DW Daily Answers: 19 March 2012 +1

[chaosvizier]

All we are is Dust In The Wind, dudes.

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
But when you wish upon a dream
Life ain't always what it seems, oh yeah
What'd you see, on nights so clear
In the sky, so very dear, yeah

"Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here!" - usmu

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

"'You Ripped Me Off' by Jiminy Cricket" - drbear and 9 other cricket lovers
"Now I have my own personal Disney medley going through my head...When You Wish Upon a Star, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, I Know You, I Walked with You Once upon a Dream...thanks LJDQ, thanks a bunch." - sskipstress

"It's not Sting, is it?" - tinamachina

(Not even close. -CV)

"Oh, this sounds so familiar. Was it used on Dance Dance Revolution?" - mandydax

"Lyrics always seem stupider when you type out the 'yeah's" - raphsody606

"'Shining Star', by Earth, Wind & Fire...and neither the name of the song nor the band name have anything at all to do with the last time I ate at Taco Bell. I swear it." - n5iln

"If you listen carefully, you'll catch the exact moment Phillip Bailey realizes he can talk to dogs using his falsetto" - i_calql8

Correct Answer: "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind, and Fire



2. What is the literal English translation of the word "kamikaze"?

"Drop it, Ito!" - germankitty

"Really high turnover" - syrazemyla

"Don't worry about keeping the tray tables upright and locked." - drbear

"Kami = vest, kaze = toilet. Ergo, Kamikaze = toiletvest" - drunken_hedghog

(I am forced to question your knowledge of Japanese. -CV)

"Vodka, triple sec, and lime juice" - thepikey
"Drink that makes you take off your pants" - kenshardik
"1 kamikaze, 2 kamikase, 3 kamikaze, FLOOR!" - sskipstress

"God farts" - thalen, cold_clarity

Correct Answer: "God Wind" or "Divine Wind"

"As opposed to Damned Wind which is 'flatulence'." - jenna_thorn



3. What is the largest inhabited castle in the world?

"Castle Anthrax" - drbear, thepikey

(That just has four score young virgins and a metal band. -CV)

"Castle ARGGGHHHHHH" - mandydax

(French don't count as real inhabitants. -CV)

"One thing about living in this castle I never could stomach, all the damn armored turtles" - n5iln

(+1, The Lost Boys. -CV)

"I didn't know your mom was Mrs. Castle" - i_calql8

(Truly, I never see it coming. -CV)

"The fire ant mound in the neighborhood park" - jenna_thorn

(They're just waiting for the right moment to invade. -CV)

"Neuschwanstein... is not the answer, but it is so much fun to say!" - love2loveher

"You didn't say which world, so I'm going to go with Castle Grayskull, which has portals to other worlds, and thus may be considered to contain the populations thereof" - seferin, usmu

"Orgrimmar. (Stormwind can suck it.)" - cmzero

"Hogwarts" - germankitty

"I bet anything it's in England..they have castles like the desert has cactus plants over there man" - ifeedformula

"I misread inhabited as inebriated. So therefore the drunken castle must be in Ireland somewhere" - akiyasan

Correct Answer: Windsor Castle



4. What book, published in 1908, describes the adventures of Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Mr. Badger?

"Nothing says fine children's literature like books about rodents!" - whomajigi

(Hence, Stuart Little, Watership Down, Brer Rabbit, and Rikki Tikki Tavi. Ok, maybe not the second one. Mmm, delicious childhood trauma. -CV)

"The Further Adventures of Tom Riddle" - thalen
"'Vermin'R'Us' by Peter Pettigrew" - germankitty

"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie" - ferdelance

"Introduction to American Politics" - love2loveher

"Honey badger don't give a shit about children's stories!" - n5iln

"Mushroom Mushroom" - drunken_hedghog, mandydax

"There's nothing so satisfying as an afternoon spent messing about in boats. Save perhaps for an afternoon spent rolling on a bed covered in gold coins." - jenna_thorn

"OMG..BEST DISNEYWORLD RIDE EVAR! I'm still mad they took out 'Mr. Toad's Wild Ride' and replaced it with that craptastic Winnie the Pooh ride." - ifeedformula

(That is a shame. That ride was almost as trippyfreaky as Universal Studios' "The Cat In The Hat". -CV)

Correct Answer: The Wind in the Willows

"there's never any wind mentioned" - etumukutenyak



5. What fictional character holds such grandiose titles as "Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography", "Chair of Approximate Accuracy", and "Reader in Slood Dynamics"?

"Do they sell a Chair of Approximate Accuracy in Ikea?" - tinamachina

(I think they call it Ragnarok. Some assembly required. -CV)

"Buckaroo Banzai" - jenna_thorn

"Baron Münchhausen" - kenshardik

"Albus Brian Wulfric Percival Dumbledore" - germankitty
"Severus Snape" - wiredwizard

"Bill Nye, the Fake Science Guy" - drbear

"I am the Night. I am the Reader in Slood Dynamics. I am... the Goddamn Batman." - thepikey

"Captain Kangaroo" - love2loveher

"The Wizard of Waverly Place (not that any of those Disney kids could spell 'egregious' much less know what it means)" - majorsamfan

(They would spell it with the words "like totally" in front. -CV)

"Rincewind packs a mean Luggage" - sskipstress

(I pack a large luggage, if you know what I mean. And I think you do. I'm talking about... my suitcase. -CV)

Correct Answer: Rincewind



6. What was the last game/prize/whatever that you won? Tell us all about it.

"An argument with my husband. Which was too easy, really, as there are only two rules in our household: 1) I am always right. 2) In the extremely unlikely event that I should happen to not be right, Rule 1) automatically applies" - germankitty and probably every wife everywhere, ever

"I never won anything until my husband rubbed raffle tickets under his armpits. Then I won a Jayne Cobb public relations gift basket. He has lucky armpits." - whomajigi

(I don't even know where to go with this one. -CV)

"tweeti believes everything I say, so I regularly kick her butt at Scrabble." - drbear

(Ah, Scrabble. Home of the quizybuk. -CV)

"I won second prize in a beauty contest, and collected ten dollars." - sjl

(Be a winner at the game of Life! -CV)

"Gift certificate for tattoos at a Burlesque show obtained by paying $20 to have a gorgeous redhead measure the length of my inner thigh to the floor in raffle tickets" - seferin

"there was the time I beat my brother at air hockey.. yeah, go with that." - primavera

"There's this guy from AK who beats me at WWF (words with friends) by 100 points or more all the time, and I beat him this week after earning 144 points on one play." - majorsamfan

(This would have been more awesome if you had beaten him in the World Wrestling Federation. Or even the World Wildlife Fund. -CV)

"Dude, I can't even score higher than 60K points in Bejeweled." - ferdelance

"I punchbuggied my son yesterday -- blue, yellow, and red for the win!" - etumukutenyak

"Our family won free donuts in Jewel's Wish Big Win Big contest. Unfortunately, my sister (who works at Jewel) forgot to cash in some of the winning tickets before their expiration date. Her forgetfulness deprived me of variation in my breakfast." - la_trombonista

"I am the one, the only one,
I am the god of kingdom come,
Gimme the prize." - mandydax

(+1, Highlander. And, what the hell, +1, Queen. -CV)



And there you have it, straight from the Windy City itself! No, that's a lie. Chicago does not factor into this week's quiz, even if it should.

Hope you all enjoyed this round; thanks for playing, and of course tune in some other time when I'm a bit more on schedule than this week. New Quiz coming soon, courtesy of the estate of Sir Windston Churchill.

Rock On!

CV&LL