LJ Daily Answers: 18 July 2005

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone!!

*crickets*

*more crickets*

Ahh, I see attendance is down this morning. We suppose you are all in bed, sleeping off your Harry Potter reading frenzies. Well, when you wake up, the Quiz will be here for you.

"By the by, there's a new mother-daughter team in the ranks of quizlings! I convinced my mom (themommage) to make an LJ just so she could play LJDQ. Congratulations; this addiction has threatened the sanctity of my "OMGZ DON'T TELL MOTHER!" stories in my journal." - rivetkitten

We believe LJDQ is all about family. As long as your family drinks a lot and has a pantry stocked with pudding.



1. What do Los Del Rio, Right Said Fred, Vanilla Ice, and Dexys Midnight Runners all have in common?

"The letter 'I'." - bnh

"They're all playing at the Iowa State Fair this August. Don't miss the excitement!" - the_pikey

"They all sound like things you shouldn't use continually without your doctor's advice." - kiffany

"When combined, their names are an anagram for 'Good advice might frailly stir exiled ladies' hinds, Snr. Runner.'" - napier

"I'm going to say they're all the suspects for the London bombings. Especially Los Del Rio." - setting_sun

"I'd like to apologise on behalf of my fellow Brits. Yes, they were all number one in the sale chart, but we do have some musical merit! We gave the world the Beatles, the Stones, Coldplay, Blur, the Undertones and the Divine Comedy. And yet, all we'll ever be remembered for is our bizzare fondness for the novelty single.... it's so embarrasing!" - littlemoose

(We're all to blame for these bands. Don't heap all the recrimination upon your fair isles. -AL)

"They are all bands who have never been in my kitchen." - corax_onyx, lusciousmango, lydiabell

"you're committing some kind of musical felony putting them all in the same sentance." - caseypuffy

"an ability to get drunk as hell Oxford students on the dancefloor quicker than...well, a very quick thing. Certainly quicker than we run when late for tutorials." - jess_strasbourg

"I'm thinking the word 'wonder' means 'I wonder why the hell people wanted to listen to this shit.'" - dorei

(dorei cuts right to the heart of the mystery. -AL)

"In Soviet Russia, wonders hit YOU!" - chlaal

"I like those songs, and have two of them on my playlist. Right Said Fred is not too sexy for my playlist, too sexy for my playlist, yes way i'm going to listen..." - baguette_fiend

"I think they were all too sexy for their careers" - fullmetalkatu

"I have tattoos for all of them" - ashayne

(+1 to be awarded upon submittal of proof. -AL&CV)

"I have heard drunken idiots blather out their songs at midnight karaoke. I much prefer hearing Negativland or TMBG, but try telling that to the DJ at Lucky's. This is the reason why I got into music. Because now I am the drunken idiot with the microphone, but if I don't want to hear myself I can just ask them to turn down my monitor." - altoidsaddict

"Oh dear. I thought I watched enough VH1, but since I cannot come up with this answer, my VH1 viewing is obviously not sufficient. Wait, they were all on the One Hit Wonders show!" - i_am_that_is

Correct Answer: They were all on VH-1's top ten list of one-hit wonders.

"One hit wonder twin powers, ACTIVATE!" - feste



2. Since their founding in 1883, how many times have the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series?

"naming a sports team after lady horses isnt very intimidating." - allieg

"They couldn't even be bothered to come up with a name - all they did was use their city's name. That would be like the New York New Yorkers, or the Boston Bostonians, or the Detroit Shitholes." - gruyere

"Why not just call themselves the Philadelphia Cheesesteaks or something." - alliterator

(Yeah, because the Cheesesteak is an image redolent with associations of athletic prowess.



GREAT idea! -AL)

"Are baseball teams really founded? I always figured some guy got drunk and said, 'Dudes, we should totally play baseball,' and all his drunk friends said 'yeah!' and then they woke up the next morning with no pants. That's how I got my soccer team, and I thought the process was basically the same." - chash

"And can someone please explain what LSD-crazed freak came up with their mascot? Sid Kroft?" - kenshardik



(Yeah, he's a bit out there. -AL)

"Phillies winning the World Series? Hahahah. Oh how you amuse me..." - abbybba

(Not only did it happen, but I was THERE. I was six years old, & I had the chicken pox, but I was there to see it. -AL)

"The Philadelphia Phillies aren’t just a story that mothers use to scare their little leaguers?" - corbaewench

