The first ever LJ Daily Answers!
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ljdq1. If a basketball player scores 18 points, gets 11 rebounds, and has 14 assists in one game, sports commentators will call it a ...
"A really good win? How the heck would I know, I'm not a sporty." -![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
deinemuse
(Nope. You're Posh. Posh Spice. -CV)
"A jolly good show, what!" -seolta
(Nooo, because basketball is an American game. We don't use the word 'jolly' unless it's Christmas time. -AL)
"MVP or Farking Amazing Tall Dude." -funkyplaid
(You go ahead & use the real swear word. We're all adults here. -AL)
(AREN'T WE?!?!)
"... a violation of union procedure. Someone is going to file a grievance. You do your job, and that's rebounding or scoring or assisting. When you start taking other workers' jobs you take food out of the mouth of their children and hurt the entire union." -thereject
Correct Answer: Triple double.
2. If you're a really big physics geek or a reader of Stephen Hawking (redundant?), you know that the proper term for a "black hole" is ...
"Oh so many dirty things pop to mind...alas, I'll spare you a glimpse into my filthy head." -hollyinpa
(Why? No one else did. -AL)
"African-American anus" -krick
(Especially notkrick. - AL)
(OMG SO FIRED. -CV)
"A hole of color." -llefser
(Somehow more classy thankrick. -CV)
"An ex-wife." -afterwards
"Harvard's goalie" -perkyczarlet
(The Cornellians in the crowd are all slapping their knees. Everyone else is a bit bemused. -AL)
"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge." -djdysfunction
(Now that's extra-geeky. +1 for a good answer. -1 for being Geek Of The Week. -CV)
"a singularity. Did you know that in Essex, England, the fine for a naked singularity roaming the streets is three pence under the 1887 Indecency Laws?" -fizrep
(fizrep here learned this from experience. -CV)
"I'm guessing Quantum singularity - this may be induced by over indulgence in StarTrek. But it's that planar portal used by the demonic Maxwell, that German Guy's cats and things that were there the last time you looked." -verdandiweaves
(It was the Austrian guy with the cat. But full credit anyway. -CV)
Correct Answer: Singularity.
"Which unfortunately also describes my sex life at the moment." -b7cy
(I'm willing to bet that's true for a lot of us. -AL)
3. Four times a year on Wall Street, there is a Friday where the contracts for stock index futures, stock index options, and stock options all expire on the same day, causing great market volatility. This is called ...
"A cluster fuck." -marasca
(And LJDQ's first Profanity Award goes tomarasca! Let's give her a big fucking hand! -CV)
(A whole mess of you said Freaky Friday. This is the stock market, not some teen angst flick. Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dudley Moore, Fred Savage, Shelley Long and many others were not involved. For shame, all of you. -CV)
"Bring-a-bottle-of-gin-to-work day?" -seolta
(Not the correct answer, but very much the right answer. Full credit. -CV)
"'I should have been a rodeo clown, but NOOOOOOO, my mother wanted a successful son/daughter' Day." -legend_minus
"The only thing comparable in preschool terms is when 2 kids poop in their pants and one kid throws up all in the same day...pretty volatile, huh?" -hollyinpa
"A friend of mine once had a Jack and the Beanstalk-themed birthday party one year. We all made beanstalks out of issues of The Wall Street Journal. Here's what you do: first, roll up the newspapers tightly into a tube. Then, peel back one end of the tube and cut thin strips from it, to make a fringe that hangs over the top of the tube. Join the ends of the tube together, allowing the fringes to spill over. Neat, huh? Anyway, that's what they on Wall Street during this day -- they call it 'Jack the Bean-counters Day.'" -llefser
(Today's LJDQ Arts And Crafts Project comes to you fromllefser. Send pictures of your creations! -CV)
"Witching Hour (bewitching hour, maybe?)" -d4b
(So close, and yet so far. -CV)
Correct Answer: Triple Witching
"The time to climb on your broom and fly outta there as fast as you can!" -spiffington
4. In what movie does Hedy find a great new roommate named Allie who turns out to have some pretty significant personal boundary issues?
"When Hedy Met Allie" -d4b
(I hear the fake orgasm scene in this one is a bit juicier... -CV)
"It's Hedley!" -djdysfunction
(+1, Blazing Saddles. -CV)
"I don't know, was that movie supposed to be scary? *looks confused at angledge* It seemed like a pretty tame roommate situation to me. They didn't have any ghosts, or arsonists, or any of that stuff." -b7cy
(b7cy & I shared a big old weirdo-infested house with a bunch of other people in college. Scary days. -AL)
Correct Answer: Single White Female
5. For the fifth question of the quiz:
Guess what form of poem this is.
Today's answers form a clue.
They have a pattern, yes they do!
"bless you!" -ghostwriterxx
(Polite, but wrong. -AL)
(Those who answered "Haiku" - you're all fired. You know who you are. -CV)
"I don't know but here's something I like better:
5-7-5, the magical thing that is haiku.
Look away Ryan
They are coming to kill you
Soon you will be dead" -thereject
(Disturbingly psychopathic. -AL)
(Correction: everyone else is fired. Your haiku is good, because it made Ryan cry. -CV)
"It's Iambic Decathalon...mmm...hammer throw." -sskipstress
"Throughout school, I must have slept
Doing so poorly here, I actually wept.
The pattern today is pretty clear:
Questions which make me reach for a beer." -d4b
(+1 for making a poem instead of making fun of someone else's poem. -AL)
"It's a crappy poem? I'm going with crappy." -b7cy
(-5!!!! -AL)
(Settle down.-5. - CV)
"Well, it's a Didactic for sure.
Other than that, it has elements of a warped Sedoka.
But your grammar is making me choke-a." -funkyplaid
((-5!!!! - AL) - CV)
(The rhyme was fine 'till that last line. -1. -CV)
"Quatrains, or rhyming couplets. Let me ask my Literature professor.
'Hey, Francisco, what's the answer to #5?'
'Light takes four minutes to get to Earth from Alpha Centauri!'
O-kay, guess I'll go with quatrains." -afterwards
(Your Literature professor has great wisdom. Not in Literature, apparently, but whatever. -1 for him. +1 for you for not believing him. -CV)
"I bet it has something numbery in it, since I think I may have #2 and 4 right. Quatrain?" -marasca
(Good strategy. And the right answer. -AL)
Correct Answer: Quatrain.
6. Bonus question: since we're all new here, why don*t you tell us a little bit about yourself?
(Well, we're a bit tight on space, so I just took some excerpts from your answers to give us a quick but accurate briefing on who we all are. -CV)
"Precocious brat. Software Jockey. Internet advertising. Did six years. Scrambling. Next?" -d4b
(God bless you, Ivan Boesky. -CV)
"I wish to become a director and make a movie." -deinemuse
(So did Roman Polanski. -CV)
"Vegetarian seeks fun outgoing cats." -marasca
"I like to hit my kitty. I like wine." -ghostwriterxx
"I like puppies and kittens on hard-core pornography." -krick
(krick, meet ghostwriterxx and marasca. -CV)
"I'm made of whisky." -funkyplaid
(That would explain why you're playing the LJDQ. And probably many other things. -CV)
"I enjoy 14-16 hours a day of shotguns and rifles. I'm running for President." -b7cy
"I enjoy dancing barefoot in a corner." -sskipstress
(Not barefoot and pregnant, folks. Just for the record. -CV)
"Dark. Basement. Whip-wielding. Horrors. Coffee. Kittens." -afterwards
(afterwards charges $99/hr for all her services involving whip-wielding, unless you're a kitten. -CV)
(Sign CV up for three hours. Meeow! -AL)
"I rarely wear underwear when I'm a slavebitch in Newark getting good and drunk." -djdysfunction
"Bored two year old. Can't get out. Spell with creativity. Don't trawl google." -verdandiweaves
(We don't discriminate by age, and we welcome non-googlers of all varieties. Spelling, however... well, you'll see. -CV)
"I live in a farmhouse, hail from Georgia, and find comfort in playdoh." -hollyinpa
(That's ok, we accept rednecks on the LJDQ as well. -CV)
"I like the blind with gin." -fizrep
(Makes them tastier, I take it. -CV)
"I am chicken." -spiffington
(Don't be. The LJDQ isn't all that frightening. -CV)
"I'm cocky and like muffins." -legend_minus
(You said 'cock' and 'muffins' in the same answer. +1. -CV)
Soooo ... thanks for playing this week, everyone! LJDQ#2 will be posted Monday. +1 to anyone who pimpsljdq on their friends list between now & Monday.
