LJ Daily Answers: 2 May 2005

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"This will al be very interesting because I am very drubk. by the waty this weeks theme is dreams if you hadn't gathered this already." - caseypuffy

"This quiz gave me 4 flashbacks." - justapieceofme

(No more LSD in your future, young lady.)

Your Monday dreams have come true- here are the LJDQ Answers, as foretold in the prophecy!



1. What was the nickname for the American men’s basketball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics?

"The 'If we pooled our resources, we could buy Europe' Team." - grayhawkfh

"The 'What makes you even think you belong on the same basketball court with us?' Team." - buzz

"Overpaid, Over Here and Over Seven Feet Tall" - grapefruitzzz

"last summer's was The Scream Team when they completely humiliated themselves, causing Yours Truly to scream at the TV." - ellenneithernor

"Surrounded by tall athletic men? I wouldn't mind that dream." - marasca

"In 1992, Hakeem Olajuwon was on the Olympic Basketball team. Besides having the coolest name ever, he was also nicknamed "THE DREAM!" I think this was probably because of some bs like "HE'S LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM" Yeah...I want to play professional basketball, and then later lend my likeness to cheap bottles of water which for some reason my parents inexplicably bought up, and SAVED!!!! But, I digress. It was THE DREAM TEAM! For: HAKEEM THE DREAM OLAJUWON!" - animagiblender

"The "dream team". The real question is if they came up with that name themselves. Would say a lot about them if they did. Cute rhyming though, because nothing says big manly man sports players like a little rhyming nickname after all." - lunanne

"Free association at it's best: Dream Team > Michael Jordan > That god-awful Bugs Bunny movie > R. Kelly > little girls > little boys > Michael Jackson. Therefore my answer is Michael Jackson." - roadparty

"Dude, everything I know about basketball I learned from Space Jam." - tronella
"'You heard of the Dream Team? Well we're the MEAN Team'- gotta love Space Jam" - imbruedgolgtha
"I cannot believe I'm openly admitting to seeing that movie - see what you did?" - sestree

"I wonder if any of the members of the dream team had lucky socks that didn't get washed all season because washing them would remove the luck." - sskipstress

"The Greatest Excuse for Big, Black Men to Wear Itty Bitty Shorts." - katiemariie
"Eleven Black Guys and Larry Bird." - drbear

"The Drizzle Tizzle" - djdysfunction

(Snoop Dogg had not yet perfected his enhancements to the English Language at the time... -CV)

"Dream Team? Or was that basketball?" - divabat

(*looks at divabat* *looks at question* *looks back at divabat* *sigh* *chugs* -CV)

"'The Dream Team'. Hardly a way to make it fairer, was it? But still, the greatest basketball I have *ever* seen, that :) (And yes, I'm in the UK and I like American sports. So sue me) - asw909

"In the interests of international goodwill, we provide our autographs free of charge to all who roll over for us on the court. Now go buy a pair of Nikes." - ladyvyola

"I remember that summer. Even at the ripe old age of 10, I knew that nobody had a snowball's chance in hell of beating the Dream Team. It was like, 'Ha ha, the Soviets are gone, we're the top dogs, everybody else just has to deal with it! Grovel at our feet! Love, America.'" - delordra

Correct Answer: The Dream Team

"Also the name for OJ's gang of defense attorneys. I'll leave YOU to ponder the ramifications of that." - fragbert



2. What is the name of Sting’s first solo album, which was released in June 1985 and includes the songs “Love is the Seventh Wave” and “Fortress Around Your Heart”?

"Wait a minute, you guys hate Sting! You can't go and ask a question on him!" - dracothelizard

(Actually, we both think Sting is fairly cool. For some reason, though, our old-school quizlings have quite a strong stance against the Stingmeister. And it's good to keep the hate brewing. -CV)

"Not only don’t I know, but now I will have “Rooooxannnaeeeee, you don’t have to wear that dress tonight.” in my head all night." - corbaewench

"I Don't Have to Split the Profits Anymore" - imbruedgolgtha
"I get more girls now that I've gone solo" - livehisjoy
"I'm So Bloody Good I Don't Need Those Police Tossers." - buzz
"Amazing Police Escapes, Next On COPS" - umbralcorax
"Somebody Should've Called The Police." - ckirkman

"with those song titles, it sounds like 'Sting: All Your Base are Belong to Us.'" - drbear

