LJ Daily Answers: 17 May 2010
May. 17th, 2010 09:19 amAfter feeling a bit old last week, it's time to rejuvenate things with a younger, fresher quiz!
1. Which two brothers founded the rock band AC/DC?
"Couldn't you pick a more Current band?" -
(Watt's your problem? There was an Ample number of correct answers. Although some of the jokes were reVolting. -CV)
"The Voltaggio Brothers." -
(Ok, that gets full credit. -CV)
(Other electricity-based answers: 20. -CV)
"Bob & Doug McKenzie" -
"Hans und Fritz, the Katzenjammer kids!" -
"Cain and Abel" -
"Romulus and Remus" -
"The Brothers Karamazov" -
"Sam and Dean Winchester" -
"Barry and Robert Gibb." -
"Davy and Grace Jones" -
(Harsh. Also, Grace could kick Davy Jones' barnacled ass into the next ocean. -CV)
"\m/ Angus Cow and Dromedary Camel! \m/ My favorite song is Who Made Moo?'" -
"I'll tell you one thing, buddy: Their names sure as hell weren't Jonas!" -
"I pledge allegiance... to the band... of Mr. Schneebly... and will not fight him... for creative control... and will defer to him on all issues related to the musical direction of the band." -
(+1, School of Rock. -CV)
"Angus and Fillet Mignon" -
"Do you think it gets confusing to be the younger Young brother? Or the youngest Young brother?? Or the younger Younger brother?? Think about it." -
"If I eat an Angus burger, will it make me want to run around in a British schoolboy's uniform?" -
(I'm willing to gamble on that. -CV)
"If you can sing loudly and proudly about your big balls, then you're a brave man indeed." -
Correct Answer: Malcolm and Angus Young
2. Genoa City, Wisconsin is the setting for which soap opera?
"This is how you curry favor with all those whiners who hate the sports questions, isn't it?" -
"who sets a soap opera in Wisconsin? there is nothing to do up there but be unemployed and ugly." -
(You forgot eating cheese. There's a lot of that there too. -CV)
"Cow Sex In The City" -
"Genoa Overused Plotline When You See One" -
"Genoa What I Mean?" -
"Did you know that Genoa salami isn't actually from Genoa? Did-genoa-that??" -
"Genoa City makes me think of Genoa Salami, which makes me think of 'Hide the Salami', which makes me think of..well, never mind that. Where were we?" -
"Salami, the Next Generation" -
"All My Cheeseheads" -
"The Cheeses of Our Lives" -
"As the Cheese Turns" -
"Nobody on The Young and The Restless had Wisconsin accents, which is too bad because that would have ruled: 'Oh geez, I slept with your brother at the cheese festival and I think I'm pregnant, dontchaknow.'" -
Correct Answer: "The Young and the Restless"
3. The name of The Police's final album is based on a concept by a famous psychiatrist. What is the name of the album and the psychiatrist?
"'Freudian Slip', featuring songs such as 'MILF', 'Oedipus Rex' and 'I Have Issues'." -
"Just Zis Guy, You Know?" -
"Sigmund Frood" -
(+1, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. -CV)
"Pink Freud" -
"Sometimes It's Just A Cigar" -
"Oedipal Complex by Freud, featuring the smash hits Penis Envy and The Cigar Quote!" -
"There's an END of STING?" -
(Only after six hours of rhythmic humping. -CV)
"You Get Stung While You're Jung" -
"Sting Is The Answer to All LJDQ Music Questions. The psychiatrist's name? Sting." -
"I See What
"That's rich...most musicians need a shrink (then again, so do most shrinks, come to think of it). But musicians are definitely Jung at heart." -
"By a funny coincidence, I am currently recording a cover of that album, and my band's name is Karl Jung and the Restless." -
