LJ Daily Answers: 18 September 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Right. Two weeks later and we're both mostly finished with our insane schedules. angledge has successfully finished a triathlon; chaosvizier has successfully maintained world peace. And you all have successfully (we hope) started your schooling semesters. Or at least, those of you who are student types. The rest of you managed to find time to take the quiz of the week, and perhaps got "Do, A Deer" stuck in your heads. Good for you!



1. The island of Mauritius was home to the now extinct Raphus cucullatus, more commonly referred to as what?

"Biology? In the LJDQ? Goodness. Pass!" - jonem

"The red ninja turtle... with the sais." - renee12321, droptheleash622, hellpaladin2183

"
You can easily keep them out of your yard with a BB gun though." - tarpo

"I work with a bunch of crazy taxonomists. One of their projects is DNA barcodes. My favorite application of this technology is identifying the species of bird that got sucked into a jet engine." - sskipstress

(It probably wasn't this bird that caused the airplane to go boom. -AL)

"The dodo's main problem was that it was so tasty. People wouldn't have hunted it to extinction if it tasted bad, right? Talk about a bad evolutionary development." - jtersesk
"Let this be a lesson to you all: Taste like shit and live forever." - woap

"The Cucumberraptor. Vicious, and unstoppable in its attack on salad ingredients." - cmseward

"Da dodo do, da da da da. That's all I want to say to you." - i_calql8

(+1, Sting. -AL)

"It's got to be the dodo, the only non-dinosaur in the entire pantheon of extinct creatures that people remember. That's because its name sounds funny." - jrho

"Fun fact: No specimen exists of this bird because, at some point in the past, the only one that did at some museum in London was deemed to be musty and funny-looking and summarily thrown on the fire. All that was retrieved was its beak and some other small parts." - ghymoreid

(So much for Britain being a bastion of science and learning. One can imagine their Egyptology branch: "Oh I do say, why all this fuss about that Tutankhamen chap? He's old and dusty and grunging up the place. Let's burn the wanker." -CV)

"I feel bad for any species that goes extinct, but doubly so for any species called 'Dodo'. They may as well have called it the dumbass-bird or something." - peaseblossom03

"" - xphilega

Correct Answer: Dodo Bird



2. Who was the 24th Governor-General of Canada?

"we're not allowed to use Google to answer LJDQ questions, are we?" - mimbulus

(Nope. That's naughty. Besides, anyone can use Google. But Google rarely brings the funny. -AL&CV)

"an awesome sounding title, but then you combine with Canada and that's just not right. Imagine introducting yourself at parties: 'I AM THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Canada.'" - dracothelizard
"Governor-General sounds like one of those made-up titles for a rank in sci-fi movies. But then, there's the Surgeon General, Attorney General, Baker General, Florist General, General General, Specific General..." - shadowed_guise

"In a little known twist of fate, it was Carl Weathers. Along with Arnold Schwartzenegger and Jesse Ventura, he made up the so-called 'Predator' trifecta of governors. Why he went all the way to Canada instead of running for governor of Louisiana is anybody's guess." - kandelschwartz

" He's the one holding the beer." - etcet

"He probably wanted to be a lumberjack. Stupid guidance counselors." - jrho

"A hockey playing, maple syrup eating moose who lives in an igloo and moonlights as a Mountie. What? That's all you Americans think we have up here ANYWAY." - seraphic_slayer

(Correct answer! Full credit! -CV Ignore him. -AL)

"All I remember, though, is that his last name has a freaking lot of consonants and looks really, really unpronounceable." - baseballchica03

"Yay for having a professor who specialises in Canadian studies, though. He mentioned Mr. Sniffetshyn (Gesundheit!) this very morning on a lecture." - amphelice

Correct Answer: Ray Hnatyshyn



3. June Lockhart has been "Lost In Space" on television and, thirty years later, on the big screen. Her part in the movie was just a cameo; who played her original character in the film?

