LJ Daily Answers: 6 September 2010

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Happy September, everyone! Here's a quiz on the number nine, because it's the ninth month, and it's back to school for all you studious types. Hop to it!

1. Trent Reznor is the key player in which music group?

"The Mormon Tabernacle Choir" - drbear

"Hung like Jesus" - photosinensis

"Nine for Fighting" - athousandsmiles

"The 88 Keys" - seferin

"The Insufferable Emo Douchebags" - freezer818

(No, that's Metallica. -CV)

"I didn't know Trent Reznor played the keys. Must be an awfully jangly band." - babybokal, cwtyger

"Why '9' inch?? Why not 'go all the way to '11'' inch nails??" - tweeti

(Because that's so Spinal Tap's gig. -CV)

"I want to say Aerosmith but that isn't right. Anywho, the Aerosmith guy produces movies where his daughter's clothes are falling off. That just isn't right." - lots42

"The Secret of NIN" - cholma

(Trent was the owl. -CV)

"Never Ingest Nutella" - bluetourmaline

(But it's so tasty! -CV)

"NIN, which is one away from Nine, which is kinda awesome, but probably not what they were going for when they chose the name." - dk2022

(Except in Canada, where they're "Nine Inch Nails, Eh", which does make it NINE. -CV)

"I seem to recall him doing a lot of whining and jumping around when I saw NIN play in 1994, though that may have been a result of his car keys being wedged into his pants uncomfortably." - etcet

"Man, wouldn't those be hard to play guitar with?" - lovefromgirl, seekingferret

Correct Answer: Nine Inch Nails

"Gotta admit, the metric version -- 22.86cm -- doesn't have quite the same effect ..." - germankitty



2. "Spider" and "Gumdrop" were spacecraft modules for which NASA mission?

"Ziggy Stardust and the Mission to Big Rock Candy Mountain" - theninth

(Chaaaaaaaaaarlie! We're going to Candy Mountain! -CV)

"I had no idea NASA had a Candyland mission. Did we beat the Russians to Molasses Swamp?" - athousandsmiles, mark_laura

"Good Starship Lollipop" - kristinmachina

"I may be branded some kind of heretic for saying this, but I FUCKING HATE GUMDROPS." - etcet

(You are not alone. They are of the Devil. -CV)

"The mission to the alternate Earth, it was a big hit with marvel heroes." - b_hulsmans

"Spider-Gumdrop, Spider-Gumdrop, does whatever a Spider-Gumdrop does." - seekingferret

(+1, The Simpsons movie. -CV)

"The Honeymooners. The series was the inspiration for both that mission, the one before it, and hell, the bulk of the Apollo program." - photosinensis

(If that were the case, the modules would have been named "Bang", "Zoom", and "Kisser". -CV)

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God." - babybokal

(+1, The Blues Brothers. -CV)

"Gumby goes to the moon. See, the moon landing could have been faked with claymation." - akiyasan

(Sting did it better. With LEGOs. -CV)

"Plan NINE from Outer Space! Yay, I figured the theme!" - lisacharly

"Apollo Ohno never comes in 9th" - majorsamfan

"Is it bad that I know this one because of Adam Ant? 'We will be fine, Apollo Nine, Even though Nasa say "Way out of line!"' Pardon me while I boogie." - drunken_hedghog

(I think it is bad, yes. -CV)

"Riddle me this - why would they name the missions after Apollo, who is more closely associated with the sun, instead of his sister Artemis, who is associated with the moon? I smell misogyny!" - frequencyshift

(It's a shorter word. It's ok; Artemis fans got their way with "Wild Wild West"'s Artemis Gordon. Who was a dude. Oh well. -CV)

Correct Answer: Apollo 9



3. Johnny Depp starred in which occult-themed 1999 film?

(Number of people who stopped reading and started drooling after the second word in this question: 19. -CV)

"The Craft. He was the innocent girl who got caught up in all that nasty Satanic stuff." - lovefromgirl

