LJ Daily Answers: 11 December 2006

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Okay, long time lurker first time quizzler. Well, I hope you get lots of environmentally aware answers for this quiz. I would give you some, too, but me likes cars too much. (although I don't own one, go by tram and train everywhere, but if I had a car, I would definitely drive it. Screw you, ozone layer!)" - affenbrotwald

"Cars? ... where is the love for Pixar, you child-haters?" - fireworkfiasco

They missed their corporate sponsorhip opportunity. But most of you correctly guessed our theme: cars, automobiles, ozone-layer destroyers.



1. Going home for Thanksgiving becomes an epic adventure for Neal Page and Del Griffith in what 80's comedy?

"Oh cable box, you are no help here. :'(" -jo_chan

"Going home for Thanksgiving is an adventure for me every year. Half the trip home is spent stuck in Atlanta traffic." - ecarrotsushi

(I'm going to be trying that for Christmas. -AL)

"I think they were going the wrong way:
" - chersey

"Oh my god. Planes Trains and Automobiles. This is one of those movies I watched THREE BILLION times as a kid because I loved it. Yeah, other kids? Watch Disney movies. I watch Steve Martin lose it and say fuck a whole lot. And then imitate it. Which my mom didn't find too amusing." - lyme

"John Candy was so annoying in that movie, but i shouldn't speak ill of the dead, especially the Canadian Dead." - jenny_1981

(Rest in Peace, eh. -CV)

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Incidentally, the movie theater where I saw this movie back in '87 has since been converted into a huge Lazer Tag arena. Every time I go there, I throw out the line, 'Baby came out sideways. She didn't scream or nuthin'.' Then when people are busy looking at me funny, I shoot them." - mista_tibbs

Correct Answer: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

"Coincidentally, transport links in the UK envy that displayed in the movie - here's to London 2012, start now and you might arrive!" - shadowed_guise



2. The patent for the first gas-fueled automobile belonged to whom?

"I'm going to go with Mercedes Benz, a late 19th century German socialite-cum-grease monkey. Few people know about her, though, because every other guy out there was intimidated by the fact that a chick knew more about cars than any of them did." - photosinensis

“No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.” - jigawattica

(+1, Back To The Future. -CV)

"It's...Wright? On Kitty Hawk? With the pipe wrench?" - fireworkfiasco

(...is automobile actually a euphemism for aeroplane? Because if so, my bad. -CV)

"I just want to say that the real things I remember about car engines is pistons and the Wankel engine. That's all I really need in life! Wankel engine! Wankel engine!" - shadowed_guise

"Henry Ford!" - twenty of you
"Gerald Ford!" - pandorasjoy

"Not sure about the gas automobile, but Henry Studebaker holds the patent for inventing a bear's natural habitat." - sskipstress

(+1, The Muppet Movie. -CV)

"Probably Thomas Edison, if only because he seemed to hold the patent on holding patents." - mista_tibbs

"I think it's Karl (or Carl, if you prefer) Benz, which is clever of you, because that's a twofer. You have Carl, and then Benz, like the car. Oh, you clever things." - storymskies

(Just wait until you get to the next question to see how clever we really are. -AL&CV)

"While we're talking about Karl Benz, that's a restaurant-grade moustache, I must say:
" - drjayphd

Correct Answer: Karl Benz



3. More fun with old lyrics! Name the song and the band:
Who's gonna pick you up, when you fall?
Who's gonna hang it up, when you call?
Who's gonna pay attention, to your dreams?
And who's gonna plug their ears, when you scream?

"LifeAlert, Ghostbusters, Sigmund Freud, and Edvard Munch" - i_calql8

"Where's the Sting-love gone?" - jonem

(To Bourbon Street, of course. -CV)

"Did Ozzy sing this? I can picture that with Linda Hamilton for some reason." - akiyasan

"those questions aren't the important ones. The most important is 'whose gonna drive you home tonight?'" - piney61

"I know it was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks, does that count?" - thepikey

(That counts for about -0.25. -CV)

"This is 80's music. I'm having flashblacks of He-Man and A-Team and Carebears and Airwolf and Knight Rider. DEAR GOD THE HOFF WILL EAT MY SOUL! *cowers in a corner*" - whiski_sour

(The power of Hasselhoff compels you. -CV)

"I think the song may be 'Drive' by ... uh, Whoever." - germankitty

"The How The Fuck Does Ric Ocasic Bang Paulina Portiskovas, who blazed a trail for such acts as Lyle Lovett Is Getting Up In That?, Billy Joel, and Rockers Visiting Pam Anderson's Hoo-Hoo Dilly. And I know who's gonna drive her home *every* night, if you know what I mean, and I think you do." - etcet

