LJ Daily Answers: 31 July 2012

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Olympic theme much?" - stgreyhounds

Eh, every two years, if we're lucky. Let's face it, unpredictability is not our strongest trait.



1. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Israel?

"Ziva David" - big shalom to 12 of you

"Alberta Einstein. Gender, it turns out, is also relative" - alfvaen

"Eccentrica Gallumbits. Or she should have been" - n5iln

"Sarah Connor" - wrestlingdog

"Optimus Prime's female alter ego Optima" - sskipstress

"Dr. Ruth" - seferin, mandydax

"Margaret Thatchovitch" - sjl

"Stephenie Meir. She started writing about vampires because she didn't want to be associated with Zions friction." - i_calql8

"Goldie Hawn" - THALEN, drbear, tweeti

"Benjamin Netanyahu because Golda Meir had BALLS" - ntlespino, drunken_hedghog

"[this video is not entirely safe for work]" - raienna

(...full credit. -CV)

"When Golda Meir visited the US after the Yom Kippur War, President Nixon thought to pay her a compliment. 'Mrs Meir,' he said, 'I wish I had your General Dayan and General Sharon!' She gave him a Look. 'You can have them,' she replied. 'I'll swap them with you for General Motors and General Electrics!'" - germankitty

Correct Answer: Golda Meir

"Uri Geller was the first Minister of Defense. His spoon-bending thing scared the pee out of surrounding countries, who knew what else he was capable of?" - thepikey



2. What film production company was responsible for such action films as Action Jackson, Hudson Hawk, and Commando?

"RAWWWWR! That's the lion. He has a name. It was a question in my trivia league, and no one on the team knew it. I still don't remember, except I was unimpressed" - stgreyhounds

"Weneed a Taxwriteoff" - seferin

"ALHH BE BAAACK Productions" - wiredwizard

"Mindless Violence Studios" - drbear

"Fuckin' Explosions Co." - primavera, mandydax

"Carl Weathers? Sharon Stone? Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster, Craig T Nelson? The 80's called, they want their celebrities back" - thepikey

"Troma" - tinamachina

"So Eighties We Sweat Aqua Net Productions" - freezer

"Straighttovideo films, now in your local theater" - JENNA_THORN

"Sounds like I need to have a maligned movie night sometime, with 'Hudson Hawk' and 'Joe Vs. The Volcano', both of which I thought were great, and maybe I'll give 'Ishtar' a try too" - alfvaen

"Hudson Hawk is only mentioned in hushed tones in this household. There is no Koran, there is no Talmud, there is no Bible. There is only my brother's DVD of Hudson Hawk" - drunken_hedghog

Correct Answer: Silver Pictures



3. Henry Ralston, John Nanovic, and Lester Dent were responsible for the creation of which pulp fiction hero?

(Pulp Fiction film references: way too obvious. -CV)

"James Earl Jones" - lots42

"Bruce Campbell" - wiredwizard

"Dentarthurdent" - primavera

"Inspector Gadget" - la_trombonista

"Booster Gold? And the Blue Beetle? And homoeroticism? Please?" - stgreyhounds

"OJ Simpson. (You see, orange juice has pulp and ... oh, never mind)" - drbear

"The Man of Bronze, aka the winner of the Jersey Shore fake-tan contest" - i_calql8

"The 'Man of Bronze' -- because we're too cheap for steel, besides which, there's a war on dammit, and the steel goes to the shipyards to make ships, mister!" - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: Doc Savage, Man of Bronze



4. What is the first opera in the cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen"?

"Der" - alfvaen

(Fair enough. Full credit. -CV)

"Ich mag keine Oper." - THALEN

"Going to der Jewelry Salesman of Nibelungen" - drbear

"Der Nibblenomnomnom" - zihuatanejo

"Das Rheinstein Cowboy" - mandydax

"Thundering Blonde Women in Brass Underwear Sing Loudly" - raienna

"The Fellowship of the ring: The musical!" - demon_666, la_trombonista, maeritrae, tinamachina

