LJ Daily Answers: 25 July 2005

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And for no other reason than it is the month of July, this week's theme is things that sort of resemble July. That's right, we can be ambiguous if we want to.

"Which reminds me, thanks for not including Jewel as an answer." - hitferret

You're welcome.

"I don't have time to play, but I can tell you one good thing about PTRP: I have pudding EVERY MEAL. I mean, it tastes like shit, but dude... PUDDING." - shinga

Hey everyone, a shout-out to Quizling shinga, our representative at Army boot camp. They should promote her immediately for coming up with the first good recruiting strategy we've heard from the military in a while: "Join Up! WE'VE GOT PUDDING!"



1. In physics, "work done to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre" is measured in what?

"I don't want to have anything to do with work, thanks." - gaaak

'Whoa, whoa, whoa! Last week it was math and now it's physics? You are truly sick, sick, evil people." - hthottie

'I got my school report today. A D in Physics. You're just rubbing salt into the wound." - puredeadthingy

"I can't think of anything clever except Star Wars, and Use The Force Luke has been over-used like a ten cent hooker." - maggiebloome

"Figs" - Several of you. This isn't some cookie-cutter question here, folks.
"Wait...are they Fig Newtons or Apple Newtons?" - sweetpea86

"Monkeys.. which is what I had my brother convinced was inside a fig newton as a kid.. which oddly is a recurring theme now since my GFs little girl refuses to eat the chocolate side of a Black and White cookie because I have her convinced its monkey poo." - tarpo

"why is it metre instead of meter?" - ANONYMOUS

(I wanted the British to feel all welcome and shit. -CV)

"A little-known unit called the millishove." - active_apathy

"Masturbation strokes." - lots42

(I think you might be overestimating your yardstick, if you know what I'm sayin'. -CV)

"all the physics work I've ever done has been measured in Stress, Swearing, Panic, Commiseration, and Last-Minute Visits to the Tutorial Center." - kamalloy

"when I took physics in high school, my teacher used a black walking stick topped with a skull to teach, in the manner that a normal teacher would use a yardstick, to point things out, etc. He said he found it in someone else's trash and was afraid to throw it out, because he thought there was a voodoo curse on it." - norrinator

"I always liked moles. Because they were "Rams in grams". And to me that meant shapeshifting animals. In fact my science textbook had a picture of mole turning into a sheep. I guess in the inbetween stage, they'd be a meep." - liseuse

"I hope to God that it's measured in joules or else the incredibly funny vision of Jules Winfield from Pulp Fiction that is currently in my brain wouldn't be as funny...'if you don't move your ass one meter, I'm going to go off like the guns of the Navarrone...'" - halo4

"for some strange reason this question reminded me of the family jewels and I spent several moments trying to figure out where I came up with a sexual connection." - wolffepsyche

(It's just not a good quiz answer unless someone gets sexual with it. Good job. -CV)

"I'm sorry, I don't have it in me to make lame puns like 'Kill a joule' or talk about 'joule thieves'." - ingole

(For which AL is eternally grateful. -CV)

"They were originally going to call the units "Vernes" but decided it sounded silly and besides the author knew nothing of physics -- he wrote science fiction, not science fact!" - darkeros

Correct Answer: Joules

"I must say, though, my favorite unit is the barn, so named because it's "as big as a barn", with the value of 10^-28 m^2." - ataralas

(Is having a "favorite" unit enough to earn the GotW Award? -AL)

(I think having a "favorite" unit is disturbing, but I will grant that it's worth a full i^2 points and the Geek Of The Week award. -CV)



2. And now, more cooking with the LJDQ! What does this recipe make?
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups water (branch water is ideal)
Fresh Mint
Crushed Ice
Kentucky Bourbon (2 ounces per serving)
Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water together for 5 minutes; cool. Place in a covered container with 6 or 8 bruised mint sprigs. Refrigerate overnight.
Fill a glass with crushed ice, then add 1 tablespoon of syrup and 2 ounces of bourbon. Stir rapidly with a spoon to frost outside of cup or glass. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig.

