LJ Daily Answers: 5 December 2005

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"This weeks's LJDQ is racist against diabetics. I figured out the quiz after reading the first and last answer, and I feel oppressed. You'll be hearing from Johnny Cochran and Wilford Bremley by the end of the week." - silent_r_infork, speaking for all the sugarifically challenged out there

I hope not... Zombie Cochran? "Iiiiiffff gloooovve fiiiiiit BRRRAAAAIIIIINSSS!" Frightening.

Candy is the theme. And it is tasty.



1. Which musician-turned-actor played a Detroit rapper named B-Rabbit in an Academy Award-winning drama?

"Lindsay Lohan. Pre-anorexic Lindsay Lohan. In a Playboy Bunny costume. Do you see where I'm going with this?" - ctakahara

(It sounds like sweet candy to me. Full credit. -CV)

"B-Rabbit? I bet all of his angry lyrics are just his way of dealing with the disappointment and rage that comes from not being good enough to make A-Rabbit, let alone something cooler like B-Water Buffalo or B-Thundercougarfalconbird." - fyreflyblue

"B-Rabbit? What a stupid name for a rapper. Lots of street cred there-- 'hey, rabbit, trix are for kids!'" - renee12321

"it was definitely Bigwig, the B-rabbit deluxe." - nikkie_noo

(+1, Watership Down. -CV)

"I don't remember his name, but the drama was called 'Who Framed B-Rabbit?'" - guxx

"Rabbit always reminds me of vibrators. And you know, vibrators and chocolate and the perfect presents. Listen up boys, Christmas is coming. Vibrators and chocolate are the way to go. Or you could get two in one, and get a chocolate dipped vibrator." - judith_s

(.... I cannot agree with the combination of these two things. Nuh-uh. -AL)

"i'm going with Ice T on this one. because iced tea is yummy and sometimes sweet (esp down south -- hey, is this in honor of angledge's current abode?)." - songquake

(Nice use of logic. But as we all know, logic rarely yields correct LJDQ answers. -AL)

"Little rapper Foo Foo
runnin' through the city,
scoopin' up a rifle
and robbin' a Micky Dee's.

And down came the court jury, and they said:

Little rapper Foo Foo
We don't want to see you
scoopin' up a rifle
and robbin' a Micky Dee's." - mistyraven

(Oh MAN I love the little bunny Foo Foo game! -AL)

"Marshall Mathers III. I love to say it that way because it shows him off as the total frat-boy poseur that he is instead of the gangsta image he tries to portray." - dslartoo

"I'm sure there's something filthy I could say about him melting in my mouth but not in my hands." - dorei

(You and 15 others. -CV)

"Eminem -- Called Essinem in Kuwait, as evidenced by a bag of S&Ms (peanuts) a friend of mine brought back when he returned from the first GulfWar." - theroach

"I really never got the Slim Shady thing. Is there a Fat Shady, or something?" - pride4u2

"I heard 'The Real Slim Shady' at every bat mitzvah party I went to in seventh grade, and it took me until last year to figure out that Marshall Mathers's initials are M&M. I was in the shower, washing my hair, and I dropped the shampoo, I was so thunderstruck. 'Wait...Eminem...HOLY SHIT!' It was not one of my better moments." - babybokal

(Sometimes the club of realization strikes late. In a few questions, you will see how it affected me. -CV)

"I'm willing to admit that I like his music" - marasca

(Against my will, so do I. -AL)

"There's only one song of Eminem's that I really like and that's 'Without Me.' It's such a bootylicious, rump-shaking song. *bass line filters in* Oh yeah, I can feel the bass line in my booty and I can't stop shaking it. Da-DA-da-da-duh! Da-da-da-DA-duh! DA-da-da-da-duh! Da-da-da-dah! The Bangles can't shake this booty loose!" - trishalynn

"I think I have to contest the reference to him as a 'musician.'" - caffeineod & many others. There were also objections to his characterization as an "actor". You all are a bunch of nit-pickers.

"THAT WON AN ACADEMY AWARD? In something minor, right? PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HAVE IT HAVE BEEN A TECHINICAL AWARD!" - spyderqueen, speaking for several of you

(2003 Oscar for Best Music, Original Song. -AL)

Correct Answer: Eminem

"Waitaminute, I thought this week's theme was candy. But *this* question is about a cracker!" - thepikey



2. Within the Local Group of galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster, which galaxy is the second-largest?

"uranus" - psycho316, lots42

"LV-426" - barbarienne

(+1, Alien/Aliens. -CV)

"I'm a Virgo so believe me when I say the second largest group of galaxies is the one where the Intellivision hit, 'Astrosmash,' is based." - guxx

(+1 for being old-school enough to even know what an Intellivision is. I'm impressed. -CV)

"I'm a Pisces, thanks. Despite my intricate knowledge of virginity, I don't pay attention to Virgos. They cramp my astrological style. Besides, I've still got Champagne Supernova in my head from last week. That's the only heavenly body I can think of right now, other than Hugh Jackman, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Josh Holloway, Ewan MacGregor, the Boondock Saints, various Oz inmates ..." - jelymo

"What did the galaxies all get together one night, get drunk, and whip it out so they could measure? That must have been a sight." - pheltzer
"Why is it always about size? Is it the galaxies fault if it is only the second-largest? DOES IT REALLY MATTER THAT MUCH? *hysterical weeping*" - nikkie_noo, speaking for all the Dwarf Galaxies out there

"'Virgo Supercluster'? Wasn't that the name of the unreleased ABBA album that was written about Bennie and Bjorn wife-swapping?" - sweetpea86

"Why hasn't anyone named a chocolate bar after the Sombrero glaxy? What do they have against Mexican hats?" - judith_s

(Well, for one thing, the Mexicans would probably try to put tamarind into their chocolate bar. And, as can be seen here, that is all bad. -CV)

"Why are bite-sized actually large enough for two bites?" - etumukutenyak

(They're not. You just have a small mouth. Too bad about that. -CV)

"Billions and billions of years ago... " - wolffepsyche

(Carl Sagan is DEAD. Accept it. -CV)

(I lived next door to Carl for one semester at Cornell. That was before he was dead. -AL)

"Just like Britain, we're number 2. M-to-the-W in da hizzouse!" - zihuatanejo

"Well, there's a dead sea monster off the coast of Ethiopia who would probably claim that Andromeda better fits this theme, but I'm gonna go with the Milky Way." - caffeineod

"I'm goanna say the Milky Way. But only because the only other galaxy I can think of right now is Alpha Centauri, and as far as I know there had never been a candy named after it." - lyzz13

(Probably because Alpha Centauri's not really a galaxy. -CV)

"You are REALLY stretching for the theme this week aren't you? You couldn't just make a general Messier object question? I mean there are 16 Messier object galaxies in the Virgo supercluster anyway. I can't remember them in order of size, but it's most likely M100... just because that's the one I actually have pictures of.
And then, when I start working on question 5 I realize this is about CANDY and not the letter M and feel like a complete retard." - spyderqueen

(Fortunately, being Geek Of The Week completely trumps being a complete retard. -1 for good measure. -CV)

"The Milky Way. Lemme guess. Would this one be located in Virgo's boobs?" - peaseblossom03

(No, you're thinking of the Pearl Necklace Galaxy. -CV)

"The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxias Kyklos), sometimes referred to simply as "the Galaxy", is a barred spiral galaxy which forms part of the Local Group. Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the universe, the Galaxy has special significance to humanity as it is the home of the solar system, which is located near the Orion Arm. Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC) was the first known person to claim that the Milky Way consists of distant stars." - leitch71, demonstrating for everyone how to be a naughty quizling and knock up Wikipedia with the cut-and-paste function. Naughty naughty naughty! -50 and no candy for you for a month.

Correct Answer: The Milky Way



3. What classic novel by Alexandre Dumas chronicles the adventures of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis and their young pal D'Artagnan?

"Huh huh... Alexandre Dumbass." - Beavis, Butthead, and four more of you

"... dammit, this quiz is making me hungry. Why ya gotta taunt a fat chick with candy before breakfast?" - lyme

(We're just kinda evil sometimes. -AL&CV&C)

"all for one, and one for all! ... or all for me, whichever" - a_wicked_game

"This one confused me a great deal; I'm guessing you American types had some kind of sweet called Musketeers or something that never made it's way across the Atlantic." - mrpyro

(You see, songquake? Use of logic got this Quizling only half of a right answer. -AL)

"For some reason I keep thinking I saw a Wishbone version of this, but I'm pretty sure that was the Count of Monte Cristo. And yes, every time I try to say that I say Monte Crisco. Most people I know do. That's the power of shortening for you. Makes your biscuits fluffy and fucks up your knowledge of French Literature forever. Three Muskateers however only got to be a fairly icky candy bar." - sypderqueen, along with several other fans of Wishbone The Dog's reimagining of a literary classic:


"The Man in the Marzipan Mask. Wait, no." - quasilemur

"I think it involved iron masks, unless I am getting this confused with Doctor Doom's origin story." - fiftyeighthours

"The One Musketeer is Athos...Athos and Porthos...Porthos and Athos.... the Two Musketeers are Athos and Porthos...and Aramis.... the *Three* Musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis...and young D'Artagnan.... the *Four*...no... *Amongst* the Musketeers..." - alliterator

(+1, Monty Python. -CV)

"Aramis went on to cut a fragrance deal, Porthos became a dog on 'Enterprise' and Athos, well, he went shopping for a consonant to put in front of his name so he could be pathos or bathos." - ginalin

"Well, they say the first step is admitting it, so I must confess that at the tender age of 17 I chose to stop reading the novel because I didn't want it to spoil the Charlie Sheen movie. Yes, I have shame. Yes, the movie can barely claim to have the same name and yes, it haunts me to this day. Maybe now I can lay this tragic bit of history to rest. Thank you, I feel much better now." - angelchicken

(There, one Quizling that we've helped. Perhaps this will partly offset the scores of Quizlings that we've scarred. -AL)

"Athos: 'Athos!'
Porthos: 'Porthos!'
Aramis: 'Aramis!'
D'Artagnan: 'D'Artagnan!'
Cptn Msktr: 'By your being all for one and one for all, I am Captain Musketeer!'
All: 'Go Musketeer!'
Cardinal: 'Curse you, Captain Musketeer.'" - active_apathy

(*shudder* -CV)

"Ok hold on, The Three Musketeers was about Four musketeers? And if they were Musketeers, why do they always have swords in the movies? See? This is why the only Dumas I bothered to read was The Count of Monte Cristo. - sadasi, speaking for many of you

"I don't think they even had muskets when that book was written, I think that was a later edit by somebody who thought a book mentioning muskets would sell better." - david_deacon

"Wow, I had to go through a mental candy aisle to get that one. I was like 'Skittles? No. The Adventures of Hershey's with almonds? No. Aha! The Tale of Two Peanut Butter Cups! Damn, no...'" - meepbitch

(LJDQ Fun Fact:)
"Did you know that Dumas wrote dozens of sequels to this via assembly line, where he would sketch out a plot and then hand it over to some underpaid wannabe who wrote the book itself? It was like a factory for hack fiction. Man. I would take that job in a minute." - amberdulen

(These days, we just have fanfic. -AL)

Correct Answer: The Three Musketeers

"...or in the original French: 'All your muskets are belong to us'" - uncut_diamond



4. What baseball player was famously sold by the Red Sox to the Yankees in 1919? And how much was he sold for?

"they should make Zamboni racing an Olympic event. That would ROCK." - jelymo

(Apropos of nothing, but still reasonable. -CV)

"I'm glad to see that organised sport was still keeping up the valuable tradition of slavery." - mrpyro

"The only one who could spell 'socks'." - puredeadthingy

"a few strings of beads and the island of Manhattan." - miladygrey

"Babe Ruth was sold for thirty pieces of silver. Actually, I'm not so much a fan of the BamBino as I am a huge fan of sacrilege." - motown_deserter

"he was sold on the guarantee that the Boston Red Sox wouldn't win a World Series for 86 years." - pride4u2
"Those of us who are of Red Sox Nation dare not utter his name." - dark_goddess_
"It don't matter no more, because THE CURSE IS BROKEN! GO SOX!" - sarekofvulcan
"For chrissake people it's been almost a century, LET IT GO already." - dslartoo

"Babe Ruth of course, and following A17 in the candy machine, it has to be for a Hundred Grand." - compwizrd

"why was he the only baseball player to get his own candy bar? You could have done other flavors, like Yogi Berry, or Vanillie Mays." - tofusquirrel

"Ever noticed a Baby Ruth looks a lot like a turd? Same size. It's brown. Even has little dimples on it. ... Tastes better, though." - theroach

"Of course now that I think of the answer, I have Sloth screaming "BABY... RUTH?" in my head, THANKYOUVERYMUCH!" - buzz

(+1, Goonies. -CV)

Correct Answer: Babe Ruth, for $100,000

(Disclaimer: No, the candy bar was not named after him. Yes, we know that. Surprisingly, we also know that M&Ms were not named after Eminem, but no one felt the need to point that out. Curious. -CV)



5. "Peanuts" character Charlie Brown is known by many names- Lucy frequently calls him "Blockhead", and Marcy calls him "Charles". Who calls him "Chuck"?

"Is it wrong to admit I've never seen a Peanuts strip?" - jonem

(Yes. -CV)

"When I bite into a York Peppermint Patty, my nipples get hard, my pubic hair curls, and my sphincter tingles!" - dragon_spirit

(And this week's ljdq TMI Award goes to... dragon_spirit! -CV)

"I don't get why anyone likes Charlie Brown. He is the whiny emo kid all of us laughed at in junior high, still following all the girls around and being pathetic. He wasn't even cool enough to be goth. Although, a goth Charlie Brown would rock. With eyeliner!" - judith_s

"To quote a friend: 'I don't get Peppermint Patties. Chocolate is like a nice warm hug, and peppermint is like a refreshing kick in the mouth. Why would you want something that is going to hug and kick you at the same time?'" - fyreflyblue

- waffle_heiress

"I didn't realize until I was older that she was a girl. That probably doesn't bode well for her future heterosexual romantic endeavors." - whiski_sour

"Peppermint Patty, though I could never figure out why she was called 'Peppermint.' Was she secretly an herbologist? That could explain her lack of concern over the way she looked; she was too busy raising all sorts of plants and stuff in the field behind the baseball diamond." - trishalynn

(There's another explanation... -AL)

"Marcy's life partner, Peppermint Patty. HOORAY FOR CARTOON LEZBEANS!" - dark_goddess_

(Huh? -CV)

"Peppermint Patty, the bi-curiously strong mint." - jazzminarino

"Peppermint Patty! I present you with a picture: ." - the_wanlorn

"If the Birkenstocks fit." - peaseblossom03

"Peppermint Patty, the only candy bar endorsed by Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls." - david_deacon

(What are you people talking about? What do the Indigo Girls have to do with anything? -CV)

"...how many comics so willingly depict a lesbian Master/Servant dynamic?" - spyderqueen

"Do you think Charlie Brown was Peppermint Patty and Marcy's fag hag, or do you think Charlie was just Patty's beard?" - dorei

"Peppermint Patty. You know, she was always my favorite, despite being more of a dyke than all of the Netherlands put together." - eris779

"As much of a creative genius as Shultz was, I think he should go back and change Peppermint Patty's name to KlonDyke...the emphasis being on the dyke part." - neoprincessulia

Number of Quizlings who knew that Peppermint Patty is a lesbian: 45.
Number of mods who knew that Peppermint Patty is a lesbian: 2.
Mod who was completely and utterly oblivious: rhymes with TV.

