LJ Daily Answers: 20 December 2010
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ljdq1. What world-famous author published several books under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman"?
"Dan Brown is the only world famous author I can think of..." -
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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." -
paradoxotaurCorrect 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!" -
cholmaCorrect 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." -
kenshardik4. 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" -
lisacharlyCorrect 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_hulsmansCorrect 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." -
therealchonYou 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
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:11 pm (UTC)Mega lols!
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:16 pm (UTC)*goes back to lurking*
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:29 pm (UTC)Lots of them are groupthinks, but I don't care.
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:29 pm (UTC)saddledgifted with Hogwarts, let me tell you Internets, I am not going to be the one responsible for Slytherin House. Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, thankyouverymuch.no subject
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:42 pm (UTC)(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*
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:46 pm (UTC)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
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:46 pm (UTC)(And btw, we don't need no bloody Gryffindorks to be "responsible" for us, thankYOUverymuch! Hmph.)
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:58 pm (UTC)Birthday when? Thursday the 23rd or the 30th? Happy Almost Birthday! May you not grow old and wrinkly any more. Or something. ;-)
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:01 pm (UTC)*takes note for the "(not) Fun with Lyrics" question.
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:20 pm (UTC)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*
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:23 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2010-12-20 04:29 pm (UTC)*sends homemade Christmas cookies*
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