"Annie Lennox walked all over him last summer when he toured." - miwseshat

"Did you know Constantine was supposed to look like Sting? I feel we got cheated with Keanu Reeves." - roadparty

"'Fortress Around Your Heart'? Is it a castellated abbey?" - twilight_angel

"I don't know, but June 1985 was one month before I was born, which almost qualifies as synchronicity." - packbat

"'Dreaming of Tantric Sex'. The last track is a recording of Sting's thirty-minute long orgasm. It's like those rainforest CDs." - prettypinkkitty

"Years ago, I heard someone on the radio making fun of Sting. Or maybe it was Slash. But I always think it was Sting. 'Hi, I'm Sting, and these are my buddies Scratch and Bite.' Yeah, lamest joke ever, but I'll never forget it." - justapieceofme

"Field of Dreams. Sadly, I was playing Sting during my ridiculously long and fruitless apartment hunt yesterday, and it made me think of the LJDQ, and reminded me that answers would be up, and I should check when I got home. Long story short, I'm still homeless. Wait, Field of Dreams is that stupid baseball movie (how did that not make it into this quiz?), and I'm thinking of Fields of Gold. Well, shit, I have no idea then." - hija_paloma

"I can't concentrate on the question. All I can do is try to remove the picture of him in leather from my head. sigh. Dune has scarred my brain." - delynfirebrand
"the only dream-related thing I can plug Sting into in that timeframe is him fighting Kyle MacLachlan in a Speedo in Dune. Whoo." - chaobell

"The Dream of the Oddly Colored Reptiles." - molliejoy
"Why is the turtle blue?" - marasca

"I love the title Dream of Blue Turtles. It sounds so tranquil to me. Turtles floating through the waters of the sea. It also brings to mind that kids often call their deposits into the toilet "turtles". I picture the "Tidy Bowl Man", who was very big in the 80's, having a few dreams of floating blue turtles too." - csflick

"Well, the bit about the seventh wave suggests the seaside. And the fortress could be a sandcastle. So, I'm going to guess at 'That Seagull Just Stole My Ice Cream. I Want It Back.'" - benmiff

"I loved the video for Fortress! Sting in a muscle tee, with those perfectly cut arms and that steely gaze as he stared through the camera and into my soul...oh sorry, what was the question?" - anonymisty
"now I've got "Love is the Seventh Wave" stuck in my head - not just the song, but the video! Sting in a white suit with crayon-scribbles all over him! He's prancing about a world of children's drawings, like some kind of guru of hope! Who does he think he is, Bono?" - kenshardik

"For years I kept mixing that one up with that band, and calling it Dream of the Blue Oysters." - marveen

"Wait, if Love is the Seventh Wave, then what's the other six? Are they like Famine, War, Pestilence, Death, Porn, and Spam? Or is it like, "First wave... and then kiss your ass goodbye"?" - alliterator

("Second Wave... DIIIIIIIIIVE!" -CV)

Correct Answer: Dream Of The Blue Turtles



3. What is the nickname for the famous speech that ends with the following:
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

"I have a dream that one day, I'll pass a fucking math class without having to pay someone to do my shit for me." - duia

"I heard a neat story about that speech. How he decided to speak and he didn't know what to say and then someone prompted him and all of a sudden this brilliant stream of words came out of his mouth and we remember it and watch it and stuff." - jtersesk

"For black history month when I was in the 3rd grade we studied this speech. The teacher said that she wanted us to write our own. She said to write "I Have A Dream..." in the center of our paper. So I did. What she MEANT was to center it as the title at the top of the page. She mocked me and 4 other kids for writing it in the middle of the page. Then she refused to allow us to fix it. That was the first F I ever got. I'm still bitter." - lexsboo

"We watched that speech in Government in high school. I loved that class - I took it in summer school, and we'd take turns keeping the discussion going with the teacher while most of the class slept. Since sleeping is my favorite activity, and I'm really good at it, I got an A." - delordra

"The "I Have A Dream" speech. Anybody who doesn't know that needs to get clubbed to death by a frozen Swanson Hungry Man Baby Seal TV dinner." - rowantree

"I have a meme?" - grapefruitzzz

""To be or not to be" speech by Hamlet. Well, Shakespeare really. And besides, Joseph Fiennes is much hotter than Kenneth Branagh." - dracothelizard

(WRONG. -AL)

