ljdq | LJ Daily Quiz: 5 December 2011

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I can't believe it's already December. Where does the time go?

1. Daniel Travanti and Veronica Hamel led the cast of which 80's police drama?

“Hill Street Blues. Two things: (1) It's Daniel *J.* Travanti, and (2) I was such a fan of NBC's Thursday night lineup from the 80's that if someone's at a bar and says, 'Cheers!' I reply, 'Night Court! Hill Street Blues!'" -

kenshardik

“NYPD Blue, Beta Edition" -

freezer818

“BRING BACK COP ROCK." -

theninth,

kristinmachina

"The Cosby Show. Those pudding pops were less pudding, more pop if you know what I'm saying" -

mistyraven

(I have no idea what you're saying. -CV)

“Cagney & Starsky & Simon & Mrs. King." -

alfvaen
“Magnum Vice Jump Blues" -

demon_666

“Miami Vices" -

wiredwizard

"Akron Vice. It was less popular than its Miami cousin, partly because what passed for 'vice' in 1980s Akron usually involved livestock" -

squeegibo

"Keystone Kops, the Frank Miller Years" -

seferin

"Gun Tree Hill" -

watergal

“Law & Order DOINK DOINK" -

domestic_fucker

"Sledge Hammer" -

thepikey

“TJ Hooker" -

zihuatanejo

Correct Answer: Hill Street Blues

"Wait..wasn't Hill Street Blues that show that ended up only being in the mind of one kid who was staring into a snowglobe?" - ANONYMOUS

(That was St. Elsewehere. LJDQ is actually in the mind of someone staring at the worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle. -CV)

2. Tenzing Norgay became famous as a result of his partnership with whom?

"Yanni. Am I even in the right field?" -

primavera

(Samuel L. Jackson would point out that you're not in the right field, the right stadium, or even the correct sport. He would have said "fucking" a lot more, though. -CV)

“The name rings a bell... did he do gay porn? it sounds like a gay porn star name." -

b_hulsmans

"Hillary Clinton" -

david_deacon,

yamx

(He definitely did NOT have sex with That Woman. -CV)

“Edmund 'I can see my house from here!' Hillary" -

etcet

“Forqueue Neitherstraight" -

kenshardik
“Ninezing Neitherstraight." -

freezer818
“Elevenzap Neitherstraight" -

mistyraven

“Tenzing Norgay sounds like the person that a) tries to sell me cheap pills via spam, b) informs me of an impoverished prince in need of cash or c) is a Final Fantasy character (really, it's no weirder than Zidane Tribal or Vanille)." -

kristinmachina

"Siegfried & some tigers" -

wiredwizard,

neumeindil

“Hillary--it's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'." -

i_calql8

(+1, Top Secret! – LL)

“Norgay? Is that like Swedepoof?" -

fragbert

"Sir Edmund Hillary, who, until his dying day, insisted that he and Norgay had summited at the exact same time." - IRONJEFF
"Sir Edmond 'Yes I bloody well did get there first' Hillary" -

drunken_hedghog

"A Hill in the real answer, a mountain in the context, and a clue with 'gay' 'partnership'. So many possibilities it's hard to know where to go." -

watergal

Correct Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary

3. What is the name of Brooks and Dunn's ninth album?

"I don't listen to country music. If I want to kill brain cells, I drink beer." -

kenshardik,

b_hulsmans

“Who and who? Are these musicians of some sort? They're not Sting, are they? Well, then." -

etumukutenyak

“Ye gods, they made nine albums? Faith in humanity: GONE." -

lovefromgirl

“I don't listen to country music. If I want to kill brain cells, I drink beer." -

kenshardik,

b_hulsmans

"Q: How many country & western singers does it take to change a light bulb? A: Five...one to change the bulb, the other four to sing about how sorry they are about cheating on the old one." -

n5iln

“If it ain't Brooks, Dunn fix it" -

etcet

"One more and we get a free album!" -

demon_666

"Brooks & Dunn XI. Not too bright, Brooks & Dunn." -

david_deacon

(Roman numerals are not a strong point for most non-romans. -CV)

"We Love our Truck Pt9" -

zihuatanejo

“Number Nine. Number Nine. Number Nine." -

fragbert

"I think a hillbilly deluxe is a redneck in a tux." - ANONYMOUS

(I think it's more like a super-sized hillbilly. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Hillbilly Deluxe"

4. Vincent Price starred in which 1959 horror film (remade 40 years later with Geoffrey Rush in Price's role)?

"Quills" - 4
"Pirates of the Caribbean" - 11
"Shine" - 3

“I'm going to have to skip this week. I can't get past the disturbing visual of Vincent Price and Geoffrey Rush in a remake of Brokeback Mountain." -

sestree

"I didn't know Vincent Price played Cassanova Frankenstein!" - REVHHKITTY, JENNA_THORN

