LJ Daily Answers: 14 May 2012

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight! Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said "By the power of Greyskull!" It's a Toledo Salamanca broadsword, worth about a million bucks. That sword was broken! Who so Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Rightwise King Born of all England. And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way.


1. What was the weapon of choice for Thundarr the Barbarian?

"You can't say 'weapon of choice' without getting linked to this video." - mandydax, seferin, tinamachina, thepikey

"A club to beat up baby seals. Bastard!" - akiyasan

"Thor's Hummer" - drunken_hedghog

"The Sword that Was Broken" - etumukutenyak

(That was Arragorn of Numenarrrrr. -CV)

"Does he call it Vera?" - wrestlingdog

"ACME Thundertron 4000 (must show proof of not being a coyote on purchase)" - wiredwizard

"He wielded a pirate attached to a hilt, who would yell 'Thun-darrrrrrrrrr' before biting the fuck out of some enemy earlobe" - etcet

"" - germankitty

"Bad breath. Seriously, a dentist could make a mint in these cartoon worlds. Half the time people seem to have simple bars of ivory instead of distinct teeth, and the other half they have no teeth at all, or maybe just a couple of fangs. Yes, I spend too much time looking at cartoon characters' mouths." - barbarienne

"Thundarr the Barbarian's weapon of choice was Conan the Barbarian. Thundarr would pick Conan up by the ankles and kill people with him. This wouldn't harm Conan a bit, because he was . . . Conan the Barbarian" - david_deacon

"Thundar--didn't he travel around with that hot Wonder Woman wanna be and some furry cat-bear thing named Ookla?" - ifeedformula

"Thundarr use shiny stick" - natt_barn

Correct Answer: The Sun Sword

"also known as the Lords of Light Sabre" - i_calql8



2. Special Agent Abigail Brand is the head of which organization?

"The Girls Scouts of Lithuania" - baader_meinhof

"Mensa" - primavera

"SPECTRE" - wrestlingdog

"NCIS" - drunken_hedghog

(Wrong Abby, and she's not in charge. -CV)

"Q Branch" - jmthane

"Obviously she's the head of some sort of coven. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry of Magic? Oh, you said which organization, not witch organization" - barbarienne

(Eh, her name's Abigail, she probably is a witch to boot. -CV)

"Dude, if I was related to Russell Brand, I'd disown him and become a secret agent too. Urgh." - ifeedformula

"Don't be silly. Girls can't be in charge of things!" - theninth

"I'd rather work for SHADO." - n5iln

(That's pretty old-school there. -CV)

"S.H.I.E.L.D." - tinamachina

(Almost... -CV)

"She thinks the best way to negotiate with an Ai is to threaten to shoot it. I *like* her." - natt_barn

Correct Answer: Sentient World Observation and Response Department, or S.W.O.R.D.

"I've got a sudden craving for some shawarma." - umbralcorax

(+1, just because. -CV)



3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
The snakes and arrows a child is heir to
Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
We build our defenses, a place of safety
And leave the darker places unexplored

(This question brought all our stealthy Rush fans out of hiding. -CV)

"Ohhh, I feel that answer rushing towards me....Nope, it zoomed right by." - tweeti

"I Took A Ni To The Shrubbery - Monty Python" - wiredwizard

"Medusa's Lament by Theseus" - timthief

"Hmm.. Genesis?" - primavera

(Genesis is answer forbidden. -CV)

"'Cuts' doesn't rhyme with 'Unexplored'!" - stgreyhounds

(It does in Welsh. -CV)

"The last line doesn't rhyme. It should have been 'And then they bite us on our butts.'" - drbear

"If they add snakes to Minecraft, this could be the theme song" - mandydax

"All I can think is 'snaaaaake snaaaaake! It's a snaaaake! It's a badger-badger-badger-badger...'" - baader_meinhof

"I don't know, I'm just trying to imagine what the spawn of snakes and arrows would look like" - wrestlingdog

(Did you ever see "Conan the Barbarian", where Thulsa Doom takes a snake and draws it to his bow and shoots Valeria? There's your answer. -CV)

"If you're cutting yourself with a snake, you're trying too hard, emo kid" - etcet

"'Get those muthafuckin' snakes away from my muthafuckin' armor', by the Samuel L. Jacksons" - germankitty

"If you let your child get a thousand cuts from snakes and arrows (which sounds like a boardgame, if you ask me) CPS will probably nail your ass to the wall" - ifeedformula
"yeah, it's best to leave the dark places of a child unexplored, especially if you don't like prison" - sskipstress

