LJ Daily Answers: 31 March 2014

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Thank you for not invoking the musical atrocity that was Van Halen's 'Poundcake.'" - etcet


1. What sandwich was discussed in the film "Pulp Fiction" as having the French name "Royale with Cheese"?

"It's entirely possible that I just decided to take part in the first quiz in ages just in case the rest of the theme is 'Fuck.'" - love2loveher

(Fair enough. -CV)

"I don't know why, but I've always considered burgers to be separate from sandwiches." - la_trombonista

"Der Koeniger mit Kaese? (omg, it's like a secret Chekov reference)" - grapefruitzzz

"Mutton, Lettuce and Tomato" - thepikey, therealchon

"Quarter and Pounder? That sounds like your mother's favorite sex act." - etcet

(Amazingly enough, I did see this coming. -CV)
(So did YOUR MOM! -everyone else)

"I never understood how any burger could be considered "royal" and NOT have cheese." - lbmango

"Unfortunately, they did not discuss Le Big-Mac in more detail, or we could have heard about 'deux galettes pur boeuf, sauce spéciale, de laitue, fromage, cornichons et d'oignons sur un petit pain au sésame.'" - aaronbsam

"You are s'inking of ze 'quarter-pounder' or as we would say, ze '113.36 grams'." - 7tree_hugger, songquake, sskipstress

"I think we, as a nation, need to come to grips with the fact that the Quarter Pounder is just a triple-sized regular cheeseburger." - freezer

Correct Answer: The Quarter Pounder



2. What poet, infamous for his support of the Nazi regime, was awarded the first Bollingen Prize for his work The Pisan Cantos?

"cue 'golden shower' jokes.." - primavera and 9 others

"Poets. What are they good for, anyway?" - ophelialaughs

(Nazis, apparently. Who knew? -CV)

"Elvis Presley" - lots42

"Ogden Himmler" - drbear

"Mother Goose's evil grand-niece, Auntie Semetic." - tinamachina

"Arnold Schwarzenegger, also known for his 'Conan Cantos'." - alfvaen

(It was really more of a Conan Haiku:
Crush your enemies
See them driven before you
Hear women lament. -CV)

"He was chased out of Chicago by these guys." - thepikey

"I read that as 'Bollinger Prize', and my first thought was, Mmm, nice bubbly! And then I thought, if his poem was worth just a bottle of champagne, it can't have been that good ... so it was sort of like the nicest booby prize there is, right?" - germankitty

"Another one, in honor of the weather in New Jersey: Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham. Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damn you, sing: Goddamm" - zihuatanejo

"'Ezra Pound sat upon my bed, asked me which books of late I'd read, asked me if I'd read his own and whether I could spare a pound of flesh to cover his bare bones...' Sorry. I've been listening to Regina Spektor all morning." - raienna

(I'm just astounded that you covered two questions in one hit. +1, impressive. -CV)

Correct Answer: Ezra Pound

"But could he come up with a rhyme for 'orange'?" - n5iln



3. What actress was nominated for an Emmy for her role as Detective Wyms on "The Shield"?

"Oh, look! A question that got rejected for last week's quiz! I see what you did there, ljdq..." - n5iln, cmzero, tinamachina

"If a police procedural of the Noughties didn't start either with 'In the criminal justice system, yadayada', or a 'The Who' riff, I didn't watch it, sorry" - germankitty

"Jesus, LJDQ. Not all of us are hip to those comic book shows!" - love2loveher

(Agent Coulson would like a word with you about your misunderstanding. -CV)

"My Little Pony has much more gravitas than The Shield, but way too little Walon Goggins." - therealchon

"Martina Luther, famous for the Diet of Wyms." - alfvaen

(That is probably the most cultured answer we've received all month. -CV)

"Paula Poundstone" - la_trombonista, kickthehobbit, etcet, stgreyhounds, thepikey, lbmango

"Captain America's 'wife' Bucky" - akiyasan

"Calista Flockhart? She's always looked like she weighed a relatively few pounds..." - songquake

"It's either Amanda Waller or Mrs. Frederic from Warehouse 13" - cholma, aaronbsam, sskipstress

(Check and double check. Also, two folks mentioned S. Epatha Merkerson. -CV)

"C.C.H. Royale with Cheese" - kenshardik

Correct Answer: CCH Pounder

"i googled this because my immediate thought was 'there's no way that actress's last name is 'Pounder''" - cold_clarity