"Not even Gary Oldman was fabulous enough to save that clusterfuck." - ghymoreid

"I'm gonna have the phrase 'DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!' running through my head all night while I'm trying to sleep." - lyzz13

"May Keyspleen." - woap

"Mrs Robinson, so I'm guessing Anne Bancroft" - germankitty

"Edith Head. (I know that's wrong, I'm just tickled that there's actually someone named Edith Head.)" - queencallipygos

"Some unlucky soul who is even now trying to scrub it off her CV." - grapefruitzzz

(Scrape what off who? I wasn't even there! -CV)

"I wonder if people named those month names were born in that same month?" - wendynat

(June Lockhart: born 25 June 1925. Go figure. -CV)

"Was it Mimi Rodgers? She was awesome in that movie where she's naked and getting massaged all the time, or where she's naked and making out with David Ducoveny before the Rapture happens, or basically anything where she's naked." - kenshardik

"Mimi Rogers--She was smart enough to get away from Tom Cruise before the craaaazy. Should be some sort of award just for that." - ginalin

Correct Answer: Mimi Rogers



4. Which religious organization's name means "Practice of the Wheel of Law"?

"Jurical cotis mostus interruptus" - uncut_diamond

"Scientology" - lots42, david_deacon

"Lawyers and doctors are always practicing. Do they ever actually get good enough to stop practicing and start performing?" - jtersesk

"The Holy Sect of Ambulance Chasers. For it is written, 'Whereupon St. Litigatium said unto the masses, may the wheel of a law practice's chariot chase after the alarum of the sick and needy. For the sick and needy of today, are the rich and bountiful of next Tuesday. And we sayeth unto the sick, that without win there will be no fee, and that shall be your guarantee.'" - shadowed_guise

(Amen. -CV)

"Wheel of morality, turn, turn, turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn." - sskipstress

(+1, Animaniacs. -CV)

"The Church of Latter Day SUVs, dedicated to flatting the non-believers, provided they're not going over 5 mph." - hellpaladin2183

"'Fa... Faaaaa....'
'The Church of Faaaaa....?'
'He must've died while typing it.'" - mark_laura

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

"I don't know but whoever they are it would be pointless in having a religious war because they would just reincarnate and then we'd have to do it all over again and frankly my God only gives me one chance." - danzen

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - marilyth

"Sajakism. 'Judge not, lest ye have thine letters overturned by Vanna the White!'" - kenshardik

"Those Fall on Gong people. Why they'd want to fall on gongs I don't know, but it's their religion." - squeeful

Correct Answer: Falun Gong

"This sect was not established in Falun, Sweden despite the popular assumption. Nor do they sell gongs." - amphelice



5. Stanislaw Lem's most famous novel was first published in 1961, first filmed in 1972, and that film remade thirty years later. What was the name of the book?

"I feel he had a good thing going with the first name Stanislaw. Then here comes his last name to screw it all up by being lame-o. But mmmm... 'slaw." - fizrep

"Why the Hell Didn't My Parents Stop at 'Stan'?" - schizospider

"Lem is Mel Spelled Backwards." - drbear

"If life hands you a Lem, made Lemade." - uncut_diamond

"Soylent Green is people! And quite possibly the wrong answer!" - jonem

(Quite definitely, in fact. -CV)

"The Godfather, though the remake was called My Big Fat Italian Funeral." - kandelschwartz

"'Solaris'. IIRC, Lem also coined the word 'robot' from the Russian verb яоботљ, meaning 'to work'." - germankitty

"I didn't really get it. Then again, I didn't really feel the need to because George Cloony's butt was on screen." - shadowkeeper
"I'd like it to be known that the remake is worth watching for completely different merits than George Clooney's ass." - amphelice

(You just keep telling yourself that. -CV)

Correct Answer: Solaris



6. Which Puccini opera tells the tragic tale of Mimi and Rodolfo?

(RENT: BZZZZZT! -1's all around. -CV)

"Heh heh, you said 'Pu.'" - mistyraven

"Like many American children my age, all I know about opera, I learned from Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and I don't think Puccini wrote either The Rabbit of Seville or What's Opera Doc?" - sskipstress

(Bugs Bunny is always the correct answer. -CV)

"I once spent three days straight listening to Wagner's ring cycle! It was the best three days I ever had." - the_wanlorn

(You should try sex sometime. I hear it's a lot of fun too. -CV)

"If I wanted to deal with someone wailing operatically in Italian, I'd figure out how to get Monica Bellucci into my boudoir and give her a proper thanking for wearing That Dress in The Matrix: Reloaded" - etcet

(Monica Bellucci always gets three thumbs up in my book, if you know what I mean. And I think you do. -CV)

"'I, Roboto' which gained popularity when 'modernized' by Styx in the late 80s." - kenshardik

(I'd hate to hear the Will Smith remix of that song... -CV)

"Frank Sinatra hired the first Screaming Mimi's, starting the tendency for girls to shriek like they're having epileptic fits when someone famous comes on stage and for a very...interesting...alcoholic drink. I'm not sure why Puccini would be interested in that sort of thing. Except, you know, money for nothing and chicks for free." - nirejseki

"Rodolfo sounds like the noise my butt makes after one too many tacos." - lots42

"pairing with a guy named Rodolfo has to end tragically. Who the hell names their kid Rodolfo?" - shadowkeeper
"the true tragedy was that someone named the poor girl 'Mimi'" - wendynat

"That would be La Boheme...another sappy tale of love, death, joy, blah blah blah...why are the Europeans so emo?" - danzen

"I only got it because Mimi has the same name in Rent." - rikchik

'I'm glad you asked this question, actually. The only two operas I actually know are La Boheme and The Magic Flute. And I only know The Magic Flute because there's this really random song that was on a Mozart for Mothers to Be album that was like, 'Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa peee!' It was amusing, and my friend and I nearly died laughing in the music section of Barnes and Nobles while listening to it. We were thinking that the reason it was on that album was because it sounded an awful lot like the circumstances that might have led to a woman needing a mothers-to-be album, if you know what I'm sayin'. And I think you do because I'm not very subtle." - baseballchica03

(I think I gotta go potty now. -CV)

"La Boheme Rhapsody" - woap

Correct Answer: La Bohème



7. Captain Jean-Luc Picard routinely orders which drink from his replicator?

"My Mum says 'Sex appeal in a cup.' Ew, Mother." - puredeadthingy
"He ordered 'Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.' Whereas *I* would order 'Tall. Bald Man. HAWT.'" - wendynat

"Dammit! Now I have 'Duke of Earl' in my head, which all of the sudden turned to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' How the hell did that happen!!??!?!?" - marilyth

(Rest assured, we have no idea. -AL&CV)

"A double scotch and soda, easy on the soda. Because you know between Data's constantly asking annoying 'I wanna be human' questions and Riker's 'I wanna be captain' whining, at the end of the day JLP needed to take the edge off." - seraphic_slayer

"L'espaceial de jour" - xphilega

"Tee. Hanes. Toasty warm from the dryer." - i_calql8
"Adams, Samuel. Cold." - uncut_diamond

"Something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." - elfie_samurai, southbucki

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"Earl Grey. Shaken, not stirred." - renee12321
"On relavent terms, Connery was so the best Bond." - nirejseki

"I was a good little Trekkie in my younger days (you know, four years ago) and decided that if Captain Picard drank Earl Grey tea, then maybe I should try it. So I did. I didn't like it." - jtersesk

(I did the same thing. It gave me sour tummy. -CV)

"I always liked how it served the tea in an appropriate vessel, if you choose harder Klingon stuff you get it in a lead container, but Earl Grey comes in a dinky china set, I expect saying "PG Tips, milk, two sugars" would come out in a mug with some half-witty, but outdated joke or phrase on it. The replicators, they know too much!" - shadowed_guise

(I'm looking forward to the episode where Capt. Juan-Lopez Picardo orders a tequila shot, and it replicates the cute little worm at the bottom for authenticity's sake. -CV)

"He's not even English. If he were a good Frenchman, he'd be tossing back a nice bottle of Bordelais or a cafe au lait, not that perfumed piss." - ginalin

Correct Answer: "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot."