"This sounds very William Shakespeare..ish. The only erudite songwriter I can think of is Sting, which reminds me, didn't Frodo have a sword named Sting? So I'm going to say Enya." - etumukutenyak

(And the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation this week goes to... etumukutenyak! -CV)

Correct Answer: Rush, "Armor and Sword"



4. What 60's and 70's game show was hosted by Allen Ludden?

"I think a better question would be what 60's and 70's game show *wasn't* hosted by Allen Ludden?" - jmthane, n5iln

(True, he hosted many shows. But only this one managed to span both decades, with himself as the long-standing host. -CV)

"I'll have bad puns for a thousand, Alex Allen!" - germankitty

"$25,000 Pair-of-Squids" - baader_meinhof

"The Hunger Games; it was all gladiatorial until that upstart Katniss brought a bow to the fight" - cholma

(Hey, if Richard Dawson can host "The Running Man", then anything goes. -CV)

"I'm gonna say 'Press Your Luck,' because it's fun to say 'Nowhammiesnowhammiesnowhammiesnowhammies.... Stop!'" - stgreyhounds

(That really was one of the best game shows ever. -CV)

"Ah heck, who cares, the only thing people seem to care about anymore is that he was married to the wonderful Betty White" - tweeti, drunken_hedghog

"How the hell does Password fit into this quiz theme? Okay, I'm gonna say Beat the Clock because it sounds dirty" - barbarienne

(Fair Enough; "Beat the Clock" does sound rather naughty. Anyway, Password totally works with the theme once you remove the first three letters. That's right, I am totally reaching here. -CV)

Correct Answer: Password



5. More fun with lyrics! Name the song and the movie:
I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed
And left from my dreaming was a feeling of unnameable dread
My high is low, I'm dressed up with no place to go
And all I know, is I'm at the start of a pretty big downer

"My Life...every morning, I sing it" - tweeti, freezer818, drbear

"I'm not sure, but I do know that I'm have the urge to wear a corset, stockings, suspenders and stripper heels. So, Elvira?" - drunken_hedghog

"Percocet will cheer you up! Well either that or plastic surgery on your face so you're always smiling. No wonder clowns are so freaky!" - akiyasan

"That annoying song from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. (Or should I narrow it down further?)" - neumeindil

(You probably should, but I'll give you full credit anyway. -CV)

"I didn't know there was a Morrissey song in Rocky Horror Picture Show" - theninth, etumukutenyak

"It's ... disturbing to know that the first time I saw that movie was over 30 years ago..." - jmthane

Correct Answer: "Sword of Damocles" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show



6. What's looming over your head?

"My bedroom, and there's an ominous creaking coming from the ceiling battens" - drunken_hedghog

"A big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff! AIEEEEE!!" - wiredwizard

"About 50lbs of biomass in the form of an enormous, multi-tentacular Epipremnum aureum. I have strung it all around the ceiling of my office, and right now there are about a dozen vines hanging in throat-grabbing distance. My office looks like Poison Ivy's lab" - barbarienne

(When the Triffids come to invade the Earth, you are totally going to die first. -CV)

"Just the ceiling. And maybe a hundred years worth of mice poo above the ceiling" - tinamachina

"That family of weavers living upstairs" - alfvaen, i_calql8

"A loom has to do with weaving, or cloth production in general. Like spinning. By that logic, most likely a spider. See me run." - germankitty

"There is actually a spider in the corner over my bed, but we we have an agreement; it doesn't come anywhere near me and I don't drop my hard cover copy of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (1 volume, 3 books) on it's spindly-legged little ass" - neumeindil

(He will betray you. It is his destiny. -CV)

"" - sskipstress

"I GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE TOMORROW. So the answer to your question is student loans and unemployment" - wrestlingdog



And that's the way it is. Another swordid affair put behind us.

Thanks for playing, happy graduation time for those close to it, and tune in next time for more fun-filled action-packed quizly goodness!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

FOUR, baby! And without the Pulp Fiction quote!

(Which confuses me. No love for quoting Tarantino's best movie? A line spoken by Samuel L. Jackson? Talk about your inconsistent rewards system. This is that Skinnerian thing where you get stronger behavior reinforcement if occasionally you don't give the reward, isn't it?)

Also, the presence of so many successful plants in my office makes me a Fifth Column when the triffids come. You'll really want to be my friend, then.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I knew that quote was familiar, and I just could not place it. Oh well, so much for the old brain cells.

"And you for one welcome our new flora overlords."

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I'm going to give you a -1 for not knowing the quote, old man. If I can't have my answer-credit +1, then I'm gonna get it from outta your hide. ;-P

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

The only thing you can squeeze out of my hide is sugar syrup and bacon grease. And maybe a mild juniper flavoring. ;-)

[germankitty]

Four. FOUR!!! And not a groupthink in sight. Booyah!

On Saturday my football team manages to win the Club Trophy on top of the National Championship for the 1st time in club history (and in the process beat the record champions five times in a row, heehee). On Sunday, my party wins the State elections in a mini-landslide. Today, I'm rocking the LJDQ and pwning i_calql8 by getting 2/3 of full quotage to his 1.5 quotes.

Can Life get any better?

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Well, you may have, in a rare outpouring of luck, pwned po' widdle me this week--and congrats on that--but my weather pwns yours--42C here today! How're them mid-teen temps in your neck of the woods, sis? Mwah hahahahaha...mine is a meteorological laugh!

[germankitty]

You'd love my weather -- nice, sunny, 16°C, perfect for mid-May. The heat'll come later, I'm sure. (I'll be in CA/NV/AZ in late August, including a trip through Death Valley -- I'll get more than enough of your temps then!)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Sounds like May in my Future Retirement Home--can't wait!

[germankitty]

LOL. Whereas I wish I could move to California (San Francisco, maybe) when Hubby retires ...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Truly, your life is at a zenith, an apex, a summit of untold proportions! You have a plethora of fortune! You are the son of a motherless goat! No wait, strike that last one.

Life is good.

[drbear.livejournal.com]

OK, tweeti out-answered me again, but I'm using the excuse that I'm working hard at my new job. I know, I can only use that excuse once.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Better to be working hard than working limp, I dare say. Carry on.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Well, 1.5 today...sometimes one has to take a hit so that others can be made to look good. I'm okay with that. ;) Besides, by now, I expect to suck at the ill-named 'Fun with Lyrics' questions, so I'm treating today as a 1.5 out of 4 questions, which equates into a 2.25 out of 6. It'll make me feel better.

"I'd rather work for SHADO." - n5iln
(+1, UFO)
Only if you get to fly the Interceptor. Even then, I'd hesitate--srsly, no guns and only one missile on those things? Still, it beats wearing one of those purple wigs...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Fun with lyrics is just there to make quizlings cry. Like math, or sports questions, or history older than 15 years, or pretty much anything that doesn't have a terabyte of slashfic dedicated to it. GEORGE WASHINGTON/JOHN QUINCY ADAMS OTP THEIR LOVE IS SO WHIGGY

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

I get airsick every so often, so let me drive one of the mobiles and I'm a happy camper. Oh, and I also want to be wherever Gabrielle Drake is, just so I can watch her walk away from me.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Three! =wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!=

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Three quotes! Ah hah haaaa!

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

Add another quote and make it a gallon.

[tweeti.livejournal.com]

One quote + two half quotes = a total of 2 complete quotes!!!

Or I can just count it as 3 quotes, which is even better....YAY for me!

As for my hubby, excuses, excuses....

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Your hubby will have his day once more. He cannot be denied.

[tweeti.livejournal.com]

I never deny my hubby...*cheeky grin*

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I'd like to thank the Academy for this delicious award!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Logic is boring! Renunciation is awesome! Plus, mmmm, cheese.

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

Woooohooooo! Five quotes equalling my previous personal best! *Breaks out the Goldschlager* Mama's gonna drink tonight!

CV I hate to correct you, but Abby is able to boss Gibbs around and Gibbs bosses EVERYONE ELSE around. Ergo, Abby is the boss of NCIS. Fear my false syllogism!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Gibbs is totally the boss and she knows it. He lays down the law when she needs ordering. All her cuteness and wacky idiosyncrasies fall before his iron will. ;-)

And share some of that Goldschlagery goodness with me, eh?

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Since "Weapon of Choice" quoted Dune, the answer for #1 was still, in a way, Sting. "Walken without rhythm and it won't attract the worm."

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. Walken, Dune, Sting, Worm. And from there, the Apocalypse!

[umbralcorax.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know there is nothing stealthy about my Rush fandom. Heck, I still use a wallet that I bought at a show I saw on the Vapor Trails tour.