DW Daily Answers: 14 May 2012

[chaosvizier]

Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight! Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me the day I held aloft my magic sword and said "By the power of Greyskull!" It's a Toledo Salamanca broadsword, worth about a million bucks. That sword was broken! Who so Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Rightwise King Born of all England. And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way.


1. What was the weapon of choice for Thundarr the Barbarian?

"You can't say 'weapon of choice' without getting linked to this video." - mandydax, seferin, tinamachina, thepikey

"A club to beat up baby seals. Bastard!" - akiyasan

"Thor's Hummer" - drunken_hedghog

"The Sword that Was Broken" - etumukutenyak

(That was Arragorn of Numenarrrrr. -CV)

"Does he call it Vera?" - wrestlingdog

"ACME Thundertron 4000 (must show proof of not being a coyote on purchase)" - wiredwizard

"He wielded a pirate attached to a hilt, who would yell 'Thun-darrrrrrrrrr' before biting the fuck out of some enemy earlobe" - etcet

"" - germankitty

"Bad breath. Seriously, a dentist could make a mint in these cartoon worlds. Half the time people seem to have simple bars of ivory instead of distinct teeth, and the other half they have no teeth at all, or maybe just a couple of fangs. Yes, I spend too much time looking at cartoon characters' mouths." - barbarienne

"Thundarr the Barbarian's weapon of choice was Conan the Barbarian. Thundarr would pick Conan up by the ankles and kill people with him. This wouldn't harm Conan a bit, because he was . . . Conan the Barbarian" - david_deacon

"Thundar--didn't he travel around with that hot Wonder Woman wanna be and some furry cat-bear thing named Ookla?" - ifeedformula

"Thundarr use shiny stick" - natt_barn

Correct Answer: The Sun Sword

"also known as the Lords of Light Sabre" - i_calql8



2. Special Agent Abigail Brand is the head of which organization?

"The Girls Scouts of Lithuania" - baader_meinhof

"Mensa" - primavera

"SPECTRE" - wrestlingdog

"NCIS" - drunken_hedghog

(Wrong Abby, and she's not in charge. -CV)

"Q Branch" - jmthane

"Obviously she's the head of some sort of coven. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry of Magic? Oh, you said which organization, not witch organization" - barbarienne

(Eh, her name's Abigail, she probably is a witch to boot. -CV)

"Dude, if I was related to Russell Brand, I'd disown him and become a secret agent too. Urgh." - ifeedformula

"Don't be silly. Girls can't be in charge of things!" - theninth

"I'd rather work for SHADO." - n5iln

(That's pretty old-school there. -CV)

"S.H.I.E.L.D." - tinamachina

(Almost... -CV)

"She thinks the best way to negotiate with an Ai is to threaten to shoot it. I *like* her." - natt_barn

Correct Answer: Sentient World Observation and Response Department, or S.W.O.R.D.

"I've got a sudden craving for some shawarma." - umbralcorax

(+1, just because. -CV)



3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
The snakes and arrows a child is heir to
Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
We build our defenses, a place of safety
And leave the darker places unexplored

(This question brought all our stealthy Rush fans out of hiding. -CV)

"Ohhh, I feel that answer rushing towards me....Nope, it zoomed right by." - tweeti

"I Took A Ni To The Shrubbery - Monty Python" - wiredwizard

"Medusa's Lament by Theseus" - timthief

"Hmm.. Genesis?" - primavera

(Genesis is answer forbidden. -CV)

"'Cuts' doesn't rhyme with 'Unexplored'!" - stgreyhounds

(It does in Welsh. -CV)

"The last line doesn't rhyme. It should have been 'And then they bite us on our butts.'" - drbear

"If they add snakes to Minecraft, this could be the theme song" - mandydax

"All I can think is 'snaaaaake snaaaaake! It's a snaaaake! It's a badger-badger-badger-badger...'" - baader_meinhof

"I don't know, I'm just trying to imagine what the spawn of snakes and arrows would look like" - wrestlingdog

(Did you ever see "Conan the Barbarian", where Thulsa Doom takes a snake and draws it to his bow and shoots Valeria? There's your answer. -CV)

"If you're cutting yourself with a snake, you're trying too hard, emo kid" - etcet

