ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 25 April 2011

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"I got the "The Good Ship Lollipop" in my head a full five minutes before I guessed the theme. Clearly my subconscious is more intelligent than the rest of me." -

drunken_hedghog

"Being as this week's quiz is about candy, I feel the need to include this:
We lose more quizlings to this picture than anything else. -CV

We lose more quizlings to this picture than anything else. -CV

" -

chershey

Onward, with candy!

1. Where can one find Molasses Swamp and Gum Drop Mountain?

"Candy Mountain!" - oh so many of you
"The only reason Charlie Sheen hasn't been abducted to Candy Mountain is his kidneys are probably more worthless than the Mets' bullpen." -

kristinmachina

(Yeah, but his liver is deliciously marinated at this point. -CV)

"Only in Kenya." -

elebunn

"In a softcore porn starring Dolly Parton" -

germankitty

(While the Gum Drop Mountains are self-explanatory, I'm a bit creeped out by the potential of Ms. Parton's "molasses swamp". -CV)

"Boston was a real molasses swamp in 1919." -

b_hulsmans,

lbmango

"Bylaws of the Lollipop Guild" -

florahart

"A Diabetes Superfund Site" -

drbear,

thepikey

"Pretty much anywhere if you're dropping the right acid." -

many_from_one

"In my fridge, next to the Lettuce Fields and Mouldy Tomato Forest. I really need to clean that out." -

spotsofcolour

"The back corner of a kitchen cabinet in the Cappa Tao frathouse. The globs have been there longer than most of the alummni." -

mattwolf

"Probably under my bed. I...am not the most diligent housekeeper." -

tabbyclaw

"Between the Sugar Beet Fields and the Cauldron Sea." -

laughingacademy

"In the land of Drunk-Ass Stabby Pee-Soaked Hobos. It's in New Jersey." -

lots42

"Barsoom" -

zihuatanejo

(+2, if only because like five people on Earth know what that is. -CV)

"In the Big Rock Candy Mountain!" -

7tree_hugger,

akiyasan,

avenginglyyours,

dk2022,

squeegibo,

edoraslass,

sskipstress
"At first I was like BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN! And then I was oh, Christ, it's just fucking Candyland. Hobo dreams dashed." -

paradoxotaur

"In Katy Perry's music video for 'California Gurls', I don't know what a 'gurl' is, but apparently whipped cream flies out of their boobs." -

killabee886

(Can boobs get any better? -CV)

"You know what's really depressing? Plumpy. The last of the Plumpatrolls. We're so intent on getting to the Ice Cream Castle that we trot right past a species on the edge of extinction? There are monsters in this game, all right, and Lord Licorice ain't one of them." -

tears_of_nienna

"The lollipop forest always creeped me out. I mean, what would happen when it rained? STICKY. That's what." -

raphsody606

"Candy Land, which was where Eric Foreman used to hide his money" -

houseofknaus

"Candyland. Candyland. Candyland. Candyland. Candyland." -

cmzero

(That's when the Sugar Plum Fairy emerges from the mirror and kills you with Pop Rocks and Coke. -CV)

Correct Answer: The board game "Candyland"

"Milton-Bradley's later, more PC effort, Healthy Land, with its Carob Canyon, Yogurt Lagoon, and King Splenda's Realm, was, not surprisingly, an epic fail." -

i_calql8

2. Aubrey Woods sang which song in the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"?

"I only remember the Oompa-Loompa song" -

rikchik,

falconpain,

sticky9fingers,

tears_of_nienna,

spotsofcolour,

jargon,

sskipstress
"Oompa Loompas are illegal immigrant laborers! They should be deported back to Oompa Loompur, or wherever the hell they came from." -

darthparadox

"Grunka Lunka dunkety doo
We've got a friendly warning for you
Grunka Lunka dunkety dasis
The secret of Slurm's on a need-to-know basis" -

squeegibo

(+1, Futurama. -CV)

"I Can't Get No Satisfaction" -

jmthane

"The Good Ship Lollypop" -

silk_knickers

"My (chocolate) milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..." -

zihuatanejo

"Who can take a tequila sunrise/Sprinkle it with poo/Cover it in orange juice and serve it to the guy who/Said you weren't a man?/The bartender can!" -

angelprojekt

"Candy man??? But I don't remember a man covered in bees in the film... I do remember the chicken being beheaded.... terrifying." -

jkabley,

vayshti,

paradoxotaur

"Willy Showed Me His Wonka and Asked if I'd Like a Taste" -

drunken_hedghog
"I hear Willy Wonka's lollipop melts in your mouth, not in your hands." -

avenginglyyours

(How many licks does it take to get to the creamy center of a Willy Wonka Pop? -CV)

"So Wonka can take tomorrow, dip it in a dream, separate the sorrow and collect up all the cream... BUT he can't take out the calories? FAIL." -

cholma

Correct Answer: "The Candy Man"

3. Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was the last king of which Sri Lankan kingdom?

