LJ Daily Answers, 10 September 2004

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Days of the week was our theme for this quiz, something most of you picked up:

Question 1: "I'm guessing this is a day of the week thing." - deinemuse
Question 2: "...I'm noticing a trend" - thinksheknowsya
Question 3: "oh, hang on, spotting a pattern." - _j0k3r_
Question 4: "Oh, wait: I just figured out your loosly-veiled theme for this week." - beansidhe

Personally, we think that the pattern made this week's quiz too easy, so we're thinking of abandoning them. You all are going to be lost little souls when we start giving you patternless quizzes! Mwah-ha-ha!

"Do y'all realize how hung over I've been all week? Neither did I until I sobered up this morning. Fortunately for me Hurricane Frances has obliterated the hated day ball. Unfortunately for me, since the day ball was not present this morning to light the bathroom, I brushed my teeth with Clearasil." - xgreenjudasx

Okay, maybe some of you are doing what you can to make the quizzes hard for yourselves already.

Anyway, moving along to the answers .....

1. Who is the daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams?

"I'm goth yo! I'm goth yo! I'm goth-goth-gothity-goth-goth yo!"

- ghostwriterxx

"Wednesday - AKA Hump Day!" - hollyinpa

(Was anyone else thinking about "Hump Day" when answering this question? Let's find out. -AL)

"And I'd like to add: Christina Ricci is hot." - marasca

"Wonderfully played by Christina Ricci in the film version of 'The Addams Family'... just before she was visited by the titty fairy." - krick

(My favoritest fairy of them all. -CV)

"Christina Ricci! This was her breakout role, and her talent, along with her bountiful breasts, have served her career well. She was nominated for a Golden Globe award for The Opposite of Sex. Mmmm....Christina's globes...." - b7cy

"Christina Aguilera." - matt_ledgerwood

"Are those cookies made with real Girl Scouts?" - fizrep

(+1, The Addams Family. -AL)

"We had this girl who went to Conservatory with me who looked exactly like Wednesday Addams. This was made even more hilarious compounded with the fact that she was dating a guy who looked exactly like Festor Addams. And that they were both Jesus Freaks. One Halloween a bunch of us suggested that they go as Wednesday and Festor. And they didn't get it. Ah life." - xgreenjudasx

(Some folks just ain't got no culture. -CV)

"You know, the first time I saw Gomez Adams as a child I thought they’d got the idea from Saddam Hussein… uncanny resemblance to the photos we were bombarded with on Kuwait TV in 1991. The daughter? Perhaps a transvestite Uday or Qussay?" - alyaat

"Button Moon Wednesday." - pisica

(Now you're just daring me to find BBC's Childrens Programming studio and set it aflame. Consider it burninated. -CV)

Correct Answer: Wednesday Addams.

"Wednesday Friday Addams." - miwsehat

(Wow, you even gave us her middle name ... and her middle name fits with this week's theme! -AL)

(After I posted the LJDQ Reminder on Wednesday, afterwards took seriously the injunction to tell us "whatever else popped into my head when I read the question ..." Here are the results. -AL)

"Wednesday is fish sticks. Green lime jello for dessert." - afterwards

(+1, Rain Man. -AL)

"It's possible that he's in the land of perpetual Wednesday, or the crazy melty land, or you know, the world without shrimp." - afterwards
"'Cause Spikey don't play that anymore, Morticia." - afterwards

(+2, for two Buffy the Vampire Slayer quotes. -AL)

"Packed with peanuts, ass really satisfies. (Blame Llefser.)" - afterwards

(You may carry the spiffington Award For Total Gibberish with pride and honour. -CV)

2. On [Sunday] January 30, 1972, twenty-seven people were shot by British soldiers after a civil rights march in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. This incident is commonly referred to by what name?