"The only occult film I remember from 1999 has Gabriel Byrne playing the devil, and you better believe I'd hit that like the Sword of Michael." - drunken_hedghog

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was lured in by the word 'chocolate' in the title and therefore unprepared for the horrors of that movie." - athousandsmiles, seferin, seekingferret

"NINEmare on Elm Street" - david_deacon

"Omen 9: This Time the Devil is Really Really Evil" - squeegibo

"Edward Scissorhands 2: The Resharpening" - kristinmachina

"The Ninth StarGate" - majorsamfan

(Is that Stargate Atlantis, Stargate MacGyver, or Stargate Wankertopia? -CV)

"Was he the witch in the Blair Witch Project?" - akiyasan

"Does anyone else think it's strange that Johnny Depp achieved Hottest Man Alive status through a role where his character was grimy and mangy and probably never bathed?" - babybokal

"Wait, are you saing Johnny Depp actually had a career between Jump Street and Pirates? Woah..." - deza, freezer818

(YA RLY! -CV)

"Right, he was in Ninth Gate, but did anyone else think that the sex scene at the end was kinda... Eh? Like, they had her knorcks out just as a gift to all the men who just had to sit through their wives/girlfriends watching and drooling over Johnny... If you're gonna get someone's boobs out, do it for a reason!" - dk2022

(... "knorcks"? Huh huh, knorcks. Knorcks knorcks knorcks. That's my favorite word of the day, right there. Unless she had been underwater, in which case they'd be Sknorcks. No one is going to get this joke. -1 to me. -CV)

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Summoning The Devil (Engravings not included)" - cholma

Correct Answer: "The Ninth Gate"



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said "I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink"
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

"Shouldn't that be 'Native American ink?'" - athousandsmiles

"'The Night I Learned To Make Roofies' by Mo Lester." - freezer818

"I'll take 'things you shouldn't put in your mouth' for a hundred, Alex." - lisacharly

"867-5309" - seekingferret

"Formula One is racing. Potion Nine is love. Formula 409 is cleaning. All the other numbers? DEATH!" - mattwolf

"'Bent down and turned around and gave me a wink...' wow... out of context, that's really, really really dirty." - shogunsquirrel

(Especially if, since they're bending down, they winked with ole Brown Eye. -CV)

"Sounds like every single hospital visit I have ever had." - lots42

(Including the nurses bending down and winking? I'm okay with that. -CV)

"Dr. Seuss' 'Horton Hexes a Who'" - i_calql8

"Love Potion Number 2 girls 1 cup. (Oh, god, no! Don't drink that!)" - mandydax

"Love Customer No. 9, by Eliot Spitzer." - drbear

"Does Love Potion Number Nine help if you come down with a case of Poison Ivy?" - theninth

"The movie was amazing in its terribleness as well. Can't beat a young Sandra Bullock, though. I'd do anything she asked regardless if I was magicked into having zero free will." - frequencyshift

Correct Answer: "Love Potion No. 9" by The Clovers

"I wonder what the first eight variations ended up causing." - etcet



5. In the Star Trek universe, what was the new name of Terok Nor?

(If we gave out Geek of the Week awards for this question, the negatives would have been out of hand. -CV)

"In the Mirror Universe, the name stays the same!" - cholma and ten others

"I'm only posting to say that I was trying to study in the library, took a break to check e-mail and LJ, and now have 'Tunak Tunak Tun' stuck in my head. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO STUDY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY IN THIS CONDITION, I ASK YOU?" - cougarfang

"Okay, I think this is the time to ask this, because my friends think I'm pathetic for not knowing: what the hell is a redshirt?" - babybokal

