LJ Daily Quiz: 7 August 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"I thought I should let you know: I'm eating pudding. Chocolate pudding. This is why LJDQ is so great! I play, but get hungry posting my answers. But then I remember, 'this is LJDQ! Pudding always makes LJDQ better!' So I go and eat pudding." - ankhet

"There was much groaning in my house when I finally figured out the theme for this week..." - setauuta

This week's theme seemed to be a bit harder to grasp. But that's ok, we know you all like a challenge.



1. What baseball accolade is also known as the Jackie Robinson Award?

"I admit I do not keep up on the awards of baseball. Now here, throw me that frog and I'll hit it!" - akiyasan

"Is an accolade like lemonade, but with alcohol? I could go for some of that right now." - sskipstress

"And just how much is 'accolade' going for at the ol' ballpark these days?" - jmthane

(I don't know, but a 10-oz beer will cost you $8 at a San Francisco Giants game. That's just not right. -AL)

"The 'Putting Up With Shit' award. This year, it goes to the Balco chemists." - judith_s

(I am so very, very tired of this scandal. -AL)

"What have I told you about sports questions? You're practically begging me to cheat. *goes to ask sports addict husband*" - ginalin
"I lack the resources to bribe the answer out of my brother." - bizzatch
"I just waited 45 minutes for my dad to call me back so I could ask him that, and he didn't even know. So I imed my friend, who called her boyfriend, who asked his little brother. And we still don't know. That's Tuesday, for you." - faded_lilac

"Rook Of The Year, which is interesting, because a baseball diamond is diagonal, and rooks can only move straight. Talk about wandering off the base path..." - scifantasy

(+1, anticipating the theme on Question 1. -AL)

"'King'? or 'Pawn'? or 'Little Horsey Thing'?" - conglacio

(Knowing the theme doesn't always help. -AL)

"Oh I have no idea. If it doesn't involve the Yankees beating the Redsox 485994 to -3, I don't care much about baseball! (and what's this I hear about there being 150-odd games where the Yankees don't play Boston? pfft. LIES)" - halo4

"My baseball knowledge shines through for something even more useful than driving my partner mad with the constant watching of ESPN. She'd be so proud. Or not since she hates baseball almost as much as I love it. (Apropos of nothing, even she wonders why A-Rod Er-rod hasn't been dumped by the Yankees yet.) The Jackie Robinson Award is better known as the rookie of the Year award." - aimers81

"I'm a Cubs fan. We don't win awards." - whiski_sour

(Only in the movies... -AL)

"" - chokatobuttrfly

Correct Answer: Rookie of the Year



2. Richard Gere and Sean Connery star in which "reimagining" of Arthurian legend?

"Beauty and the Beowulf" - thecolourclear

(Which is which? -AL)

"Well, whatever it is, it didn't involve rodents up the bum. But if I had a voice file of Sean Connery -saying- 'Rodents up the bum.' I'd make it my cell phone ring tone." - lots42

(You are very sick. -AL)

"First Knight, which has the advantage of not being as stupid as King Arthur. Guinevere, Warrior Princess? WTF mate?" - dracothelizard

(Granted, King Arthur was stupid, but cleolinda's Movies in Fifteen Minutes version of it was awesome. -AL)

"Did you know Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany? I'd never advocate bullying, but that makes me want to throw rocks at him." - futuristicplans

"Reimagining? Is that a nice way of saying 'Everything's modernized to death, they took liberties with the story, and Lancelot doesn't have a British accent'?" - elbiesee
"By 'reimagining' I assume you mean 'tied with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as the worst film Sean Connery has ever made'." - thesecondevil

(....yes. -CV&AL)

"I think 'reimagining' is a rather generous way to put it, though. I personally would call it 'a poor Arthurian hallucination' or 'brain guano.'" - rpkierstan

"I don't remember the name of the movie, but I do remember I was knighted by an English teacher before watching it. When your teacher's got a sword next to your neck, that's when you really hope you behaved in her class." - tanjetea

(My new office manager has a pair of samurai swords in his office. When he made his first speech to the staff, there were some cautious questions about his disciplinary policies. -AL)

"Sean Connery is my one man-crush though, severely damaging my reputation as a lesbian. I don't care if he's old, or a man, he's still got it." - aimers81

"Worst Knight." - scifantasy

Correct Answer: First Knight



3. At the time of his death, what position did Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus, not the other one) hold?