"You had me at 'Kentucky Burbon'. *sniffle*" - smittenrosebud

(+1, Jerry Maguire. Almost. -CV)

"That recipe makes people drunk. You should ban it immediately! It could lead to all sorts of mayhem! And that simply cannot be." - ewacat

"An evening of dancing on the tables with a lampshade on one's head." - weill

(Oh, that could be anything. -CV)

"What the heck is branch water? Do you mean sap, as in tree sap. Not the Oh-you-effing-idiot sort of sap." = greenhoodloxley

("Branch water" is water from a stream. Or so says dictionary.com. -AL)

"I'm not sure what a bruised mint sprig is..." - compwizrd
"'Hey, Mint Sprig, c'mere...' *PUNCH* And that is how you make a bruised mint sprig." - puredeadthingy
"Do I need to call social services?" - dreamoflight

"do I detect a hint of Minty Freshness?" - dubh_ceol

(+1, Shrek. -CV)

"The only two things I can think of that would fit the theme are Caesar Salad and Orange Julius, both of which I've had and neither of which involved, but both of which would be greatly improved by, bourbon." - deltashade

"No idea, but it needs more cowbell mint" - profsparky

"Julian fries!" - szellem

"Breakfast!" - moodybear, tall_man

'Excellent low-grade methamphetamine. The mint garnish throws off the police dogs." - altoidsaddict

"Mint Bourbacino, new from Starbucks! get yours today." - dawntreader90

"Syrup? Drunk syrup? Southern drunk syrup? Gay, drunk, southern syrup?" - zanmistoffelees
"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy taught me that this was a Mint Julep." - maskofsmiles

(I'm pretty sure this is a sterling example of irony. -CV)

"who knew they were so time consuming to make. If I want alcohol, I want it now!" - badgerbabe
"What ever happened to drinking straight out of the bottle?" - wednesday_10_00

(I'm in total agreement with both of you. Probably explains why I've never had one. -CV)

(You could drink something else while making these, you know. -AL)

"Why would I want to drink a minty jew lip?" - sskipstress

"Is it sad that I know this is a mint julep because of Star Trek? I think it is. Although it might be sadder if anyone else can recognize what I mean by that comment." - pocketmouse

(Here are some of your sad friends: dataangel, marcyleecorgan, sarekofvulcan, avron, chlaal, and psychoticspy. Oh, and I suppose me too. -CV)

"the only drink that by law requires you to be a) over sixty, b) wearing a crisp, white linen suit, and c) the current owner of a run down (preferably haunted) mansion in a swamp in Louisiana in order to drink it. It also doesn’t hurt to talk like Foghorn Leghorn." - siinik

"Not the mint julep that would be purchased at Churchill Downs. After standing in a long line in the Kentucky sun, you'd be given a cup filled with bourbon and Mint Julip Mix over ice. It's really not that romantic. But it's alcohol." - hitferret

Correct Answer: Mint Julep

"For those too impatient to wait overnight, you can make this drink by pouring the Bourbon on a bowl of Lucky Charms. It’s a good thing." - slickrickt



3. Who played a singing Austrian nun-in-training and a singing British supernanny, both technically named Mary?

"I'm dating a Supernanny, I'll go ask her.
...
chaosvizier, she said we're total geeks." - fizrep

(Well, duh. -CV)

"The first thing I thought of was the Flying Nun, which would apply to both the "nun" part of the first and the "super" part of the second. Supernun, from the planet Rapture, here to protect the world from Martin "Hex" Luther!" - deltashade

"The only Austrian I know (and not that I know him personally) is the Governator. Picturing him dressed as a nun is kind of funny, no?" - szellem

(Picturing him on the cross is even funnier. "Hey, Pontius Pilate... I'll be back!" -CV)

"I wish I could sing like an Austrian nun. It seems to bring them lots of sex enlightenment." - poison_iva

"When I was young, I had a major crush on a girl named Julie, who looked just like a cross between Julie Andrews and Julie the Cruise director (pre-cocaine addiction) on the Love Boat. I saw her at our 15th High School reunion. Yikes. Reason #27 why you should stay away from reunions!" - slickrickt

"When my mom was a kid, she wanted to be a nun, because "nuns were so pretty." So when I was a kid, she made us watch The Sound of Music until we could recite it verbatim. That's mean." - hija_paloma

"Jet Li. It almost fits the theme, and the idea of having him in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins is fantastic. Imagine: Dick van Dyke makes a ridiculous attempt at a Cockney accent, and immediately gets the good kicking he's deserved so long." - drdoug

"now I've got that stupid "Spoonful of Sugar" song stuck in my head. Have you ever tried to eat a spoonful of sugar?" - lsmith_2003

(*raises hand sheepishly* At least I'm not alone... -CV)

"I think I should sue her. A spoonful of sugar does NOT help medicine go down - my sister and I actually tried it. And got sent to our rooms for raiding the pantry and drinking medicine." - vanbrosia

"Nobody answers a quiz quite like Julie Andrews" - copperpixie

"she's like a hamster - looks incredibly cute and innocent, right up until it fastens it's jaws around your thumb, and you have to bash it's brains against a wall until it lets go." - little_smaug

