LJ Daily Answers: 23 July 2012

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

After covering the other four directions, the obvious conclusion is this, the ceterpiece, the middle of all things.

1. What is the term for the point within the Earth where an earthquake rupture starts?

"The really flat part" - freezer818

(It will be, shortly. -CV)

"Otisburg" - i_calql8

(+1, Superman. -CV)

"Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever." - therealchon

(Whoah whoa whoaaaaah there, who let someone bring classical literature to this party? -CV)

"The point where someone realizes that it really was too much weight to lift alone" - n5iln

"Godzilla's footprint" - cmzero

"My bathroom after I eat fiber bars" - lots42

(This looks like a job for Kashi Go Lean Crunch Cereal! -CV)

"My neighborhood. Seriously, I live 1200 FEET from the San Andreas..." - IRONJEFF

(If the house is a rockin', better get a runnin'. -CV)

"The ZOMGWEREDEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!11!!!1! Zone" - wiredwizard

"Ground zero" - darthparadox
"FOCUS" - zihuatanejo

(Both technically correct. -CV)

Correct Answer: Hypocenter

"not to be confused with the hipposcenter, which is where horses buy perfume" - mandydax

"Well, if it were a hyper-center, all it would need is some ritalin" - tweeti



2. Brendan Fraser starred in a film version of which Jules Verne novel?

"Pffft, Brendan Fraser....I want to see the one with Dwayne Johnson...He even looked sexy in a pink tutu...But then I may just have a thing for men in pink tutus....I wonder if drbear would wear a pink tutu for me so I could test the theory" - tweeti

(+1 for every pic of a pink tutued drbear you post. -CV)

"Jules Verne wrote Encino Man?" - stgreyhounds
"Jules Verne wrote 'The Mummy'?" - zihuatanejo

"I can explain everything" - n5iln

(Explain it to Jules Verne. He's a very sad corpse right now. -CV)

"Journey to the Center of Your Mom" - mandydax, angelchicken

"Journey to Find A Better Agent" - freezer818

Correct Answer: "Journey to the Center of the Earth"

"Also, where were the sea monster dinosaurs featured in the book? RIPPED OFF! More dinosaurs, less Brendan Fraser idiocy!" - demon_666

(They had a T-Rex. I think that blew up their CGI dinosaur budget. -CV)



3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
Does she walk? Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel
Always pulled me from my seat

"Lyrics Questions Are Mooey Mooey Bombad Questions by the Gungan Choir of LJDQ Players" - wiredwizard

(-1, Gunganspeak. Even if you're totally correct. -CV)

"i need more wine for this" - kira_snugz

"Why exactly did he feel the need to repeat 'homeroom' like that? Surely he could've come up with another two-syllable adjective or descriptive phrase that would have served without being redundant. Must be just laziness" - alfvaen

(Too much reverb. -CV)

"'(My Angel is a) Cylon' - Helo and Vipers" - mandydax

"if she's a centerfold, she might not have been quite the angel you thought she was" - IRONJEFF

(Fallen angels are still angels. -CV)

"It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that that was a song about rubbing one out to a Playboy" - freezer818

"Na na nana na na
Na nana nanana na na" - 8 of you

Correct Answer: J. Geils Band, "Centerfold"

"Not to be confused with 'Centerfield' by John Foggerty, because no one wants to think of John in women's lingerie. Shudder...." - tinamachina



4. The Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities eventually evolved to become which U.S. Federal Agency?

"The NSA. Yeah, no one quite knows how that happened" - rapunzelita

"ONDMCA was eventually abbreviated to DMCA. How they got put in charge of internet copyright is beyond me; maybe someone got confused about the meaning of 'virus'." - cmzero

"Those guys in white suits who came and took E.T. away. I weed my pants because of them when I first saw the movie when I was little." - demon_666

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

(The Society for Humanitarian Insect Elimination, Liquidation, and Decimation was popular, up until they "fired" Ant Man and the Wasp. -CV)

"CSI: Atlanta" - germankitty

("Looks like the victim was torn in half by something with four serrated edges and a lot of crushing power." - "Goddammit, this is the sixteenth alligator attack this season!" -CV)

"G.I.Joe" - lots42

(What no one knew was that, all those times it looked like they were missing COBRA troops with their laser rifles, they were actually picking off mosquitoes in mid-air with uncanny accuracy. -CV)

"FAZA -- Federal Agency for Zombie Apocalypse" - therealchon, zihuatanejo, ntlespino

"the center for drunk centers" - kira_snugz

(I think only you and I qualify for employment there. -CV)

"I bet y'all forgot 'and Prevention'....Everybody forgets 'and Prevention' .... That's important, ya know..." - tweeti, IRONJEFF

Correct Answer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention



5. What alliance stood against the Entente Powers around the dawn of the 20th century?

"It was of Elves and Men" - cmzero, akiyasan

"The Out Of Tente Powers" - sskipstress

(Moral of the story: You should always have a tent. And stay in it. -CV)

"That was the humans, the dwarves, the gnomes, and the night elves, right?" - mandydax

(WWI reimagined with Warcraft powers sounds... like my next NaNo! -CV)