(A thousand quizlings will mock you, but we are at heart an educational institution, so we will answer. In Star Trek: The Original Series (that would involve William Shatner), a typical episode would involve Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and some miscellaneous unnamed crewmen beaming down to explore a mysterious planet. Said unnamed crewmen always wore red shirts, the uniform color of Security. By the end of the episode, said unnamed crewmen would almost invariably be DEAD. Thus, a "redshirt" is someone who is expendable and, if you're watching a movie or TV, you know that that guy is going to be toast by the end of the day. -CV)

"Terok Neither" - squeegibo

"After they built four of them and hooked them together correctly, it was called Terok Nand." - mark_laura

"Terrax the Tamer, Herald of Galactus. Now there's somebody I'd like to see go up against the Borg." - alfvaen

(I bet Galactus could smite the Borg. He's older than the universe, after all. -CV)

"Koret Ron - he turned Jewish and started reading his name from right to left." - drbear

"Ron Koret, who sounds like an accountant at a small firm in Tulsa." - mattwolf

(I thought he was a cultist in Waco, TX. -CV)

"'I'll be in my bunk.' Jeri Ryan: Single-bodysuitedly increasing the geek population." - etcet and six others

(More like killing the kitten population. -CV)

"Babylon 4 3/4" - wiredwizard

"K-9" - germankitty

"Can we switch to Stargate-related questions?" - reticent_lass

(Nope. Stargate is only good when Kurt Russell is involved. -CV)

"Come to Commander Sisko's Satellite of Love! Explore the Wormhole with these Bajoran Babes! Free Docking in Rear!" - mandydax

(+1, rear docking. -CV)

"When they took it over, they turned it into the most happening pizza place in the Beta Quadrant. For your pre-wormhole pepperoni fix, stop by the Deep Dish 9!" - cwtyger

Correct Answer: Deep Space 9



6. Back to school! If you could take any one class for fun right now, what would you study?

"Goddammit. I graduated from college a year ago, and now I wake up at 6 AM every day and commute an hour and 45 minutes each way to work. Why would you remind me of that oh-so-recent time when I used to sleep until noon on weekdays and walk 5 minutes to class? Why??" - babybokal

"Sex Education 101 - I'd like to see if they've discovered anything new." - drbear

(This just in: penises and vaginas can be licked! -CV)

"Anatomy, a hands on course" - seferin

"The mating habits of LJDQ-ers. I'm guessing it would be a short class." - athousandsmiles

(Notes could probably taken single-handedly. -CV)

"How to get quoted on LJDQ 101" - b_hulsmans, kagomeshuko

(Step one: drink more. -CV)

"I'd love to take a wine tasting class. A girl can dream..." - la_trombonista

(You just have to go to the right university. Like AL and I did. -CV)

"The Triple Lindy" - mark_laura, etcet

(Does anyone even know who Rodney Dangerfield is anymore? Sad times, people. -CV)

"You want to enroll in one of these. Don't even deny it." - kristinmachina

(We should be teaching this class. -AL&CV)

"I want to do that languages class where you learn a hodgepodge of five different languages at once, and this is somehow supposed to help you learn all of them properly... or make you sound mentally-deficient in five languages, I'm not sure." - soberloki

"Advanced Choreography And Social Engineering. I WANT MY LIFE TO BE A MUSICAL, DAMMIT." - reticent_lass

(Glee: It's not for everyone. -CV)

"I'd probably go back for a culinary degree, likely in pastry. I'd love to play with molten sugar but it makes my wife nervous to think of me doing it without training." - squeegibo

"Astronomy? I wish I had a better knowledge of the stars, and if I was backing taking university classes, I'd be in a position to pick up, because I wouldn't be married, and I hear knowing a bit about the stars is a good way to pick up chicks." - jargon

(Really? I knew I should have stuck with that astronomy class. -CV)



And there you have it. Nine shall be the number of the counting, but the number of the questions was still six, because that's the right thing to do. Wouldn't want to confuse you, after all.

Thanks for playing, and welcome to September, and all that good stuff. Keep on trucking, tell your friends, and see you all tomorrow for more quizly goodness!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL