ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 18 April 2011

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Quizlings admitting to being thoroughly tanked while answering:

frequencyshift,

edoraslass,

spotsofcolour. Also maybe

chaosvizier. EDIT: Also

liseuse.

What, you say? We did countries last week? Well, sure we did. But notice that we used different countries this time! How crazy is that? That's damn crazy! Also, we have like 180 more countries to go, although it's hard to get a good question out of Vanuatu, Liechtenstein, or El Salvador. Let's not even talk about Brunei Darussalam.

1. Hiram Ricker founded which Maine-based brand in 1845?

"Stephen King" -

jmthane,

david_deacon,

edoraslass,

pirho_maniac

(Corporate motto: "Killing citizens unnaturately for over a century!" -CV)

"Moose Bites: Pretti Nasti" -

etcet

(...you may be confusing "Maine" with "Sweden" or maybe "Canada". -CV)

"Maine-y Are Called But Few Are Chosen Recruitment Consultancy" -

drunken_hedghog

"The HR Firm" -

seekingferret

"Hiram and Firam, the first employment agency" -

drbear

"Bubba-Gump Shrimp Co." -

wiredwizard

(Shrimp? Did you say shrimp? I love shrimp! -CV)

"Taco Bell? When I think Maine, I think taco bell." -

killabee886

(There is something a little bit wrong with the way you think. -CV)

"It was a British restaurant chain called 'Bangors and Mash'." -

i_calql8

"Ricker? I hardly know 'er!" -

mattwolf
"The HiramRick Manoeuvre" -

demon_666

(+1, Engrish accents. -CV)

"They used to call it 'The Maine Vein', but the marketing people made them change it." -

thepikey

(Did liquid gold issue forth from its depths? -CV)

"The Winter for Poland and France brand. 'Be Defeated in Style!'" -

cholma

"It's Poland Water. How do I know this? Glad you asked. See, I don't buy Nestle products, ever. It's a thing. Anyway! I was in New York, walking the Brooklyn Bridge (which is really fucking long!) and I was thirsty. So I bought some Poland Water. And proceeded to mentally freak out halfway across. So, if in 2004 you saw a crazy lady shaking her head at herself and angrily gesturing with a bottle of water, that was me." -

liseuse

"True Story: My parents knew someone who worked for the Poland Spring bottling plant. He worked in quality control or something, and one day he got called on a complaint about a "foreign object" in one of the Poland Spring bottles. The object: a stuffed pink bunny. How do you even get a stuffed pink rabbit into one of those bottles?" -

kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Poland Spring

2. Which James Bond novel was one of President John F. Kennedy's ten favorite books of all time?

"You have blown my mind. I did not know that JFK read books." -

sticky9fingers

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. OH COME ON. HER NAME WAS TRULY SCRUMPTIOUS. Like that's not a de facto Bond novel." -

edoraslass

(Fair enough. Full credit. -CV)

"it had to be the one with Pussy Galore" -

drbear
"Whichever one had Octopussy in it" -

frequencyshift,

squeegibo,

sskipstress
"I'm guessing Thunderball" -

david_deacon

"You Only Take the Nation to the Brink of Nuclear War Twice" -

seekingferret

"How to succeed in Blondes without really trying" -

seferin
"How to win in bed without really trying" -

akiyasan

"The Spy Who Shagged me" -

wiredwizard,

kristinmachina

"Dawctah No." -

rikchik
"Dr. Knoll" -

many_from_one

"You Only Live Twice" - several of you. No, it's never too soon.

"From Ruuussssiiia with lahhhhvvvve I flyyyy tooo yooooo! Much wiserrr since myyyy goooodbyyyyyeee too yooo!" -

spotsofcolour

Correct Answer: From Russia With Love

3. The movie "Jerry Maguire" was nominated for five Academy Awards. It only won one. Who received that award?

"Helen Mirren. The Academy still isn't sure what the hell happened but they're too scared to ask for it back." -

lots42

"A young Sidney Poitier." -

sskipstress

(...did he travel back in time, and then forward again? Was he Mecha-Poitier? -CV)

"'Show me the monkey!' 'Money, sir.' 'Money!'" -

alfvaen

"Cuba Junior? What country is that-- Haiti?" -

cholma

(Cuba's twin sons should have been named Paradice. -CV)

"Cuba Gooding Jr. became Hollywood's 'go-to' black guy for about a month after winning." -

drbear

"Cuba Gooding Jr? Oh, how the kind-of-mighty have fallen *cough cough* Snow Dogs *cough*" -

paradoxotaur,

amphelice,

thepikey,

etumukutenyak

"Cuba 'I'll Bare My Ass For An Oscar' Gooding, Jr." -

darthparadox

"Cuba Gooding Jr, as awesome as his acceptance speech was, is basically a one-hit-wonder. He's the Sir Mix-a-Lot of the Oscars." -

kristinmachina

"Glorious Socialist Worker's Paradise Gooding Jr." -

blindgeoff

Correct Answer: Cuba Gooding, Jr.

4. Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell wrote which song in 1930?

"This sounds like a multiple choice question, so where are my multiple choice answers to go with it?" -

sticky9fingers

(Negative. The intersection of the sets "Songs written by Hoagy in 1930" and "Songs written by Stuart in 1930" yields exactly one result. -CV)

"Mmm, sammich" -

frequencyshift and 8 others who want a hoagie right now

"Daisy Bell (not really, but how fucking amazing is that shit? fifty years ago, computers with less processing power than a wristwatch already sounded better than auto-tuned pop stars of today)" -

etcet

"If Julia Sugarbaker and Raylan Givens got into a 'here's an anectdote that ends up in me kicking your ass' fight, who would win? Good sweet baby Jesus, he is unchartable levels of hot." -

edoraslass

(And the

ljdq Non Sequitur Award of the week goes to...

edoraslass! -CV)

"I don't know, but I'll bet Casey Abrams will make a hit record of it next year. Fear the beard!" -

n5iln

"One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple-People Eater" -

7tree_hugger

(That was a few months ago. -CV)

"Happy Days Are Here Again" -

jmthane

"Hi De Hi De Hoagie" -

seekingferret

"The Hoagy Cokey" -

many_from_one

(As performed by Kraftwerk? -CV)

"Isn't Hoagy Carmichael one of the Kids Next Door?" -

drunken_hedghog

(Hogarth Pennywhistle Gilligan Jr. may have travelled back in time to write songs, yes. -CV)

"You know what song I've had in my head ALL DAY? Share it please, so I'm not the only one." -

spotsofcolour

"Something dustbowly and depressing, I'm sure. I gave my love a farm, and it bore no crops? This cotton pickin' drought is too hot for pigs to make bacon? Mah jalopy is floppy?" -

vayshti

(It's never too hot for bacon. -CV)

"Ah, the good old days, when you could still name your kid Hoagy and write chaste little songs about seeing a girl's ankles!" -

lisacharly

"I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues" -

drbear

(The above was written by Hoagy in 1945 and holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Song Title EVAR. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Georgia On My Mind"

5. Who was England's first and only Earl of Beaconsfield?

(No lie: over 70% of all responses read "Baconsfield". Your mods are all included in this number. Mmmmmm bacon... -AL&CV&LL)

"Lord Sirius Orion Black" -

wiredwizard

"Chuck Norris. No one else is worthy of the title" -

la_trombonista

"Rodney Beaconsfield, who never quite managed to receive the respect that he felt that he warranted." -

alfvaen

"D-d-DJ Disraeli in Da Hizzouse, yo! But aside from him being Prime Minister for a bit I know nothing about him. I keep thinking he wrote a book. Did he write a book?" -

spotsofcolour

(He did write a book. He was not a DJ. -CV)

"I call foul on this question! You're trying to derail (disrail?) the topic with your pun!" -

cholma

Correct Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

"He was also Britain's first and (as of this comment) only Jewish prime minister." -

holmes221b

(Only because no one knows Gordon Brownbergstein's real name. -CV)

6. If you had your own country, what would it be most famous for?

"Drugs, gambling, and prostitution. No, wait, that's Nevada" -

david_deacon

"The Bog of Eternal Stench" -

kristinmachina

(Here in America, we call that "New Jersey". -CV)

"The only place to see lions and tigers!" -

thepikey

"Nude beaches and strong drinks" -

sskipstress

(Huh huh, cocktails. -CV)

"Hookers on trampolines" -

lots42

"No politicians" -

jmthane

"Free beer for everyone" -

seekingferret

"Danish Bacon." -

vayshti

"It would have the most expensive two-letter domain code in the world. Only the most elite could afford to buy websites in it." -

alfvaen
"The fattest broadband pipe in the world. Inexpensive internet at unlimited speeds! Now you can download your pr0n and pudding recipes faster than ever!" -

cholma

(The two of you need to conquer a country together. -CV)

"Fanfiction production. Unfortunately, our economy would largely be illegitimate and other countries would seek to get us to enforce their copyright laws on our citizens. We'd eventually collapse in an epic storm of wank and FF.net suspensions." -

lisacharly

"The lamentation of our women. Fucking barbarians keep crushing me and seeing me driven before them. Of course, we'd also be known for the extreme hotness of our women, so the barbarians' desire to invade is well-founded." -

etcet

(Said barbarians are most likely acting on

i_calql8's orders. -CV)

"Separation of church and state. Forcible, geographic separation, at gunpoint." -

drbunsen

"Our wool. We'd breed a special kind of sheep that had like the most awesome wool for spinning and weaving and knitting and such. *goes off to fondle some nice Blueface Leicster* MMM..wool. *drools*" -

ifeedformula

(I don't know why this answer disturbs me so. -CV)

"World's greatest mosh-pit" -

drunken_hedghog

"Fully socialised healthcare, free gin for all, mandatory voting and only ever winning medals for women's rugby" -

liseuse

(Nice, very nice, good, and WHUH? -CV)

"Being amusing at the UN. Our ambassador will spend a whole year only speaking Pig Latin." -

many_from_one

(You're my new favorite member state. -CV)

"Schools would have all the money they need, and corporations would have to hold a bake sale to make a hostile takeover." -

i_calql8

(And all of a sudden Martha Stewart is more feared than Enron, Bank of America, BP, Donald Trump, and Ted Turner combined. -CV)

"Everyone would telecommute, so we would have the cleanest air ever" -

seferin

"the ability to take down internet hackers with the press of a button" -

holmes221b

(Given a few more years, I think Blizzard Entertainment will perfect this technology. -CV)

"NO SPITTING. How gross is spitting? People spit all over the town I live in now, and it's just the most revolting thing in the world. If anybody spat in my country, they would be immediately made to lick it back up, and that would teach them!" -

spotsofcolour

"My top scientists would be hard at work getting us a flying car by 2015 to make 'Back to the Future 2' true...or at the very least Hover Boards." -

killabee886

"Cranky hermits who hate their neighbours, want people to stay the hell off their lawns, and are too damn old for this shit, anyways." -

amphelice

(Dammit, you young whippersnapper, git off my country! -CV)

And there you have it. More countries! More questions! More funnies! More of everything that makes Monday better! Especially if you're an American throwing down with the IRS this fine Tax Day.

Hope all is well with you, and thanks for playing, and we hope you enjoy this fine quizly goodness. Please come back tomorrow for even more quizzicaliciousness. Bring a friend! Bring several!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

seekingferret.livejournal.com

Huh... Thought I had an off week, but 4 quotages says otherwise.

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

Four is pretty much the opposite of "off" around here. Hey, sometimes what you think is good and what we think is good can be two different thinks. Things. You know.

From:

i-calql8.livejournal.com

Two quotages, two hiveminds (Hoagie with bacon? Yes, please!), and a mod mention. Life, outside of teaching, is good. It's just as well you forgot to play this week,

germankitty--I'd have pwned you. ;)

Btw, Truly Scrumptious was not in the Fleming novel, just in the movie. How do I know this? Because someone called me on it while I was hosting my pub trivia night. And, yes, it would be an awesome Bond Girl name.

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

"And she was Scrum-Diddly-Umptious!" - Devil Flanders, Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV

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

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