"I want to make sex jokes about this question." - lyme

(You and twenty other people, with a tie between "missionary" and "doggie style". Serves me right for using the word "position". Mea culpa. -CV)

"Downward Facing Dog" - tanjetea, whiski_sour

(I am informed that this is not sexual, but yoga. Yeah, whatever. Doggie-style by any other name... -CV)

"" - cmseward

"Second base." - futuristicplans

"He was playing wide reciever (if you know what I mean) for the Benedictine Bulls, and suffered a tragically pulled hamstring when enacting their signature play, Shuffling Under the Pontiff's Pilot." - etcet

"Wasn't he the fat kid who fell into the chocolate river and was sucked up the tubes in the book(or movie) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?" - piney61

"I bet you'll get lots of dirty jokes. But I got a German folk song stuck in my head.
Ach, du lieber Augustin,
Augustin, Augustin,
Ach, du lieber Augustin,
Alles ist hin!

Geld ist hin, Mädl ist hin,
Alles ist hin, Augustin!
Ach, du lieber Augustin,
Alles ist hin!" - judith_s

(I'd quote South Park by saying "What the fuck is wrong with German people?" but then I remembered I am one. Oh well. Those wacky Germans. -CV)

"The other one? Is that any way to refer to the illustrious Saint Augustine of Canterbury?" - crystalcazzie

(Canterbury's so overrated. -CV)

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition..." - chrysoberyl

"" - kestrel127

"I wonder if there's been a chessboard made with pieces that look like hippos? That could be nifty. The queen could even have a tutu, like the dancing hippos in that one Disney film." - rpkierstan

(No more drugs for this one. She's cut off. -CV)

"4th Century Bishops did NOT move diagonally." - conglacio

Correct Answer: Bishop of Hippo



4. Chris Degarmo, Michael Wilton, and Kelly Gray have all been guitarists for which band?

"Sting." - 4
"Queen." - 7
"Spinal Tap." - 4

"I don't consider bands to be made up of individual people. They are just massive balls of musical flesh." - whiski_sour

(That is the most visually unappealing metaphor I have ever seen. -CV)

"
you know that makes you scream, doesn't it?" - wellowned

(Yes. Yes it does. -AL&CV)

"Who? Who and Who? And wouldn't it be cool if the answer was 'the who' that way I made a funny joke and got the answer right, I have a feeling it isn't 'the who' though...I am never that lucky." - b_hulsmans

(You are totally not lucky. -CV)

"Nirvana. That's the only band name I know besides Rolling Stones. And Kiss. And it's not Kiss, I've read too many of their masturbatory fantasy comics to mistake their names." - lots42

"The Village People. After going through three incarnations of the 'guitar player' character they decided to to switch it for the 'Indian.' That's when their careers really took off!" - marasca

"True story, when Wayne's World was out and Bohemian Rhapsody was back on the charts, a friend of mine told me about this 'cool new band, Queen...' that I just had to hear about. Boy, was she embarrassed when I told her that not only was Queen not new, but that in fact that the song was about as old as she was..." - tall_man

"" - photosinensis

"thanks, LJDQ, for getting 'Jet City Woman' stuck in my head. Mrf" - rpkierstan
"Now I have Scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango stuck in my head." - chrysoberyl

"I met a guy at a wedding who had a Queensrÿche tattoo on the back of his neck. He wasn't as hardcore as you'd expect him to be." - futuristicplans

"Pröbablÿ sömethïng wïth ümlaüts and spïky göthïcky lëttëring." - barbarienne
"That weird one, with the name I'm not even going to write because I'll only mess up the circumflex...diaeresis...umlaut...oompa-loompa, whatever they use in their name that stops me writing it." - shadowed_guise
"If you don't spell it with the ÿ, you're talking about another band." - deltashade

Correct Answer: Queensrÿche

"I always thought it was Queersrÿche, like some sort of gay metal death band. I hear that's in." - bizzatch



5. Which book, also focusing on Arthurian legend, is considered a favorite of Professor Charles Xavier, and is twice referenced in the second "X-Men" film?

