ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 29 August 2005

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"The A Theme: I pity the fool that don't be taking this quiz and ending every word with A." -

narcoleprosy

That's right. Because it's August, and near the end, we decided to have this quiz be themed with words that began and ended with the letter A. Actually, August has nothing to do with this whatsoever. We're just shooting for new and creative ways to theme these quizzes. Also, AA has nothing at all to do with our immediate alcohol-soaked futures. Nothing at all. Nada. Zip.

1. What character, played both by Lorne Greene and Edward James Olmos, led a rag-tag fleet of humans on a quest to find the lost colony of Earth?

"Christopher Columbus" -

droptheleash622

"Ackbar?" -

lovellama

(Far be it from me to pass up a chance to exclaim "IT'S A TRAP!" -CV)

(God bless Fark. -AL)

"You know, as treasurer of my university's scifi society you'd think I'd occasionally be able to answer one of these questions... but you'd be wrong. I'm only in it for the embezzling." -

tronella

"Why are colonies of humans in these sci-fi things always 'rag-tag'? Why can't they be 'well-organised' or just 'tag' for a change?" -

setting_sun

"I'm going to say Hannibal, because he led the A-Team. And if the A-team HAD done the quest, they would've finished sooner AND built spaceship out of scrap that was lying around." -

dracothelizard

(Full credit. -CV)

"I couldn't remember the name of the character. So I web-cheated with my friend IMDB. And what I found there was good enough to get mocked publicly about web-cheating about. Apparently Lorne Greene was in a movie called Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter. Will Edward James Olmos be doing a remake of that next?" -

sskipstress

(Your -50 webcheating penalty is offset 50% for this amazing bit of trivia. Perhaps we will finally see the long awaited "Battlestar: Prophylactica"... -CV)

"Lorne Greene always made me laugh. Commanding a Battlestar in a purple velour dress? Only in the 70s, people." -

jonem

"I'm gonna need that picture of Edward James Olmos's ass back." -

deltashade

"I've always thought his name should be Edward James Almost. As in Edward James Almost But Not Quite Has A Career..." -

thurdl01

"Oh wait, this is that thing with all the walking chrome toasters again..." -

master_flea

"Starbuck isn't a woman!!! Starbuck is a very sexy man that haunted my dreams as a child. Oh, I feel so dirty." -

dorei

"Adama and his rag-tag fleet of Alpo salesmen. Wasn't his son named Alpo too? Oh, Apollo. My bad." -

unamundamour

Correct Answer: Adama

2. Swedish musicians Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Benny, and Bjorn are more commonly known as whom?

"The Precogs. And Agnetha is the hotttt one who's all shrivled and naked and who Tom Cruise falls in love with. Shhh." -

xphilega

(+1, Minority Report. -CV)

"Bjorn Again?" -

m31andy

"Swedish Phish" -

flame_of_death

"Sweden has musicians other than ABBA?" -

warragul

(Nope. -CV)

"It's not ABBA is it? If it is I will have Dancing Queen stuck in my head for hours. Oh no! It's happening anyhow!" -

chrysoberyl, vocalizing the fate of 38 of you

"Can I get a backwards B here!??" -

marilyth

(You can, from

the_wanlorn... -CV)

"/-\|3E|/-\!!" -

the_wanlorn

"I've never, until this moment, considered that ABBA might actually be an acronym. LJDQ, you have left me with knowledge I didn't have before." -

thurdl01,

corax_onyx,

limegreen_sloth
"And here I was thinking that they took the name from the Aramahic for 'father'." -

photosinensis

"What fans don't know is that both women had older sisters, Oley and Olive, who played in a high school band called BOOB, which disbanded after they graduated. Benny and Bjorn hooked up with the younger (and much prettier) sisters and the rest is history." - DURTYNELL

"Every day at work, they play 'Fernando'. Every day at work, I die just a little inside." -

whiski_sour

"And with an Abba Cadabra I will pull horrible dance music from my hat!" -

tofusquirrel

"No more fucking ABBA!" - Terrence Stamp, as many of you noted.

"I sat through several showings of Muriels Wedding for an ABBA fix because I was too embarrassed to buy the CD's." -

dorei

"The Four Horsemen of the Abbapocalypse." -

arib

Correct Answer: ABBA

"...which is of course the Swedish for, 'on, the bright side, the beards do help detract from the spandex blue leggings.'" -

tophets_tool

3. What is the medical term for an irregularity in the heart's natural rhythm?

"Googling takes effort. God i should smoke less pot." -

festivity

(Well, we do frown on webcheating, and if dope prevents folks from doing it, then so be it. -AL&CV)

"Mexican night. Oh, how it burns." -

uncut_diamond

"Achy-breaky heart" -

ghostrider65

"Hey! Your heart could play for Metallica!" -

ewacat

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" -

kenshardik

"A good excuse to slap defibrillator on someone and shout, 'CLEAR!'" -

buzz

(There's never a wrong time for a good defibrillation. Especially now that they've got hundreds of the suckers lining the hallways of every airport in America. -CV)

"Is there a name for someone pulling your heart out of your chest and showing it to you, like in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? Because, in my opinion that would be a pretty massive irregularity" -

miss_katelynne

"It sounds like this: 'B-dmp-thmp. B-dmp-thmp. B-dmp-WTF?'" -

deza

"Mortgage Payment" -

pheltzer

"Aretha. I know that's not it, but I don't know how to spell arythmia." - ANONYMOUS

(Aretha Franklin frowns upon your lack of knowledge. -CV)

"the preferred term now is dysrhythmia, which is more appropriate to a bad or abnormal rhythm." -

carocrow
"It can also be applied to most white guys on the dance floor." -

whiski_sour

"After one once, I shouted at my chest 'FUCKING SORT IT OUT, WILL YOU?! DON'T MAKE ME START EATING SAUSAGES AGAIN!'" -

setting_sun

Correct Answer: Arrhythmia

"Arrrrrrythmia if it's a pirate heart." -

rikchik,

tronella

4. In 1982, "las Islas Malvinas" were the subject of a military dispute between the United Kingdom and which nation?

(Number of people stuck with Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" in their heads: 27. Number stuck with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" (by Madonna or anyone else): 19. Damn, we're good. -AL&CV)

"I was very young then, but from what I recall of the conflict that country gave a good account of itself. I wouldn't cry for them." -

silmaril

"Right-o, chaps, let's just take this dart and throw it at that world map over there, and whatever country it lands on, we'll get involved with in a smashing military dispute over some roddy islands that nobody cares about. Sound good? Right, then, time for a spot of tea." -

deltashade

"Speaking of UK military disputes, I'm wearing purple knickers." -

shippygrl

"A 'military dispute'. Is that like a 'police action'?" -

lovellama

(Sure. It also resembles a "peacekeeping mission" or "border incident".

sskipstress also has a theory... -AL&CV)

"Is 'military dispute' a euphemism? For lovers' quarrel? I bet the UK and Argentina have great make-up sex." -

sskipstress

"Did you hear the one about the people from the Faulkland Islands that moved to Malta after that? The Maltese Faulkands?" -

uncut_diamond

(hate Hate HATE! -AL)

"Falklands ... for strategic sheep purposes." -

dorei,

lyme, and

anonymisty prove their Eddie Izzard devotion

"I have a funny Falklands story, though: and by funny I mean hopelessly inappropriate. Apparently it ws discovered by high command that the soldiers stationed on the Falklands had taken to referring to the locals as 'Bennys', after a famously dimwitted soap character of the day. Fearing the impolitic friction this might cause, an order went out that the insult 'Benny' was henceforth banned. A short time later, one of the officers overheard a couple of his men referring to the locals as 'Stills'. He asked them why they were now calling the islanders 'Stills'. Reply there came: 'Cos they're still Bennys.'" -

tophets_tool

"The Peoples Republic of Amherst. It was a war to end all wars. A war to decide for all time which nation could be the most politically correct. The war ended without a shot being fired when both sides decided that marching under a flag was insensative to those who they were fighting against. So they pulled out of Amherst and sailed down to Argentina to fight over a long strip of sheep pasture." -

vyseryn

(If a War of Political Correctness had ever really been held, you can be sure somewhere in San Francisco someone organized a protest against that war. -AL)

" Better be careful, or Peter Falk will read you a story with true love and kissing and stuff in it. Eeeewwww!

Better be careful, or Peter Falk will read you a story with true love and kissing and stuff in it. Eeeewwww!

" -

altoidsaddict

"I probably know more about Argentina from 'Evita' than from school." -

purpleshrub

"I still don't understand what all the fuss was about--I mean, the islands are the breeding grounds for penguins. UInless you have an interest in a herring fishery, who cares how many penguins are fucking on the rocks? Ooooh, Penguins Fucking on the Rocks. Isn't that a cocktail?" -

deza

"Did I mention there's, like, a huge subterranean reserve of oil under the islands? Just in case you thought the dispute was caused by something like patriotism or stuff." -

alejandradd

"Not to be outdone, the US invaded Grenada in 1983 and saved a bunch of medical students." -

slickrickt

"Actually it was a personal issue between Margaret Thatcher and the penguins. She wanted them wiped out because she was tired of being compared to them when she walked or ate fish." -

theultimate42

"Antarctica. This struggle was recently documented in the film 'March of the Penguins'." -

thepikey

(Random. -AL)

(Wrong. -CV)

"Having just finished a book about the SAS as research for one of my roleplaying characters, and the big military conflict the UK was involved in around that time was the Falklands, I'm going to say Argentina. And add that this just proves that roleplaying teaches me more useful things than school ever did, at least when it comes to LJDQ answers." -

warragul

(Last year, we had a Quizling get a really obscure question right & she told us she gained her knowledge doing background research for writing slashfic. Opportunities for learning are everywhere. -AL)

Correct Answer: Argentina

"Argentina: Latin for Silver Tina." - ANONYMOUS

5. An Ethiopian princess, a nearby galaxy, and a dreadful sci-fi TV show. What word are we thinking of that is described by these three things?

"Pleiades don't ask any more astronomy questions. I'm Sirius." -

narcoleprosy

"What's an eather-nopian? We'll call you, Starvin' Marvin." -

permogod

(+1, South Park. -AL)

"The tv show isn't so bad, but I admit, that is coming from someone who's a fan of Lexx, VR.5 and Space:Above and Beyond." -

herdivineshadow

(With that confession, you've disqualified yourself as a judge of "good" & "bad" in television. Forever. -AL)

"That show changed premises so many times it was ludicrous. It was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." -

ginalin

"There's all these sci-fi shows that come out with the claim that Gene Roddenberry had the idea for them. And then suck. Ya know, producers of Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict, maybe there's a reason he took those ideas, unfilmed, to his grave." -

thurd01

"It might be a dreadful Sci Fi show, but it does Kevin Sorbo in it.. so at least there's eye candy for the ladies. I mean if you don't like the script.. hit the mute button. It's sorta like putting a bag over someone's head before sex if they're ugly." -

serradachic

"Andromeda starring Kevin Sorbo who played Hercules which was produced alongside Xena starring Lucy Lawless who had a cameo in Spiderman which starred Toby Maguire, who's totally hot." -

ashfault76

(-1, not using Kevin Bacon. -AL)

"I'm too busy thinking of that hot dude from Clash of the Titans who was rescuing Andromeda. My GOD that man was hot. Lips, tan, muscles..dark, smoldering glances. Yumm. What was the question again?" - ANONYMOUS

"Definitely 'Andromeda' for the last two. I regrettably know even less about Ethiopia than Argentina. But if Andrew Lloyd Webber writes a musical about it, I'm there." -

purpleshrub

"I had a toy boat I called Andromeda once. The steering broke and it happily drove out to sea. We didn't have a Greek hero nearby, so dad was only able to rescue it after the batteries went dead." -

lustforlike

"Andromeda, something of a strained connection that, but this is after all the inaccurately-named LJDQ." -

darkeros

(It's not "inaccurately-named"! We named it "Daily Quiz" for a perfectly good reason. -AL&CV)

"You know, if you changed 'Ethiopian' to 'Egyptian' and 'a nearby galaxy' to 'one half of a play by Shakespeare,' then the answer would be Cleopatra. Because man, did the show Cleopatra 2525 stink. Gina Torres was the only good part about it." -

alliterator

"I think I would have gotten this one if you had put in just one more clue, maybe something like 'an anti-climatic novel about an alien bacteria'-- I would have said 'Andromeda', but since you didn't... I got nuthin'." -

lovellama

(Curse Michael Crichton for that stupid book. -AL)

Correct Answer: "Me! m31andy! Wooooooo hoooo! I'm the answer in a quiz. (Does a jig). Ooooh yeah, and isn't Andromeda crap! (That's the TV show, not the galaxy nor the Ethiopian princess and nor me!)

(OK, the correct answer is "Andromeda". Just in case you were confused. -AL&CV)

Correct Answer: Andromeda

6. We can't think of a good Question 6 for this week, so, um, err, how's your summer been so far? (Southern Hemisphere Quizlings: how's the winter been so far?)

(We'll start with the winter answers:)

"I didn't see enough pretty women in short skirts and tight shirts. Bring on the Summer sun." -

avron

"My winter can't make up it's fucking mind. Hot or cold? HOT OR COLD? Just PICK godammit!" -

vanbrosia

(And now, the one that left us scratching our heads:)

"My morale is good and my urine is its normal color." -

david_deacon

(And now, the summer answers:)

"My summer has been like a country song. I can't get a man, my dog died, my guitar is broken, and I'm po'." -

the_wanlorn

"Aboulomania. Pathological Indecisiveness. In other words, eh." -

narcoleprosy

(Apropos of nothing, but I looked at your User Info & have to ask: do you attend Auburn University? -AL)

"I broke my ten-year sex dry spell...a lot!!! (No, I'm not hideously deformed, just unlucky, I guess.)" -

badgerbabe

(Congratulations. On not being hideously deformed. And the sex, too. -AL&CV)

"Summer? So that's what they call the season where I bring sweaters and fingerless gloves into my office to combat the chill of air conditioning. (in winter I wish for a more liberal dress code so I could sit at my desk and code naked to keep cool in the heat)." -

sskipstress

"It'd be a bit better without the heat and humidity. And the constant threat of tropical depressions/tropical storms/hurricanes. As I write this, Katrina moves ever closer, and I laugh in her face while cowering in an inside room." -

hellpaladin2183

"I went to Scotland. AIE BLOODY MIDGIES!" -

puredeadthingy

"An acceptable ante-autumna." -

maeritrae

"I quit my job this summer. It is the best summer ever. The only thing that could make it better would be to win the lottery. Then I could have endless summer." -

chrysoberyl

"My summer has taught me two things: It's not just some people, I really hate everybody and shouldn't work customer service. Also, beer is not a mixer." -

festivity

"It's pretty much been shite so far, but that should all change when I get out into the desert in 4.3 days and counting..." -

thepikey

(Ahh. *nod nod* Burning Man Festival. -AL)

"It's been pretty good. I've spent most of it reviewing porn and watching cricket, which are about as diverse as two pursuits can possibly be, and I have as yet to see a cricket fetish site. But I'm sure it will happen one day. 'h yeah, second slip.....mmm, yeah, oh yeah here comes a silly mid-off....OH, OHHHHHHHHH!' -

setting_sun

(Brits are so very weird. -AL)

"Depressingly uneventful in that whole 'Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work I go sort of way.'" -

wingedelf

"I went to teach English to kids at camp in Greece for 2 weeks in June, then after a week at home I spent a month doing the same thing in China. (This is pretty big for someone from northern Wisconsin). Now of course I'm very very poor, though I do have an attractive TV shirt announcing to anyone who will listen that I climbed the Great Wall." -

purpleshrub

"DULL. SO VERY DULL. I've been an extra in a Woody Allen film, rescued a kitten from a giant scary fox, triggered a minor nuclear bidding war on eBay and discovered I can cook. And that's about it. Oh, apart from the seriously injured guy discovered in the neighbour's garden. That wasn't dull." -

ewacat

"How's your summer going?" -

vyseryn

(Pretty well, thanks for asking. I've had a lot of visitors, made one trip back East to visit family, work has been busy, & I'm settling into my new life here in San Francisco. -AL)

(Mine's been pretty good too, thank you- done some travelling, been geeky, and had an all-in-all good time, although now work is making me show up on weekends, and that makes me a sad panda. -CV)

And there you have it. Our summer's been great, and so has yours, unless it's winter. Or stuff. I believe this quiz holds the record for most songs forcibly implanted in Quizling's heads. We take pride in this sort of accomplishment, because we're cruel and unusual. Tune in next week when we make you ~~sacrifice your neighbors to Satan~~ do something else weird. Or eat pudding and drink. Whatever works.

As always, thanks for playing, and tell your friends!

Rock On,

AL&CV