LJ Daily Answers: 7 March 2011+1

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"By the way, thanks, this damn quiz got "Run Joey Run" in my head. And who wants that?!" - shinga

You're welcome, as always.

Sorry we're late again; Monday and Tuesday are just so darn similar sometimes. Punch it!

1. Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell are better known as whom?

“My theme-ignorant first guess of 'The Beastie Boys' was astonishingly close. I think this means I'm beginning to understand how you think. I obviously need to drink more (to either speed up, or slow down, the process.)" - etcet

“The Three Amigos!" - kenshardik, akiyasan, 7tree_hugger, squeegibo, alfvaen, demon_666
"The Three Stooges" - domestik_fucker, sticky9fingers, thepikey

"The Three Musketeers, who for some reason used swords instead of muskets. Shouldn't they have been the swordeers?" - mattwolf

“The A-Team." - darthparadox

"Aerosmith's back-up rappers." - lbmango, paradoxotaur

"Peter, Paul, and Mary" - david_deacon

"The law firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe" - drbear

"You can't ask me a question about hip hop, I'm Asian!" - lisacharly

“Ron-McD! No, wait... that's the clown with the hamburgers..." - blindgeoff

“Their song 'Walk this way' is nightmare fuel. You think of Steve Tyler's mouth, and add it to the lyric 'Just give me a kiss'..." - vayshti

“People who could tell us how to get to Sesame Street?" - killabee886

(We never did find out, did we? – LL)

“Well, it can't be ZZ Top, one of the band members' last names is Beard, to compensate for his lack of epic facial hair. Bet he never hears the end of it from the other two. Poor, clean-shaven Beard." - pavonine

(It kept getting in the way of his drumming, actually… - LL)

Correct Answer: Run DMC

"I wonder what DMC stands for" - holmes221b

(Darryl McDaniels' rapper name was DMC, so maybe it's his initials, D and Mc, combined. -CV)



2. People are "renewed" at age 30 by the Carousel in which film?

"I have nothing for this so I'm just going to pretend 'run-ewing' is a hilarious pun." - lisacharly

"The Joan Rivers Story: Facelifts and Implants for All" - ajmcoqui

"Chariots of Fire. Bah bahh bah bah bahhhhh bahhhhhh.... bah bahh bahh bahh bahhhhhhhh.... bah bahh bah bah bahhhhh bahhhhhhh.... bah bahh bahh bahh bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... bee bee bee bee be, be be, be be... bee bee bee be beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." - etcet

(I will take a shot for every person who gets this song stuck in their head because of this. -CV)

“For some reason I want to say 'Carnivale' instead of 'Carousel' and now I'm thinking of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby trying to escape the Sandmen in Road to Rio." - thepikey

"The only evil carousel I remember was 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. That spider-in-the-bedroom scene traumatized me." - lots42, squeegibo

"In Syracuse they have the Carousel Mall, and I keep expecting to see 20-year-olds running around in futuristic togas, floating up into the sky and getting zapped by lasers." - kenshardik
"Renewed? Have you ever BEEN to the Carousel Mall in Syracuse on Black Friday? I've been there and I think I aged three years in the three hours I was there." - umbralcorax

“Bloody hell, at 30 I'm just starting to figure things out, why would you start over? SADISTS" - love2loveher

"I just turned 30. Thanks for reminding me to stay away from carousels." - zihuatanejo

"M. Night Shyamalan's "The Carnival." The twist is, the carousel horses are STILL ALIVE." - pavonine

“Logan's Heroes or Hogan's Run - I get the two confused." - majorsamfan

"Is it a carousel with carved horses and a bandbox or is it the kind of carousel one puts slides in so as to bore one's acquaintances with one's vacation photos?" - sskipstress

(Well, it ends up being lethal, so let's go with the second one. -CV)

"Logan's Run, which incidentally is what I call it when I clean expired food out of my fridge." - shinga

(Note to self: if I ever visit you, we're ordering pizza. -CV)

