ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 25 January 2010

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1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck

"It's rather cruel to start right off with 'fun with lyrics', isn't it?" -

bending_sickle

"I have no idea, but it sounds like some fangirl's 'I Love Harry Potter' song." -

jmthane

"Spiders... the spiders... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!" -

jinxedlioness

(+1, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. -CV)

"'Fight To The Death' by Pris and Deckard" -

drbunsen

(+1, Blade Runner. -CV)

"Bad Touch - Sting" -

jennielf

"Fuck her Gently by Tenacious D" -

neumeindil

"So she screams, and then laughs? That's...that's not a good thing, people. NOT A GOOD THING. Is the guy trying to have sex with her belly button?" -

lots42

"Scream, laugh, trick... it's some freakish clown poker master! Argh!" -

yayworthy

"I'm pretty sure Pam Anderson said that to Tommy Lee in this video I saw once." -

uncut_diamond

"Is it so sad that I can hear everything about this song but I can't remember title, artist, anything? It's like a tiny band is playing in my head and everyone is invited but Mr. Information." -

sifrid

"'Friday I'm In Love' by The Cure. Which is followed by 'Saturday I'll Call You, No I Mean It' and 'Monday Where Did I Put The Napkin With That Phone Number?'" -

billfl

"I always thought he was singing 'the one that makes me scream sea sick'." -

dorei

"It's The Cure! Pick a song, they all kind of sound the same." -

houseofknaus

Correct Answer: "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure

2. Who was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, one in physics and one in chemistry?

"Alfred Nobel" -

jmthane,

seferin

(It was cheeky of him to give himself his own prizes, so the committee said they didn't count. -CV)

"I figure Heisenberg could theoretically wangle that." -

yayworthy

(And yet neither he nor the award could be in the same place at the same time. -CV)

"Dr. Rodney Mckay." -

severedscythe

(+1, Stargate – LL)

"Casanova Frankenstein" -

i_calql8

(+1, Mystery Men. -CV)

"Dr. Horrible" -

drbunsen

"Dr. Leonard 'Dammit Jim, I'm a Physician, not a Physicist!' McCoy" -

ejia_arath03

"Batman" -

uncut_diamond

(The committee was actually too embarassed to inscribe "The Goddam Batman" on the medal, so they gave him a pass. -CV)

"wouldn't it be cool if Nobel prizes looked like pro wrestler championchop belts instead of medallions? Then that 98 year old physicist could hold it up, yell 'whoo' and pose while the pyro went off behind him?" -

mattwolf

"

" -

babybokal

"My hero from age 3 to 14, Marie Curie. She got displaced by Feynman when I turned 15. Sorry, Madame Curie." -

mathnerd

"Madame Curie, who sadly, did not attain green skin or super strength with her radiation exposure." -

kristinmachina

"Marie 'Hey, my nipples glow!' Curie" -

etcet

"Madame Curie: Physicist, Chemist, Brothel Owner and future radiation sickness victim." -

drunken_hedghog

"Marie Curie actually had 3 Nobels... She was secretly awarded a Special Peace Prize during The Great War for her work as 'Doctor Radium, Defender of Democracy!'" -

blindgeoff

"Marie Curie, who invented the ultimate research notes DRM method by making them radioactively lethal to handle unprotected." -

ntlespino

Correct Answer: Marie Skłodowska Curie

3. What is the name of the central governing body of the Catholic Church, which together with the Pope, coordinates and provides the necessary central organization for the correct functioning of the Church and the achievement of its goals?

"Holy long LJDQ question, Batman!" -

babybokal

(Yeah, I copied a huge chunk of Wikipedia & was meaning to edit it down somewhat, but then I just couldn't be bothered. Chalk that up as extra lazy. -AL)

"The Mafia?" -

phrench_phried

(Officially, no. -AL)

"Gladys Knight and the Popes." -

drbear

"The Imperial Senate." -

jmthane

"NAMBLA" -

drunken_hedghog,

seferin

"The Royal Order of Water Buffalos." -

sskipstress

"The Illuminati? Opus Dei? Congress? All I know about the Catholic Church, I learned from Dan Brown." -

houseofknaus,

cholma

"I want to punch the first person that mentions Dan Brown in the face. With an elephant." -

severedscythe

"The Wizengamot" -

wiredwizard

"Busybodies." -

deza

"The best answer I can come up with is the Papacy. I plead Judaism. Ask me about matzo balls." -

un_sedentary

(OK, why are matzo balls are so darn tasty? -AL)

