LJ Daily Answers: 11 August 2014

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

SPACE: THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP QUIZZERPRISE. ITS CONTINUING MISSION: TO EXPLORE STRANGE NEW GINS. TO SEEK OUT NEW JOKES AND OLD USES FOR YOUR MOM. TO BOLDLY STING WHAT NO STING HAS STUNG BEFORE.

1. Dennis Quaid enters Martin Short in which 80's sci-fi comedy?

(People who wrote this question horribly on purpose: chaosvizier

"sweet baby Jesus that's a mental image I don't need at this time of the morning!" - indiana_j and many others

"Little Shop of Buttsex." - cholma

"A Rear and Pleasant Danger" - therealchon

"Suprise Buttsexks II: Electric Boogaloo" - kenshardik

"Fantastic Voyage 2: Electric Bugaloo" - lbmango

"InHisSpace" - grapefruitzzz

"why do so many movies feature weird looking dudes with tiny people inside them from that era? there was this, and honey i shrunk the kids, and.... thank god for tequila dissolving the rest of my memories in that category." - etcet

Correct Answer: Innerspace



2. Jan, Jace, and Blip were all sidekicks for which cartoon character?

"I can't be the only ones who thought Jan and Jace were descendents of Wendy and Marvin, right?" - freezer

"Snagglepuss" - wrestlingdog

"Leisure Suit Larry. This iteration of the game franchise is no longer available in the US, but with proper diligence can be tracked down in certain shops in the Shinjuku." - thepikey

"Those were the little-known precursors to Pinky that Brain actually did kill." - love2loveher

"Zorak. Well, they were actually Zorak's sidekick's sidekicks. But by the transitive property of sidekicks..." - lbmango

"I so need those power gauntlets during Chamber of Commerce meetings ..." - therealchon

"Tad Eustice Ghostal" - cholma

(+1, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. -CV)

"I travel through space with two teenagers and a monkey. But it's OK because we all wear masks and... what do you mean, I'm under arrest?" - kenshardik

Correct Answer: Space Ghost



3. Isaac Clarke is the main character in which video game series?

"Have I mentioned I haven't followed a video game plot since Super Mario Brothers?" - love2loveher

(...there was a plot? -CV)

"Wreck-It Ralph" - wrestlingdog

(Then it would be Wreck-It Isaac, right? -CV)

"And the bad guy was named Arthur C. Heinlein? Robert Asimov?" - alfvaen
"This is some old Arthur C. Clarke / Isaac Asimov slash fiction, isn't it. You wrote it out on an IBM Selectric, didn't you Hans? Didn't you?" - thepikey

(Actually, that is exactly how the character was named. -CV)

"I only play Angry Birds, Candy Crush, and Minesweeper. By the way, did you know that the Windows 8 version of Minesweeper has a roguelike mode?" - la_trombonista

(...I did not know that. I might have to explore that option. -CV)

"Asteroids. Most people don't know that the little triangle's pilot had a name." - lbmango

"Pac-Man. That's the name of the guy who was generically engineered into a big mouth thing that thrives on pellets and is afraid of ghosts. It's kinda fucked up." - kenshardik

"Epic Mickey" - neumeindil

"First-Person Horror Shooter Pretending It's Not A Doom Clone #231243." - freezer

Correct Answer: Dead Space



4. ^H or Ctrl-H was the control code to indicate what keyboard function?

"Adding 'huh-huh, you said...' to any sentence." - drbear

"Opens the com link to the Helm" - neumeindil

"Release the Hounds" - wrestlingdog

"Argh, argh, don't do that! Why has it gone weird?" - grapefruitzzz

"" - germankitty

"Better to type it right the first^H^H^H^H^Hsecond time." - n5iln

Correct Answer: Backspace



5. What Games Workshop board game pits a team of Space Marine Terminators against a Genestealer horde on a derelict spaceship?

"Firefly" - wrestlingdog, love2loveher

"Awful Green Things From Outer Space." - alfvaen

"I'm picturing Mutant Turtles that have been Borgified. Pizza anyone?" - akiyasan

"" - lbmango

"" - germankitty

"Not At All Like 'Alien'." - grapefruitzzz

Correct Answer: Space Hulk



6. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
We touch I feel a rush
We clutch it isn't much
But it's enough to make me wonder what's in store for us
It's lust, it's torturous

"When Rhyming Dictionaries Attack" - drbear

"No lie, I thought the word 'clitoris' was in there somewhere." - wrestlingdog

"Someone's love affair with a manual transmission in 'name your special car here'" - akiyasan

"My First BDSM Primer? I Can Count to Fifty Shades of Gray?" - thepikey

"lyrics question = Sting. Sting + Space = Dune reference. Therefore the artist is Toto." - lbmango

"wow, i have no fucking idea. sting was in dune, but that's the only time he was in space, so that means this is THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED MUA'DIB." - etcet

Correct Answer: "Space Bound" by Eminem



7. A red stapler is mentioned repeatedly in which 1999 film?

"Anyone who googles the answer to this question is going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison." - la_trombonista

(Are there non-asspounding prisons? -CV)