“And you thought your HMO sucked." - kristinmachina

“Logan's Run was the first movie I ever saw that featured a naked woman. There have been others since then." - mattwolf

Correct Answer: Logan's Run



3. One of the highlights of the festival of Sanfermines in Pamplona is the encierro, commonly referred to as what?

"Pamplona -> pamplemousse -> grapefruit. Grapefruit + theme = the running of the grapefruit." - lbmango

"Is that the festival in Europe where they roll a giant cheese wheel down a hill and try to outrun it? It's something so pointless I'm surprised we Americans didn't think of it." - killabee886

(No, that one is much funnier. -CV)

“Deathtrap Alley" - ajmcoqui

“Battle of Bull Run" - florahart

"Run Fatboy Run" - crystalcazzie

"The Trampling of the Morons" - etcet, zihuatanejo, blindgeoff

“The throwing of bottles of A-1 sauce at bulls, reminding them who is really boss in the food chain." - drbear

“That answer has been transcribed in my head to the running of the balls. I don't know what it says about me that I am actually picturing nutsacks running through the streets of Spain." - angeweeks

“The reason you should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque." - umbralcorax

"The Superior Council of Scientific Investigations in Spain has found that the air in Madrid and Barcelona contains trace amounts of cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, cannabinoids and lysergic acid — a relative of LSD. It kind of makes you wonder whether Spanish people are actually running from a Bull or are just wasted." - raphsody606

"" - germankitty

Correct Answer: The running of the bulls

"Not to be confused with the Running of the Chicago Bulls, which I do believe is something else entirely..." - holmes221b



4. The Magna Carta was sealed by King John in 1215 in which English borough?

"Queens" - david_deacon
"Brooklyn" - kenshardik, kristinmachina
"Queens...or maybe Brooklyn" - majorsamfan

"Wow. I was so off track that I thought the Magna Carta was something the Americans wrote." - love2loveher

"There are places in England besides London?" - freezer818

(Yes. We call them "Scotland" and "Ireland". -CV)
(Oooooh, you're gonna get in trouble! -AL&LL)

“Runnymede, which you have to admit sounds pretty gross." - rikchik

“How am I supposed to know that, I'm American!" - sticky9fingers

“Worst. King. Ever." - zihuatanejo

"He Hee.. King JOHN, get it, Bevis...the theme is the runs." - dhud98

"From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as Johns!" - thepikey

“saw online that there were Magna Carta games, so I googled for images and all I can say is it looks like a whole lotta sexy time going on there. Somehow I don't think those costumes are historically accurate." - athousandsmiles

“Yt wer seal'd in Runnymeade, yccrdyng to thee fyne scholarshyp in Chaucer Hath Blogge" - blindgeoff

"I always wondered if he sealed it with a kiss." - b_hulsmans

(I always felt that KISS should seal everything with a KISS. -CV)

"Sherwood Forest" - jmthane, angeweeks

"Camelot" - mattwolf, frequencyshift

"Running-Really-Fast-To-Avoid-Beheading-on-Avon." - pirho_maniac

"I don't care how fucking Runnymede it is, hand it over with all speed." - i_calql8
"Ooooooooh...the cat's eaten it." - n5iln

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

“At the bottom. Hang on, no. Darn your clever question phrasing" - esran

“Yeah, I know they were in 1215. I was in 1217, and they were raucous like you would not BELIEVE. And they didn't even have the decency to invite me over." - umbralcorax

“Fun fact: habeas corpus is the only thing we Americans really kept from the Magna Carta. I think. We were talking about it in my constitutional law class but I was too busy playing Angry Birds, so take it with a shaker full of salt." - lisacharly

Correct Answer: Runnymede



5. Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, wrote which story about a popular game show in the year 2025?