"The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. 'And it seems like his legs were too broken to walk.'" - lots42

"How to avoid stairs" - akiyasan

"Camelot For Dummies, Legends for the Rest of Us" - fizrep

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Unless that's the wrong Arthur." - tanjeta, wiredwizard

"I wonder how many 'I'm the Juggernaut bitch' responses you're going to get in response to this question." - umbralcorax

(Surprisingly, only two, including yours. -CV)

"Camelot 3000. Yes, Xavier was reading DC comics, which is why he had to die in X3." - barbarienne
"DC all the way! ...Okay, Batman all the way." - profsparky

"I was too busy watching Hugh Jackman being awesome." - dracothelizard
"Yeah who cares, this is the one where Wolverine is nekkid, right?" - lovellama

(Fair enough. -CV)

"I'm still sulking over how much the 3rd one sucked." - jrho

(You & me both. When I saw X3, I nearly laughed myself sick when Storm used her awesome mutant weather-controlling powers .... to make FOG IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY!! OMG THAT NEVER HAPPENS! -AL)

"The something and something King. Possibly 'once' and 'future', but it could also be 'mouldy' and 'cheese-filled'." - whiski_sour

"Wasn't The Sword In The Stone that Disney movie in which a young Arthur and Merlin turn themselves into squirrels and get laid? Because that's the part of that movie I remember. Dirty, dirty Disney movies." - photosinensis

"I read The Once and Future King because the Disney movie the Sword in the Stone was based on it. Not really at all the same. Sometimes I think Disney just made stuff up. Like the Little Mermaid--she dies. She doesn't get the prince. He lives happily ever after with SOMEONE ELSE. And there is no vaguely Jamacian sounding crab in the original either." - chrysoberyl

"The Once and Future Drag King, Eddie Izzard's autobiography." - deltashade

"The Once and Future King, which is ironically what Prince Charles wants Camilla Parker-Bowles to call his 'little friend' in their more personal moments." - tall_man

Correct Answer: The Once and Future King by T.H.White



6. What is your favorite board game?

"wasn't there a kid version of Clue where there was no actual murder? What was up with that?" - lots42

"Monopoly or 'How Capitalism can cause you to become a heartless bastard crushing your friends and family after six hours of dodgy dealings'." - thesecondevil

"Monopoly, because you could BUY THE WORLD. And then charge people money for walking by. Wish I could do that in real life. 'Hey, you're in my personal space! That'll be ten bucks.'" - profsparky

"Trivial Pursuit. Until I get on those damn orange squares. Much like Question 1, Sports & Leisure questions make me sad." - futuristicplans

"Trivial Pursuit is very useful. You never know when you might be able to answer an LJDQ question because it came up a couple of days ago in your game against your mother!" - crystalcazzie

"I once almost died while playing Life. Totally true. I choked so hard on a cookie I almost peed myself." - lyme

"I hate Life. Because my character pieces in Life get more action than I ever have." - deltashade

"" - aimers81

"Carcassone! Though in keeping with the theme, maybe I should say "Dark Tower," which I believe I still have at my mother's house. It always makes me nostalgic for the commercials. Yes, Orson Welles, who frightened half of New Jersey to death, who made what is perennially voted the best movie ever... at the end of his career was touting box wine and cheesy board games. An object lesson for all Hollywood, I'm sure." - barbarienne

"The Dark Age of Camelot, or something like that! It's so fun! You go around and you do stuff and you ALWAYS DIE because it's a bitch like that but it's still wicked fun!!" - the_wanlorn

(While your description leaves much to be desired, my immense psychic power tells me that you meant Shadows Over Camelot, which is indeed an awesome game. -CV)

"Dominoes. Good fun to play, better fun to throw at the opponent!" - akiyasan

"Magnetic snakes and ladders, which is great for when you are travelling, say ...on a plane." - feste

"Scrabble. I studied liberal arts in college. What other possible use for all those esoteric words could there be?" - marasca

"Candyland....No reading required, awesome characters and it's...CANDY! I was so sad when I learned no actual candy involved, though. *still sad, but life lesson learned*" - ginalin

Correct Answer: CV and AL are die-hard fans of Pictionary and haven't lost a game since...ever.



Check and mate. Though our search for Bobby Fisher was futile, we still managed to come up with a chess-themed quiz for all of you. Maybe next time we'll try to find Nemo instead.

Hope you all are enjoying your summertime- a lot of folks on break this week, we gather from the lower-than-usual response rate. That's ok; hopefully everyone will come back refreshed and excited and ready to go. It's not far away... just tomorrow, really!

Rock on,

AL&CV

Comments

[hellpaladin2183.livejournal.com]

I got the theme, but temporary stupidity prevneted me from remembering to answer. :/ I even read The Once and Future King for fun junior year.