DW Daily Quiz: 29 August 2011

[chaosvizier]

"I have had it with these motherf***ing snakes on this motherf***ing quiz!" - blumsha
"Legless reptilian vertebrates...why did it have to be legless reptilian vertebrates?" - i_calql8

1. The AIM-9 missile is more commonly known as what?

(Number of AOL Instant Messenger jokes: way more than I expected. -CV)

"The AOL 9.0 CD. It's INSIDE YOUR MAILBOX. (this would have been really funny a decade ago)" - cholma

"Is it just me, or does the number 9 resemble a sperm cell?" - ifeedformula

(...yes. -CV)

"Solid Snake" - mistyraven

"Illudium PU-36 Space Modulator" - kagomeshuko

"'Bigger, better, faster' than the AIM-8." - majorsamfan

"The Plan 9 from Outer Space version of missiles" - akiyasan

"I'd say it's the best thing to get rid of Doc Oc. One for each arm and another for his head. Anyone for pickled octopus?" - demon_666

(Mmmm, delicious octopus. -CV)

"I like that it has the word AIM in its name. That's a good reminder for anyone about to fire a missle!" - mattwolf

"FOX TWO!" - n5iln

(+1, Independence Day. -CV)

"The 'Sidewinder' missile. I know this because I owned the G.I.Joe Sky Hawk Vertical Take-Off and Landing Vehicle toy, and that's what it used. Shoooooooom! BAKOW!!!" - mandydax

Correct Answer: Sidewinder



2. What is the American Indian-derived word for a slipper or shoe made of soft animal skins?

"dude, it's Native American now. Or first people. Or any number of other things. Indians are from the country of India!" - offbalance

(Political Correctness: We has none. -CV)

"IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!" - ifeedformula

"JESUS CHRIST IT'S A COTTONMOUTH GET IN THE CANOE" - etcet

"Paws" - revhhkitty

"Mochachino" - yamx

"d(moccasion)/dx" - seekingferret

(Hur hur, "derived". You have derived a Geek of the Week Award, complete with -1. -CV)

"Sasquatch. You call 'em Bigfoot." - kenshardik

"Shoes Hipsters Need To Never Wear. Ever." - lovefromgirl

"Is it Muk Luks or Uggs or just Birkenstock?" - tweeti

"moves quiet in the night shoe so mate not hear sneaking back into tipi after 'visting' the chief's pretty young daughter" - ironjeff

"I'm just getting a horrible image of someone hollowing out actual rabbits and wearing them as bunny slippers." - mandydax and, unsurprisingly, four others

"Skin-walkers. That's right; those moccasins on your feet are actually Navajo Shapeshifters" - cholma

"Roadkill Runners. Production really went up after the white guys arrived and invented the automobile" - barbarienne

"Great Spirit, grant that before I judge my neighbor, I walk a mile in his moccasins. That way, if I still judge him and he doesn't like it, he's a mile away and barefoot." - n5iln

"When I was really little, I had a friend who called moccasins 'Mock Sins' -- her family was Catholic, but she decided at age four that she was agnostic. It was adorable." - brightrosefox

Correct Answer: Moccasin

"if one is lined in plant fibre, does it become a cottonmouth?" - jenna_thorn
"Does that make flippers 'water moccasins'?" - wrestlingdog, tsukiai



3. What programming language was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980's?

(Automatic -1 for all Jersey Shore references. -CV)

"Would you like to play a game?" - akiyasan

(+1, Wargames. -CV)

"the one language all programmers know best - Profanity" - ironjeff

"DOSamattau" - freezer818

"YO MAMMA COBOL" - lots42

"Esperanto" - wrestlingdog

"Parseltongue" - kagomeshuko, mistyraven

"Cuniform" - wiredwizard

"A programmer named Guido? Really? 'Boss, Guido's here. He says he has a programming language we, uh, can't refuse. He's threatening to break our packets if we do.'" - barbarienne

(It's a message. TurboBASIC sleeps with the phishes. -CV)

"" - photosinensis

"Did you know that one of the biggest differences between a boa and a python is that although both have the remnants of hind legs and pelvic bones, pythons lay eggs. And use indentation for block delimiters. Those dudes are kick ass." - searchingstars

Correct Answer: PYTHON

"That language is no more. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker" - alfvaen

(+1, Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. -CV)



4. Major Bludd, Zartan, and the twins Tomax and Xamot all worked for which organization?

"Major Bludd? Was he a vampire? I vant to drink yur bludd..ah ah ah! *bite*" - ifeedformula

"Is Major Bludd a chick? OH DAMN I WENT THERE. *ducks*" - frequencyshift

"I take at least three of those on a daily basis to stay sane" - drbear

"Blackwater" - freezer818

"Fox News" - n5iln

"FEMA" - wiredwizard

"KAOS" - kagomeshuko

"The Republican Party (Tell me Palin isn't the Baroness, just try it)" - seferin

(...ok, fair enough. Full credit. -CV)

"It was a pun. No, no, not a pun - what's the thing that spells the same backwards as forwards?" - angelprojekt

(It doesn't work! The palindrome of Bolton would be Notlob! -CV)

"Those are the karate students of the Cobra Kai dojo. Their sensei likes to wear a blue hood over his head" - cholma

