LJ Daily Answers: 20 December 2010

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

1. What world-famous author published several books under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman"?

"Dan Brown is the only world famous author I can think of..." - sticky9fingers

(Really? Not even Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author? -CV)

"I initially read 'Bachman' as 'Batman' and then, when I started to type this answer, I wrote 'Patrick Bateman' instead of 'Richard Bachman' so I think the answer is: Christian Bale." - cold_clarity

"The Goddamn Bachman" - athousandsmiles
"To the Bachmobile!" - broken_moons

"Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wasn't much of a disguise since he told people for years, 'I'll be Bach!'" - seferin

"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - 8 of you
"Turner Overdrive" - 5 of you

"Dick King. His most difficult novels are also his most rewarding; I love a good, hard Dick King." - johnwwells

"Sarah Palin. She didn't want her supporters to know she could read and write." - drbear

"I, for one, would love to see 'Rage' and 'The Long Walk' turned into movies, and a faithful remake of 'The Running Man,' be made... though that lattermost is kind of never going to happen, what with the JET PLANE CRASHES INTO SKYSCRAPER denouement." - etcet

(And you think the first has a better chance, being about a boy with a gun shooting up a school? -CV)

"True facts, after my mother read Duma Key she got rid of all the paintings in the house because they scared her. What did she replace them with? Lifesize cardboard cut-outs of celebrities. Congratulations, Stephen King, for somehow managing to make wandering half-asleep into a life-size Adam Sandler in the bathroom a less terrifying prospect to my mother than your books." - lisacharly

"I can't read books by Stephen King. No, seriously, I can't. It's not that I don't like him, or don't think he's a good writer--on the contrary he's TOO good a writer. I have a very vivid imagination. When I was about ten or eleven, I once read the cover blurb for one of his books. Just the blurb--I didn't even open the damn thing. I had nightmares for weeks. In fact, if I think to closely about to plot outline now, I *still* want to scream." - yamx

(+1 to Stephen King for traumatizing a quizling. -CV)

"Same bastard who left me a shaking wreck afraid the family cat was going to return someday stinking of bitterness and the grave." - reticent_lass

(And another +1 for Stephen King. -CV)

"Why publish under a pseudonym when the books are advertised as by Steven King?" - cjtremlett, operatic_diva

(Many ages ago, the books were not advertised as "by Stephen King". Now everyone knows the secret, so he doesn't bother with subtlety. -CV)

"Sounds like Stephen King was getting advice from Garth Brooks. Let's hope Richard Bachman has better hair than Chris Gaines." - paradoxotaur

Correct Answer: Stephen King



2. Which national capital was devastated by an earthquake in 1907?

"national doesn't have any capitals" - seekingferret

"It's either Santiago or Lima...which one is in Peru?" - sticky9fingers

(Lima, and no. -CV)

"Narnia" - therealchon

"Constantinople" - spiralgirl1

(But not when it was Istanbul. -CV)

"Doomstadt. Legend has it that if you say 'RICHAAARDS' in a mirror three times? It'll happen again." - reticent_lass

"Tokyo, because the earthquakes were just the rumblings of Godzilla's stomach. You know how it is: Eat Asian and you're hungry again in no time!" - mattwolf

"San Francisco was never the capital of the US, was it?" - love2loveher, mercuryblue144, akiyasan, operatic_diva, ntlespino, zihuatanejo

(Perish the thought! -CV)

"Sri Lanka's capital! Or, well, actually probably not. But in 1900, Galveston, TX was devastated by a hurricane that is described to have been more devastating than Katrina, so I just looked at a globe and found a place halfway around the world from Galveston. And well, Sri Lanka is an islands, and islands are formed by earthquakes, so...hey!" - lizwinlove

(And the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation this week goes to.. lizwinlove! -CV)

"As immortalized in song: 'Shake shake shake! Shake shake shake! Shake Djibouti!'" - bad_latin, i_calql8

