LJ Daily Quiz: 12 November 2012

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, a little bit late here. Had some issues with a cheeky hurricane and then some other cheeky issues with cheeky work and delays and blah blah blah cheeky. Let's get this cheeky ball rolling!


1. Marvel comics character Yuriko Oyama is better known by which moniker?

"The evil wench that married John Lennon and broke up the Beatles" - love2loveher, sskipstress

"Wolverine fangirl" - usmu

"The Survivor of Battle Royale? That girl creeped me the fuck out" - drunken_hedghog

"Yo Yo Mama. Their powers center around a really phat cello" - etcet

(Little known fact: Adamantium makes for an excellent cello. -CV)

"i think shes definitly not that chick that ben afflecks wife played in the movie that is the only redeeming quality of his horrible daredevil movie. I MEAN WHO PUTS COLIN FERRIL IN A BALD CAP?!?!?!" - kira_snugz

(Letting Michael Clark Duncan beat the shit out of Ben Affleck is the other redeeming part of the film. -CV)

"Storm's bisexual love interest. Serious, in one of the X-Men annuals, the X-Men were thrown into their own personal perfect worlds. And what does Storm dream up? Not a life in an African paradise. Not ruling the X-Men like the perfect leader she would be. She dreams of running across the rooftops of Tokyo with a Japanese thief. Oh, Storm. We love you on both sides of the street" - lots42

(That was another Asian chick, as etumukutenyak also pointed out. But good showing. -CV)

"Cheezy Ethnic Stereotype! Quickly, to the Clichemobile!" - thepikey

"Well, I know Oyama means 'big mountains' in Japanese, if you know what I mean. (I mean I bet she has enormous breasts.)" - mandydax

(Take a look at the clearly Asian name. Your bet might be in jeopardy. -CV)

"I just would like to say that Kelly Hu was super hot in X2. Rawr." - domestik_fucker

(+1. Correct. -CV)

"Lady Deathstrike. I hope she wasn't a geisha masseuse in her alter ego" - ntlespino

(She had an office job as a five-hole puncher. -CV)

"Edwina Scissorhands" - miss_whiplash, freezer

(They weren't as much scissors as maybe fondue tongs, but half-credit anyway. -CV)

Correct Answer: Lady Deathstrike



2. Sir Thomas Malory is best known for writing which epic tale?

"Malory Python's Search for the Holy Grail" - vayshti and 11 others

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" - wrestlingdog

(+1, Harry Potter. -CV)

"An Abridged List Of Men Who Have Had Your Mother" - etcet

("Chapter One: Scotland. All of it." -CV)

"Army Of Darkness" - wiredwizard

"Forty Nine Shades of Brown" - la_trombonista
"Fifty Shades of Brocade" - thepikey

"Le Morte d'Arthur, also known as that abominable Russell Brand remake of the Dudley Moore movie" - i_calql8

"An American Tail, about a mouse named Arthur who leads a ragtag army to save Redwall" - etumukutenyak

"I'll take any bet that I'm the only quizling who not only owns the book, but has actually read it!" - germankitty

(You can claim ownership, but not necessarily readership...)

"Oh, Sir Thomas 'Spoilers and Even the Remotest Attempts at Historical Accuracy Weren't a Thing in the Fifteenth Century' Malory. Seriously, King Arthur is crowned Emperor of Rome (I don't care if Monmouth did it first) and the inevitable fall of the idyllic kingdom and its king is given away in the title. He was the reason I wanted to claw my own eyes out with a spork when I took a college class on King Arthur." - raienna

Correct Answer: Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur)



3. Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla, Nick Hammer, and Jason McGerr are better known as whom?

"The Last Names With Double-consonants Crew" - sskipstress

(...huh, would you look at that. -CV)

"Stop, it's Hammer Time!" - etumukutenyak

"They were four men, living all together, yet they were all alone" - i_calql8

(+1, The Brady Bunch by Weird Al. -CV)

"The Village People." - la_trombonista

"The Spanish Inquisition" - domestik_fucker

(I did not expect that. -CV)

"New Boys 2 Men In Sync On The Block" - drbear

"Deaf Crabs 4 Cooties" - vayshti

"Death Cab for Cutie. Otherwise known as every taxi I have ridden in EVER" - raphsody606

"I could not stop for death, but death could surely stop for me...in a cute cab." - ifeedformula

Correct Answer: Death Cab for Cutie



4. Stovepipe Wells, Furnace Creek, and Lake Badwater can all be found where?

"Cars check in, but they don't check out." - n5iln

"The cesspit of government, Washington DC" - akiyasan

(Lake Badwater is the men's toilet on the second floor of the Capitol. You don't want to know how it got the name. -CV)

