ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 27 June 2011

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ljdq

"I refuse to play the LJ Daily Test this week." -

david_deacon
"I actually know all the 'real' answers this week!" -

mandydax
"This quiz is juuuuuuuust right." -

i_calql8

And the conclusion of our monthlong theme is here! "What monthlong theme?" you might ask? Well, just look at the themes for the past four quizzes and take it from there. The message is before you!

If you're too lazy to look or confused to decode, it's "Go - Play - Take - Quiz". See?

1. What Kansas City Royals relief pitcher was the first to record 40 saves in one season?

"Jesus" - 19 of you

"Ooh, a baseball question! That's the most exciting thing since ssssnrrxxx..." -

daraflower
“Why do you still try to include sports questions? I'm quite sure we're all nerds here." -

la_trombonista
"I promised myself that I was going to play for the first time this week, and then the first question is about baseball... Baseball is the one with pitchers, right?" -

sarastar43

(When you start off with the sports question, all the other questions seem easy in comparison. -CV)

“Rick 'Wild Thing' Vaughn" -

freezer818

“Shit, man. That ain't nuthin'. I had a monk character with a ring of protection +5, sucka pretty much made 40 saves every game session. Oooh, you made 40 in one campaign? N00b." -

thepikey

"I wish the Royals was made up of a dream team of actual royals. Then this answer would be like Charlemagne or Mary Queen of Scots." -

paradoxotaur

"Will & Harry are the only royals I can think of, so isn't it such a relief that the Royal Wedding is over?" -

majorsamfan

"Relief pitcher? Iced lemonade on a hot day!" -

yamx

"David Hasselhoff, at the beach on the off season" -

mattwolf

"I'm guessing it ain't the mighty Casey" -

primavera

"He was playing one of those Final Fantasy games wasn't he? Keep having to press save so you don't lose the data." -

akiyasan

"40 saves in one season? Novice! I do something like 40 saves an hour when I'm working in Word!" -

theninth

"Talk about a bullshit stat; the save is baseball's way of quantifying 'not fucking up' so that pitchers who aren't good enough to pitch the whole game have something to justify their fucking existence with." -

etcet

"Dan Dingleberry" -

seekingferret

"I think Dan Quisenberry and Darryl Strawberry should get together and make a smoothie company." -

mandydax

Correct Answer: Dan Quisinberry

"later portrayed in film by RuPaul because of so much talk of 'balls' and 'home runs'." -

n5iln

2. Tomas de Torquemada was the first, and most famous, to hold what rank?

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" - about half of you

"Hey, Torquemada, whaddaya say?
I just got back from the auto-da-fé
Auto-da-fé, what's an auto-da-fé?
It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway!" - the other half of you

"Let's face it, you can't Torquemada anything!" -

n5iln,

darthparadox,

princessstarr

"What's a Torquemada? Is it a Steampunk term meaning steam-powered boating fleet?" -

demon_666

"Hello Torquemada. Hello Torquefada. I'm here at Camp Gawanna..." -

kristinmachina

"Conquesodor! He was in charge of the cheese." -

mandydax

"The fastest mouse in all Mehico" -

drbear

"The Dread Pirate Roberts" -

ladyiapetus,

theninth

"I AM OZ, THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE" -

wrestlingdog

"Grand Funkmaster Most High" -

freezer818

"Torquemeister General, the supreme head of the AAA Tire Change Army" -

alfvaen

" File this one under 'Lost Episodes of the Flintstones', in which Barney and Betty are accused of heresy and burned at the stake.

" -

sskipstress

"I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral" -

thepikey

Correct Answer: Grand Inquisitor/Inquisitor General

3. Richard Schaden is the current CEO of what fast food chain, headquartered in Denver, Colorado?

"SCHADEN FOODS. You eat them, and feel a smug sense of superiority and pleasure that somebody else didn't get to eat it. Alternatively, those who don't eat it enjoy the suffering of those who did." -

etcet, and 11 others who enjoy Schadenfreude. Ok, 12 others; I love it.

"Who Wants to eat a sandwich? (Regis went overboard with the tie-ins)" -

seferin

"The Mile High Sandwich Club" -

seekingferret

"Jack in the Box? Is that still a thing?" -

paradoxotaur

(Yes, it's still a thing. It's not the right thing, though. -CV)

"Oh, they claim that the HQ is in Denver, but the real centre of operations is in a secret bunker hidden deep in the Rocky Mountains. They live in fear that one day, Jared will find them." -

alfvaen

"Mooby's" -

wiredwizard

(+1, Dogma. And others. -CV)

"Big Kahuna Burger" -

barbarienne

(+1, Pulp Fiction. And others. Better than a Royale with Cheese. -CV)

"I kinda want to avoid reading the answers next time around just so I don't have to look at any images of that damn flying rat-thing." -

thepikey
"Can't sleep. Freaky Quiznos monkeys will eat me." -

kristinmachina

(You might want to avoid clicking the next link, then... -CV)

"Huns!" -

mandydax

"I still have nightmares about the sexy-talking oven" -

darthparadox

Correct Answer: Quizno's

4. What 1994 film dramatized the scandal surrounding the 50's television program "Twenty One"?

"They had television in the '50s? Are you telling me that the '50s were real?" -

mark_laura

“Can I get a different question? I don't know the answer to this one." -

sticky9fingers

(No. – CV&LL)

"Leave it to Beaver, a harsh tale of American Life and corporate espionage" -

seferin

"You'd think the movie would be about underaged drinking, but back in the '50s they had a sensible drinking age so 21 wasn't underage" -

seekingferret

"I'm sorry, I spent 1994 too drunk to remember films" -

sskipstress

"Alive. That's the one where they ate each other, isn't it?" -

akiyasan

(That would indeed be a scandal. -CV)