"The Pope-Tron force! 'Form robe and hassock! Form skinny arms and well-kissed ring! And I'll form the giant hat! GOOO POPE-TRON!'" -

mattwolf

"The Magisterium. If you don't do what they say, they send armored polar bears after you." -

laughingacademy

(OK, I saw The Golden Compass movie, & didn't think it was all that great, but I am tempted to read His Dark Materials just because of the armored polar bears. They rocked. -AL)

"Either the Priory of Sion or the Iscariot Organization, depending on your fandom." -

david_deacon

"I don't know who they are, but can I blame them for all those 'Catholics Come Home' commercials that have been spamming my TV screen for the past month?" -

ladyiapetus

(Sure, blame away. -AL)

"The Holy I-See-What-You-Did-There." -

primavera

Correct Answer: The Roman Curia

4. What does Alice say after eating a piece of cake labeled "EAT ME"?

"How many 'that's what she said's did you get?" -

spiralgirl1

(Eleventy-one, as expected. -CV)

"I find it curiouser and curiouser that she just ate it without making a 'Your Mom' or 'That's what she said' joke first. " -

cholma

"Eat me? Like LJDQ didn't have enough oral sex jokes in it to begin with? Ok, good point, there are never enough oral sex jokes. Carry on " -

marasca

"Oh my, what would I have done if there was something there that said 'suck me?'" -

tweeti

"Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
'Cause if you feed me, Seymour
I can grow up big and strong!" -

gigglingpixie

(+1, Little Shop of Horrors. -CV)

"Was it made out of real Girl Scouts?" -

jamoche

(+1, The Addams Family. -CV)

"Not my gumdrop buttons! You're a monster!" -

bellapalmera

(+1, Shrek. -CV)

"I didn't think it would be creme-filled." -

deza

"Today I learned what the slang term 'creampie' meant. Do not talk to me about pastries for the rest of the week. *grabs the brain-bleach*" -

bending_sickle

"The Cake of Truth! It does not lie!" -

ejia_arath03
"the cake is a lie!" -

arabwel,

naraht

"...mmmmmmmm...forbidden doughnut..." -

i_calql8

(+1, one of the best Simpsons episodes of all time. -CV)

"OM NOM NOM DELICIOUS CAKE!" -

jhirat_dai

(Whenever someone writes "LOLice in Wonderland", that will be the line of the show right there. -CV)

"*points a gun at her stomach* You listen to me good, motherfucker. You don't tell me what to do ever again, bitch-cake, or I'll pop a cap in yo ass, get me?" -

drunken_hedghog

"I do see Jenna Jamison playing the part of Alice in my mind." -

houseofknause

"Does this ceiling make my butt look fat?" -

nitasee

"On Shit I'm HUGE!!!" -

jennielf

Correct Answer: "Curiouser and curiouser..."

5. What is the name of the northern-most coral atoll in the world?

"Are you asking what it is or what it's called? There is a difference. I can't give you either answer, but there is a difference." -

spiralgirl1

(-1, pedantry. Just give us whichever answer is funnier or better fits the theme. -AL)

"An a-toll booth on an a-motorway in a-Scotland. Scotland is north." -

gigglingpixie

"I have no idea, but the phrase 'coral atoll' keeps repeating in my head with a southern twang, followed with a 'I do declare!'" -

dorei

(That's... not our fault. -AL)
(I'm your huckleberry! – LL)
(I just... huckleberry? -CV)

"I'm British. The only Northern I know is 'pie and gravy'." -

puredeadthingy

(Pie! - Weebl)

"Iceland? Northernmost, so... it can't be Iceland. Or can it be? Ahhh, I'm going with Iceland. " -

houseofknause

"The No Bikini Atoll." -

drbear

"Bikini Bottom ... errmm, Atoll" -

hiddenmuse

"I call it Bob. Don't care what the rest of you call it." -

b_hulsmans

"Reminds me of a book I read a while ago: “Dude, where’s my reef” by Jaques Chirac." -

jinxedlioness

"I think the western-most corral is the O.K. Corral. I don't know if there's a toll anymore but it can't cost much." -

phrench_phried,

i_calql8

"(Throws a piece of coral into the Bay.) BAM! Johnwwells Atoll!" -

johnwwells

(Let's put prisoners on it! -AL)