"I have a t-shirt from the Sing Along Sound of Music when they came to my town. My family won the costume contest because we dressed up like the puppets. The shirt says "I sang with Julie." It was so cool to walk around town, cross-dressed (we didn't have a young guy in the family), with strings attached to my limbs. We got a LOT of stares." - mercat

"man, The Sound of Music has got to be one of the crackiest films ever made. Can you imagine the pitch 'Okay, here's what I'm thinking: there's going to be a nun, she likes to sing while spinning around on a hill. She makes clothes out of old curtains. You think that's good, just wait 'til we get to the part with the nazis. Yeah, you heard me, nazis.'" - smittenrosebud

"Julie Andrews, one of only two people that can fly with an umbrella. The Penguin and Mary Poppins should duel it out." - tofusquirrel

"Julie Andrews, who was in the Princess Diaries with Anne Hathaway, who is in Brokeback Mountain with Michelle Williams, who was on Dawson's Creek with Katie Holmes, who is dating Tom Cruise, who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon." - maskofsmiles

(Julie Andrews was in Sound of Music with Christopher Plummer, who was in National Treasure with Nicolas Cage, who was in The Rock with Ed Harris, who was in Apollo 13 with Kevin Bacon. Bring it on. -CV)

"thank you for making me relive the clumsy plot of 'Princess Diaries Two'. Poor Julie. Don't let your career end singing a bad duet with Raven Simone" - ginalin

"Julie Andrews totally needs her own Supernanny 911 show thing. Goes around to dysfunctional families, and sings at them, and they'll reform, else they end up with 'Spoonful of Sugar' stuck in their heads." - thurdl01

"Julie Andrews, who was the catalyst of so many men's 'naughty-nanny' fantasies. 'You've been a bad boy, haven't you Basil?' 'Oh yes, Nanny, I have!'" - lovellama

(I am slightly skeeved. Maybe more than slightly. -CV)

"the self-same actress who portrayed a woman passing herself off as a man passing himself off as a woman in Victor, Victoria, with Joel Grey -- who is the daddy of Jennifer "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner" Grey, she who no longer has a crooked, distinctive nose, and therefore no career." - ladylyonesse
"" - dr_zira
"Not so red state now, are ya Julie?" - norrinator

Correct Answer: Julie Andrews

"All these years, and for some reason I'd never realized it was the same actress. I'm going to go hide in shame now." - kamalloy



4. Who said "Beware the Ides of March!"?

"What the fuck is an 'Ide'?" - fmh

"the Ides are only the 15th in March, July, October and May. In case you cared. Every other month they're on the 13th. The useless knowledge from my Latin class that takes up room in my brain..." - lotusbiosm

"In March, July, October, May
The ides fall on the 15th day
The nones the 7th.
The rest besides take 2 days less
For Nones and Ides." - ataralas

"I'm more concerned about the March of Dimes." - compwizrd

(I wouldn't be; I'm pretty sure you can outrun them. -CV)

"My Mom. It's my birthday. 3/15/75." - calicolickenpus

"Billy Dee Williams, who was misquoted. He actually said 'Beware St. Ives in March, drink Colt 45 instead.'" - drbear

"Some dude in a toga, who later proclaimed 'FOOOOOOOOOOOOD FIIIIIIIIIIGHT!'" - ladylyonesse

(+1, Animal House. -CV)

"Credo haruspem ad Caesarem in foro dixisse, sed nescio." - grapefruitzzz

(Translation: I believe bunnies threw up on Caesar's southern front, if you know what I'm saying. -CV)

"General Zod." - wendynat

"That blind prophet in Julius Caesar. Don't know what his name was, but I know the blind prophet in Oedipus Rex was named...um, I know it began with a 'T.' He basically said, 'Your mom, Oedipus. Your mom.'" - ANONYMOUS

"I was going to just write Caesar and then I remembered... there were more than one of them." - marcyleecorgan

(There were more than one. But less than one of them are the correct answer. -CV)

"I think that cut that part out in Xena. The Shakespeare version was a bit of a pussy." - shadowkeeper

(-1 for relying on Xena for education. That's worse than googling. -CV)

"A snake. My daughter said it was Julius Caesar, but I thought it was about snakes." - whiskis_mom

"Julius Caesaer's wife. I bet most of the people answering this don't know her name either." - maeritrae

(Mrs. Caesar, of course. No-brainer. -CV)

"Everyone except Ceasar - a soothsayer, his wife, the guy who did his laundry, the fellow who took out a full page ad in the Roman Times, and Jesus." - uncut_diamond

"Julius Caesar’s weird psychic hobo friend." - siinik

"The horoscope column in Julius Caesar's local paper. It was immediately followed by the prediction that 'With Mars going direct, some of you associates will be planning your demise. This is also a good time to make some long-term financial investments.'" - dark_goddess

"honestly - who trusts a guy called Brutus?! Caesar obviously got what was coming to him." - ewacat

"here's our quizling again, happily theming along and shouting out 'Julius Caesar'. But our quizling stops and ponders... that was said to Caesar. Our brave quizling, knowing the penalty for googling an answer, takes a stab and guesses the Oracle of Delphi." - hitferret

(Good job with the no googling thing. Better luck next time with the answer, though. -CV)

"Julius Cæsar. I love the little æ symbol, don't you?" - calankh

(Ok, you can have half-credit for using the æ correctly. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Soothsayer, in William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar"

"Right about here is where I figured out the theme. Which means the answer to #1 is probably "joule", even though I have no idea what that is. Bejeweled 2 on Yahoo! Games is really fun, though." - lucymoore

(I was going to mock you, but I can't really take it out on someone who likes Bejeweled. Much. -CV)



5. Who was the author of the inaccurately-titled tale involving the adventures of Aronnax, Conseil, Ned, and Nemo?

"My teeth are now chewing the paper off a lollipop stick. It was a maple lollipop." - kokopellinelli

(And the winner of this week's Non Sequitur Award goes to... kokopellinelli! -CV)

"It sounds like one of those modern children's books that parents force on kids because they contain fewer disembowellments than earlier ones. I bet wacky Arronax teaches the cynical dog Ned the meaning of friendship while wise old Conseil runs the raw-vegeatble shop down the lane. Nemo is the demon sugar-fish." - grapefruitzzz

"Aronnax? Is that Aragog's cousin?" - profsparky

"Aronnax, Conseil, NED, and Nemo? Which of these names doesn't belong?" - twilight_angel

"They were the main characters in Louisa May Alcott's never published sequel to Little Women...after she discovered opium." - sweetpea86

"I don't recognize any of the others, and I haven't figured out the theme for this week, so we'll just go with: 'When Clownfish Attack: The Blair Witch Project Goes Submersible'" - diannelamerc

"I have no idea which book you're referring to, because I've never read anything he'd written, but I will guess at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea because if you're gonna find Nemo, under the sea would be a good place to look." - serrico
"I've got no clue who wrote it, but I think he was british." - kittycatness

(Only if by "British" you mean "French". -CV)

"I'm sorry, I can't make fun of Jules Verne. I can make fun of that terrible Scifi channel version of his life, though." - ginalin

(That show was the Canadians' fault. Although Rebecca Fogg was HOT. Rawr. -CV)

"Something-something Under The Sea was written by... the guy who wrote Around the World in Something-something." - psychoticspy

(Not strong with the numbers, are we today? -CV)

"Vernlurver, who wrote '20,000 Slashfics Beneath the Sea', when it was really only twelve. She ran out of pairings after the octopus-on-Nemo story."

"It took me ages to figure out you didn't mean Finding Nemo." - maeritrae
"He's lost his son, Fabio -- " "Nemo." "Right, Nemo." - ladylyonesse

"no no dear, once again you are mistaking a movie for a book. a crap movie, so an honest mistake, but still." - therhythmthief

(To borrow a quote from my favorite old geezer, "Oh, I believe it is you who are mistaken. About a great many things." -CV)

"Nemo's a bad-ass in the comic version of 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'." - rikchik

"there aren't enough football, soccer, hockey, baseball, and basketball teams on the planet to make 20,000 leagues. And besides, how would they breathe? Where would you put the audience?" - darkeros

"20,000 leagues=69,000 miles. Depth of the Marianas Trench, deepest part of the ocean=approx 7 miles. Not so "ahead of your time" in the math department, were you Jules?" - norrinator
"There was nothing inaccurate about it at all! Merely a typo of the original title where Jules Verne placed a cadre of 10,000 strippers on a submarine for Nemo's bachelor party, titled '20,000 Legs Under the Sea'" - captainsblog
"i was always under the impression that it was 20,000 leagues traveled while under the sea. cause depth=fathoms." - songquake

(Ah, multi-dimensional thinking! I should try that one day... -CV)

(Crap, I knew this. Maybe I should proof-read our Quizzes more carefully. -AL)

Correct Answer: Jules Verne



6. July - is it a good month or a bad month, in your opinion?

(Paraphasing:)

