ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 21 March 2011

chaosvizier.livejournal.com posting in

"The final draft for my thesis is due in a few hours and I've barely even started on the revisions, so I'm playing this quiz just so I'll have an alibi. 'Mr.

verocity, why have our recommendations not been implemented?' 'Oh, I was working on my LJDQ cred.' Thanks, LJDQ!" -

verocity

Priorities: We has them.

1. Robert Conrad and Ross Martin played Secret Service agents in which 1960's television series?

"If it wasn't on Nick at Nite, I don't know it." -

tears_of_nienna

"I am completely stumped on this one. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." -

athousandsmiles

(+1, Airplane. -CV)

"Now I know you're just begging for people to play the 'I'm too young to remember that shit' card, because none of YOU were around to remember the 60's, either." -

etcet

(I remember 1.62 years of it. :P – LL)

“Conrad and Martin's Laugh-in?" -

babybokal

"Trying to trick us young'uns, are you?! Ha! Nice try, but we all know there was no TV in 1960s." -

verocity

"Tinker Tailor Soldier Ninja Spy" -

kenshardik

(Nice try, but in addition to TV, there were also no ninjas in the 60's. -CV)

"Hang on, my shoe is ringing" -

squeegibo

"The Avengers" -

elebunn

(Those wacky Brits. Their movie at least had Sean Connery. In the battle between two bad movies, Sean Connery trumps all. -CV)

"How's the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" -

drbear

"My UNCLE was a Dragnet queen who never let me Get Smart with him." -

mattwolf

(Obviously he was not a Saint. -CV)

"The Old Man and the Seacret Service" -

frequencyshift

"H.R Pufnstuf. They were the villains trying to crack down on all the marijuana." -

domestik_fucker

"Will Smith ruined my childhood." -

amphelice

(So many of us feel the same way. -CV)

"Am I twisted because I enjoyed the movie version of this show??" -

tweeti

(Am I twisted because I enjoyed Selma Hayek's assssss...ets in the movie version of this show? I think not. -CV)

"Wild Wild We Can Kick Will Smith's Ass Any Day (Not To Mention Kevin Kline's)" -

mark_laura

"I wonder how they reacted to the giant mecha spider in the movie remake? I mean - Giant. Mecha. Spider. They must have realized how sad their original Wild Wild West show was without it!" -

indiana_j

Correct Answer: The Wild Wild West

2. What is the stage name of John Ondrasik?

"Sting" -

flawed_karma

"Eminem" -

david_deacon

"TROGDOOOOOOOOOOR" -

mattwolf

"Tyler Durden" -

cholma

"Barney the Dinosaur" -

7tree_hugger

"Mr. Ondrasik, if you're nasty." -

drbear

"Spongebob Squarepants" -

wiredwizard

"Bruce Wayne" -

therhythmthief

“Dr Manhattan" -

elebunn

"Charlie Sheen" -

domestik_fucker

“His last name is that cool and he CHANGES it? " -

lots42

"Ouroboros. Admit it, that would be SUCH a badass name" -

frequencyshift

"What's the deal with one guy trying to make people think he's an entire band? Five For Fighting, Nine Inch Nails, Lady Gaga!" -

miss_katelynne

"For the longest time I thought Five for Fighting was a group, what with the number five and all. Also, I pictured them dressed as ninjas." -

athousandsmiles

Correct Answer: Five For Fighting

"Who names themselves after a ... wait. Five for Fighting is his name and not the name of a band? Who does that? And was I the last to know?" -

indiana_j

(Well, the last after all the quizlings who missed out entirely. -CV)

3. What was Julius Caesar reported to have said after his victory over Pharnaces II of Pontus?

"Duh... WINNING!!" -

miss_katelynne,

domestik_fucker

"All your base is belong to me" -

seferin

"I'm in ur base, killin ur d00ds!" -

thepikey

"Fabricati diem, punc." -

amphelice,

akiyasan

"I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND!" -

kristinmachina

(Well, EuroDisney, at least. -CV)

"My hovercraft is full of eels" -

elebunn

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"They will name a salad dressing after me for THIS?" -

sticky9fingers

(Nah, they named the salad dressing for him after his untimely STABNATION. -CV)

"Hey, assistant. Double check the harem to make sure there ain't no Pontus bitches. I'm not getting stabbed tonight." -

lots42

"You know, Caesar's mom is named Aurelian, just like Captain James T. Kirk's sister-in-law....so Tiberius Kirk isn't the only member of the Kirk clan with a name from ancient Roman history." -

holmes221b

(It's been a long time since we've given out a prestigious Geek of the Week Award. Your minus unus is well-deserved. -CV)

"Crush my enemies, check. See them driven before me, check. Now what's next on that list...?" -

verocity

(I'm sure

i_calql8 will be able to help out... -CV)

"Veni Vici Vetinari" -

7tree_hugger

"I saw, I conquered, I came" -

etumukutenyak,

umbralcorax,

germankitty

"We came, We saw, We kicked its ass!" -

laughingacademy,

jmthane,

ntlespino,

i_calql8

(+1, Ghostbusters. -CV)

"Vinny, Vichyssoise, Vajayjay" -

majorsamfan

Correct Answer: "Veni, Vidi, Vici"

"And that victory ensured people everywhere can go to Pharnaces to get their pharnaceuticals as long as a pharnacist is present." -

angelprojekt

4. What Shakespearean play depicts the romantic escapades of King Ferdinand and his companions Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine?

"By the pricking of my thumbs, another wrong answer this way comes" -

n5iln

"Is it cheating if you have the complete works of the man lying next to your computer and happen to browse the contents till you find the names?" -

b_hulsmans

(Nope. Old-fashioned cheating is perfectly fine. All that new-fangled internet googly-moogly cheating is of the devil. -CV)

“Poor Shakespeare - on one hand, you get Helen Mirrin and Alfred Molina and then you get. Russell Brand. The best and worst of British society all wrapped up in a movie with lightening. " -

indiana_j

“The Scottish Play (Again, I was a theater major. You do not say those words. Ever. Your theater will burn down. Trufax.) " -

neumeindil

(You use that word, Scottish. I do not think it means what you think it means… - LL)

"Don't try and tell me that Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine were looking for women. Those are the gayest Shakespearean names ever." -

kenshardik

(Gayer than Petrucchio and Benvolio? I think not. -CV)

"Berowne, Longaville, and Dumaine sounds like a law firm. A very porny Shakespearean law firm." -

athousandsmiles

"Ferdinand the Bull" -

wrestlingdog,

etumukutenyak,

cholma,

squeegibo

"The Lord of the Rings" -

jmthane
"They sound like rejected names for Hobbits from Lord Of The Rings." -

meloglas

(They all died at the Battle of Helm's Deep. Tolkein was very thorough on his casualty lists. -CV)

"I know that Shakespeare's plays invented a large amount of English words. But sometimes I think he got them from banging his head against a wall and writing down the first thing out of his mouth." -

akiyasan

“Weekend at Ferdie's. " -

mattwolf

"Hamlet II: Electric Boogaloo" -

wiredwizard
"King Richard II: Electric Boogaloo" -

alfvaen

"Dudes, Where Art Mine Cart?" -

kristinmachina

("Dude! What sayeth mine vestment?" - "Sweet! What sayeth mine vestment?" - "Dude! What sayeth mine vestment?" -CV)

"Longaville is the new name for my penis" -

lots42
"Teehee, Longaville" -

domestik_fucker

"I wonder how many people playing this week had trouble placing all those apostrophes. Or is it apostrophe's?" -

therhythmthief

("Apostrophe's Grammar's Lost" should be the guide to writing on the internet. -CV)

Correct Answer: Love's Labour's Lost

5. When Lyndon B. Johnson was elected President of the United States, who was his Vice-President?

"Ha, ha, you said Johnson!" -

demon_666

"Humphrey Bogart" -

seferin,

flawed_karma

"Humphrey Dumpty" -

domestik_fucker

"KILROY WASHERE" -

etcet

(So was Keyser Soze. -CV)

"Mini-Johnson" -

akiyasan

“Dick Cheney. It's always been Dick Cheney. FEAR HIM." -

lots42

"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" -

laughingacademy

"The Johnson/Voltron ticket sailed to victory on the promises of an end to the Vietnam war and protection from space alien invasion. One of them knew how to keep their promises." -

mattwolf

"Lady Bird Johnson. I feel sorry for him, school must have been quite a challenge with a name like 'Lady Bird'." -

sticky9fingers

(Later, Larry Bird would make up for all that. -CV)

"'No, Who was his Chief of Staff.' 'I don't know.' 'Third base!'" -

alfvaen

"Aha! Caught you! Trick question! LBJ didn't have a vice-president!" -

david_deacon,

sskipstress

(Partly true... -CV)

"TRICKSY! FALSE, TRICKSY HOBBITSES! Oh, no, wait. You meant when he was ELECTED, not when he was sworn in after JFK, so you MEANT for me to see through the first trick, only to walk into the second. Goddammit, LJDQ." -

tears_of_nienna

(Yes, the question is worded specifically. When he was ELECTED is key, since he was APPOINTED President after JFK passed on, and did not have a VP. But when he ran for office and won the election, he did. -CV)

"Triple H" -

amphelice

"Hu-cares-about-veeps Ho-Hum" -

majorsamfan

“I think it's very telling when we can't remember who the VPs are. It goes to show you how utterly useless they are unless something ACTUALLY happens to the president." -

frequencyshift

“By the power of the H's combined I form: Vice President Huber Horatio Humphrey!" -

b_hulsmans

"♪ "Whatever became of you, Hubert?" ♫" -

blindgeoff,

germankitty,

avenginglyyours

"Hubert Humphrey. Incidentally, a terrible, terrible name. I'd nickname him HuHu, which would become hoohoo, so eventually he'd just be called angina. (I didn't know if I could use the word Vagina in the quiz.)" -

therhythmthief

(We have used words much more terrible than angina, vagina, or mangina. Believe us. -AL&CV&LL)

Correct Answer: Hubert Horatio Humphrey

6. What's your favorite book, and why?

"The Complete Lovecraft. This huge book is big enough to use as a weapon against anything you read about" -

seferin
"Lord of the Rings, the full edition with all three books. Not only is it a good read but if you need to hit someone with it ... damn, it does some damage!" -

indiana_j
"Anything within arm's reach when I get another damn wasp in my apartment" -

neumeindil

(Some of you have mistaken "book" for "blunt weapon". It's a common mistake. -CV)

"The Necronomicon of course, provided I can remember that third word... it was definitely a word that began with N. I remember that much." -

umbralcorax

(Niefelheim? Nublar? Nuremburg? -CV)

"David and Leigh Eddings' 'Belgariad' and 'Malloreon'; because while reading I keep seeing the TV series in my mind, because it's Lord of the Rings scripted by Joss Whedon, and because the Hero is really Harry Potter: grows up without knowing he's a sorcerer, he gets a redheaded wife, his mentor is a very powerful old man who pretends to be barmy but really isn't, a megalomaniac madman is after him since birth and he collects a group of friends who help him defeat said megalomaniac in single combat. What's not to like?" -

germankitty

(Oh, that could be ANY fantasy series. ;-) -CV)

"I'm still trying to find out if it's physically possible to bind all of the Wheel of Time books into one single volume." -

alfvaen

(It works great when you use 4 point font, single-spaced, 8.5x11 paper. But even then, not really. -CV)

"Atlas Shagged. Eleven-hundred pages. Makes a great doorstop." -

david_deacon

“'Snowcrash' 'cuz I'm a geek and half that book is still visionary 20 years later. The other half has already come to pass." -

mark_laura

“One without pictures. It drives the politicians crazy." -

n5iln

“I'm a total book slut...I love whatever book I'm reading while I'm reading it, then I discard it without a second thought when a new one comes along." -

tweeti

“Does fanfiction count?" -

flawed_karma

(That word "book" that I am using... you do not think it means what I think it means. -CV)

“Your momma's diary. I'm on every page." -

lots42

"Shepherd Book" -

i_calql8

"The Book of Mormon" -

babybokal

"'Dear Penthouse Letters...' because everyone needs that glimmer of hope that 'It could happen to me.'" -

etcet

"The phone book. Lots of characters, although we don't learn much about them." -

drbear

"Catholic guilt demands I say my mother's book. Any other choice would have me burning in the pits of hell for all eternity." -

frequencyshift

(That depends. Is your mother Oprah Winfrey? Because her book changes every month. -CV)

"Since I wanted to be Pippi Longstocking as a kid, I'll go with that one. She had a whole house to herself, and plenty of money. Plus, a horse." -

athousandsmiles

"The one from Hawaii Five-O. You know, the one Danno uses at the end of the episode." -

thepikey

Just in case you weren't paying attention, all the answers were triple alliterates. If you don't know what alliterate means, then you probably didn't get question #6. If you don't know what illiterate means, then hey, I can probably make fun of you right now, because you can't read this. Or can you? Hmmmm.

Also, "alliterate" might not really be a word. Eh, whatever.

Thanks for playing, all, and see you soon, same bat time, same bat channel!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

wiredwizard.livejournal.com

Aw man... I went through all the hassle of translating "Let's bust some punks!" to latin ( "Permissum nos tumultus nonnullus scelestus!" )& it doesn't even get quoted...

From:

angelprojekt.livejournal.com

It probably upped your funneh on your quoted answers. Just like my five failed answers got me quoted for the one that vici'd. At least, that's what I tell myself.

From:

tears-of-nienna.livejournal.com

I translated "Where's the bathroom?" and I didn't get quoted, either. ;)

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

LJ Daily Answers: 21 March 2011

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