"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - tinamachina, alfvaen

"Justice League of America" - zihuatanejo

"The Rebel alliance" - primavera, darthparadox, demon_666

(Commander, tear this continent apart until you found those Entente Powers, and bring them to me. I want them alive! -CV)

"The A-Team" - freezer818

"S.H.I.E.L.D." - angelchicken, wiredwizard

(Soldiers Headquartered in Inner Europe Liberating the Desparate was a noble cause that regrettably failed because they were all, in fact, French. -CV)

"THE CPAC!!! central powers of....allied... canada. WE HAVE BEAVERS, FEAR US" - kira_snugz

(+1, beavers. -CV)

"The Arrangement Powers, whose motto was 'At least we don't feel the need to use big French words to sound important, yo.'" - rapunzelita

"Die Anfangsgans Allianz" - germankitty

(Cheeky Germans. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Central Powers



6. Midlife Crisis! What are/were/will be your plans?

"I'm still working on the quarterlife crisis, thanks" - stgreyhounds

"i'm pretty sure that this is it actually, livejournal and wine" - kira_snugz

(...wait a minute, I use livejournal, and I drink wine! Guess I'm halfway done then. -CV)

"Sorry, the terms of my probation prohibit any discussion of that topic." - IRONJEFF

"Mime-slapping. Then chicks" - therealchon

"Live long enough to get a replacement body. I'm personally hoping for an awesome cyborg body, but I won't complain about something vat-grown" - mandydax

"Alpaca farming in South America. I was going to run off and join the circus, but I'm afraid of heights and allergic to most animals" - silk_knickers

(Hopefully not alpacas. That would put a crimp in your plans. -CV)

"I'm not sure I'll be able to tell the difference between a midlife crisis and being bored enough to do semi-drastic things like cutting off my hair, moving across the country, and having plastic surgery" - sskipstress

(Sure you will. Midlife crisis means you're older when you do those things. -CV)

"Actually making this a MID life crisis, and not a you'll-be-dead-in-ten-years crisis. My family has a tendency to suffer from retirony, I'd rather avoid that" - rapunzelita

"My kid will be in his twenties by then and hopefully moved out of the house. If not, I will embarrass him by dressing up like Princess Leia (when she was Jabba's slave) whenever he has friends over" - demon_666

"Invite friends, rent limo, get drunk, repeat" - tinamachina

(Note to self: become tinamachina's friend soon. -CV)

"So. Much. Fucking" - primavera



And there you have it. Finally. Five-part quiz that should have been finished in late June. Sorry about that. Technical delays, vacation, work, Sting, earthquake, flood, bacon, Tom Cruise, pudding, stampede, boobs, gin, take your pick, I'm sure they all contributed somehow. Let's see if I can get myself back on track. Hopefully you're all still out there as well; more players are good players! Everyone should play! Except those jerks in Pod Six.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Two quotes, both with CV commentary, and one a bad pun in German (trust me, if you speak German, you'll know just HOW bad it is!).

Guess I've pwned i_calql8 despite his +1!

Edited because my laptop's keyboard hates me and constantly leaves out random letters when I type. Why yes, I'm totally blaming the tool. Wouldn't you?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Blame the tool! It is always the tool's fault.

[germankitty]

Well. I knew that. What a tool!

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Aie! 3.5... I'm slipping again...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Still better than two. Or three, even. Score!

[shirenomad]

True story: I visited an obstacle course this weekend and spent over two hours swinging on ropes and riding zip lines while 50+ feet in the air. So I would like you to repeat the "Up" quiz because I have much more to say for Question 6 now.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of "up" you had there. I'm sure that I'll repeat the UP quiz another day; we are nothing if not shameless theme-recycling buggers here. Oh yes indeedy. ;-)

[tweeti.livejournal.com]

Yay, 3 quotes for me....I will be trying to get drbear into a tutu....I'm not sure that I'll be able to though...I can have and will keep my prurient fantasies though...*grin*....Hey, I do have a pic of him naked, just barely covered by a sheet laying in the bed...Will that get me a +1???

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That might get all of us a -1. OH THE HUMANITY

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

(Note to self: become tinamachina's friend soon. -CV)

There needs to be a LJDQ meet-up one day--something that involves drinking and pudding and, based on the last 5 quizes, arcade games!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I agree. NYC LJDQ Pub Crawl! Start with pudding, end passed out on the arcade floor!

...oh wait, that's what I call "Thursday". But still, pub crawl!

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

I'm still holding out for an offer from SHADO. Not involving Skydiver.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

SHADO got restructured in the late 90's, focusing on evil corporate overlordship and other despicable acts. I think they renamed themselves AIG, and their goal of creating a Crapsack World is moving along quite well, I hear.

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

YAY! 3+1/3!
Btw, I must start working out my abs. I recently reviewed the Jabba the Hutt/ Princess Leia scenes and that bikini is smaller than I remembered...
Also, it brought up a lot of questions about Hutt anatomy, specifically their reproductive systems...
(You can tell you're not the most perverted geek out there, when you research Hutt anatomy and stumble across forums discussing what sexual acts Leia must have performed with/on Jabba to prevent herself becoming Rancor fodder...)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And that's reason #2998 why I hate the internet.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

Fiver. Niiice. Really hoping that tweeti can get those drbear pix and you can incorporate them into a quiz.