"it sounds like it should be part of Gene Roddenberry's eulogy" - ashfault76

"Oh sure, like I'm going to even attempt to be funny about anything having to do with Dr. King. I live in South Carolina, y'all - I make a joke here, and the Secret Disrespect Police will kick my door open in the night and haul me away." - anonymisty
"You two should be ashamed of yourselves for even putting the question out there." - ckirkman
"Nothing funny to say about MLK. Show some respect, people!" - marasca

(Many others felt that way too. Fortunately, there were enough folks with the cajones to take their potshots even unto MLK Jr. I love all you guys. -CV)

(Note to Righteous, High-And-Mighty Quizlings: get over yourselves. -AL)

"According to the rest of my country, I'm only required to know this in February." - katiemariie

"The I-Have-A-Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Or the Dream speech. Either way, they shot'im down. And that's what'll happen to the rest of you idealists, so take warning. In Soviet America, dreams shoot YOU!" - technoinfidel

"'I Have A Dream' - MLK jr.
'BANG! Ah SHit! Now I have a head wound!' - Sam Kinison" - grayhawkfh

"Man, that speech is so 60s. It's also sampled in Resist/R by The Crüxshadows, which is playing on Winamp right now. Eerie." - palmer_kun

"I have an dream that might come true but if it doesn't I honestly don't care because I'm dead.....but who cares I'm getting my own holiday HAHA!" - astria_nova

"The present administration's nickname is something along the lines of 'That speech never happened, and you couldn't prove it even if it did'" - active_apathy

"I have to do this outdoors? What, the Wittenberg Church was booked?" - ladyvyola

"The 'I'm gonna get you sucka' speech?" - danicia

(No, that was Mr. T. -CV)

"I predict a similar situation after people get out of the cinema after the new Star Wars film -'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" - kiffany

"Isn't that part of the "we are the world" song?" - lynbug

"Protestants and Catholics??? MLK Jr. clearly never went to Glasgow, because those Rangers-Celtic games, they get vicious." - pisica

Correct Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" Speech

"Oddly enough, “free at last” translated to German is “donut”. Once again, the Berliners were perplexed." - slickrickt



4. What is the title of the classic science fiction novel that was the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner?

(Number of Scotsman-related jokes: 11. -CV)

"Blade Runner --> 1982 --> almost 1984 --> George Orwell --> George Takei --> Star Trek --> Gene Roddenberry --> I Dream of Genie." - ashfault76

"Blade Runner is about skatery-type people, right? In which case, how exactly can it be inspired by a sci-fi novel?? Do the skaters get abducted by aliens or something? Or maybe one of them IS an alien. Ooer! I want to see the film now!" - lizzyrose89

(CV: *WEEPS*)

"Stop or Han Solo Will Shoot You!" - sweetpea86

(No, we all know that he won't shoot unless you shoot first. -CV)

"The snake in that movie scarred me. *shivers*" - mlewys

(...what snake? Did I miss something when I watched it last time? -CV)

"'I Dreamt I Took an Ice Machine into the Jungle.' Or am I confusing my Harrison Ford movies again? For future reference, please continue to make sure all book questions refer to books that have been made into movies. I am a dumb American." - slickrickt

"Would you believe Blade Walker? They actually sped up the pace for the movie." - groaty

"Bladerunner had Darryl Hannah who is also going to be in Living Neon Dreams - the new Alice in Wonderland thing that has Marilyn Manson as the Queen of Hearts. I blame you, LJDQ, for putting Marilyn Manson in Wonderland!" - copperpixie

"The great science fiction classic 'A midsummer nights dream' You know how Shakespeare loved him some androids." - livehisjoy

"Rutger Hauer! Woo! Go Dutch actors who're somewhat famous in the US! *waves Dutch flag around* I've never actually SEEN the movie, but hey, go Rutger!" - dracothelizard

"Baa, baa, black robot, have you any steel wool...
Yes, sir/madam/neuter, no, sir/madam/neuter, three metric units' worth..." - dragonchan

"here's hoping the adaptation of A Scanner Darkly is as good. At least Keanu being wooden is a given, I guess..." - asw909

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, or do they just snack on the baby ones them like the ljdq team does?" - csflick

"We have CLONED sheep, but no electric sheep yet? Bloody science! Where's my flying car?" - palmer_kun

"Did you know that Piers Anthony wrote a novelization of that movie, which is really dumb, because the movie was already based on a novel? So there's a book called Blade Runner by Piers Anthony which is a novelization of the movie called Blade Runner which is a movie version of the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Put that in your pipe and smoke it." - jtersesk