"ROSEBUD II: THE OFFICE SUPPLYING" - etcet

"Lilo and Bostitch" - drbear

"Oh yes, I went there. *mine is an evil laugh*" - wrestlingdog

"One Red Paperclip: The Movie." - alfvaen

"Yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in this weekend and re-do this quiz. That'd be great." - kenshardik

"The only thing I like about that movie is the death of the fax machine." - neumeindil

Correct Answer: Office Space



8. Fran, Danny, Roy, and Baxter the Clown were all characters from which children's show?

"Clowns scare me. Especially ones called 'gentle' clowns. Are other clowns not gentle...?" - indiana_j

(There are no gentle clowns. -CV)

"More 80's references. Did you step into the WABAC machine for this week's quiz, or has gin-fueled dementia finally settled in?" - thepikey

(Hey, I'm a child of the 80's. Those were good days, man. -CV)

"Stephen King's 'It.'" - therealchon

(We all float in space... -CV)

"Was Baxter the precursor to Dexter?" - akiyasan

(Dexter realized that garish makeup did not make him a good serial killer. -CV)

"And I thought 'H.R. Pufnstuf' was weird..." - n5iln

(You thought correctly. -CV)

"" - germankitty

Correct Answer: The Great Space Coaster

"GET ON BOARD, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" - etcet
"I KNEW I DIDN'T MAKE THAT UP IN MY HEAD! TAKE THAT, MOM!" - freezer



9. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
I told you 'bout living in the U.S. of A.
Don't you know that I'm a gangster of love
Let me tell you people that I found a new way
And I'm tired of all this talk about love

"I am obscurely resentful that I already blew my load with THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED MUA'DIB on question six. i'm still confident that the answer isn't sting, though." - etcet

"What would a 'love gangster' really be like? 'Make him an offer he can't refuse. Tonight, he sleeps with the triplets.'" - thepikey

"Space Cowboys by Tommy Lee Jones, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, & Donald Sutherland" - cholma

"Spare the horse, ride the cowboy -- in space!" - germankitty

"Space Heater of Love (Love) by Can't Do Rhymes Properly" - grapefruitzzz

"Space Cowboy, the greatest song The Greatful Dead never recorded." - freezer

"Pampatus is evidently not the same thing as pamplemousse, which I found out when I ordered pampatus juice in a restaurant. Still pretty tasty though." - lbmango

"Isn't this called 'The Joker'?" - la_trombonista

(That's the other song, by the same band, which seems like it should be this song but isn't. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Space Cowboy" by the Steve Miller Band



10. If you were travelling through the universe, what spacefaring vessel (I'd say real or fictional, but let's assume fictional) would you use? Why?

"A unicorn. A unicorn that could breath in space because otherwise you'd be riding a dead unicorn and that's just depressing." - indiana_j

"A '57 Chevy. Lousy life-support systems but cooler than anything else." - drbear

"The alien ship from Life Of Brian. Because I'm a lucky bastard." - wrestlingdog

"Serenity. Shiny!" - kenshardik, n5iln
"True, it's got no flash, but some folks ain't lookin' for flash." - neumeindil

"The TARDIS, because, much like your mother, it's bigger on the inside." - etcet

"Maybe one of those big tree-ships from the Hyperion books. Either that or the Heart of Gold, because randomness." - alfvaen

"Don't judge me." - thepikey



And there you have it. All the quiz we can fit in a single space. Share and enjoy! And tune in next time for more quizly goodness, because that's what we do. In space.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Four. That's four more than I thought I'd get, so I'm pleased. :)

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Four is enough to make you happy? Pleased, even?

Well.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I'd be pleased with four. Per night. Quite pleased, even.

[germankitty]

It's not so much the number per se, it's about getting quotage at all this week -- I've rarely been less hopeful. So yeah, four pleased me even if it was out of a double-length quiz!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

FOUR BIG QUOTES! HAH-HAH-HAAAA!

[germankitty]

Egg-zackly!

[wrestlingdog.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, I got 6 quotes! And I think the Life of Brian reference in the last question is mine, too.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It is! And it's fixed now! Kick ass!

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Personal record!

But how did I not get the logic renunciation award for that first lyrics question?

The fact that I WANT the logic renunciation award is probably a sign of ... something.

I Bless The Rains Down in AAAAAAFRICAAAAAA

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It is logically questionable, but then I saw Toto, and "Africa" started playing in my head, and it's just such a feel good fun song and anything else was lost.

[akiyasan.livejournal.com]

#5: I think I'm the [Unknown LJ Tag]. At least I'm trying to remember what I answered but it sounds familiar.

In space, no one can hear you because they're too busy messing around and playing shenanigans.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

You were unknown. Now you have achieved knowingness. Also, shenanigans.

[neumeindil.livejournal.com]

Proud of my 4, but sometimes it's a little startling to see how deep my geek really goes...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There's a "six inches deep" joke that's waiting to be made here, but I'm sure I'm way too classy for that. So instead I'll give you the correct response:

FOUR! FOUR DELICIOUS QUOTES! AH-HAH-HAAAAH!

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

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[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That's four times the loving! HAWT!

[(Anonymous)]

But where are all the new quizzes?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

In the movie, the Heart of Gold briefly turned into Douglas Adam's head.

And isn't that just fucking awesome?

[kenshardik]

Did I miss a memo? I haven't seen a new quiz in ages.