4. What unit of mass is defined as being 7000 grains?

"A cubit" - Noah, God, and 11 of you

"7000 grains of what though? sand? rice? wheat? also, who counted all those grains?" - cold_clarity, kickthehobbit

(Hermione GRAINger. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. -CV)
(I hate you. -AL)
(I'm sorry. That was quite terrible, even for me. Let's move on. -CV)

"Grains are things like wheat, and mass is some kind of church service, and a unit is a group of things, so.... 7000 grains is equal to a box of communion wafers?" - cholma

(Mmmmm, sacrilicious. -CV)

"I'm guessing one box of some nasty high-fiber breakfast cereal that tastes like the inside of a pencil sharpener." - ophelialaughs

(I feel that, at drbear's recommendation, this is the correct opportunity for me to link to this website. You're welcome. -CV)

"Grain is something you eat, therefore it shouldn't be used to weigh things....If you think about it, you'll realize that I've run rings around you logically!" - tweeti

(Dearest tweeti, you have forgotten how small a role logic plays here. -CV)

"A buttload or maybe a fuckton." - _xanthia, sskipstress

(Just one buttload. A fuckton is 1000 buttloads. -CV)

"Grain makes beer. Beer is good. Good starts with g, just like grain. It's the circle of life." - therealchon, thepikey

"Sands through the hourglass" - primavera

"A loaf of bread. Also a unit of volume defined as : 'Just smaller than a breadbox'" - lbmango

"Five dozen bagels" - n5iln

(That's as many as six tens. And that's terrible. -CV)

"A pound of Troy, but only when the horse is made out of wood" - stagemanager

Correct Answer: One avoirdupois pound



5. Shylock lends money to Antonio under the condition that, should he be unable to repay in time, he would forfeit what?

Number of people thinking Sherlock has changed businesses: 22.

"I always thought that Bassanio was a very luck chap if Antonio was able to promise a whole pound." - drunken_hedghog

"His foreskin" - la_trombonista

(And if that were indeed a pound, well, Antonio's got a bright future in porn. -CV)

"He would not be allowed to pass GO! nor collect $200." - kenshardik

"His wife? His 2nd wife? All his wives?? He might just give those up and keep the money..." - tweeti

"The basketball game that was the only way for them to keep Venice Beach out of the hands of the evil developers! Luckily, Portia, disguised as a boy, makes the game-winning basket, and Shylock Developments is thwarted." - alfvaen

"A pound of meat from his ribs. BUT NO BLOOD LOLZ I AM THE CLEVER LIKE A SHERLOCK EPISODE WITH MY CUNNINGITUDE HAHAHAHAHA. Shakespeare invented the clunky murder plot twist." - grapefruitzzz

(He still did not invent the "Ha! Madest thou look!" joke, however. -CV)

"a pound of flesh, Shakespeare wrote, laughing to himself, thrilled with the certitude that this line alone would titillate the masses of the Hannibal fandom for years to come" - cold_clarity

"A pound of flesh, in other words, he breaks kneecaps. With prejudice. Only in Shakespearian words." - etumukutenyak

"If I correlate my weight loss to date with the cost of my bariatric surgery, the cost comes up to ~$92 per pound. Which isn't all that much as loans go, right?" - germankitty

(Well, you know, back in the 1500's, $92 was a big honking deal. -CV)

"A lumpe of tiffue of waight roufly 7000 graines." - lbmango

Correct Answer: "A pound of flesh"

"Shylock, however, was a banker and got bailed out by the government either way." - cmzero



6. Violence! You may deliver a most righteous beating unto any being, alive or dead, real or fictional. Who do you choose, and why?

