ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 27 December 2010

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1. What Australian state is nicknamed "The Sunshine State"?

"Australia has states?" - six of you

"there are no states in Australia. only Tourist-land and SHIT THAT DESERT IS FULL OF EVERYTHING THAT WILL KILL YOU." -

cold_clarity
"No, Australia, cutesy state nicknames are not enough to coax me into your spider-infested murderous poison-spitting even-the-seashells-will-kill-you deathtrap!" -

lisacharly
"It's the one between the 'Everything's Poisonous' state and the 'Everything wants to eat you' state" -

mattwolf

"The one next to the Moonshine state" -

crescent_fall

"Croikeyland" -

zihuatanejo

(It's right next to Blimeyton and Gdaymatia. -CV)

"Bruce" -

drbear
"No Pooftahs!" -

i_calql8

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"You put a picture of the Queen on your money. You're British." -

dragonalchemist

"the one directly under the hole in the ozone layer. No one there thinks it's a funny nickname but everyone else does." -

indiana_j

"I've been to Australia! I spent a week there. I don't remember much, except for the morning mimosas, brunch beers, lunch lagers, afternoon aperitifs, dinner digestifs, evening everclear and nightly nightcaps. Oh, and the tattoo. I remember the tattoo." -

frequencyshift

"The only Australian state I know is drunk" -

paradoxotaur,

dhud98

"Australia has annexed Florida? Hey, they're welcome to 'em, and all their electoral shenanigans." -

songquake,

flipthefrog,

lovefromgirl and several others offering to sell Florida's wangly shape off to the highest bidder

"I was in Queensland this past September! Here's a picture of me swimming in the GBR with a huge fish:

For reference, Ms. Machina is the one on the upper left, without the big lips. -CV

For reference, Ms. Machina is the one on the upper left, without the big lips. -CV

" -

kristinmachina

"Does Queensland have oranges? Florida has oranges. How could you be the sunshine state without oranges!" -

cjtremlett

Correct Answer: Queensland

2. After playing a bit part in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond", Kevin James was given his own sitcom using the same character. What was that sitcom?

"Heavyset Man in Tiny Shorts With Annoying Wife" -

indiana_j,

mattwolf,

laughingacademy

(I think that was "Roseanne". -CV)

"Wait, wait, I've heard of this one! It's the one where the attractive, intelligent woman stays with her unattractive, buffoon husband for no discernible reason, right?" -

lisacharly

"'I Could Have Been Here Last Week', alternatively referred to as 'How I LJDQ'd Your Mother'" -

etcet

"Coming to America: The Afteryears" -

frequencyshift

"Finally Someone Shot Raymond" -

wiredwizard

(I think they renamed that one to "Oz". -CV)

"that sitcom was a misnomer, since I hated Raymond" -

b_hulsmans and eight others

"How Kevin James Met Your Mother" -

alfvaen

(That's in the "Disturbing" section of the porno store. -CV)

"And You Thought Ray Romano Was Annoying" -

i_calql8

"Someone once told me they like Everybody loves Raymond because it reminded them of their life, and that I'd understand it when I got married, and got my own in-laws. More people should be told that. Suddenly all marriage problems would be solved because no one would get married ever again." -

natt_barn

"King of Queens, co-staring his buddies the Baron of Astoria and Duchess Greek Diner." -

marasca

"The conversation goes as follows: 'It must be King of Queens.' 'What? Really? But isn't that guy Ray's brother?' 'No, no, see, they're all Queen-themed, and I don't know of any more shows that have Queens in them. Except maybe Glee.'" -

dragonalchemist

Correct Answer: "The King of Queens"

"I guess the next spin off will be at Flushing Meadows, called Ten's Ace starring a US Open wannabe named Jack?" -

ntlespino

(I hope whoever starts working on that gets clubbed, has his heart cut out with a diamond drill, and is then spayed. -CV)

3. What heavy metal band was originally called "The Mob" before renaming themselves in 1981?

"The Coreleones. Admit it, you'd listen" -

lots42

(Only because they were gonna kneecap me if I didn't buy all their albums. -CV)

"The Legitimate Businessmen" -

seferin,

mattwolf

(Didn't fool the DA one bit. -CV)