"This has to be a trick question. Who has ever heard of baseball in hockey town?" - akiyasan

(My hatred of the Flyers may blind me, but I submit that Philadelphia is a football town. -AL)

"Why is it called the World Series? ONE country..." - gaaak

(Look, we tried to have international competitions, but the International Olympic Committee announced last week that baseball & softball are being dropped from the 2012 Summer Games. So fine - if no-one else wants to play, we'll just play by ourselves. -AL)

"Probably as many times as I have cleaned the garage." - barwench23235

"This question makes me feel like the underachiever I am. If cream cheese can win a world series, surely I can get a pay raise." - szellem

"You know, boys, sometimes there are people not interested in your testosterone-filled sporting contests." - calico321

(Careful with your stereotypes there, young Quizling. I wrote that question, & I'm a girl. -AL)

"No idea, but I do know that America's won the World Series every year. I mean, DAMN." - princesskraehe

(Not true. The Blue Jays are from Toronto... -AL)

"I remember watching with glee when their 'wonderful' closer blew a seven or eight run lead and then lost to the Jays back in..'93? Yes, '93. I laughed at them. How in the hell do you blow a seven run lead when you need just three outs???? That should have been the question!" - halo4

(God, I remember that too. I was watching the game with kikimoose, a Blue Jays fan. It was ... so ... gah ... erk *reaches for hard liquor* -AL)

"And here we see clinching proof that angledge is a Philadelphian--only Philadelphians are that depressed about the answer to this. Once. Just once. In fact, no Philadelphia sports team of any sort has won any major contest for some twenty years, which according to my friends and colleagues at Penn, is akin to the eighty-year wait for the Red Sox. Four major teams times twenty years is the same as one major team times eighty years, right? Right?" - scifantasy

(Damn right I'm a Philadelphian. -AL)

(And it's been 25 years. -AL)

Correct Answer: Once



3. What is the popular name of the X-Prize winning craft officially known as "Scaled Composites Model 316"?

"Is this like a Trekie thing or something?" - shadowkeeper

(Noo, this question come from the fandom known as Real Life. -AL)

"X-prize? Like X-mas? A secularized Christ-prize? Might it be one large, shiny crucifix? Or perhaps an authentic, gold-plated Roman nail?" - hippiedancer

"SCM 3:16 says I just went to space on your ass *stunner*" - tarpo

"what is an x-prize? it sounds dirty... but then ive never heard a male refer to his you know as 'Scaled Composites Model 316' so I'm probably on the wrong track" - allieg

"You got your X-Prize in my Scaled Composite Model 316! You got your Scaled Composite Model 316 in my X-Prize! Hey, actually, this tastes - DEAR GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY." - alliterator

"Richard Branson's latest business flop." - arib

(You can't call it a flop yet. Right now it's still a "long-term business gamble". -AL)

"Spaceship One, built with money provided by that guy Branson(?) who Mel Gibson played in that movie where his son was kidnapped. I don't think Branson's son was ever kidnapped in real life, but I could be wrong. I bet Branson wishes he were really married to Rene Russo though. I know I do." - chlaal

"SpaceShip MS-One. Unfortunately, though it flew fine in demos, as soon as you get it for yourself it'll fly for the first five minutes then crash horribly. (Really. For all the jokes about Microsoft making cars, Paul Allen backs a spaceship and nobody says a word?)" - scifantasy

(The only time he touched any part of it is when he autographed the cockpit. -AL)

"SpaceShip One. Which makes you wonder... why? Just because it was the first privately owned craft? It's not like that's the first man-made craft to hit space. Does government scientists not count as humans? Is there no love for NASA?" - silmaril

"AKA In Your FACE NASA!" - grayhawkfh

"The Rocket Lizard." - potassiumman

"You're Going To Kill Yourself In That Thing, Dumbass." - soimpossible414

"SpaceShipOne. I'm still disappointed by this. What kind of self-respecting rocket scientist geek doesn't name his space ship Enterprise? Or at least Discovery, even if the computer doesn't talk?" - deza

(Both of those names have already been used by the space shuttle program. Yes, BOTH - the original glider shuttle is named Enterprise. -AL)

"Also known as 'Get it out of the garage before I divorce you and take the kids.'" - harleenquinzell

"When Billionaire's Get Bored of Ferraris" - zihuatanejo

"Does anyone else think it looks like a big lawn dart?" - wundermommy

(It is kind of sharp & pointy.

-AL)

Correct Answer: SpaceShipOne.

"Spaceship Two will come with cupholders and leather upholstery." - cmzero



4. What is the value of sine at pi/2 radians?

"Argh! Argh! Noooo! Ahhhhhhh! Maths! Aieeeeeeeeee! Dead. I am dead." - kiffany, speaking for many of you. How we love to torment the Quizlings with math.

"Um, I was told there would be no math questions on the LJDQ." - sweetpea86

(Well then, somebody lied to you. -AL)

"I don't speak calculator." - meepbitch

"6.02 x 10^23." - lusciousmango

(Nice try, Mr. Avogadro. -CV)

"I spent most maths lessons talking doing impressions of Taz and giving my friend Paul Young a dead arm, so I'm going to say 8." - setting_sun

"Oooh, we just learned this in math this year! Or, I think we did. We learned something about sine killing itself with a bottle of cyanide, after pi turned into a little whore and went off with 2 for some sw34t numerical ugly bumpin'. Not that Radians made it any better by turning them all into pixie sniffers. Damn those punks, no regard for their future at all. So, just remember kids, only YOU can prevent a forest fire!" - mistyraven

"Who puts radians in pie?" - lynbug

"I do vaguely radians being a setting on my scientific calculator that gave you really fucked up results to the most ordinary of sums. But beyond that..maths was a long time ago." - jess_strasbourg

"Bwahaha, I win! With the trick question in last week's LJDQ, and the apparent simplicity of this question, my finely honed senses were triggered and I proceeded to announce 'IT'S A TRAP!' in true Admiral Ackbar fashion. I didn't know if calculators would be as not allowed as Googling and all that is, so after thinking I remembered the true answer - zero! TAKE THAT." - lord_of_evil

"I am shamed to say that my knowledge of geometry does not allow me to say 'one', only my knowledge of this week's theme." - dslartoo

"Sine sine cosine sine!
Three point one four one five nine!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MATH!" - palmer_kun

(If math needed cheerleaders, you'd be in a skirt right now. -CV)

"sin(pi/2) = 1, and I won't let myself go on a humourous tangent here." - master_flea

((AHH MATH PUN KILL IT -AL) Nice one. +1. -CV)

"1!!1111!!!!" - katzies

"()|\|3" - hellpaladin2183

"Interestingly, if had wanted to truly geek out, you could have asked what the limit of sin(x)/x as it goes to 0 is, as that too is 1. It's fairly simple to prove, too, using L'Hospital's rule. I'll leave that as an exercise to the readers." - tzeentch

(I'd say that's sufficient to warrant the Geek of the Week Award. Although you should have said L'Hôpital to be proper. -CV)

(Agreed. tzeentch, here's your -1. -AL)

"Sine at pi/2 radians can also be expressed through the dangle algorithm, wherein the angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat." - the_reject

(sskipstress is here to help everyone who's forgotten all their trigonometry:)

"Because I couldn't remember the formula for sine using opposite, hypotenuse, and adjacent, I got out my pen and drew a circle. I drew a radius on the circle from the center to the right side, to make things easy I made this radius 1 unit long so I can work with straight values instead of ratios of circumference to radians. The point where this radius intersects the circumference is 0 and 2π on the x axis of a sine wave. The point opposite this one is π. Because the value of x increases in a counter-clockwise direction around this circle, π/2 is at the top of the circle. This point is a full radius away from the x-axis, so the sine of π/2 radians is 1." - sskipstress

"Damn, why couldn't my math tests in college have been this easy? Every answer is "one"! That long calculus problem that takes an hour to complete? One! That Fourier wave analysis? One! The answer to life, the universe, and everything? One!" - cmzero

Most Popular Answer: "Mmm... pi..." - about half of you.

Correct Answer: One



5. Who does Morpheus think Thomas A. Anderson really is?

"If it's not about Monica Bellucci's hot outfit then I don't care." - setting_sun

(I went to see Revolutions in IMAX format. Monica's chest staring out at me in titanic digitalized glory was one of the high points of my movie-watching career. -CV)

"it is later revealed that he is really The One Who Will Generate Enough Revenue To Make Larry Wachowski Into Linda Wachowski (true story, i swear)" - meepbitch

(Buh? What? One of the Wachowski Brothers became a sister? -AL)

"The One Worst Actor in the Universe" - ajmcoqui

(You are forgetting all the pr0n actors out there. -AL)

"SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!" - bubosquared

(+1, The Tick. -CV)