"Frodo Smokes A Bowlo" - lots42

"The Goddammiterung (hey, it's a cycle, no beginning, no end)" - ntlespino

"Norse by Norsewest" - i_calql8

"Before you die, you see the dragon" - primavera

"Dagnabbit! I know there was a Zoobilee Zoo episode that used music from the Ring Cycle, but it's such an obscure show that I can't find the bit one YouTube! Seriously, this is just like the time Mr. Rogers tried to challenge a parking ticket" - stgreyhounds

"
What's Opera Doc?" - wiredwizard, thepikey, freezer, sskipstress

"This is the opera that gave us the stereotype of large women wearing horned helmets, isn't it?" - tweeti

(It absolutely is. -CV)

"It was very titular" - love2loveher

(Dammit, that's our joke. -CV)

Correct Answer: Das Rheingold



5. During Prince Rilian's captivity, he is chained to what object?

(Penis/Dildo/Your Mom answers: 20. -CV)

"Your mom's headboard" - sskipstress

"Katy Perry" - seferin

"Chyna, The Eighth Wonder Of The World" - wiredwizard

"Obviously something large and heavy and very unpleasant to be near to. I'm guessing Rush Limbaugh" - tinamachina

"Something immovable, strong, and probably grey - Duct Tape" - drunken_hedghog

"Jillian Jiggs, maker of wonderful, marvelous pigs" - alfvaen

(I...whuh? -CV)

"The Stone of Scone. He was also regularly smothered in clotted cream and jam during that time" - germankitty

"At least the Lady of the Green Kirtle used mink-lined ankle cuffs" - zihuatanejo

"Eustace Scrubb. I don't remember, I fell asleep during "Prince Caspian". Yes, in the movie theater" - etumukutenyak

"The Silver Chair: what a book! Introducing bondage and Oedipal relationships to children everywhere!" - demon_666

"The titular (heh, shaddap CV) Silver Chair." - ntlespino

(Dammit, I said it before, that's our joke. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Silver Chair



6. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the creation of which military decoration in February 1944?

"Decoration? You mean, like, tinsel?" - thepikey

(Yes, but less tacky. -CV)

"The Drapes and Valance of Honor" - THALEN

(They do not always come with matching carpets. -CV)

"The Whore Corps Medal Of Sex" - lots42

(That's for the Air Force. -CV)

"The Order of Merlin" - wiredwizard

(+1, Harry Potter. -CV)

"Platinum belt (with an unlimited line of credit)" - wrestlingdog

"The Brass Balls" - tinamachina, la_trombonista

"The Bleeding Heart, awarded to those in the service who do humanitarian work for people when bombing them back to the stone age would work just fine" - mandydax

"He's the guy who allowed pilots to paint those sexy ladies on the sides of their planes. I tip my hat to you, good sir!" - demon_666

"" - germankitty

(If the U.S. Military were run by a bunch of pimps, we would totally have this decoration. -CV)

"The Bronze Star, for those guys in the Band of Brothers" - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: The Bronze Star



7. Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, and Ernest Thompson all won Academy Awards for which 1981 film?

"Katharine Hepburn was told, while filming 'Bringing Up Baby,' that she should stop wearing pants because it looked bad for the studio. She refused, and her pants later mysteriously disappeared from her dressing room. So she decided to walk around set in her underwear. Definition. Of. Badass" - raienna

"Those people were still winning awards in my lifetime? But... they've always been so old" - love2loveher

"Frisky Grandparents in Bondage No. 5" - drbear

(Eeeeeeeewwewewew. -1. -CV)

"Every time I've ever tried to watch this movie, I've fallen asleep....I swear, I've never made it past the first few scenes" - tweeti

"On Golden Pond, where Henry Fonda, star of Fail-Safe, and Jane Fonda, star of The China Syndrome, become a true nuclear family" - i_calql8

"Tron Golden Pond" - alfvaen
"On Golden Blonde" - freezer
"On Walden Pond" - mandydax, zihuatanejo

