DW Daily Answers: 23 April 2012

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Have your fill of this week's quiz!


1. California was admitted to the Union during which US President's term of office?

"Oh, it's part of a union? so That's why nothing decent is ever created there" - b_hulsmans

(All too true. -CV)

“California was admitted into the union? ...My map of the US is *really* out of date, isn't it?" - rapunzelita

"I refuse to believe California is part of the Union until they show me its long form birth certificate" - barbarienne

"The California flag has a bear, like a Teddy Bear, so I'm going with Theodore Roosevelt" - love2loveher

“Mallard Fillmore" - tinamachina" - wrestlingdog, etumukutneyak, la_trombonista, tweeti, scifantasy

“
Doesn't he look like Alec Baldwin in a bad Whig?" - mandydax

(I'm going to have to give you full credit on that. -CV)

"I'm assuming this guy lived on Fillmore street and had a pet named Millard, because if this isn't a porn name I don't know what is" - usmu

Correct Answer: Millard Fillmore



2. What actor plays the titular role on the television series "Castle"?

"Heh. 'Titular'" - REVHHKITTY, germankitty, zihuatanejo, ifeedformula

“Cary Elwes" - love2loveher

(They are both very, very pritty. – LL)

"Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle" - wiredwizard

(+1, The Punisher. The first one. -CV)

“The hammer is his penis." - stgreyhounds, sskipstress

(Wouldn’t it be ‘His pen is his penis”? OMG I crack myself UP!! - LL)

“Castle + Tits = Onion Domes. Onion Domes + Hero = Prince of Persia. Therefore your answer is Jake Gyllenhaal." - mattwolf

(10/10, would bang [both of them] – LL)

“Philip J. Fry." - photosinensis

"" - chershey

“The role of Castle is actually played by Chalet, but they use lots of camera tricks to make him look bigger." - alfvaen

"Captain Tightpants" - it was like millions of voices moaning in ecstasy, and then suddenly silenced.

Correct Answer: Nathan Fillion



3. What country was originally referred to by Magellan as the Islands of St. Lazarus?

“Florin. (Or was it Guilder?)" - wrestlingdog

"Atlantis. Boy, that global warming is a bitch" - drbear, wiredwizard, b_hulsmans, seekingferret

“The 'Are we there yet?' Islands when ended the practice of democratically picking names." - seferin

"Predicted Number of Douglas MacArthur 'I Shall Return!' Jokes: 1, counting this one, which is a shame." - scifantasy

(Your prediction was spot on. -CV)

“I'm always magellan now with those Scholl's inserts!" - akiyasan, mattwolf

"If they'd really been the Lazarus Islands, he might have been able to finish the trip. PS: Zombie Circumnavigator is the name of my next band" - mandydax

(+1, Zombie Circumnavigator. I would go to your concerts. -CV)

"The Philippines, a popular port call for sailors who aren't terribly concerned with which gender their prostitute is so long as they LOOK female" - frequencyshift

“Fill...ippines! Only they call themselves something else -- silly people! Only a White European Christian Male can name you. Also, no flag? No country!" - etumukutenyak

Correct Answer: The Philippines



4. Before settling in Oakland, the Oakland Athletics were the Kansas City Athletics. Before that, which city was their home?

“Brigadoon" - freezer818

"Ankh-Morpork" - wrestlingdog

"Machu Pichu" - lots42

"In a seashell under the sea" - akiyasan

“That's the sport with the oblong ball and the tight pants, right?" - sskipstress

(Only the team captain wears tightpants. – LL)

“Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty" - lirimaer

“Remember, if you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!" - mattwolf

"Sheesh, get the hint already, baseball is too boring for any organization to be considered 'Athletic.'" - love2loveher

(Still way ahead of bowling and golf. -CV)

“So if I'm getting the theme right, you're saying the A's moved from Pennsylvania to Missouri to California. Did any members of the team at any point die of dysentery or while fording a river?" - loopychew

"Philladelphia--they were the Yankees of their era. Except the Yankees were the Baltimore Orioles, unlike the current Orioles who used to be the St. Louis Browns, who used to be the Milwaukee Brewers, NOT the current Milwaukee Brewers who used to be the Seattle Pilots" - tinamachina

(Your fingers were typing, but all I read was jibba-jabba. -CV)

"The Shitty of Brotherly Shove" - etcet

"Oh, I know this! They were the Toronto Eh's!" - mandydax

“People still won't shut up about the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn, yet this is the first I've heard of this." - laughingacademy