Correct Answer: Peppermint Pattie

"Which always makes me think of a strangely flavoured hamburger." - caffeineod



6. Who or what are you sweet on?

"You are very sneaky. Because despite the sixth question, I thought the theme for this quiz at first was the letter M. As in the fabulously awesome Judi Dench being Pierce Brosnan's James Bond's keeper. Talk about your May-December romances. You know he had to hit it at least once, after she took the position. Heh, 'took the position.' At least I didn't say she was the 'head girl.'" - trishalynn

"Our sexy, sexy quizmasters!" - big_danny_t speaking for many of you. We understand your feelings and appreciation, but out of fairness, we'll open the floor to other opinions.

"NOT DIABETES OMG HATRED FOR MY DEFICIENT PANCREAS." - silent_r_infork

"Band-aids. No, wait, that's 'stuck on'..." - fyreflyblue, pheltzer

"I try to shower daily to prevent sweeting on anyone." - ginalin

"The last time someone asked me who I was sweet on, it was my grandmother who asked. It was kinda creepy." - colin_chaotic

"I think I am mostly sweet on my father's credit card, because I am not really supposed to use it for anything other than gas and food, but I really like presents sometimes." - waffle_heiress

"I like big butts and I cannot lie." - i_am_stillwater

"The snozberries taste like snozberries!" - renee12321

(+1, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. -CV)

"She's like honey, sticky sweet from her head down to her feet. She melts in my mouth and not my hand. There's no wrong way to eat her. Taste her, she's like a rainbow. I don't know how many licks it takes to get to the center of her, and I may never know." - hellpaladin2183

"I'm really hankerin' for some tofu pad thai from the little thai restaraunt down the block." - schizospider

(-1, tofu, bleeeech. -CVMmmm, tofu. -AL)

"No who to be sweet on right now, but I am accepting applications." - buzz

(I have a number in Thailand that you might be interested in. -CV)

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. But now I really want some candah." - lyme

"I have a standing agreement that if John Cusack ever makes me an Indecent Proposal, I'm allowed to accept." - miss_katelynne

"Chocolate, and many of the women from Joss Whedon's TV shows. Especially Amber Benson and Alyson Hannigan." - avron

"The brazilian volley ball team." - obsidianshadows

(+1 because... well, because. -CV)

"These days, my kitten. The vet is removing his Goobers on Friday. Maybe that'll teach him not to chew on me!" - barbarienne

(Mental note: never call my manly bits 'Goobers'. -CV)

"My current pregnancy craving is mint chocolate chip ice cream, but this quiz has me craving everything but the Baby Ruth. Thanks." - erica_w

"Oreoes. They've finally been brought to Australia, and we tried one to see what the fuss was about AND OH MY GOD IT'S LIKE SUGARY CRACK. They say the US is the fattest country in the world and NOW I KNOW WHY." - vanbrosia

(Just wait until you get the Double Stuffs and the Minty Oreos. COOKIE HEAVEN. -CV)

"Life. It is like a box of chocolates, you know." - pride4u2

"if Japan stopped making and exporting strawberry Pocky, I think my heart would cease to beat." - thesnark

"Current sweet of choice is hard cider, preferably Woodchuck. What, that's not a sweet? The hell it is!" - trishalynn

(Hey, no arguments from us. Mmmm, hard cider... -CV)



And there you have it, as this week's quiz triggers either hyperactivity, tooth and gum decay, or diabetic shock. Take your pick. angledge chose hyperactivity as she overdosed on Dr. Pepper. chlaal might have had pickles and ice cream, because I hear that pre-fab babies do that to folks. chaosvizier ate a whole mess of girl scout cookies. Hope you all had a sugary-sweet week as well, and we'll see you tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Rock on!

AL&CV&C