LJ Daily Answers: 10 July 2006

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"Beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you...wanna play LJDQ!" - jessicamariek

Even though beans aren't too fruity, they are root-n-tooty.

And so the game is afruit! This week's theme really seemed to appeel to you all, stemming perhaps from your hunger, or your drive to sucseed in bringing home the funny. A berry good effort from all of you. Let's see what we have in store...



1. In 1949, where did Louis Armstrong find his thrill?

"I'm sure there's a Far Side cartoon to go with this, but I can't be bothered hunting it out. And wasn't it Fats Domino anyway?" - ghymoreid

(No, Fats found his thrill there in 1956, followed one year later by Elvis Presley and a year after that by Little Richard. Popular place, that hill. - TL)

"Exactly where he left it, next to his glasses on the nightstand underneath his McVitties Digestives." - gwenhyffar

"Someone should really do a remake of that about finding one's thrill on Silent Hill. Then instead of pleasantries and blueberries, you can have a big guy with a pyramid on his head chasing you around with a huge machete. Now THAT would be thrilling. Or heart attack-inducing, whichever." - spookynoodle

"I'd go to Blueberry Hill if I could draw two orange squares and get out of Molasses Swamp." - richcsigs

"I don't know where Louis Armstrong found his thrills, but I found mine with any book like Fanny Hill and I suppose I always will if it is swill and really fil...thy." - alliterator

"the backseat of a volkswagon." - umbralcorax

(+1, Mallrats - TL)

"I am Major Armstrong and this thrill has been inside the Armstrong family for generations!" -pink sparkles-" - timydamonkey

(+1, Fullmetal Alchemist. -TL)

"He stole acquired it from BB King. Haven't you heard him singing about how 'the thrill is gone'?" - darkeros

"A the Copa Cobana, where Sting was singing the night away. Of course, he was then shot and killed by Bruce Willis over Lola, the showgirl." - the_wanlorn

"between Strawberry's Hills? I sure do love me some redheads. " - utforsker

"Well, according to John, the best place to get your thrills is Strawberry Fields. Therefore, I'm going to go with that." - photosinensis

"I'm not sure about his thrill, but I got some Kix off a roadside stand on Route 66. And frankly, I don't see what the fuss is about." - kestrel127

"This sentence triggered a terrifying image of Satchmo flailing on a rollercoaster. Since his cheeks have stretched from years of trumpet playing, they make a spectacular sight when flapping in the wind." - cyrrus25

"In the southwest Chicago suburbs, there's a pancake house called Blueberry Hill. So anytime I hear that song, or hear it referenced, I think about a large hill made out of gigantic blueberry pancakes, blueberries as big as your head, with butter and syrup dripping down the gentle, edible slope." - ihateusernames

(-1, for making the guest mod hungry - TL)

Correct Answer: Blueberry Hill

"He was promptly arrested for public indecency, sentenced to 100 hours community service and forced to promise that, in future, he would find his thrill in the privacy of his own home." - yak_boy



2. What BCS game last hosted the American football college national championship in 2005, and in 2006 featured a triple-overtime victory by Penn State over Florida State?

"I recognize all the words/letters individually, but they way you have combined them makes no sense to me." - angelchicken

"I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that I'm doing my best to no longer have anything to do with Florida." - bnh

"silly LJDQ, sport-related questions are for kids!" - nirejseki

"Why haven't the marketing folks for home cleaning products bought sponsorship and just held the Tidy Bowl allfuckingready?" - etcet

"The Gator Bowl! Hey, it fits the theme! Gatorade comes in fruit flavors, doesn't it?" - marsdejahthoris

(I'm willing to debate the fact that Gatorade has absolutely zero fruit content in its fruit flavored drinks. To the River Iss with you. -CV)

"For some weird reason I read that as BSC, as in the Baby-Sitters Club, and ... don't look at me like that, YOU ALL READ THOSE BOOKS TOO." - vanbrosia, sometimespez

