LJ Daily Answers: 20 November 2006

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"There are entirely too many U's in this week's questions, so I'm not playing. So there. I'm sticking my tongue out at you." - jrho

Fascinating... but not entirely unjustified.

"I just thought I'd let you know two things: 1) reading LJDQ is how I get through my most boring and hated classes. 2) I constantly have a 'sore throat' in these classes because I can't hold the laughter in and have to turn it into coughing." - ankhet

We were hoping more to be a supplement to education rather than a replacement for education, but hey, we'll take what we can get.



1. In "The Music Man", young Winthrop learns which song as a means of getting around his lisp?

"Thank you LJDQ, I now have about 76 earworms leading my big brass brain to insanity." - prettylily

(Our pleasure. -AL&CV)

"Trouble with a capital 'T' That rhymes with 'D' And that stands for Daily!" - bloominglotus
"Unknown with a capital 'U' and that rhymes with 'Q' and that stands for Quiz!" - csi_tokyo3

"who can resist a kid who can't say words using the most common sounds in the alphabet?" - wellowned

(Obviously, the answer is "None of you":)

"Whithtle While You Work" - arckyosuke
"'One Thingular Thenthathion'" - mark_laura
"Thit on my faaaaathe and tell me that you looove meeee" - runrunmarch
"'Sally Sells Seashells By The Seashore, You Sick Bitch'" - shinga, lienne, lostfox555, ooyoumasha
"can you just imagine Daffy Duck? 'Theventy-thix tromboneth led the big parade/With a hundred and ten corneth right behind...You actually want me to thing thith? You're dethpicable...'" - jmthane, drewbeartx
"Thank goodness this wasn't a Thondheim." - xylinas

"Thith ith the latht time I work with thomeone with a thpeech impediment!" - i_calql8

(+1, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. -CV)

"Ten Little Indianth." - rikchik

(At least you stuck with the theme... -CV)

"I'm thending out an sth oh sth." - the_diffrence

(+1, Sting. -CV)

"PLEASE let it be Sussudio." - deltashade

"Thhupercalifragilttthticextthpiallidothhioutthh." - wiredwizard, renee12321, etcet, germankitty, local_sin

"my brain has started singing 'Do you know the muffin man, muffin man, muffin man?' but substitutiong 'music' in for 'muffin'." - lyme

(mmmm... muffins. -CV)

"He learns no song. He learns that people like him are doomed to a life filled with pain and loss. He learns that his peers will mock him and that he will be forced to work in an unsafe environment for peanuts because his lisp is good only for a laugh. He also learned how to drink. Because we all know Harold Hill was a raging alcoholic who taught young boys (among other things) how to take shots." - fireworkfiasco

"Probably '76 Trombones' which is the least musically accurate song ever, because it said the band had bassoons. I played the bassoon in high school. It REQUIRES A CHAIR. YOU CANNOT MARCH WITH IT. I was forced to play the Sousaphone for homecoming parades, and have become bitter and hateful." - bad_latin

(Your bitterness and hate taste like sweet candy. -CV)

"Travel Tip. When driving on the Indiana Toll Road westbound, you want to close your windows and put your A/C on recirculated air about 5 miles before you get to Gary. You don't want to turn it back to fresh until you cross the state line into Illinois." - pheltzer

Correct Answer: "Gary, Indiana"



2. A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, and Rick Mears are tied for the record of most wins of which sporting event?

"Wasn't Foyt the guy on the original Candid Camera? Therefore, it must be something to do with either wedding gowns being ripped off of voluptuous women, or men getting smacked in the balls with tiny, yapping dogs." - stagemanager

(Both of which are extremely funny and always appropriate. Also, I think you meant Allen Funt. -CV)

"My sports knowledge doesn't go far beyond chess, and my sister says that if chess is a sport, solitaire should be a sport. Yeah, I bet these guys got tied with solitaire." - xylinas

"commuting to work around Baltimore and DC is a heck of lot more dangerous than driving in circles. These guys get their names on plaques and millions of dollars for doing something I do every day. Jockeying for position, surrounded by crazies who read newspapers and yack on their cellphones while (sort of) driving, the collective forgetting of how to use a turn signal, and occasionally someone nods off at the wheel. It's like freakin' Mario Kart out there (without the turtle shells, sadly)." - morganashkevron

"Racing is only a sport when someone gets injured in a crash." - cmseward

"The Indianajones 500, whereupon, at the ripe age of Super Dooper Old (extended by new scientific discoveries), a decrepit Harrison Ford is still trying to pretend he's got the energy and sex appeal he did when he was forty." - seldear

"The only reason I have a clue about this is that my mum tells me I drive like AJ Foyt." - coolteamblt

"practice runs are held in the Chicago area." - jmthane

"Every time I go to type Indianapolis, I get it confused with Annapolis, and then I end up with Indiannapolis, ID, which is neither a real city nor a real state. Though I'd like to think that ID would be 'Imaginary Dakota.'" - potassiumman

