LJ Daily Answers: 22 December 2014

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...ok, I got nothing. We're about forever months late and life has been cheeky and let's see what we have here and maybe 2015 will be better. Sorry everyone...



1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
Like a song of love that clings to me,
How the thought of you does things to me.
Never before
Has someone been more...

"Instead of fun with lyrics, you should have done finish the limerick." - sskipstress

(..."willing to fill my [REDACTED]." How was that? -CV)

"COVERED IN BEES, TANGLED UP IN BLUE, or some other awkward situation." - etcet

"Tracy Lords' hit, 'Laundry Problems.'" - therealchon

"Waiting All Day For Sunday Night." - drbear

"I'M WATCHING YOU by Creepy And the McCreepCreeps" - wrestlingdog

"'Facehugger' by Ripley and the Xenomorphs" - kenshardik

Correct Answer: "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole

"is a song really "unforgettable" when nobody can remember anything but the title and first line of the lyrics?" - germankitty



2. Malcolm X and Captain Kirk take an hour and a half to stop a train. What movie is this?

"Keanu Reeves was under the train the whole time too." - akiyasan

(I think la_trombonista and I agree that that movie was The Train That Couldn't Slow Down. -CV)

"I Choo-Choo-Choose You" - drbear

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"Flakes On A Train" - lots42

"Money Train took an hour and a half to stop hurting, but that's different... but can you imagine Woody Harrelson as Kirk?" - etcet
"When did Woody Harrelson play Captain Kirk?" - grapefruitzzz

"
Which really should have been marketed as a sequel to 'Millionaire's Express'" - ntlespino

"Gridlock'd 2: Electric Boogaloo" - zihuatanejo

"The Little Engine That Could, Didn't" - sskipstress

"The only train movie William Shatner was ever in was 'Disaster on the Coastliner', in which he smoked like a pansy and which was SO bad that only my fangirlyness over The Shat at the time could make me sit through it. It was almost as bad as 'Kingdom of the Spiders', which only 'wins' because of, well, spiders. *shudders*" - germankitty

Correct Answer: "Unstoppable"

"This crap movie had no hope of ending well. Either the good guys fail horrifically or it's boring as the runaway train just slowly comes to a stop. There was literally no other choices for the writer than to end it poorly." - mark_laura

(+1 for truth. -CV)



3. The International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation evolved in 1946 into which organization?

"The Squabble Factory" - primavera

(Oh, that could be any international organization. -CV)

"The World Brain Bank. Where did you think all the flash frozen heads are stored?" - ntlespino

"League of Mad Scientists" - nitasee

("The true purpose of the mad scientist is to do bad things to good people... MIT SCIENCE!" -CV)

"Hydra" - mark_laura, etcet

"Skynet" - akiyasan

"SPECTRE" - kenshardik

"KAOS" - therealchon

"ANONYMOUS" - songquake

"ISIS" - alfvaen, thepikey

"Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" - sskipstress

"The Justice League" - grapefruitzzz

Correct Answer: UNESCO

"Funny thing about the UN: the major offices are prefixed with: UNOG (pronounced "you-nog") is Geneva, UNOV ("you-nawv") is Vienna, etc. Rumor was they were going to open one up in Budapest. They haven't, and I'm not fully convinced it's because they realized people would be saying 'you knob' when referring to it." - loopychew

(As one of the UN's many minions, I can confirm the first half of your sentence. I will neither confirm nor deny the Budapest situation. -CV)



4. What television show was originally billed as Ian Fleming's Solo?

"Solo, Han Solo, Intergalactic man of espionage" - zihuatanejo, thepikey, ntlespino

"James Bond: The Animated Series" - songquake

"Get Smart" - wrestlingdog

(No, the other one. -CV)

"The Man from F.I.R.S.T.C.O.U.S.I.N.F.I.R.S.T.L.O.V.E." - therealchon

(It was a big hit in the South. -CV)

Correct Answer: "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."



