my skin'd turn orange." -

ataralas

"The form of Vitamin A found in Flintstone's Chewable Vitamins, however, is called Beta Granitene." -

llefser

"Beta carotene, as distinguished from alpha carotene, which is a chemical that gives little boys cowlicks, buck teeth, and red hair. Notable examples of sufferers of Alpha Carotene Syndrome include Alfred E. Neumann and Alfalfa from Little Rascals." -

delordra

Correct Answer: Beta Carotene

"Go back to the math questions. Nutrition questions are too hard." -

sskipstress

4. Name the actress and the movie:
"Start the car, I know a whoopie spot
Where the gin is cold and the pianos hot.
It's just a noisy hall
Where there's a nightly brawl
And all that Jazz."

"The quote looks like a badly written limerick" -

krick

"How many jokes about whoopie spots are you going to get?" -

silver_u_glass

(A lot fewer than I expected, believe me. Disturbingly enough, we got more Whoopie Goldberg jokes. -CV)

"I've seen that movie a grand total of once. And now the song's stuck in my head. Damn you." -

roadparty

(It's really just not a satisfying quiz unless we've stuck some annoying song in someone's head. Mission accomplished. -AL&CV)

"Debbie, of 'Debbie Does Dallas' fame, in 'Debbie Does Chicago'" -

uninhibitedmuse

"Carrie Fisher in The Blues Brothers" -

neilx

"Something that Madanna could never come up with." -

akiyasan

"Since the theme of this week seems to be the Greek alphabet, I'm going to have to go with Delta Burke in the film Pi Me a River" -

llefser

(Punnery most foul! -AL)

"I didn't watch that movie. It's not my style. I prefer deep and meaningful violence, car chases, and explosions." -

whiski_sour

"Amid my righteous indignation that between this movie, Al Capone, and Michael Jordan are the only things a lot of people know about my hometown, I can't come up with anything funny." -

fyreflyblue

(Chicago Fun Fact: The lions upon which the movie The Ghost And The Darkness was based are on display in the Field Museum of Chicago. That movie stars Michael Douglas, which links directly to this question. Damn, I'm good. -CV)

(Chicago Fun Fact: um, isn't the Sears Tower there? And isn't it, like, really tall? -AL)

(Damn, she's not so good. -CV)

(Hey! -AL)

"Velma, after she got tired of solving crime with the Scoobies and never getting laid, she turned to the dark side to be a ganster in Chicago." -

permogod

"my heart belongs to Paige Davis in that musical. Rawr." -

mcclintock
"Chita Rivera sang it first. CHITA RIVERA SANG IT FIRST, and don't you forget it!!!!" -

princesskraehe
"Jesus FUCKING Christ, it was a Broadway show first. But that's just a hang-up of mine." -

diimortales

(Old-school Chicago fans, represent! -CV)

"Eeither Bridget Jones or Catherine Zeta-Jones. Let's do the easy thing and just say Jones." -

norwegianne

"I used to want to be her, since she's so rich and pretty, but then she hooked up with Michael Douglas, and now I need a new person to want to be." -

prettypinkkitty

"Catherine 'You can hardly tell I'm pregnant' Zeta-Jones in Chicago, which also stars Rene 'this is how anorexic I look when I'm not pudging out to be Bridget Jones' Zellweger and Richard 'who knew I could tap dance' Gere." -

sskipstress
"Catherine Zeta 'I married an ugly guy' Jones in Chi 'holy crap Queen Latifa's boobs are huge' cago" -

superspazmizu
"Catherine Zeta-I Can't-a Believe-a She-a Married-a Michael Douglas-a Jones-a Douglas-a. In 'Chicago'...-a." -

trishalynn
"Catherine 'No It Is Not At All That I Had A Child By A Man Old Enough To Be My Father And Yet Am Still Incredibly Hot Somehow' Zeta-Jones, Chi 'I Stole The Oscar From The Pianist' cago." -

cassandralupos

"Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago. She's definitely one of the hottest women on earth, but perhaps tied with Selma Hayek. They should fight it out for the top spot. In a few rounds of jello wrestling...." -

marasca

(Full credit. -CV)

Correct Answer: Catherine Zeta-Jones, in Chicago (the musical movie, not the musical musical)

5. What is the nearest star system to Earth?

(First, the nitpicking: -CV)

"This is a trick question. The answer is the 'Solar System.'" -

sskipstress and several others.