"I'd feel like a terrible person for making earthquakes funny. Well, unless it's sexual. Hey, baby, wanna make me quake?" - sushimustwrite

"It's your fault I can't think of anything funny for this one. A tragedy of such magnitude shake me to the core so much it hertz. You're totally not on my wavelength.
God, earthquake puns fucking suck." - lisacharly

"Kingston? Kingland? Kingville? Kingsylvania? Throw me a frikkin' bone here!" - kenshardik

"I'd guess Kingston, but there aren't any faultlines in Ontario that I know of.. the earthquake that was felt earlier this year was epicentered in Quebec. Also, Kingston wasn't the capital in Ottawa, so I don't know what history books you guys are reading." - jargon

"*cue horrible imitations of Jamician accents by fellow quizlings*" - holmes221b

"If Don King held a fight there it would have been called 'The Quaker in Jamaica.' Going to hell now, kthnxbye." - kristinmachina

(Bonus points for Question #5. -CV)

"All those silly folk in Kingston thought they only had to worry about hurricanes. Surprise!" - cholma

Correct Answer: Kingston, Jamaica



3. What actor portrayed the titular character in the 1982 film "Gandhi"?

"LJDQ, you just threw out 'Tit' and 'Ghandhi' in the same sentence. I think that damns you to a special kind of hell where you have to constantly watch Stephen King books adapted to movies." - love2loveher, akiyasan, mistressjennfer, kristinmachina

(I cannot tell a lie: I regret NOTHING about this. -CV)

"Was that the film about Gandhi's younger brother who saw what nonviolence did and decided it was far better to kick ass and take names? Snake Gandhi, that was his name." - digitalraven

"Hulk Hogan. Seriously. 'Watcha gonna do, Nehru, when Gandhimania runs wild over you!?!'" - therealchon

"How many 'Super fragile mystic cursed with halitosis' jokes were there?" - ntlespino

(Surprisingly, only you. -CV)

"Keanu Reeves" - now that's just plain wrong. You all know who you are.

"Patrick Stewart? Yul Brenner? Dammit, I know it was one of those bald guys." - athousandsmiles

"Jim Varney. In Canada the movie is relabeled Earnest Starves To Death." - mattwolf

"Ooh! Ooh! That guy from BloodRayne!" - johnwwells, vayshti

(He pointed out that he wanted to play a vampire, and they gave him a chance. Fair is fair. -CV)

"An actor playing an indian? that can only be Ben Kingsley." - b_hulsmans

"J.K. Rowling and the name overlap {Ben|Kingsley|Shacklebolt} is responsible for some very weird mental images in my head, let me tell you. She describes a large, deep-voiced black man. He played very slender, elderly Indian gentleman. And yet, the mental pictures overlap." - silmaril

"Ben Kingsley. You know, it is just Not Right to be finding Gandhi hot. O.o" - lovefromgirl

"Ben Kingsley, who later undid all positive portrayals of Indians by appearing in The Love Guru." - la_trombonista

"I once served him a bottled Guinness in a Manchester gay bar" - grapefruitzzz

"Krishna Pandit Bhanji" - germankitty

(I'm going to call webcheating on this one because no one knows his REAL name. Naughty naughty! -CV)

Correct Answer: Ben Kingsley

"The film would have been totally different with the studio's first choice, Sylvester Stallone." - kenshardik



4. Easy fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall...
There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall...
There's a blue whale beached by a spring tide's ebb...
There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web

"OH MY GODS IT'S STING, IT'S STING" - rosefox8 and 23 others

"I never knew there was a second verse to 'Humpty Dumpty.'" - love2loveher

"I'd guess it's not the PETA theme song." - athousandsmiles

"'Ode to Global Warming' by Albert and the Gorettes" - majorsamfan

"Fossil = earth... Butterfly = air.... Salmon = water... CAPTAIN PLANET!" - johnwwells

(By our powers combined, we give you a -1 because we hate that damn hippie. -CV)

"One of these things is not like the others. Why is the fossil trapped? Is it trying to escape? Is this an Inuyasha filler monster?" - reticent_lass