"Old people by a pond" - THALEN

"You do NOT want to know what was in that pond. Trust me" - n5iln
"Old folks staying at a place called "Golden Pond" won't end well. Break out the incontinence pads, people!" - demon_666

"On Golden Pond. Which was more like a bluish gray, tbh. And more a lake. BUT, Katie Hepburn!" - germankitty

(Their hair was bluish gray too. -CV)

Correct Answer: On Golden Pond

"Not the strangest film we ever watched in religion class; that honour goes to Alive." - maeritrae



8. Pietro Maximoff is better known by which moniker?

"With a name like "Maximoff," who the hell would adopt a moniker?" - raienna

"I believe that his name loosely translates to 'Rocks off to the maximum.' Is he some sort of male gigalo/ stripper?" - demon_666

"" - i_calql8

(This picture really doesn't have anything to do with anything, but +1 anyway. -CV)

"What a great name for a cold war spy porn actor" - sskipstress

"Piers Anthony. Now you know how he writes so fast" - alfvaen

(Probably also explains him macking on his own sister. -CV)

"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. Just like everyone else" - n5iln

"Silver Couch Surfer" - zihuatanejo

"Goldmember." - mandydax

"Peter Tork of The Monkees" - THALEN
"Davy Jones? Oh, I thought you said 'Monkees'" - thepikey

"Wanda's boytoy" - JENNA_THORN, la_trombonista, stgreyhounds

(Brother and sister, eeeeeeeew. -CV)

Correct Answer: Quicksilver



9. The Mediterranean seabass is often referred to in culinary circles as what?

"Why is it that when you say 'culinary circles,' it sounds naughty?" - mandydax

(Apparently I can make anything sound naughty, given enough effort. -CV)

"A culinary circle is a circle that has 350 degrees, 177 degrees Celsius." - alfvaen

(Full credit. -CV)

"Are they ill-tempered?" - sskipstress

(+1, Austin Powers. -CV)

"The 3rd other white meat" - wiredwizard

"I don't know. I graduated college last year. I can barely afford tuna" - raienna

"Billy the Big Mouth Bass" - bellapalmera

"Bass To Mouth" - lots42

"The secret ingredient in last night's Iron Chef America" - freezer

"The Polish Seabass is called 'Janikowski'" - thepikey

"Oddly enough, my husband's friends call him 'Seabass.' I know these guys well enough that I just don't want to know why." - stgreyhounds

Correct Answer: Bronzini



10. What is the most impressive physical feat you have ever accomplished?

"Getting out of bed in the morning." - 19 underachievers

"Nothing. I agree with Neil Armstrong, who once said 'I believe the human heart is given a finite number of beats, and I'm darned if I'm going to waste any of mine exercising.'" - drbear

"I once lifted a city bus with my boundless rage" - THALEN

"I can actually bend over backwards, so I look somewhat like a bridge. I don't like to do it too much, because people tend to walk all over me..." - demon_666

(There's a joke here about the Tower Bridge, but I'm going to take the high road and... oh wait, I'm imagining again... ahhhh crap, boobies. -CV)

"I climbed on top of Your Mom. I even went up the south face, but I needed several oxygen tanks and a team of sherpas to help me do it." - thepikey

"Double Somersault with Half Twist and Crunch from Moped to Tarmac" - drunken_hedghog

(And the scores are in! 9.1, 9.3, 9.1, oooh, 8.4 from the Irish judge, and a 9.4! -CV)

"I can emit gravitational field proportional to my mass. Physics, for the win!" - etumukutenyak

"Giving natural birth to an 11-pound baby" - germankitty

"I passed a milestone in my life the other day. Great Ceiling Cat, that hurt!" - n5iln

"I can pretty safely say that I am the oldest math teacher in Arizona who can do the moonwalk." - i_calql8

(Is moonwalking a required skill to earn tenure in Arizona? And, more importantly, did Michael Jackson ever teach "math"? -CV)

"I can hold a can of shaving cream under my boobs" - la_trombonista

(The real question is, can you fire it off? -CV)

"Do feats of drinking count?" - freezer

(Did you forget who you're talking to? Better impress me, though. -CV)