"The One, but I think he was just referring to Keanu Reeve's One Facial Expression he has throughout all three movies (and, in fact, all movies in the Keanu Reeves ouvre, except for the Bill and Ted Dualogy)." - alliterator

"Almost the same thing the Jedi Council thought Anakin Skywalker really is, except for the 'Chosen' bit. What we call 'Thinly-veiled Messiah figure' in the business." - silmaril

"A big nerd who really needs to move out of his parent's basement." - krick

"The one who killed his father. Unfortunately, he soon finds out that Neo IS HIS FATHER!! NOOOOOOOOO!" - ospreydreams

"The one who should pay the pizza guy." - psychoticspy

"Bill. Or was it Ted?" - daunzerly

(It was Ted. +1, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. -AL)

"Morpheus' sunglasses from the first movie really annoy me. Seriously." - shuyobob

(... Okay. -AL)

"chaosvizier?" - corbaewench

(While CV is pretty amazing, he knows karate not kung fu & AFAIK he can't dodge bullets. So, no. -AL)

"The guy who invented the light bulb." - drbear

"Thomas A Anderson is the love child of Thomas Alva Edison, , the inventor of the light bulb, and Pamela Denise Anderson, Baywatch Babe." - sskipstress

"Mister Anderson is The One. Neo. With the power to alter the Matrix as he sees fit and all. Of course, with all that power, he still couldn't stop Revolutions from sucking." - evil_genius_man

"side note: how many 'Matrix' films SHOULD they have made? That's right, they should have stopped at one" - dslartoo

"Oh please, the Chosen One. As if. Sci-fi movies ALWAYS have a Chosen One, and it's almost always a boy (except for Buffy! yay Buffy!). Someone should get Frodo, Harry Potter, Neo, Anakin, and Ender together in a room, and let them fight it out to decide who's the real Chosen One. I can see it now -- "Five boys enter, only one will leave!" Except all they would really do is sit around whining to each other about how haaaaaaaard it is to be the Chosen One, so that wouldn't make very good TV. It would probably wind up on C-Span, which is really pretty sad." - chlaal

Correct Answer: The One

"he's wrong because it's Jet Li" - tofusquirrel



6. Give us one example of how you're celebrating the first year of the LJDQ this weekend.

"I will be celebrating by performing the Ceremonial Buying of HBP. Then, there will be the Ceremonial Reading of HBP, and afterwards I will conclude my ceremony by performing the Sacred Squeeing on LJ About HBP." - kiffany

(Note to self: next year, don't schedule anniversary to coincide with Harry Potter release. -CV)

(You all seem quite excited for the new book. -AL)

"Tripping small children running around the bookstore, while sneaking nips from a hip flask. Just call me Mad-eye Moody." - lyzz13

(OK, maybe not you. -AL)

"I only just joined so I'm not sure I'm eligible to celebrate." - setting_sun

(Pish! The more celebrants the better. -AL)

"We're drinking cocktails while we read the new Harry Potter, fan ourselves with our new fans and recline regally in my mother's fantastic and gorgeous garden. We will drink Pimms. We will toast the Pimms to everything, eventually, considering the fact that we're students, it's the summer and the more Pimms you drink the more you feel like toasting everything. Including the dog, flagstones, those little drink-stirrer jobbies, fit men wearing shorts, the colour green, London, and the list goes on. We will celebrate everything. Yay. :D" - ewacat

(I once drank enough Pimms to convince myself that I could talk to spiders. Like whoah. -AL)

"I will drink one shot of Jack Daniels in it's honor. Then one shot of MacAllan. Then one shot of Captain Morgans. Then one shot of whatever the hell else is in the liquor cabinet. (Except Tequila. Tequila and I don't like each other. Almost as much as Southern Comfort & I don't like each other)" - grayhawkfh

"Taking an Emergency Vehicle Operations Class. Look out, Virginia!" - lusciousmango

"I have to work. I could erase the 'motivational messages' they put on the whiteboard in the breakroom and put up random questions!" - i_am_that_is

"I am sculpting an image of our illustrious quizmaster and quizmistress out of pudding and then wandering out into the desert (or is that dessert) looking for the LJDQ mothership." - corax_onyx

("This ... this MEANS something!" -AL)

(+1, Close Encounters with the Third Kind. -CV)

"The first year is the paper anniversary, so I will be going to a pub where I will exchange special kinds of paper for beer." - altoidsaddict

"Doing my first quiz! Oh the madness." - bnh

(Lots of newbies this week. Welcome one & all! -AL)

