LJ Daily Answers: 17 July 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Ooh you guys are good - this is my second quiz and you're exploiting my extreme obsession with horses to get me hooked. What's that in the lining of your coat? A CLYDSEDALE?!? I'll take it!" - uberhero

"This week's quiz is sponsered by Elmer's Glue Factory." - woap

"I am angered at this apparent 'horse' theme that springs up just when I restart the quiz. I can only hope things will be redeemed when chaosvizier threatens making a meal out of a Falabella." - nekoama

This quiz ended up being quite picture-heavy from our contestants, and we haven't used many of them. We'll start with this picture, courtesy of shadowkeeper:

Want more? Read on!



1. In Norse mythology, what is the name of Odin's eight-legged steed?

"I’d love to tell you but what happens in Valhalla, stays in Valhalla." - stevenmallory04

"Oh, it's something with lots of 'j's in it. Fjornjirnj or something." - kokopellinelli
"I'm not sure, but I'd bet it has at least one j that's pronounced like a y." - arib

"Little known fact that Odin's steed was once a infamous racehorse, known on the track merely as 'Ha Ha I Have Eight Legs You Fuckers'." - nekoama

"All I know is the blacksmith calls it 'Oh Shit, Not Again'." - antinomic

"If Disney ever does it, he'll be turned into a wisecracking sidekick (voiced by Martin Freeman, playing up a working-class English accent) cleverly named 'Occie'. His musical number will be a snappy little patter song, complete with six of the eight legs, waving either a cane or a straw hat while he does the 'Shuffle off to Buffalo' step." - theninth

"Eight legs? Sounds more like a spider to me. Silly Norse. They should learn a bit of taxonomy." - photosinensis

(Arachnophobes, anyone? - TL)

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH wait. the Norse had spiders? THIS IS A TRICK QUESTION!" - ladymetaka
"Odin rides a giant spider??? He's a friggin' drow, man! Kill 'im! Kill'imkillimkillim!!1!" - thepikey
"If it's got eight legs, regardless of size, I'm still gonna try to squish it with my shoe." - 7timesfate

"*sings* Spider-horse, Spider-horse, does what ever a... huh? What?" - xandervampsgirl
"Börïs thë Bïgäss Spïdër" - ldy
"Charlotte." - stagemanager

"Faffy-something or other? Fafnir? Or was it Sleipnir? Are either of those a 'nir' miss? Am I going to get hit for punning?" - canadianevil

(Not while I'm still guest-modding. - TL)

"Slepneir, aka Foal of Loki, aka Yes, Loki Mothered a Child, He Was Disguised As a Mare At the Time, I Don't See Any Implications In That At All, Let's Move On, Shall We? My mythology professor should have been paid more." - miladygrey

"You know, when I was a kid, I thought it was totally natural for Loki to give birth to a eight-legged horse. Which makes me wonder about my childhood." - colin_chaotic

"And this isn't *really* a web cheat, because I was looking for a picture for #6 when I saw this and thought, "This would be great for question 1!" and then I realized...
" - marasca

"I'm having a good day when I can remember that Odin had pet ravens and one eye. And now you want to know about his ride? Geeze. He must have gotten it all pimped out by MTV and then squealed like a girl when he saw the result. .Kick-ass! I can't believe it! Extra legs and everything!." - chrysoberyl

"You know Beauty and Bree
And Scout and Silver,
Shadowfax and Ed,
And Tornado and Boxer.
But do you recall
The most famous god-steed of all?" - palmer_kun

"I didn't play D&D for the last 27 years without knowing who Sleipner is. Sheesh." - anonymisty

(And we haven't been giving out Geek of the Week Awards for the past two years without being able to spot a winner on sight. -1 to all attributes. -CV)

"Thongtastic!" - ANONYMOUS

Correct Answer: Sleipnir



2. H. amphibius, sometimes called the "river-horse", is better known as what animal?

"
OK, it's probably not an otter, but isn't that the best picture ever?" - kestrel127

"Ehehe. 'Hamphibious'. Now I have mental images of pigs in floaties." - lyme
"the pig-amphibian. When will we stop playing god and interbreeding such things???!!!" - chokatobuttrfly

(Because everyone knows that pig and equine DNA just won't splice. -CV)

"Know what are cool? Baslisk lizards! They can run on water just like Jesus." - uberhero

