LJ Daily Answers: 19 March 2011 +1

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

All we are is Dust In The Wind, dudes.

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
But when you wish upon a dream
Life ain't always what it seems, oh yeah
What'd you see, on nights so clear
In the sky, so very dear, yeah

"Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here!" - cmzero

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

"'You Ripped Me Off' by Jiminy Cricket" - drbear and 9 other cricket lovers
"Now I have my own personal Disney medley going through my head...When You Wish Upon a Star, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, I Know You, I Walked with You Once upon a Dream...thanks LJDQ, thanks a bunch." - sskipstress

"It's not Sting, is it?" - tinamachina

(Not even close. -CV)

"Oh, this sounds so familiar. Was it used on Dance Dance Revolution?" - mandydax

"Lyrics always seem stupider when you type out the 'yeah's" - raphsody606

"'Shining Star', by Earth, Wind & Fire...and neither the name of the song nor the band name have anything at all to do with the last time I ate at Taco Bell. I swear it." - n5iln

"If you listen carefully, you'll catch the exact moment Phillip Bailey realizes he can talk to dogs using his falsetto" - i_calql8

Correct Answer: "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind, and Fire



2. What is the literal English translation of the word "kamikaze"?

"Drop it, Ito!" - germankitty

"Really high turnover" - syrazemyla

"Don't worry about keeping the tray tables upright and locked." - drbear

"Kami = vest, kaze = toilet. Ergo, Kamikaze = toiletvest" - drunken_hedghog

(I am forced to question your knowledge of Japanese. -CV)

"Vodka, triple sec, and lime juice" - thepikey
"Drink that makes you take off your pants" - kenshardik
"1 kamikaze, 2 kamikase, 3 kamikaze, FLOOR!" - sskipstress

"God farts" - THALEN, cold_clarity

Correct Answer: "God Wind" or "Divine Wind"

"As opposed to Damned Wind which is 'flatulence'." - JENNA_THORN



3. What is the largest inhabited castle in the world?

"Castle Anthrax" - drbear, thepikey

(That just has four score young virgins and a metal band. -CV)

"Castle ARGGGHHHHHH" - mandydax

(French don't count as real inhabitants. -CV)

"One thing about living in this castle I never could stomach, all the damn armored turtles" - n5iln

(+1, The Lost Boys. -CV)

"I didn't know your mom was Mrs. Castle" - i_calql8

(Truly, I never see it coming. -CV)

"The fire ant mound in the neighborhood park" - JENNA_THORN

(They're just waiting for the right moment to invade. -CV)

"Neuschwanstein... is not the answer, but it is so much fun to say!" - love2loveher

"You didn't say which world, so I'm going to go with Castle Grayskull, which has portals to other worlds, and thus may be considered to contain the populations thereof" - seferin, usmu

"Orgrimmar. (Stormwind can suck it.)" - cmzero

"Hogwarts" - germankitty

"I bet anything it's in England..they have castles like the desert has cactus plants over there man" - ifeedformula

"I misread inhabited as inebriated. So therefore the drunken castle must be in Ireland somewhere" - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Windsor Castle



4. What book, published in 1908, describes the adventures of Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Mr. Badger?

"Nothing says fine children's literature like books about rodents!" - whomajigi

(Hence, Stuart Little, Watership Down, Brer Rabbit, and Rikki Tikki Tavi. Ok, maybe not the second one. Mmm, delicious childhood trauma. -CV)

"The Further Adventures of Tom Riddle" - THALEN
"'Vermin'R'Us' by Peter Pettigrew" - germankitty

"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie" - FERDELANCE

"Introduction to American Politics" - love2loveher

"Honey badger don't give a shit about children's stories!" - n5iln

"Mushroom Mushroom" - drunken_hedghog, mandydax

"There's nothing so satisfying as an afternoon spent messing about in boats. Save perhaps for an afternoon spent rolling on a bed covered in gold coins." - JENNA_THORN

"OMG..BEST DISNEYWORLD RIDE EVAR! I'm still mad they took out 'Mr. Toad's Wild Ride' and replaced it with that craptastic Winnie the Pooh ride." - ifeedformula

(That is a shame. That ride was almost as trippyfreaky as Universal Studios' "The Cat In The Hat". -CV)

Correct Answer: The Wind in the Willows

"there's never any wind mentioned" - etumukutenyak



5. What fictional character holds such grandiose titles as "Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography", "Chair of Approximate Accuracy", and "Reader in Slood Dynamics"?