"There once was an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die!" - akiyasan

"There's a delicious cake left out in the rain...
And the rain in Spain stays on the plain..." - kenshardik

"We've got every color, we've got ev'ry shade.
We're located next door to Willy's Fun Arcade.
We got every fabric that was ever made,
But I'm known in this city as the King of Suede." - cholma, alfvaen

(+1, Weird Al Yankovic. -CV)

"I have sat here before in front of my laptop screen
With some dreams of high quotage stuck inside my brain
I guess I'm always hoping I could play this game
And get a +1 when I say it's Sting, again" - lisacharly

Correct Answer: "King of Pain" by The Police (featuring Sting!)



5. What boxing promoter was responsible for "The Rumble in the Jungle" and "The Thrilla in Manila"?

"Marge Simpson!" - love2loveher

(Right hair, wrong character. -CV)

"Somebody from Australia, I presume. Cartoons have taught me that most pugilists are kangaroos with boxing gloves." - bad_latin

"Andre the Giant" - primavera

(He is the Brute Squad. -CV)

"A Stripling called Kipling" - vayshti

(His 'Rumble in the Jungle' was Rikki Tikki Tavi vs. Nagaina, no holds barred, in the snake hole. -CV)

"Don Ho" - jmthane, la_trombonista

(The differences between 'Ho' and 'King' are... significant. -CV)

"" - germankitty

"The rumble in the jungle always makes me think of intestinal distress. Not quite what they were going for, I'm sure." - drunken_hedghog

"Don Kingxote" - ntlespino

"So a guy possessed by the insane tribble living on his head convinces people to pay money to watch two guys hit each other? What kind of cockamamie late night sci fi garbage are you watching?" - mattwolf; 14 others pointed out his "troll hair"

"Don-King Kong. He was doing just great until he put Ali up against Superman and an Italian plumber lost a lot of money on the fight. That stuff about princesses and barrels is just what Mario invented to avoid the story being about his sordid gambling debts." - digitalraven

"Don King should come back with 'Boxing With the Stars':
Step One: Hire Don King
Step Two: Cast with celebrities that America would most like to see beaten to a bloody pulp
Step Three: ???
Step Four: PROFIT!" - kristinmachina

(I would record the "Paris Hilton vs. Lindsay Lohan" match and watch it OVER AND OVER AGAIN. -CV)

"I challenge Don King to come up with a catchy name for a fight in Uzbekistan." - b_hulsmans

Correct Answer: Don King



6. You just won a castle. Which castle (real or fictional) would you most like to call your own?

"Why have I just won a castle?" - holmes221b

(holmes221b, when someone tells you that you've won a castle, you say YES! - Dr. P. Venkman)

"At first I thought that said cattle instead of castle. More meat!" - akiyasan

"Hogwarts" - jmthane, temperance14, silmaril, germankitty

"Howl's Moving Castle" - digitalraven, zihuatanejo

"Not Howl's Moving Castle. You'd get zoning violations AND parking tickets with that thing!" - mattwolf

(I dunno, you'd have to be a pretty ballsy cop to put a ticket on something that could stomp your cruiser into a pancake. I'd let it go. -CV)

"Grayskull" - seferin

"Castle Anthrax" - drbear, wiredwizard, spiralgirl1, drunken_hedghog

"Blarney! I want the stone! Or the tourist revenue." - ntlespino

"Hearst Castle in a heartbeat. I've had a burning desire for a paintball gun tournament there since I was thirteen." - reticent_lass

"Richard Castle, as played by Nathan Fillion" - 35 of you

"Frank Castle. No one fucks with The Punisher (not since his wife was slaughtered, anyway)." - david_deacon

(Seriously? Only one Punisher entry? I am distressed. -CV)

"Remember the line, 'Your princess is in another castle'? I wanna be in THAT castle. The one with the frickin' princess, dammit! Sheesh!" - thepikey, umbralcorax

