LJ Daily Answers: 16 January 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

In case it wasn't too predictable, the only way to follow a "heat" themed quiz was with a "cool" themed quiz. Logical, Mr. Spock, perfectly logical. Of course, as is customary with this quiz, the logic pretty much ends right here. Read on for more derangitude!



1. Calgary. Jamaica. Bobsleds. What is, arguably, the only film that fits this description?

"Rastafarian Olympic Sluts #6" - mightygodking
"Strange Bud -- De Zion Adventures o' Doug and Bob MacKenzie, mon." - utforsker
"Pirates Of The Caribbean 124: We Ran Out Of Good Titles For This Franchise In 2041." - manynames
"A film Cuba Gooding, Jr. wishes he'd made rather than 'Snow Dogs.'" - lusciousmango
"Pride and Prejudice!"- invalidcaracter

"Men With Brooms. Wait, no, that's curling. Men With Bobsleds? Jamaica. Mon With Bobsled. *beams*" - pocketmouse

"I REALLY want this to be a musical, but I can't recall ever hearing about a musical about bobsleds." - weill
"dammit, now I have that Chariots of Fire song in my head again." - bubosquared

"Doug E. Doug, or whatever his name was, made the absolute worst Jamaican ever. Been there, smoked that, never saw anyone like him!" - halo4

"John Candy was dying to make that movie." - dhud98

"Every time I see David Spade I get really sad that John Candy is dead. He looks so skinny and lonely. That man needs someone larger, dumber, and kinder than himself to absorb the snark. What's the Numa Numa Guy doing these days?" - amberdulen

"My favorite part was when the guy pokes his head out of the freezer and breaks off a dreadlock." - spatialrift47

"I had a friend who was obsessed with that film, OBSESSED. Lsitening to her you'd have thought it was the greatest film in the history of cinema, or possibly the greatest piece of art in the history of the world." - crystalcazzie

(-1 to your friend. -AL)

"A movie that makes a very good argument as to why men should *not* wear skin tight clothing. Those guys look like they're smuggling rocks in their pants!" - diefbaby

"My guess? The next film like this will be about the Ghanain skiing team." - liseuse

"My little brother used to empty out the bathtub and slide on the slick surface and sing 'I'm on a jamacian bobsled team' when he was 3 or 4. Funny funny stuff." - renee12321

"You know, every night I have to lock up Canada Olympic park. Now, when I go tonight, I'm gonna end up singing the Jamaican Bobsled Team song because of you. ...jerks." - nakedblueninja

(*high fives all around* -AL&C&CV)

"OMG COOL RUNNINGS. I recall a church youth camp I went on a few years ago where somehow, somehow they managed to make Cool Runnings the theme. Cool Runnings = JESUS. Obviously." - jetsam_porridge

(Well sure, that's Biblical. Deutermonery 12:19 says "And Yahweh spake, saying 'Thou canst smoke any the weeds of this garden, and shalt gain wisdom therefrom.' And Moses did smoke of the three-leafed herb, and didst learn that to traverse the snowy wastes into the Promised Land, the Ark would be placed in the sled of Robert, and pushed forth, and gain speed in the LORD's eyes. And then he did feast on quail and monna, for he hadst the munchies something fierce.")

"Lately the only good non animated movies Disney has made are all about sports.... Might Ducks, Miracle, Cool Runnings. Must be that relationship with ESPN via ABC which Disney owns." - pheltzer

"There were so many reasons to watch the Olympics in 1988, the battle of the Brians, Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards, and the Jamaica bobsled team, not to mention Katerina Witt and Ekaterina Gordeeva. And now I'm showing my age, aren't I?" - sskipstress

(Ours too. -AL&CV&C)

"Cool Will Runting, starring Matt Damon as a mathematical genius who masters the bobsled course by figuring out the area under its curve." - captainsblog

Correct Answer: Cool Runnings



2. Guy Berryman, Johnny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin are also known as whom?

"The Jamaican Bobsled Team?" - csflick

(Nice try, but no. -CV)

"Berry, Bucky, Champy & Marty- The Teletubbies" - dazeydevyne

"They all played Mr. Freeze on Batman." - drbear

(That's Governor Freeze to you, mister. -CV)

"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" - guxx, caffeineod

"The Three Amigos. We also would've accepted 'Los Quatro Pendejos.'" - david_deacon

"coolio, vanilla ice, ice cube, and ice t" - spam_with_wings

(You left out LL Cool J. But very good guess. -CV)

(On the other hand, Kool And The Gang got at least 20 votes. -CV)

"What, is this like the line up of Vanilla Ice? Is he like the Doctor--does he come back every couple of years regenerated but still just slightly out of style?" - nextian

"The band with the one guy who knocked up Gwyneth Palthrow and other people whose names I don't recognize" - alejandradd, voicing the thoughts of several of you. Just goes to show, you're only cool if you're banging someone else who's cool.