"Zee footy questions, zey do nuthink!" - maggiebloome

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"With the World Cup going on, I get so confused when I hear football. Are we talking American football with more padding than a Maxi pad or the game where pretty atheltic boys grapple and fondle each other?" - akiyasan

(I watched some of that World Cup you speak of. Judging by the groin kicking, head smashing, and knee stomping that I observed, you and I have very different definitions of "grappling" and "fondling". -CV)

(No, akiyasan has a point:
-AL)

"I'm glad the hubby is out of town right now so I don't have to admit that I have no clue about his alma mater winning a national championship." - dorei

"I wanted to go to Penn State once upon a time and had a Penn State Barbie cheerleader." - chokatobuttrfly

"I think the answer should involve kumquats. Because they're fun to say. Kumquats, kumquats, kumquats." - cyrrus25
"The real action was in the Kumquat Bowl which featured the University of Northern Colorado Fighting Whities crushing the Native American Stereotypes 28-6." - thepikey

"I keep thinking of the Fiesta Bowl because the word 'fiesta' always makes me think of Carmen Miranda and her fruit hat." - stephe

"unlike the Stanley Cup, players don't get to take an orange bowl home which is really depressing even though they'd probably just try to smoke it." - plantingseeds

"When I was little, I thought it was actually played in an orange stadium that was shaped like a bowl." - chrysoberyl

"they shouldn't discriminate so much. They should let apples and bananas in on it, too." - 7timesfate

Correct Answer: The Orange Bowl

"Excuse me, the FedEx Orange Bowl. Mustn't forget that the corporations own America." - caffeineod



3. Which John Steinbeck novel drew its title from the words of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?

"I much prefer the Socialist Hymn. The people's flag is deepest red..." - puredeadthingy

(You all HAVE become a bunch of Commies! -AL)

"'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'? This is a Yankee song, isn't it?" - caffeineod

(Commies & rebels. -AL)

"Isn't that the one with the cannon? Is there a Steinbeck novel titled !!!BOOM!!!? I might have read more of his stuff if there was..." - perfect_beaker

(Let's see... wrong song, not even a hymn, & not a Steinbeck title. -3. -AL)

"I only know of two Steinbeck novels: Travels with Charlie (ftt ftt ftt) and Grapes of Wrath. I don't think either of these two have to do with the Battle Hmn of the Republic, although my knowledge of that is pretty sketchy too. So, I'm going to say the samething I did after watching a theatrical version of Grapes of Wrath and finding out how THAT particular story ends: Goddamn you, Jon Steinbeck." - neev

"The image of God smashing grapes that are full of anger is kinda a funny one. Seriously. Like you know that I Love Lucy episode where they're smashing grapes? I wonder what it'd look like." - xphilega

"the grapes of the wrath of khan." - kira_snugz
"Grrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kaaaahhhhhhhn you ate the last of my graaaaaapppppeeeeesssss!" - confessionalbox

(+1, Steinbeck/Star Trek crossover. -AL)

"Grapes of Wrath can be pressed into Wine of Whinge." - woap

"What's the fruit for the other sins? The Melons of Gluttony? The Apples of Lust? Bananas of Sloth? Pineapples of Pride? Watermelon of Envy?" - meepbitch

"The Grapes of Fucking Wrath. Every half second they squatted on their hams. God, I hate that book." - speckled_llama

"The best part of that book is the breast feeding of a grown man, and it wasn't in the movie. Hollywood, this was no time for your absent sense of morality to come to the fore and cheat us out of that." - ginalin

(LJDQ Useful Fact:)
"Did you know that Steinbeck intentionally alternated chapters of macroscopic images of the Dust Bowl and the microscopic images (the Woads' story)? So you could technically only read half of it and still get all of the plot. English students, take note." - amberdulen

Correct Answer: The Grapes of Wrath

"It read like a LiveJournal." - deltashade



4. What perjorative term, used to refer to an unstable Latin American or Caribbean country, was coined by the writer O. Henry in reference to Honduras?

