DW Daily Answers: 21 November 2011

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And we're rat it again!

1. Who was the archenemy of Basil of Baker Street?

"[Herb/Name] of [Occupation] [Route]" - 60% of you

"And it's pronounced Herb because there's a fucking 'H' in it." - fragbert

(+1, Eddie Izzard. -CV)

"I'm guessing one of those herb dryers." - kenshardik

"Dr. Pepper. Curse your syrupy but tasty evil!" - etumukutenyak

"Captain Hammer" - wiredwizard

"Heathcliff, a common, uncultured, American cat" - seferin

"Hansel. He made killer gingerbread cookies!" - akiyasan

"Sybil Fawlty" - zihuatanejo, sjl
"Basil Fawlty" - mandydax

"Gerry Rafferty" - i_calql8, kristinmachina

"221b of course. That house had the worst plumbing of any he had ever encountered." - raphsody606

"The Shakespearean stutterer who lived across from Sherlock Holmes in 222B (or not 222B, he was an amnesiac as well)." - mark_laura

"He's the greatest! He's fantastic!" - n5iln

(Not the answer last week. Still not the answer. Poor Dangermouse. -CV)

"His name. 'No shit, Basil' just didn't have the right ring to it." - cmzero

"I JUST bought The Great Mouse Detective on DVD last month. Oh, Ratigan, you are fuckin' ridiculous." - domestik_fucker

Correct Answer: Professor Padraic Ratigan



2. What film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the year 2007?

"Transformers: The Movie" - digitalraven, mark_laura

"Bouillon, famous for the catchphrase 'All your base are belong to us'" - seferin

"Fritz the Cat" - primavera

"Sex Toy Story" - mandydax

"[This is easily the most frightening thing on this quiz, bar none. -CV]" - usmu

"Robots! Grumpy old men! Little fish that could! More generally, Pixar!" - raphsody606, kenshardik

"The Bus That Wouldn't Slow Down" - wrestlingdog

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

"Ratatoui tuee touie (Dammit.)" - cmzero

Correct Answer: Ratatouille

"WHERE'S MY SEQUEL, DAMMIT!" - freezer818

(This movie totally does not deserve a sequel. What do you want, Ratatouille 2: Rat Harder? -CV)



3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
Out on the streets, that's where we'll meet
You make the night, I always cross the line
Tightened our belts, abuse ourselves
Get in our way, we'll put you on your shelf

(A lot more of you knew about Milton Berle starring in their video than I expected. -CV)

"'Another Saturday Night,' Herman Cain" - drbear
"The GOP theme song" - neumeindil

"Deleted scene from 'Muppets Take Manhattan'. Jim Henson had to enter therapy for eight weeks." - lots42

"Crossing the line and performing self-abuse out in public? Does Paul Reubens have a band?" - thepikey

"For some reason I'm thinking of the anime Akira. Hm, Akira crossover with West Side Story. Maybe I shouldn't try to answer these questions at 6 a.m." - akiyasan

(You're not the only one mixing musicals... -CV)

"When you're a Rat / You're a Rat all the way! / From your first piece of cheese / To your last dying day!" - cmzero

"wasn't there a band called Rätt? Or was it Rått?" - etumukutenyak

"The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round by The B-Rattfast Club" - majorsamfan

"I never did like this song after that one time I did the head-whip and my hair got stuck in the blades of an oscillating fan. Ow. It hurts just thinking about it." - ifeedformula

Correct Answer: RATT, "Round and Round"

"I loved it when I was 19, but I realize now that Ratt and their ilk were precisely why Alternative happened when it did." - fragbert



4. James Bolivar diGriz is the titular character in which series of books?

(Hurr hurr, yes, titular, moving on... -CV)

"The word 'titular' led me to The Stainless Steel Sex Change. You'll get the bill for my therapy, but Beverages and More accepts all major credit cards so you should be fine." - thepikey

"The Stainless Steel Brassier. Well, you did say 'titular.'" - mandydax

(I think those are Lady GaGa's titulars you're thinking of. -CV)

"The DiGrizzy Junior High series" - kenshardik

"diGrizzly Man" - thirdgrace

"DiGrizzly Bear Adventures" - demon_666

"Kiss My diGriz" - kristinmachina

"Six deGriz of Separation" - i_calql8

"Putting on the ritz with diGriz! Shake it down!" - akiyasan

"The Stainless Steel B-Rat Pack." - majorsamfan

"Bolivarian Cream" - angelprojekt

"JESUS CHRIST IT'S A STAINLESS STEEL RAT GET IN THE CAR!" - etcet

"" - n5iln

"One of the very few series to not jump the shark when the main character got married and had kids." - mark_laura

(Unlike real life, where marriage and kids is like jumping INTO the shark. -CV)

"The Stainless Steel Rat -- okay, nothing funny here because it's personal ... and time to name-drop shamelessly (just because I can): Harry Harrison himself sent a copy of his (then) newest book to me as an unsolicited surprise by in 1983 after I'd joined the Science Fiction Research Association and cited him as one of my favorite authors (and I'd actually done some resarch into the Stainless Steel Rat series at university, too!). I last met him in person at a small SF convention here in Germany in 2000, and have a standing invitation to visit him and his lovely wife in their house in Brighton." - germankitty

(That is crazy-awesome. Even if the story's older than most of our quizling population. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Stainless Steel Rat



5. What comic strip character was originally named XP-39C²?

"Star Wars has a Comic Strip? Is the dialogue better?" - sestree

"It's spelled XP-39C2, but it's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove" - alfvaen

"Woodstock. He's actually 100% man made, like a Twinkie" - kenshardik

"Kathy" - thirdgrace

(She's really a cyborg sent back in time to kill Mary Worth. -CV)

"XKCD's 'Stickman'" - bellapalmera, jenna_thorn

(Which one? The one with twig legs, the rail-thin body, or the skinny arms? -CV)

"Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film" - fragbert

(Just by answering this question, you were closer than most thanks to your username. -CV)

"Reepicheep, before he ran through the wardrobe into Narnia." - etumukutenyak

"Sounds like a Xanth demon Piers Anthony dreamed up while tripping balls" - freezer818

"Rizzo the rat" - yamx

"Hagar the Horrobot" - demon_666

"Wolverine? Wolverines are just extra-large super-furry vicious rats from the frozen north, right?" - miladygrey

"Garfield. He was originally named after the designation for an omniphagic (that's 'everything-eater') virus, but marketing execs told Jim Davis to go back to the drawing board as nobody would go for a cuddly virus." - digitalraven

"Little Android Annie" - kristinmachina

(Daddy WOPRbux used his millions to buy nukes and try to destroy the world, but she calmed him down with some Tic-Tac-Toe. -CV)

"Typographical Error Man. He is more of a comedy character than what you would call a superhero, but his good deeds never go unnnoticd!" - angelprojekt

"NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA RAT-MAN" - etcet

"Ratbert Ward" - majorsamfan

(Ever the second fiddle to BatbertMan. -CV)

Correct Answer: Ratbert



6. What's your favorite disease?

"What kind of question is that?!? It's like you're making me choose between getting shot or hanged pestilence or cholera!" - germankitty

"SEXLEXIA" - lots42

(+1, Futurama. -CV)

"Mono, because it's the kissing disease! Woo woo! I've never had it. *forever alone*" - kenshardik

"Hysterical Pregnancy" - thirdgrace

"They say addiction is a disease and I am firmly, amazingly, incorrigibly addicted to caffiene. So I'd have to say caffiene addiction is my favorite disease." - ifeedformula

"The only disease that can survive in my bloodstream is alcoholism" - sestree

"I'd have to say dracunculiasis, simply because of the ick factor (plus it sounds like somebody's been bitten by a vampire, which just adds to the family fun.)" - sjl

"It's not a disease technically, but there's nothing like a Bot Fly larvae to gross out a f-list." - neumeindil

"Vaccines have taken some of the fun out of chicken pox. The itching and unsightly spots at least came with the comfort of knowing that if you caught it, your brothers had to catch it and suffer along with you." - kristinmachina

"Pork-Cat Syndrome (careful now). It's like an allergy, but triggered by the combination of two allergens: feline and pork-based. So you're good to eat a bacon sandwich or stroke a cat, but try both at the same time and O HAI ANAPHALACTIC SHOCK!" - digitalraven

"The Boogie-Woogie Flu" - primavera, mark_laura

"Nymphomania" - etcet

"That one fever, with the prescription for More Cowbell" - thepikey

"LJDQ Fever!" - wiredwizard

(And the only cure is more funneh! -CV)

"You give me fever
when you kiss me, fever when you hold me tight.
Fever!
In the morning, fever all through the night." - jenna_thorn

"Chilblains" - thalen

"Mad Cow. Lets you dress up in a fun outfit and hang out at Chick Fil As" - seferin

"" - domestik_fucker

"Ebola, naturally! What else has that bleeding, dying, highly contagious, rapid onset with fever, no known reservoir (yet) prone to sudden outbreaks in remote villages that could possibly spread to cities (around the world!) kind of profile? Nothing! Even rabies pales in comparison. I mean, we have a vaccine for rabies. Ebola? Nothing! (Yet.)" - etumukutenyak

"I'm not sure how you could have a favourite disease considering when you have them you feel sick and cranky and feverish and are afraid of dying.
The good thing about getting sick are the cool fever dreams - sometimes when I have a fever I have the best sort of hallucinatory dreams like I'm on peyote." - demon_666

(In summary: Peyote is her favorite. -CV)

"Scrofula. Which people got from drinking tuberculosis infected cow milk. It resulted in large, weeping sores on the neck. It is related to my favourite adjective "scrofulous" which, in addition to describing one who has scrofula, has also come to mean 'morally dissipated'. How awesome is that? Morally. Dissipated. In one word. Damn. Disease is great." - sagaciouslu

"Sleeping in a recliner. Dis ease is de best ease of all" - drbear

"Why go for one if you can go for a whole slew of them?" - usmu



And rat's the way it is. This 24-carat quiz is too ratical to contemplate; neither erratic nor gratuitous; bratty and neuratic! Do not hesitate to ratify this quiz! Else we head towards a ratastrophe!

In summary, thanks for playing, and see you all tomorrow for more quizly goodness!

Rock On!

CV&LL