"What isn't shown is his customary (and ineffectual) Rogaine chaser." - etcet



8. During the American Civil war, what slang term referred to Northerners, especially Congressmen, who were sympathetic to the South or supportive of slavery?

(Ok, if you said "Copperhead" you get credit. The "or" above should have been "and". Not all copperheads were supportive of slavery; they were just sympathetic to the South. Supporting slavery was a whole different ballgame. Carry on. -CV)

"AUGH I JUST TRIED TO GOOGLECHEAT ON THIS ONE AND I ACCIDENTALLY SEARCHED IN THIS WINDOW AND ALMOST LOST MY ANSWERS *HATE*" - the_wanlorn

(Let that be a lesson to you all: Cheating is wrong. -AL&CV)

"It's called The War Between The States down here, honey." - jrho

(Well, that's a step up from The War Of Northern Aggression, at least... -CV)

"Were they the carpetmunchers?" - woap, ntlespino

(That word you are using... I do not think it means what you think it means. -CV)

"Man, I wouldn't take betting advice from those guys." - whiski_sour

"Scumbags. Still call congressmen that." - naraht

(Word. -CV)

"Those damn Yankees." - kerimandalow

"Republicans." - tarpo, kenshardik
"Democrats." - droptheleash622
"Bigots." - jonem

"" - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Doughface



9. What instrument plays your tune?

"If this is a sex question..." - puredeadthingy

(Now what would make you think that? -CV)

"The Ucanlayme." - uncut_diamond
"The skin flute." - kerimandalow, tarpo, nirejseki, drbear, jessicamariek
"the instrument I have in mind does make me make sounds...." - marilyth

(Besides that, I mean... -CV)

"I have a cold right now, and I get to blow my nose every other minute. That's an instrument in itself." - ecarrotsushi

"If I had a tune, it would be a rendition of Booker T and the M.G.'s "Green Onions" as performed with a Digiridoo and a Keytar" - renee12321

"Does 'satellite radio' count?" - mark_laura

"I require a whole soundtrack." - whiski_sour

"I walk to the beat of a different drum" - b_hulsmans

"I, like Bob the Janitor, am played by the accordian." - sskipstress

(+1, Weird Al Yankovic's Peter And The Wolf. -CV)

"" - mcphonium

(I bet that's the thing that plays the CNN theme music and mimics James Earl Jones's voice. Seriously. Look at it! It looks exactly like the CNN logo:

Go on, tell me I'm wrong. -CV)

"Kazoo" - shadowed_guise, crystalcazzie
"I'm a big fan of a plastic comb covered with wax paper. The sound is so fabulously hick." - jrho

"Pack a '73 Olds with babies and kittens and bounce it off of a mating humpback whale made of corrougated steel and jello." - etcet



And that's it- another supersized quiz out of the way. If you're not musically inclined enough to recognize "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do", then you are hereby ordered to go to your local video store, rent "The Sound Of Music", and watch it. Make sure you bring someone with you, because sharing the suffering is always funny.

Everyone else, thanks for playing, see you tomorrow, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Rock on,

AL&CV

Comments

[paradoxotaur.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I missed my LJDQ dose! Today is a glorious day indeed!

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Ooh, clever theme!

[ajmcoqui.livejournal.com]

This was easily one of the funniest bunch of answers I have ever read here on LJDQ. Between "Tee. Hanes. Toasty warm from the dryer." and the carpet munchers, I was dyin'. You have reaffirmed my belief in human humor, and I am inspired to take a break from my INSANE life tomorrow to play once again...

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

"It's called The War Between The States down here, honey." - jrho

(Well, that's a step up from The War Of Northern Aggression, at least... -CV)

I call it the War of Southern Rebellion, thanks to the statue in front of the Sussex County Courthouse. :)

[deltashade.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn it. My streak is broken. I missed ONE QUIZ. AGH. I clearly must drown myself in pudding and gin as repentance.

[kenshardik]

It is at times like these that, despite having spent time with her in person, I am reminded how absosmurfly hawsome Sskipstress is.

Bob the Janitor rocks my socks.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

Sweet, the first time I actually do the quiz in a while, I get quoted twice! :)

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

I'm Canadian so REpublican, democrat.. it doesn't matter.. its just another name for whoever is screwing around with that weird country to the south of us

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

awwww...*blush*

[amphelice.livejournal.com]

Holy smoke! Three quotes? This never happens to me! *is flattered*

...And I maintain that George Clooney's butt wasn't the only asset of Solaris.

[anonymisty.livejournal.com]

"It's called The War Between The States down here, honey." - jrho

(Well, that's a step up from The War Of Northern Aggression, at least... -CV)


Actually, here in South Carolina, we prefer The Late Unpleasantness. All about the Southern hospitality, and all - we'd hate to chase away those lovely tourism dollars.

[fizrep.livejournal.com]

O.o

[fizrep.livejournal.com]

Here in NJ we call it "The War of Scarlet Harlot Claiming"

[http://users.livejournal.com/--traicionera/]

I'd just like to note that the dodo actually tasted disgusting. Unfortunately for the species, they were moronic enough and we were lazy enough that we ate them anyway. I'm not sure whether that's more insulting to us or to them.

[ex-njyoder460.livejournal.com]

Y'know, two weeks is probably too long to keep saying "It's cool, I got two weeks to do this one."

*sigh* Oh well, at least missing a game doesn't end a hitting streak.

[ex-njyoder460.livejournal.com]

This is pre-Kennedy. The Republicans were liberal and the Dems were conservative until the mid-1900s.

[germankitty]

Yay, quoted twice ... and once for knowing a different alphabet again! *ponders whether I should try learning Arabic next, as my working knowledge of Greek and Cyrillic has been pretty much exhausted now*

Why do I always succeed in cycles? No quotes 2-3 times in a row, then 2-3 times in one attempt ... one of life's LJDQ's great unsolved mysteries, I guess. *sigh*

[ex-njyoder460.livejournal.com]

Here in Florida we call it exactly what we called it at the time.

[ghymoreid.livejournal.com]

So much for Britain being a bastion of science and learning. One can imagine their Egyptology branch: "Oh I do say, why all this fuss about that Tutankhamen chap? He's old and dusty and grunging up the place. Let's burn the wanker." -CV

Almost happened. Swear to God. Actually has happened to lesser-known or unnamed mummies in the past. Oh, and this is the same museum that, when sent a very rare and valuable early human skeleton to clean, kept it for the next several decades despite many repeated requests from the Kenyan museum that it belonged to. Now, if you want to see the early human remains in this museum in Kenya, you have to write ahead to ask special permission, you're not allowed to be alone with the bones and they all but strip-search you on the way out. Which is understandable, really.

And __traicionera's right. The dodo tasted foul by all reports, but was obligingly stupid and trusting and thus ridiculously easy to shoot. To hunt more than one dodo at a time, you first shot one, and the rest would all waddle along to see what all the noise was about.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

HA I GET THE THEME NOW.

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

And to make this relevant, in response to the 'no specimen of the Dodo exists' quote - I do believe there is a moth-eaten dusty Dodo specimen in Prague (I think). I know this because it says so on the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen actors commentary on the DVD.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

I love you. I don't know who you are, but I love you.

--the guy who wrote 'Tee. Hanes. Toasty warm from the dryer', whose day you just made.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Y'know (he said, doing his best Monday morning quarterback impression), I knew I'd get the +1 on the Sting reference, but I thought my passed-over Wheel of Fortune riff was much more clever than my 'Tee. Hanes.' thingie. Just goes to show I can't completely predict what will score here. Not yet.

Hitting streak is alive at 7 games (this last week counts as a double-header, so two quotes counts as one hit per).

*activating selfbackpatting2.0

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool! Three quotes! That's a first. *proud now*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

It is silly and irrational, but I'm getting all sorts of warm fuzzies for clearing the funny bar 4x this time around.