DW Daily Answers: 16 January 2011

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New Year, New Quiz, New Players, New Everything!

1. King George V and Queen Mary laid the foundation stone of which city in 1911?

"You said 'Laid'." - theninth, la_trombonista, squeegibo
"I'm guessing the stone was bi." - drbear, alfvaen
"Only royalty would think to have sex with masonry." - sskipstress

"Why is this a thing? Why are you letting amateurs lay foundations of anything? That's how buildings fall down. Well. That's how more buildings fall down." - natt_barn

"Trick question, right? England can't possibly have any cities younger than half a millenium!" - ironjeff

"I passed a milestone in my life the other day. Great Ghu, that hurt!" - n5iln

"They placed the first pillar of Stonehenge. The pillar was actually embedded several feet into the ground, thus becoming the world's first Salisbury stake." - i_calql8

"Hogsmeade" - thalen

"New R'lyeh. Whatever else you think the answer is, this one is also right." - zihuatanejo

"The question is not, which city did they built, but whether or not they built the city on Rock and Roll!" - b_hulsmans, kenshardik, akiyasan, thepikey

"Suffragette City. Happy 65th Birthday, David Bowie!" - kristinmachina

"The Queen Mary was a cruise line. Cruise lines have buffets. Golden Corral is also a buffet. Corrals are where cows and sheep are stored. They need to find more land for corrals. So the answer is obviously Newfoundland... City." - syrazemyla

(And the gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation this week goes to... syrazemyla! -CV)

"The New neighborhood Deli. The Royals really love the rye or the kaiser. (if you like you can try an appetizer)" - cholma

(+1, Weird Al Yankovic. -CV)

Correct Answer: New Delhi



2. What award is given "for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children"?

"The Stephenie Meyer Award For Further Turning Our Children Into Compliant Drooling Idiots" - fragbert, houseofknaus, i_calql8, alfvaen

"The Pedobear. No, wait, that's 'disgusting contribution to children'" - etcet

"Having a shitty Disney movie made out of it." - kenshardik

"The 'Go The F**k To Sleep' award" - drbear

(Samuel L. Jackson is ALWAYS the host of this ceremony. -CV)

"The Highlights Magazine award" - thalen

"The two most recent awards went to 'Bi-Curious George' and 'Green Eggs and Crack'" - thepikey

"The Paris Hilton award. They read the books to her, and if she understands what's going on, it gets the award. Obviously not many books qualify" - umbralcorax

"The Dead Pet Award. Because it isn't literature for children unless someone dies" - natt_barn, loopychew, syrazemyla, galluses

"Seashells. Sally sells them by the seashore." - seferin

"Being placed at the checkout stand at JJ Newberry's stores" - ironjeff

Correct Answer: The John Newbery Medal

"Its lesser-known cousin, the Oldberry, is normally printed in enlarged type and marketing is targeted to nursing homes." - jenna_thorn



3. The song "Danke Schoen" was recorded by Bert Kaempfert but became famous after being sung by whom?

"Someone with mad hits." - 5 mad hitters

"Hee hee hee. You said Kaempfert" - primavera

"Can I lay a bet on how many Quizlings will answer with this? What are the odds and the point spread? I predict over 20" - fragbert, thepikey, revhhkitty

(A winner is you; within about an hour of fragbert asking this question, there were four Ferris Bueller-related answers. By the time thepikey got to it, there were 15. revhhkitty helped push it to 19. And more yet to come. -CV)

"Charlie Schoen. Matthew Broderick was only lip-synching, after all, and Charlie had plenty of time to finish that up and then wind up on the couch by the time Jennifer Grey got there." - florahart

"I was well into my 20s before found out the version of Danke Schoen that I was familiar with was NOT being sung by a woman." - theninth

(That is apparently a more common problem than you think. -CV)

"The Warner Brothers, and their sister, Dot" - sskipstress

"I like 'Danke vielmas' better, because it sounds like 'Donkey field mouse'." - syrazemyla

"New Sting? Better than the old Sting" - jennielf

"Alice Cooper" - wiredwizard

"Ok, Danke Schön means 'thank you very much' Danke Schoen means 'Thank shoe'..." - b_hulsmans, lady_deirdre

(You should always thank your shoes. -CV)

"Yäy för ümläüts!" - yamx

Correct Answer: Wayne Newton



4. The Bunbury Cup, the Pretty Polly Stakes, and the Superlative Stakes all take place in which British racecourse?

"Fig Newton. Sorry, it's just that the answer to anything after Wayne Newton is Fig Newton. Fig Newtonian physics. What if Sir Isaac had been sitting under a fig tree?" - jenna_thorn

"Mmm...steak" - kristinmachina

"I now want to make a porn flick called 'Pretty Polly's Superlative Bunbury.'" - fragbert

(I would fill that bunbury, if you know what I mean. -CV)

"Hyperbolic Park, the most fantastically wonderful track on this or any other planet!" - n5iln

"The brits do not have a word for new. It is all just less old than everything else." - jennielf

"I may not know the answer to this question, but thanks to My Fair Lady, I do know the name of one British racecourse" - sskipstress

(COME ON DOVER! MOVE YER BLOOMIN' ARSE! -CV)

"I don't know the answer to this, doo-dah, doo-dah, so I'll give you this earworm instead, oh dee doo da day." - umbralcorax

("De Camp Town Ladies?" - "De Camp Town Ladies." -CV)

"Does anyone else feel a Pirate Shanty coming on just about now? 'Bury my superlative treasure with me pretty Polly on me shoulder, x marks the spot, when the job's done take a swig out o' that bottle o' rum!'" - demon_666

(Four other quizlings were shanghaied into piracy. Six, however, thought they were My Little Ponies. -CV)

Correct Answer: Newmarket Racecourse



5. What 1991 crime film pits Wesley Snipes against Ice-T?

"They Thirst" - seferin

"I think sometimes I get Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock mixed up." - akiyasan

(I...think that is very difficult to do. -CV)

"Has Ice-T ever been in a movie that wasn't a crime against the viewer, except 'Tank Girl'?" - etcet

"You got Wesley Snipes in my Ice-T! You got Ice-T in my Wesley Snipes! By your powers combined they are SUPER GANGSTA MAN! Gangsta-Man, Gangsta-Man, does whatever a Gangsta can!" - ifeedformula

"Law and Order: New Jack City" - 9 of you

"Wrong duo for Old and Busted Jack City, but that's not going to stop me" - sskipstress

(+1, Men In Black. -CV)

"I prefer 'Demolition Man' anyway. *ding* 'You have been fined five credits for violation of the morality code.'" - cholma

"New Jack City, and they would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling monarchs George and Mary, who laid a foundation stone upside their heads" - mark_laura

(In the future, dwdq will owe 8934723818 credits. -CV)

Correct Answer: New Jack City

"Which no one saw, thinking it was a remake of Jack City." - yamx



6. What's new in your life?

"Good news, everybody! I've invented an LJDQ answer-generating machine!" - zihuatanejo

(We're interested in seeing how it works... if you really are zihuatanejo... -CV)

"Mayan apocalypse? NO, not yet!" - mark_laura

"I've just all these old piles of crushed enemies and lamenting women cluttering up the joint." - etcet

(That's because you skipped a key step: driving them before you. This way, they clean themselves up. -CV)

"Nothing much, got a new Graphics card for my computer... Which lead to a new fan in my computer, which lead to a new power supply... So basically, I got me myself a new pc." - b_hulsmans

"Kindle Fire--I can now LJDQ from anywhere! (I could do it on the phone, too, but the Brazilian Women's Volleyball Team looks better on a bigger screen.)" - kristinmachina

(Do they ever! -CV)

"I got a brand new pair of rollerskates" - ironjeff, kenshardik

"A new boyfriend! Decided it was time to take another test drive." - raphsody606

"I'm pretty sure some of my red blood cells, skin and intestinal lining is new, if you go by cell turnover rates." - demon_666

"This terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side" - sskipstress

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"The wildebeest" - i_calql8

(Hurr hurr. -1, just because. -CV)

"What's nu? E over h, of course" - squeegibo

(Well, at least you get a Geek of the Week Award with your -1. -CV)

"About two dozen grey hairs. THANK YOU 45th BIRTHDAY" - fragbert

(Srsly. SO MUCH GREY WTF? -CV)



And that's the news and I am outta here! My newroses have gone newclear, so I'm getting this new quiz out before newn today. Too cold to be newde this morning!

And in other news, clowns.

Thanks for playing, all; hope you enjoy, and of course be sure to share the laughs with everyone around, newde or not!

Rock On!

CV&LL