"Deadwood. I have no idea if that's true, but it fits the theme, at least" - freezer

"Furnace Creek actually sounds like an awesome place to go for some hot soaking underwater nookie" - ifeedformula

("Excuse me, ma'am, I'm here to clean your furnace... *brown chicken brown cow*" -CV)

"Either some small British town or New Jersey" - la_trombonista

"America's Worst Tourist Guide" - drbear

"Despite the liquid-y names, they exist in a place that has very little water" - sskipstress

(The irony there is totally delicious. -CV)

"Death Valley, or, as I like to call it, 'about as many rocks as Yellowstone but not overrun by Japanese tourists'" - raienna

(At a guess, also not overrun by trees, grass, or plant life of almost any variety. -CV)

Correct Answer: Death Valley



5. Which British movie and its American remake both starred Peter Dinklage in the same role?

"'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', which the Americans renamed 'Monty Python and the Philospher's Cup', for fear the kids wouldn't know what the Holy Grail was. *rolling eyes*" - i_calql8

"'Blackadder Goes Forth' and 'Blackader Goes Forth to Starbucks'" - freezer

"Red Dwarf" - lots42

(More like White Dwarf, really. -CV)

"The Avengers" - wiredwizard

(In the British version, he was Steed. In the American version, he was the helicarrier. -CV)

"Three Men And A Baby, the Sequel -- Kill the Brat" - germankitty

(And, while you're at it, kick Steve Guttenberg in the nards. -CV)

"Dinklage sounds like the description of a Walmart employee forced to wear Christmas bells" - drunken_hedghog

"Wait what there's a British version of Game of Thrones? No hang on, that would have been 'The Tudors'" - ntlespino

"game of thrones. in the american version gi joe swoops out of nowhere and beheads sean bean and then makes a 007 joke" - kira_snugz

(Also, we call it "Game of Big Chairs" because we don't know what a throne is. -CV)

"Aww....he's such a cutiepatootie I just wanna stick him in my pocket and take him home with me" - ifeedformula

"Peter Dinklage can fill the same role in me any day" - mandydax

"" - etcet

"Everything is so fucking green" - raienna

Correct Answer: Death at a Funeral



6. You have returned from beyond the grave as a ghost! What do you haunt for all eternity?

"My ex, what else? I'd be a poltergeist, throwing things at her" - etumukutenyak

"The Strasburg Railroad because I want to spend my afterlife traveling through Intercourse to Paradise" - sskipstress

"A bookstore. Endless reading material for me, and I can both pelt customers with books and spoil the endings for them. Mwahahahaha" - germankitty

(You'd be the cruellest ghost ever. "OOOOOOoooooOOOOoooo Snaaaaaaape kiiiiiiills Duuuuuumbledooooorrrre oooooooOOOOoooo" -CV)

"The Internet. I will get to be the ghost in the machine!" - vayshti

"The Moulin Rouge. Who said the afterlife can't be sassy and classy?" - usmu

"Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoots. I may be a ghost, but I'm not stupid." - drbear

"someones sock drawer. i would undo all their pairs and cause single socks to explode outwards every time they open it. i would also leave notes there from the sock theif in the dryer" - kira_snugz

(His name is fizrep, and he loves his socks. I can't wait to see this. -CV)

"FAO Schwartz in NYC. Lots of toys to play with, lots of kids to send into therapy. What can I say, I'm a misanthrope?" - raienna

"I would haunt someone's bathroom, and every time someone took a shower, I'd creep up behind them and whisper, 'Dat assssssssssssss'" - domestik_fucker



And there you have it, the Quiz of Death. All you had to do was answer three questions six questions to pass. Or cross. Or something. Hopefully none of you were flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril for webcheating or other heinous crimes.

Thanks for playing, as always; the end of the year is getting closer, which means... stuff! This means something! Specifically, it means that tomorrow there will be a new quiz. Which you should all play, of course.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Triple quotage. Okay.

Oh, and CV? Re: Malory's Morte D'Arthure -- "(You can claim ownership, but not necessarily readership...)"

Freshman English, fall term 1975, Introduction to English Lit I -- Literary Romance. You bet your ass I read that thing, along with such gems as "Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight", "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Lord of the Rings". I groaned my way through all, until Tolkien defeated even my freshman zeal. I still haven't got past p.150 or so, in nearly 40 years!

Edited because I overlooked 's +1 and stopped gloating so he doesn't get to.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant "sole readership", since someone else had also read the book.

And pshaw on you. I took on Tolkien when I was 11 and 12. This young whippersnapper has skillz, yo! Although those skills failed once I had to read "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Great Gatsby". Booooooooring. FAAAAAAIIIIIILLLLLL

[germankitty]

When I was 12, I discovered Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. :) Never looked back!

(Tolkien just doesn't do it for me. Tried several times to read it -- hubby is a fan -- but it's just too boring. Great story, no doubt, it's the style that puts me off.)

[raphsody606.livejournal.com]

Gatsby *gah*. That book was horrible.

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

I read LotR in high school because there wasn't a live-action movie of it.

[raienna.livejournal.com]

I own it and have read it. I'm English major and a medievalist at heart. I loved Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight (not so much the Tolkien translation, but that's why I've read others). Love The Lord of the Rings. Except "The Council of Elrond." I always skim that bit.

Have NOT read The Mysteries of Udolpho, but I have been meaning to. Read The Castle of Wulfenbach and The Monk instead.

*high fives for readerly folk!*

[germankitty]

*high-fives you back, uses one halfway fitting icon*

"The Monk" -- I knew missed one!

Unfortunately, I was thrown into the deep end with Sir Gawain -- we had the middle-English original, straight out of school! The most fun in that class, though, was getting to read T.H.White's "The Once And Future King"!

(And the next semester led me to Anglo-Saxon -- I was immersed in Bede and Beowulf until I graduated. *shudders at younger self's idiocy*

[sarastar43.livejournal.com]

I also own it and have read it; took a kimg arthur class in college. Much prefer Gawain and the Green Knight (anyone read the new-ish translation by Simon Armitage? Really good). Just finished LOTR on audiobook, couldn't get through the printed version.

[spotsofcolour.livejournal.com]

I'm still offended they remade Death at a Funeral. Because REALLY, like Chris Rock needed another vehicle. Ugh.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There was no reason to remake it. The original was perfectly funny. There was nothing to gain from redoing it with a new cast.

[spotsofcolour.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. You might be the only person who agrees with me.

The cast were WAY better in the original (excluding Peter Dinklage of course), and dammit, it works much better when you've got a load of uptight English people flapping around than when you've got Chris Rock over-emoting and pulling stupid faces. It's the subtlety that makes it!

Don't even get me started on the remake's tagline vs the original tagline. Ugh.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Still waiting for Chris Rock to actually be, you know, funny. And, no, "Everybody Hates Chris" doesn't count, because he's not really in the cast. :P

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Chris Rock is almost never funny. He sometimes gets residual funny contagion by being in funny movies in which the funny surrounds him. Dogma might be the only case where he is actually enjoyable to watch.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Trips, using the slightest of puns, and a +1, so germankitty pwnage this week, by a nose, for moi. Didn't even have my best funneh this go-round, so, w00t!

No Geek of the Week for pointing a part of an X-Men Annual? They should get credit for just reading the thing--usually annuals just a long, boring, cross-titled, multipart, gotta-buy-em-all-to-get-the-whole-story, crossover. My hat's off to 'em!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I miss the good old X-Men goofy comics classics. Ultimates and such just don't grab me as much. Cheeky X-Men.

[raienna.livejournal.com]

Four points for rage! Whoo! I should answer the quiz while cranky and sleep-deprived more often.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Rage is sweet and tasty. Almost as delicious as schadenfreude.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

(In the British version, he was Steed. In the American version, he was the helicarrier. -CV)

He was the Helicarrier?! I thought he was Thanos... =)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

No, Thanos was the other famous midget, Warwick Davis. Kenny Baker played the Leviathan.

[domestik-fucker.livejournal.com]

Oooh, three quotes AND a plus one! Christmas came early this year!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's Christmas time! In your pants!

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Tres tres tres! OLE'!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You're half a year off from Cinco de Mayo, but that's ok. Espanol for todos!

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

1. "Well, I know Oyama means 'big mountains' in Japanese, if you know what I mean. (I mean I bet she has enormous breasts.)" - mandydax

(Take a look at the clearly Asian name. Your bet might be in jeopardy. -CV)

You're right, look how flat-chested she is. Practically concave!


2. Claiming 1/12 of a point here. PING!

5. "Red Dwarf" - lots42

(More like White Dwarf, really. -CV)

You guys owe me a keyboard. I'll pick out a new one on the way to hell for laughing at that.

Only 2 and a bit. Still fun is the aim of the game, and I had it.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

...ok, that picture does say quite a lot. Then again, for Marvel comics, that's pretty tame. ;-)