"I'm partial to the Scottish and Irish castles, but the Predjamski Grad is pretty cool." - etumukutenyak

"I can't decide between the Disney Castle and Castle Auuuuurrrrrgggggghhhhh. On the one hand, made of plastic. On the other hand, full of cow-throwing Frenchmen." - jargon

"Castle Doom, because then I'd be served by an army of robots that look just like me and it wouldn't be creepy at all..." - seekingferret

"Buckingham Palace, because it's handy to the Tube." - drbunsen

"Newcastle! It's really big and has lots of tough people in it." - grapefruitzzz

"White Castle sounds pretty good to me right now. Must be dinner time." - squeegibo

"Neuschwanstein. Fun to say, totally impractical, built by a 'Mad King,' and home to Cinderella. It could only be better if there were umlauts. When it is mine, I will rename it Neuschwänstein." - love2loveher, vayshti

"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place." - therealchon



You have all handled this quiz in a most kingly way. Even you ladies. Maybe tomorrow we can all be queens instead. Heh.

More quizly goodness coming up this holiday season, so don't miss it! It will be delicious. Like chocolate santas. Unless you're lactose intolerant, in which case it might be less delicious.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[bad-latin.livejournal.com]

"God, earthquake puns fucking suck." - lisacharly

Mega lols!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Puns: Always so bad that they're good.

[songquake.livejournal.com]

Regarding question #3, didn't you already ask this on a quiz? Like, maybe a couple of years ago?

*goes back to lurking*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We did use the theme of "Kings" on a previous quiz. Didn't ask this question at that time, but maybe we used it on another quiz. Shameless recycling is not beneath us. Really, nothing is beneath us. We are well and truly shameless. ;-)

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

5 effing quotes. I rock.

Lots of them are groupthinks, but I don't care.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That does totally rock. Even if you rock with everyone else.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Of the four people saddled gifted with Hogwarts, let me tell you Internets, I am not going to be the one responsible for Slytherin House. Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, thankyouverymuch.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We should just fly the Slytherins out to Bulgaria where they belong. All of them. And then we can sing about "Snapes On A Plane". And it will be terrible.

[germankitty]

Hmm, 1.25 genuine quotes, not sure whether I'm included in the "Turner Overdrive" answer to #1 (I know I mentioned having seen nothing yet), and as for this -- "Krishna Pandit Bhanji" - [info]germankitty

(I'm going to call webcheating on this one because no one knows his REAL name. Naughty naughty! -CV)" -- I did know his name was Krishna. Had to look up the rest, though. So I, uh, half-cheated only? I'ze sowwee! *sheepish grin*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, half-cheating is I suppose only worth -50/2. Fair enough.

[holmes221b.livejournal.com]

"Richard Castle, as played by Nathan Fillion" - 35 of you
And I'll bet Harry* was one of those 35..

Oh! And here's a random factoid--my birthday's next thursday.


*For those of you who don't know, Harry is sticky9fingers and one of my bestest friends in real life. He also lives right next door to me, and uses my wireless to connect to the internet, since he gets a better signal from it than from his own, which is on the oppisite side of the house from his room.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

sticky9fingers actually put in his vote for Richard Castle's daughter. Her name should have been Sandy Castle.

Birthday when? Thursday the 23rd or the 30th? Happy Almost Birthday! May you not grow old and wrinkly any more. Or something. ;-)

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

Maybe tomorrow we can all be queens instead.

*takes note for the "(not) Fun with Lyrics" question.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Phun With Leerix! You know you love it!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I was surprised not to have seen an Elvis-centric question, but I have to assume Sting took precedence.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Elvis "The King" Presley was too obvious. Plus, it's Sting. How could we resist?

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

I am bewildered. Usually when I am shut out, I already know my answers suck. This time, however, I had teh funneh. I did. Really.

Therefore, 1) my answers got stuck on teh intarwebs, or 2) I have offended the quiz gods

*goes to look for small woodland creatures to sacrifice*

[germankitty]

Leave those squirrels and bunnies alone, and submit unfunneh answers next time. That's what I thought I'd done last night, and look where it got me!