Correct Answer: "Synchronicity", featuring Carl Gustav Jung
4. What is the largest religious university in the United States?
"Religion? in the US? surely you jest." -
"All of them. As long are there are tests, there will be prayers in school." -
"Ohio State, where every year they say 'Jesus, we lost another BCS game?'" -
"The Pastafarian institute of learning 'Olive Garden' has extensions all across the U.S." -
"Speaking of Liberty University - 'Did Jerry Falwell really think it was feminists? Is that what upset God? That women a number of years ago decided to leave the kitchen and go into the work place and demand equal wages and demand power equal to a man? That's what upset God? That God looked down into the kitchen -- and there was not a stew on the oven, and the spice rack was in disarray -- and he said, 'I will smote them!'" -
"Oral Roberts University. Unlike Catholics, they're very progressive about sex." -
"Oh my God, what are the biology classes like? 'God created the world and everyone in it. We shouldn't tamper with God's work. Class dismissed.'" -
(To be fair, that would be the only way I'd get an A in biology class. That always was my weakest science. -CV)
"Yeshiva University... according to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, we've got hidden campuses all over the place, wherever you'd least expect it!" -
(Friggin' Zionist conspiracy. Where does it end? -CV)
"It's only the largest because they count the many wives of each male student in the student-census." -
"All Your Wife Belong To Us U." -
"There aren't nearly enough people who see 'BYU' and think 'Blow Yob University,' said with a thick Scandihoovian accent." -
"Brigham? I haven't even met him!" -
"Bring 'Em Young" -
Correct Answer: Brigham Young University
"Named for the second leader of the Mormon Religion, the successor of Joseph Smith after Smith went and got himself killed." -
(Well, to be fair, "Joseph Smith University" sound fairly plain and ordinary. Might as well be "John Doe University". -CV)
5. What 1988 action western about Billy the Kid featured Terence Stamp and Jack Palance?
"There's a joke here about goats and Stomp the Yard, if you tilt your head to the side and squint real hard." -
(No more drugs for this quizling. -CV)
"'Young Guns', supposedly the most historically accurate of any Billy the Kid film Hollywood has ever made. That makes me sad, 'cause I don't like a single scene of it." -
(But it has so much pretty in it!! - LL)
"Forget about those two, that movie was all about Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen and Dermot Mulroney....*fanning self*" -
(SEE?!?!?!?! – LL)
(Cleanup, aisle six. Bring a big mop. -CV)
"Billy the Kid was in Bill & Ted's Adventure. And I just noticed that there were two Bill's in that film! Go me." -
"I always get Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving confused. Then I start thinking about elves and Matrix agents and drag queens in the Outback. Then I give up and go back to bed." -
"I keep getting Jack Palance confused with Jack Lalanne." -
"SUCK IT, UNDEAD JACK PALANCE, I CAN FINALLY DO A ONE-ARMED PUSHUP." -
"I seem to have imprinted on Stamp as Zod, and can't seem to think of him as anyone else until I see it. There's probably something wrong with this. So I suppose my guess would have to be Jack Palance Does One-Armed Pushups Before Zod. Which doesn't have quite the same ring to it as kneeling." -
"Candygram for Mongo!" -
"City Slickers 2: Electric Boogaloo" -
"'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert', in which Terence Stamp -- a transgendered performer -- rescues her son from the clutches of his evil stepfather (Jack Palance), who is trying to make 'a man' out of him by forcing him to herd cattle. Along the way, they find treasure and the meaning of true love." -
"Jung Guns" -
(Nice crossover. -CV)
"Jack Palance hit on my mom in Vegas in the 50s. Oh God, it really IS My MOM!!!!!!" -
(+2 for your mom. -CV)
Correct Answer: Young Guns
"Whether Young Guns is the answer or not, I'm going to blame you guys for getting Bon Jovi in my head." -
(I would place the blame at Rock Band's feet. We're just enablers. -CV)