"I went from sober to drunk before 8 am once... or twice... maybe more. Football season is serious business." - love2loveher

"I have scars on my brain. Does that count?" - wrestlingdog

(Only if they're self-inflicted. That's hardcore, yo. -CV)

"Winning a staring contest against Medusa" - mandydax

(I bet you were stoned out of your mind. -CV)

"Being now 34 years old, having joined a gym in Jan 2011 and lost weight, gained muscle and gotten stronger and leaner. Lifting weights of 105#. And I have never been athletic, never a person to do this sort of thing. That is a great accomplishment to me!" - akiyasan

(That is a good thing. Congratulations! -CV)

Correct Answer: Well, AL has done a triathlon and has swimming skills that, if not Olympian, are pretty damned impressive. CV has some martial arts experience and once broke five patio bricks at once. LL has three daughters, which totally outclasses AL and CV combined.



And there you have it. Gold, Silver, and Bronze questions, all in honour of (you guessed it) the 2012 Summer Olympics. Are you surprised? No, of course not! Should have seen this coming months ago.

And in other news, July is over. This... this means something. Oh yeah, August. Hi August, nice to meet you again!

See you all soon for more quizly goodness.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Yay quotage -- half (5) and whatever percentage of the Pulp Fiction groupthink.

I'm a bit disappointed, though, that "The Ring in 20 Minutes" by Anna Russell didn't make the cut. :(

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I didn't have time to load the whole video, so I had to move on. Cheeky big video.

Still, 50% on a megaquiz, good show!

[germankitty]

*bows*

[drunken-hedghog.livejournal.com]

"Giving natural birth to an 11-pound baby" - I am both in awe of, and terrified by, you.

[germankitty]

LOL.

We knew to expect a big baby, and the guesstimate was around 9 pounds; the extra kilo surprised even the hospital staff, especially for a first baby. (Given that 2nd and 3rd children tend to be even bigger, we stopped after the one, though!)

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Seven out of ten. Awwwyeah.

*flashes a winning smile, sun glints off teeth*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Your answers are powered by Uri Gellar's spoony goodness.

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

Not too bad considering I phoned in my answers (Along with the 19 other "your mom" answers on #5)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sometimes phoning it in works better than you expect. So keep in touch! You can do it!

[freezer.livejournal.com]

(Did you forget who you're talking to? Better impress me, though)

Polishing off a 12-pack of Colt 45 in an hour?

BTW: WOOT! A six-spot (one shared, but still)! Yeah, there were ten questions, but "glass half full, dammit!"

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Billy Dee Williams approves of your feat. And if it's good enough for Lando Calrissian, it's good enough for me.

Also, what happened to the "818"?

[freezer.livejournal.com]

The guy who'd been squatting on "freezer" for years finally got the boot. One name change token later, it's mine! It's mine, I tell you! MINE MINE MINE! GO GO GO! DOWN DOWN DOWN!

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

Every time I see the .gif in your icon, I think that's how I must look when I run. CRINGE!
(That is mostly why I don't run, or I have to cross an arm over my chest. BTW, I would make a bad bridge for those two reasons, talk about speed humps!)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Must... resist... urge to challenge you to a race... so difficult...

[chezmax]

I think that picture of bugs on the horse is my next TF2 spray.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Bugs Bunny: Making chubby horses awesome since 1960.

[raienna.livejournal.com]

five out of ten. I should really post random factoids about pantsless celebrities more often...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Everything's better without pants! Down with the pants conspiracy!

[raienna.livejournal.com]

Well, pantsless celebrities, boobs, and snark. I should just stick with what my perv brain churns out...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, perving out is generally going to attract our attention. We are, after all, pervs.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

5 + (1/12) + (1/4) +1(CV/HP) Crap... I always hated working w/ fractions... 6 1/3... Not bad. =)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Fractions are just there to make decimal points feel bad.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

Funny... they make *me feel bad instead...

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

I tried working some fractional math problems with a broken pencil once. It was pointless.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Just like a battle between two D&D clerics.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Fractions are far superior to decimals, because of the simple fact that decimals occasionally have to be rounded, which means that they go from exact to approximate values. Fractions are always exact...not always pretty, but exact.

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

YAY! That's what I was going to say! FRACTIONS ALL THE WAY!!!!!!
Stupid scientists with their penchant for decimals of three places. Science you are SOOOO inaccurate! And if you can imagine how being even 1 degree off in an angle can screw up your trajectory, inaccurate decimals can also skew results. Grrr!

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

5 seems like a lot of quotage until one remembers this week had 10 questions instead of 6 and 5/10 is 50% which is a failing grade. At least I know how to cope with failing the LJDQ - drinking.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Strangely, celebrating LJDQ victory and coping with LJDQ failure result in the same treatment. Booze up and riot! Usually with copious nudity. Oh wait, that's not LJDQ related. That's just Standard Operating Procedure. PANTS BEGONE!

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

"Troma" - tinamachina

Unofficial +1, old-skool.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Old skool and krazy skool. Oh Troma, you are so wacky fun.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

They're responsible for every grade-Z movie you've never heard of, and a few you have.

I used to see the Troma bus on Union Turnpike near St. John's University? Don't ask me why.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

This just in--6, all but one pun making the cut, and a non sequitur +1! My borked funneh has repaired itself, and I am once again amused by the simplicity of this game!

"I can actually bend over backwards, so I look somewhat like a bridge. I don't like to do it too much, because people tend to walk all over me..." - demon_666
Pics, kplzthx. Flexibility FTW. :)

(Is moonwalking a required skill to earn tenure in Arizona? And, more importantly, did Michael Jackson ever teach "math"? -CV)
No and no, but the lyrics of "ABC" just got a little bit creepier.

"Nothing. I agree with Neil Armstrong, who once said 'I believe the human heart is given a finite number of beats, and I'm darned if I'm going to waste any of mine exercising.'" - drbear
Wins the quiz.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

ABC! 123! Why won't you come sleep with me?

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like to see "The Fellowship of the Ring: The Musical!" Actually wait, didn't we see that during the Industrial Revolution scene at the opening of the Olympics in London?

[germankitty]

Yeah, right after "The Hobbit: The Musical".

But for something truly cracktastic, try DUMBLEDORE! The Musical. You'll be horrified to find yourself humming along right from the start ... *grins evilly*

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

Holy cats! 8.0 from the Puddinginistan judges! Amazing! I guess I stuck the landing somehow.

Also:

"Uri Geller was the first Minister of Defense. His spoon-bending thing scared the pee out of surrounding countries, who knew what else he was capable of?" - thepikey

He can change the direction of the enemy's compass (provided he can get close enough to it with a hidden magnet) so they get lost and invade Afghanistan by mistake! Muahahaha!

"Every time I've ever tried to watch this movie, I've fallen asleep....I swear, I've never made it past the first few scenes" - tweeti

I'm that way with The Man from Snowy River. I tried watching it at least a dozen times.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Whoah, mandydax is the big winner! Maybe one of the highest scores in Big Quiz history!

Also, I hate when I invade Afghanistan by mistake.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

i_calcql8 could probably tell us.

I want to receive my gold medal while the Equestrian national anthem plays.

[alfvaen]

Seven! Including two "full credits" and one incoherent response, for extra points. (For future reference; http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/jillianjiggs/wonderfulpigs.htm)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, color me edumacated. Somehow, knowing doesn't make it any less gibberishy. I guess the pr0n version would be Jillian Juggs and her Mountainous Pugs.

[demon-666.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that the book that shows you how to make pig toys out of stockings/ tights at the end?
I remember that from when i was 10 or so!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Three groupthinks, two quotes and one shared quote. So, what medal is that?

BTW, BBC's coverage of the Olympics kicks NBC's arse!


"RAWWWWR! That's the lion. He has a name. It was a question in my trivia league, and no one on the team knew it. I still don't remember, except I was unimpressed" - stgreyhounds

It was the very imaginative name, Leo.