LJ Daily Answers: April 5, 2011

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The stars have aligned, the Russkies have attacked, chaosvizier is stymied, and now is the time for my coup d'LJDQ! Hey, everyone in the Middle East is doin' it, why not me?

1. Who is the principal of Riverdale High School?

"I first read this as 'Sunnydale' not 'Riverdale' and I was like WHICH ONE - they go through principals on the Hellmouth like a fat kid goes through candy." - paradoxotaur, bending_sickle, squeegibo

"Riverdale... isn't that were all the teenage hobbits and elves go to school?" - ifeedformula, meloglas, angeweeks

"Principal Seymour Skinner" - 8 of you

"This is oddly familiar, and yet I have absolutely no idea what it is. I suspect I'm actually thinking of Riverdance." - natt_barn

(Michael Flatley is nobody's principal. -CV)

"Charles Xavier" - wiredwizard

"Ed Rooney" - seferin, zihuatanejo

"Carl Weathers" - david_deacon

"Mr. Belding" - footwakerupper, kristinmachina

(+1, Saved By The Bell. -CV)

"River Tam. She motivates students to learn by telling them she can kill them with her brain." - seekingferret

(Most principals wish they could do that. -CV)

"Percy Weasley. After Harry Potter defeated Voldemort, he emigrated to the US and assumed an alias his former boss used to give him." - germankitty

"I wanted to be a student at Rock N' Roll high school, where The Ramones show up for no reason and the school gets blown up at the end of the year." - killabee886

"There was once an Archie/Punisher crossover comic. I know it's not really an answer but it blows my mind that such a thing was really created and sold in stores." - mattwolf

(erm... which store? - LL)

"Weatherbee, or not Weatherbee: That is the question
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of Archie's fortune,
Or to ply rules against a school of students,
And those opposing: Detention!" - october_tempest

"Mr. Weatherby, pleasingly plump and spectacled, unlike any principal I ever saw in real life." - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: Mr. Waldo Weatherbee

"The principle is 'for heaven's sake, don't piss off the parents.'" - drbear



2. What top-rated professional boxer was born Floyd Sinclair?

"At first I thought that said 'éclair' (which means lightning) and thus is theme-appropriate. But alas, I misread. Besides, you guys hate French anyway." - october_tempest

"Only pugalist I can name is Sherlock Holmes." - paradoxotaur

(I feel that the greatest detective in literary history would have had a better birth name than "Floyd". -CV)

"Do you suppose Upton Sinclair would have appreciated "Welcome to the Jungle" as accompaniment to public readings of his novel/expose`?" - etcet

"His series of bouts against Sylvester were legendary!" - thepikey

"Clubber Lang" - kenshardik

(Zero fools were pitied during the answering of this question. -CV)

"Glass Joe" - mattwolf

"Pink Floyd" - kristinmachina, bending_sickle

"That one that puts stuff in boxes?" - meloglas

"Boxing really isn't a big sport over here, so I'm going with a big but surprisingly fast white guy or a small but surprisingly strong black man" - b_hulsmans

"just how manly can a guy named 'Floyd' be?" - etumukutenyak

"Floyd Mayweather, which must be the loveliest name any boxer ever did have." - spotsofcolour

Correct Answer: Floyd Joy Mayweather, Jr.



3. What actress portrayed Catwoman in the 1966 "Batman" film?

"Julie Newmar" - david_deacon, n5iln
"I'ma let you finish, but Eartha Kitt was the best Catwoman of all time. Of All Time!" - sskipstress, speaking for paradoxotaur, kenshardik, kenakeri, kristinmachina, lovefromgirl, domestik_fucker, zihuatanejo, germankitty
"Halle Berry" - sticky9fingers, lots42, bending_sickle
"Michelle Pfeiffer" - natt_barn
"Frank Sinatra" - angelprojekt

"Sorry, I'm busy picturing the various Catwomen fighting it out in some sort of Highlander 'there can only be one' scenario. ...I'll be in my bunk." - thepikey

"Someone who was very very hot. Did she also play in the Brazilian volleyball team?" - akiyasan

"I don't know, but thankfully I have a can of my trusty Bat-Question-Repellent." - many_from_one

"Insert shark repellent joke here" - la_trombonista
"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" - i_calql8

"She was the one who made scratching an acceptable and very sexy sexual activity... I wanted to be just like her, which is sad to admit, because it hasn't worked out quite that way, in or out of bed..." - demon_666

(Step one: Buy/make a catsuit. Step two: Self-explanatory. -CV)

"I can't be alone in thinking that Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson would have been amazing in this role... and the costume. Hubba hubba." - etcet

"That's the one where they dehydrate the United Nations, right? That technology should be used more often. Dehydrate Gaddhafi!" - seekingferret

"I know it's Lee Merriwether, but of course the first name that sprang to mind was Eartha Kitt, because of her cockney rhyming slang association.My brain is bad and must be punished." - angeweeks

Correct Answer: Lee Meriwether

(She follows me on Twitter!! ::squeals like a little girl:: - LL)



4. What 1933 blues song begins with the line "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky"?

"They had blues in 1933?" - sticky9fingers

(Only metaphorically. The world was still black and white, as color photography hadn't been invented yet. -CV)

"Nobody gets out of here without singing the blues!" - killabee886

(+1, Adventures in Babysitting. I haven't seen that in eons. -CV)

"Technically, there's always a sun in the sky. Even more at night. They're called stars." - natt_barn
"The Never Learned No Astronomy Blues" - squeegibo

"Don't know why/there's this stinging in my eye/sloppy blowjob...." - drbear

(You get what you pay for. Or were paid for. -CV)

"That woman really ought to change her tune to 'It's Raining Men'. Now that's my kind of stormy weather." - bending_sickle

"'This one's not for you, Doris Day' by Gladys Night." - confusedpuppy

"The Daleks Stole My Planet Blues" - wiredwizard

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace,
where hydrogen is built into helium, at a temperature of millions of degrees.
Yo-ho it's hot! The sun is not a place where we could live,
but here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
We need its heat, we need its light, we need its energy,
without the sun without a doubt there'd be no you and me!" - spotsofcolour

"'Stormy Weather' was 63 years old when I was born so anyone who plays the age card is full of - well, whatever things were full of in 1933. Malarkey?" - angelprojekt

Correct Answer: "Stormy Weather"

"Lena Horne can sit next to Eartha at the League of Bad-Ass Ladies." - kristinmachina

(But both of them kiss the boots of Grace Jones. -CV)



5. Michael Caine and Nicolas Cage star as father and son in which 2005 comedy drama?

"2005 was my first year at University. I don't remember much from that time period." - confusedpuppy

"For the record: nicolas cage is such a bad actor any movie he stars in automatically removes itself from the space time continuum out of shame, so there is no such movie" - b_hulsmans

"God he gets proper on my bloody tits. Cannot stand the bugger." - meloglas

(I... whuh? -CV)

"Michael Caine is way too awesome to be Nicholas Cage's dad" - domestik_fucker, sskipstress
"Whose vagina would Nicolas Cage have to come out of to be Michael Caine's son? Highly improbable!" - demon_666
"I'm trying to decide of the awesomeness of Michael Caine outweighs my extreme dislike of Nick Cage. The answer is no, it does not." - paradoxotaur

"I think I am the only person in the world that does not buy Nicolas Cage as an action hero, to me it's like a dog walking on its back legs, possible, but hella awkward to watch." - killabee886

"Sorry, I got distracted by the visual of Kathy Bates doing the sledgehammer trick to Nicholas Cage, and went to my happy place." - etcet

"'Alfred Begins', where a father tries to teach his son the best way to serve a severely psychologically damaged young man who wants to dress up as a bat and punch people in the business." - kenshardik

"That must be the updated version of Steptoe and Son. Now with car chases and fisticuffs, cock-er-nee accents and wild-eyed overacting. Steptoe and Son: Now It's Personal." - angeweeks, spotsofcolour

"I don't know the name, but I imagine it received a critical thrashing." - many_from_one

"Is that the one where Cage had the weird haircut? Or was it the one where Cage had the weird haircut?" - lady_deirdre
"Did Cage's hair have third billing?" - october_tempest

(No, that was "Season of the Witch". -CV)

"I learned about 'camel toe' from that movie. Ugh." - zihuatanejo

"The Whether Man. A lot of indecision in that movie." - angelprojekt

Correct Answer: The Weather Man



6. What's your favorite outdoor activity?

"First of May, First of May..." - paradoxotaur, zihuatanejo, many_from_one

"I'm in Wisconsin. We can't go outdoors for seven months of the year." - drbear

"I have no favorite outdoor activities because I am allergic to them all. Stupid plants spreading their stupid pollen all over the damn place." - ifeedformula

(Damn plants, gettin' all sexual and stuff... - LL)

"Getting back inside and away from that big glowing thing in the sky!" - mattwolf and six other cavemen

"" - germankitty

"Chop down trees, skip, jump, press wildflowers..." - kristinmachina

(+1, Monty Python. -CV&LL)

"Sneaking up behind old people in parks and bursting balloons. It's a hobby DON'T JUDGE ME, I LIVE WITH MY CAT" - angeweeks

"Looking for rocks. No, really, it is!" - holmes221b

"how many people are going to say 'sex' or 'doing the swedish volleyball team'?" - b_hulsmans

(Plenty. -CV)

"You, me, sidewalk café, bottle of wine..." - lady_deirdre

"You ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight? I always ask that of all my prey... I just like the sound of it." - etcet

(+1, Batman. -CV)

"Any activities which include a board and adrenaline. Surfing, longboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, waterboarding Oops, not that last one, sorry." - confusedpuppy

"Visiting the arboretum, if you know what I mean." - sskipstress

(...does that mean you like wood, or bush, or both? The arboretum offers a lot of variety... -CV)
(Those plants sexin' you up again! - LL)

"Wielding my ORFA (Oriental Rodent Flinging Apparatus) - we tried to do it inside once and that was ... a mistake." - raphsody606

(Does it only fling Oriental rodents? Or was it made by Orientals? -CV)

"Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentation of their women." - i_calql8

(+1, Conan the Barbarian. This one's your own damn fault. -CV)

"Ultimate frisbee. Captain of my college team, but that isn't as impressive when you recall we're an engineering school and most of us fear the sunlight like vampires." - seekingferret

"Lawn Darts! Because anything that is illegal is better than ANYTHING legal, it's a scientific fact." - killabee886


(Damn, I just realized since I'm posting this I'll get all the comment notifications... on second thought, you can be the Head Honcho again, CV. - LL)

Back to your previously scheduled program: And that's the way it is. Today's, or rather yesterday's, answers focused on the weather, since the change of seasons often comes with changes in meteorological phenomena, and so on and so forth. By some coincidence, I re-watched "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs" again last night. It's a damn funny movie. Yes, nothing like the book it was based on, but that's okay, step outside the box and you'll find comedy, especially from Neil Patrick Harris as "Steve".

Tune in later sometime for the next quiz. Assuming that this post even goes through. Cheeky hackers. In Soviet Russia, journal hax j00!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

=sings=
Ye canna change the laws of physics
laws of physics
laws of physics
Ye canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n!