Rock on,
Hans & Ang.
"A really good win? How the heck would I know, I'm not a sporty." -
deinemuse(Nope. You're Posh. Posh Spice. -CV)
"A jolly good show, what!" -
seolta(Nooo, because basketball is an American game. We don't use the word 'jolly' unless it's Christmas time. -AL)
"MVP or Farking Amazing Tall Dude." -
funkyplaid(You go ahead & use the real swear word. We're all adults here. -AL)
(AREN'T WE?!?!)
"... a violation of union procedure. Someone is going to file a grievance. You do your job, and that's rebounding or scoring or assisting. When you start taking other workers' jobs you take food out of the mouth of their children and hurt the entire union." -
thereject Correct Answer: Triple double.
2. If you're a really big physics geek or a reader of Stephen Hawking (redundant?), you know that the proper term for a "black hole" is ...
"Oh so many dirty things pop to mind...alas, I'll spare you a glimpse into my filthy head." -
hollyinpa(Why? No one else did. -AL)
"African-American anus" -
krick(Especially not
krick. - AL)(OMG SO FIRED. -CV)
"A hole of color." -
llefser(Somehow more classy than
krick. -CV)"An ex-wife." -
afterwards"Harvard's goalie" -
perkyczarlet(The Cornellians in the crowd are all slapping their knees. Everyone else is a bit bemused. -AL)
"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge." -
djdysfunction(Now that's extra-geeky. +1 for a good answer. -1 for being Geek Of The Week. -CV)
"a singularity. Did you know that in Essex, England, the fine for a naked singularity roaming the streets is three pence under the 1887 Indecency Laws?" -
fizrep(
fizrep here learned this from experience. -CV)"I'm guessing Quantum singularity - this may be induced by over indulgence in StarTrek. But it's that planar portal used by the demonic Maxwell, that German Guy's cats and things that were there the last time you looked." -
verdandiweaves(It was the Austrian guy with the cat. But full credit anyway. -CV)
Correct Answer: Singularity.
"Which unfortunately also describes my sex life at the moment." -
b7cy(I'm willing to bet that's true for a lot of us. -AL)
3. Four times a year on Wall Street, there is a Friday where the contracts for stock index futures, stock index options, and stock options all expire on the same day, causing great market volatility. This is called ...
"A cluster fuck." -
marasca(And LJDQ's first Profanity Award goes to
marasca! Let's give her a big fucking hand! -CV)(A whole mess of you said Freaky Friday. This is the stock market, not some teen angst flick. Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dudley Moore, Fred Savage, Shelley Long and many others were not involved. For shame, all of you. -CV)
"Bring-a-bottle-of-gin-to-work day?" -
seolta(Not the correct answer, but very much the right answer. Full credit. -CV)
"'I should have been a rodeo clown, but NOOOOOOO, my mother wanted a successful son/daughter' Day." -
legend_minus"The only thing comparable in preschool terms is when 2 kids poop in their pants and one kid throws up all in the same day...pretty volatile, huh?" -
hollyinpa"A friend of mine once had a Jack and the Beanstalk-themed birthday party one year. We all made beanstalks out of issues of The Wall Street Journal. Here's what you do: first, roll up the newspapers tightly into a tube. Then, peel back one end of the tube and cut thin strips from it, to make a fringe that hangs over the top of the tube. Join the ends of the tube together, allowing the fringes to spill over. Neat, huh? Anyway, that's what they on Wall Street during this day -- they call it 'Jack the Bean-counters Day.'" -
llefser(Today's LJDQ Arts And Crafts Project comes to you from
llefser. Send pictures of your creations! -CV)"Witching Hour (bewitching hour, maybe?)" -
d4b(So close, and yet so far. -CV)
Correct Answer: Triple Witching
"The time to climb on your broom and fly outta there as fast as you can!" -
spiffington4. In what movie does Hedy find a great new roommate named Allie who turns out to have some pretty significant personal boundary issues?
"When Hedy Met Allie" -
d4b(I hear the fake orgasm scene in this one is a bit juicier... -CV)
"It's Hedley!" -
djdysfunction(+1, Blazing Saddles. -CV)
"I don't know, was that movie supposed to be scary? *looks confused at angledge* It seemed like a pretty tame roommate situation to me. They didn't have any ghosts, or arsonists, or any of that stuff." -
b7cy(
b7cy & I shared a big old weirdo-infested house with a bunch of other people in college. Scary days. -AL)Correct Answer: Single White Female
5. For the fifth question of the quiz:
Guess what form of poem this is.
Today's answers form a clue.
They have a pattern, yes they do!
"bless you!" -
ghostwriterxx(Polite, but wrong. -AL)
(Those who answered "Haiku" - you're all fired. You know who you are. -CV)
"I don't know but here's something I like better:
5-7-5, the magical thing that is haiku.
Look away Ryan
They are coming to kill you
Soon you will be dead" -
thereject(Disturbingly psychopathic. -AL)
(Correction: everyone else is fired. Your haiku is good, because it made Ryan cry. -CV)
"It's Iambic Decathalon...mmm...hammer throw." -
sskipstress"Throughout school, I must have slept
Doing so poorly here, I actually wept.
The pattern today is pretty clear:
Questions which make me reach for a beer." -
d4b(+1 for making a poem instead of making fun of someone else's poem. -AL)
"It's a crappy poem? I'm going with crappy." -
b7cy(-5!!!! -AL)
(Settle down.
"Well, it's a Didactic for sure.
Other than that, it has elements of a warped Sedoka.
But your grammar is making me choke-a." -
funkyplaid(
(The rhyme was fine 'till that last line. -1. -CV)
"Quatrains, or rhyming couplets. Let me ask my Literature professor.
'Hey, Francisco, what's the answer to #5?'
'Light takes four minutes to get to Earth from Alpha Centauri!'
O-kay, guess I'll go with quatrains." -
afterwards(Your Literature professor has great wisdom. Not in Literature, apparently, but whatever. -1 for him. +1 for you for not believing him. -CV)
"I bet it has something numbery in it, since I think I may have #2 and 4 right. Quatrain?" -
marasca(Good strategy. And the right answer. -AL)
Correct Answer: Quatrain.
6. Bonus question: since we're all new here, why don*t you tell us a little bit about yourself?
(Well, we're a bit tight on space, so I just took some excerpts from your answers to give us a quick but accurate briefing on who we all are. -CV)
"Precocious brat. Software Jockey. Internet advertising. Did six years. Scrambling. Next?" -
d4b(God bless you, Ivan Boesky. -CV)
"I wish to become a director and make a movie." -
deinemuse(So did Roman Polanski. -CV)
"Vegetarian seeks fun outgoing cats." -
marasca"I like to hit my kitty. I like wine." -
ghostwriterxx"I like puppies and kittens on hard-core pornography." -
krick(
krick, meet ghostwriterxx and marasca. -CV) "I'm made of whisky." -
funkyplaid(That would explain why you're playing the LJDQ. And probably many other things. -CV)
"I enjoy 14-16 hours a day of shotguns and rifles. I'm running for President." -
b7cy"I enjoy dancing barefoot in a corner." -
sskipstress(Not barefoot and pregnant, folks. Just for the record. -CV)
"Dark. Basement. Whip-wielding. Horrors. Coffee. Kittens." -
afterwards(
afterwards charges $99/hr for all her services involving whip-wielding, unless you're a kitten. -CV)(Sign CV up for three hours. Meeow! -AL)
"I rarely wear underwear when I'm a slavebitch in Newark getting good and drunk." -
djdysfunction"Bored two year old. Can't get out. Spell with creativity. Don't trawl google." -
verdandiweaves(We don't discriminate by age, and we welcome non-googlers of all varieties. Spelling, however... well, you'll see. -CV)
"I live in a farmhouse, hail from Georgia, and find comfort in playdoh." -
hollyinpa(That's ok, we accept rednecks on the LJDQ as well. -CV)
"I like the blind with gin." -
fizrep(Makes them tastier, I take it. -CV)
"I am chicken." -
spiffington(Don't be. The LJDQ isn't all that frightening. -CV)
"I'm cocky and like muffins." -
legend_minus(You said 'cock' and 'muffins' in the same answer. +1. -CV)
Soooo ... thanks for playing this week, everyone! LJDQ#2 will be posted Monday. +1 to anyone who pimps
ljdq on their friends list between now & Monday.Rock on,
Hans & Ang.
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