"Curacao? Or is that the most northerly orange-flavored liquor in the world?" -

blindgeoff

"'Atoll' is one of those words like 'salon' where if you put the emphasis on the first syllable you sound simultaneously educated and like a giant douche." -

squeegibo

(+1, using the word "douche". Possibly my favorite insult of all time. Really shocks the Texans. -AL)

"Ikea" -

yayworthy

"I took some Tylenol for my cold, but it wasn't a Kure Atoll. (ok, even I groaned at that)" -

cholma

Correct Answer: The Kure Atoll

6. You've been given the power to create a Fountain of Healing that will rid the world of one specific disease. Which disease do you choose, and why?

"A fountain of healing? How medieval! I mean, just imagine the lines and logistical problems and crowd control issues! Why can't I create a 'bomb of healing'? That's so much more 21st century. We can call it the MOAHAB." -

phrench_phried

(Somehow the words "bomb" and "healing" just don't combine well in my mind... -CV)

"…there are a number of other very 'worthy' diseases that truly need to be eradicated … - AIDS, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease), politicians, the Religious Right…" -

jmthane

(I've known special cases of lead poisoning to be the cure for the last two... -CV)

"Alcoholism. Sure, I'd save more lives by healing cancer or heart disease, but if I heal alcoholism, maybe I'd have better relationships with some of my relatives." -

sskipstress

"I'm going to be like Davros or even the Auditors from Discworld and say the disease humanity itself." -

akiyasan
"The worst STD known to humanity: life." -

neumeindil

"Microsoft. What company has done more to hold back the cause of accessible and reliable computing?" -

sjl

"That one that puts annoying songs in my head." -

fizrep

(Sorry 'bout that; my bad. -CV)

"Cooties. Because they're icky." -

drbunsen

"Teh STOOP!D." - too many!!

"Ugliness, bout time someone created a cure for that" -

b_hulsmans

"Crime is the disease. I'm the cure." -

etcet

"I’d cure IGNORANCE. Because with that cured, it would probably be a lot easier to solve many other problems the world has." -

jinxedlioness

"Gullibility. It accounts for 97% of all preventable deaths." -

mandydax

"Why not ask me to pick my favorite book? I mean, if I pick AIDS then all the lepers will be falling apart over it, and if I pick avian flu all swine flu victims will call foul. I could pick herpes, but then all the syphylis sufferers will go insane. Maybe I'll just cure sex-aholics. Then everyone will be pissed." -

frequencyshift

"Spinal cord injuries and other spinal deformities. I want to not have a hole in my spine, and I want those who are more affected than I am to be able to walk, have babies (if they want), and do sports and other fun activities starting from a young age. Plus, if you've ever played the Adult Swim game 'Amateur Surgeon', well that's pretty much what spinal surgery is at this point. Doctors don't have a clue about brain and spine stuff." -

spiralgirl1

(My warped spine and I are totally on your side. -CV)

"Hangovers and stomach aches. Then we could have all the gin and pudding we wanted forever and ever amen." -

tweeti

"I could be selfish and choose mine, but then I woudn't get a nifty hitting stick." -

severedscythe

(Hitting people with sticks has been a fundamental part of the human experience for a few million years now. -CV)

"I was going to be all altruistic and say HIV/AIDS. But who am I kidding? Obesity. Because I'm sick and tired of dieting, and mmmmm.... infinite pudding! Nom nom nom!" -

marasca

(There is something to be said for infinite pudding. -CV)

And there you have it. Last week we raced, and this week it's for the cure. It's a stretch, sure, but it's not like we've never reached for a theme before.

As mentioned before, we're still Punning For Charity, raising money to fight cancer. If we had our way, our fountain of healing would heal all diseases (except maybe Mad Cow Disease, because that's funny to say). Alas, we have no magical healing powers, no high-level clerics, and no fountains. We do what we can. So join us in trying to do something good, and get a pun as a bonus!

See you all tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL