DW Daily Answers: 29 May 2012

[chaosvizier]

"I forgot to play last week. I blame this week's theme." - n5iln

"I can't bring teh funnies when I know the real answers! Cheezeus, where are all the sports and 80's music questions? Those I can fuck up like a champ!" - neumeindil

Some of you had a nice long Memorial Day weekend. That would include us. So, one day delay and then back in business. Except for the next delay, but more on that later.

1. What are the names of Odin's two ravens, and what do their names mean?

"Heckle and Jeckle" - 948275 of you

"Flotsam and Jetsom. He spent his weekends moonlighting as a drag queen octopus under the sea" - spotsofcolour

"Vanity and Pearl. I may be confusing them with Care Bears, though" - therealchon

"Kodo and Podo. It means they long to be ferrets" - kenshardik

(+1, Beastmaster. That's some old-school shit right there. -CV)

"One was named Frick and Frick means Frack. The other was named Frack and Frack means Frick" - tweeti

"Statler and Waldorf" - wrestlingdog

"Itchy and Scratchy" - sjl

"Spy vs. Spy
" - germankitty

"Edgar and Allan, which seems rather approPoe" - i_calql8

"Bill and Ted. I'd tell you what they mean, but I think checking Behind the Name counts as cheating" - la_trombonista

(Besides, everyone knows that their names mean WYLD and STALLYNS! *air guitar* -CV)

"Twitter and Haver - having the Proclaimers and the blogosphere on your shoulders could get annoying at times but Odin was only on facebook and could thus ignore the majority of irrelevant nonsense" - raphsody606

"Ray Lewis and Joe Flacco, and their names mean another 10-6 season in Baltimore" - drbear

"Hand Banana and Spaghetti. Scholars maintain the meanings were never deciphered because 'duh, he was a Norse God'." - revhhkitty

"Hugo Boss and Munchhausen. Or is it Munchausen? Munchausen Baron, because apparently one must append one's title to the end of one's name. Hey, just like Chaos Vizier! Have I stumbled upon some dark secret?" - etumukutenyak

(You know too much. -CV)

"Huginn and Muninn, which translates roughly as Thing One and Thing Two" - n5iln

"Hugging and Mugging, two of Britain's favourite drunken pastimes" - drunken_hedghog

"Hey, Hugin or Munin, or whoever you are. Say 'Nevermore.'" ... "Fuck you." - mandydax, zihuatanejo, pirho_maniac

(+1, American Gods. -CV)

"I always picture them cawing into Odin's ear. 'Now listen, you half-blind old Aesir, Loki's really effed it up this time...'" - miladygrey

Correct Answer: Huginn and Muninn, "Thought" and "Memory"



2. What 2000 film featured Denzel Washington as the coach of a football team?

"And now, a public service announcement from Mr. John Cleese." - cmzero

"Field of Dreams? I know as much about movies about baseball as I do about baseball itself..." - 4492

(It is possible you missed the part of the question that mentioned football. -CV)

"A League of Their Cool Runnings" - zihuatanejo

(You also missed that part. For two different sports. -CV)

"White Men Can't Tackle" - alfvaen

"Wildcats 2:Younger, Blacker, and Un-cut" - sskipstress

"Training Day, the tale of a corrupt coach teaching a rookie to tackle and maim the opponents. Based on a true story" - tinamachina

(You mean based on 419 true stories. -CV)

"Remember the High School Football Team That Had 'Heart' and 'Stick-to-it-iveness' and Likely Also 'Moxie' That Taught White Teenagers a Valuable Lesson About How Racism Is Bad. And now you know! Knowing is half the battle!" - miladygrey
"I don't know, but I'm sure they were the underdogs and had no hope of winning, but he inspired them so much that they ended up surprising everyone and bringing hope to a small town that had completely, or almost completely, lost hope. Plus, I bet he got the girl." - tweeti

(And there you have the summary of EVERY SPORTS MOVIE EVER. -CV)

"300. 'THIS! IS! HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL!'" - lots42

(Tonight we dine in THE END ZONE! -CV)

"'Philadelphia.' It turned out not to be as much of a Dream Team as the backup quarterback said it was" - captainsblog

"Remember the Titans. Clash of the Titans. Wrath of the Titans. I totally don't get this trilogy" - tzeentch

(Hades was the coach of the opposing team. After his stunning defeat by young quarterback Perseus, he quit coaching and moved to the Underworld to plot his revenge. It was all a metaphor for the loss of immortality through sporting fame. -CV)

"Remember the Titians. The football team has to defeat a bunch of art thieves who are stealing paintings of redheads" - barbarienne

(And this weeks' dwdq Cultured Quizling Award goes to... barbarienne! -CV)

"This is one of my husband's favorite movies. If I have to watch 'Remember the Titans' one more time, I might just have to strangle somebody." - ifeedformula

Correct Answer: "Remember the Titans"

"Less popular than Remember the Teen Titans, because, well, Starfire" - thepikey

(They also had waffles. -CV)



3. Grizabella is probably best known for singing what song?

"it ain't easy being the offspring of a grizzly bear and the most annoying character in the history of vampire fiction" - b_hulsmans