6. What makes you feel younger than you are?
"I would've said pudding wrestling but I used that last time so this time I shall say consuming copious amounts of liquor and stealing corn from the corn fields in Jersey." -
(Oh, so you're the one… - LL)
"That no matter how long I work somewhere, all my coworkers are older than me. Nothing makes you feel younger than having everyone ask if you're even old enough to drink at the company outing." -
"Today my boss referred to me in a memo as 'just out of college.' It's been a year. Is it possible to feel infantile and decrepit at the same time?" -
"Puddles. I see a puddle and I jump in it. Not always wise in NYC. I have since limited my puddle hopping to my yard after one very unfortunate drunk night in Greenwich Village." -
"Eating ice cream straight out of the container. Makes me feel like I'm getting away with something naughty!" -
"Precious little, these days. Get off of my lawn." -
"I got a girlfriend 16 years younger than I am. It is righteous." -
"Being around my parents. Always guaranteed to make me feel like I'm still a little kid." -
"Trying to figure out my kids' Singapore Math homework. Oh, wait, that makes me feel dumber than I am." -
(...Singapore Math? Do they do math differently from everyone else? I had no idea! -CV)
"High school cheerleaders. Well, okay, one. IT WAS ALL LEGAL. As in, she flirted and I couldn't do a DAMN THING BECAUSE I WAS OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK BEER OH MY GOD WTF" -
"No matter how old I get, college girls are always the same age." -
"My son. At fourteen, he's old enough to begin having his own opinions, and he's still young enough to be silly. Plus, watching him negotiate his first girlfriend is highly amusing." -
"Only my ability to belch 'f***ing bollocks' and a reasonable portion of the alphabet. Sadly, they're not considered alluring traits for a lady." -
(Unless The Lady Is a Tramp – LL)
"Living in a crappy apartment, eating top ramen and binge drinking. It's like college without all the pesky papers to write. " -
"At my bachelorette party, I was the last one to order a drink and the only one to get carded, even though I was older than most of my bridesmaids. This spring, a man at work asked me if I graduated yet and I said Yes, a couple years ago; then he asked if I were going to go to college.... and I told him that was what I graduated from. FML" -
"Nothing. I feel old old old. I'm gonna be 20 this year. :|. And, like, 1997 was 13 years ago. That was, to me, "a few" years ago, but a lifetime for a thirteen year old. Argh!" -
(Nothing personal, but the three of us are probably going to show up at your doorstep tomorrow and kick your extremely young ass. Just giving you a heads-up. -AL&CV&LL)
"This bottled water from Florida. I dunno what it's called but MAN is it gooood." -
(I think it might be called "hooch". -CV)
"Actually losing weight and being thin . . . which I've not done and I'm not." -
"Nobody was born after 1990, what are you talking about?" -
(I see we share the same philosophy... -CV)
And there you have it. Now git off our damn lawns, you pesky kids!
Rock On!
AL&CV&LL
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Date: 2010-05-17 01:35 pm (UTC)So, that goes, "One la plus One la equals Two lala?"
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Date: 2010-05-17 01:50 pm (UTC)Am disappointed in mine self for another week of no funneh. Though if anyone's read my journal lately, they'd see it might be because work has had me a little too WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. Real life has just been too bizarre to make sh*t up for your amusement. :P
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Date: 2010-05-17 02:11 pm (UTC)I read a Glee fanfic a few days ago that had Spice Girls '2 Become 1' classed as old. I remember it coming out! That made me feel all my 22 years of life. :(
And turning 20 sucks ass cause you're not a teen, but you're not the magical twenty one where people give you more booze and large keys with 21 on it. I'm gonna go nap.
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Date: 2010-05-17 03:10 pm (UTC)Everyone who was in or had graduated college in 1990, raise a gnarled, wrinkly fist.
And anyone who loves some Dio, throw the horns. Old Man Metal, dead at 67.
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Date: 2010-05-17 03:20 pm (UTC)Also, one gnarled wrinkly fist raised over here. Recognize, bitches!
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Date: 2010-05-17 03:46 pm (UTC)(posting too early here...)
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