“THE HILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS HAAAAAAAAAAAAVEEEE EYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS, WITH THE SOUND OF DDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSMEMBERMENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNT." -

etcet

“The Hill (A gritty look at Congress, and how a bill becomes a law)" -

seferin

(He's just a bill, sitting on Capitol Hill. Doing better than that Amendment-to-be fellow, though. -CV)

"The Muppets take on Zombies. Actually now I want to see that" -

akiyasan

(Would we call them Zuppets? Or Mombies? -CV)

"The Haunting of Hill House on Haunted Hill Of Wax!" -

theninth

(...2: Electric Boogaloo. -CV)

"While the House on Haunted Hill is great it doesn't match up to that other one where a giant stone whatever knock's Owen Wilson's head clean off. Come on, who hasn't wanted to do that at least once?" -

lots42

(That was The Haunting, and yes, it was totally worth it. Liam Neeson should have gotten it as well. -CV)

"am I the only one who noticed that at the end of the movie, the sun ROSE over the Pacific Ocean??!" -

fragbert

(The house was so haunted, it altered the very laws of physics! -CV)

Correct Answer: "House on Haunted Hill"

5. Where does the Sheffield Wednesday Football Club play its home matches?

“Is this American football or 'everywhere else in the world' football?" -

frequencyshift

“In Sheffield! Ha! I slay me!" -

kenshardik, JENNA_THORN,

b_hulsmans
“Sheffield. But only on Tuesdays." -

theninth
“Sheffield, but only on Wednesdays." -

kristinmachina,

vayshti, REVHHKITTY
“Somehow I don't think 'In Sheffield' will be a sufficient answer to this question." -

mistyraven
"I want to say Sheffield, but that's probably too obvious, so I'll play it safe and say Earth" -

yamx

"In my pants" - THALEN

"Why is a soccer team named after a character on The Addams Family?" -

drbear

(Because the characters on The Munsters had dumber names. -CV)

“The Arthur Dent Pitch, because it could never get the hang of Thursdays" -

etcet

“A la Fred Savage in The Princess Bride: Is this a SPORTS question?" -

fragbert

“Clearly not in the same place as the Sheffield Tuesday Night Football Music Club, nor the Sheffield First Thursday Football Club." -

etumukutenyak

"Doesn't Wednesday know playing with matches is dangerous? Did Pugsly put her up to it?" - IRONJEFF,

majorsamfan

"Solsbury Hill" -

david_deacon

(Peter Gabriel never achieved the same football proficiency as David Beckham. -CV)

"Like any other club, on a proper football pitch like this." -

germankitty

Correct Answer: Hillsborough

6. Have you ever made a mountain out of a molehill? Tell us about it.

“my boss regularly tells me about 'all hell breaking loose', and when I investigate, it's someone looking for me to sign a form." -

etumukutenyak

“Drive-thrus, I will drive around for ten minutes to find an short drive-thru line, rather than simply sit and wait. I know it makes no sense, but I friggin' HATE waiting in line. I'd rather drive around aimlessly than just sit there." -

freezer818

“I can make mountains while describing for long lengths of time though not necessarily eloquently various alliterative repeating words instead of answering a simple question with yes or no." -

akiyasan

“No, but I made a mountain out of mashed potatoes once." -

theninth,

squeegibo, REVHHKITTY
"I tried once, but then decided to make The Devils Tower in my living room from stuff in my yard." - THALEN

(+1, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. - LL&CV)

"I tried once, but the Grand Mole got all pissy about the post-modern loft extension and withdrew my planning permission." -

drunken_hedghog

“Erm, my breasts? I remember being so embarrassed of my lady lumps when they first started growing. If only 9 year old me knew about how embarrassing too-large future-boobs are, she wouldn't have complained." -

demon_666

"I used my ACME Hill-Enhancement Ray to crush the little buggers to get them out of the garden" -

wiredwizard

“Yes! I was about four, and we had a mole in our garden, and my friends and I got all our favorite action figures and had them do expeditions up and across the molehills! One of my teddies got to be the yeti! ...but then he had to go in the wash and lost an eye, so overall it was a traumatic experience." -

yamx

“I found a molehill while on a mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ah, the irony." -

neumeindil

“I once lied to a teacher over a relatively insignificant matter. Note: never do this in an obvious way - this way leads to dragons." -

raphsody606

“I once took some Nyquil just to get to sleep. That was fun." -

lots42

(+1, Nyquil. – LL)

“So apparently, I was totally in the wrong to freak out when the girl I was sleeping with told me that her last partner had herpes and she never got tested afterwards. SUCH a silly thing to make a big deal out of, don't know WHAT I was thinking. Except that I was going to be a nervous wreck for the next week or so until my test results came back clean. Ahem." -

frequencyshift

And that's the way it is. Hope you had a hill of a good time here this week; as always, many hillarious answers were found, and many brhilliant ones as well. It's all downhill for this year now; easy themes up ahead! Crazy times!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL