DW Daily Quiz: 6 February 2012

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"Dude, we got tattoos!" "What does mine say?" "Dude! What does mine say?" "Sweet!" - etcet

1. What is the common name of Ipomoea batatas?

"The Girl from Ipomoea" - pretty much everyone
"Nice batatas!" - pretty much everyone else

"The Ipaneman Cometh" - ntlespino

"Mario Batali" - thalen

"Ipomoea batalas ain't no passing craze, It means marshmallow topping, for all of your days." - sskipstress
"It's a hunger freeeeee philosophyyyy... Ipomoea batatas!" - bellapalmera, mandydax

"Sweetie Potato Head (daughter of Mr.and Mrs.)" - yamx

Correct Answer: Sweet Potato



2. What was the nickname of NFL player Walter Payton?

"The Refrigerator" - 6 of you who forgot that that was William Perry

"Sugartits" - revhhkitty, bellapalmera, cold_clarity

"Hot Lips" - zihuatanejo

"Captain Tightpants" - sskipstress

"Paydirt" - mark_laura

"Payton Place" - offbalance

(Just down the stree from Melrose Place, apparently. -CV)

"BIG JIM SLADE!" - kenshardik

"In Green Bay it was 'That %^&*(*&$! Who Beats Us Twice A Year.'" - drbear
"Goddamn Payton! (What, I'm a Packer fan, he ran over us for years.)" - thepikey

(The Goddamn Payton is still not as awesome as the Goddamn Batman. -CV)

"Not affiliated with Peyton Manning" - akiyasan

"That guy who looks like sasquatches sat on his face." - alfvaen

(Hey, sasquatch gotta sit somewhere. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Sweetness"



3. What is the name of Popeye's adopted son?

"Swee'pea was a BOY?!?" - five misguided souls

"He always did love his spinach:
" - chershey

"the Shmoo of Lil' Abner could provide food without dying which is really incredibly disturbing when you think about it. Right. On to the next." - jenna_thorn

"Scrappy Doo" - ntlespino

"Mitt Romney" - wiredwizard

"Olive Earl" - majorsamfan

"Popteeth" - alfvaen

"Son-eye" - akiyasan

"Partially Hydrogenated Soy-Bean Oyle" - neumeindil

"Popear - he had cauliflower ears from all those fights his dad got him in" - demon_666

"Cokenose, who has been quietly relegated to the dustbin of history due to legal issues" - thepikey

"" - i_calql8

"I never understood why Popeye adopted a son, or why anyone let him. Who lets an unmarried sailor (who's presumably away for months at a time) adopt?" - lbmango

"I refer to the fried chicken chain that bears his name as 'Pope Yes' ... and now you will, too." - etcet

"Sweetpea. He had to be adopted if Olive Oyl was extra-virgin." - kristinmachina

"I maintain that Swee'Pea was Bluto's love child. That kid was STRONG!" - drunken_hedghog

Correct Answer: Swee'pea

"Where's the T? I could've sworn there was a T in that word." - ifeedformula



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

"I don't know, but that song's driven me crazy my entire life. Wtf was wrong with ya'll in the 80s, really? (Besides the blow...)" - neumeindil

"the 80s were really just all about thinly-veiled BDSM references, weren't they?" - cold_clarity

"Rhianna and Chris Brown's duet '2 Some'" - jenna_thorn

"Super PAC by The Non Coordanitors" - usmu

"How a bill becomes a law by Schoolhouse Rock" - seferin

(He's just sittin' on Capitol Hill. -CV)

"'Congressmen', by the White House Singers" - yamx, drbear

"WHOMP WHOMP... TAINTED LOVE... WHOA-OH-AH... WHOMP WHOMP." - etcet

"Sweet Creams Are Made Of Cheese. (Who am I to disagree? Mmm, cream cheese. Thanks, Annie Lennox! You're an awesome baker.)" - brightrosefox

"Sweet Dreams and oh God get the 80s out of my head!" - ntlespino

"I'll take Songs That Were Totally Fucked Up Covers by Marilyn Manson for $100, Alex....." - ifeedformula and 7 other Manson haters

"It's my karaoke song. I did it with actions and ALWAYS got applause. Mind you, they were filthy actions" - drunken_hedghog

(Feel free to share a video with us. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" by Eurythmics

"A lot of people ask about the cows in the music video. I think they symbolize man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Or the director was hopped up on coke or something." - kenshardik



5. "Free Bird" was Lynyrd Skynyrd's first hit single; what was their second?

"It's actually just the 2nd half of "Free Bird". yeah, it's that long" - lbmango

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Free Bird" - ifeedformula, jmthane, akiyasan, yamx

"Play Free Bird Again!" - drbear, usmu, thepikey
"Put Your Lighters Down" - revhhkitty

"Full cat" - demon_666

"Roll, Tide, Roll" - ifeedformula

(I do not know why I know what this means. I am shamed. -1 to you for shaming me. -CV)

"Sweet Caroline" - drunken_hedghog

(That was my second choice for this question. -CV)

"Sweet Home Mountain Mama" - sskipstress

(Close enough. -CV)

"Swyyt Home Alybamy" - athousandsmiles

"Define irony: bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." - ladyiapetus

(+1, Con Air. -CV)

"Their second hit? I guess when the airplane bounced. (Too soon?)" - zihuatanejo

(+1, harshness. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Sweet Home Alabama"



6. What's your favorite candy/dessert?

"I'll have some of this. Oh, and some cake too." - athousandsmiles

"I'd like to have naked English cricketers with fine wine and cheese followed by DeathbyChocolate, but I don't want to be greedy, so I'm willing to settle for Lindor truffles, a couple of nice glasses of wine and one naked guy, already in my bed. (I might be persuaded to share, btw...)" - germankitty

"Candy - etcet

(There can be only one. -CV)

"Candy - mark_laura

(OK, maybe there can be two. -CV)

"Tiramisu and rum. Without the tiramisu" - n5iln

"Redhead" - wiredwizard

"Tears of my enemies" - zihuatanejo

(Goes great with women's lamentations, I hear. -CV)

"I live in the country that invented practically everything with Chocolate and/or alcohol. I can't swing a cat without hitting something made of sugar" - b_hulsmans

"Home-made ice cream. Best white stuff ever to result from hand-cranking" - i_calql8

"" - drunken_hedghog

"Anything with chocolate, and given the tastes of this community, I will say chocolate pudding... With gin. :P And a side of chocolate covered bacon." - ionicaq

(Mmm, chocolate bacon. OM NOM NOM. -CV)

"Chocolate, of course. But it can't have any nuts" - la_trombonista

(I agree. Nuts disrupt the purty of good chocolate. -CV)

"French Silk Pie" - neumeindil
"Or is that Freedom silk pie?" - kristinmachina

(No lie, your answers are three minutes apart. The comedy writes itself! -CV)

"Nothing's sweeter than angledge" - thepikey




And there you have it, all the sweetness you can shake a pixie stick at. Sweetums approves of this quiz. Tune in tomorrow when we have another predictable theme for you to test your mettle on. Have a sweetbread while you wait.

Rock On!

CV&LL