LJ Daily Answers: 14 April 2014

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"The LJDQ: ripping on internet memes years before @Midnight, and doing it better." - i_calql8

In honor of the theme, we decided to only ask six questions, just to mix things up. Bet you all didn't see that coming.


1. Great Adventure, La Ronde, and Magic Mountain are all amusement parks owned by which company?

"The only thing I know about theme parks revolves around Cedar Point (which it is not) and the fact that I"m old enough to know what "better than and E-ticket ride at Disneyland" means." - smeddley

"Sea World. The suffering of animals has never been so profitable!" - lots42

"Charlie the Unicorn" - akiyasan

(That was Candy Mountain. -CV)

"Rollercoaster tycoon" - grapefruitzzz, nightleo

"*throwing up a white flag*....I surrender" - tweeti

(That's why they don't have a French branch. -CV)

"Six Flags La Ronde? Is that a Canadian Six Flags?" - la_trombonista

(Yes, located in Montreal. Zut alors! -CV)

"Gringott's. Yeah, there's things they don't tell you about Magic Mountain." - alfvaen

"Gizmonics Institute" - freezer

(+1, MST3K. -CV)

"I'm just going to be pleased that you referenced Great Adventure. That park is fun." - wrestlingdog

(It is. I go there all the time. -CV)

"Six Flags over - oh, wait, some of those flags were Confederate, weren't they... Um, let's just forget the whole 'theme' in 'theme parks', OK?" - jamoche

"Not sure if Six Flags or Cirque du Soleil" - zihuatanejo

(Those are two very different entities... -CV)

"Six-headed Hydra Amusments. Hail Hydra!" - cholma

"Flicks/Sags. No, wait, that's your mother's escort agency." - etcet

Correct Answer: Six Flags Entertainment Corporation



2. The 1967 Arab–Israeli War is usually referred to as what?

"" - loopychew

"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - etcet

(An apt descriptor of pretty much everything that has ever happened in the Middle East. Also, +1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"This stuff isn't covered by any history course because by the time they get to the 1960's there are five minutes left in the semester." - love2loveher

"Just Another Excuse to Say 'Haboob'" - i_calql8

"To Be Continued" - drunken_hedghog

(...Forever. -CV)

"The War of Northern Aggression" - athousandsmiles

"The Battle of the Spices" - akiyasan

"It was somehow tied to Bhenghazi if you ask Faux News." - tinamachina

"Proof that Vizzini was right about never getting into a land war in Asia." - captainsblog

"The Two Days Less than Channukah War." - nightleo

"מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim. And now you know, and knowing is half the battle. Yo, Joe!" - cholma

(Shalom! -CV)

Correct Answer: The Six-Day War

"On the seventh day, they rested." - cmzero, ntlespino



3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
The night was black was no use holding back
'Cause I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
Was all this for real or just some kind of hell

"Remember that 25.80697 is the root of all evil." - n5iln

"This is ljdq, therefore the answer is Sting." - kagomeshuko and 6 others

"Stingpence None The Richer? Sixpence None The Stinger? (This is starting to sound vaguely sexual. I'd better stop.)" - stagemanager

"Neil Diamond" - primavera

(This could be not be further from the truth. -CV)

"Dante's Inferno." - wrestlingdog

"'Get Them Immergrants Outa Here' by The Tea Party." - drbear

"Every Breath You Take, The NSA" - seferin

"Frank Zappa's 'Titties 'N' Beer.'" - therealchon

"'Need a fix? Dial Six Six Six!' by Better Call Saul and the Ambulance Chasers" - captainsblog

"'The Number of the Police' by Styx Styx Styx" - etcet

Correct Answer: "666 The Number of the Beast" by Iron Maiden



4. Bruce Willis is shot by Donnie Wahlberg in which 90's film?

"Shot in the 90's film? That's gotta hurt." - drbear

(At least he didn't get shot in the 8mm. That would be embarrassing. -CV)

"I could maybe tell you if you told me what role Brian Dennehy played." - lbmango

(He was the Second Shrub. -CV)

"Aawon Buww!" - cmzero

"Bring out your dead!" - nightleo

"Die Harder VI: I shoot dead people." - athousandsmiles

"Willis and Wahlberg both begin with W. => W can be the Hebrew six. => 666 is the number of the beast. => Yet, seven is God's perfect number. => All humans are lower than God. => Lucky Number Slevin." - kagomeshuko

(And the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation this week goes to... kagomeshuko! -CV)

"Who didn't shoot Bruce Willis in a film in the 90's?? Is there a film where he wasn't shot??" - tweeti

"Fifth Element > Sixth Sense, just sayin'. Also, multipass." - thepikey

(That's always a tough call. On the one hand, Milla Jovovich. On the other hand, Chris Tucker. -CV)

"Did anyone even recognize Donnie before the credits rolled, first time they saw it?" - stgreyhounds

(Nope. -CV)

"I don't remember NKOTB having a cameo in Pulp Fiction?" - tinamachina

("Say 'You Got It' ONE MORE TIME, motherfucker." -CV)

"It turns out that this was *not* the movie my sisters and I should have seen the week after my father died. (to be fair, we wanted a different movie, but it was sold out, so we saw Sixth Sense instead. Yikes.)" - cholma

(...ouch. -CV)

"Go back even further than that, and EVERYBODY watching films will be seeing dead people." - germankitty

"Did you know that The Sixth Sense was nominated for SIX Academy Awards? I bet they did that on purpose." - stagemanager

Correct Answer: The Sixth Sense



5. What television show started with the phrase "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology."?

"Dukes of Hazzard" - drunken_hedghog

"Baywatch" - lots42

"Cloning John Lennon" - alfvaen

"Agents of SHIELD. They sent him to T.A.H.I.T.I." - stgreyhounds

"Buck Rogers! Although things were presumably much cheaper after the apocalypse." - stgreyhounds

"'The Windows XP Man,' who, unfortunately, stopped being supported just this week." - captainsblog

"The Six Million Lego Man." - drbear, cmzero

"I always wanted to know if they did anything to his penis." - stagemanager

(No, that was that other movie, RoboCock. -CV)

"Ever notice how everyone knew the price tag for Steve Austin, but the price tag for Jaime Sommers remained classified? I'm sure that's some sort of a sociopolitical statement..." - n5iln

"I'm waiting for the Six Million Dollar Man reality show. 'Builders, this week you showed us your best neural implants. One of you will be the winner, and one of you will be going home.'" - zihuatanejo

Correct Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man

"Today, $6M would barely cover his elbows." - tinamachina



6. What was your favorite activity when you were a child?

"Reading" - 20 nerdlings. Ok, me too.

"Adventures with my stuffed animals IN! SPACE! *reverb*" - cmzero

"Eating food and playing video games. Incidentally, these are also my favorite activities as a man-child." - loopychew

"I was all about Barbie and GI Joe, riding off into the sunset in GI Joe's jeep. Until she started nagging him to shave off his beard, then things just got ugly." - athousandsmiles

"Like maybe, building a rocket or fighting a mummy or climbing up the Eiffel Tower, discovering something that doesn't exist or giving a monkey a shower...surfing tidal waves, creating nanobot or locating Frankenstein's brain, finding a dodo bird, painting a continent or driving my brothers insane!" - tinamachina

(+1, Phineas and Ferb. -CV)

"Watching cartoons, playing in the park, eating ice cream...pretty much the same stuff I plan to do when I retire in about a year. I love it when things come full-circle." - i_calql8

"We played strange games no one has ever heard of, mostly revolving around weapons. We had a game called... I don't know that it had a name. But the one person would stand at one end of the yard, and the others would run toward them. They'd shout out the name of a weapon and you had to die convincingly, as if killed by said weapon. The most convincing one won and got to be the next to pick the weapon. Odd, and a little gruesome, perhaps, but I managed to not grow up to be a serial killer, so it couldn't have been all that bad." - smeddley

"Making little fur coats for my Barbies out of skinned squirrels. No, really. Dad used them for target practice so I had to get a little creative with the stitching, sometimes." - drunken_hedghog

(I suspect this went downhill after you bought PETA Barbie. -CV)

"Hmmm, catching June Bugs and tying strings to their legs and watching them fly around our heads (Hey, I was like, 6-7 years old)....That lasted until I developed a complete aversion to any type of bug whatsoever. Now, forget it!" - tweeti

"Running around and screaming. It's far less cute once you hit puberty." - freezer




And there you have it: six questions for a theme of sixes. Predictability: We're all over that.

