LJ Daily Answers: 2 June 2014

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the one week delay. Had some real life matters that needed fixing. Or something like that. Maybe I was just lazy and playing video games again. You know, stuff.



1. In the original television series "Battlestar Galactica", what famous dancer played the part of Starbuck's father?

"Sergei Baryshnykov (since I know about four famous male dancers, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't Gregory Hines)" - etcet and five other Baryshnikov fans

"Cyd Cerise. Heads rolled when she showed up for filming and they realized it wasn't 'Sid Cerise.'" - freezer

"John Holmes" - mark_laura

"Psy" - primavera

"Christopher Walken (if it isn't true it really should be)" - grapefruitzzz

"Queequeg Astaire" - kagomeshuko

(+1, Moby Dick. Well-played. -CV)

"" - bending_sickle

"Fred Astaire, who allegedly 'couldn't act, couldn't sing, but danced a little'. Kind of like a one-man boyband 65 years before there even were boybands. Less pretty, MUCH better." - germankitty

Correct Answer: Fred Astaire

"Fred Astaire. ...wait, you mean that was ACTUALLY the answer? What kind of crazy quiz IS this?!" - loopychew



2. In the musical "Chicago", which character welcomes the audience to the show?

"The MC, with the song 'Willkommen, bienvenue and all that jazz'" - germankitty, nitasee

(That was that other musical. -CV)

"Are you sure you're not mixing Chicago up with Cabaret? Because Cabaret's the one that has a real 'introduction' to the characters." - wrestlingdog

(Yes, totally sure. -CV)

"It's either Statler or Waldorf. I can never remember which is which." - cholma

"Roxie (though Sting called her Roxanne)" - zihuatanejo

(Is there nothing Sting can't do? -CV)

"Frank N. Furter" - mark_laura

(+1, RHPS. -CV)

"Bob the Janitor (who is played, of course, by the accordion)" - kenshardik

(+1, Weird Al. -CV)

"The show, the show within the show, or the show within the trial within the show?" - sskipstress

"Geraldo Rivera. He promises to show us what's in Al Capone's vault by the end of the show, but he doesn't deliver, and we'll never get that hour of our life back. Damn you, Geraldo!" - silk_knickers

(Damn you, Geraldo. We all paid the price for that one. -CV)

Correct Answer: Velma Kelly



3. Who wrote the original short story that Alfred Hitchcock used as a basis for "The Birds"?

"Edgar Allen Poe. Isn't he the guy everybody steals the good plots off of?" - neumeindil

"It's a truism Shirley Jackson wrote every short story that ever became a movie. (well, her and Philip K. Dick, but I think this was a smidge before his heyday)" - thepikey

"Sadly, Hitchcock died before he could make the much more terrifying sequel, 'The Birds and the Bees.'" - etcet

"Polly" - stagemanager

"Big Bird. We always KNEW he had a dark side!" - lbmango, sskipstress

"Harvey Birdman, Author at Large" - kenshardik

"Robin Crowe, her story 'Those Where My Eggs You Had For Breakfast'" - nitasee

"I Just Cleaned That Car by Ernest Hemingway." - grapefruitzzz

"Nikola Tesla. EVERYONE stole from him." - n5iln

"Isaac Asimov. He wrote everything." - germankitty

"St. Francis. Modern retellings of his preachings to the birds leave out what the birds said back." - bending_sickle

(Now I want to see St. Patrick star in "Snakes on a Plane 2: Irish Boogaloo". -CV)

Correct Answer: Daphne du Maurier



4. Dr. Andrew Zagarian created which indestructible DC comics supervillain?

"Iron Chef. Noboody chops up the bad guys quite like him!" - germankitty

"Isaac Azathoth." - alfvaen

"Haven't you read 'Future's End'? *No* DC comics character is indestructible!" - cholma, la_trombonista

"The Joker never seemed to actually suffer. I mean, until Heath Ledger. Too soon?" - zihuatanejo

(Never too soon here at the quiz. -CV)

"Wrong universe, but you know what was more indestructible than adamantium? Hulk's pants." - tinamachina

(For which we should all be grateful. -CV)

"The Vizier of Chaos." - silk_knickers

"Martha Kent." - lots42

(Lil' Clark knew that when Ma brought out the kryptonite belt, he was in biiiiig trouble. -CV)

"Salamander Man. No one is safe." - bending_sickle

(Surprisingly, salamander tissue helps make the Shaggy Man indestructible. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Shaggy Man



5. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
La rencontrant chez des amis
Je lui dis : Mademoiselle
Que faites-vous donc dans la vie
Eh bien répondit-elle

"I can't even get the English lyrics ones, and now you expect me to do it in German?" - silk_knickers

(+1, German. -CV)

"Sorry, I don't speak the language of the People of the White Flag. (Pero, hablo espanol!)" - neumeindil

"To paraphrase JK Rowling, 'Oh dear, foreign languages.'" - wrestlingdog

"The only song by a frog I'll admit to knowing is 'Rainbow Connection', and that ain't it." - n5iln

"Sting knows French?" - la_trombonista

(Eh, he's British, France is just across the river, can't be too difficult... -CV)

"Penis Penis Penis Penis." - lots42

"'Some French Thing,' by 'Shut the Fuck Up, Quebec, Nobody Likes You Anyways" - etcet

"Voulez-vouz coucher avec moi, ce soir?" - thepikey, tinamachina, germankitty

"'Combien de Chiens Sont là dans Votre Blouse?' by Gary Trudeau and the Zonkers" - kenshardik

"My French may be a little weak, but I think that third line is 'It's fate that makes you dance lively with my dong'" - mark_laura

"I spy two different women's magazines there. So it's a trashy version of Cosmo then." - akiyasan

(Trashy Cosmo? Sounds like another entry from the Department of Redundancy Department... -CV)

"It Wasn't Me by Shaggy
CV came in and caught me red handed
Googling on the LJDQ
Picture this I had the Firefox open
Banging on the keyboard keys
It wasn't ME, CV! Honest! It was SHAGGY." - cholma

(I ain't buying it. Shaggy was the previous question. But +1 for musical excellence. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Scoubidou" by Sacha Distel



6. If you could solve any mystery, great or small, what would it be?

"What really happened to the Entwives." - neumeindil

(They left the forest to become nuns. They all live in a ConvEnt now. -CV)

"Why I suck at this quiz." - stagemanager

(It's ok. We're a week late with this quiz. Sucking all around! -CV)

"Where missing socks go." - wrestlingdog, sskipstress, loopychew

(You should check each other's laundry machines. -CV)

"Who thinks these 'fun with lyrics' questions have any possible connection with the popularly-understood definition of the term 'fun'?" - etcet

(Ang first wrote the phrase "Fun with lyrics", I believe. Maybe it was fun back in those first few questions. Now it's still fun, mostly for us. -CV)

"You ask so many questions, what answers should I choose? Is this schizoid paranoia, or just existential blues?" - cholma

(+1, The Existential Blues. -CV)

"Where are my pants?" - grapefruitzzz

(The mystery is not where they are, but why you would want to put them back on? -CV)

"Just how much pudding, gin and bacon do the LJDQ mods consume each week? Is the amount bigger than the gross national product, or just gross?" - germankitty

(It's pretty gross on my end. -CV)

"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop" - zihuatanejo

(Mr. Owl is wrong. It's like six at least. -CV)

"Why is Uranus built on a funny tilt?" - mark_laura

(Well, everything else about Uranus is funny; why not the tilt as well? -CV)



And there you have it. In case you didn't figure it out, this quiz follows the names of the Scooby Doo gang. If you don't know what Scooby Doo is, well... you know, I'm not even going there. The point is, Scooby Doo. Mystery solved. You meddling kids.

Welcome to June! We're almost halfway through the new year. That's crazy talk! CRAZY! A new quiz will show up tomorrow for great justice, so be warned, be forearmed, but don't be four-armed. That's just silly.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Wow, five. FIVE! I'm on a roll here! (Even though I never figured out the theme, because I only know "Scooby" from BtVS! *hides*)

Weird how I only messed up on the Sacha Distel question, what with actually having been a Sacha Distel fan for a while back in the 60s! (He used to be pretty popular over here in Germany at the time ... and I actually may have one of his songs on an old vinyl record* sampler somewhere. :P)

* = for the kiddies out there, those were the huge black CD-like thingies! (Only scratchier ...)


I ... I missed the group quote on #5. Which means ...

OMG, I GOT 'EM ALL!!!

*thud*

Somebody please revive me with copious amounts of gin and pudding!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

ULTIMATE POWER!

This is one for the record books! Only a few lucky contenders have made it into the 100% club! What madness! What excellence! What achievement! GLORY! SPAAAARTAAAAAAAA!

[germankitty]

I know ... I'm still bouncing all over the place with GLEE!!!

Tonight! We dine! In Hell On ramen and watermelon!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I like dining on melons.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

I like it too, but I spend more time just playing with my food.

[germankitty]

You would. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

[(Anonymous)]

And here, I was just happy to get that group quote threesome with you and tinamachina. Get down wit yo bad self!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hey, that sounded like a pretty good threesome all around. You should celebrate!

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Bah, I wasn't even logged in for that. (How does one properly celebrate a threesome? Hans, you're a worldly guy, help me out here. )

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the trick. If you're celebrating, then the threesome is over, which is sad. You should therefore celebrate quickly, just before it starts, with booze (gin and tonic is always good) and maybe a pre-threesome threesome. Then make sure the threesome lasts as long as humanly possible. After that, revel in your triumph, even if revelry must be tinged with mourning for the end of the threesome. This requires more somber fare, like a tequila shot, or some Jaegermeister. Or both.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

THREESOME SHOTS.

Tequila, whiskey, jaeger. Done!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

After that triple shot, you won't even know that you're not threesoming.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY THE POINT.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

*George Takei voice* Oh myyyy....

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Captain, sensors are picking up a threesome on Deck 69."
"Any other bad jokes to report?"
"Someone deleted 'Moby Dick' from all Starfleet records."
"Much better, Private Wang."

[germankitty]

Sorry!

*sends you virtual gin and chocolate*

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

Double quotage! Which proves I have a chance even if I don't answer all the questions.... (Shhh, don't tell anyone.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Lots of folks skip out on an answer or two. It happens. We work with what we get.

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Two quotes, which is two more than last week since I forgot to play then. So yay!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

People do so much better when they play! It's great!

[germankitty]

""Sting knows French?" - la_trombonista

(Eh, he's British, France is just across the river, can't be too difficult... -CV)"

I actually saw a show on late-night TV once where Sting and Italian singer Gianna Nannini both performed all kinds of Bert Brecht (he of "The Threepenny Opera" fame) songs ... in German. Apparently they both learned the lyrics phonetically. It was -- unintelligible interesting.

""Where missing socks go." - wrestlingdog, sskipstress, loopychew

(You should check each other's laundry machines. -CV)"

What, you haven't found the miniature Black Hole yet? I swear there used to be one in my son's nursery ...

(Edited to prove that I do, actually, know html.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sting speaks all tongues! Unleash your inner German, Herr Schting!

[cholma.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE FOUR! FOUR LIGHTS ANSWERS!

Muahahahahahaha!
*thunder booms*

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

Count von Count!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Professor Xavier approves of this comment.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

"Wrong universe, but you know what was more indestructible than adamantium? Hulk's pants." - tinamachina

(For which we should all be grateful. -CV)
--------------------------

In the Ultimate Universe, which is an alternate continuity, the Hulk's pants were not indestructible. He was naked. All the time.

And he ate people.

And by eating people, I mean, ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

In prison he would wait. WEEKS. For the chance to eat his nurses.

Imagine, the last thing you see in your life is a ten foot tall naked green man. "HULK HUNGRY!"

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Nekkid Hulk hungers for man-flesh! That's a terrifying thought. It's like he's practicing to be Galactus or something...

[mark-laura.livejournal.com]

Fouraging for quotes!!!!
(lest anyone thinks I'm trying to pull a fast one, that last line of mine is a quote from Interplanet Janet (and yes, you should definitely YouTube that if you don't immediately know what I'm talking about (I know the mods do)))

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Interplanet Janet? I believe she is a galaxy girl. According to her credentials, she has seen all the planets. Every single one.

[kagomeshuko.livejournal.com]

Yay! A quote with a +1 and a "well played."

Now, maybe I would've got more quotate if it weren't for those meddling kids.

Also, just what was in those Scooby snacks and what were Fred and Daphne often doing in that van?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Oh jeepers! The Creeper was really Old Man kagomeshuko!

Or Old Woman, I guess. Eh, close enough.

Mmm, forbidden scooby snacks...

[neumeindil.livejournal.com]

Okay, that theme was outta left field. :/ But I got 3. :D

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a theme has to reach out into the ether and be crazy! And hey, five questions, and the Scoobies are a five-man band, and that's that. I've had worse ideas, really. ;-)