LJ Daily Answers: 11 February 2005

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"I wonder how many Mary Kate and Ashley jokes you're gonna get with this particular theme this week." - whiski_sour, meandstuff

(Waaaaaay too many. -KPN&CV)

That's right, in case you missed it, the theme this week is twins, because February is the second month, and two means twins, and... ummm... ah, hell, I got nothing. The point is, angledge has given up LiveJournal for Lent, in the mistaken hope that she'll get more work done or some such nonsense. She really should know better. But regardless, the show must go on, and so we bring in our first guest moderator, kokopellinelli. Let's give her a hand, and without further ado, heeeeeere's Quizzy!



1. Who played Arnold Schwarzenegger’s long-lost brother in the 1988 movie "Twins"?

"I have no idea. Maybe if he became the governor of a state I might remember him." - fantom07

"It was the guy who WASN'T in Super Mario Bros, right?" - eviltwin737

"Gray Davis. That's what made the whole 'Governor of California' thing so awkward, right?
'Arnold? I thought we were twins.'
'Zat wuz jeest uh moovie.'" - modestlobster

"That little fat guy - it's monday I can be fattist and heightest." - verdandiweaves

"I don't know, but he must have been a very Ruthless Person, the kind that gets into a Taxi wearing a pair of alligator boots and pretends to be a Big Fish looking for a lost Jewel from the Nile. Yeah, a Likely Story." - aliza250

"It was that short guy who played the Penguin in one of the Batman movies! That bastard made me terrified of penguins for years! I still can't go in the penguin house at the zoo unless someone holds my hand. It's the eyes, so beady and murderous. And the flippers, so good for slapping kneecaps." - ccaretta

"That guy freaks me out. He looks like he should have cloven hooves for feet." - linguafranca

(Danny Devito voiced a satyr in the Disney version of Hercules. So you're not wrong. -KPN)

"That would be Danny DeVito, who I unfortunately always now imagine with a picture of his ASS. Darn Big Fish for showing Devito ass. That was just one set of hairy buttocks I never wanted to see." - wyldirishtric

"Danny DeVito, the nicest and most lucky man in show business. Why? Because even after doing movies like "Twins" and "Batman Returns", he's still got show biz credibility." - trishalynn

"Danny DeVito--if I remember correctly, the doctor who birthed the twins informed his character that he was made up of the "leftover" genes." - velvetangel

(That's gotta be a blow to the ego. -KPN)

"That movie confused the hell out of me and the human miracle of birth. I was at the age of 5 when I first watched it and I would always think my chubby stomach was going to turn into a baby one day." - jasonishungry

(I think you might be confused in more than one way. chrysoberyl knows what movie you're thinking of... -CV)

"Danny DeVito, who was, oddly enough, also his co-star in Junior which I started watching the other day, under the impression that it was Twins." - chrysoberyl

Correct Answer: Danny DeVito



2. Time for more LJDQ home cookin’. Mix together: enriched wheat flour - enriched with ferrous sulphate (iron), B vitamins (niacin, thiamine mononitrate [B1], riboflavin [B12] and folic acid), sugar, corn syrup, water, high fructose corn syrup, vegetable and/or animal shortening - containing one or more of partially hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed or canola oil, and beef fat, dextrose, whole eggs, modified corn starch, cellulose gum, whey, leavenings (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), salt, cornstarch, corn flour, corn syrup solids, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, polysorbate 60, dextrin, calcium caseinate, sodium stearol lactylate, wheat gluten, calcium sulphate, natural and artificial flavors, caramel color, sorbic acid (to retain freshness), and color dyes yellow 5 and red 40. What have you made?