“Gotham City. That's right, there used to be a lot more Batmen." - alfvaen

Correct Answer: Philadelphia



5. What is the name of the green pigment found in most plants and critical to the process of photosynthesis?

“If it was a question about Nickolodeon, I'd say green slime, but... FUCK IT, I'MA STICK WITH GREEN SLIME." - wrestlingdog

“Chloroform! (hey, I have to try for the groupthink)" - stgreyhounds, THALEN, usmu

“FD&C Green No. 3" - wiredwizard

"Kermitin" - tinamachina, akiyasan, photosinensis

“'Hi, I'm Phil. Cloro Phil!' Those old classroom science films still hurt my head." - mattwolf

(10/10, would photosynthesize – LL)

"" - mandydax, JENNA_THORN

"I'm sure there's a lot of guys who look at Poison Ivy and say she can phyll their chloro ANYTIME she wants. *winkwinknudgenudgesaynomore*" - ifeedformula

"ChloroPhyllis Diller. She scares the sunlight and CO2 into combining to form sugars and starches out of a twisted sense of self preservation" - etcet

"Doctorphyll" - alfvaen

“For the longest time, I thought a chlorophyl was someone who likes fucking trees." - rapunzelita

(I like fucking trees! Wait… do you consider fucking an adjective or a verb here? – LL)
(If the branches are rocking, I won't come a-knocking. -CV)

"You say chlorophyl is found in most plants, I want you to tell me what plants it is not found in. Well??" - tweeti

(Nuclear power plants, Robert Plant, and Planters Peanuts come to mind. -CV)

Correct Answer: Chlorophyll



6. You have a cauldron! What do you fill it with?

“Beer. Old Milwaukee, just to horrify the beer snobs" - freezer818

“Crushed enemies, lamenting women, and some rough-cut potato wedges. Maybe some carrots and onions." - etcet

(Don’t forget the garlic – LL)

"Unmarked cash" - REVHHKITTY

"Equal parts Gruyère and Vacherin cheese, Fendant, some garlic" - loopychew

(Mmmm, fonduelicious. -CV)

“Money. Or possibly wine. Then again, I can buy wine with the money..." - stgreyhounds

"Smurfs. I think perhaps Gargamel was onto some medicinal breakthrough, rather than just being a bad guy" - love2loveher

“I do have a cauldron! It's one of those plastic-y hallowe'en deals. I often fill it with candy. Sometimes I fill it with my head. It's a good sized hat." - lirimaer

"This is begging for a dick joke, so I'm not even going to make one. I'll just let you assume that there is one. It's right here" - rapunzelita

“Generally I leave the cauldron for decoration and use candles for spellwork. Easier to pass off as "Doesn't it smell nicer in here?" than admitting I'm hexing the downstairs neighbor with the 1/2 pound a day pot habit who won't freakin' share!" - neumeindil

“Sex and drugs and booze." - akiyasan

"Flowers for bathing, except I'm not a celtic god, so let's go with something I have a lot of. Um, yarn? Dirty laundry? Emails?" - JENNA_THORN

"Captain Tightpants, baby oil and me. Which sounds like a eighties sitcom now I think about it" - drunken_hedghog

“A nice, hearty beef stew, with lots of beef and vegetables. There must be meat in it, as Lent just ended, and I'm sick of eating things that didn't scream when they died." - seferin, photosinensis

“The weather's turning nice, so I'm going with sangria." - laughingacademy

"Automatic transmission. I call it a kettle drive" - i_calql8

“I make like Baba Yaga and fill it with myself so I can fly around the world and beat select individuals on the head with a pestle." - barbarienne

"It's gonna be HOT this weekend, so the cauldron gets Hendrick's gin, good tonic water, and a large chunk of ice afloat in the middle. Oh, and what the hell, we'll add a model of a certain White Star Lines vessel that sank just about a century back... 'twill all be Quite English, thankyouverymuch!" - IRONJEFF

“I'd answer this question honestly, but let's face it: No answer but 'Gin and Pudding' will be deemed as correct." - mattwolf



And there you have it. Our month of "F{vowel}L" continues like a drunken juggernaut of stupid quiz theme patterns. Is there no end to the madness? Probably not. Well, technically, there are only so many vowels to use, so it would end eventually. But whatever! VOWELS!

See you all tomorrow for more vowely goodness and green peaness!

Rock On!
CV&LL