"Do they sell a Chair of Approximate Accuracy in Ikea?" - tinamachina

(I think they call it Ragnarok. Some assembly required. -CV)

"Buckaroo Banzai" - JENNA_THORN

"Baron Münchhausen" - kenshardik

"Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore" - germankitty
"Severus Snape" - wiredwizard

"Bill Nye, the Fake Science Guy" - drbear

"I am the Night. I am the Reader in Slood Dynamics. I am... the Goddamn Batman." - thepikey

"Captain Kangaroo" - love2loveher

"The Wizard of Waverly Place (not that any of those Disney kids could spell 'egregious' much less know what it means)" - majorsamfan

(They would spell it with the words "like totally" in front. -CV)

"Rincewind packs a mean Luggage" - sskipstress

(I pack a large luggage, if you know what I mean. And I think you do. I'm talking about... my suitcase. -CV)

Correct Answer: Rincewind



6. What was the last game/prize/whatever that you won? Tell us all about it.

"An argument with my husband. Which was too easy, really, as there are only two rules in our household: 1) I am always right. 2) In the extremely unlikely event that I should happen to not be right, Rule 1) automatically applies" - germankitty and probably every wife everywhere, ever

"I never won anything until my husband rubbed raffle tickets under his armpits. Then I won a Jayne Cobb public relations gift basket. He has lucky armpits." - whomajigi

(I don't even know where to go with this one. -CV)

"tweeti believes everything I say, so I regularly kick her butt at Scrabble." - drbear

(Ah, Scrabble. Home of the quizybuk. -CV)

"I won second prize in a beauty contest, and collected ten dollars." - SJL

(Be a winner at the game of Life! -CV)

"Gift certificate for tattoos at a Burlesque show obtained by paying $20 to have a gorgeous redhead measure the length of my inner thigh to the floor in raffle tickets" - seferin

"there was the time I beat my brother at air hockey.. yeah, go with that." - primavera

"There's this guy from AK who beats me at WWF (words with friends) by 100 points or more all the time, and I beat him this week after earning 144 points on one play." - majorsamfan

(This would have been more awesome if you had beaten him in the World Wrestling Federation. Or even the World Wildlife Fund. -CV)

"Dude, I can't even score higher than 60K points in Bejeweled." - FERDELANCE

"I punchbuggied my son yesterday -- blue, yellow, and red for the win!" - etumukutenyak

"Our family won free donuts in Jewel's Wish Big Win Big contest. Unfortunately, my sister (who works at Jewel) forgot to cash in some of the winning tickets before their expiration date. Her forgetfulness deprived me of variation in my breakfast." - la_trombonista

"I am the one, the only one,
I am the god of kingdom come,
Gimme the prize." - mandydax

(+1, Highlander. And, what the hell, +1, Queen. -CV)



And there you have it, straight from the Windy City itself! No, that's a lie. Chicago does not factor into this week's quiz, even if it should.

Hope you all enjoyed this round; thanks for playing, and of course tune in some other time when I'm a bit more on schedule than this week. New Quiz coming soon, courtesy of the estate of Sir Windston Churchill.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Though I'm kind of sad to go down to one quote, I didn't answer question one like that. Wish I had though.
Given the answer I did give I could see why you'd go that way. The song (Star Trekkin' by the Firm for full disclosure) is kind of grating and annoying.

[germankitty]

Five. Five! FIVE!! I rock!!! I may even hold share this week's record for most answers -- damn, I'm good!

Take that, i_calql8!

Also, I'd like to thank the Academ-, er, JK Rowling and Harry Potter for providing me with the source material for three of those five quotes. I couldn't have done this without you!


