ljdq | LJ Daily Answers: 21 August 2006

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Everyone in this entire quiz who said anything about the Pirates of the Caribbean gets a -1 for a complete lack of creativity. Just accept it.

1. Which New York sports team is mocked by fans of its cross-city rivals with the chant, "We want fishsticks!"?

"So, I got on my computer today, and turned to my father and said 'I'm going to be brave and attempt the LjDQ.' Then I looked at the first question and went 'Oh god. New York Sports teams, I'm going to fail.' I just thought I'd share." -

distractogirl

HOORAY FOR THE BRAVERY OF distractogirl!!!! -CV&AL

"I mock all sports teams" -

profsparky

"I have no idea about UK sport, never mind sport from another country, but I'll hazard a guess at the New York Sticklebacks. Sounds sportish, doesn't it? DOESN'T IT?" -

blu_matt

"Fishsticks rhymes with Knicks, so it must be New York's other basketball team yelling at the Knicks." -

chrysoberyl

(Yeah, like LOGIC ever works on LJDQ answers. -AL)

"Now, how can fishsticks be used as a taunt? They're golden brown, hot from the oven, nice and crunchy, batter-covered goodness that everyone loves! I like mine with a dab of ketchup and cheese, but whatever you do to 'em, they're always mmmmmmmmm, tasty!" -

i_calql8
"Why anyone would *want* fishsticks is beyond me. Bland bits of fish in heavy breading that always gets charred on one side, still cold on the other. blech." -

dorei
"I actually want fishsticks. Right now, and I expect

ljdq to provide." -

yueni

"Now I'm envisioning competitive fishstick fencing. 'En garde avec Gorton's. Prêt. Allez!' First one to leave a greasy spot on his opponent's shirt wins the point!" -

thecuckoo

"The Staten Island Lunchladies." -

arib

"I swear to God, if I could press a button and turn every raving, gibbering sports fan into a poodle...I would be given my own country." -

lots42

(Not by me, you wouldn't. -2, 'cause I hate poodles & loooove sports. -AL)

"The New York Post is mocked by fans of the Times with the chant 'We want fishwrap!'" -

thepikey

"America is just so wimpy, isn't it...over here we have full-scale riots. Over there you get people going 'Well...YOU LIKE FISH! SO THERE!'" -

puredeadthingy

(Yes, in America we expend our violent energies on other pursuits, such as aggressive foreign policy. -AL)

"Fishsticks? FISHSTICKS??? Come on! You call that pansy wussiness heckling? Gimmee a break. Boo Santa, toss snowballs at Jimmy Johnson from the 600 level. I always knew New Yorkers were wusses but give me a BREAK!" -

umbralcorax

(C'mere, you ornery lil' Philadelphia sports fan. I love you so much. -AL)

"The Mrs. Pauls. Actually, it was the NY Islanders hockey team, who briefly had a logo that looked like the Gorton's fisherman

" -

drbear

Correct Answer: The Islanders

2. What book, published in 1883 and written by Robert Louis Stevenson, provided the first example of many pirate stereotypes?

"Arrrrr we havin' fun yet? or: Keelhaulin' for fun and profit" -

arib
"ARRR is for Revenge" -

fizrep
"Arr is for Rum." -

captainsblog

"Pirating For Dummies" -

wiredwizard

"Snakes on a Ship!" -

wendynat

"Pirates of Penzance. Which may not be right, but the Major-General's song is too good for it not to be." -

syrazemyla

"'The Island of Dr. Moreau' Strangely enough, you don't see many half-man/half-lion pirates in films these days. 'Arrr, ye be walkin' the plank on TWO legs, not on four!'" -

kenshardik

"Kidnapped! I hate that book. We had to read it in fifth grade in the gifted class, and we all hated it. One time our teacher asked this guy, er, started with a T, to describe the plot, and he said that first a guy got kidnapped, and then he might have rolled down a hill some time. She let us read the Hobbit after that." -

domtheknight

"Ooh, ooh, that book! With the chest! and the guy! with the wooden leg! Captain Hook! No! Captain Barbossa! No, Captain America! ...okay now I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel, he isn't even a pirate. Why is Captain America not a pirate?" -

maggiebloome

"Murdered by Pirates is good." -

saldw

(+1, The Princess Bride. -CV)

"Yet another literary classic I'm familiar with solely thanks to the Muppets." -

futuristicplans

(You and 23 others. -CV)

"Treasure Island! With Long John Silver! But without tasty fried morsels of goodness!" -

fan_this

"It's gotta be Treasure Island. I have the Muppet version. Everything is better with muppets. Except porn, because... that's creepy." -

shinga

(You clearly have not heard of Avenue Q yet. -CV)

"My father gave me both that book and 'Swiss Family Robinson' when I went on a school trip. A marine oriented trip. On a ship. Two books on horrid things that can happen on the seas." -

ebiannah

Correct Answer: Treasure Island

"They didn't have any types of stereos in Treasure Island." -

firebrand618

3. What is the largest island on Earth?

"Australia." - at least half of you.
"Afro-Eurasia." - about a quarter of you.

(OK, next time I'll specify "non-continental island". Sheesh. -AL)

"Ah, this is a trick because you make an Australian song the answer to the first question last week, and are trying to brainwash us. Well, it WON’T WORK. Australia is a CONTINENT!" -

smeddley

(At least one Quizling understands me. -AL)

"Pangea." -

pheltzer

(Ah, while your answer is quite clever, we fool you with grammatical trickery. Our question is phrased in the PRESENT tense. -CV)

"...my vote goes to Iceland just because Reykjavik is cool to spell." -

germankitty

"Kirstie Alley. No man can be an island, but she and her ego manage just fine." -

brownkitty

"Pavarotti." -

torsparkles

"Your mom?
Gawd you can be SO immature.
Your mom was SO immature last night.
Seriously, if we weren't both the same person I'd kick you in the face.
I kicked your mom in the face last night...IN BED!
*Eyeroll*" -

uberhero

"Madagascar? Greenland? I don't know which are considered contenients and which are islands." -

fan_this

(Here's a hint: Both are islands. Neither are continents. One is right. And you are boned. -CV)

"Fantasy Island. I mean, you go there and you end up in fascimiles of Los Angeles or Paris and stuff. It must be huge." -

kenshardik
"Based on the size of the fauna, I have to go with Monster Island. Godzilla, Gamorah, Rodan... it's just gotta be HUGE." -

thepikey

"I would argue that America, as much as I like my country, is probably the biggest I-Land I know, selfish as we can be." -

firebrand618

"EARTH! Ha ha! You know! 'This Island Earth'! With the... with the MST guys... and the... movie... uhm. Don't judge me." -

shinga

(I was wondering how so many Quizlings had heard of this horrible, horrible movie. The MST ref cleared it up. -AL)

"I think it's incredibly ironic that Greenland is covered in ice. Talk about euphemisms." -

photosinesis

(The Viking discoverers who named their discovery gave us an early example of "misleading marketing": "Settlers! Come to the North Atlantic paradise of GREENLAND!" -AL)

"Greenland, so named because its population density of zero makes it the only place in the world where Tom Green has any reasonable shot at being a trendsetter. Then Seth Green bought a summer home there and screwed things up for him." -

kandelschwartz

"Greenland would be the perfect place for the World's Largest Frozen Fishstick Fight." -

fizrep

"Do you want me to send you back where you were? Unemployed? In Greenland??" -

dorei

(+1, The Princess Bride. -AL)

Correct Answer: Greenland

4. What song, originally intended by its writers for Michael Jackson, became a huge hit single for Madonna in 1987?

"Err... I claim age related ignorance. I was only one at the time, doesn't that exempt me from answering?" -

lesyeuxaveugles

(You're new here, so we'll actually answer this question for you: NO, it doesn't exempt you from answering. We OFTEN ask questions about things that happened before ANY of us were around - for example, see the Question 5. Here at the

ljdq we expect you to be well-rounded students of the Cosmos, so that means you get questions about history, & yes, sports too. -AL&CV)

"'Isla Nublar', which is a tropical-influenced Calypso song about a boy and his dinosaur. True love under the mango tree! Sugar and akee and cocoa bean!" -

etumukutenyak

"I can't remember any island songs from Madonna. Like A Virgin? Material Girl? I'm Not As Young As I Used To Be But I Still Have A Nose And You Don't?" -

cwtyger

"It is a little-known fact that Michael Jackson became who he was at producers' requests that he become a 'Material Girl.'" -

loopychew

"My Face Is Pastede On Yay!" -

ketaki

"Lord I hope it's not Papa Don't Preach, though I'm sure Michael would want to keep the child too..." -

kysen

(+1, flawless victory, fatality. -AL&CV)