(For reference, we spelled "pejorative" wrong. Eh, fuck it. -CV)

"I don't know, but 'perjorative' sounds sexy." - renee12321
"I'll show you a perjorative, you pinko communist... dunderhead!" - kestrel127
"You lost me at 'perjorative', that word it just too big for me. I don't think I was never learned that word." - jigawattica

"Froot Loops" - wiredwizard

"Wetbackistan" - thepikey

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKlahoma......" - marilyth

"Look at this country! 'U R gay.'" - mcrunner03

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"I got as far as 'Caribbean', and... suddenly I'm craving rum. And Johnny Depp. But not Orlando Bloom, as I'm not a lesbian." - shinga

"He actually called it Honduras. See, Honduras is short for Honorless Duras, and we all know that Duras was a traitorous p'tahk who enabled the Romulans to attack Khitomer. The entire house of Duras is a bunch of sons of targs." - spatialrift47

(May you live long and prosper in your Geek of the Week Republic. -1. -CV)

"It's from the sequel to the Gift of the Magi. 'I sold my gun to get you fake votes!' 'I withdrew from the race to get you bullets!'" - rikchik

"Banana Nation. Proof I listened to my father, sometimes, or at least once. Unless of course I'm wrong, in which case maybe I should apologise?" - avron

"You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up..." - whiski_sour

"Come mister tally-man come tally me banana republics (junta coming, I wanna go home)" - woap

"I wish Banana Republic would allow crazy guerrilla warfare in their stores. It would make shopping so much more entertaining." - jrho

Correct Answer: Banana Republic

"At least he didn't call it Banana Hammock Republic. Then we'd be subject to even more horrifying sights on the news." - alliterator



5. What island of Celtic myth was sometimes called "the Isle of Apples"?

"
The one on the left. It neighbors the mountainous island Funicello." - zsenak

"I have no idea. But I recently learned that the domesticated apple might be native to Kazakhstan. I had no idea that central Asia was good apple-growing country. So there's some fairly useless trivia for you." - purpleshrub

(We're all about the useless trivia here. - TL)

"I don't know, but I bet they didn't have any doctors." - angelchicken, kiltypleasure

(Commence joke comprehension in 3... 2... 1... - TL)

"Kevin McHale. Have you -seen- the Adam's apple on that guy?" - etcet

"Isle of UndeadWight" - utforsker

"The Appalachians, which were actually not an island and located in relatively boring New England." - fax_celestis

(+1, punnery! - TL)

"But San Francisco isn't an island! ...See, 'cause that's where Steve Jobs was born, and he's one of the founders of Apple, and... you know what, screw it; this joke's dead. Let's get some gin." - deltashade

"One can only believe that it would be Long Island, because, you know, New York...Big Apple..." - spookynoodle

(LONG ISLAND IS NOT A PART OF NEW YORK CITY! *headdesk* - CV&TL)

"I can’t take apples seriously anymore. Any mention of “apple” and I picture Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter, and in turn, “Apple Martin” sounds like a dessert. So, these days, apples are no longer just apples: I want to watch “Shakespeare in Love,” I get “Yellow” stuck in my head, and I desire whipped cream." - rorylareina

"Ynys Afellon- The Isle of Apples, more commonly Anglicized as the place where Gwenhwyfar, daughter of King Lleudd-Ogrfan, wife of Artus, Dux Bellorum went to shed both her husband and her spare consonants in search of Lancelot, or sometimes just simply Camelodunum or Camelot." - wingedelf

"Tir-Na-Nog! I knew my geeky knowledge of Celtic myths would come in handy someday! Unless I'm wrong, in which case my geekiness has failed me yet again. So to cover my bases, either Tir-Na-Nog or Avalon." - bnh

"I keep wanting to say Avalon, but I know that isn't right. All I can dredge up about the Isle of Apples is that possibly elves live there and some guy when there and did things...involving trials...and some poncy, vaguly magical guy....um...I think I fail at this question too." - neev