Edited to include drbear in this week's triumphant showing. Happy Anniversary, hun!

[germankitty]

Argh, the earworm! Make it go away!

(I actually own that song as a vinyl single. All to keep the Trekker cred ... *cringes nonetheless*)

[usmu.livejournal.com]

There's only one way to get rid of an earworm. An even bigger earworn. Personally I prefer Ma Nah Ma Nah.
And I have it somewhere as well. For pretty much the same reason.

[germankitty]

Actually, thinking of what I posted to that question -- Elvis' "Flaming Star" -- works pretty well as a counter-earworm. Didn't get me a quote, either, though. :(

*high-five* from one old-time fan to another

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

+2....Ok. I'll take that. Not that I have much choice, mind you.

And CV...I totally agree. The Cat in the Hat ride made me want to vomit from all the spinning and the weird colors and the scary puppets. My son (who was 5 at the time and is STILL a ginormous Dr. Seuss fan) thought it was hysterical and made me ride it eleventythousand times that week.

The only thing Mr. Toad's Wild Ride did was scare the complete crap out of my 10 year old brother while I sat there and laughed at his terror. Ah..good times, good times.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

*high-five"

And I think it's fair to say the mods don't appreciaite us like they should. Oops did I just say that out loud? :)

[germankitty]

Oh, I feel plenty appreciated today ... *fake modest smile* And you gotta admit, old-skool Trek gets kudos more often than not. Unless you're lovellama and have an incomprehensible appreciation of that ... thing ... called "Enterprise", that is!

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Five - a nice anniversary present for me (thanks to the answers being a bit late, but that's OK)

And since it's my anniversary, I should be honest and say that tweeti does occasionally beat me at Scrabble.

[germankitty]

Hey, you got five, too? Welcome to the club! *high-fives*

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Two! And a quality two, a creative two--unlike somebody who ganked over half her answers from one source. :P

For all you husbands out there, Cubs announcer Bob Brenly has three phrases guaranteed to get you out of whatever purgatory you may be in with your spouses:
1) Yes, dear
2) You're right
3) I'm sorry

Surprisingly, it works very well. Gotten me out of a veritable avenue of doghouses, it has.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Happy Anni to the two of you.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

It does work more often than not. Maybe that's why I'm sad it didn't this time.. Though I did get a +1 for the answer that wasn't mine. I must say I don't share lovellama's unholy love for that show that can't be named, but am quite partial to some DS9

[germankitty]

"I must say I don't share lovellama's unholy love for that show that can't be named, but am quite partial to some DS9"

What are you, my long-lost twin?!?

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

=woeses= 1 out of 6... Great Cthulhu, you lot are determined to smother my po' po' PO' funneh to death, aren't you?! That's it! No more sacrifices of Gin & Pudding to the LJDQ gods! The gin will be used as a firestarter & I'm eating the pudding myself... =grumbles=

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Now I'm curious about what you'll do for the six club. High Sixes? HOW DOES IT WORK?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Oops, wrong name. Fixed now.

And actually, I like the song. It's fun and goofy and silly and the video is like Star Trek on acid.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we are totally unappreciative bastards. That's what gets us moving in the morning! Wheeeee! ;-)

...that and laziness. Oh yeah! I'll get moving... later.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter is good for a few things. Maybe not many, but a few. And hey, better than quoting Twilight or Xena or ST:Enterprise or something. ;-)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I came off the Cat in the Hat ride declaring, "Looks like I picked the *RIGHT* week to quit LSD."

[germankitty]

Um, ask me again if/when I actually get there?

[germankitty]

*points at icon*

[drbear.livejournal.com]

http://youtu.be/wX_z5eUCeCs

(I had one of those)

[germankitty]

Just for the record, I'm quoting "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys", not Xena whenever I'm in need of Bowdlerized factoids from Greco-Roman mythology ... gimme the barechested hunks over the leather-brassiered gals any old day!

(And honestly? I'd just as lief take ST:Enterprise over Twilight! Sort of like the lesser of two evils ...)

[germankitty]