"You've got a nice band here. Be a shame if it were to...break up, wouldn't it?" -

alfvaen

(Ozzy Osbourne left a bat's head in their bed, just to make sure the message went through. -CV)

"Cadmium Poisoning... hold on, let me google to make sure that's not actually a real band name... nope, we're good, as long as you don't take off points for googlecheating" -

seekingferret

(I think their Russian counterpart was Polonium Poisoning. -CV)

"I think it's a law that heavy metal bands need umlauts" -

cjtremlett
"För än 80s mëtäl bänd, thëy shöüld bë cömmëndëd för lïmïtïng thëïr ümläüt üsägë tö öne." -

filmbuff

"Queensrÿche--and oddly enough, they're an American group" -

holmes221b

(We can't help it; we just love us some umlauts. -CV)

"It's a good thing Adolf wasn't their lead singer or they'd be called QueensThirdRyche" -

lanzaned

"Queen Strontium Yttrium Carbon Hydrogen" -

i_calql8

(Oooh, no credit. That should be Helium at the end there. And Yttrium is sadly lacking in umlauts. -CV)

"Queensrÿche, who I used to confuse with Queen for.. years. I don't think I managed to clear up the difference until my mid-teens, which I've never admitted before now." -

jargon

"Are Queensryche really considered to be *heavy* metal, or am I just some kind of heaviness elistist douchebag? Or is that a false dichotomy I'm making up to sound vaguely condescending?" -

etcet

(I think all their instruments are made of depleted uranium. That's a pretty heavy metal. -CV)

Correct Answer: Queensrÿche

4. In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", whom does Mercutio describe as the fairies' midwife who brings dreams of wish-fulfillment to sleeping mortals?

"Shakespeare is good in English, but you need to read him in the original Klingon..." -

lanzaned

(+1, Star Trek VI. -CV)

"I recognize the words. But together, they make no sense!" -

freezer818

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"He had a line before he was stabbed? I thought he was just like the black dude in a Sci-Fi network slasher movie. There to up the body count." -

lots42

(Have you read Shakespeare's tragedies? EVERYONE was there to up the body count. -CV)

"Lady GaGa" -

drbear,

crescent_fall

"Sounds like a weird blend of a fairy godmother and a succubus... A succufairy?" -

alfvaen

(I believe a lot of people around here wouldn't mind a visit from the succufairy. -CV)

"The Queen of the Vibrators" -

akiyasan

"I didn't know Titania was the midwife of the Faeries as well as their Queen." -

sticky9fingers,

wrestlingdog
"A queen as midwife to fairies? Dreams of wish-fulfillment? Sounds as if good ol' Will was writing his own fanfiction, slash, mpreg and all!" -

germankitty

"I am consistently disappointed that Queen TITania isn't portrayed as being a whole lot more buxom. I know which way MY wish-fulfillment runs. MAKE IT FUCKING SO, BILLY WIGGLESTICK" -

etcet

"If she's a fairy midwife she should help deliver fairy babies, not dreams of wish-fulfillment. Does that mean fairies give birth to dreams of wish-fulfillment? If they gave birth to more fairies instead, maybe they wouldn't have to worry so much about not being believed in" -

rikchik

"Push, Tinkerbell! PUSH!" -

kristinmachina

(Oh Peter Pan, you naughty boy... -CV)

" Interesting fact: the town where I went to university used to have a law in the Middle Ages that no woman was allowed out on the streets without a male escort after 6 o'clock at night--except midwives. I always found that, despite the sexism of the first part, the second part showed an amount of common sense that modern lawmakers seem to be sorely lacking." -

yamx

"Midwife? I do not think that word means what you think it means." -

songquake

(Well, there's your starter wife, where you practice marriage and end in a quick divorce. There's the final wife, which you keep for good. And then there's the midwife, who's kind of like a rebound/test subject. That might be the most dangerous one. -CV)

"The fairies didn't need a midwife to bring slumber. They just put people to sleep with a little Anastasia." -

n5iln

"This speech is another one of those long and winding sex jokes that Shakespeare loved, and which you will never get if your eighth grade English teacher was a prude" -

flipthefrog

Correct Answer: Queen Mab

5. Before her death in 2001, R&B star Aaliyah filmed her part in which film?

(Ok, fine, the sentence should have read "JUST before her death..." You know what I meant. -CV)

People who hated this movie: 19
People who loved this movie:

angelicmuse18

"Queen of the Damned, and I would've said that movie sucked, but it'd be both a bad pun and untrue by proxy, because if QotD sucked, I have no words for Twilight. QotD might've been salvagable, though, the novel's nice." -

hinotori

"All I can come up with here are zombie jokes and none of them are coming together" -

rikchik

(Yeah, zombies tend to fall apart easily. -CV)

"Jet Li Should Stick To Kicking People" -

freezer818

(That movie was "Romeo Must Die", and you are totally correct. -CV)

"Too bad they didn't name it Juliet Must Live" -

ntlespino

"Aaliyah's dead? Um...who's Aaliyah again? That's not Muhammed the boxer's daughter, right? Cuz she was just on DWTS a couple seasons ago and looked very much alive." -

majorsamfan

"Completely off topic, but my goddaughter was named after her (Aaliyah, not the queen of the damned, though that would have been cool....)" -

b_hulsmans

"No sparkly vampires here, but it does have Claudia Black! (didn't see it, so no idea how big a part she has.)" -

cholma

(She's got like two lines of dialogue and then she gets pasted. Alas. -CV)

"The Queen of the Damned, the Sarah Palin story" -

seferin

(You mean The Future President of the Damned, right? -CV)

"Airplane! Sorry, was that tasteless?" -

lisacharly

(+1, tastelessness. -CV)

"It always frustrated me that they never explained how, between Interview With The Vampire and this movie, everyone got younger and less talented." -

filmbuff

"I find it so incredibly sad that such a talented woman as Aaliyah was left with Queen of the Damned as her pièce de résistance of acting." -

frequencyshift

(See also, Raul Julia going out on "Street Fighter: The Movie" and Orson Welles going out on "Transformers: The 80's Cartoon Version, Not That New One With Megan Fox". -CV)

"Queen of the Damn I'm Old Because I Remember When She Died" -

marasca

Correct Answer: "Queen of the Damned"

6. How are you spending your Christmas holiday?

"Wait, what? What does Christmas have to do with..? I'm so confused. All the questions were clearly.. But now the last question.. what?" -

jargon

(God, I love doing that. -CV)

"Eating Chinese, like all good Jews" - 15 of you. Shalom! I think a few non-Jews were hopping on your bandwagon, though...

"Elf hunting. It's prime season - got to get them before they start breeding!" -

indiana_j

(Plus, they're delicious. -CV)

"Shoveling snow. "Dreaming of a white Christmas", my ass! We've had a foot of the stuff since Tuesday; airports are closed, trains get stuck, buses don't run and gas stations have run out of ALL types of gas. Gimme sunshine (or at least a major thaw) any day instead ...." -

germankitty

"Ooh, big excitement for us: I'll be teaching my wife double-entry bookkeeping, designing a web interface for a personal database, and if I can handle the excitement, replacing the light bulbs in my stereo display with LEDs. Also there might be beer." -

squeegibo

(You had me at "beer". -CV)

"Getting trashed, opening presents, getting trashed, eating, getting trashed, sleeping" -

angelicmuse18

"The same thing we do every Christmas, Pinky, TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!" -

wrestlingdog,

b_hulsmans

"Driving six hours on icy roads to Beaverlodge, which has an actual big beaver statue in it." -

alfvaen

(+1, Beavers. -CV)

"Wearing pants as little as possible" -

filmbuff

(I am all about the no pants right now. -CV)

"Before I got married, I worried about getting laid on Christmas. Now I don't worry because I know that I won't. Maybe New Years, though." -

dhud98

"I'm thinking Jeff Bridges double-feature: Tron Legacy and True Grit. Failing that, finding whatever channel is running the A Christmas Story marathon and reciting the dialogue." -

laughingacademy

"Up to my waist in alpacas. Long story." -

mattwolf

And there you have it. To follow up our King theme last time, we have a Queen theme. We even told you we were going to do it. Predictability: We Has It. Creativity: Feh.

Hopefully all of you have had or are having a happy holiday season, regardless of which holiday you choose. Some of you even have a lot of white fluffy snow to make things more seasonal. Isn't that nice? Sure it is...

Tune in tomorrow for more Quizly Goodness! You know you want some...

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