"Coldplay. Enjoy the music, wonder about the name of the band, boggle at the name of the child, figure out this week's theme in record time." - portkey

"Everything sounds like Coldplay now." - bananrama

"Sounds like a superhero team. 'Berryman, with the power of fruit! Buckland, with the power of antlers! Champion, with the power of being-superior-than-you! Martin, with no powers at all! By your powers combined I am... FUCKING COLD!'" - alliterator

"Those are the most un-rockstar-esque names ever. I bet they'd sell more records if they updated their stage names. I suggest: Guy "The Edge" Berryman, Johnny "50 Cent" Buckland, Will "The Boss" Champion, and Chris "Bono" Martin." - marasca

Correct Answer: Coldplay



3. What is the SI unit for the amount of charge carried by a current of one ampere for one second?

(Number of Sports Illustrated references: 31. Let's get the obligatory 36-24-36 out of the way now, shall we? -CV)

"Five prepositional phrases in one sentence. I'm tuckered-out just reading it!" - unamundamour

"I want the 'Geek of the Week' award so just give me credit for skipstress' answer for this one." - csflick

(I'm afraid you're about to be disappointed... -CV)

"Uh huhuhuhuhuhuh, you said 'unit'." - lyme, sskipstress

"Dammit, chaosvizier, I'm a librarian, not a...a...person who knows about that kind of thing!" - miladygrey

"A Rhino - that's a lot of charge there." - drdoug

"A volt? Or is it an ohm? Ohm ohhhhmmm ohhhmmmmm, mmm peaceful." - grapefruitzzz

"1.21 Gigawatts!" - alejandradd

(+1, Back To The Future. -CV)

"Hypothetically speaking, if a quizling were to hypothetically have spent that particular science class attempting to electrocute the kid with the back brace which may or may not have hypothetically conducted current, how many hypothetical points would the aforementioned hypothetical quizling hypothetically get?" - maggiebloome

(I'd say about -10, because I wore a back brace. Luckily, mine was hard plastic. -CV)

"Coulumbine...a school namd after a physical reaction?" - southbucki

"Coulombo. Named after that famous scientific investigator who ended all of his experiments with, 'Just one more observation...'" - zihuatanejo, potassiumman

Correct Answer: Coulomb



4. What was the term for the conflict between the superpowers in the latter half of the twentieth century that led to a tremendous nuclear arms race and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union?

"In Soviet Russia, one minuses you!" - chaosvizier, to everybody who made this joke. You know who you are.

"There's just no way to make the Cold War funny." - photosinensis
"If anyone can make a very witty reply out of 'Cold War', I am their slave, LJDQ. It has to be a good one though. No puns." - halo4

(Read on, oh ye of little faith in your fellow quizlings.)

"I was hoping it'd be the Cool War. That'd be much better. Hell, I'd volunteer for that one, and I'd bring my own shades." - lazy_alex

"Sweeps month." - rialtus

"Dodgeball" - majorchaos

"Tom Clancy vs. John Grisham?" - jtersesk

"Kasparov vs. Fischer" - pheltzer

"Oh God, Oh God, We're All Going To Die?" - nextian

(+1, Serenity. -CV)

"An excuse for politicians to build giant phallic symbols missiles. Lots of 'em. And keep them stored in tubes. That take two other men to fire off... I would support a return to the Cold War if it would provide an outlet for these guys' weird sexual issues. Channeling that energy into sicko varieties of religious fundamentalism isn't doing any of us any good." - barbarienne

"the Cold War led to some pretty bizarre fantasies for a desperate kid going through puberty. 'Hmmm... Would she sleep with me if we knew that the missles were flying, and we're at ground zero?'" - greenmansgrove

"I wouldn't sleep with greenmansgrove even if the nukes were flying." - shereallywont

"Most of what I know about the Cold War comes from video games. Which is to say, I know that giant robots were somehow involved." - portkey

"movies almost always had the Russians as the bad guys. then arabs. what's next? The Amish? Oh no! they're sending over their fiercest barn-raisers! Run for it!" - speckled_llama

"Those heady days of my youth where we had easily defined bad guys that were bent on world domination." - ghostrider65

"Not to be confused with the Coal War, where my sister and I threw chunks of coal at each other. Ow." - pocketmouse

"The bomb, Dimitri...the hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head..." - scifantasy

(+1, Dr. Strangelove. -C)

"Not to be confused with any of the Winter Olympics, including the Olympics that the US boycotted because it was in Russia (1980) and not to be confused with the Olympics that they boycotted because it was in America (1984). Ah, I remember those heady days, of claim and counter-claim, the denouements, the propaganda, the dashed dreams of competitors. All that ever mattered was how many gold medals the US won. Thank goodness those days are behind us now, and the true spirit of competition for competition's sake are first and foremost." - etumukutenyak

"Our first arms race was called the Hot War, but that one sank into the swamp. So we built a second arms race: the Warm War. That one sank into the swamp. So we built a third arms race: the Tepid War. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. So we built a fourth one: the Cold War. And that one stayed up." - deltashade

(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -C)

Correct Answer: The Cold War

"Consisted of the US and the USSR sticking out their tongues at one another for forty years." - cmzero



5. The temperature at which all motion stops is called what?

"In Green Bay, anything above zero, when we all start working on our suntans." - drbear

"Climax" - a bunch of you horny bastards

"I dunno, but it happens at the end of a lot of my brother's dates so it can't be that rare" - mightygodking

"Ask the cop that is manning that radar gun, I'm sure he has the answer." - sweetpea86

"That really amusing part in cartoons when it gets cold really quickly and the villain freezes mid-cackle." - puredeadthingy

"must be around 67 degrees…the temperature at which my cat insists on sleeping IN my pajamas with me." - notpunk

"I don't know. But I DO know that rock melts at 7800 degrees F. Thank you, Bon Jovi." - doomgirl

"Well, Hell will supposedly freeze over when the Mariners win the World Series. But, with the Seahawks even closer to the Super Bowl, somebody better start knittin' Satan a sweater. " - erica_w

"I really should have read that book by the wheelchair guy!" - renee12321

"A frieze is a long band of sculpture or writing near the ceiling of a building which freezes a scene for all time. Sort of like the freezing point of art." - morganashkevron

"Superkelvinfragilisticexpialomotionless" - csflick

"Technically it's zero Kelvin, although for the longest time I thought it was zero degrees Celsius and panicked every winter when the weatherman said the temperature was dropping. I couldn't understand why my parents wouldn't help me store up against the coming blizzard in San Francisco." - nextian

"-273 degrees Calculus." - jennifurret

(Several moments later...)

"Crap. I meant -273 Celsius!" - jennifurret

"The No-Kelvins Club" - mcrunner03

"Absolute zero. Kinda like my ex-boyfriend." - kittikattie

"Absolut® Zero™" - themommage

Correct Answer: Absolute Zero

"i.e. how much sex I've had since I got married." - big_al81



6. How cool are you?

"I'm so cool, you could keep a side of beef in me for a month." - Zaphod Beeblebrox, channeled by several of you

"It varies, but generally not more than 16 micro-Fonzes. Today I'm wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word 'teh', which probably loses me a few points." - lazy_alex, bringing us the new SI unit for coolness, the Fonz (Fz).

"What's the point of being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?" - speckled_llama

(+1, Calvin and Hobbes. -CV)

"I know too much random trivia to be truly cool. I have a nice personality, though." - larinzia

"If I were any *less cool, I'd be doing Stupid Human Tricks on Letterman" - wiredwizard

"I am thinking of legally changing my name Frozone or something like that." - hemloche

(+1, The Incredibles. -CV)

"I am what Elvis described as a 'hunka hunka burning love...'" - southbucki

"So cool I need to wear shades - no, wait, that's how bright my future is." - pisica

"I'm so cool that Coolio is suing me for copyright infringement." - alliterator

"I work in a comic book store." - richcsigs, coming in at a whopping 0.00037 Fz.

"There's a Dragonlance book waiting to be read on my bed, knitting on my lap, marching band recordings (featuring me) on my iPod, and In Search Of... on my TV for Mitch Pileggi's voice. Make your own jokes." - tabbyclaw

(You know, back in my day, In Search Of... was narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Now that's cool. -CV)

"The only utterance that works here is a simple 'Oh, yeah.'" - mightygodking

"I live in Jersey, how cool could I be?" - droptheleash622

(Hey now, don't knock Jersey. We're cool here, right? -CV)

(You both get a 0.0412 Fz rating. -AL)

"I'm former Bears defensive lineman William Perry." - spatialrift47

"I am SO not cool. Let me put it this way, and CV will have a better idea of what I'm talking about, the closest thing I have done lately to a night out with friends was staying up until FOUR in the goddamned morning finishing the Positron Task Force in City of Heroes." - spyderqueen

(Don't tell me you were with me on that same task force that night? That would be too funny... -CV)

"I'm the new zero" - marasca

"I once came to work in relatively spiffy duds and a co-worker said: 'You look so cool, you could give change for an ice cube'. Made my whole day." - motown_deserter, scoring a big 0.77 Fz that day

Correct Answer: ""I'm doing LJDQ. How much cooler do I need to be?" - csi_tokyo3, speaking for all of you



And that's our quiz for the week. Winter's chill has struck home with icy fury, and it's time to bundle up and look forward to the warmth of spring. Somewhere.