(Fine, whatever, question better worded, yadda yadda, let's move on to Bad Quizling Astronomers for $100, shall we, Alex? -CV)

"Andromada? No, it's Hercules. Or is it Andromeda? Damn you, Kevin Sorbo! Dman you!" -

katiemariie

(Galaxies are different from star systems. -CV)

"Cassiopeia: Because The Name Is Cool" -

yueni

(Constellations are also different. -CV)

"the one where the signals sorta came from in Contact." -

dracothelizard

(Movies are also different. Especially bad movies like Contact. -CV)

(Contact ruled! Jodie Foster is hot. -AL)

"The big round one is the sun!" -

stevenmallory04
"the Moon!" -

phlegm_noir

(*headdesk* Let's move on, please. -CV)

"Neverland. It’s just straight on till morning." -

kokopellinelli

(Or until Michael Jackson gets tired. -CV)

"Why does the word 'Alpha' always make me think of sex? Do I need to get laid badly or what?" -

shinga

"Starsky? Next closest after that would be Hutch, I suppose. Then maybe the A-Team." -

goat003

"They're all close by when you have a Stargate. And Richard Dean Anderson. Who, I might add, can visit my star system any day of the week." -

jelymo

"It was the system Lithone was in, until that ugly Unicron incident." -

neon_mongoose

(+1, Transformers: The Movie. -CV)

"according to history for hundreds of centuries, it was JESUS' HEAVENLY STAR SYSTEM OF JOY. God, I wish I lived in the Middle Ages." -

nextian

"The milky-way.
Cool constellation.
crap chololate bar." -

allieg

(Wrong, wrong, and wrong. That was amazing. -CV)

"Betelgeuse. I think. It's times like these I wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. I never could get the hang of Thursdays." -

muzzyfeverlint
"There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the daily quiz questions have been on display in your local quizzing department on Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge your answers and any formal complaints and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it on Thursday." -

fyreflyblue
"Somehow the first thought that came to mind from that was "Don't Panic". " -

evilstorm
"Alpha Centauri. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy taught me that one. R.I.P. Douglas Adams... *emo tear*" -

lyzz13

(You all can share the collective +1 for HHGTTG. -CV)

(Whatever. Those books were stupid. Yeah, that's what I said! STUPID! -AL)

"Vulcan! Which is why the Vulcans are our nearest neighbours" -

fleurrochard
"Man, could this be easier? Obviously it's the Klingon Empire." -

richcsigs
"The Neutral Zone...just this side of Romulan territory." -

doomgirl

(The Federation is waiting to see how you all resolve this. We expect a lot of bloodshed, kplzthx. -CV)

"Alpha Centauri! It's an AU away, right?" -

prettypinkkitty

(Right, then wrong. Earth is 1 AU away from the Sun. AC is a helluva lot further. -CV)

"Any self-respecting Sid Meier fan knows this one. And, as I am a self-respecting Sid Meier fan, I say Alpha Centauri." -

jtersesk

(There were many self-respecting Sid Meier fans among you. Only one of you, however, acknowledged that Alpha Centauri is where you go at the end of Civilization. -CV)

"Alpha Centauri, where all the alpha centaurs roam, and the upsilon-deer and the sigma-antelope play..." -

trishalynn

"The star system referenced in 'Starry Night'" -

guxx

(And now, Astronomy according to

guxx:

-AL)

Correct Answer: The Alpha Centauri system

6. If you had your own fraternity/sorority, what would you be called, and what would you be famous for?

"I would be called the Alpha Omega, because I AM. Is that blasphemous?" -

jtersesk

(Not as blasphemous as the next one... -CV)

"α ν ω 'I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last' ...and everything in between. Basically, we can provide you with whatever you want booze, hos, blow...really cool toga parties and game-day floats that say 'Eat Me' in really big letters." -

the_headhunter

"Alpha Omega Mu...because I am THE FIRST AND THE LAST COW!!" -

doomgirl

"Eta Beta Pi and we'd be famous for pie-eating contests. Or cunnilingus." -

sskipstress
"Eta Beta Pi, we'd be famous for big dinners and bad puns." -

silver_u_glass
"ΒΗΠ, Beta êta pi. Eating lots of pie!" -

badgerbabe

"Omega-Pi. Because at the end of everything, the only things left standing will be some cockroaches and my home-baked foodstuffs. Which the cockroaches won't even bother trying to eat." -

serrico

"Pi-Rho. We'd set things on fire." -

princesskraehe

"We would be known as Pi Beta - famous for our untested pastry products!" -

littlemoose

"Pi Pi PI. We'd be famous for promoting pi (3.1415926535!) everywhere we go, and eating lots of pie." -

dracothelizard
"Pi Pi Pi, famous for our hot cherry... um, nevermind." -

marasca
"Pi Pi Pi. We wouldn't have keggers, we'd have pie parties." -

goat003

(We might have a new tag line. "The LJDQ: it's all about the pie." -AL)

"Alpha Nu Tau Iota: the ANTI sorority." -

jelymo

"Delta Delta Burke. Known for our makeup and fashionable sense." -

theworryrock

"My sorority would be Delta Delta Delta. Motto: 'Change is good.'" -

afterwards

"Alpha Delta Delta, for those with short attention spans..." -

conjurdude

"Alpha Rho Rho, the co-ed pirate fraternity." -

diimmortales

"rho rho rho..... :) We would be famous for pickles." -

rodimus_korn

"Mu Omicron Omicron. It'd be all about raising cows." -

iamdyingalone

"phi theta. Because all the words in Greek that start with phi theta are mean and nasty. So we'd be mean and nasty and ~~take over the world~~ sit around and drink a lot." -

ataralas

"Delta Epsilon Alpha Delta. We would be known for our lack of motor skills and our tendancy to consume tasty brains." -

sanguinary

"Zeta Omega Delta. We'd be a fraternity of Terrence Stamp impersonators." -

whiski_sour

(+1, Superman II. -CV)

"Kappa Mutha Fucka" -

dok_industrial

"It would be called: 'fappa fappa fappa', famous for its kindness to animals." -

phlegm_noir

"I'd put the sorority in a pit, and do the 'It puts the lotion on its skin' bit to scare em." -

mcclintock

And that's it for Greek culture. Tune in next time when we try to attract LJ's Russian audience with the Cyrillic Alphabet.

Also tune in next week when

angledge makes the ultimate sacrifice for God and Self and gives up LiveJournal for Lent. Six weeks without my co-moderator will make me a saaaaad panda, but the quiz must go on, and so we're offering you, our devoted fans, a once in a lifetime opportunity: the chance to help me moderate the quiz in her absence. If you're interested, email me (chaosvizier at hotmail) your name and lj user name and we'll see what we can work out. Applicants need a bit of time on their hands- quizzin' ain't easy.

Rock On,

AL&CV

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roadparty.livejournal.com

Also, OMG! Giving up LJ for Lent? Damn, you are a much stronger woman than I.

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angledge.livejournal.com

I tried to do it last year, but I only lasted 3 or 4 weeks. We'll see if I can make it the full 40 days this time. There should be a betting pool.

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mlewys.livejournal.com

It's official.

I have hurt myself laughing.

All because someone got CV to headdesk.

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stagemanager.livejournal.com

Not a single quote this week. Am I trying too hard? Does my breath smell? Is there something in my teeth? Is there something more I should know about??

Oh well.

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angledge.livejournal.com

Nah, you're doing fine. But we had 80+ respondents this weekend. We can't quote everyone.

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

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