"Phil Dick must've gotten into a lot schoolyard fights." - djdysfunction

"Why would Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I mean do people dream of non-electric sheep? The book should have been called 'Do Androids Count Electric Sheep?'" - sskipstress

"I just see these tiny little robotic sheep with metal scrub wool baaing at each other in tinny voices and their evil red eyes glowing. AWWWWW!" - prettypinkkitty

"Do Androids Dream of a Threesome with Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer Like I Do?" - shes_precious

"the most embarassing thing for an android to do when he sleeps is when he has a nocturnal particle emission." - trishalynn

Correct Answer: "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

"Actually, only 10% dream of electric sheep. The rest dream of:


Electric Youth - 28%


Electric Avenue - 14%


The Electric Company - 46%


Lectric Shave - 2%" - kenshardik



5. In the comic book series Sandman, what is the English-language name of the character also known as Oneiros, Kai'ckul, and Lord L'Zoril?

"But come on! This question is too easy." - ladyisabella

(My dear ladyisabella, you've been around the LJDQ long enough to know that we've never yet asked a question so easy that it didn't stump someone... -AL)

"Sandman is a comic book series?" - kiffany

(AL: *WEEPS*)

"How the fuck are you meant to pronounce the apostrophe?" - puredeadthingy

(It's not that hard, really. It's a bit higher in pitch than a comma, and shorter in duration than a quotation mark. Try it. -CV)

"Bob." - buzz, shannon_sue, maskofsmiles, livehisjoy

(No, that's one of my housemates. -AL)

"There's always someone named Bob." - lunanne

(It's NOT Bob, okay?? -AL)

"Bob McSleepyhead." - dragonchan

(Still wrong. -AL)

"Bob. Really." - vanbrosia

(You people are getting on my last nerve here. -AL)

"Dream Chicken, known in their language as cluck cluck b-gock!!!" - astria_nova

"SuperImpossiblyGoth Man" - umbralcorax

(I say full credit. -AL)

"I can never keep this straight--is it Kang or Kodos? Anyway, whichever one isn't Maggie's father." - hija_paloma

"I'm pretty sure that some call him... Tim." - ckirkman

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)

"Is Lord L'Zoril the love child of hair color and allergy medicine?" - kittenbabe

"Lord Of NyQuil. Seriously, though, that stuff is powerful. One dose and and I'm in a drug-fueled soporific haze. It makes family reunions pass so much more quickly." - jonem

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, the Sandman knows." - csflick

(Isn't it the Shadow who knows? -AL)

"I dunno, but it did inspire me to sing a few choruses of 'Mr. Sandman.' Bring me a dreeeeam...." - drbear
"Yeah, that song is now in my head. Die, pudding-people." - kokopellinelli

"Gotta be dream something, though knowing You Lot it could just as well be Mr I'll Make You Bleed Nightmares or something similar just to throw us all off track." - darkeros

"The Dream King. Is mentioned in a song by Tori Amos." - charliesmum

(And Tori is depicted as a talking tree in Neil Gaiman's book Stardust. -AL)

"I still maintain that Johnny Depp would make a kick-ass Dream if they do a Sandman movie." - roadparty

"Robert Smith:
" - kenshardik

(Based on the similarity with the next picture, you get half-credit. -CV)

Correct Answer, supplement provided by copperpixie:
Dream

"Most folks call him Dream, but I know a certain British and definitely not American, nor Keanu Reeves-resembling magus who'd call him 'that poncey git'." - trishalynn



6. So ... had any interesting dreams lately?

"Who are you? Freud?" - katiemariie

(No. Freud was trying to help people. We're laughing at them. -AL)

"There was this one time at LJ Camp...." - ladyvyola

"I'm standing in front of the ljdq community and everyone seems to be pointing and laughing at me because I misspelled trilogy in the last quiz...oh wait... ;)" - livehisjoy

"The other night I dreamed that I met a kitten who could talk. He told me that he had a blood disease, and it was killing him slowly, and he wanted to eat something that would kill him quickly. Then my dad asked what blood disease it was. The kitten told him, and Dad said, "Oh, well, turtle sundaes will cure you of that." So the kitten ate a turtle sundae.
...
OMG I do dream about turtles!" - innerslytherin

(Cool, we got Sting to play the quiz. Rock. -CV)

"When I was pregnant I had a dream that had only females in it. When I told people about it, they figured it meant I as having a girl... My son William just turned four months old a couple weeks ago. Dreams LIE, Martin Luther King, Jr! They LIE!" - backocky

"I keep dreaming I'm pregnant, which I better not be because otherwise it's one of those immaculate conception things and God doesn't pay child support. Though it would further by wanting of the t-shirt that says "Jesus is my baby daddy." Because he would be." - maskofsmiles

"I lived in an apartment building, and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) was moving in on the top floor. I went up to chat with him, welcome him to the neighborhood, gave him advice on where the nearest grocery store was, that sort of thing. In part of the upstairs, Trent was opening a bar with live music and invited me to come to the first show. The show was a low key affair, featuring Trent singing with KISS. And they were all in pink tutus. Then Trent morphed into Dream (see Question 5) and I woke up." - marasca

"Unfortunately, my last interesting dream was ten years ago, when I dreamed that I fell down the stairs. Actually, that might have really happened. Bummer." - packbat

"Well, I had a dream where my father killed my mother and buried her in a river bed for having an orgy and not inviting him, and then he married an Evil Stepmother named Queen Bella, and then I cooked a pie with whale blubber and petunias...but I'm not sure this counts as a dream. I was on some pretty heavy painkillers, and might have just been lolly-gagging." - seregwen

"Well, there is this one, but it's rather XXX-rated, so I won't say it. Oh, right, this is LJDQ. So..." - twilight_angel

(We're going to only partially quote that answer. Quizlings, you get to fill in the rest for yourselves. -AL)

"Normally I don't remember my dreams but I had an incredibly bizarre one the other night. For some reason my roommate and I and a bunch of other people were going camping in Italy and then the Pope showed up. But not the new Pope, this was JPII. And then I decided I needed to go to confession and I could do it because I spoke Italian, but I told my roommate she couldn't go because she's not Catholic and she got mad at me. So I was translating the usual confession into Italian, but then the Pope told me I was wrong and then started talking and I didn't understand what he was saying. I guess my subconscious has a large Italian vocabulary I'm not privy to." - ciara_belle

"Just the dream where I dreamed about my husband Bobby - I dreamed that he died but it was just the shower......." - sestree

(Showing your age there! +1, Dallas. -AL)

"I had a dream the other night that I was shopping for clothes with my mother. But then it segued into a far more normal dream involving me running from a gang with super powers who wanted to turn me into a human scarecrow. Thank God; if I'd kept shopping it would have been a nightmare." - delorda

"I have weird science fiction dreams. Like being a singing octopus with six legs instead of eight (You don't really think I'm going to say sextopus to you guys, do you?) giving birth, or a sentient sandhill. Turns out the pregnant singing six-legged underwater (still not saying sextopus) creature's pregnancy, at least, was because I had a cat sleeping on my belly. I have no clue where the sentient sandhill came from; probably too much Indian food." - teal_cuttlefish

"I dreamed a dream of time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living. I dreamed that love would never die; I dreamed that God would be forgiving. Then I was young and unafraid, when dreams were made, and used, and wasted...then I dreamed that I could get that damned song out of my head." - ajmcoqui

(Haha, pwned by Les Miserables. -AL)

"Well, I had one last week where Bree from Desperate Housewives and myself were traveling across country, holding up banks Bonnie and Clyde style. We were finally surrounded in Milwaukee where Bree was forced to sacrifice our hostage, Paris Hilton, in order to make our escape. Yes, we could have ransomed her, but in hindsight I think our shot-to-the-head method benefited humanity more." - jonem

(On behalf of a grateful world, we thank you. AL&CV)

Correct Answer: "I remember that I had a really weird dream about vampires the other day. I don't remember many details about it, but when I woke up, I was bleeding from two small puncture wounds in my right hip. So either I was actually attacked by a very short vampire, or I left my nail scissors in my bed again." - tronella

Well, thanks to everyone who played this week, especially those of us who provided us with glimpses into your rather disturbing inner lives. For the sake of brevity, we couldn't quote quite a few interesting dream-stories. All we're saying about them is: fragbert, see Ang after class. You've got some 'splaining to do.

Rock on,

AL&CV.

Comments

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's all a matter of perspective. We'll leave it at "Yes, whatever you ate this week, it made you funnier, so keep eating it."
;)

[sestree.livejournal.com]

OK if you insist....beer for breakfast it is !

*a true redneck*