(I find it dismaying that our generation has learned history from pop songs ... and nothing else. -AL)

(So true. I miss the good old days, when kids learned classical music by watching Bugs Bunny cartoons. -CV)

"Sunday Bloody Sunday?? (I mean, that's what the U2 song is about, isn't it??)" - xthevalkyriex
"I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away" - _j0k3r_
"It was just a marketing ploy by U2. Feh." - fizrep
"U2 - Bloody Sunday." - miwsehat

(Et cetera, thousands & thousands of more-or-less identical answers ... yaaaaaawn. -AL)

"Apparently people who weren't aware of this event were very offended by the U2 song 'Bloody Sunday' because they thought that Bono and crew were swearing about the sabbath." - sskipstress

(This, however, was interesting. We always like learning new Fun Facts! -CV)

(The number of correct answers plummeted after I edited this question, removing the word "Sunday" from before the date ... -AL)

"The Guinness Riots of '72. A local pub owner was forced to close early when he ran out of liquor, and the bullets started flying. There could have been more casualties, but luckily most of the locals had the shakes from withdrawal, and thus were unable to aim or fire their weapons." - b7cy

"Bloody Irishmen Standing In Front Of My Gun When It Suddenly Went Off Day" - impulsezip

"The Despicable Derry-Do. Decisively, the daring defenders were decidedly decimated in a depredacious dispute over the district's diversion of doughnuts. It has dropped divisional demarcations of doubt and disparagement from such a dirty deed." - funkyplaid

(I dare say, your description of death and destruction deserves, demands even, its dues. +D. -CV)

"Bloody Monday?" - d4b

"The 'Holy Shit What Have We Done And Where Shall We Hide The Bodies' Incident. (Can you tell I have no clue?)" - stagemanager

(Not having a clue, but still answering. This embodies the spirit of the LJDQ. -AL)

"Bad behaviour." - perkyczarlet

"The Derry Tea Party" - ghostwriterxx

"Murder" - verdandiweaves

(I suppose you'd have to take that up with a War Crimes Tribunal. -AL)

(Sorry, the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal only works on genocide-class killings. Twenty-seven Irish ain't even a drop in the ole bucket. -CV)

Correct Answer: Bloody Sunday.

"not to be confused with 'Bloody Sundae'." - krick

(A perennial bestseller at the Transylvania franchises of Baskin-Robbins. -AL)

"Sundae Bloody Sundae! Not to be confused with Sunday Muddy Sunday, which is every other weekend in Northern Ireland." - afterwards

3. The Bangles' first big success was the album A Different Light, which featured the singles "Walking Down Your Street", "Walk Like An Egyptian", and what other song?

"The Bangles, ah yes, the band I always remember for Walk Like an Egyptian, and who always remind me I don't have enough silver bangles - what was the question again?" - verdandiweaves

"In 1988, my best friend and I followed the Bangles on their Summer Tour... front row ('standing field only') access to the greatest girl band of the 80s...or at least 1988. The band rocked out. We could almost touch Susanna Hoffs. Imagine what that means for a gal like me!" - hollyinpa

(Means you needed new shorts after the concert. -CV)

"I used to have the major hots for the bass guitarist. Should could play with my little pharoah ANY day..." - fizrep

(Ladies, take note: If fizrep invites you to see King Tut's Tomb, back away slowly and call 911. -CV)

"Manic Monday! When I have a terrible song stuck in my head, I've found that starting up a round of Manic Monday somehow clears it out like nothing else. 'Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream, I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream...'" - marasca

(Curiously enough, I use "Walk Like An Egyptian" to do the same thing. News flash: Bangles tunes cure mental song looping. -CV)

"I think Valentino may need to go to the doctor if he's producing a 'crystal blue Italian stream'" - sskipstress

"'Manic Monday,' 'Prozac Tuesday,' 'Lithium Wednesday,' 'Xanax Thursday,' and my favorite, 'Fuck Me Six Ways Till Sunday.'" - stagemanager

Correct Answer: Manic Monday.

"Manic ... often tends to be more pertinant to my own Friday mornings, when the night before the proximity of the weekend has enticed me into a late night boozy evening with much loved but student type friends who do not have to be into work for 8.45am (which quite frankly is the middle of the frickin night) and i have to spend the day catching up on the week of work lost to IM conversations and Great Daily Quiz entertainment!" - seolta

(The LJDQ - cutting corporate productivity since July 2004! -AL)

"LJDQ trivia: this song was written by Prince." - krick

4. Which day of the week is named after a cantankerous Norse deity who drives a goat chariot and smites his enemies with a hammer?

"Hmmmm....it is either Saturday or Tuesday from what I can gather..." - hollyinpa

(I'm afraid you are not cut out to be a hunter-gatherer. -CV)

"Smite me, baby! The correct answer is Wednesday, or Woden's day. Comic books and Led Zeppelin have taught me everything I will ever need to know about Norse mythology. And how to pick up guys at sci-fi conventions. "Is that Mjolnir in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"" - madkitty

(It hurts me deeply to let you know that the reason you're not getting enough guys at sci-fi conventions is that you're confusing Odin (one eye, two ravens) with Thor (one hammer, two goats). -CV)

"Thursday, being appropriately named after Thurston Howell III. (Huh? A hammer? He didn't? Oh, well. Poor Lovey.)" - stagemanager

(I think I missed that episode of Gilligan's Island. -AL)

"Thundercatsaregosday" - _j0k3r_

(The Thundercats are tough... but they're not infallible. -CV)

"Norseday" - d4b

(Once a formal part of the Julian calendar, but later removed once the cranky Norsemen started raiding the hell out of Northern Europe. -CV)

"Hansday." - xgreenjudasx

(I don't see that day on my calendar. When is it? -AL)

"It's between Sunday and Monday." - thereject

(Oh, OK. -AL)

"I wasn't aware there was a day of the week named after my dad..." - lolafae

(WARNING to anyone dating lolafae. Do NOT bring her home late, no groping during the good-night kiss, & whatever you do don't give her a hickey. In fact, it's probably safer for her to die a virgin. -AL)

"Thursday. Named for Thor. The droppings of his goats were onions. I collect stuffed goats (cuddly toys, not taxidermy) which is why I know that. I also know the names of all four stomachs of goats. Please stop looking at me like that. If you ever want to take a week off I could write a quiz about goats." - pisica

(And this week's LJDQ Goat Lovers Award goes to pisica! You should meet mshenzi sometime ... -CV)

(What do you think, everyone? Should AL & CV take a week off so pisica can give you a quiz about goats?)

("NO!!!!" - Everyone)

"You can see self-proclaimed heavy metal "God" Thor in action in Rock 'n Roll Nightmare. Oh...you mean Thursday's not named after THAT thor? My bad." - krick

"Thorsdagar - i dare not make fun on this one for fear of being smote with said mighty hammer" - seolta

(Oh, come on. Live a little! -AL)

"Well Thor has a hammer, a couple of magical goats, which he can skin and eat every night, and who grow again from the bones the next morning. His day would be Thursday (surprisingly enough), but he's not particularly cantankerous. He likes a good beer, a good party, a good fight, a good adventure, and a good wench - far less distruptive than your average modern football hooligan. And he's extremely strong - so it's best to be on his good side. :)" - verdandiweaves

"And why is he cantankerous? He's stuck in a goat chariot." - afterwards

"It's a little known fact that Thor was often depicted as wielding a pillow and not Mjolnir, since the hammer weighed so much that even with Thor's strength could only be swung once a year." - fizrep

(When in doubt as to how to answer, make up facts. It's the LJDQ way. -AL)

"Thor with his big hammer, yet there is this show that was on TV about these sex machines and one was called the hammer. Now, the question is... would he get rid of his old hammer for this new and improved hammer? Is Thor getting any? Maybe that old hammer is a turn off, but then this new one could be too. Sick shit!" - deinemuse

(I think you need to stop watching TV. Or at the very least, please don't mail-order any Thor-based material. I just don't want to know. -CV)

"Tomorrow. Which will be yesterday two days from now." - chrysoberyl

(If I weren't drunk, that might actually have hurt. -CV)

(After much head-scratching, several consultations with the calendar, & a couple more drinks, we have tentatively concluded that this is correct. Full credit. -AL&CV)

Correct Answer: Thursday.

5. In New Orleans, this holiday is called Mardi Gras and celebrated with parades, drinking, and lots of gratuitous nakedness. In the UK, this same day is celebrated by eating pancakes and is called what?

"Are you people drunk?" - deinemuse

(This is clearly a rhetorical question. -CV&AL)

"Fat Tuesday" - lolafae, thinksheknowsya, krick, d4b
"Well, since Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday, I'm going to go out on a limb and say...Fat Tuesday?" - xthevalkyriex

(The limb you've gone out on has broken under the weight of all these wrong answers. -1 for each of you. -AL)

"Fat Tuesday. Followed by Remorse Wednesday, Binge&Purge Thursday and Give-It-All-Up-And-Get-Liposuction Friday." - madkitty

(And that's why I'm happy to sit around on Chubbyfuckingfatass Saturday. -CV)

"It’s a new holiday to mark the opening of Holyrood in Edinburgh. They’ll be lucky to afford anything better than pancakes after the incomprehensible expense of building that architectural nightmare." - alyaat

(Quizlings who live in Scotland know what alyaat is talking about. If you don't, but you want to know more, click on the picture below. -AL)



"Can I put me 'syrup' on your 'waffles'? day." - stagemanager

(And my pickup line for the week is ready for action. -CV)

"I don't know, but it doesn't sound nearly so fun as what we have over here." - thereject

"Blimey, Bloody Pancakes Again Tuesday." - miwsehat

"Iwantobeinneworleansnotsittingeatingpancakeswithmybloodyauntday" - _j0k3r_

"Are-You-Sure-We-Can't-Have-Even-A-Little-Nudity-Oh-That's-Right-We're-British Day." - beansidhe

"you mean we have shrove tuesday instead of nakedness, parades and drinking? Talk about the great British reserve." - verdandiweaves

(Although the British reserve did enable them to conquer the world 200 years ago, it seems to have lost some of its stentorian effect. Probably because other cultures like boobies. -CV)

"Fucking British Lamer Day. News flash!! B00bz > flapjacks !" - fizrep

"Get Naked and Eat Pancakes day...who'd have ever thunk to eat pancakes on a day of celebration. That's just weird." - ghostwriterxx

(ghostwriterxx's suggestion might erode a bit of that British reserve. -AL)

(ghostwriterxx herself might erode a bit of that British reserve. HOT. -CV)

"Pancake Day, which sounds like pretty much the best idea for a holiday ever. Beats the pants off the American holidays Columbus 'Let's celebrate a day for when Europeans came to America to kill the natives and destroy their culture' Day and Thanksgiving 'Let's celebrate all that stuff again 2 months later by gorging ourselves on dead animals' Day." - marasca

(I do agree that Pancake Day would be fun. But I really couldn't do without Turkey Day either. Perhaps a two-part holiday, where you can eat either Turkey or Pancakes. Or, if you're a true diehard, Turkey Pancakes. -CV)

(You are OUT OF YOUR MIND if you think Pancake Day sounds better than Nakedness, Parades And Drinking Day. -AL)

"Lent?" - dougygyro

(You're one day off. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday & runs until Easter Sunday. -AL)

"In PA dutch country, it's called Fastnacht Day (in Germany, I believe they just call it Fastnacht) ... and the people there eat doughnuts made from potato flour deep fried in lard called which are so dense they sit in your stomach until Easter or at least that's how it feels on Ash Wednesday morning." - sskipstress

Correct Answer: Shrove Tuesday.

"What exactly is a Shrove anyhow? Is it a special type of pancake? Maybe a *forbidden* pancake? Mmmm forbidden pancake." - chyrsoberyl

(Shrove is derived from the word "shrive", meaning to hear confession. And "forbidden pancake" is derived from The Simpsons, meaning a +1. -AL)

6. So ... what are your plans for the weekend?

"Why, waiting on the edge of my seat to see the answers to the Live Journal Daily Quiz, of course! That and waffles. Lots and lots of waffles." - madkitty

(Here are your answers. Now pass the waffles. -CV)

"Housecleaning, decluttering, writing and then work on Monday." - rtsindo

"A whole lot of nothing, and a whole lot of Pringles." - xthevalkyriex

(Mmmm... I have the fever for the flavor of a Pringles. -CV)

"See a movie. Study." - theblahgirl

(For the sake of efficiency, I recommend The Perfect Score. It's a movie, and it's about studying! Well, actually, it's about doing stuff to avoid studying. Stealing, in fact. But still, it might inspire you. -CV)

"Clearing cobwebs from the spare room so i can welcome our great and wondrous quiz moderator into my humble and unworthy abode" - seolta

(+5! And a giant, heartfelt Thank You for sheltering me during my last week in Scotland. -AL)

(-1 for clearing out the cobwebs. My co-moderator can handle some puny spiders in her room! -CV)