"Quiz Masters and Slaves" -

demon_666

"1994 was a great year for mentally handicapped people in the movies: it gave us both Forrest Gump and Dumb and Dumber" -

photosinensis

("Flowers for Algernon" paved the way for all those films. -CV)

"Big Butts and Crazed Sluts 12" -

lots42

"There Will Be Quizzes" -

domestik_fucker

"Ah, yes, 'Twenty One'. The game show where contestants had to guess whether the people coming into the bar were really legally able to drink or not." -

alfvaen

"Still waiting for the movie adaptation of the 'Press Your Luck' scandal, entitled 'Whammied!' starring James Franco as Michael Larson." -

kristinmachina

(And Andy Serkis playing The Whammy. -CV)

“Who would play our gracious hosts if they ever did a movie of LJDQ?" -

kenshardik

(Mmmm. We’ll leave that up to the Quizlings to answer. – CV&AV&LL)

Correct Answer: "Quiz Show"

5. What Norwegian was executed for treason in 1945, leading to his name becoming synonymous with the word ‘traitor’?

"Olaf Traitorsson" -

shogunsquirrel
"Bjørn Traitørsen" -

cmzero
"Erin Burrsven" -

drbear
"Fjord Scapegoat" -

la_trombonista
"B. Träor Traitorson" -

mark_laura

"Traitor Joe" -

theninth

"Sven the Traitorous Bastardly Bastard Johnson, which proves that you should be really careful when naming your children" -

mattwolf

"Forget Norway...KENYA! WHERE NO TRAITORS ARE! THEY WON'T BETRAY YA! KENYA!" -

kristinmachina

"No idea, but I hear there are some who call him... Tim?" -

domestik_fucker

"I'm pretty sure it was the actions he did while he was still alive that led to his name being synonymous with traitor, not the execution." -

seekingferret

(Meh, close enough. -CV)

"Jüdäs" -

yamx

(+1, umlauts. -CV)

"KHAAAAAAN!" -

n5iln

"Sauruman" -

wiredwizard

"It's all fun and games until someone invokes Godwin's Law." -

athousandsmiles

"And this is how it went down." -

thepikey

"This seems like some sort of bad joke. Here I was playing this game all these years while CV and LL were secretly pointing and laughing at us singing 'Quizlings, Traitors, ha ha ha ha haha'" -

demon_666,

zihuatanejo,

kagomeshuko

(They're on to us... -LL)
(Release the hounds! -CV)

"I take offense at this! I would never ever betray

ljdq. Well, unless pie was involved. Then, maybe." -

princessstarr

"Vidkun Quisling just got the term along with an execution. Benedict Arnold got both first and last names in his eponym, died of natural causes at home, and a delicious way of preparing eggs named for him. Arnold wins this one" -

mandydax

"Quisling, beloved of Scrabble players everywhere" -

barbarienne,

paradoxotaur

Correct Answer: Vidkun Quisling

6. You are granted one question to ask the World’s Wisest Person. What would you ask him/her?

“I hate talking to myself..." -

b_hulsmans

(Buy a parrot/macaw. They will talk back. Oh, how they will talk back. -CV)

“DUDE, WHAT THE FUCK?" -

etcet,

mark_laura

(The bird is the word. -CV)

"Where should I go find my dream job.... and, um, what is it?" -

shogunsquirrel

(LL told me I couldn't say 'prostitute', so, astronaut, and to the moon. Not necessarily in that order. -CV)

“What question would you ask someone wiser than you, if you met them?" -

seferin,

alfvaen

(Oooo, that so … meta. – LL)

"What are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am?" -

thepikey

“Is the Hokey Pokey really what it's all about?" -

freezer818

(Yes. Yes it is – LL, Virginia Tech, class of ’92)

"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" -

vayshti

(He would chuck what wood a woodchuck could chuck, unless it was Woodchuck Norris, in which case he could chuck all the wood. Ever. -CV)

“What do you drink when you aren't drinking Dos Equis?" -

david_deacon

(Tres Equis. The extra 'equis' makes all the difference. -CV)

“Who put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong?" -

kenshardik

(Rammstein. -CV)

“How can I get people to believe Snopes links?" -

lots42

(Renames "Snopes" to "This Is The Absolute Right Answer For Real, Dumbasses." -CV)

“Where did I leave my keys?" -

sarastar43

(With Colonel Mustard, in the Library. -CV)

“WTF is the reason for the duckbilled platypus?" -

n5iln

(Well, when a mommy duck loves a daddy koala very much... -CV)

“Is it sad that my very first thought was 'How do I beat Chuck Norris?'" -

frequencyshift

(You'll need four hands and a lot of lotion. -CV)

"Which is better, Coke or Pepsi?" -

barbarienne

(Pepsi is better than Coke, but Cherry Coke is better than Cherry Pepsi. -CV)

“Do these pants make my ass look fat?" -

sskipstress

(If you remove them, everything will be juuuuust right. -CV)

And there you have it. A Quiz on "Quiz". Tricksy! And even though we call you quizlings, we know you're not really traitorous bastards out to sell us to the Nazis. You love us, and we love you. That's why we spread the love around and get everyone to play the quiz. The more, the merrier! So don't be a traitor. Go out and tell everyone else about how awesome this game is. You know you want to.

Thanks for playing, everyone, and see you all tomorrow for more Quizly Goodness!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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From:

germankitty

*sniffle*

I forgot to play. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Iwill go forth and drown my sorrows at dinner tonight (for which the hubby is paying), ~~on behalf~~ in honor of our 30th (!!! for realz!!!) wedding anniversary

From:

chaosvizier.livejournal.com

Oooh, 30th! That's bigtime! That's a long time! I was thirty once...

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

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