Special thanks this week go out to valueofaloonie for her unexpected gift to the ljdq. Your thoughtfulness touches the blackened cinders that are our hearts and livers.

Rock on!

AL&CV&C

Comments

Wooo Dragonlance

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha no picture of the bikini clad team this week?
No mention of being nippy because of the cold? :D
I wear my sunglasses at night Thanks pisica now that song will be in my head all day long..

[ataralas.livejournal.com]

I am continually amused by the fact that the SI unit for inverse ohms (1/Ω) is the mho. Symbolized by an upside-down omega.

Physicists are special.

Also, the coulomb is for losers. eV is where it's at.

[woap.livejournal.com]

Down here in Arizona? People have been sunbathing the last week, working on a tan in the warm, balmy weather. "Winter's chill" my ass.

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[pisica.livejournal.com]

My work here is done....

(And I DID give them a reference to the Brazilian volleyball babes, but they chose not to take it.)

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

"John Candy was dying to make that movie." - dhud98

I believe that was Canadian Bacon which you know being set in Canada brings a certain coldness as well. Easy to see how you could be confused. :)

[portkey.livejournal.com]

"Most of what I know about the Cold War comes from video games. Which is to say, I know that giant robots were somehow involved." - portkey

Although now, I'm starting to think the two sides were comprised of people wearing all red, and all blue. But then, that's pretty much how the entire world looks at the moment.

Halo 2 is fucking addictive.

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

I gave them one too ;-;
I bet it is because I didn't post an actual Image of the team!!!
Boys ;-;
P.S cute icon

[spatialrift47.livejournal.com]

Your icon, it entrances me. I'm a physics major myself, and I think it's the perfect commentary on all the fandom-based OTPs. May I yoink it?

[diefbaby.livejournal.com]

Yeah that about sounds like the weather here in Louisiana too. It's fecking January and it's 70 degrees out!

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[diefbaby.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Now I'm singing it, and I've got the girl with the office desk next to mine humming it. XD

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

It's a horribly addicting song ;-; now i need to find my cd with it on it urgh
"I wear my sunnnnnnnnnnnnnnglasses at night, so I can blah blah something" obviously so I can sing it right :D

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

You know what's sad?

I only bring the funny on LJDQ when I take it after a couple glasses of wine. (Or cans of beer, depending on the week's cash sitch.)

Meaning: I am funnier when I'm drunk.

woohoo! quoted again!

[themommage.livejournal.com]

Well, that proves it! The only way an old lady can get quoted on ljdq is to work all night, come home brain-dead with flaming feet, prop said feet up on a pillow and the laptop on the chest, disconnect brain and let 'er rip. Must be a scientific paper in there somewhere...

[drbear.livejournal.com]

(That's Governor Freeze to you, mister. -CV)

Not me! I go back to the TV Batman ... George Sanders and Otto Preminger. "Hoo-hoo-hoo....Vild!"

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Whaddaya mean "boys"?? Two-thirds of the LJDQ mods are female. :P

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Justice for me. Friggin' Positron.

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Nice icon. "Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!"

Although really, Thundercats are made great by virtue of the Thundercats outtakes reels. If only other toons could release their blooper tapes...

[weekendpbs.livejournal.com]

ditto in Florida. North Florida, even.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, that's enough from you tropical weather folks.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Dance the Batusi, man! (http://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/)

Re: woohoo! quoted again!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, if that's what it takes, then sign up for some more night shifts and bring it on!

[germankitty]

*sigh* My funny's still AWOL, for the third week running. That's not Cool Runnings, that's cold. VERY cold.

Although, guess I'm kinda in there by proxy, as I gave the correct answer to #6 (actual quotee csi_tokyo3. Am I? *offers booze and pudding to mods*

Wooo Bubble Bobble

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

Love the Icon!

Re: Wooo Dragonlance

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

yes but I believe 2/3 of our mods are male :)

Re: Wooo Bubble Bobble

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

:D then you are going to love this one