"'Get those muthafuckin' snakes away from my muthafuckin' armor', by the Samuel L. Jacksons" - germankitty

"If you let your child get a thousand cuts from snakes and arrows (which sounds like a boardgame, if you ask me) CPS will probably nail your ass to the wall" - ifeedformula
"yeah, it's best to leave the dark places of a child unexplored, especially if you don't like prison" - sskipstress

"This sounds very William Shakespeare..ish. The only erudite songwriter I can think of is Sting, which reminds me, didn't Frodo have a sword named Sting? So I'm going to say Enya." - etumukutenyak

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

Correct Answer: Rush, "Armor and Sword"



4. What 60's and 70's game show was hosted by Allen Ludden?

"I think a better question would be what 60's and 70's game show *wasn't* hosted by Allen Ludden?" - jmthane, n5iln

(True, he hosted many shows. But only this one managed to span both decades, with himself as the long-standing host. -CV)

"I'll have bad puns for a thousand, Alex Allen!" - germankitty

"$25,000 Pair-of-Squids" - baader_meinhof

"The Hunger Games; it was all gladiatorial until that upstart Katniss brought a bow to the fight" - cholma

(Hey, if Richard Dawson can host "The Running Man", then anything goes. -CV)

"I'm gonna say 'Press Your Luck,' because it's fun to say 'Nowhammiesnowhammiesnowhammiesnowhammies.... Stop!'" - stgreyhounds

(That really was one of the best game shows ever. -CV)

"Ah heck, who cares, the only thing people seem to care about anymore is that he was married to the wonderful Betty White" - tweeti, drunken_hedghog

"How the hell does Password fit into this quiz theme? Okay, I'm gonna say Beat the Clock because it sounds dirty" - barbarienne

(Fair Enough; "Beat the Clock" does sound rather naughty. Anyway, Password totally works with the theme once you remove the first three letters. That's right, I am totally reaching here. -CV)

Correct Answer: Password



5. More fun with lyrics! Name the song and the movie:
I woke up this morning with a start when I fell out of bed
And left from my dreaming was a feeling of unnameable dread
My high is low, I'm dressed up with no place to go
And all I know, is I'm at the start of a pretty big downer

"My Life...every morning, I sing it" - tweeti, freezer818, drbear

"I'm not sure, but I do know that I'm have the urge to wear a corset, stockings, suspenders and stripper heels. So, Elvira?" - drunken_hedghog

"Percocet will cheer you up! Well either that or plastic surgery on your face so you're always smiling. No wonder clowns are so freaky!" - akiyasan

"That annoying song from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. (Or should I narrow it down further?)" - neumeindil

(You probably should, but I'll give you full credit anyway. -CV)

"I didn't know there was a Morrissey song in Rocky Horror Picture Show" - theninth, etumukutenyak

"It's ... disturbing to know that the first time I saw that movie was over 30 years ago..." - jmthane

Correct Answer: "Sword of Damocles" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show



6. What's looming over your head?

"My bedroom, and there's an ominous creaking coming from the ceiling battens" - drunken_hedghog

"A big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff! AIEEEEE!!" - wiredwizard

"About 50lbs of biomass in the form of an enormous, multi-tentacular Epipremnum aureum. I have strung it all around the ceiling of my office, and right now there are about a dozen vines hanging in throat-grabbing distance. My office looks like Poison Ivy's lab" - barbarienne

(When the Triffids come to invade the Earth, you are totally going to die first. -CV)

"Just the ceiling. And maybe a hundred years worth of mice poo above the ceiling" - tinamachina

"That family of weavers living upstairs" - alfvaen, i_calql8

"A loom has to do with weaving, or cloth production in general. Like spinning. By that logic, most likely a spider. See me run." - germankitty

"There is actually a spider in the corner over my bed, but we we have an agreement; it doesn't come anywhere near me and I don't drop my hard cover copy of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (1 volume, 3 books) on it's spindly-legged little ass" - neumeindil

(He will betray you. It is his destiny. -CV)

"" - sskipstress

"I GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE TOMORROW. So the answer to your question is student loans and unemployment" - wrestlingdog



And that's the way it is. Another swordid affair put behind us.

Thanks for playing, happy graduation time for those close to it, and tune in next time for more fun-filled action-packed quizly goodness!

Rock On!

CV&LL