"Cheerleading. If you take the first letters of each of their names, you get RAA! Goooo team! *does a backflip*" - whomajigi

"since when is driving circles considered a sport? cheerleaders are more active and they just bounce around." - wellowned

(Yes they do. Mmmm boy. -CV)

"I understand the locals call it 'Where the fuck do I park? Weekend.'" - etcet

"what the heck's the difference between Indy cars and NASCAR? No, really, we're not trying to be funny; we need some midwestern larnin'." - mark_laura
"It can't be NASCAR - they only have one first name apiece." - bad_latin

Correct Answer: The Indianapolis 500



3. The nations of Lilliput and Blefuscu were divided into which two quasi-religious groups?

"Heheh, he said 'quasi'. That reminds me of Carry On Up The Khyber. And the khasi. Oo er Missus! Not on your Nelly! Titter ye not, titter ye not! Oh well, please yourself." - gwenhyffar

(And as is proper, the spiffington Award For Total Gibberish this week goes to... gwenhyffar! -CV)

"Emos and chavs." - puredeadthingy

"The People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front." - djs_specs

(+1, Monty Python's Life of Brian. -CV)

"Those with stars on their bellies and those without stars on their bellies." - richcsigs, etcet

(+1, The Sneetches. -CV)

"The Yangs and the Kohms." - jmthane

(+1, Star Trek:TOS. -CV)

"They May Be Giants and They May Not Be Giants, but we're not sure." - the_diffrence

"Damn it, literary knowlege. You give me a title in my head but no content, just like a good-looking hooker who ends up having gonhorrea. I mean..nevermind." - runrunmarch

"I'll be damned if I can remember anything but that the guy from Cheers was in the mini-series. Does that mean I have to give my English degree back?" - nighthellcat

(Yes. -AL&CV)

"I read an illustrated Gulliver's Travels as a child. I've been frightened of small people ever since." - babybokal

"I like Big-Ends and I can not lie/You Lilliputs might deny/That when a chef walks in with a tasty egg/And a spoon to break it's case/You go mmm-yum" - shadowed_guise, waxing lyrical for eight of you

"The Bag-endians (those who rooted for the Hobbits, read the books, and argue over whether the One Ring was made of 24 or 14 karat gold) and the Gollum-endians (those who watched the movies once, giggled a lot at the blatant slashiness, and are baffled by the dedication and obsession of their Bag-endian friends)." - morganashkevron

"a term that is now used in computer science to describe list output and has absolutely nothing to do with Native Americans" - kestrel127
"Gulliver's Travels was an awful book, and yet somebody still decided that it was a good source for naming the different schemes for integer byte-ordering in computers." - potassiumman

Correct Answer: Big Endians and Little Endians

"How did you get away with this question CV?" - prettylily

(Because I'm AWESOME. -CV)



4. What continental plate, moving at the incredible speed of 150 mm/year, slammed into Eurasia many millions of years ago to create the Tibetan Plateau?

"*hides Plate-making kit guiltily*" - puredeadthingy

"the scenario inspired the movie The Slow and the Serious: Continental Drift. Takes forever to watch, hardly anything happens, and doesn't have Vin Diesel in it." - david_deacon

"I guess it was a bad idea to let Kumar drive after smoking that much weed." - cmseward

"William Shatner's hairpiece. What is lesser known was that it turned around and headed home the moment it saw Genghis KHAAAANNNN galumphing around Central Asia." - arckyosuke

"Gave us a good kick in the rear that damn plate. We are getting ready to shove it back to where it belonged. That just isn't polite behaviour, sneaking up from behind and just smashing into us. You can do that when you have sex but not when you move around continental plates." - honeyguide

"And lo, our lord Xenu did righteously tie one on and try to drive home on the Indian Subcontinental Shelf-Plate-Thingy. After sideswiping a chunk off Africa (hello Madagascar!), he 'parked' it in China's ass and tried to claim that that Sri Lanka had *always* been just sitting there, detached." - mark_laura

"'Britain! What's that behind your back?' 'Oh, India, and a number of other countries...'" - swampdweller

"'Slammed into' may be overstating it a bit. More like 'spooned gently but insistantly with.' India's just a cuddler." - silk_knickers
"You just don't understand its love! It only wanted to be close to Eurasia!" - silensy

(India/Eurasia OTP? I think not. -CV)

"Ohh angledge and chaosvizier, I think I love you. You just asked a geology question! I'm giddy like a schoolgirl. You even picked my favorite part of geology: plate tectonics! I love plate tectonics!" - ooyoumasha

"The Indian sub-continent, not to be confused with the Indian super-continent. It's really only a sidekick-continent anyway." - prettylily

"How long are people going to hound the poor Indo-Australian plate for that? it was an accident! He got over the drinking problem years ago." - b_hulsmans

"I know that India is on top of that plate, so... the Curry, Chick Peas and Lentils Plate (also know as the #3 at the Indian food place down the street)." - drewbeartx

Correct Answer: The Indian Plate



5. Cora and Uncas perish at the hands of the Hurons at the end of which novel?

"What's with all the funky names this week? Unser, Blefuscu, Uncas? Is that the theme? 'Names guaranteed to make you giggle like you're EIGHT'? IS THAT IT!?" - shinga

"Aren't Hurons birds? I don't think I'd like to admit that I got taken out by potential Thanksgiving dinner substitute." - whiski_sour

"Hop On Pop. They just refused to cry Uncas." - pewter_alyssum

"VEGGIETALES! (What? They're perishables!)" - gwenhyffar

"I thought I was fairly well-read until I was faced with this question. Perhaps I should branch out beyond Penthouse Forum." - sskipstress

"The Mightiest Tree In the Forest. Oh, wait, that perished at the hands of a herring." - schizospider

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

"Tomahawks Fall, Everyone Dies." - csi_tokyo3

"The classic children's novel, Fox with Pox." - mistyraven

(BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA... -CV Shame on you. -AL)

"The Last of the Unbelievably Overwritten, Overwrought Novels of the Romanticised American Continent and Its Bloodthirsty Natives, Which Sadly, Did Not Include Daniel Day-Lewis" - miladygrey

"That was the only movie I thought Daniel Day Lewis was hot in...must have been that long flowing hair." - ginalin

"In the movie, Uncas was SO HOT. Stupid Mungo or whatever that freak's name was." - kokopellinelli

(Magua. -CV)

"The name of the book is lost to an extended drinking binge in college so let's try logic. The Mohegan Sun Indian Casino is on Lake Huron... I think. I vaguely recall a book called 'The last of the _____' Given the characters were killed by the Hurons... perhaps it's 'The Last of the Mohegans'?" - pheltzer

"I tried to read that book once, but everyone started talking in French, so I bailed out before anything interesting happened." - rhitsqueaky

"I should say something about Crabapple Cove, Maine, but I'm not sure how many of the younger crowd would get the reference I'm making." - umbralcorax

(Only this person:)

"The best thing about 'The Last of the Mohicans' is that is where 'Hawkeye' Pierce got his nickname. I have a sad girly crush on him, and he's so old now. Viva le Alan Alda!" - nighthellcat

"LotM, not to be confused with LotR" - mark_laura

"Whatever the answer is, you've completely ruined the ending." - fireworkfiasco
"thanks for ruining the ending of The Last of the Mohicans for me, you asswipes." - david_deacon
"Now I have no excuse to waste my free time reading classic literature." - dragonstar87

(You guys should rent the movie. It comes with the special Bonus Plot And Ending That Is Completely Different From The Book In Almost Every Way Imagninable. -CV)

"They made a book out of it?" - tweeti

Correct Answer: The Last of the Mohicans



6. What tribe do you come from?

"The bald-headed, big-bellied, gotee-growing ukrainian type." - a_l_p_h_a_b_e_t

(There's a special place in my heart for all Ukrainians. You're all right. -CV)

"Slapaho. my sister has become a Whataho. My brother's the chief of the Pimpahos." - wellowned

"Actually, I'm 1/8th Cherokee." - bloominglotus

(You have no idea how hard I'm laughing at this moment. -CV)

"The tribe of large breasted women." - whomajigi
"What's Indigenous American for "Large Breasted Women"?" - sskipstress

(I believe the word is "Titicaca". -CV)

"I guess I come from the white oppressors?" - amphelice

(Hey, someone's gotta represent. -CV)

"I feel like I should have a New Zealand accent at this point." - akiyasan

"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod." - uncut_diamond

(+1, Highlander. -CV)

"All I know is that my tribe has recently mastered Bronze Working and the Alphabet, and has vested absolute power in me." - silk_knickers

(You get a +1 from each of us. Well-done. -AL&CV)

"Me not know. Me only pawn in game of life." - tweeti

(+1, Blazing Saddles. -CV)

"The tribe of People-From-Alaska-Who-Aren't-Native-Or-Russian-So-Stop-Looking-At-My-Paleness-And-Asking-'Are-you-an-Eskimo?'" - runrunmarch

"I'm pretty sure all my ancestors were goat herders. Goats freak me out, which is why it's probably a good thing that I am not one of my ancestors." - kokopellinelli

"When I asked my mom she said, 'Don't ask. You're in a nuclear family for a damn good reason, that's all you need to know.' And here I thought nuclear families were just easier to manage." - xylinas

"I'm Hopi. I know I'm supposed to attempt to be witty here and claim my indian name is something like 'walks-into-walls' or something but I'm kinda proud of the Hopi thing, so." - silensy



And that's it for this week. Some of you realized that the theme was Indians. Some of you did not. This is ok, because really, our politically incorrect quiz themes are just... No, never mind. We had "penis" as a theme one week. Screw correctness.

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Rock on,

AL&CV