(Actually, Jesus never ran on water. It was more of a casual stroll. I believe that means the Basilisk Lizard is better than Jesus. -CV)

"Nîn o Chithaeglir lasto beth daer, Rimmo nîn Bruinen dan in Ulaer!" - supertrink
"Those are the things Arwen called to sweep away the Ringwraiths in Fellowship, right? Except it wasn't really her, that was just something they did to artificially inflate Liv Tyler's role in the movies." - filmbuff

"Michael Flatley in his post-porn career." - ldy

"The hypocrite." - canadianevil

"I'm totally wrong, but how can I pass up a chance to use:
" - fizrep, beckyh2112

"in what warped universe does a hippopotamus look like a horse? That's like saying Roseanne looks like Heidi Klum." - b_hulsmans

"Hippo chewing on bamboo
Can't see boy and three cebu
(can't see boy and three cebu)

Sad cebu is rowing and crying
Boo hoo moo moo boo hoo moo moo" - sskipstress

(Even though you stated that this was a VeggieTales song, you're still getting the spiffington Award For Total Gibberish. -CV)

"WARNING: Clicking this link may deprive you of sanity and reason. It also plays sound, although other than that it is quite work-safe. But seriously. Sanity and reason. Fair warning given. -CV" - badgerbabe provides the link that many of you quoted

"Interesting fact! The danish word for hippo, 'flodhest' is a direct translation of 'river-horse' as suggested by you." - moreteadk

"The name actually means 'Horse of the Potomac', and comes from when one was used by George Washington to cross the Potomac." - conglacio

"I know this because when I was little we went to a zoo and fed the hippos with cabbages that we threw from a bridge. My dad thought it would be more fun to aim the cabbages at the ducks swimming around. When he hit one, the keeper yelled at us and said we couldn't feed them any more. I was sad." - destiny2909

"They are vegetarians but have a hell of a temper. And teeth! Did you see them teeth?" - honeyguide

"Hippos, how do they get so big eating small white marbles?" - stevenmallory04

"Hippos are mean. Really mean. They kill for fun. The makers of that Hungry Hungry Hippo game should take note and make a version of the game that slices off the fingers of unwary children. That would be much more accurate." - chrysoberyl

Correct Answer: Hippopotamus



3. What 2004 Disney movie, touted as being based on fact, featured an American cowboy participating in an Arabian race called the Ocean of Fire?

"Never saw that one. I have, however, seen 'Lake of Fire,' which was put out by the Greater Cleveland Tourism Board." - captainsblog

"At this point, asking about horses and Disney films, I feel any male over the age of 18 gets the same feeling that most LJDQ female players get when sports questions are asked." - drbear

"I never saw that movie because I was afraid that I would be very disappointed if it were not a LITERAL Ocean of Fire." - jellyblob

"Ring of Fire, wasn't it? Johnny Cash rode Reese Witherspoon all over the southeast and ended up in San Quentin, or something. Or maybe Hidalgo got his stud fee on with Seabiscuit...." - etcet

"'Herbie, fully loaded.' Lindsey was totally miscast though, she is too bony to ride and not as attractive as the actual horse the movie was based on." - beccak1961

"An American Tail: Fievel Goes Far East" - shadowed_guise
"Aladdin 4: Adventures with Cowboy Curtis" - mcrunner03
"Lord of the Rings 0 - How Aragorn learned to ride like that." - nekoama
"My Little Pony XXVI: Oh No, I Have Sand in My Sparkles!" - ataralas
"Viggo Can't Carry a Flick By Himself" - thepikey
"Fantasia? No, right. Sorry. Still on hippos, me. Um, dunno." - ekwy
"The Appaloosa Dumpling Gang" - i_calql8

"We all know Disney couldn't find facts if one writhed around in front of it wearing Mickey Mouse ears and a dirty expression." - puredeadthingy

"That man loved his horse FAR too much. FAR. TOO. MUCH. I CAN NOT COUNT HOW MANY BESTIALITY JOKES I MADE." - the_wanlorn

(And you didn't share? - TL)

"Viggo was Not Sexy in that movie. What were they thinking?" - perkyczarlet
"he, like Karl Urban, was way hotter in LotR than anything else he's been in. Except the movie where he and Diane Lane get naked. That's totally unfair to the porn industry, right there." - ladylyonesse

"He is VIGGO! You are as the buzzing of flies to him!" - barbarienne

(+1, Ghostbusters II. -CV)

"Hidalgo - man I love that movie. It has horses and Viggo Mortensen (although I could have done without him singing) and a funny sequence involving near-castration. What else does a movie need to kick ass? Nothing." - morganashkevron

(How 'bout some.... Snakes on a Plane? - TL)

"You’ve just finished playing Aragorn in one of the biggest Trilogies ever, your next role is Frank Hopkins riding Hidalgo. Well played Viggo, Sincerely Mark Hamill" - stevenmallory04

"I actually really liked this film. The human actors were a bit rubbish, but any horse that manages to roll his eyes at a line like 'even a blind man could see you're beautiful' is a-OK by me!" - fuunsaiki

LJDQ Interesting Fact of the Day:
"The term 'Hidalgo' originated from the illegitimate sons of Spanish men and Native American women during the Spanish colonial period in Latin America. These fatherless sons grew up and wished to be sons of something- 'hijos de algo' -and when they became farmers or cowboys or whatever, they called themselves 'hidalgos.' According to my high school Latin America teacher. Though she was kind of a Commie, so I don’t know if we should believe her." - rorylareina

"Hildago - another movie where Viggo Mortenson has to be rescued by a horse. At least he doesn't whisper to it." - kestrel127

Correct Answer: Hidalgo

"This answer brought to you by the fact that I only have Paint, and thus can't make a picture of Viggo crying about the fact that he can't have...you get the idea." - winglessgryphon

(I say the first person to show us a picture or icon of that gets an automatic +1. - TL)



4. What popular television comedy aired from 1961 to 1966 and starred the well-known actor Bamboo Harvester?

"was anyone who plays this quiz even alive back then?" - ANONYMOUS

(Surprisingly, yes. But age is no excuse. Enough people managed to remember that George Washington was the first President of the United States, and I guarantee nobody here was alive back then. Unless Vandal Savage has a livejournal. That would be pretty cool, now that I think about it. -CV)

"Did you know that at the observation deck at the Empire State Building (NOT the King Kong level but the other one) there's a picture of a horse BEING on that deck? What sort of crazy takes a horse up the Empire State Building?" - bosswolf

(That is pretty damn crazy. Snakes on a Plane 2: Horses on a Highrise! -CV)

"Were his costars Cotton Gin and Hay Bailer?" - jrho

"Gilligan's island. Bamboo played every headhunter, and in one of his most amazing roles, he also played the huts." - beccak1961

"The only bamboo harvesters I know of are pandas. They are so cute. There was a panda tv show?" - antinomic

"Kapitan Pandaroo" - etcet

"M*A*S*Huganah - It was a war comedy centered in Israel. It was cancelled in 1967 at the advent of the six-day war." - droptheleash622

"I always felt sorry for Bamboo. People were always saying that he was a zebra that got painted. Further proof that in Hollywood, even 'Mister Ed' wasn't completely safe." - nadyenka

"Oh no, it's the supervillanda Bamboo Harvester !! He's the cruel offspring of a western Chinese faux ursine and a combine harvester now out to harvest all of humanity for creating him! Fry you foors!!" - fizrep

"Mr. Ed. The production crew was fired and the show canceled after the airing of a controversial after-school special, 'Mr. Sex Ed.' America, it seems, just wasn't ready for sex advice from an ungulate." - kiltypleasure

"They stuck peanutbutter in that poor horse's mouth to make him look like he was talking. I do that to my dogs sometimes for fun. I wonder if that is why they don't like peanutbutter." - chrysoberyl
"I never tried that on a horse. Cats get pissed when you try it, though." - whiski_sour

"'A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
but the Vehicle Code does not divorce
its application from, perforce,
a steed, as my colleagues said.

'It's not vague" I'll say until I'm hoarse,
and whether a car, a truck or horse
this law applies with equal force,
and I'd reverse instead.'

--The Honorable Michael Eakin, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a dissenting opinion, arguing that a man riding a horse drunk should be guilty of driving under the influence. The other two justices ruled the statute was vague." - scifantasy

Correct Answer: Mr. Ed



5. What horse, whose racing career included winning 20 of 21 starts and setting three world records, is generally considered to be the greatest thoroughbred racehorse of all time?