"Okay, you made all of those words up" -

primavera

"Gondor" -

wiredwizard

"Lankhmar" -

darthparadox

"Upper Elbonia" -

n5iln

"Florin - from the Cliffs of Insanity, to the Fire Swamp and the ROUSs." -

spotsofcolour

"The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" -

kenshardik

"Sri Blindmice" -

angelprojekt

(Sri how they run. -SriV)

"No idea, but didn't he change his name to Earl Gray?" -

seferin

(No, that was Patrick Stewart. -CV)

"I am going to eschew making a linguistic joke because it's too low-brow." -

lbmango

(That's ok,

drunken_hedghog is willing to go the distance... -CV)

"Things I know about Sri Lanka... it is an anagram for Anal Risk." -

drunken_hedghog

"Sri Lnacelot of the Ruond Tbale." -

alfvaen

(I see waht yuo did tehre. -CV)

"Are the local donkeys known as Kandy asses?" -

laughingacademy

"THIS IS TIIIIIIIIIIBET! Land of ice and snow and giant hairy man-things which will rip your arms off and rape your skull." -

ifeedformula

"What about that kid that runs around with Johnny Quest?" -

mattwolf

"Is that Ankgor Wat in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" -

etcet

"Caprica, the original home of the Ceylons" -

i_calql8

(I honestly expected about a hundred more of these. -CV)

"the name Vikram Rajasinha means Victorious King Lion, so by that I can conclude that he was the King of Narnia. Or Kenya." -

elebunn

"I am familiar with enough Sanskrit to determine that his last name means 'King of Lions' or 'Lion King'. So I'm going to go with that plain in Africa with the big rock where monkeys dangle lion cubs." -

paradoxotaur

"Did he have Tamil Tiger Blood?" -

zihuatanejo

(Oooh, political AND topical! +1 for you. -CV)

"Is that where the dude who played all the Oompa-Lumpas in the 'Chocolate Factory' remake came from?" -

kristinmachina

"He died of dropsy. I have no idea what that is, other than it is bedfellows with other amusingly named maladies of yesteryear; consumption, goitre, typhus, ague, scurvy and creeping palsy. It's like they're the seven dwarfs of the pestilent apocalypse." -

vayshti

Correct Answer: The Kingdom of Kandy

4. What French satire concludes with the phrase "We must cultivate our garden"?

"Les Miserables" -

jmthane,

sticky9fingers,

dk2022,

elebunn

"Watering for Godot" -

kenshardik

"Your Father Smells of Elderberrys" -

kristinmachina

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)

"The only French I know is 'Voulez-vous couchez avec moi, ce soir?'" -

ifeedformula

"Zee Proposal Modeste" -

squeegibo

"Taming of the Bush" -

angelprojekt

"The Story of a French Hoe" -

drbear

"You can cultivate MY garden" -

raphsody606

(Rakes, line up here. -CV)

"I won't tell you how I know, but NEVER fall for that line." -

killabee886

"Now all I can think of is the Simon and Garfunkel song that ends with 'I have tended my own garden much too long.' I'm not sure if that's more or less nerdy than knowing the actual answer." -

tabbyclaw

"that would be Voltaire's witty but little known excursion into the fantastical, his hommage to Gulliver's Travels by the great Irish satirist Swift: Le Voyage Mauvais de Guillaume et Théo." -

drbunsen

(Soixante-neuf! -CV)