"It's LJDQ, so I want to say pudding. But that doesn't fit the theme...." - lotusbiosm

"Pudding. Because I hate pudding, and that shit up there sounds nasty too." - ccaretta

(You came to the wrong place for pudding-bashing, my friend. -KPN)

"Clearly, from the theme of the quiz, I have made twins. Go me." - princesskraehe

(That recipe is a little different. Take two eggs, add sperm, stir vigorously, wait nine months. If you want identical twins, use only one egg. -AL)

"Judging by the theme, I'm assuming something twin-related. So, two Snickerses."- tabbyclaw

"that sounds really disgusting. But given the apparent 'twins' theme, I'm going to guess Twix. In which case, no matter how disgusting, I'll still eat them." - roadparty

"I'll go out on a limb and say a Twix bar." - fraterrisus

(And the limb breaks. -KPN)

"what's the point of wheat gluten if you aren't leavening with yeast?" - teal_cuttlefish

(A just question. We'll ask it next week. -CV)

"McDonald's new feature sandwich, the McCocaine."- lynbug

(Personally I prefer their Chicken SmackNuggets. -CV)

"The "beef fat" really threw me off. Final answer: lobster." - goat003

"Kitten pie" - neon_mongoose

"Wonder Bread, because it's strange enough to contain beef fat and because of the Wonder Twins. I think they had a monkey." - v827

"Weapons grade plutonium. Seriously, Hans Blik and co were looking in the wrong place, they shouldn't have been going after Saddam, they should have been going after Jamie Oliver."- littlemoose

"These are the material components for the Simulacrum spell:
Simulacrum (Illusion/Phantasm)
Level: 8
Range: 0
Duration: 1 round/level
Casting Time: 9
Area of Effect: Special
Saving Throw: None

A duplicate of the caster is created when this spell is cast. The duplicate is almost identical to the caster, making the duplicate a very powerful ally. The simulacrum is created at 60% of the level at which the caster is currently on. It has all the spells and abilities that the caster would have at that level. It also has 60% of the hit points of the caster. The simulacrum is fully under the control of the caster." - linguafranca

(Oh linguafranca, you've done it now. Here's your -1 & the Geek of the Week Award. -AL)

"We were watching the History Channel, and there was a segement on the Twinkie. Apparently the baker who originated the idea was tired of only making spongecake in the summer for strawberry season. He came up with the idea to make spongecakges filled with banana creme, as bananas are available year round. Unfortunately, rationing due to the war cut off the supply of bananas, and he instead subsituted vanilla creme. The vanilla creme proved so popular that the filling was never changed back. Also, uniformity and consistency are so important to the branding of Twinkies, that the recipe is altered slightly throughout the year to account for variations in temperature and humidity. Aren't you glad I watch TV?" - chrysoberyl

(chrysoberyl watches TV so I don't have to. -AL)

"that would be twinkies, bob. mmmmm cream filled yellow cake, and they come in twos so you can share with a friend. or eat them both yourself you greedy bastard!" - jenny_1981

"have you ever experimented on a Twinkie?" - drewbeartx

"And now for some chemistry: If you mix equal parts twinkies with equal parts gasoline, you can make napalm. True." - fantom07

(Anyone care to field-test this recipe for us? -AL)

(I know what I'll be doing this weekend. -KPN)

(And this is how we go through guest moderators so quickly... -CV)

"Uhm, well, let's see, it has corn syrup, which is sweet.. and has stuff that can be used in baking. So.. a really sweet baked goodie, of some sort. A Cow? Is it a cow? Is it this cow?

It would have to be a Jersey (with the caramel colouring). That's all I can think of for the beef fat... Look at the nummy little Jersey calf! Available at a store near you!" - wyldirishtric

"Please, please don't let it be twinkies. I've never found out what they were, but Xander assured us all that they were delicious. If it is twinkies, then you've just put me off for life and I was soooo looking forward to trying one when I finally make it over to the States later this year!" - m31andy

(I'm so sorry ... -AL)

Correct Answer: Twinkies



3. What two Minnesota metropolises together form the "Twin Cities"?

"Shouldn't that be 'Metropoli'?" - dougygyro

(Nope. If anything, it might be like thesis going to theses, hence metropolis goes to metropoles. Then again, the plural of penis is cocks, so I guess the most correct plural form would be metropolocks. -CV)

"Uhh... Juarez and El Paso. I can't help it if I'm from Texas and those are the only twin cities I know." - roadparty

"You see, this question has nothing to do with Texas and that's the only state that matters. So, there by, it is not deserving of an answer."- purple_roses

(This is really childish, I know, but...MY STATE'S BIGGER THAN YOUR STATE! Ahem. Just had to get that out. -KPN)