"I always liked the Transformers better than GI Joe. I mean, c;mon. Decepticon sounds WAY cooler than COBRA." - jillybiehn

"My favorite Cobra fact is that Dr. Mindbender used to be an orthodontist" - squeegibo

(It makes perfect sense, really. -CV)

"When I was a little girl, I would steal my brother's G.I. Joes and place them around my Barbie mansion, tactical SWAT style, and re-enact "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman". Except at the end, she not only crushes Harry but she totally lives." - revhhkitty

"COBRA! And yes, for a brief moment, I thought Serpentor and the Corba-La crap was cool. I was a kid! Don't judge me!" - kenshardik

(I can't judge you; I thought the same thing back then. Curse my childish eyes! -CV)

"What are we going to be doing tomorrow night Cobra commander? The same thing we always do Zartan, and twice on wednesdays: Try and take over the world." - usmu

Correct Answer: COBRA



5. Elle Driver, O-Ren Ishii, and Vernita Green were all members of what group?

"Pod Six" - etcet

"Power Rangers" - freezer818

"Charlie's Angels" - n5iln

"The noble gases" - alfvaen

"The Mormon Tabernacle Choir" - drbear

"Prince and the Revolution" - jillybiehn

"Our Parents Hated Us (And Our Birth Certificates Show It)" - lovefromgirl

"Fox Force Five" - kenshardik

"Seal Team 6" - wrestlingdog

"Top Gear. But who played the Stig?" - akiyasan

(David Carradine. -CV)

"The ASPca" - seekingferret

(I see what you did there. -CV)

"People that were killed before Bill" - photosinensis

(Ms. Driver was an unconfirmed kill. Blinded, yes. Killed, unknown. -CV)

"I never did see that movie...Was there really a Bill there to kill?" - tweeti

(Indeed there was. -CV)

"Elle...is for the way she used to see
O...-Ren, scalpless as a girl can be
V...Vernita tried to plug that poor, defenseless bride, and
E...-ven Budd had found he couldn't keep her underground

Yes, love...was just not in the cards for Bill
Found...out where Bea was and made the kill
Shot her head but must've missed her, died by way of titty twister
Bill...can't have her, never will." - i_calql8

Correct Answer: The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad



6. Pick your poison! What do you love that's really bad for you?

"The only thing that I can think of is denial, but that's not really bad for you, is it?" - alfvaen

"Fried food. And try as I might, I can't come up with a way to make that snake-related" - jenna_thorn

(Have you ever had fried snake? -CV)
(...ok, that sounded naughtier than I intended. My bad. -CV)

"Tequila. And that's all I have to say about that." - jillybiehn

"Bacon" - la_trombonista, i_calql8

(I'm right there with you. -CV)

"Dancing with the Devil in the pale moonlight" - mandydax

(+1, Batman. -CV)

"I really like coffee but it keeps me up all night. Unless I drink enough beer. But that makes me sleepy the next day. The cycle is difficult to break." - squeegibo

"Chocolate-covered espresso beans. The breakfast of programmers everywhere" - n5iln

"Eating buffet table pudding. That is some seriously questionable content!" - mattwolf

"Fast food. It's just so fast! And it's food, which is also good. But mainly it's that I'm effin' lazy." - frequencyshift

"I don't talk about this a lot, but since we're all friends here... I love me some sparklepires. If the books are freebase cocaine acquired in a corporate workplace restroom, the movies are nasty-ass street crack scored in the flooded alley that runs between Slick Johnson's Pool Hall and the old Chuck-E-Cheese. And I will pay money for both." - angelprojekt

"Exhibitionism...I love to be naked...(in my own home, of course)....but that didn't stop a lady from walking in to our apartment once whilst I was sitting there in the buff...She just said, 'Oh, excuse me, wrong apartment,' and walked out...drbear and I laughed our heinies off." - tweeti

"Sugar mice. Seriously. I just came back from the UK and I was obsessed. I bought about 9 of them all up. They. Are. Awesome." - searchingstars

"Tv Tropes. It has completely ruined my life, but boy, do I love it." - wrestlingdog

"Hostess Apple Pies. Unfortunately there is a Hostess bakery depot a few minutes from my house. They're lucky they close on Mondays." - brightrosefox

(We can plan an assault together. Their pies will be ours! -CV)

"*pops another Kettle Cooked BBQ potato chip in mouth*" - majorsamfan

"Procrastination. I can't get enough of it! I finish so many random unimportant tasks instead of the one I'm supposed to do. But then I stress out about what I haven't done not being done, so it's not that great in the long run." - demon_666

"the Internet" - yamx. And, probably, everyone who answered this quiz. And the mods too. Curses.
"The Internet and Alcohol will always be tied for first place." - offbalance. And the mods lose another point. Double curses.



And there you have it. More snakes, because hey, snakes. Not on a plane. Or a plain. Imma let you finish, but Nagaina was the best snake of all time. Whitesnake, 'nuff said. Jake the Snake. Snake Plissken. Solid/Liquid/Metal Snake. You know the drill.

Thanks all for playing, and hope you enjoyed, and of course we hope to see you again for tomorrow's quizly goodness. Remember, spread the word! Share the love! Love the word! Share the spread! And so on and so forth.

Rock On!

CV