"Candide. When we studied the book in high school, my whole class somehow reached the consensus that 'cultivating your garden' was the perfect euphemism for masturbation. In hindsight, my French teacher had the patience of a saint." -

avenginglyyours

"Voltaire's 'Candide, which is the best of all possible novels in this, the best of all possible worlds. Plus, it was only like 90 pages, so it was totally my favorite that year in Lit class." -

silk_knickers

"Candide. Not to be ocnfused with Candidiasis. Though both are unpleasant in French class." -

xphilega

"Truly this is the best of all possible quizzes" -

zihuatanejo,

cmzero
"Candide Camera. Voltaire proves that this is not the best of all possible worlds by performing hilarious pranks on unsuspecting members of the public." -

many_from_one

Correct Answer: Candide, by Voltaire

"...oh *I* get it now!" -

lbmango
"TERRIBLE PUN" -

lovefromgirl
"And you, Sir/Madam

ljdq are pushing it with this one." -

holmes221b

5. Who played the titular character in the film "Uncle Buck"?

"Shouldn't that be a manboobular character?" -

vayshti and many others

"Gil Gerard" -

wiredwizard,

many_from_one

(So Twikki was his nephew? -CV)

"Twiki, who as a child I thought was named Twinkie so this is totally relevant." -

florahart

"Bambi's mom had a brother? Where was he?" -

falconpain

"John Belushi" -

jmthane

(He would have, if he'd lasted long enough. -CV)

"John Candy sounds like one of those names you put down on a hotel register when you are having an affair." -

angelprojekt

"john candy or john goodman, can never tell them apart, which of them died again?" -

b_hulsmans

"Sometimes I get John Candy and Chris Farley mixed up. I can't explain it either." -

akiyasan

"I keep mixing him up with Chevy Chase. I don't think he's dead yet..." -

lovefromgirl

"I'm a mawg. Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend." -

scifantasy,

zihuatanejo

"Oh, John Candy. How you were missed. At least until Chris Farley came along. And now we've got Zack Galifianakis." -

paradoxotaur

"To this day, I still have the urge to lick his huge, jolly belly." -

demon_666

(And this week's

ljdq TMI Award goes to...

demon_666! -CV)

Correct Answer: John Candy

6. What are you up to this holiday week?

"The same thing I am up to every week, trying to get six of six on this quiz" -

seferin

"The same thing we do every weekend, Pinky..." -

n5iln

"5'11, same as every other weekend" -

drunken_hedghog

"Dealing with the Post Office, looking for a job, ~~my country's 500th anniversary to plan~~, my wedding to arrange, ~~my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it~~; I'm swamped." -

killabee886

"4 day weekend wa-hoo! I might clean the garage. Since Earth Day falls into it, I may do something Earthy good. Or I may sleep all day and drink. The choices are endless!" -

akiyasan

(Looks like I chose "sleep all day and drink". Go me! -CV)

"We're staying away from ham this year, and replacing it with canned eland. ...what." -

florahart

(I know exactly what an eland is, and it was delicious. I'd surely hand out canned eland on sandy strands in Candyland. -CV)

"About page 1,934 in a Stephen King novel." -

drbear

(That's what Robert Jordan would call a "Prologue". -CV)

"Hangin’ with my peeps, writing my script about my unrequited love for

chaosvizier and trying to hold on to my day job." -

majorsamfan

(Hahahaha, peeps, I get it. -CV)

"We must prepare for the coming of Gozer, the Destructor." -

i_calql8

(I hope this is Giant Slor year. -CV)

"Bouncing between county libraries like a pink-haired pinball. Either I'm in high demand, or all the managers are playing a game of human hot potato with me." -

tears_of_nienna

"Fortifyin' the homestead against the coming of the Zombie Jesus!" -

thepikey

"I'M GETTING MARRIED ON THE 21ST!!!! THAT'S ACTUALLY TOMORROW!!! I'LL BE MARRIED BY THE TIME THE ANSWERS GO UP!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" -

dk2022

(Congratulations, Mrs.

dk2022! -CV)

"I will be jumping through hoops to make sure my kids still believe in the Easter bunny. Also going to church, which I obviously need, what with all the porn on my brain." -

athousandsmiles

I think we can all agree that this quiz, more than almost any other quiz, was super-sweet. Schweeeeeeet. Sweetness. Suh-weeeet!

Anyway, the holiday season has passed us by, so it's back to the usual. More answers, more questions, more gin, and more pudding for all! Except those jerks in Pod Six. Come back tomorrow for more quizly goodness, thanks for playing, welcome aboard all new persons, and may Baby Sting bless you all.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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germankitty

Hmm, one and a groupthink. After breaking my 2011 quotage streak myself last week by forgetting to play, I'm okay with starting slow again.

(While the Gum Drop Mountains are self-explanatory, I'm a bit creeped out by the potential of Ms. Parton's "molasses swamp". -CV)

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