ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 27 January 2014

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ljdq

"I had to read the entire emal alert TWICE to remember who you were." -

freezer
"Whoadang, I forgot I was in this comm. What a pleasant surprise!" -

bellapalmera
"At first I thougt I was hallucinating after some bad shrimp. But No, LJDQ really is back!" -

b_hulsmans

"You live ... again. Huzzah!" -

therealchon
"YAY THE LJDQ IS BACK!!!!!!!" -

bluealoe
"OH MY GOD YOU"RE BACK!!!!!" -

chezmax, slightly more conservative on !'s than

bluealoe
"omg guys i love you i'm so glad i kept you on update tick <3" -

grapefruitzzz

D'aaawwwww.

"this is better than the second coming. (of Christ? of jissom? you decide.)" -

cold_clarity

D'eeeewwwwww...

"welcome back. And try to avoid being eaten by bears." -

sagaciouslu

Heartwarming, and sound advice to boot.

1. What magazine was founded in 1925 by Harold Ross and Jane Grant?

"Oh, great, come back after an hiatus with a recycled question, why don't you?" -

germankitty

(We may have been gone awhile, but we're still lazy bastards. Wheee! -CV)

"Shit, it's been so long I don't even remember the running joke answers. Um... Llama Magazine? Llamas are funny, right? No, Sting! Sting Magazine." -

seekingferret

(That's it, it will all come back to you. -CV)

"I'm not even sure they had magazines in 1925" -

cold_clarity
"What's a magazine? Is it like a Tumblr?" -

sskipstress

"G-ROSS!" -

alexmegami

"MAD Magazine" -

jmthane

"The Quibbler" -

wrestlingdog

"Garden&Guns" - OWEN TOWNES

"CV presents: This Week in Butts 'First Issue Exclusive! The Brazilian Volleyball Team!'" -

cholma

"Playboy. That was the year mags were allowed to show lower thighs" -

freezer

"Vanity Fair. A magazine that is full of everything and nothing at the same time. A condensed version of Congress" -

akiyasan

"Jane's Defence; a catalogue of how she went ballistic, what she hurled at him and how she eventually avoided prosecution after Harold told her that her bum did indeed look big in that." -

miss_whiplash

"Well the only magazines I care about are Playboy, Hustler and The New Yorker, and I'm pretty sure that's NOT who founded Playboy or Hustler, so I'll guess it's The New Yorker." -

aaronbsam

Correct Answer: The New Yorker

2. What band originally wanted to call themselves "Nynuk"?

"The Who? Never hoid a dem." -

etumukutenyak

"'Nynuk! Nynuk! Nynuk!' *bonk* 'Quiet, you idiots! Now listen up!'" -

thepikey,

etcet,

alfvaen,

dorei,

cholma,

i_calql8,

lots42

"my luck with answering questions about music this is going to be a Boysband so I am going with 'N Sync?" -

b_hulsmans

(Right idea, wrong boys. -CV)

"The Electric Mayhem, but they lost rights to the name in a legal battle with the Swedish Chef" -

mistyraven

"Those upstarts from around the corner. Who Should Get Off My Lawn!" -

usmu

Correct Answer: New Kids On The Block

"I kind of hate that I know that" -

stgreyhounds

"I actually got to meet them a couple years ago, and I felt like I was 12 all over again." -

stevesbabygirl

3. Nouméa is the capital of what island territory?

"Your mom" -

lots42

(I'm so happy that someone remembered to go there. -CV)

"Talk about a blast from the past, I have the song to Numa Numa in my head now" -

akiyasan,

dorei,

seekingferret

"Aweemaway. Aweemaway. In the jungle, the island jungle, LJDQ's toniiiiiiiiiight" -

etcet,

usmu

"Yeaster Island, where they make delicious French bread (noum, of course, being the French for nom, as nom was already taken for name)." -

alexmegami

"The Southern Isles. Or, incidentally, any other unheard of island territory that no one outside of a foreign relations manager would give two shits about" -

frequencyshift

"Papua New Guinea" -

aaronbsam

(That was my third choice for this question. -CV)

"Monster Island. Godzilla and Rodan have the biggest houses" -

therealchon

"I never thought I would say this but my highschool term on french history came in handy for once: New Caledonia" -

b_hulsmans

Correct Answer: New Caledonia

4. Bob Eubanks was the original host of which television game show?

"Eu Bet Eu Life!" -

alfvaen

"Guess What Drug I Just Took! (It was the early 70s)" -

freezer

"is he related to Chris Eubanks?" -

esran

(Not even close. -CV)

"Tales from the Crypt" -

mistyraven

(...where the answer to "Cake or Death?" is always "Death"! -CV)

"What television gameshow wasn't Bob Eubanks the original host of?" -

bellapalmera,

stgreyhounds

"Well, off the top of my head, Trivia Trap, Rhyme and Reason, and he was the head of the giant Pez dispenser on Remote Control. Why, yes, I'm a gameshow-holic, why do you ask?" -

i_calql8

"I caught some old Newlywed Game episodes on the Game Show Network a while back. No wonder I'm so warped having seen the originals as an elementary school student. Dear lord the 70s were cracktastic." -

dorei

Correct Answer: The Newlywed Game (and a few others that no one ever heard about)