"Well, even though I just joined the community today, I suppose I could celebrate by going to Miami, getting totally drunk and yelling 'Long Live LJDQ' through the streets of South Beach. I mean, I was headed down there anyway, so why not add some yelling in the mix." - sariah8

"seeings as my ankle has been broken in three places and i'm currently confined not just to my home, but to only the main floor of my home, i'll be making some food, watching a movie, and going to bed early. can't drink thanks to the percocet, can't smoke thanks to the dilaudid, so i'll just take both my painkillers at once and get really really high in your honor, ok?" - nakedblueninja

(Sounds good. Can we sign your cast? -AL&CV)

"Googling back quizzes and eating a shot of pudding for every time I smack my forehead and say, 'Dammit! I KNEW that!' and a shot of an adult beverage every time I finally find the perfect-albeit belated-witty response." - zihuatanejo

"Cigarettes and whisky and wild, wild women, like everyone else. I hope there's enough wild, wild women to go round. Or else enough whisky for it not to matter. Failing that, a bloody big cake with one candle on the top. And some jelly and ice-cream. Mmm. Cake." - phoebesmum

"The most appropriate way would be a one night stand. It has a lot in common with taking the LJDQ. You look forward to one, you have a lot of fun doing it, and then you feel cold and emotionally void until the next one comes around. My life is so empty." - kenshardik

"put up the LJDQ Shrub, sing some carols and sacrifice a baby ocelot to the BBQ gods." - tarpo

"Pikey: You go down in the fourth pub. I wanna hear you say it.
Liver: I go down in the fourth pub.
Pikey: You may feel a little sting - that's cirrhosis, fuckin' with you. I say, FUCK CIRRHOSIS.
Liver: Fuck cirrhosis." - the_pikey

(THAT'S my boy! -AL)

"A pool party at sweetpea86's house." - barwench23235

(At least three people mentioned this. I hope you have at least one round in honor of the Quiz. -AL)

"streaking the national football game being played here with nothing but the letters LJDQ written on my back for protection." - gnomeangel

"With one bottle of rum, one roommate, and unfortunately only one liver (well, two livers between my roommate and I, but one of them is faulty so it doesn't count). We would have made it gin in honour of our Quizmasters, but drinking rum is just too much fun. 'Arrr, ye scum-swigging scalliwag, pass the swill thisaway or it's the plank and ol' Davey Jone's locker for ye, arrr!'" - nolseygnu

(Rum is fine. We don't always drink gin. -CV&AL)

"I'm going to go out and look for work. The world stops for no man. Although sometimes I wish it did. Actually, in memory of the LJDQ's first year, I'm going to fill out all my job applications with random trivia. Like, 'Name: Did you know the mahi mahi is also called the Hawaiian dolphin fish?' and 'Social Security Number: Did you know that the Great White Fleet were sixteen Atlantic Fleet battleships that sailed around the world under the commands of Rear Admiral Robley Evans and Rear Admiral Charles Sperry from 1907-1909?' That's keeping the LJDQ spirit alive!" - alliterator

"I plan to hit chiaroscuro_dc, drink lots of soda and water (since I am all kinds of sober now), dance my butt off, and probably show people my underwear. I wonder if I have enough time to sew something nifty and ljdq themed on to them before Saturday night...." - dv8dragonfly

"I plan to light some candles, sit on the front porch, open a mini bottle of Mumm's and toast you guys at 8:00 pm on the 15th. Here's to you the LJDQ may your next year be just as saucy and fun as the first. (As much as I drink, who knows what will happen then!)" - csflick

Correct Answer: Drinking. Obviously. Unless your underage, in which case it would be Drinking Discreetly.

Well, it's been a great year, people. Who knew that AL's efforts to avoid her dissertation & CV's efforts to avoid his work would grow into ... this! Keep our example in mind if ever anyone tries to tell you that procrastination serves no purpose. A big round of thanks to those who turned up to the Pub Crawls, & PLEASE post photos!

Rock on,

AL&CV.

Comments

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

(+1, The Tick. -CV)

Yay! Claerly I need to put my mind into "random association" mode while answering the quiz, from now on. I'll either get +1, or the Total Gibberish award.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Only partially random. The Matrix -> "There is no spoon" -> "SPOOOOOON!" -> The Tick. Perfectly logical.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

For once, yes. Normally there's way more steps in my thought process than that. I'd had either too much coffee, or not enough, I think.