LJ Daily Quiz: 26 December 2006

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Happy Boxing Day!
In the spirit of the holiday season, and because we're off on vacation, we're offering another of our infamous two week super-sized quizzy extravaganzas. More questions! More answers! More bacon! Mmmmmmm... bacon. You have a whole two weeks to play this time, instead of just one. I know that means some of you will still forget, but that's ok. Try. You can do it.

And in the meantime, hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and we wish you all a Happy New Year!

Now play!

1. Which 70's television family of musical bent was also given a space-age cartoon thanks to Joseph Barbera?

2. What science-fiction author used to write under the pseudonym Eric Iverson?

3. Fun with food! Take one rooster, the older the better, and add red wine, bacon, garlic, onions, mushrooms, some herbs and butter. Mix them up and cook them a while. What do these ingredients combine to form?

4. The Superb Lyrebird of Australia is believed to produce what at a higher volume than any other bird?

5. What item does Thomas Covenant wield in his struggles against Lord Foul?

6. Who was Maverick's partner in Top Gun?

7. What constellation includes the stars Albireo, Sadr, Azelfafage, and Ruchba?

8. Which painting by Johannes Vermeer, sometimes inaccurately entitled Het Melkmeisje, was originally auctioned off for 175 guilders?

9. Fred Astaire made his film debut in which 1933 movie starring Clark Gable?

10. Name the poet and the poem!
Thy warmths from bud to bud
Accomplish that blind model in the seed,
And men have hopes, which race the restless blood,
That after many changes may succeed
Life which is Life indeed.

11. Who freed the Cham from swarms of gnats, and eased the Nizam of vampyre bats?

12. What is the more common name for the vibration-sensitive tympanic membrane?

13. What did you get for Christmas (or other holiday) this year?