“All I know about racehorses is that they have stupid names, like Mommy's Undies or Machine wash only.” - moshki

"RedRum! RedRum!" - jonem, roscrea

(Apropos of absolutely nothing. And frightening that two people went there. Within an hour of each other. -CV)

“Don't know the name but didn't this horse die directly after the last race? Like passing the finishing line, stumbling and falling dead to the ground?” - honeyguide

(Actually, he had a long & sucessful career at stud, siring 386 foals. He lived to be 30 years old. -AL)

"Secretariat, who (according to the tv show 'Sports Night') had a heart that was twice the size of a normal horse heart. Geeminee, the crap I remember..." - corellianjedi

(Nope, there is one horse considered greater than Secretariat - at least according to Wikipedia & Blood-Horse magazine. -AL)

"'The Secretary,' although I thought James Spader was big for a jockey." - beccak1961

(+1, Maggie Gyllenhaal reference. -AL)

"Pharlap! The Aussie horse, killed by you bloody Yanks because you were jealous." - the_zaniak

(We weren't jealous; we were hungry. -AL)

"*shrug* does it really matter? In the end, they all end up in my bottle of Elmers.” - renee12321

“Hi-ho Silver!” - droptheleash622

"Seabiscuit?" - kestrel127

(Actually, we're referring to Seabiscuit's grandfather. -AL)

“Man O’War, also despised for it was he who begat Hard Tack who begat Seabiscuit who begat a very unfortunate movie.“ - stevenmallory04

“Frankly, I'm surprised I know this one. The famous steed Man O' War won 20 races before, in its 21st, being upset by a horse named Upset. Call Alanis Morrisette, she'll want to hear about this one.” - spatialrift47

Correct Answer: Man O'War

“...although Horse O' Racing would've been much more accurate.” - rpkierstan



6. If you were magically transformed into a horse, what would you look like?

"A horse, duh." -1 for the 26 smartasses in the audience.

"I'm crippled, you sick fucks! I'd be shot!" - shinga

"I'm not the luckiest person in the world. Nor am I the most organised. Therefore I am convinced that if someone were to come by and turn me into a horse, they'd get it wrong and make me a hippo." - moreteadk

"Unless I'm going to be the horse of Lady Godiva, I'm not interested." - cmzero

"I'd like to be an 'Iron Horse' the Reading #2124 Locomotive built around 1920, because I like trains, old neat trains, that smoke and have great whistles and that is why!" - csflick

"If my emails tell me anything, I could be magically transformed into a horse, if you know what I mean." - deltashade

"There's one part of me that would look pretty much the same. Awwwwyeah." - thepikey

"I spent a lot of my childhood pretending I was a horse. My mother refused to get me psychological help because I kept the grass trimmed so nicely in the front yard." - ginalin

"Pegasus--that way I could gallop, or I could fly, plus I would get mad residuals for the use of my image by Tri-Star Pictures, Reader's Digest, and Mobil Oil. Sweet." - i_calql8

"Probably a chesnut horse, darker mane, a few spots on the withers, maybe some black stockings on the forefeet, long tail and, oh, a white splash on the nose.
And then by night I'd turn black and my feet and mane/tail would light on fire and I'd be the muthafuckin' Ghost Racer." - nekoama

"I would look like an especially placid, people-loving horse. Big eyes, invitingly cute face, etc. And then when someone went to pet me, I'd bite them." - cyrrus25

"I don't know, but I'd absolutely terrify my sister. She has a phobia about horses. And clowns. And stringy cheese on pizza. So for maximum entertainment value, I'd have to plump for a circus horse (complete with clown) hired out for a children's party at Pizza Hut!" - jonem

"I would be very sad, and my sadness would be obvious to others. If I were to go down to the local pub, the bartender would ask, 'Why the long face?'" - filmbuff

"" - ldy
"" - lusciousmango

Correct Answer: "I wanna be a draft horse that pulls carts of Guinness! I'd give it out to people who deserved the all might Stout. I wanna be a magical beer-giving horse!" - lyzz13

(You can visit our stables any day. -AL&CV&TL)



Voila!
This quiz about horse has run its course, the punning was worse, someone answered in Morse, which we cannot endorse considering the source; this rhyming is forced, and I have no recourse but to eat the horse that is delicious Mister Ed.

Thanks again for playing; good to see more new faces, even here in the summer where everyone's on vacation goofing off and eating candy all day long. Keep on spreading the good word about fun with horses and quizzes and puns and other crazy things. Bonus thanks to trishalynn for being a good stand-in backup moderator once more.

Tune in tomorrow for something special!

...well, ok, just another quiz. But it'll be a hoot!

Rock on,

AL&CV&TL

Comments

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

Aw, a pity quote. Asscones for you guys, too!

Man, my pun for number five would have been better if I had realized you weren't talking about Seabiscuit.

[woap.livejournal.com]

I had hotdogs for breakfast. They may very well have contained horse, too!

Mmmm pferdewurst...

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that no one wanted to be Bucephalus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus) (Alexander the Great's horse). Dude, that guy was a badass. Totally uncontrollable until it saw what the Greek people claimed to be the prettiest king in centuries, who loved him even more than his lover best friend Hephaestion, and ATG named a city after him. AND he got just about the grandest state funeral EVAR when he died.

Plus, you know. You'd get to be under one of the most powerful men ever. (Hehehe.)

[spatialrift47.livejournal.com]

Aw c'mon, no love for my parody lyrics for the TV show Gilligan's Horse?

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

You stole my line for marasca's eight-legged horse picture!! How rude!

[ladyiapetus]

Rats. No funneh this week. *snaps fingers*

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with a little extra horse in your diet.

[woap.livejournal.com]

They really stick to your ribs.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Who, Colin Farell? Feh!

Besides, everyone knows that Diomedes had the best horses ever. They ate People! SOYLENT GREEN HORSEY FOOD! It was PEOPLE!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It was good, but we were on a tight budget.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hah, I didn't even notice. Well, props to you then.

[puredeadthingy.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, via the television programme 'Q.I' (go youtube it), I learnt that hippos are something like the biggest killers of humans in the world.

*is compensating for the fact she might not be able to do the LJDQ next week*

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT COUNT COLIN FARRELL AS ATG.

Ahem. Sorry, sore spot. I boycotted the damn movie when it came out. Then I got if off Blockbuster, got myself reeeeeeeeally drunk and watched it. And it was still bad. /really interested in ATG

[kestrel127.livejournal.com]

Oh cuteoverload, you got me quoted! Nothing's funnier than an otter holding a beer.

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

(+1, Maggie Gyllenhaal reference. -AL)

Hey! I made the same stupid "Secretariat/Maggie Gyllenhaal" pun that beccak1961 did! Where's my +1?

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

OMG ETCHA SKETCH!

[heyorion.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

50-50 shot. She won the coin toss.

[ex-njyoder460.livejournal.com]

OT: Brave Little Toaster!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

It's because humans have been fooled by their aggressive PR campaign that portrays hippos as cute benevolent comical creatures, and so they want to go up and try to pet and hug any hippos they see, exposing themselves to the danger that is a cranky hippo.

Ah well, I had a good run.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

"he, like Karl Urban, was way hotter in LotR than anything else he's been in. Except the movie where he and Diane Lane get naked. That's totally unfair to the porn industry, right there." - ladylyonesse

While I completely agree about the hotness of A Walk on the Moon, I would argue that he was equally incendiary in the movie where he and Maria Bello get naked (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/). Damn.

[ndef.livejournal.com]

Wait, Firefly reference? What Firefly reference?

[honeyguide.livejournal.com]

"They are vegetarians but have a hell of a temper. And teeth! Did you see them teeth?"

Hey, where is the other half of my answer?



“Don't know the name but didn't this horse die directly after the last race? Like passing the finishing line, stumbling and falling dead to the ground?” - honeyguide

(Actually, he had a long & successful career at stud, siring 386 foals. He lived to be 30 years old. -AL)

Ah, alright then. I think he had done everything right in life. Damn, it must be good to be a man. 386 foals? For real?

[lazy-alex.livejournal.com]

Yep, I didn't get it either, and I was under the impression that I was pretty much an enormous Firefly geek. Unless it's from the commentary to one of the episodes, which I don't actually *know* (I've listened to them, of course) or something else extraneous to the series or comics, then I'm stumped.

Or, it might always not be the Firefly I'm thinking of.

[elaran.livejournal.com]

yeah. I missed that too. O_o