"Allow me to take this opportunity to shout-out to myself on the event of my birthmonth!" - lotusbiosm, uncut_diamond, jtersesk, hiddenmuse, packbat, inkynightvixen, akiyasan, ayerhead07, dragon_within, hija_paloma, gauroth, master_flea, calankh, wednesday_10_00, uneautrefois

(Happy Birthday to you all. -CV&AL)

(First, the votes for Good:)

"Considering my birthday (July 5) and the Fourth of July occur on the same weekend, for me July is filled with drunkenly blowing shit up. Did I mention I live in Western Pennsylvania, and we set off fireworks for the entire month? God bless being an almost-redneck. Too bad next year I'll be in England and somehow I think they frown upon such behavior. But I digress. July=good, thanks." - norrinator

(Blowing things up in July has been all too popular in England lately.... -AL)

"Good. Have you ever heard anyone say, 'Beware the Ides of July?' Yeah. Didn't think so." - wendynat

"July's extremely hot and humid here in DC. And that means you don't need as much alcohol in you to feel drunk. Which means you save money and get drunk faster. Therefore, since saving money is a universally good thing, I theorize that July must then be a good month." - hthottie

"This year? A great month. I got married yesterday. :)" - fmh

(CONGRATULATIONS fmh!!! - AL&CV)

"A good month! Here in Australia it is the month we get our tax returns, and therefore despite the fact that it is during our winter, we are no longer forced to eat our minstrels, and there is much rejoicing." - ingole

"It beats the pants off those months where I'm relocating snow drifts! 'Nuff said." - n5iln

(I see that you live in upstate New York. Since we are both Cornell alums, CV & I feel your pain. -AL)

"July is a juleptastic joule-powered Julie Andrews-song-belting julesvernealicious month. Fo sho. And I got a fortune cookie the other day that said I’d be receiving an important letter in the mail any day now – that’s auspicious." - cefirus

"July is a good month. It brings back memories of summer break away from school. Usually school wouldn't get out until the middle of June, so June was nothing spectacular. July was the first whole month that you got to lay around eating processed sugar for breakfast, and watching cartoons to your heart's content." - jacesan

(Ahhh, the long long days full of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. -AL)

"it's been a good month so far. i mean, i don't have a job, but i haven't been bitten by that many ants either, so i can't complain." - dragonstar87

(You seem easy to please. -AL)

"It's pretty good. In Wisconsin, it's when we have summer. This year, I think it's on a Thursday." - drbear

(The Sorta Indifferent Vote:)

"I dunno, but I feel we should get rid of all the months that start with J. Just like we should get rid of all the American states that start with A." - ataralas

(Exactly what do you have against January, June, July, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, & Arkansas, huh? Well, OK, Alabama I understand. -AL)

(And the Bad Votes:)

"Well, some very unfortunate things have happened to me in July. When I was a toddler I fell down the stairs and hit my head. When I was seven I fell off a rope ladder and hit my head. This July I bodysurfed into a rock, which I hit with my head. It probably wouldn't be a bad month if I just wore a football helmet for the entirety of it." - dreamoflight

"Bad month. Laptops tend not to float in my pool. I wonder if I should use more chlorine." - toxictattoo

"Technically, yes because I'm still alive. But it's going to be maybe 118 degrees Fahrenheit today, so that's sucky." - learntoflyrar

(*checks your User Info* I will never, under any circumstances, move to Arizona. 118 is just WRONG. -AL)

"I just got my exam results. So definately bad." - little_smaug

"It's fun while you're still in school (or, rather, on vacation from school). Then once you get your degree, it becomes merely the second-hottest month of the year, with the added bug feature that you know the hottest comes next so you have no relief in sight. Why, God, why must you torture me so?" - cmzero

"A precocious little month with a hint of rain water and a sharp crisp bite... oh who'm I kidding it's bloody wet and cold, wake me in spring please." - sadasi

"It's been very bad and needs to be turned over my knee. 'whack' for the hummidity, 'whack' for the heat, 'whack' just for the hell of it." - beccak1961

Correct Answer: overall, July sucks.



That's right, July sucks. Not really for any good reason, but man, this humidity is soul-draining.

Anyway, thanks as always for playing, hope you enjoyed, and by all means, go out and share with your friends. Pimp it out in your journals! Preach its glory to passing Caesars! Disseminate our wisdom to all corners of the globe!... or just do some shouty pimpy stuff. Enjoy what's left of July, and tune in tomorrow for more fun-filled pudding-packed Quizzy Goodness (tm)!

Rock on,

AL&CV