"Wait, he wrote about a game show that occurred in 2025, or he actually timetraveled to 2025 and wrote about a game show?" - pavonine

(It's Stephen King. His powers are legion. Do not underestimate him. -CV)

“The Price is Reasonable" - seferin
"The Price is Right: Bob Barker will cut a bitch" - athousandsmiles

"Wheel of Pain, Misery, Torture, and Incorrectly-Paired Wines" - pirho_maniac

"I have NO IDEA why he thought Bowling For Dollars would last that long." - thepikey

"Survivior: Mars" - wiredwizard

"Death Race" - frequencyshift

"The Weakest Link" - 7tree_hugger, crystalcazzie

“Was the novel as bad as the movie with Schwarzenegger? What am I asking? it's a Stephen King Novel, of course it's as bad as the movie." - b_hulsmans

"Was it that one where Arnold killed everyone from a roller coaster, including the host. Or was it Bruce Willis? Meh. Does it really matter. Same thing." - dhud98

“The only game show I can think of right now is Wheel of Fortune. Which, knowing Stephen King, probably mutated into some kind of torture device to which a zombie nailed small children and animals. Er, nailed as in hammer and nails. My brain, it is broken" - angeweeks

“Maybe if I had gone and gotten that Nyquil, this answer would be better." - sskipstress

"AHNOLD and Richard Dawson Rethink Their Career Decisions" - cholma

"The only show where Richard Dawson didn't kiss all the contestants..." - majorsamfan

Correct Answer: The Running Man



6. What would motivate you to move as fast as you possibly could?

“Pie. (One can be motivated to run TOWARDS something just as much as AWAY...)" - lbmango

“Two words: President Palin. Voom! I'm in Canada!" - kenshardik

“The encroachment of Twilighters. Those things are worse than ants to get rid off" - seferin

"Zombie attack, and I would trip anyone slower than me." - killabee886

“Titties. No, really. I was actively bleeding out of my foot and I ignored it and went on for boobs. Real boobs." - lots42

“Money. Or boobs. Or money attached to boobs. Boobs attached to money, not so much." - pirho_maniac

"" - thepikey

“BUGS ON MY SKIN BUGS ON MY SKIN GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFF" - darthparadox

"Spiders. And anything else with too many legs. Or not enough legs, such as snakes." - ionicaq

“Spider Clock. Someone's going to post that thing again aren't they? It's just likes saying Beetlejuice three times!" - akiyasan, 7tree_hugger, frequencyshift, cholma

(Surprisingly, only kristinmachina, germankitty, and ajmcoqui shared TP Spider with us. -CV)

“Gillian Anderson, wearing only a thin layer of pudding, holding out a Hendrick's martini" - blindgeoff

"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'." - squeegibo

(+1, Monty Python's Meaning of Life. -CV)

"Oh, I actually have the correct answer for this. To get away from creepy, handsy Elvis impersonators that hang out in front of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood when they try to kiss you." - domestik_fucker

“Killer clowns." - crystalcazzie
“Clowns. I effing hate clowns." - paradoxotaur

“Sometimes I think about running from 'fun with lyrics'" - majorsamfan

“Justin Bieber. Towards him. I'm not even joking. I would take all the hatred of a raging, jaded, bitter, music-loving internet to see the Biebz live." - lisacharly

“Dogs? An angry mob?...torches and pitchforks bare minimum, I don't get off my ass for just anybody. One of Kendra's (our youngest, a daredevil) 'Hey daddy look what I can do' gone awry. Ooh!...one of those collapsing bridges that's falling away right behind your heels, and you either outrun it or you're gator food. I haven't had that happen yet but I bet I'd make it. And barbecue...love me some barbecue." - fmh

“Velociraptors. I would wear comically unsafe rocket rollerskates ala Scooby Doo if they got me away from velociraptors." - mattwolf




And there you have it. With a theme of running, obviously we slowed down on the delivery. Oops. We'll catch up soon enough. Maybe the next theme will be "walk" and it'll be up on Friday. Hah, that's funny. I kill me.

As always, thanks for playing, hope you all enjoyed, and we will see you tomorrow today, same time and same channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL