LJ Daily Answers: 10 May 2010

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A big thank you to everyone for your birthday wishes. I am much older now. But the quiz stops for nothing! Except maybe gin and pudding.

1. This book about a boy named Travis and his dog ends in tragedy for the eponymous canine hero. What is the book's title?

"Part of me hopes 'Lassie' because I HATED THAT FUCKING SHOW!" - b_hulsmans
"LASSIE: THE REVENGE. She's had enough of that motherfucking kid falling in that motherfucking well." - secret_weapon, ntlespino

"Where Hot Dogs Come From by Oscar C. Meyer" - neumeindil

"Army of Dogness starring Bruce Campbell" - wiredwizard

"'A Boy and his Dog' - no, wait; that ended in tragedy for the girl." - jamoche

"Those beasteality stories - they never end well for the dog." - love2loveher

"I bet you apples to apples it won some sort of award. Dead dog books always win awards." - kchasm

"I guess dogs aren't very titular, generally speaking. Male ones especially." - spiralgirl1

"Old Yeller, which was a total misnomer -- dogs don't yell, it should've been 'Old Barker'. Or 'Old Whiner'."- germankitty

"I will NOT let my dog watch the end of Ol' Yeller!" - kagomeshuko

(Hey, he's gotta learn about death sooner or later. Not talking to him about it now will only lead to difficulty in the future. -CV)

"'Movies That Left Me Traumatized For Life' for 200, Alex." - ifeedformula

"damn whoever decided this was a children's classic. Crying in class over a book is damn embarrassing." - marasca

"Every Book About Dogs Ever Written for Kids, by Happy Endings R. For Pussies." - primavera, wrestlingdog, flawed_karma, theylovetostare, darthparadox
"EVERY SINGLE BOOK ABOUT DOGS EVER JESUS CHRIST LET ONE LIVE FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. " - lots42

"Ol' Yeller Eats a Yearling Where the Red Fern Grows. " - deza

Correct Answer: Old Yeller



2. The unofficial alma mater of the University of Virginia uses the melody of a much older song written by Robert Burns. What are the names of both songs?

"'Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw' (From Burns; 'Way dinna we ge' droonk an' scrooo')" - drbear, neumeindil

(Buffet is too high brow for those cretins at UVA. – LL)

"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable! Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table!" - wrestlingdog

(Python also too high brow. – LL)

"You mean they can read enough to sing at UVA? Awesome! (GO VOLS!)" - flawed_karma

"I really, really, want to say 'Turkey Trot' for some reason. I highly doubt that I'm right, though." - sticky9fingers

(That would be Tech's. - LL)

"The original was My Old Kentucky Home, the Virginia version was Yes, Virginia, there is an Old Man in a Red Suit." - miwseshat

"Old Grey Mare, she ain't what she used to be, ain't what she used to be..." - kristinmachina

"Ah Bonnie T'will Be A Braw Bricht Hoots Mon Owt t' Sassenachs" - many_from_one

(Which, when translated into Virginian, means "Good Enough for the Sheep, Good Enough for my Cousin". -CV)

"Wait. Virginia has institutions of higher education? *peers suspiciously*" - thepikey

(Sure they do. They built a few colleges in the mountains. -CV)

"'Scotland the Brave' and 'Virginia the Backwards'" - zihuatanejo

"Do they also parade a haggis around the room to celebrate UVA's birthday?" - sskipstress

"The Robbie Burns song was 'London Bridge', which was appropriated by UVirginia as 'Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes'." - alfvaen

"Auld Lang Syne. Literally translated, 'Long, long since [I ceased being sober].'" - silmaril

"My buddy (who went to VA Tech) informs me that UVa's unofficial anthem is 'We Suck Donkey Balls' sung to the tune of 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' by Def Leppard, which until this moment I hadn't realized plagiarized Robert Burns." - mark_laura

(He's absolutely right, btw. – LL)

Correct Answer: "The Good Old Song", sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne"



3. "Magic" was the official spokesdog for which company?

"I have DayQuil and NyQuil. I so do not care right now." - flawed_karma

"LA Lakers" - 6 of you

"BP" - seferin

(He's the only animal NOT covered in oil at the moment. -CV)

"the Urine Good Company" - wrestlingdog

"Wizards of the Coast" - primavera, angelicmuse18, ntlespino, darthparadox

"Puff the magic dragon apparently had something to do with Cannibis. So, I'm gonna say the Weed Company." - secret_weapon

"Is that the dog in those old RCA 'the sound of his master's voice' ads? He always looked confused to me. 'Master? Where are you? Are you trapped in that little machine? Is there food for me in there?'" - squeegibo

"The only spokesdog I know is McGruff, really. And I'm sure he's more bad ass than Magic." - domestik_fucker

"I like how 'magic' is in quotation marks, as though his legal name is actually 'Samuel Labronski Dillingham III.'" - love2loveher

"Theme suggests, "Old Milwaukee," but rational brain says, 'The only magic it performed was making my judgment and memories disappear during college.'" - etcet

"'Hey, Magic, how will our competitors' products leave my skin feeling?' - 'Ruff'" - mark_laura

Correct Answer: Old Navy



4. What 1993 romantic comedy starred Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Burgess Meredith?

"La Cage Aux Wrinkles" - drbear

"Weekend with Viagra" - neumeindil

"Indecent Proposal" - secret_weapon

(Only when Burgess Meredith was talking. -CV)

"Brokehip Mountain" - lots42

"Crusty Old Buggers 2: Electric Scooteroo" - mark_laura

"they never came out with the third installment. Grumpy Old Corpses." - flawed_karma

"Grumpy Old Men. I prefer Grumpier Old Men, though, because it has Sophia Loren." - domestic_fucker

"'Grumpy Old Men' was a romantic comedy? I always assumed from the title that it was a documentary about the U.S. Congress." - alkion04

"I wouldn't be a goddamned bit surprised if chaosvizier and I are featured in the inevitable remake." - etcet

(Can I be Sophia Loren?!? – LL)
(That or Ann-Margret, The Woman With No Last Name. -CV)

"Am I the only one who thinks Walter Mathau is/was kinda sexy??" - tweeti
"Jack Lemmon was hot when he was younger." - stagemanager

"The closing credits when Burgess is making all the different sex innuendos is the best part!" - kristinmachina, zihuatanejo

(Absolutely. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Grumpy Old Men"



5. On 29 April 2004, the last car of a century-old brand was produced. What brand of car was it?

"I'm using my breasts to get out of this question." - puredeadthingy

(That trick never wo- ooooh, boobies! -AL&CV)

"" - thepikey, severedscythe, germankitty

"Your Mother (well, if it wasn't My Father's Oldsmobile, it must have been that other old thing he was driving)" - etcet, nuemeindil

"the Dorian Gray" - wrestlingdog

(It finally saw a picture of its plummeting sales and stock prices, and that was that. -CV)

"In the early 80's my daddy drove a Cutlass Supreme, and he and I would fight over keeping a window open so I wouldn't get carsick. Rather than arguing, I should have puked on him." - sskipstress

"Edsel 2: The Edseling" - mattwolf

"The Volkswagen Beetle. Hopefully they'll come out with the Ladybug soon." - ntlespino

"The Stanley Steamer, which was ended so the company could concentrate on carpet cleaners" - drbear

"Getoffmylawnmobile" - kristinmachina

"Reruns of Top Gear have failed me." - kittycatness

"I don't want flying cars anymore...think of road rage with flying cars, think of drunk drivers with flying cars, think of World's Wildest Police Videos with flying cars...*cries in a corner*" - tweeti

"Oldsmobile is really that old? Why was it named Oldsmobile when cars were still a new thing?" - theylovetostare

(Oddly enough, because it was founded by Mr. Ransom E. Olds. Obvious answer is surprisingly unobvious. -CV)

Correct Answer: Oldsmobile



6. What do you most enjoy about birthdays (yours or someone else's)?

"Meat on a stick. No, really, I'm friends with many Phillipine people. That's how they celebrate anything. Meat on a stick. It is awesome." - lots42

"pudding wrestling. But thats only in the fall and spring weather. Ever try pudding wrestling in the summer? That stuff gets rank pretty fast. And your nipples freeze off in the winter." - angelicmuse18

"You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older, and now you're even older, and now you're even older. You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older, and now you're older still." - sushimustwrite

(+1, TMBG. -CV)

"Kurt Cobain killed himself on one of my birthdays. I don't know whether that's cause for celebration." - many_from_one

"I'd have to go with Jesus, because that's when I get pressies on somebody ELSE'S birthday. (Better than the ones I get on my OWN, wtf?)" - thepikey

"Just chillin! Speaking of which, I have a birthday story but I'm not going to tell you becuase I am naked." - severedscythe

(Right now? Or in the story? – LL)

"I used to like mocking other people getting older till I realized that payback’s a bitch. So now, I’ll settle for gin and pudding. Not necessarily at the same time." - nitasee

"I'm looking forward to being called 'Dennis' for the year I'm thirty-seven (which begins at my next birthday), because my friends are a bunch of Python-loving ne'er-do-wells" - etcet

(I'm looking forward to being the Answer to the Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything [I'll be 42] – LL)

"The fact that I'm not dead and lived to see another one." - thefannishwaldo, squeegibo

(Number three answer is... Getting Sauced Up! -CV)

"booze, more booze, and after consuming all that booze, enjoying my hot friends strip." - b_hulsmans
"AAAALLLLCCCCOOOOHHHHOOOOLLLL!!!!" - theylovetostare

(I gotta remember that for next week… - LL)

(Number two answer is... TEH SEX0RZ! -CV)

"The Birthday Sex, of course!" - blindgeoff
"Birthday spankings!!!" - spiralgirl1
"Oral sex. And the pointy hats." - marasca
"The spankings and then the oral sex. (birthdays are very much like Castle Anthrax, you know)" - sskipstress

(Oh, I know! Wait… never mind! – LL)

(And the number one answer on the board is... CAKE!)

"The cake is not a lie." - jennielf

"It used to be gin and cake and cake soaked in gin, but I'm not allowed to have alcohol any more. *sob* Stupid medications." - deza

"Soaking the cake with everclear and lighting it on fire. Who needs candles?" - alfvaen

"CAKE. Because I'm three." - domestic_fucker

"About a month ago, my nephew had his 6th birthday and his mom let him decorate the cake himself. It looked like it had been through an explosion in an edible glitter factory." - ifeedformula

"Cake, specifically chocolate cake. Must be chocolate cake....OOOOHHHH, chocolate, is there anything you can't do....you even make growing older ok." - tweeti

"The three Cs: Cake, Chocolate and Chianti!" - germankitty

(I'm glad you left the liver and fava beans out. -CV)

"Cake. And pudding. The two things I enjoy most about birthdays are cake and pudding. And gin. Three... three of my most favorite things about birthdays are cake pudding, and gin. Also, presents. Several of my most favorite things about birthdays are...." - stagemanager

"I love the birthday cake. Which is why I'd really like to get a new birthday suit." - alkion04

(You and me both. -CV)



Cheers also to wrestlingdog who got older on Saturday! And happy birthday to anyone else who has a birthday around now! And happy unbirthday to everyone else! See you all tomorrow for more quizzing!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL