ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 19 December 2005

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Number of persons taking this week's quiz: 167
Number of persons mentioning Star Trek's "Q" character: 218

"What, no love for Qatar? They're a bold people! They use a Q without a U! You can't buy that kind of moxie!" -

altoidsaddict

Clearly you haven't watched the evening news in about fifteen years. Allow us to direct you to the country of Iraq. Saddam bought a shitload of moxie.

And this week's theme, as most of you gathered, was Q. For Quiz. Or something like that. Ah, just read the damn answers already.

1. The character of Major Boothroyd from the James Bond series is most often referred to by what abbreviation?

"You do realise this will restart the eternal debate, Connery vs. Moore, dont you." -

sometimespez

(Not at all. The debate is over as far as I'm concerned- Sean Connery is The Man. Everyone else is a BUCK FUTTER. -CV)

"It's just got to be Jaws! Roar." -

azure_dragon

"Boothroyd? Boothroyd? Sweet Jeebus on a pogo stick, with a name that goofy he's *gotta* be a Brit." -

thepikey

"'Boothroyd'? Sounds like some kind of restaurant gland. Like booth + thyroid." -

profsparky

"Major Booty." -

hthottie

"Does it start with Q?" -

perkyczarlet

(Curiously enough, it ends with Q too. -CV)

"I have a friend whose name is Q. Well, actually, it's Bel, but she's an operative for a top-secret cohort of small Asian schoolgirls. She's not even Asian. Neither am I, come to think of it. But she's Q. And I'm the Jewish Soccer Mom. Facebook groups, what what." -

babybokal

(And the winner of the

spiffington Award For Complete Gibberish this week is...

babybokal! -CV)

"OMGWTFBBQ!" -

_tumblweed

"Secretly, I suspect that Q got loads more play than Bond did." -

arib,

zihuatanejo

"Old geezers usually aren't good with tech, but he is the exception to the rule." -

mcclintock

"because Q was a good golfer, he used to get a lot of information whilst out on the links, which he'd bring back to the office on the sly, ergo, the expression 'on the QT'. Q tee, get it?" -

etumukutenyak

"Q isn't an abbreviation, an abbreviation is when you derive a shortened version of a word or words from the full length version. Where's the Q in Major Boothroyd, hmmm?" -

kantiandream

(An excellent question. And with your answer... -CV)

"Q. For Quartermaster." -

nitasee

"Ah yes, the famous LJDQ wit. Or at least half of it." -

shrieking_ell

(+1, The World Is Not Enough. -CV)

Correct Answer: Q

"But since he's British, it's spelled 'Queue.'" -

amberdulen

2. In the game of pool, which ball is solid white?

"If I remember correctly, most balls in the pool are white and shriveled if it's cold enough." -

captain_slinky

(Pool = Billiards. BILLIARDS! What is with you people? -AL)

"I thought we were done with genitalia jokes..." -

shmuel

(Around here? Never. -AL)

"I don't know, but I sympathize with its freakishly pale nature. I myself suffer from a lack of pigmentation; I myself glow in the dark, and can experience snow blindness by looking at my own forearms in the summer." -

fruitoftheloon

(You must be British. -CV)

"Did you ever think how discriminatory the game of pool is? The white ball bashes the colored balls around, with the goal of 'pocketing' the black ball to win. It's an amazing metaphor for our racist society. Are we taking our cue from that?" -

drbear, voicing the PC concerns of many & throwing in a vile pun

"I don't know as I'd call it solid white. More like solid white with lots of blue smudges all over it from people like me who like to look cool and put skads of chalk all over their pool cue's tip while waiting for our turn." -

peaseblossom03

"Ha! Trick question! There IS no solid white ball! There is, however, a ball that's the whitish color of someone pissing on chalk and covered with strange flecks of color. And that ball, my friends, is the cue ball. I'm so bad at pool, I make other people suck." -

the_wanlorn

"The cue ball, so called because of its handy ability to be thrown at hapless actors who forget their entrances by technicians.
No, I'm not a bitter techie at all." -

zanmistoffelees

(LJDQ Fun Fact and Lesson in Units Conversion:)
"The cue ball also weighs a 1/2 ounce (or .01kg, whichever comes first) more than the rest of the balls." -

buzz

"Cue ball, like the top of

crostfingrs' head! (Love you, Sweetie!)" -

unamundamour

Correct Answer: The cue ball

"...which was Q's private name for Capt. Picard." -

pheltzer

3. Which 80's arcade game character faced off against villains Coily, Ugg, and Wrongway on a pyramid of color-shifting cubes?

People complaining about the nonstandard control system in the game: 4
People referencing Scott Adams' many -bert character names: 6
People referencing recreational drug use in relation to this video game: 9,000,000

"Q-Bert and the Magical Mystical LSD Trip. 'Duuuude... what if, like, he's being chased... by a COILED SNAKE?' 'Duuude, I AM BEING CHASED BY A COILED SNAKE!'" -

ctakahara

"I will accept those pyramids as having possibly be build by aliens, because aliens would totally build a color-shifting pyramid made of cubes." -

dracothelizard

"I saw color-shifting cubes when I ate the worm. Whoa." -

sweetpea86

"Mild-mannered driving instructor by day, pixellated hero by night" -

eridanusus

"Aha! The terrible power of the Ugg boot is at last explained. Only a decade such as the 80s could give birth to such a terrifying fashion trend." -

fruitoftheloon

"Coily, Ugg and Wrongway: Things I say when stumbling out of bed?" -

mercurykiss

"Ronald Reagan." -

krick,

ashfault76

"oooh I remember these guys, it was some sort of grunt sounding name...inky-binky, or something like that. crap, this is pissing me off." -

adafrog

(I believe you're thinking of Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, the ghosts who chase Pac-Man. -C)

"I plead too-young-for-this question and will go with my default old video game answer: Mrs. Pacman." -

shannon_sue

(That's Ms. Pac-Man to you, you little whippersnapper. Now get the hell off my lawn. -C)

"Well, I'm pretty sure it's not Pac-Man, Mrs. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong or any of the Super Mario people, so I'm afraid my knowledge of ancient video game characters has been exhausted." -

ciara_belle

(-1 for use of the term "ancient" to describe the 1980s. Now you get the hell off my lawn too. -C)

"I'm a chick. We don't play video games. We file our nails and look pretty." -

kestrel127

(Say WHAT? Umm ... you do know we were talking about the 1980s, right? -C)

"Ooh...I hate that game. I think. Maybe I've never played it. But it certainly sounds as annoying as hell." -

kokopellinelli

"Pizza Hut had this table with a glass top, and under the top was a Q-Bert game. It cost a quarter to play, but my mother wouldn't give me a quarter to fritter away on fancy moving electronic pictures. Instead, she let me get the all-you-can-eat salad bar. BUT I COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE!" -

altoidsaddict

"Well it's not centipede which was my favorite game evah because it didn't take much in the way of thought processes so you could sneak your beer out of your coat pocket while no one was looking...wait what was the question again?" -

sestree

"Do you know how old I was when the 80s ended? Just exactly 3. The only thing I remember from the 80s is being hit over the head by some kid at kindergarten." -

wingsister

(You were in kindergarten at age 3? Wow, you must have been precocious. And just look at you now. It was all downhill after that, eh? -C)

Correct Answer: Q*bert

"The Urkel of video games." -

lusciousmango

4. What is the third largest island in Japan?

"To think, 4 semesters of Japanese at college and I never bothered to learn the damn island names past the shit I hear in anime." -

lyme

"Once again my pathetic American education in geography fails me. But I can still remember the first paragraph of the Gettysburg Address, so that's got to count for something, right?" -

wendynat

"At this point it's clear that the answer starts with Q. The remainder is left as an exercise to the reader." -

spatialrift47

(That might be true, if CV & C were writing this quiz with me around to curb the punning. But since I'm still mostly offline in NOLA, they get away with murder. -AL)

"Isn't Japan an island? Or do they have some sort of crazy nested island within an island thing going on. Oh, those wacky Japanese!" -

krick

"The only japanesish word I know is qi, and even then it's Not Actually Japanese. Still, it is useful in scrabble." -

benmiff

"it's hard to translate those little pictures into English." -

pheltzer

"Eni, Meni, Meini... yes, Meini" -

themommage

"Godzilla Island" -

majorchaos

"hello Qitty?" -

armethis

"When you think about it, we're all islands." -

kokopellinelli

(Thank you, Simon and Garfunkel. -CV)

"the island of haiku" -

speckled_llama

(CV's native land. -AL)

"I'll bet it's still not half as big as Texas. U-S-A NUMBER 1! *bellow* *snort* RAWR!" -

pyratelady

"I'm admitting to nothing, but assuming, just assuming, one doesn't even know the name of the biggest island, does that mean one's life is automatically forfeit to ninjas lurking nearby? (Of course there are ninjas lurking nearby. There are always ninjas lurking nearby.)" -

silmaril

"Quacamoli. The island is famous for its green sauce." -

dhud98

(Riiiiight, the Japanese and their famous ... green sauce. Sure. -C)

"Since I don't know the answer to this, I was going to share a picture of the Japanese Beach Volleyball team, but alas, they are not very attractive. I have been made a sad panda." -

ataralas

(That trick would only work once in any-
We will use any excuse to post this photo.

-ooooh! -AL&CV&C)

"Kyushu? I hardly know you!" -

buzz

"Kyushu, named after Mushu's third cousin." -

mistyraven

"That's a fun word to say. Almost as much fun as smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock..." -

deza

(+1, Calvin and Hobbes.)

Correct Answer: Kyushu

"(Gesundheit!)" -

motown_deserter

5. The Royal Botanic Gardens in southwestern London are also referred to as what?

"Fern Gully" -

zanmistoffelees

"SHRUBBERIES!!!" -

wendynat

"The Queen's Hothouse. Rumor has it that's where she keeps all her hoes and rakes." -

spatialrift47

"The Queen's Bush." -

jenlittlebottom,

drbear,

rose727
"If Prince Harry becomes king, then they can rename it Harry's Bush." -

bizzatch

"The "Never gonna let Camilla be Queen" Gardens." -

dhud98

"What's up with the Brits and they're whacked-out spelling? Leicester = 'lester'. Chequer = 'checker' Quay = 'key'. Queue = 'fits todays theme, but wrong answer for this question'. Kew, on the other hand, is actually prounounced the way it's spelled." -

ashfault76

"My extensive reading of cheesy Regency romances allows me to say 'Kew Gardens'. Shut up." -

lovellama

"My mother grew up in Kew Gardens. Of course that was the one in Queens, NYC, but still. Coincidence... I think not." -

pheltzer

"I've never been to Kew, and I'm told it's a nice place, so maybe I should go. You know, I might even see flowers through the fog and the rain." -

potassiumman

Correct Answer: Kew Gardens

"Smells infinitely better than Pew Gardens." -

nitasee

6. What is your best quality?

"It sure as hell doesn't start with an obscure letter of the alphabet." -

ctakahara

(Given that there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, I'm not sure it's really accurate to refer to any of them as "obscure"... -C)

"I can sew a quilt while eating quince and quaffing quiche. My quiescence is belied by my quick-witted qomebacks. I don't quibble over or question that which is queer, but quails make me queasy. I sing in a barbershop quartet, keeping time on my quartz watch, and I am never an armchair quarterback. I am ever questing for the quintessence of my quarry." -

spatialrift47

(I bet your left pinky finger was tired after typing that. -AL)

"My never-ending appetite for yellow dye #5" -

perkyczarlet

"I'd say my personality, but right now, with fifty minutes and two more essays to write, I'd say it's my dash ability to grasp at bullshit, pretty it up, and turn it in for a hopeful A." -

jazzminarino

"Above all else, I try to treat everyone the same." -

buzz

"Well, being British, I'm good at coping with queues ..." -

bobjanova

"I drink a lot." -

woap
"I'm a cheap drunk." -

sometimespez
"I'm told I'm a good listener. Aren't I a catch?" -

arib

(And when the three of you let your powers combine, you form the Perfect Date. -CV)

"In winter I laud my warmth and snugglyness to potential female snugglers." -

mcclintock

"My capability on seeing ~~buttsex~~subtext in everything I read/see/hear." -

reenjalas

"I guess I'll have to go with 'I can lick my eyebrows', with 'Hung like a zoo animal' in a close second." -

thepikey

"Now really, why do you want to know that? It's not like you're ever going to even meet me, so why do you want to know my best quality? What happens if I don't have one? What if I'm actually a psychotic psycopath with narcissitic tendencies? Would you chose one of those as my best quality? Which one? The psychosis or the narcicism? hmm... the choices." -

saramund

(Sheesh, just tryin' to make conversation. -AL)

"Near Letter Quality. (Remember dot matrix printers?? Again, I'm old.)" -

unamundamour

(We all remember that. Geezers unite! - AL&C&CV)

"Take my brother

chaosvizier's worst. Invert it. That will be my best." -

ordervizier

(Someone is being very clever. +1 -AL)

"I'm water-resistant to 40 meters" -

krick

(What happens after that? -AL)

"My boyfriend says my brain, but who's he kidding? He loves my boobs!" -

marilyth
"I would have to say my bottom. I have a fine behind. :)" -

azure_dragon

"Que? I know nothing. I am from Barcelona." -

ashfault76

(Bienvenidos a Quizland. -AL)

"My ability to make my manager's life a living hell and yet still keep my job." -

whiski_sour

("Dear

whiski_sour: You're fired. Merry Christmas to me." -

whiskisourboss)

Correct Answer: "Even when I know I'll fail (e.g. in trying to come up with something funny for this quiz) I usually try. (e.g. the previous answers I spouted anyway.)" - silmaril

Several of you gave answers on that theme, & for that we salute you! We may not have quoted you, but nonetheless the sentiment is good and right and true. Keep playing the Quiz!

And as we approach the end of the year, many of you are perhaps travelling and going offline. To you we wish happy holidays, whatever it is you might be celebrating, and travel safely, and come back online in the new year to play even more quizzes. Can you resist? Resolve to play more, and bring in more players! Father Christmas and all his holiday brethren command it!

Rock on,

AL&CV&C

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