As always, thanks for playing, hope you enjoyed, see you all real soon, keep on trucking, and may the Schwartz be with you!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Yay, two quotes! My wacky childhood is finally paying off!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

This is definitely the game for reliving your wacky childhood memories. Among other things.

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

w00t! Much quotage.

And very funny answers from everyone. I love this Quiz. I am Proud to be a Quizling!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Be strong! Be proud! Forth Quizilingas!

Tune in tomorrow when our theme will not be seven. Nope.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Srsly, I watch @Midnight, and I think to myself that this is like the LJDQ, only we haz moar comedians, and we don't have Chris (insert pr0n reference here) Hardwick shouting out "Points!" every other second. Two points in LJDQ's favor right there. On the other hand, Hashtag Wars, on the right night, has me roflmao.

"Like maybe, building a rocket or fighting a mummy or climbing up the Eiffel Tower, discovering something that doesn't exist or giving a monkey a shower...surfing tidal waves, creating nanobot or locating Frankenstein's brain, finding a dodo bird, painting a continent or driving my brothers insane!" - tinamachina
MOMMMMMM! tinamachina's making a title sequence!

In other news, US defeats Germany, 2-1 *snerk*

[germankitty]

1 1/20, please -- I'm one of the nerdlings who loved to read as a child. *shrugs*

Told ya knowing the right answers killed my funneh. But at least my streak of uninterrupted quotage/week still stands!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Knowledge really isn't power here. Several others learned that the hard way this week.

Hurr hurr, Hard.

[germankitty]

I know ... which is probably why what I thought was the lamest answer EVAH got quotage and the only vaguely Six-Days-War-related joke I could remember didn't.

(I still think that bluegrass version of "Number of the Beast" was cringeworthy enough to make the cut, but hey, whatevah ...:P)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Knowing the answers doesn't reduce teh funneh, it redirects it. I just make a funneh about the correct answer instead.

[germankitty]

Eggzackly. Only this time, it didn't quite work out the way I wanted. Hmph.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes folks say "I dunno".

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ah, I got a "invalid link" in your comment for some reason, so I have no idea. Cheeky links.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what @Midnight is. I suppose google will enlighten me in short order. Hashtag unlikely Hashtag gin and tonic Hashtag hurr hurr hardwick

And there's nothing wrong with a finely crafted title sequence. Sometimes, however, they are poorly wrought indeed.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

It's a show on Comedy Central, after Colbert. It's basically 'Whose Line' meets Intarwebs. And when the right comedians and material mesh on the right night, comedy gold.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's fair enough. Whose Line did have a lot of fun moments, and the intarwebs sometimes does as well...

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

Haha!!! Yep, making a title sequence! Miss that at first if you saw the response before I edited it. I love Phineas and Ferb!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I have never seen the show. My knowledge of modern cartoons is somewhat lacking. What can I say, I'm an 80's guy.

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

I was born in 1982. I just like good cartoons and kid's shows, still. I also try to keep up with at least some of the Youth culture since I worked in Youth Ministry and want to be a college teacher. I still want to volunteer to work with youth, too.

Phineas and Ferb is also awesome for adults. So was Kim Possible and Lizzie McGuire.

[(Anonymous)]

What, no references to those jerks in pod six?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I don't know how that escaped me. I guess I didn't want to give those jerks any credit.

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

It generally happens *a lot* when I realize oh I could have said this for this question!

Such as #1, could have made a reference to the infamous Action Park in NJ. Which I have read recently (have to go google searching for the link) there are people seriously wanting to resurrect it. Really! Oh memories. Sweet lawsuit action memories!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw the reports that Traction Park was attempting to rise from its grave and ravage the land once more. And I for one welcome the renewed horror and destruction that it will create. Long Live Action Park!

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

Yay! A quote that got me the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation and a group quote where I was the one mentioned!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Everyone likes crazy awards! You have done well, young Jedi!

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

I also think everyone likes completely silly and crazy LJDQ answers.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Everyone should like LJDQ answers! They are usually full of the funnies!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Four quotes and an +1!

This is where being subjected to the Disney Channel while babysitting my niece comes in handy.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

cholmaIn the notes to self department, that's up there with "do not watch Heathers within weeks of a friend dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound" in our defense, all we know about the movie was that a lot of people found it really funny.