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Quiz! Now with four times the awesomeness!

1. Vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius are all sections of which muscle group?

"If muscles have their own groups, it's only a matter of time before they form their own gangs. Is that what you want? Rogue bands of muscles prowling the streets, roughing up ligaments and mugging cartilage? You MONSTER!" -

drunken_hedghog

"The vastus group. Duh." -

la_trombonista,

therealchon

"That's the Roman Gladiators, a male stripper, er, 'muscle group' that performs at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas! The ladies love 'em!" -

cholma

(You might be thinking of Vastus Gonadulus, although he usually goes by his screen name, Biggus Dickus. -CV)

"the Vaaaaaast ... tracks of land muscle group." -

lbmango

"If they're all vast, it must be my gluteals." -

germankitty,

wheatheart
"The vastus tuckus." -

kenshardik

"That kind that help me with my squats. With the barbell and on the toilet! But not together because that would be weird." -

akiyasan

"Did you leave out rectus femoris because you wanted to avoid defecation jokes? Didn't work." -

sskipstress,

alexmegami

"It's like they just got tired of naming muscles by the time they got to the quads. 'Call 'em the "big one on the inside", "the big one on the outside", and "the big one in the middle" and call it a day.'" -

mark_laura

Correct Answer: The quadruceps femoris

2. The acronym SDM-R, when referring to a modified M16 rifle, stands for what?

"The Boomstick" -

akiyasan,

thepikey

(Shop smart. Shop SDMR-Mart. -CV)

"Super Death Missile - Really-fast." -

lots42

"Sommelier, Drink More Red." -

kenshardik

"Smoke Dat Motherfucker-Ritethur" -

freezer
"Shot dat mother rightgood" -

nitasee

"Shut your damn mouth and reload!" -

sskipstress

(They say that rifle is one bad mother... -CV)

"Super Duper Machine gun -- Ratatatat" -

therealchon

"Some Dead Mice - Reload" -

grapefruitzzz

"I'm Canadian, so I'm pretty sure it's illegal for me to answer questions about guns." -

alexmegami

Correct Answer: Squad Designated Marksman Rifle

3. "Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus four times a times c, all over two times a" is better known as what?

(Number of quizlings burned by math: Many. Squared. -CV)

"You're right. That thirteenth gin might have been one too many, Officer." -

etcet

"The Core Curriculum way to spell 'cat'." -

kenshardik

"The path to enlightenment and pain free mathematics." -

miss_whiplash

(I dunno, we saw a lot of pain with this question. -CV)

"THAC0" -

alfvaen

(+1, old school D&D. -CV)

"omg that is my favourite ever equation! How did you know? I am smiling parabolically over its sexy quadratic curves." -

grapefruitzzz

(This might be the most disturbing response to this question. -CV)

"Blue, no yel...Aaaaaargh!" -

sskipstress

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

"Witchcraft" -

la_trombonista

(You're from Texas, aren't you? -CV)

Correct Answer: The quadratic formula

4. Ishmael, Starbuck, and Queequeg were all part of the crew of which ship?

"Are we talking Dirk Benedict Starbuck or Katee Sackhoff Starbuck?" -

cholma and many other Galactica fans

(Surprisingly, neither. -CV)

"The SDF Macross" -

etcet

(+1, Robotech. -CV)

"Noah's one" -

drunken_hedghog

(I think it was just called Noah's Ark. Now it's Russel Crowe's Ark. -CV)

"The Lollipop. It's a good ship." -

kenshardik

"HMS Pinafore" - OWEN TOWNES

"Deep Space Nine's Industrial Hull Replacer #7. They were blown up in a Borg attack in Season 5. Nobody cared because Ishmael smelled bad." -

lots42

"The Venti White Whale" -

drbear

"Did you know Starbucks was founded by a couple of English majors. Obviously inspired by the frequent comments that an English degree and $3.50 will buy you a cop of coffee." -

nitasee

"S.S. Moby Dickery" -

nightleo,

germankitty

"I always thought 'Queequeg' was a rather odd name, like he was Queer without being all ... queer. Or something." -

stagemanager

"The Pequod, named after a nation of Native Americans so unimportant the idiot author couldn't even spell it right." -

neumeindil

(I always thought that was a funny spelling of Cherokee. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Pequod

"Heh heh, you said 'Pequod.'" -

wrestlingdog

5. Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline are commonly referred to as what?

"The answer I'm most likely to Google Cheat on today." -

sskipstress

"The real names of Jack Davenport, Bette Midler, The Rock and Joshua Molina" -

drunken_hedghog

"The other New York boroughs people give even fewer fucks about than Staten Island." -

etcet

"Plymouth Rock" -

kagomeshuko

"Voltron. 'Form Blazing Suburb!'" -

kenshardik

"Fly-over country" -

mark_laura

"Didn't Russia just invade them?" -

alexmegami

(Russia did it 13 years ago. No one noticed. Or cared. -CV)

"The bastard stepchildren of Chicago and Des Moines. Daddy never comes by to visit and doesn't pay child support, so that's why mommy drinks." -

thepikey

"The Quad Cities. Yes, you list five, but East Moline photobombed them." -

drbear

Correct Answer: "The Quad Cities. Even though there are five. Because Iowa can't count." - OWEN TOWNES

"Just like how the Big Ten conference has twelve schools." -

la_trombonista

(Yes, there are five. They'd been the Quad Cities for years, and then East Moline joined the fray, and they tried to rename it to the Quint Cities, but everyone was so used to Quad Cities that the name never changed. -CV)

6. Choose one ability, quality, or feature of yours and change it by a factor of four (greater or lesser, as desired). What have you done?

"Hmm, multiply my weight by 4 and I can become Supervillain, The Blob?" -

cholma

"I dunno, four clitorises could be pretty... uh, useful. It would depend on where they are, though, and if the nerve endings are connected." -

nightleo

"I can now concentrate for a whole 8 minutes!" -

lbmango

"Learned how to multiply by four. There are 16 lights!" -

akiyasan

(+1, ST:TNG. -CV)

"I could actually get school-shit done on time or even early! Boy, would THAT be a novelty in grad school." -

wrestlingdog

"My tits are now larger than Dolly Parton's and Busty Heart's COMBINED!" -

neumeindil
"A quarter as much bosom. Really" -

grapefruitzzz

(You two need to meet up. -CV)

"I have increased my ability to grow body hair, so I can run through hillbilly country, cause local newscasts with interviews with the yokels is comedy gold." -

therealchon

"If I had four mouths, would I be able to sing Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass?" -

kagomeshuko

"Getting by with less than two hours of sleep. Maybe now I can catch up on Doctor Who." -

alfvaen

"4x metabolism! Now I can eat whatever I want without worrying about love handles!" -

mark_laura

And that's the way it is. Quad- was the theme, because it's the fourth month, which could have been called Quadrember in a different universe. Then again, Quadrember Fool's Day doesn't sound as funny. No wait, it does. Hurr hurr, quadrember.

Never mind.

Thanks for playing as always, and tune in tomorrow for more quizly goodness!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

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germankitty

If I combine my two half shares from today with my two group quotes from two weeks ago (and maybe add on my share of the generic packquote on #3 for good measure), do I get a quadruple quote altogether?

(Even if not, it's still all quotage. Woohoo!)

Apropos the packquote -- Math IS scary. As well as incomprehensible. Well, mostly. But still. So there!

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Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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