"I love The Cars' song, 'Best Friend's Girl'. Ooooh, so forbidden!" - coolteamblt

"In the video, wasn't the singer all shrunk down and almost eaten by the chick? Like 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' but without kids or Rick Moranis?" - marasca

Correct Answer: The Cars, "Drive"



4. The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet near which city?

"This pun was so bad it crashed my computer. I only wish that was a joke." - skfromstamford

(Some pseudo-logic based guesses:)

“White and blue. Colours of Greece. This means that it almost has to be some city in Greece somewhere ... I'm guessing Sparta, if only to make Spartacus a happy man.” - sjl
"Blue and white are the colors of the flag of Israel. Conclusion: Jerusalem." - scifantasy
"White and Blue are the colors of Israel, so it must be Karmiel." - sskipstress

(Some theme-based guesses:)

"Karnak." - maiagirl
"Carthage (not the one in New York)" - pride4u2
"Carsablanca" - marasca
"Cairo... Car-ro... I get it!" - vampyr_aggie

(No you don't. -AL)

(And better than pseudo-logic or theme-based guessing, here's comic book knowledge to the rescue:)

"I don't know, but I CAN tell you it was mentioned in a Donald Duck comic called The Crocodile Collector drawn by Don Rosa! And I remember Khartoum being mentioned in that comic, so is that it?" - dracothelizard

"They meet in Khartoum. Did you know that despite vaguely sounding like a car-related name, khartoum - well, el-Hartum - actually means 'elephant trunk'? Now, to keep on the theme, we could probably pretend that the 'trunk' part of Khartoum means car trunk, but how many elephants have those kinds of trunks? Just asking." - amphelice

"" - coolteamblt

Correct Answer: Khartoum

"I bet the end result is pissed that it's girly. It's not aqua, it's lightish blue!" - deltashade



5. Who comes next in this series: Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, _____ ?

"Usually Sleep." - b_hulsmans

"My mother says it's 'that Scottish guy.' Unfortunately (due to my family's obsession with its ancestry) my first reaction to this was 'You mean Grandpa?'" - elucreh
"if it's not Scottish it's CRAP!" - akiyasan

"Woo! Late night comedian orgy!" - crystalcazzie

"Big chin, then red hair, ... Damn, I always hated these sequence things on IQ tests." - cmseward

"I don't watch late night tv. I'm too busy surfing on the internet for porn...I mean helping orphans." - whiski_sour

"Adam Corolla. Just as unfunny as the other two." - photosinensis

"Johnny Carson? It fits the theme, and, unlike the correct answer, he fits the list because he has talent." - southbucki

(He does fit the theme, true. Just not the pattern. -CV)

"Not Carson Daly, I hope." - ririkit

(Consider your hopes dashed. -CV)

"Carson Daly, who probably punches people in the face if they call him Carson Kressley." - piney61

(I'd punch people in the face if they called me Carson Kressley. -CV)

Correct Answer: Carson Daly



6. What do you drive? And if you don't, what do you want to drive?

"My mother's 1990 Volvo station wagon. The cloth's sagging off the roof, and the radio dial takes about half an hour to light up, and the front two seats are so cracked we had to put duct tape over them to prevent my slow death from asbestos. But, on the plus side, I'm pretty sure I could park on a railroad track and come out alive." - babybokal

"A '92 Toyota Previa. Don't knock the minivan 'till you've stuck your head out the sunroof. You'll catch the sun on your face, the wind through your hair, and the occasional low-hanging branch" - mista_tibbs

"Well, I last drove a red Jeep, but ever since I decided to play chicken with the garage I think the only thing I'll be driving is a horse and buggy. Hyah! Hyah! *cracks whip*" - pewter_alyssum

"
That car? Is mine. James Bond can bugger off, I'm taking the car." - amphelice

"A hover-car. I wanna see 4-way intersections with non-stop traffic. That would be awesome." - prettywittygirl

"" - chershey

"I want an Impala named Vlad. Vlad the Impala will be the most awesome car ever." - stormyskies

(So, what do you drive, CV?)
(The Plum Mistmobile.. What about you, AL?)
(City dweller here; I ride the subway.)

"A bicycle. But I'd really like to get myself a recumbent. Mm. Greenhouse friendly, and I can get from A to B while still lounging back in style. The only drawback is that then I'd have to grow myself a beard." - sjl

"An elephant... haha, just TRY and get in my way, bitches!" - allie_the_neko

"I'd like to drive a dozen or so 20 penny nails into my skull. GOD, I hate the frickin' holidays!" - thepikey

"I wanna drive YOU all night long. HARR HARR HUMP HUMP" - affenbrotwald

(I'm really surprised we didn't have more of this kind of thing. -CV)

"I drive my managers insane. It's a really short trip. This is retail after all." - whiski_sour

"I would love to drive the majority of people in the world to alochol and pills; that would make depressed and they'd stay at home with their booze and pills, which would, in turn, empty out the streets and allow me to drive at +90 miles an hour where ever I wanted to go." - fireworkfiasco



And there you have it. Cars go vroom.