"also known as "The Probably Newly-Divorced Game" once Bobby started making out with all the young brides!" -

aaronbsam

5. Who was knighted by Queen Anne of Great Britain in April 1705?

"Sir Not Appearing in this Quiz" -

cholma

"Queen Anne? Was she the one who invented bowling?" -

etumukutenyak

"I might be a bit rusty after all this time away, but since when was guessing the theme this hard?" -

b_hulsmans

"Ian McKellan (He's held up well)" -

freezer

"Patrick Stewart" -

lots42

"The Eleventh Doctor" -

jmthane,

usmu

"Sting" -

wrestlingdog

"Sir Mix-a-Lot of Gluteus Maximus" -

therealchon

"My first response was Shakespeare, but then I remembered he's supposed to be Victorian or something. So, obvi, it's David Bowie. BECAUSE I SAID SO" -

frequencyshift

"I was thinking 'John Smith, probably' initially, but I typed 'Will Smith'--and let's be honest, that's just a better answer. Will Smith." -

cold_clarity

"The Neyw Chyldrine Onne The Blocke. Everyone thought it was really weird that a forty-year-old was into a tween sensation, but she was really just ahead of her time." -

alexmegami

"Newton. Because Leibniz got there late" - OWEN TOWNES

"I have no idea why Sir Isaac Newton was ever knighted. Was he like the smart kid who the Knights of the Round Table needed to invite over so they could copy his homework and avoid consternation from the Pope?" -

aaronbsam

Correct Answer: Sir Isaac Newton

6. What have you been up to this past year?

"Pining over the loss of my LJDQ and creating a 'stalker wall' composed of clippings of funnehs, gin ads, and smears of what one can only hope is pudding" -

thepikey

"Had gastric bypass surgery and lost a whole person in weight. You now are dealing only with less than two-thirds of my former self!" -

germankitty

(Hopefully you didn't lose the funny third... -CV)

"Pining for the questions! It got so bad I had to get a new job. Honest, the two are totally related." -

esran

"Wondering where the hell LJDQ went!" -

freezer

"I swam of the Isle of Wight and taught Latin" -

grapefruitzzz

(...simultaneously? -CV)

"I moved into a place and got a needy kitty!" -

alexmegami

"255 school days to retirement, bitches!" -

i_calql8

"Got a new job, got laid off." -

stgreyhounds

"One of the above" -

lots42

"Doing the same thing I do every year: trying to take over the world" -

usmu

"Hypertension, Swollen Optic Nerves, and totaling my car in a Thanksgiving week snow storm!" -

cholma

"I moved to Minnesota and I'm having fun laughing at everyone else complaining about winter weather" -

sskipstress

"I have maintained my string of consecutive years living, and years without a criminal conviction." -

etcet

"Me and a buddy created a computer virus and stopped an alien invasion." -

therealchon

(Are you Goldblum or Smith? -CV)

"taking the plunge and going back to college - 25 years after my first nine credit hours were earned (and they transferred!)." -

jmthane

"copious amounts of dancing around my house without pants, singing FROZEN's 'Let It Go' at the top of my lungs and annoying the neighbors" -

frequencyshift

(One has to wonder whether it's the singing or the lack of pants that annoys your neighbors... -CV)

"Been in grad school, having seizures. Y'know, the usual." -

wrestlingdog

"I bought a boutique in a tourist town." -

dorei

(I don't know how I misread this as "I caught a bouquet in a tourist town." That doesn't even make sense. -CV)

"just a few extra kittens and a couple of eye surgeries. Here's looking at you, kid!" -

etumukutenyak

"Hey, hey, what is this, an interrogation? We're all friends here, no need to start asking questions like that. YOU CAN'T PROVE A DAMN THING. Look, just don't tell the cops, alright?" -

mistyraven

"I was pining away in front of my computer, refreshing your page in the hopes of getting some word from you... Some indication you were still alive, but alas, months and months went by and yet nothing. Nothing but despair and misery." -

b_hulsmans

"My mom was diagnosed with dementia, either Alzheimer's or Vascular basically and the treatment is the same" -

akiyasan

(Ouch. That's a tough gig. No jokes here. -CV)

"Using alcohol to try to forget about LJDQ" -

seekingferret

(One would think that, given our propensity for drunken ramblings, the opposite strategy would be in order. -CV)

"Apparently having my LJ account terminated. Huh." - OWEN TOWNES

"It's not what I've been up to - it's what I've been down to." -

aaronbsam

"I've been minding my own business, that's what I've been doing. (Nosy quizmasters...)" -

alfvaen

"touching dicks mostly, in and amongst other things." -

cold_clarity

(Wait, were the dicks in and amongst other things? Or were you in other things while touching dicks? Or... -CV)

"Readying a campaign that will lead to the crushing of my enemies and the lamentation of their women in 2014." -

bending_sickle

(+1, Conan the Barbarian, because that's the right way to finish this. -CV)

And that's the way to start off a new year: three weeks late on the first quiz. I'm procrastinating like a boss!

Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you, sorry about the hiatus, but glad to see that so many of you are actually still here using that LiveJournal thingy. Unless you're all Russian spies, in which case glad to see that you've mastered the English language so well, comrades!

Tune in tomorrow where we see if I can keep up the pace.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL