LJ Daily Quiz: 14 March 2011, Part One

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And the start of our two-part Ides of March Eve Extravaganza arrives full-force! Not even Daylight Savings Time can stop our juggernautian onslaught! I like that word, "juggernautian". Must use again.

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
I came into this world as a reject
Look into these eyes
Then you'll see the size of these flames
Dwellin on the past
Its burnin' up my brain

"*twitch* *adds an apostrophe to the last line*" - rachelkachel

(Yeah, I know, sometimes I just cut-and-paste from lyrics without checking the insides. Their bad. -CV)

"'Scanners' by Sting" - squeegibo

"Brainfreeze by Slurpee & The Frosties" - wiredwizard

"Never mix Rogaine and Cialis. You turn into Don King." - n5iln

"Adonis' DNA, by Charlie and the Sheens" - etcet

"I'll bet it has something to do with zombies, bonfires, and France." - sticky9fingers

“Eninem. Or is Enimen? Enema?" - akiyasan

“I'll take sexual innuendo for 400" - thepikey

“I beg to differ, Mr. Songwriter: you don't know 'burning up' your brain' until you've tried to answer one of these "fun with lyrics" questions..." - demon_666

"Nookie by Limp Bizkit! Holy Shit, I actually knew one! Sure, it's a song I should be embarassed to know the words to, but I DON'T CARE I KNEW A 'FUN WITH LYRICS' YEY." - schizospider

Correct Answer: Limp Bizkit, "Nookie"



2. Polokwane is the capital of which South African province?

"I'm a college student, not a geologist!" - sticky9fingers

(Or a geographer. -CV)

"You follow up white-boy rappers with South African geography? Go to hell." - schizospider

"Sounds like a mashup of Enya and Toto." - n5iln

"District 9" - freezer818

(I still contend that "Christopher Johnson" was not his real name. -CV)

"RalphLaurenberg" - kristinmachina

"Wakanda" - mattwolf, i_calql8

(+1, Marvel Comics. -CV)

"Polokwane is clearly a local pronunciation of 'Pollack wane', meaning a place where the Polish presence has decreased over time, so I'm going with Lithuania" - squeegibo

"Poke'monisylvania" - wiredwizard

(Is that where African Pokemon come from? -CV)

"Limpopo, which even now still gives me visions of the Pope doing the Limbo. Limpopo, the new party game: 'How low can you go dressed as the Pope?'" - demon_666

(fizrep and I dressed as Mirror Universe Popes for a Halloween party once. It was about as sacrilicious as it could possibly be. We did not, however, limbo. -CV)

"Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa. They must have a thing for police there..." - holmes221b

(And not a good thing either. -CV)

Correct Answer: Limpopo



3. Spirit of America, Spirit of Innovation, and Spirit of Goodyear are the names of what objects?

"Hopes which died in the Eighties" - seferin

"The Three Amigos" - alfvaen

"Pamaela Anderson's dildos" - lots42

"Badly Named Ghosts" - wiredwizard

"Rides at Disney World. Or at least one of those "experiences" with the animatronic dead white guys." - uadlika

"If all the modern airships are silver covered in GoodYear advertising, why is steampunk full of browns and bronzes?" - sskipstress

(Silver hadn't been invented yet. -CV)

"Blimps. Or politicians. Either way, giant bags of gas." - n5iln

"" - kristinmachina, germankitty

"What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg? Well, one's a flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other's just a dirigible." - thepikey

Correct Answer: Goodyear Blimps



4. Don Knotts stars as both man and fish in which 1964 film?

"Boy, could he drink. He drank like a...he drank a lot." - i_calql8

(On April the 41st, I'll have a special quiz just for you. -CV)

"Gordon's Fisherman: Year One. 'Oh god, the burning!'" - lots42

"Charlie and the Tuna Factory" - seferin

"A Fish Called Don." - uadlika

“The Scaly D.A." - alfvaen

"Finding Barney Fife" - freezer818

"The Little Mermaid of Mayberry" - sticky9fingers

"Three's Company Under The Sea" - kristinmachina

"Manfish. That's a movie I'd pay to see. I mean, I sat through Terminator IV, so Manfish might even be good by comparison." - lisacharly

(It’s in the fall schedule for Syfy… - LL)
(OH THE HUGE MANATEE! -CV)

"'Splash Three: Merman ahoy!' What sailors REALLY fantasise about." - demon_666

"Don Knotts also filled in for Bruce during the filming of Jaws. Whenever they needed a giant shark fin, they just had Don swim by with his nose sticking out of the water." - mattwolf

"I thought he was a man/fish hybrid! He and Ariel got it going on." - akiyasan

"Uh ... a limpet is related to snails -- some kind of mollusk, I guess. So how can he be half man, half fish?!? Can we say biology fail?" - germankitty

Correct Answer: "The Incredible Mr. Limpet"



5. Who patented the "rocking" roller skate in 1863?

"Thomas Edison" - 8 of you
“Was it Edison? It sounds crazy enough for Edison - or maybe Tesla." - rachelkachel

(Tesla was a bad mother-- - LL)
(Shut yo mouth! – AL&CV)

"The Bay City Rollers" - i_calql8, seferin

"Keith Richards" - tweeti

"Ziggy Stardust. You doubt Bowie has time-travel capabilities?" - schizospider

“Nike. Or else Play-skool." - sticky9fingers

"Anything with 'rockin'' in the title must have been invented by Dick Clark." - lbmango, freezer818

(And it's not really hard to believe that he was around back then, either. -CV)

"Abraham Lincoln. He was a busy man." - squeegibo, etcet

(Apparently he got shot and killed for inadvertantly starting Roller Derby. -CV)

"Thinking of roller disco in the 1800's makes me want to sing 'Rock me Amadeus'. Damn you!" - mattwolf

"The Goddamned Batman" - thepikey

"" - germankitty

"Was it by the same person that came up with the frisbee? Was Marty McFly involved?" - akiyasan, wiredwizard

Correct Answer: James Leonard Plimpton



6. What's your favorite soft snuggly thing?

"How many people made 'flaccid' jokes?" - lbmango

(Surprisingly, only you. I expected much worse. -CV)

"
TAUNTAUN sleeping Bag - just like Luke Skywalker
Gotta love that intestine-print lining." - demon_666

"Richard Dean Anderson" - majorsamfan

"" - freezer818

"midget porn" - sticky9fingers

"mammals" - holmes221b

(A badger is a mammal. So is a wolverine. I suspect that "snuggly" is not in either creature's vocabulary. -CV)

"My herpes giant microbe plushie." - sskipstress

(That's what you get for sexing up a muppet. -CV)

“Boobies." - lots42 and 6 others. Yes, including david_deacon.

"My pink Snuggie, a.k.a. my Pepto Bismol Holy Ghost costume. Say 'holy ghost' in Eddie Izzard's voice, it becomes 280% funnier." - lisacharly

"Can I use the same picture two weeks in a row?" - thepikey

(For that picture, absolutely. -CV)

"" - etcet

"Snakes! Snakes are so soft and snuggly, the way they wrap their whole bodies around you and squeeze you so gently until you sink slowly into blissful unconsciousness..." - alfvaen

"Your mom" - squeegibo

"I'm a knitter and my mom's a quilter. By our powers combined, my winter bedding makes my bed THE AWESOMEST EVER." - schizospider



Don't worry; just because we have two quizzes today does not mean no quizzes tomorrow! We'll be back and bad and black and mad tomorrow, like usual! Well, like most of the time. You get the drift.

Thanks for playing, all, and see you real soon... like in five minutes, when you read the next quiz. Heh.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Hey, two quotes and one-half share with kristinmachina! Not bad for starters; now on to part #2!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Good show, wot wot! Let the quotage commence!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Thanks for providing the macro!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Nah, the macro was me; you both just said "OH THE HUGE MANATEE!" and I just love that picture. ;-)

[germankitty]

Thanks, but that was CV, not me!

[angelprojekt.livejournal.com]

That is a hamster, not a gerbil.
I would expect you to know this!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Dammit, angelprojekt, I'm a moderator, not Richard Gere!

[drbear.livejournal.com]

I never saw any of these questions! *sigh at missing a big quiz*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That is a sad sad thing. Twice the missed opportunity! Twice nothing is a lot of nothing!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Two and a half quotes! I have tigress blood! I am WINNING!

RIP Farrah.

OMG those Tauntaun things are REAL? WANT!

"Ziggy Stardust. You doubt Bowie has time-travel capabilities?" - schizospider

Honey, I KNOW he had time-travel capabilities! However the parking fees for a Tardis in Manhattan must be ungodly.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You are a winning tiger-blooded warlock on Charlie Sheen!

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Farrah. Oh yeah there's a quiz!

[freezer.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo! Four spot!

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

W00t W00t W00t!
I did great!
LL, do you watch Sanctuary too? I love Tesla on there, but he IS pretty creeeeeepy. Being half vampire will do that to you...

Or, are you talking about his cruelty to cats experiments (as seen recently in The Prestige)?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

That picture by etcet is so awesome and horrible at the same time. Kinda like Stephen Colbert interviewing Glen Beck.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

...April 41st? Are we stacking on all those days stolen from February onto April this year?

:P

[schizospider.livejournal.com]

FOUR?

I am officially drinking too much matcha every time I fill in a quiz. (Talk about feeling like a rock star from Mars, though...)