Not a huge quiz this week; I think some of you are trying to be studious and make up for a semester of bad work habits. Good luck on that final exam thing, and we'll see you again when you're up and done with that. More quizzy goodness tomorrow, because it's the season for giving and sharing, and we love giving and sharing with all of you. Yes we do!

Thanks again for playing, especially to those who are new and trying it out for the first time. Share and enjoy! Bring your friends! Bring their friends! Screw the middle man! Pimp it out because everyone knows that pimping is good.

Rock on,

AL&CV

Comments

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Share and enjoy!

Share and enjoy
Share and enjoy
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side
Let your pal be your guide...

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

"I want an Impala named Vlad. Vlad the Impala will be the most awesome car ever." - stormyskies

You can take Vlad the Impala out for some Tapas! (...Yeah, that's stretching.)

Incidentally, my Romanian ancestry is thanking you for just making a bad pun and not a vampire joke ^_^

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I actually knew a guy who got an Impala and named it Vlad. All Impalas should be named Vlad.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Alright, that rocks.

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I missed again, and I had the opportunity to sing my favourite advertising jingle...

"Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz..."

And now I've damaged my wrist as well. *cries*

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

I think the record is a story my med-school friend turnberryknkn told...

There was this fish, you see. A zebra fish. It's one of the more common fish used in genetic-engineering experiments, because it's simple from a chromosomal point of view.

Anyway, this group of gengineers (Peter F. Hamilton, "Night's Dawn" trilogy) works for a while and comes up with a version of the zebra fish without any blood. Naturally it doesn't live very long, but it does live a little while--with virtually no blood circulation.

And the line of fish is named the "vlad tepes" mutation.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I KNEW reading Donald Duck comics would help me with something one day! Also, a car theme and I didn't get in one Top Gear reference? How embarrassing.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Also, I wish to defend my answer to question 4 with a reference to "Avenue Jew," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwlG05InAY) the 2004 collaboration between the casts of "Fiddler On The Roof" and "Avenue Q":

The sun is setting on a Friday
A perfect evening for a Jew to pray
But you've got lots of rules to obey
More than a few

Prepare the candles and the wine and bread
Observe the Sabbath like the Torah said
It's nearly time for a Barucha so what should you do?

Go home to Avenue Jew
You live on Avenue Jew
Your lawyer does too
Your colors are white and blue
When you live on Avenue Jew...

[canadianevil.livejournal.com]

I hummed that while I was reading it.

I seriously thought I did it this week but halfway through I was like '...I don't remember these questions at all.'

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Ah. Clearly I was mistaken about the theme being zombie turkeys. Dammit, zombie turkeys are so much cooler than cars!

[potassiumman.livejournal.com]

+1 for Jew humor
-1 for not fitting the meter quite right

[drbear.livejournal.com]

Can you take Vlad the Impala out drac racing?

Oh and...
"In the video, wasn't the singer all shrunk down and almost eaten by the chick? Like 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' but without kids or Rick Moranis?" - marasca

For the record, that was "All I Want."

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

AND NO SINGING!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the duck-billed vladtepes myself.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We're sorry you didn't play too. Come on! Heed the reminder!

Also,

And now I've damaged my wrist as well.

That's a bit too much personal information there. What you do by yourself is your own business. ;-)

[fireworkfiasco.livejournal.com]

Here's to hoping they sweep this year's Tonies, eh? *toasts*

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Not eligible; they did that in 2004.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Well, they do get decent mileage, almost fifty miles to the brain. But good unleaded brains are hard to come by. And they don't haul too much cargo. Cheeky undead turkeys.

[distractogirl.livejournal.com]

I should, I just put it off, and then forget. I will play next week... maybe.

*makes face at you*

I was hitting the television.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Can you take Vlad the Impala out drac racing?

Only if the stakes are high enough.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Go stick your head in a pig.

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Ah, beating the telly. Now that's a euphemism if I've ever heard one. ;-)

[n5iln.livejournal.com]

I always wanted one of those really safe European imports, in a very particular shade of blue. Seriously. There's just something about an aqua Volvo, man.

(Sorry. It was there. I had to use it before it went bad.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

They can, but undeath really ruins their aerodynamics and wing structures. They just can't get the lift, and they don't have cool superpowers like a dracolich. So, alas, zombie turkeys are confined to the ground.