"When I was a kid, my mom let me read almost everything I found in the house. But she DID take The Mists of Avalon away. Apparently she thought 8 was too young to be reading about incestuous pagan blood rituals." - thecuckoo

Correct Answer: Avalon



6. Which is the finest fruit preparation: a) pie; b) cobbler; c) jam; d) jelly; or e) other? Explain.

"dammit!! I'm at work, and I'm really hungry, and now I'm inches away from going on a pie rampage-- with an hour left in my shift. If I end up buying a pie when I stop at the grocery store after work... so help me, LJDQ... *shakes fist*" - ihateusernames

"Pie! Everyone loves pie! I love being able to step outside and go apple pickin' in the fall, and then go right in and bake a delicious apple pie. And in the spring, I step out the other door and go blueberry pickin' to make blueberry pie! And in the summer, well, in the summer we used to have strawberries, but then got hit by a blight and no more. Gods I love being a hick!" - the_wanlorn

"PIE! But only home-baked pie, and possibly only my pie. Pie is the focal point of every major holiday in my family. It is what we do. I had to apprentice to my mother and grandmother for twenty years, but now I am a fully-qualified Master Pie Chef!! ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE MY PIE!!!" - banshea

"Banoffi Pie was the best thing I discovered in Liverpool." - sometimespez

(mmmmmm... that's good pie. -CV)

"Cobbler is better, because I say it is. And, as every woman in my life constantly reminds me, I am usually wrong. So take that as you will." - pw0813

"No way I'm going to have my face buried in some woman's cobbler." - motown_deserter

"Jam, of course. (assuming you mean the same thing in your strange american language...) It is so versatile. You can eat it on toast, or in rice pudding, or in sandwiches, or from a sppon, or indeed anything!" - conglacio

(Language check: do all English speakers agree that "jam" is fruit that has been boiled into mush & mixed with huge quantities of sugar? -AL)

"This:
" - thecuckoo

(Mmm, fruit tart. Excellent answer. -AL)

"Sangria. I don't think I need to say anything more." - herm42

(No, you've said enough for us to seat you with the rest of the alcoholics:)

"Fermentation into an adult beverage, it's the only fruit in my diet, which may explain the case of scurvy I have developed" - confessionalbox
"The banana daquiri." - drbear, morganashkevron
"Wine, obviously." - woap
"Cut fruit into bite sized pieces and marinade in Midori or Cointreau for a few hours. Serve with cream that has been whipped also with Midori or Cointreau. Arrange cab drives home." - ghymoreid
"Bananas flambe. Think about it: Bananas, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, rum, fire. It's against my religion to refuse rum and fire at the same time. Plus, if you buy enough rum you've got some left over for your coke." - bizzatch
"Homemade German berry liqueur ("Aufgesetzter") made by steeping blackcurrants in 42% proof schnapps and a little sugar until it turns into the nectar of the Gods. Yummy! *hic*" - germankitty

(And now the health freaks may speak:)

"Smoothie! A yummy breakfast." - rikchik
"In order to let the tomatoes in on the game, I'm gonna go with juice." - 7timesfate
"What is this preparation you speak of? Fruit is to be devoured raw the minute you set eyes on it! Especially strawberries. Mmm.. Strawberries.." - cyrrus25
(And speaking of strawberries...)
"" - 7timesfate

"Depends on the fruit: Apples are best as pie or apple crisp, Raspberries are best as jam, Pineapple is just never good." - hellziggy

(I disagree. Pineapple is great on pizza, combined with pepperoni. -AL)

"e) other.SORBET. mmmmmmmmm" - slanciante

Correct Answer: Pie.



And there you have it. Fruity goodness awaits. Which reminds me, I haven't had a bowl of Fruity Pebbles in ages. Ah, technicolored horror, I'll always remember your sweet taste and unnatural coloring.

Thanks again to trishalynn, who helped out for one more week while angledge gets her work groove on. Thanks to all who played, and to all who tried it out for the first time. Come back again! Bring a friend!

And of course, tune in tomorrow for a brand new quiz!

Rock on,

AL&CV&TL