(Alaskans. Always with the 'tude. -CV)

"I'm from Alabama. We didn't figure out there were other states till someone started shooting at us a while back over some trivial matters, like states' rights or something." - ccaretta

"Minnesota has actual civilization?" - rokeon

(Nope. They have the Vikings. -KPN)

"Minn*laugh*esota*hahaahha* METROPOLISES? *hee hee hee hee* HAHAHAHA *falls over* Are all the skyscrapers made of CHEESE or something? *bwahahaha*" - fraterrisus

(I think all the cheese-flavored buildings are in Wisconsin. -KPN)

"Minnesota. Land of snow and ice and Vikings. Where the people STILL sound like they're from Norway, even if they've moved to New Jersey, because they say minne-SOda with that lyrical accent. And sometimes head bobbing. Can you tell I have no idea about cities in Minnesota? It's the cold phobia. Places where it's possible to have the temperature go down to 20 below do not exist in my worldview. They're all crazy people. You live in fairyland, Minnesotans! Come back to reality!" - siobhan1214
"Minnesota has more than one city?" - richcsigs
"Metropolises? You gotta be kidding me, there are no such things in Minnesota. St. Paul's lucky if anybody even calls it a town." - mcclintock
"Wow, two metropolises and they can't even make a decent baseball team."- jasonishungry

(Where would we be without a little Minnesota-bashing? -KPN)

"Minnesota metropolises...That'd make a good band name...or, you know, a good name for twin strippers. Actually, probably not." - meandstuff

"American geography? TWO things I know nothing about. So, two American cities then. New York and erm, Chicago. Does it count that I know Minnesota has a whole bunch of lakes?"- dracothelizard

(So, SO close. -KPN)

"St. Paul and St. Paula. They're fraternal twins." - marasca

"Mini Apolis and Minnie Driver" - fizrep

"When you travel down the highway between the two, you're not really in either city, right? It's like the no-man's land in Capture-the-Flag or whatever." - twilight_angel

"Who cares about the cities? I like the governor. We totally need to get Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwartzenegger in a cage match together. With pudding. Pantsless. To, um, figure out whose state is cooler. Yeah." - snowfox090

(This image will be the source of nightmares for years to come. -KPN)

"Minneapolis and St. Paul. I wonder if this going to get any 'My city is better than your city!' answers, which will all be trumped when Chicago comes out, hubris blazing, with 'bitch, please, my city owns your ass'" - fantom07

Correct Answer: Minneapolis and St. Paul

"Mineappolis and St. Paul, although they're tired of being labelled as the "Twin Cities". They'd like the entire world to know that they each have seperate personalities of their own, and would like to be treated as such. Both cities are also currently single as of this time." - mirrorslie



4. What are the names of the twins who form the constellation Gemini?

"Romulus and Remus" - a veritable plethora of you

"Ahh, those crazy romans, starting up their culture with feral children who were probably into beastiality and were definitely not seeing any problem with killing." - wyldirishtric

"Famous Greek Twins for 2000. Remus and Romulus? Cain and Abel?" - dracothelizard

(You're currently short $4000. -CV)

"Ramona and Blaine were twins I went to school with, and they were both Geminis."- jenny_1981

(Really? BOTH of them? -KPN)

"Goofus and Gallant." - diimortales

(You know, I'll give you credit only because I really thought I was the only person who read Highlights magazine. -CV)

"Siegfried and Roy?" - sasscat

"Wonder twins! 'Shape of ice cubes, form of Maker's Mark!'" - afterwards

"Jem (of the Rockers) and aki. You know... Jem and I. Ha. Ha. Ha. ..._{i need help}" - aki

(Clearly. -KPN)

"Hortense and Philippe" - kdlawler27

(Thank you for that foray into Obscure French Royalty. You may put your hand back in your vest now. -CV)

"Guilder and Florin, located a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from the Fire Swamp." - silent_r_infork

(+1, Princess Bride. -KPN)

"Nicholas Cage and some weepy little dood in Face/Off" - _seasonofmists_

"Zoot and Zoot's identical twin sister, Dingo." - comingtoterms

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -KPN)

"Connor and Murphy. At least they should be. Cause Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus are HOT." - roadparty

(+1, Boondock Saints. -CV)

"Torgo and the Master?" - stormyskies

(I'm going to have to say -1 for Manos: The Hand of Fate. -CV)

"One of them, named for the popular oil, is Castor. The other, a hybrid version of Linux and popup services, Pollux."- theworryrock

"Pastor and Colics" - rokeon

"Pasta and Collopse." - m31andy

"Castor and ...poultry?" - notpunk

"Castor and Oil, the famous 'queasy twins'." - littlemoose

"Casper the Friendly Constellation. And his Not-So-Friendly counterpart, Pollux." - anna_sinistra

"Castor and Pollux. According to mythology, they share immortality between them. Frankly, I wish they'd share ME between them. Rowr. Twins are hot." - ccaretta

"Castor and Pollux. Although, you might say that they weren't exactly twins, more like half-brother twins due to the fact that Zeus was a bit of a, for lack of a better term, slut. Castor and Pollux were extremely close and I was going to go into speculation about whether there was twincest or not but frankly, I don't really want to think about it." - ririkit

(Unfortunately, you've got ME thinking of it. Thanks a lot. -KPN)

Correct Answer: Castor and Pollux



5. Fill in the blank: twins that are not identical in appearance are known as _____ twins.

"remember, kids: just because you don't look alike, it doesn't mean incest is okay." - goat003
"sex twins (in Southern USA only)" - alexwentzell11
"what's the point of having a twin if you can't have sex with her boyfriend and not get caught?" - chlaal
"where's-the-fun-in-screwing-them-simultaneously-if-they're-not-identical twins." - limegreen_sloth

(This quiz generated far more twincest than I really wanted to see. I need to wash off now. -CV)

"These kids come from totally different fertilized eggs, and can even come from two different fathers. How freaky would THAT be to be, say, Caucasian, and have an Asian twin? Mom would have a lot of explaining - and a lot of visits to Maury - to do." - linguafranca

(Are you kidding? That's Springer material. -KPN)

"The crew of the S.S. Uterus." - mcclintock

(...who set sail that day for a three trimester tour. -CV)

"Twins that are not identical in appearance are known as the result of a threesome." - stephe

"it's either fraternal or paternal. Oh I wish I was listening in French class!" - littleststeph

"it begins with p... parafraternal... paramaternal... one of those." - therhythmthief

(I'm afraid you're paranotquitecorrect on this one. -CV)

"Fake twins who can't get cash from twin studies. Sucks to be them."- lostreality

"Much more likely to grow up sane and well-adjusted because their parents are less likely to give them rhyming names and dress them in matching outfits and sign them up for the same activities and just generally erode their entire sense of self until all that's left is an empty, withered shell of a human being." - rokeon

(Someone sounds a little bitter. -KPN)

"Fraternal. Fraternal twins can also be told apart from identical twins by the loud, raucous parties they hold while in the womb." - seidoo_ryuu
"Fraternity twins. They are known for getting really drunk, oogling mommy’s boobies, and they come out of the womb wearing ambercrombi and fitch." - fantom07

"Fraternal Order of Waterbuffalo Twins" - uninhibitedmuse

"Fraternal, even if they're female. As a feminist, I object to that. They should be called Non-identical Persons Who Happened to Come Out of the Same Womb or Wombies for short." - trishalynn

Correct Answer: WombiesFraternal

(I used to think they were called "paternal" twins, because it was the father's fault. -KPN)



6. Are you the good twin or the evil twin?

(I was going to say "everyone and their brother seems to have devoured their fellow twin in utero", but I suppose that wouldn't quite be the right metaphor... -CV)

"I'm both! I'm pretty sure if I had a twin I would've been the dominant twin and eated the other one in utero. Nummy other twin! Om Nom Nom." - wyldirishtric

"The good one right now, I got rid of my facial hair at the weekend. For at least 2/3 of the year I have a goatee though so that makes me the evil one right." - avron
"I lack a goatee, so I must be the good twin. I'd hate to see the evil twin, though. Must be a seriously puppy-kicking jackass." - diimortales

"I am an only child. Ergo, I am both. Slather me with yellow goo and transport me, and I shall be split into the good dpaul007 and the evil dpaul007. Bring on the Saurian Brandy and fetch me Yeoman Rand, I say!" - dpaul007

(Obscurity. Confusing guest moderators every day. -KPN)

(Actually, I have no idea what he's babbling about either. -AL)

(My co-mods clearly have not sampled enough classic Star Trek in their television diets. -CV)

"xochiquetzl and I take turns. I believe she's the evil twin this week." - chlaal

(It's so good to see siblings playing nicely. -KPN)

"Rather than answer this with a simple good or evil, I'd like to point out some things that are no longer in existence as a result of that other person:

-The cat "mittens"
-My grandmother's original playbill from the opening night at Cats on Broadway
-The calliope: we had to sell it to pay for his bail.
-The secret recipe for coca-cola: he stole it and sold it in preparation for his relocation to Tahiti.
-oh, and my red Gazelles." - bocceonthelawn

"Is this a trick question, like when that creepy guy from work asked me if I was naughty or nice and when I said "nice" he said wrong answer? Then asked again because he wanted to hear me say I was naughty." - punch_drunk

"if it's wrong to like being chained in the attic and eating fish heads, then I don't want to be the right." - neon_mongoose

"I'm the Chaotic Nuetral twin." - jacesan

"Wait a minute, Bender is the evil Bender?" -indigogold

(+1, Futurama. -CV)

"I am the evil twin. Don't cross my path or I will turn you into a turnip." - sooster

(A turnip? That's the best you can do? I wouldn't say evil, then. I'd just say "mildly disturbed." -KPN)

"As for my "twins" I like the left one better. It's bigger and it's suffered more (2 biopsies and a kitten claw in the nipple incident) and therefore has more character." - sskipstress

(I wince every time I read that. -KPN)

"That depends... On what scale do you grade Stalin?" - torg17

"On Monday, I played soccer against a bunch of frat boys (useful fact: I'm female). Somehow I ended up kneeing one in the balls. I maintain that if he was still able to play, I didn't hit him hard enough, but it was strongly implied that I was being a bit harsh." - calankh

(And this week's LJDQ Bad Sports(wo)manship Award goes to... calankh! -CV)

"I'm the good twin. Seriously though, it seems like everybody I meet tells me that they know someone who "looks just like" me. Some day, I want to get pictures of all these people and put them in a book called 'People Who Look Like Me'." - krick

"I'm good, baby. Just fly down to New Zealand and find out for yourself." - sasscat

"Good.. Bad.. I'm the guy with the gun." - tarpo, gleefulfreak, caiuslupus

(+1, Army of Darkness. -KPN&CV)

"Incidentally (I am not making this up), there are some people in the world called 'chimeras' because they have two different sets of DNA in different parts of the body. Like their liver has one set of DNA and their heart has a different set. Know why? Because they had a fraternal twin in the womb that they absorbed. Would that not be the greatest conversation starter in the world? 'Hi, I'm Bob. I absorbed my fraternal twin in utero.'" - sennical



And there you have it. Twins and Geminis, this quiz is all for you.

Happy Chinese New Year to everybody; may fortune smile upon you in this, the Year of the Cock. Happy Lenten season as well to all who do that Lenten thing. And Happy Weekend for everyone else. Thanks to all 113 of you who played (a new record), thanks again to kokopellinelli for her guest-modding efforts, and we'll see you all next week, same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!

Rock on,

AL&CV&KPN

Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

(I wince every time I read that. -KPN)

Believe me, I winced a lot when it happened. And the poor kitten was pretty traumatized, too. His claw was stuck and he couldn't pull it out, and then this mean lady wouldn't let him try anymore.

And unlike surgeons, kittens don't use anesthetics first.

[kokopellinelli]

*covers ears* LALALALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! >__<

Seriously, everytime I read it my nipple gets sympathy pains.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hell, even my nipple hurts now. Yeeeeech.

[jacesan.livejournal.com]

Kind of like having it pierced without anesthetics. ;)

"...and nipples...for men. I would've started with lasers...day one."