"la isla bonita. may i just say that was not me. rather worryingly, my boyfriend just leant over my shoulder and told me the answer. we are going to have to have words when i've posted this." -

rosecrea

"I made it as far as the idea of Michael Jackson singing 'La Isla Bonita' before my brain shrieked and ran to cower in the corner. Gee, thanks, now I'll have to spend the rest of the evening coaxing it back out again." -

noelleleithe

"I'd have paid good money to have seen Michael Jackson wear that flamenco dress and a fake rose stuck in his hair!" -

germankitty

(Really? You're the only one. -AL)

"La Isla Bonita, located between Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna" -

shadowed_guise

(+1, Jurassic Park: The Lost World. -CV)

"I choke to even type it." -

fmh

Correct Answer: La Isla Bonita

"I just want to know where the hell San Pedro is." -

thecuckoo

5. What island, destroyed by a volcano in approximately 1500 BC, is probably the source of many legends about Atlantis?

(Blah blah blah Stargate blah blah blah, NEXT! -AL&CV)

"Atlantis was real. Plato wrote about it, so it must be real." -

yak_boy

"Atlantis is real, man. The creators of that island were destructive, greedy aliens who took and took and took and eventually destroyed themselves. But their human-alien hybrid descendents live on, and that is why we have war! (I'd feel a lot better about this if this were an original tinfoil hat theory. Unfortunately, there are people who really believe this.)" -

schizospider

"If only people knew the truth, which was that Atlantis was not, in fact, an advanced civilization with technology beyond our wildest dreams built by aliens and destined to rule over the world. People only think that because it's rude to say bad things about the dead. In fact, the Atlanteans built their freaking civilization on a tiny island with a volcano. They were idiots." -

kandelschwartz

"I wish it had been Australia, but I think I'm probably about 3 millenia too late. I've seen Neighbours - it's a well deserved fate." -

blu_matt

"Staten Island. Oh wait, that just *looks* like it's been destroyed by a volcano." -

jonem

"Krakatoa, which -- when you think about it -- is absolutely the best name for an island that is also a volcano. The sound of it should have been a warning to the inhabitants that this place was going to blow. Just saying out loud 'I live on Krakatoa' should have been a Big Clue. It's like living on Mount Doom, after all. 'Yes, I live on Mount Doom. No, I haven't been paying attention to the constant tremors and noxious gases -- why?'" -

etumukutenyak

"The Land of Dairy Queen. After the great burger wars and the deaths of the Burger King and his loyal harlequin Ronald (and that big weird purple thing that liked Milkshakes and had that strange.. Grimace..) it was ironic that such a powerful land could be destroyed in a wave of hot fudge and caramel" -

tarpo

(This answer made me really, really hungry. -AL)

"A typo. I thought it was a dessert island, and a whole island of pudding is hard to resist." -

juidth_s

"I think someone in Hollywood needs to reimagine the destruction of this island combined with the Isle of Dr Moreau. Legions of lava-enflamed talking manmonkeys attacking the owners of the sole getaway boat would be cinema gold. OOOK EEEEEK! THE BOAT!! EEEEK!! FIRE OW EEEK!!!!" -

fizrep

"OMG I AM READING A BOOK ON THIS RIGHT NOW. YAY! Yay! I'm doing something that actually helps me answer! And the island is Thera. Unless you're referring to a different island blown apart 3500 years ago, in which case, ignore my jubilation." -

lyme

"The great Santorini! Now you see it, now you don't!" -

chokatobuttrfly

Correct Answer: Thera, or Santorini.

6. How'd you get stuck on that desert island anyway?

(Blah blah blah Lost blah blah blah, NEXT! -AL&CV)

"I dunno, man. I drank a lot last night." -

swampdweller,

woap

(Word. -CV)

"I need to learn to read more carefully. I thought the sign said 'Dessert Island' and was all about the pie." -

wingedelf
"I thought it was a dessert island, and a whole island of pudding is hard to resist." -

judith_s
" Dammit, mcrunner03 totally beat me to using this joke. Props to him.

" -

mcrunner03

"I supported the wrong side when the crew mutinied. How was I supposed to know that the captain had ninjas on his side?" -

kickthehobbit

"Love, for our third anniversary, here is a scrapbook I made called 101 ways you remind me of your mother." -

uncut_diamond

"I was still singing 'Land Down Under' from last week's quiz. My coworkers were so sick of hearing it that they snuck up on me and threw me here." -

whomajigi

"I would exchange three hundred thousand of these and every ounce of blood in your body FOR A QUART OF GASOLINE!" -

umbralcorax

(+1, Superman Returns. -CV)

"I think the answer to that in Netherlands would be to simply create more land with an intricate dyke network and thus create a larger island until it connects to the main land and is therefore no longer an island. It does not however, answer your question. But I don't care." -

dracothelizard

(Tee hee, "dyke network". -CV)

"It was those damned monkey butlers again! Never trust a monkey butler. . ." -

lesyeuxaveugles

"You see when a mommy island and a daddy island love each other very much...." -

akiyasan

(While that explains how the island came to be, I am curious how YOU fit into the scenario. -CV)

"I knew that I made a made a wrong toin at Alberqoirque." -

captainsblog

"It’s a long story involving a tube sock, a stick of gum, and the toothpick from a Swiss Army knife. I don’t like to talk about it." -

smeddley

(Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to MacGyver. -CV)

"I was lured here with the promise of cookies, then abandoned with nothing but a volleyball and all the makings of a coconut bra." -

crystalcazzie

(Except the fillings! Noitch! -CV)
(Ignore him; he's over the limit again. -AL)

"When I make my forst gajillion dollars I'm buying Wyoming at The World in Dubai. I'm calling it New Wyoming. I will bring in many Latin boys and make them wear Speedos and serve me cocktails on the beach. I wouldn't exactly call that 'stuck.'" -

queeniexb

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale about my virtual trip
It started from my IBM with a simple little click

I tried to surf the internet, but things did not go well;
I wound up in an LJDQ with some cyber-geeks from hell.

They won't shut up; I can't escape this whole LJ nightmare,
If I ran to baaaaabyanimals I bet angledge'd find me there.

I'm stuck inside the World Wide Web
With chaosvizier
I hit F1... unplug the cable...
I can't click out... I can't click in...
They said "GO. PLAY."
Oh my God,
I'm trapped in the L-J-D-Q~~~~~!" -

alexmegami

"Thank you for getting the Gilligan's Island theme song stuck in my head. It was just what I needed to make my day complete." -

chrysoberyl

"I was afraid my cigarette might irritate the other passengers so I cracked a window. And then there was so much noise, the roaring and stuff flying through the air, and the flight attendant told me "the captain has impressive eyes"...or something to that affect, which I didn't see as relevent at all, we hit water before I could ask. If I hadn't beaten that elderly woman to a floatation device who knows where I'd be." -

fmh

Correct Answer: "I said 'I'll take 'Islands' for $200, Alex' and the next thing I know, here I am, less $200." - i_calql8

(Do not underestimate the power of Alex Trebek. -CV)

And there you have it, an archipelago of creative answers. I'd make a pun here, but man, archipelago's a tough word to work with, and I'm drinking a pretty strong Martin Millar gin and tonic, so fuck it. Welcome about new players, of which there were several. About? I meant aboard. This is a mighty fine gin and tonic here.

See you all tomorrow, same uncharted desert time, same uncharted desert channel!

Rock on,

AL&CV

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"I wish it had been Australia, but I think I'm probably about 3 millenia too late. I've seen Neighbours - it's a well deserved fate." - blu_matt

You've watched NEIGHBOURS!? Are you INSANE!? Oh, wait. You're foreign, you don't know any better. I bet you drink FOSTERS, too. =/

From:

blu-matt.livejournal.com

Not watched, "seen". Once¹. I wouldn't watch it unless there were high voltage electrodes attached to various parts of my body and bamboo under the fingernails, and my eyes were forced open, and... well, you get the picture.

Drink Fosters? I'd rather drink my own piss. Frankly, I'd rather drink your piss.

[1] 30 seconds is enough to get the gist of the thing².
[2] This was exacerbated when the rat-like Minogue monster started popping up all over popular culture, which I also viciously eschew.

Though named daily, it is weekly. Behold the first mystery.

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