DW Daily Answers: 12 December 2011

[chaosvizier]

"I am prepared to take a drink every time the Occupy Wall Street protests are mentioned in this quiz's answers." - oleander_sky

I think you need two drinks.

1. What newspaper has the biggest circulation in the United States?

"... is 'circulation' a euphemism? Oh, you naughty little editors!" - thepikey

"Newspapers? Are those things that are used only for ads and coupons? They say some actually feature news and not just pretty bars and graphs." - akiyasan

"I work in the newspaper industry, so I know this is the Wall Street Journal. Please do not ask how far down the list we are, as it will make our owner cry. Then I will be fired, and be unable to afford gin." - illogicalvulcan

"The Onion" - theninth, n5iln

"the National Enquirer" - tweeti, nitasee, zihuatanejo, JENNA_THORN
"the Weekly World News" - ifeedformula, neumeindil

"The internet" - thirdgrace

(Editor-in-chief: Al Gore. -CV)

"The Daily Bugle" - freezer818, kristinmachina
"The Daily Planet" - germankitty

"The Quibbler" - wiredwizard

"40075.16 kilometers. Can't get bigger than The Globe" - vayshti

"The Wall Street Journal. I've always wanted to read it, but as of late I've been far too... occupied" - napier, IRONJEFF

"The Whale Street Journal. It circulates between 400 and 450 gallons of blood" - mandydax

Correct Answer: The Wall Street Journal



2. The National Cycle Route 72 in northern England runs close to which historic site?

"England IS a historical site. Narrow my search, damn it" - antinomic
"It's fucking England, you can't get drunk and trip over a fucking curb without landing on something historic" - etcet

"Doesn't matter. In five minutes it'll be demolished so we can build a hyperspatial express route" - illogicalvulcan

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"The Great Wall of China" - theninth, athousandsmiles

(While it is true that the Great Wall is pretty much the largest landmark on Earth, it did not quite make it to Jolly Olde England. -CV)

"The loos at Stonehenge" - nitasee

"Hogwarts" - freezer818, la_trombonista

"White Castle, where Burgers were discovered" - seferin

"Camelot. Not many people stop there, though. It is a silly place" - n5iln
"The Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh" - alfvaen
"Castle Anthrax" - fragbert

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

"The tree where Morgan le Fae buried Merlin, the bitch" - neumeindil

"How's a wall going to keep the Scottish--okay, the Picts (what is a Scotsman by any other name?) out? If the Scottish want to kill you and then bugger your sheep, they will. No silly wall will stop them." - photosinensis

Correct Answer: Hadrian's Wall



3. Animals of the genus Petrogale are usually referred to as what?

"More dangerous than a petrobreeze, but less so than a petrohurricane" - i_calql8

"'Petro,' meaning oil, and 'gale,' meaning wind, suggest that this is a group of animals who have oily farts. Obviously, the answer is 'cephalopods.'" - etcet

"Dorm rats: 'Petro' meaning 'Stoned' and 'gale' meaning 'We can't breathe because of the pizza farts.'" - therealchon

"Petro-gale = Oil-storm, so the black footed booby. You got me, I'm just laughing at using the word booby in public." - JENNA_THORN

"Petro=Gas, Gale=Heavy Winds, therefore, Petrogale must be a donkey in Tijuana" - love2loveher

"Petro, meaning 'gas' and Gale, meaning 'wind', it refers to the genus of teen aged boys who find such pleasure and amusement in farting" - etumukutenyak

(I think you're referring to the words homo and sapiens. Hurr hurr, farts. -CV)

"Petrodactyls" - wiredwizard

"Rock Lobster!" - thepikey

"Wyle E. Coyote was a super genus!" - kristinmachina

"Thanks very much for getting the theme to Rocko's Modern life stuck in the heads of all the 90s kids here at LJDQ" - oleander_sky

"Oz-landers. Closely associated with the genus Dorothygale" - nitasee

"Walrusses? Walri? Anyway, those things that eat clams and hang around with Carpenters" - IRONJEFF, athousandsmiles

"Thematically, I'm assuming the answer to be wallabies or wallaby-related. Therefore, my answer will be coelacanths" - napier

"The Rock wallaby, which is well known for dropping out of the sky and playing air-guitar on people's heads" - ifeedformula

"P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney" - fragbert

(+1, Finding Nemo. -CV)

"" - photosinensis

"Hmm, it's one wallaby, but are two wallabys, wallabies, or maybe even wallabees? (And if the latter, do they maybe produce honey, like other bees? Do I even have the right species?)" - germankitty

(Wallabies do not produce honey like other bees. -CV)

Correct Answer: Rock Wallabies



4. What 70's television show was based upon the book "Spencer's Mountain" by Earl Hamner, Jr.?

"Spencer for Hire" - 11 of you

"Good night, John Boy" - antinomic, n5iln, etumukutenyak, athousandsmiles

"You know, being southern in the extreme, I still don't ever remember somebody ever being called ____-Boy. I think they just made that up." - tweeti

"My instincts say Mother, Jugs, and Speed" - thirdgrace

(Your instincts may require some fine-tuning. -CV)

"The Benny Hill Show" - drbear

"The Donner Family, where it's kept in the family" - seferin

"Reason's Your Mother Liked Spencer (if you know what I mean, and I think you do)" - etcet

"Arm and Hamner--buddy cop drama in the Catskills" - kristinmachina

"It's Hamner Time!" - demon_666, lirimaer

"It just struck me that The Waltons were the white answer to Good Times. Huh" - freezer818

"Walton's Mountain: The 1930s precursor of the Weasley family, only with more girls, less pranks and no flying broomsticks" - germankitty

Correct Answer: The Waltons



5. What actor provided the voice for Rex in the "Toy Story" movies?

"No idea who it was, but it should have been Samuel L. Jackson" - neumeindil

(He was, but then he decided that he had had it with those motherfucking toys in that motherfucking story. -CV)

"Either Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy or Antonio Banderas. I mean, hey -- penguin, donkey, cat, dinosaur ... what's the difference, anyway?!?" - germankitty

(I think the difference is "enormous fucking carnivore" vs "much much smaller food items". Also, a movie with Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, and Antonio Banderas would be totally inconceivable. -CV)

"At first I thought you were talking about John Ratzenberger, the guy who has voiced a character in all of the Pixar films, but then I remembered he was Hamm, not Rex. I wonder if CV knows that Ratzenberger provided the voice of Rigger for that green hippy's first TV show? Shhhhh... Let's not tell him..." - demon_666

(Goddammit I hate Captain Planet. There were a lot of celebrity voices in that show. Mostly for villains. Makes you wonder... -CV)

"If only it could've been Wally Cox!" - IRONJEFF

"Walter Cronkite" - photosinensis

"Wlliam Wallace Shawn....Ye may take my life, but ye'll never take my, oh wait, yes ye will, because I've only got these teeny, tiny arms, damn ye!" - tweeti

"Never go in against a Tyrannosaurus Rex when DEATH is on the line! Hahahahahaha!" - fragbert, alfvaen, etumukutenyak

(Dude, never go in against a T-Rex PERIOD. They will mess your shit up. -CV)

"I wanted to watch him eat a lawyer action figure, just once." - thepikey

Correct Answer: Wallace Shawn

"INCONCIEVABLE!" - yeah, you all know who you are



6. What keeps getting in your way?

"vowels. There are between three and five in your way" - seferin

(Six, if you want to cut W some slack. -CV)

"My tummy. Considering its size, my TUMMY" - antinomic

"mostly my strong ability to be easily distracted by ten things at once... what was I talking about?" - lirimaer

"Language. I was trying to purchase a rug the other day and ended up with basil. No, I don't know how this happened." - raphsody606

"Economics, physics, reality, the LJDQ judges & a chocolate deficiency" - wiredwizard

"Oh, little things, like laws and public ordinances" - nitasee

"Oblivious drivers with no sense of urgency or traffic" - therealchon

"Teachers who won't leave them kids alone." - oleander_sky

"I've been mostly dead all day." - athousandsmiles

"The huge piles of my enemies' heads, which I keep tripping over after seeing the rest of them driven before me, and which make a very annoying impediment to getting to their women, lamenting or otherwise." - etcet

"People keep leaving My Little Pony videos lying about the Internet. I cannot help myself when presented with a line of Rainbow Dash. JUDGE ME, ljdq." - photosinensis

"cats, who tend to plant themselves in the middle of the walkway....especially, when you are not looking where you are going" - tweeti, ifeedformula, zihuatanejo, neumeindil, demon_666, mandydax
"The dog. If I have to use the bathroom, please don't lie down in front of the door!" - la_trombonista, JENNA_THORN

(Conclusion: cats are three times more likely to kill you than dogs. -CV)

"My humungous jugs. They get in the way all the time. People bump into me and ricochet across the room at amazing speed" - angeweeks

"It's a toss-up between needing to work 8 hours a day to be able to pay rent and needing to sleep 8 hours a night to be able to work 8 hours a day." - sskipstress

"The door. Not to be confused with The Doors, which never got in anyone's way, as far as I can tell." - n5iln



And there you have it. The Wall Of Shame is live and in play! This quiz sponsored by Wal-Mart and Walgreens. No, not really. Mark Wahlberg, WALL-E, and narwhals disapprove of being passed over for better jokes. No Floyds, pink or otherwise, were harmed. Today, at least.

Thanks for playing, all, and we'll see you tomorrow for more quizly goodness!

Rock On!

CV