*sends homemade Christmas cookies*

[mark-laura.livejournal.com]

"I'm partial to the Scottish and Irish castles, but the Predjamski Grad is pretty cool." - [info]etumukutenyak

I was just there this summer. How awesome is a castle that was held by ONE guy against a whole army for a year! And with taunting!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And best of all, he wasn't even French. He did not have that outrrrrrageous accent.

[seekingferret.livejournal.com]

I love that reticent_lass and I both made Dr. Doom jokes on separate questions, neither of which had anything to do with Dr. Doom. Great minds, eh?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

DOOM APPROVES OF YOUR ANSWERS.

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

1 of my own and 2 group thinks is better than a wipeout, so I am a happy spiked bunny. I also want to change my answer to question 6: Predjamski Grad with the occupants of Castle Anthrax.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'd settle for MY APARTMENT with the occupants of Castle Anthrax. TO THE HOT TUB, YOUNG LADIES!

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

By the way, I think Stephen King is the LJDQ's first Celebrity +1

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It could be true. Alas, poor Sting; often mentioned, never scored.

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

Wa-hoo! 4 out of 6, two of them group thinks. Sweet! Good way to spend vacation time.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

True that! More vacation means more time to quiz!

[sushimustwrite.livejournal.com]

Hooray, quotage! I've been gone from LJDQ for far too long; I didn't even guess Sting for #4.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That is a tragedy; Sting is one of our cornerstones, next to gin and pudding and Brazilian volleyball players. You must return to the ways of the quiz!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Two quotes, two groupthinks and bonus points--WOOT!

Gin and Pudding for all and to all a good night!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Booyah! Truly an excellent and bodacious week for you! May Gin bring you an extra-good night!

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

Don King: the real reason doctors warn against taking Rogaine and Viagra at the same time.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I think he just wanted to be pope, so he grew his own pope-hat.

[lisacharly.livejournal.com]

Booyah, triple quotage for my birthday! Best birthday ever.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, young lady! May your day be filled with pudding and gin. Retroactively, of course.

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

Wow, I actually did pretty good. This was a great batch of quotes and questions--awesome work, y'all! Today is a good day.

Has anyone here ever been to Hearst Castle? It's pretty amazing in its sheer unselfconscious ridiculousness; it would be much improved by a few rounds of warfare.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I've been to Warwick Castle. And probably some other castles, forts, and other battlements. Not Hearst Castle, though.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

"Richard Castle, as played by Nathan Fillion" - 35 of you

Oi! You other 34 bitches better step off!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I predict a truly EPIC deathmatch for ownership of Fillion Castle.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

The Castle with the Princess in it sounds pretty neat. Lava pits, fire loops...I'd have to remove that damned axe though.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the cheeky dragon and all those weird turtles. Seriously, Bowser, just lay off.

[uadlika.livejournal.com]

germankitty, I have no idea who those boys are, but after close inspection I have determined they are the children of Edward Cullen (or Cedric Diggory, if you prefer) and Hermione Granger.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Edward Cullen: I'm not just the president of Hair Club For Sparkly Vampire Men; I'm also a client!

[jargon.livejournal.com]

I knew my combination of Python and Izzard would win quotage! Huzzah! Twice! And a half! (uncredited for Castle Anthrax)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Eddie Izzard would have been part of Monty Python had he been born a few decades earlier. I do believe it.

Bad Breath and Halitosis

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[neumeindil.livejournal.com]

yamx & reticentlass, you are not alone! As a freshman in college, we read his short story "The Man in the Yellow Suit". I had nightmares for a week. As a UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN... haven't picked up another one since.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Mmm, delicious trauma!

I guess his books never quite had that effect on me. Sure, some were creepy, but they didn't stick in my head like that. But I guess books don't have that kind of hold on my imagination. Movies, on the other hand, do. Cheeky movies.