5. Mark William Calaway is better known by which stage name?

"Marky Mark" - primavera

"Cab Calloway" - nitasee, songquake

"Selina Kyle. Alfred told Bruce Wayne it was her whip." - lots42

"Trogdor the Burninator." - la_trombonista

"Wells Fargo" - drbear

"Engelbert Humperdinck" - alfvaen

"Captain Underpants" - neumeindil

(One has to wonder about him. I mean, you don't just get to be Captain. You have to work up the ranks. It's quite possible that at one point he was Private Underpants. And that's that. -CV)

"KNEEL BEFORE ZOD." - etcet

Correct Answer: The Undertaker



6. Agent Neville Flynn teaches Detective John Hartigan to be a superhero. What movie is this?

"'Seeing dead people' sounds like a piss-poor superpower. Like, Magneto would waste his sorry ass pretty quick." - thepikey

"Neville Say Neville Again." - drbear

(That was the Chinese-English version. See also Japan's 'You Onry Rive Twice'. -CV)

"'Snakes Die Hard'. Alternatively called 'Snakes in Sin City'" - nitasee

"Pumaman ('He flies like a moron!')" - kenshardik

"The only good one Shyalaman made?" - primavera

(No, that was the other one. -CV)

"UnWatchable. M. Night. Shamalamadingdong stinks on ice." - therealchon

Correct Answer: "Unbreakable"



7. According to the song, where was the Minnow shipwrecked?

(Number of quizlings who had to sing this song to get to this point: 18)
(Number of quizlings who are still singing this song: 2938)

"SKIPPER, SKIPPER, MARY-ANN WAS TAKING BY A SMOKE MONSTER!" - lots42

(+1, Lost. -CV)

"Who gives three hour sea tours to an uncharted desert island? And who couldn't reach an island only three hours away from the mainland?" - kagomeshuko

(I blame Poseidon. -CV)

"Sting, Message in a Bottle. Wait, did I get the questions out of order?" - thepikey

(Close enough. Full credit. -CV)

"Being run aground by the Sloop John B" - grapefruitzzz

"In a castle under the sea." - akiyasan

(Better a castle than a pineapple, is all I'm saying. -CV)

"Did you know that you can sing the vast majority of Emily Dickenson's poetry to the tune of 'Gilligan's Island'? Now you won't be able to think of 'I'm nobody, who are you?' without singing it...MWAHAHAHAHA!!!" - songquake

(Fortunately I am immune to this trap, since I don't know any poetry. BOOYAH! -CV)

"Does anyone actually remember that part of the theme?" - la_trombonista

(The real challenge is whether people remember the lyrics to the closing credits. -CV)

Correct Answer: An "uncharted desert isle"

"which is different than an uncharted aisle, which I'll have to reset at work tomorrow." - neumeindil



8. What was the best-selling novel of the 19th century?

"YOUR OLDE MOTHERE'S ALMANACK OF MANSUITORS, VOL. III (it's the one with the impressive civil war orgy after the battle of gettysburg)" - etcet

"Lose weight quick with this method to churn butter constantly!" - akiyasan

"Appreciable Ankles" - grapefruitzzz

"Twilight" - zihuatanejo

"Footloose: Being a novel of the far future" - alfvaen

"Antionette Banemoon and the Airship Automatons." - drbear

(+1, Questionable Content. -CV)

"The Un-Bible." - loopychew

Correct Answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin



9. What superhero's alter ego was the humble Shoeshine Boy?

"Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, hmm-hmm hmm-hmm rob or plunder.." - primavera

"The Flash, and boy did he make a killing on InstaShine services" - ntlespino

"Trojan Man." - la_trombonista

"Hong Kong Phooey" - kagomeshuko

"The Goddamn Batman" - thepikey

"Joe Pesci." - grapefruitzzz

"Captain Tightpants." - etcet

"You know, Droopy was a better superhero, cause that guy could make a priest take a swing at an orphan." - therealchon

"I thought there already was a doggy superhero (who didn't need to be taught how to be one, either!); her name was Lassie!" - germankitty

Correct Answer: Underdog



10. What was the most unexpected thing that's happened to you lately?

"A new ljdq!" - 19 of you
"...well, new three months ago." - 3 of us
"...well, we're putting up answers now! That's unexpected." - chaosvizier

"I got paid £900 for six days' work (because they included holiday pay and it's a super-fancy summer job but still wtf). I'm going to spend 8% of it on cake and gin." - grapefruitzzz

"I'm buying a new-to-me home." - sskipstress

"I scared a bobcat off the trail I was walking, the scary part is that I had a return trip to make on the same trail and it was invisible in the dune grass as it growled at me." - wheatheart

"A customer refused to be served by me because he 'doesn't trust women.'" - la_trombonista

(...wow. -CV)

"My state ran out of water and no one noticed." - mark_laura

"Kraken Rum. Don't ask." - nitasee



And that's a wrap for the year. Not our finest showing, but maybe better than 2013? And leading up to an awesome 2015? Working on it.

Anyway, Happy Holidays to everyone out there, enjoy, be merry, be cool, stay in school, and tune in next year for the continuing story of a quack who's gone to the dogs. I mean, the quiz.

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL