DW Daily Quiz: 15 August 2011

[chaosvizier]

"'DWDQ' just doesn't roll off the tongue as well as LJDQ." - cold_clarity

Yeah. Cheeky W. We gotta work with what we get. Sorry, DW users, I'm still working on things like code and stuff. I'll try to get it to look better in the future.

1. What two rodents have been described by the phrase "one is a genius, the other's insane"?

"Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" - photosinensis

"Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes" - david_deacon

"Chip & Dale" - neumeindil, i_calql8, athousandsmiles

"Jerry and Tuffy" - germankitty

"Mr. Frisby and Mr. Ages" - ntlespino

(+1, The Secret of NIMH. -CV)

"DangerMouse and Penfold" - jmthane

"The Odd Couple" - wiredwizard

"The Ratzenjammer Kids" - drbear

"Ex-Husband #1 and Ex-Husband #2 (both coincidentally born in the year of the rat)" - sestree

"George Bush and Dick Cheney. 'Narf! I just shot someone in the face!'" - lots42, freezer818, mandydax

"lovellama and chaosvizier." - fragbert

"A pinky is a mouse sold as reptile food. As Pinky has managed to escape this fate for years, he's got to be faking insanity. Like Qaddafi, but a mouse." - johnwwells

(I once roomed with someone who had a pet python. They raised their own pinkies. Feeding day was a wondrous thing. -CV)

"Blinky and T-Pain (after the first left the Pac Man Krew, but before the latter discovered auto-tune)" - etcet

Correct Answer: Pinky and The Brain

"'What are we doing this week, CV?' 'The same thing we do every week, AL, sort through the LJDQ answers.' 'Snarf!'" - cholma



2. Fun with movies! Name that film:
X: So what do you want to drink?
Y: Oh you know, beer, scotch, juice box... whatever.

"Why did I think juice boxes were a more recent invention? Damn, I'm old." - athousandsmiles

"Do juice boxes age as well as scotch? Because I found some from my Y2K survival pack and now I'm curious." - killabee886

"This isn't The Pink Panther, so yeah, I have no idea." - photosinensis

"The Lindsey Lohan Story" - freezer818

"Iron Man 2" - sticky9fingers

"WC Fields: The Early Years" - drbear
"Dennis the Menace, the High School Years" - seferin

"The Beverage-Related Adventures of X & Y Pink" - alfvaen

"Pink Flamingos. Divine wasn't the prettiest draq queen, but she was far better than Travolta" - kristinmachina

"My drawing teacher during my freshman year of art school would bring our class juice boxes. We dubbed him "Juice Box Guy" because of it. Every so often, he'd bring a kind that no one liked and so he'd have some left over, and he would force them on students who came in early for the class after ours. I'm pretty sure some of them stopped coming early because of that." - mistyraven

"The Big Lebowski. Tell me the Dude wouldn't love a juice box!" - angelprojekt

"Sounds like 'LJDQ: A True Story of Boozing, Gluttony and General Mayhem', if you ask me. Even if they forgot to list gin and rum, and there's no bacon and/or chocolate. (Yet.)" - germankitty

"Ravishing in Red" - kagomeshuko

(Red is always hotter than pink. -CV)

"Pink Rain" - seekingferret

"Pretty sixteen pink breakfast candles" - sskipstress, love2loveher

Correct Answer: "Pretty in Pink"



3. Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and Syd Barrett were better known as whom?

"By the way, which one's Pink?" - 20 of you

"John, Paul, George and Ringo" - domestik_fucker
"Menudo" - freezer818
"The Monkees" - sticky9fingers, jillybiehn
"The Backstreet Boys" - athousandsmiles

"The Wiggles" - ifeedformula

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs" - mistyraven

(Music managed. -CV)

"Charlie's Angels. Those hot pants hid a lot." - lots42

"Green Day, Yellowcard, Blue Öyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Silverchair, King Crimson, Maroon 5.... am I getting close at all?" - angelprojekt

(You left out Whitesnake, Deep Purple, the Zac Brown Band, and the Indigo Girls. Also the correct answer. -CV)

"You will be subtracting points from those who never noticed that The Electric Mayhem's Floyd was pink, I hope." - IRONJEFF

(...fair enough. -1 to me. -CV)

"Every time I hear the name Syd I think of the evil kid in Toy Story who made creepy dolls. Dolls are creepy enough without making them look like this:
" - demon_666

"Trufax: went to a Pink Floyd concert when I was 13, and wondered why everybody there was smoking something that smelled like my grandfather's pipe. Took me far longer to wonder why my grandfather's pipe smelled like pot." - love2loveher

(+1 for Grandpa. -CV)

"Nick, Roger, and Syd Barrett
All had their share of merit;
Rick's hands were well-employed.
But their name was misleading -
There's a member they were needing...
If they only had a Floyd!" - johnwwells

(+1, The Wizard of Oz. -CV)

Correct Answer: Pink Floyd

"I had pudding today. But the meal had no meat. COME AND GET ME ANGRY SCOTTISH SCHOOLMASTER!" - umbralcorax



4. Which pair of brothers were both gold medalists and heavyweight world champions in the sport of boxing?

"Meh. Boxing. If it ain't football, I ain't watching it." - ifeedformula

"Boxing? Pink? We wouldn't be talking about two brothers who are porn stars, would we? Because I know nothing about porn." - photosinensis

(And by "nothing" you mean "way too much", I trust? -CV)

"More impressive if they were gold medalists in boxing and figure skating." - love2loveher

(Even more so if the sport was simultaneous. "Oooh, a lovely triple lutz followed by a devastating uppercut! Spinks is getting high marks from the Russian judge for that..." -CV)

"Larry, Darryl & his other brother Darryl (their manager)" - wiredwizard, mandydax

"The Jonas Brothers" - akiyasan

"George and George. No wait, that's George Foreman's kids, never mind." - umbralcorax

"Orville and Wilbur Wrighthook" - drbear

"Leift and his brother Rhiet Krause" - neumeindil

"The Grimm Brothers (not to be confused with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger)" - sestree

(You mean Zombie Heath Ledger. -CV)

"Would Siamese twins win two medals? It would seem an unfair fight if I was the opponent!" - cholma

(Up next, the Hecatoncheire Boxing League! -CV)

"Владимир Владимирович Кличко и Віталій Володимирович Кличко -- Українці представляють! (OK, my girlfriend made me say that.) - etumukutenyak

(Tell your girlfriend to stop hacking LJ. She's a naughty Russian. -CV)

"I'm not sure I want to get beat to a pulp by anyone named Pinky Floyd Meriweather." - etcet

(Yeah, but the soundtrack to your beatdown would be pretty catchy. -CV)

"Punch and Judy" - kristinmachina

"the only brothers I can think of are Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. go ahead. if this were even slightly close to correct, the whole WINNING thing would have made a lot more sense" - cold_clarity

"Damned if that doesn't sound like a 70's crime fighting detective show to me. 'Next on CBS. The Golden Glovers fight a smuggling ring! Guest starring Don Knotts as the Sheriff!'" - lots42

Correct Answer: Michael and Leon Spinks

"They also tried starting a revolutionary group to battle injustice in the USA, but The Spinks' Panthers never caught on..." - IRONJEFF



5. The Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation between Spain and the United States, signed in 1795, was arranged by which American diplomat?

"Dubbed by dessert historians the Treaty of FLAN" - seekingferret

(That sounds DELICIOUS. -CV)

"A treaty of friendship? Seriously? I can just imagine how that meeting went, everyone sitting in their pyjama's braiding eachother's hair and pledging to be BFFs!" - b_hulsmans

"Ben Franklin didn't invent the lightning rod. He was born with it." - n5iln and six other Franklin lovers

"William Preston, Esquire and Theodore Logan" - kristinmachina

"Benedict Arnold" - jmthane

(I think you might have misunderstood the terms "treaty" and "friendship". And maybe also "diplomat". -CV)

"James Monroe -- it was all part of his Doctrinal Thesis" - etumukutenyak

"What's so funny about Friendship, Limits and Navigation?" - drbear

(I believe it's an archaic naval term for "sailor buttsecks". -CV)

"I'm guessing it was a Care Bear. It has to be, to name a treaty "Treaty of Friendship'. That, or a My Little Pony. I bet it was Shutterfly." - domestik_fucker

(profsparky thought it was Pinkie Pie. freezer818 thinks it was this one:
. -CV)

"Frankly, I'd like to diplomatically navigate the friendly limits of some fine Spanish ladies, if you know what I mean (and I think you do)." - etcet

"Former NFL wide receiver Todd Pinkston. He had a time machine, and worked for the CIA and... I've said too much" - umbralcorax

"seriously, who the fuck signed that document? anything titled 'The Treaty of Friendship' is either not legally recognized in a court of law or congress, or it's got like aaaaalllll kinds of fine print, like: we'll now be storing our nuclear submarines in your waters. for safekeeping." - cold_clarity

"I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped." - athousandsmiles

"The treaty name is a mini-drama all by itself. Friendship! 'I like you...' Limits! '...but I don't LIKE-like you...' Navigation! '...so stop following me home.'" - rikchik

"" - i_calql8

Correct Answer: Pinckney's Treaty



6. You're hallucinating (again)! What are you seeing?

"Talking dolphins (Bones has been going on and on about dolphins and interspecies communication for the past couple of weeks)." - sticky9fingers

(I hope they're not communicating with their dolphin Johnsons. -CV)

"Myself, standing in sun god robes on a pyramid while a thousand naked women scream and throw little pickles at me." - fragbert, i_calql8

(It has been a long long long time since I've seen Real Genius. +1. -CV)

"I'm hallucinating? Well, this isn't a very good trip. I was told I'd be tripping balls. Balls, I say!" - jargon

(You could be tripping all the balls. Better still to trip balls you never knew you had. Just watch out for stray balls. -CV)

"Everything in my house has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica" - alfvaen

(I know. Your house is really nice. -CV)

"Heffalumps and Woozles" - lovefromgirl

(Nope, you're just watching TV again. -CV)

"Watch out! Watch out! Pink elephants on parade!" - cholma, germankitty

"Ia' Cthulhu! Ia' Cthulhu!" - wiredwizard

(Regrettably, that's just insanity. And the end of all things. -CV)

"Actual quiz questions on a Tuesday." - drbear

(Pish-posh. Everyone's a critic. -CV)

"My God, it's full of Turtles!" - seferin

(Are they... ninjas? -CV)

"Centipedes. I always think they're just over there, but they aren't. Or is it just me?" - etumukutenyak

(They are always just over there. Little bastards. -CV)

"I see cat in my ceiling. Or is it a ceiling in my cat? I get those two confused." - umbralcorax

(Conventional wisdom indicates that, if you see the cat in the ceiling, then the cat in the ceiling sees you. Masturbating. -CV)

"I see trees of green, red roses, too. I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself...thank goodness no P!nk quotes were used in this quiz." - kristinmachina

(+1, Louis Armstrong. Also, we used P!nk last time we had a Pink quiz.

"Best hallucination of my life: I'd accidentally overdosed on codeine cough syrup (my Ex didn't know tsp is different than Tbsp and I was too sick to tell) and slept for 17 hrs. straight. In the long, strung-out, Doors music video of a dream I had, I was reading a large book when each of the words on the page broke into little 2 and 3 letter segments and started running up my arms, onto my lap, in my hair, etc. giggling because they were finally alive since I'd read them. In this same trip, I was playing Dorothy in a found space theater production of 'The Wizard of Oz', except that the witch had caught me and was going to have me hung. I was standing on the gallows, noose around neck, when the trap fell and I woke up gasping for air.
Stay off drugs, kids, mmkay?" - neumeindil

(Today's life lesson: teaspoons and tablespoons are NOT the same. -CV)



And there you have it. All the quiz that's fit to print! Don't worry; looking too closely at this quiz will not give you pink eye. The Pinkertons will not investigate your activities. And P!nk has been forbidden from singing this week. So share and enjoy!

Welcome to all new players and watchers, and special howdy to all DreamWidth players and watchers! We're just trying to broaden our horizons here, so hope you all enjoy, and of course make sure you tell all your friends about us. The quiz is good and fun and wholesome and healthy and probably not those last two.

Hope you enjoyed, thanks for playing, and as always, Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[germankitty]

Hey, that Jerry and Tuffy clip was sent in by me! So why am I not credited?!?

(In other news, triple quotage! Yay!)

[ironjeff]

YAYYYYYYYY!

I can finally play Daily Quiz again and get DOUBLE QUOTAGE!

[chaosvizier]

Fixed! Oh Tom and Jerry, you were so awesome back in the day...

[chaosvizier]

Welcome back! Always glad to have quizlings return to the fold... or in this case, the fold moves to the quizling. Bravo!

[yomikoma]

Something's wrong on the names on the cross-post - everyone shows as DW users of the same name as the LJ users listed on the original side. Which is fine for some people but I imagine for many people those are dead links.

[chaosvizier]

It's true. The usernames don't convert from LJDQ to DWDQ. Something to fix in the next quiz. Somehow.

[germankitty]

Well. I'm germankitty both here and there, and most of my friendslist did the same, so I hadn't noticed ....

[germankitty]

Just had a thought -- i_calql8 told me that you usually leave out the quote signs when typing a username. I've used them here -- let's see if it makes a difference!

[germankitty]

And now without the quote signs, chaosvizier!


Okay, no difference. Oh well, worth a try ...

[germankitty]

Thanks! And yeah, I loved 'em ... especially in their mouseketeer outfits! (The fact that Hanna-Barbera comics cost half of the Disney ones may have played a part, too ...)

[seekingferret]

chaosvizier

The trick is to add site="livejournal.com" to the user tag.

< user name="chaosvizier" site="livejournal.com" >

[chaosvizier]

It looks like Dreamwidth allows me to use the LJ tag and, if there is a user with the same name in DW, it automatically links to them.

[chaosvizier]

I never use the quote signs when typing a username; it makes no difference. There's just different code for DW links than LJ links and I have to do a massive edit for DW to look good. Which I might do eventually. Just feeling lazy right now. ;-)

[chaosvizier]

Yeah, gotta do a big find-and-replace thingy next time. It'll be better, I'm sure. Heh.

[germankitty]

Have fun, whenever you get around to it! I'm still trying to find the setting that allows me to view the site ALWAYS in my style (ie, black on white). This beige-on-blue looks pretty, but is sure to strain my eyes eventually.

[athousandsmiles]

Four quotes on the first DWDQ. Woo and Hoo!

[chaosvizier]

Bravo! and welcome aboard! Even though you're an old LJDQ hand... Now we just have to spread the word here.

[chaosvizier]

I think Tom and Jerry was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. No dialogue, just 100% action and comedy. The perfect show.

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

[germankitty]

I wouldn't really know -- German TV ca. 1960 didn't HAVE cartoons on its only channel. My exposure came about 5-6 years later, when they instituted Saturday afternoon, pre-sports programming for kids or rarely through those "pre-main feature" movies we used to have.

But yeah, I remember what a big deal the addition of dialogue to the st00pid Tom & Jerry movie was ...

[athousandsmiles]

Pimpage: You can haz!

http://dw-community-promo.dreamwidth.org/318142.html?mode=reply

[elf]

'DWDQ' just doesn't roll off the tongue as well as LJDQ.

Just gotta pronounce it "dee dub dee kew." Or "deedub deekyou."

[chaosvizier]

Hey, deek you, buddy! ;-)

Deedub Deekyou sounds like some third-rate Star Wars character. Like Jabba the Hutt's janitor, or something.

[chaosvizier]

Woohoo! +1 for pimping!

[elf]

Deedub Deekyou is an android refugee from the Third Droid Uprising. Created as a sleeper agent to insinuate himself into organic-biped politics and collect information in his memory banks to be delivered no more than annually, his designer's plans were foiled when it became obvious that no humanoids in the empire had wheels instead of feet, and while some could perceive and understand radio transmissions, none of them had extendable metal posts on their ears.

Outcast from the society he was created to infiltrate, and having an appearance too organic to be accepted in droid culture, DWDQ wandered around backwater planets until he found a home on Tattooine. He performed menial labor to earn battery cycles and entertained Jabba's guests with his prodigious trivia collection, for which he was sometimes rewarded with cans of silicone lubricant to ease his aching joints.