"Hitler's dad. Probably not a horrible guy, but he FATHERED HITLER." - loopychew

"My younger self, for not turning left at Albuquerque despite several opportunities to do so." - n5iln

"I need the name of the NCSoft executive who made the call to shut down City of Heroes." - cmzero

(You, sir, may have a +5, because your quest is worthy, and because I will help LIKE A BOSS. -CV)

"can my answer be myself? can i pull a Tyler Durden? because i think we can all agree that getting beaten up by split-personality-who-is-also-Brad-Pitt-circa-Fight-Club is pret-ty sexy." - cold_clarity

(If my split personality looked like Charlize Theron, I could stand to take a beating or twelve. -CV)

"UMBRIDGE" - _xanthia

(I agree; truly one of the least likable characters in all of literature or moviedom. Full credit. -CV)

"The guy who approved the voice of BANE." - lots42

"Rush Limbaugh. I would punch him in the face until I ran out of strength or face." - freezer

(He's got a big round face. You could be there a while. -CV)

"Whoever wrote 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.' I don't think that requires a justification." - wrestlingdog

"I'm not a violent person but swear to Bowie if Scooter Braun fucks up the Jem & the Holograms movie, blood with spill." - tinamachina

"The spider that woke me up by crawling on my face. If I am lucky, I will have brushed it off my face before administering said beating." - sskipstress

"Violence isn't cool, yo." - love2loveher

(...ok. We're sorry. -CV)



A pound of quizling flesh, we craveth not
Not even curried in a measured ounce
Divided evenly amongst you all.
Nay! A pound of funny, there's the rub!
A pound of laughs, of humor deep and true
That from the soul bursts forth like morning sun;
Or then to pained groaning turneth forth
As punnery doth pound the fragile mind
And bringeth heads upon the desk to pound.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Yay, another hattrick!

"(Well, you know, back in the 1500's, $92 was a big honking deal. -CV)"

I actually tried to come up with a corresponding amount, but the Intarwebs was spectacularly unhelpful in that endeavor. Hmph.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

At the very least, it would be worth a shitload of groceries. Might not buy you a house, but probably could get you a horse and some other livestock, and some groceries with the spare change.

[cholma.livejournal.com]

Only 2 this week, but I also, would like to support cmzero's quest to hunt down the bastard who closed Paragon City!
(I was there right until the final "mapserver not responding" message that night)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Damn straight. I miss CoH. It was the right MMO for me.

[alfvaen]

3/6 this time, including the coveted "most cultured" award. For making a "Diet of Worms" joke...so that is not, apparently, a very high bar.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, you've been here for a while. You know culture is not a strong point here. RIght down there with logic and reason, and good taste.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Bottom of list = sobriety.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Definitely that. Sobriety < good taste < culture < logic/reason at ljdq!

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree on one point: A metric buttload is bigger than a metric fuckton, because obviously, a buttload can contain an entire fuckton. Likewise a shitload.

The relationship between a shitload and a fuckton remains under investigation.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Can the load quantity of one butt support the voluminous output of one ton of fucks? This is a problem that requires the aid of SCIENCE!

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Ah, so your claim is that a fuckton is actually 1000 fuckloads. that's plausible. If so, I would propose:
fuckton > buttload > shitload > fuckload > A reasonable amount

Ok, we have a hypothesis. Now is the time for SCIENCE!

[csi-tokyo3.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a violent person but swear to Bowie if Scooter Braun fucks up the Jem & the Holograms movie, blood with spill." - tinamachina

Amen to that. They're *crowdsourcing* all creative elements of the movie, including costumes, script, and characters? OH, HELL NO

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Soon you'll feel the pain I felt when Disney took it upon themselves to make "John Carter of Mars". OH THE HUGE MANATEE

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Just be thankful they didn't try to make Deja Thoris into another sparkly-glam "Disney Princess". Actually, she and Merida and Mulan could have hung out. Or she and Belle could have been intellectual buds together.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

True. She was an Action-Science lady! Which is a step up from the books, even! But still, any time Disney has its way with someone else's source material, bad things usually happen.

The best part of the movie was the scene with the baby Tharks. So cute! So terrifying! So terrifyingly cute!

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

Yay quotage!

But I guess my penis jokes need some work..... (However, *I* thought it was brilliant.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, you got off half-cocked, which is a pretty hard thing to do. Stiffen up your resolve, and you'll come in first in no time.

........penis.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

A BEAR! UNDO IT! UNDO IT!

Hah. Madest thou looke.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

WHO DRIVING CAR? BEAR DRIVING CAR! HOW CAN THIS BE?

[bellapalmera.livejournal.com]

Note to self: Add "sacrilicious" to vocabulary

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It is a surprisingly versatile adjective.

[7tree-hugger.livejournal.com]

Aaand the horrendous (insulting) French accent wins points again. Huzzah!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Making fun of "ze Frenchies" is always le funny.