"Get paid, go to work. Fantasize about the majority of the SJ Games writing staff. You know, the usual." - afterwards

(-1, Horny Geek Of The Week, for fantasizing about people working for Steve Jackson Games. -CV)

"Are you chatting me up? Naughty." - beansidhe

(No naughtiness is beyond our scope. -AL&CV)

"Soon it is my BIRTHDAY, and that is the BEST DAY OF ALL!!!" - pisica

(-1, shameless self-promotion. That's OUR prerogative. But happy almost birthday anyway. -CV)

"Recuperating from the brain drain that this quiz puts me through." - stagemanager

"Painting the downstairs bathroom. Want to come help? I've all ready put a coat of primer on." - miwsehat

(Any volunteers?





*crickets*






*crickets*




Well, have fun. -AL&CV)

"maybe a 'game night' - a bit of Scrabble, Yahtzee, Texas Hold'em for cold, hard cash maybe....Ha, who am I kidding! The pot never exceeds 30 bucks and that's when we have 10 people playin!!!!" - hollyinpa

"Drunk, just drunk" - _j0k3r_

(Beautiful. Just beautiful. -CV)

"a. Master's dissertation: Done. b. Alcohol: Swillin'. c. New Bathmat: Impending." - funkyplaid

"Getting completely shitty in the Pub, and celebrating funkyplaid's completion of his thesis!" - dougygyro

(Unlike me, _j0k3r_ & funkyplaid handed their dissertations in on time this week. Congratulations! Hoist a round for them at your favorite local drinking establishment. -AL)

"Sobering up." - xgreenjudasx

(OK, not you. -CV)

"... repeating my mantra over and over until this dissertation is done: 'I do not suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.'" - alyaat

"... one of my coworkers is currently plotting to take me to a wedding as her date. Sort of. Whatever do you mean, you ask? This all has come about because her pseudo-boyfriend showed no interest in going with her...until she decided to take me instead. When he learned of this development, he changed his mind and agreed to go, although in the most passive-aggressive way possible. So, ladies of the LJDQ, if you need a guy buddy to use as leverage or a second-stringer for when plans don't work out, I'm your man. The name's b7cy. Use me as necessary, then toss me aside like a human-sized piece of garbage. 'b7cy, Pretending Not to Be Bitter Since 1973.'" - b7cy

(+1 for bitterness. -CV)

"Pancakes, drinking, and gratuitous nakedness. Hopefully with someone else, but I'll be a one man party if need be." - thereject

"Something that will involve Fat Tuesday type festivites without the gratuitous nudity (at least not in a public or a group setting)." - lolafae

"Now- nakedness, parades and drinking.,,, I have a lot to catch up on." - verdandiweaves

thereject, meet lolafae & verdandiweaves. -AL)

"Its become obvious to me that my Kerry puppet that I was planning to use to control the US has begun to look shaky. It is therefore my aim to discredit the republican leadership some more, one thinks I shall do this by just letting them speak in front of a microphone." - matt_ledgerwood

(That should work. -AL)

"Going to Florida to fly around in circles with my new friend Ivan." - deinemuse
"Dodging Ivan in Florida and hopefully purchasing a new abode" - ghostwriterxx

(Everyone, meet deinemuse & ghostwriterxx's friend Ivan:

Doesn't that make you want to move to Florida? -AL)

"I'm flying to Nashville, TN then driving to Royal, AL to put on 5 pounds of velvet to watch a friend of mine become queen of a pretend place. She's hot, so it'll all be worth it." - sskipstress

"Sydney, bay-bee! Haven't decided if I am going to try Veggimite or leave more for the natives. We are going to consume great quantities of local wine though..." - perkyczarlet

(We wish for safe travels for all of you. -CV&AL)

Correct Answer: "working" - crushablepink

(Why? Because that's what we'll be doing too. Curses! -AL&CV)

All right, that's it for this week. A hearty welcome to all our first-time players (rtsindo, crushablepink, dandycat, theblahgirl, & xthevalkyriex) & a big thank-you to our regulars. Performing our LJDQ moderator duties next week is going to be a bit of a hassle, as CV will be swamped with duties at the United Nations & AL has to turn in her dissertation next Friday, but never fear! We've got our priorities straight. The Quiz will be posted on Hansday!

Rock on,

AL&CV.