(Full credit. -CV)

"Grizabella? I'm guessing she's a really pretty Grizzly bear. She probably sings that Motherfucking Pterodactyl song, since it's probably about her parents." - domestik_fucker

(...Motherfucking Pterodactyl? WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN -CV)

"The Bear Necessities" - wiredwizard

"Grizabella was the lead singer of The Misfits from 'Jem and the Holograms,' right?" - mandydax

(Actually, her classic song was "Jem-ory", where she remembers all the times those meddling Holograms foiled their plans. -CV)

"(My Angel is the) Centerfold" - barbarienne

"'Ugly step-sisters need love too'" - natt_barn, vayshti

"Happy Happy Joy Joy" - therealchon

(+1, Ren and Stimpy. -CV)

"Earworm No. 9" - germankitty

"Memoriesssss!! Dadadad-dada-daaa! Dadadada-daadaa-daaa, dadada-dada-daaa! Ironically probably the song with the most forgettable lyrics of all time." - spotsofcolour

Correct Answer: "Memory"



4. Who was the mother of the nine Muses?

"Mrs. Bullwinkle. Oh, that was nine mooses" - drbear

"Memnos - the muse maker!" - tzeentch

"Stretched Out Beyond All Recognition" - raphsody606

"Queen VIctoria, who was not amuse'd" - miss_whiplash

"Necessity" - cmzero, spotsofcolour, thepikey

"Frank Zappa" - kenshardik

"Angelina Jolie; well, she's trying to adopt all of them anyway" - tweeti

(You might be confusing "Muses" with "Cambodians". -CV)

"Their parents were Smithsonia and Guggen, and they grew up in Guggenheim" - alfvaen

"Michelle Duggar" - 6 of you
"Octomom" - 10 of you
"She was later arrested for disturbing the peace by going up to Octomom and shouting 'In your FACE, biotch!'" - barbarienne

"Zeus is Maury Povich's wet dream. 'You ARE the father!'" - tinamachina

("We asked you if you ever turned one of your lovers into an animal. You said no. The lie detector said THAT was a lie." -CV)

"" - i_calql8

"Mnemosyne, the first of the Welfare Queens" - sjl

Correct Answer: Mnemosyne



5. What is the opening line of the poem traditionally associated with Guy Fawkes' Day?

"lets be honest the reason 90% of us know that is because of the movie v for vendetta" - b_hulsmans

(That is totally the correct answer. -CV)

"Give me bonfires or give me death!" - ifeedformula

"The only man who entered Parliament with good intentions" - raphsody606

"There once was a man from Nantucket ..." - 15

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I don't remember the rest but your mother's a whore" - thepikey

(We meet again, Trebek. -CV)

"Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gile and gymble in the wabe" - wrestlingdog

"Mister Anderson
you are now in the desert
Call me Priscilla" - seferin

(Nicely done. +1, Hugo Weaving Haiku. -CV)

"The gunpowder plot was plotted near me! In the gate house next door the the church my cousin got married in!
" - spotsofcolour

"I got engaged on Guy Fawkes Day and married on the Fourth of July. OMGOURLOVEISSOEXPLOSIVE. (Also, really easy to remember the dates.)" - kamalloy

(+1, just because. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Remember, remember, the fifth of November"



6. Give us the opening line(s) from your memoirs!

"the end" - jenna_thorn

"It was a dark and stormy night" - 19
"It was not a dark and stormy night." - kamalloy

"Spotted and purple is no way to start a life, but there I was. My mother had consumed far too much NyQuil during her pregnancy and my father was 15th in a long line of circus clowns." - revhhkitty

"A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away there was born a child. This child would grow up to enjoy large amounts of fanfiction, sleep and ice cream. If this is a typical example of the species, it's no wonder they died out so quickly." - 4492

"The bodies will never be found" - sjl

"Shortly after I was born, the doctor dropped me into a bottomless pit. This is more or less where I am today" - alfvaen

"You can tell so much about a woman by the sex she had" - sskipstress

"♫This is the start of Ray's memoirs,
The opening page of Ray's memoirs,
Hans and Ang called up and said I'd have to do an intro.

I'm nearly halfway finished,
How do you like it so far?
This is the start of captainsblog's memoirs!

This is the start of Ray's memoirs,
The opening page of Ray's memoirs,
It's right beyond the colophon and just before the contents,

And now we hit the part
Where I just hit the send button
And then we'll all read captainsblog's memoirs!♫" - captainsblog

(I'm not too interested in what's beyond the colophon. That's between you and your proctologist. -CV)
(+1 for music notes, though. -AL&LL)

"Call me Ishmail." - tinamachina

"They all laughed at me at the science academy. BUT I SHOWED THEM ALL!" - kenshardik



And in our Memoirs we'll always Remember This Quiz as the one that was Memorable. For those of you who forgot to play this week, well, I guess the Irony Fairy showed you who's boss. For those who remembered even though it was not the fifth of November, or any other month, we salute you.

Tune in tomorrow for more quizly goodness. If we remember.

Rock On!

CV&LL