DW Daily Answers: 20 July 2012

[chaosvizier]

"So...if the next two quizzes have 'A' and 'B' as themes, do we get more lives?" - i_calql8, cmzero

Only if the Quiz gets bought out by Nintendo.



1. Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, and Dennis Quaid all played pilots in which early 80's film?

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit vodka" - n5iln

(I say that every week. -CV)

"Spaceballs" - 5 of you
"Top Gun" - 13 of you
"Top Gun II: Even More Homoeroticism" - freezer818

"there is an old song..." - songquake, theninth, tweeti, tinamachina

(I think you all deserve a -1. -CV)

"The Magnificent Seven. (Seriously, I thought this was about astronauts for a long time.)" - mandydax

(Yul Brynner in space? I would watch that. -CV)

"Top Gun is the only film about pilots anyone remembers from any decade, and now people are trying to forget that one too, because of cuckoo Cruise" - demon_666

"You can fight like a krogan, run like a leopard, but you'll never be better than Commander Shepard!" - alexmegami

(+1, Mass Effect. -CV)

"I'm picturing Sam Shepard saying 'You can be my wingman anytime.' Cannot unsee!" - thepikey

"'The Right Stuff', which taught me that you can steal and wreck a multi-million dollar experimental jet if you're awesome enough" - cmzero

Correct Answer: "The Right Stuff"



2. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
You wake up late for school man you don't wanna go
You ask you mom, "Please?" but she still says, "No!"
You missed two classes and no homework
But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk

"We can't even think of a word that rhymes" - n5iln

(That's that other song by that other guy. -CV)

"Another Brick In The Wall - Hogwarts Choir" - wiredwizard

"'We don't need no edumacation' by Every School Kid In The World" - germankitty

"'I'm the Reason my Teacher Committed Suicide' by The Slackers" - rapunzelita
"'The Day PS 17 Burned Down' by The Troubled Loners" - alfvaen

"i have successfully convinced my daughter that this song is the best party song ever. so in 7 years, when she lies about her plans for the weekend, at least i'll know shes listening to good music and not that justin beiber crap" - kira_snugz

"Thanks to that damn songs, a thousand moms realized their kids had porno mags TO be thrown away" - lots42, mandydax

"The trouble with winning the fight for the right (to party) is that one must clean up the next day, and parties in parentheses are really messy" - sskipstress

(That's why I have my parties in angle brackets. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Beastie Boys, "Fight for your Right"

"I'd way rather have this song as an earworm than the one I've got from the first question" - tweeti



3. Who was the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of State of the United States?

"Condi Candy Condelicious C. Rice" - ironjeff

"Baberaham Lincoln" - silk_knickers

"Xena" - wiredwizard

"Laura Roslin" - cmzero

(+1, Battlestar Galactica. -CV)

"Ruth Westheimer. If your state was on its back" - therealchon

"Raquel Welch, 1 Million Years BC" - thepikey

"I lived near Albright College as a kind and one winter the water in the fountain froze, and my brother wanted to know how thick the ice was, so I tested it and my foot slipped and my boot was full of cold icky fountain water" - sskipstress

(Regrettably, you cannot blame Madeleine for that. -CV)

"I remain convinced Madeline Albright and Margaret Thatcher were the same person" - freezer818

(She's like a political Highlander. She was probably also Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and Guinevere. -CV)

"Pff. When hasn't a woman been a secretary!?" - theninth

"That was before they changed the name of the office to 'Administrative Assistant of State'." - alfvaen

Correct Answer: Madeleine Albright



4. More fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
I'm a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I do my little turn on the catwalk

"Ru Paul. You Gotta Work!" - thepikey

"The Ballad of Zoolander by Derek Zoolander" - wiredwizard

(He is a great eugoogolizer. -CV)

"'Magical Me: The Musical' by Gilderoy Lockhart" - cmzero

(It was great until he forgot the words. -CV)

"The guys who did 'I'm Too Sexy' need to get together with LMFAO in their 'Sexy And I Know It' speedos and have a wiggle-off" - dragonalchemist

"at summer camp when i was 10 or 11, we had to strut and dance to this song. i was sooo creeped out" - kira_snugz

"I curse your name for putting that song back in my head" - freezer818

Correct Answer: Right Said Fred, "I'm Too Sexy"



5. What government program, created in 1946, "aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship"?

"Aw, that's cute how they thought that might work" - stgreyhounds
"and no one pointed and laughed when they proposed this? The '40s were clearly a much kinder time" - alexmegami

"Ask Primrose Everdeen about the difference between chance and outcome" - sskipstress

"CHIPPENDALES!" - kira_snugz

(...I just don't know where to go with this. Full credit. -CV)

"I said, Don't I know you from the cinematographer's party? She said, Who am I to blow against the wind?" - songquake

(Paul Simon is not the new Sting. -CV)

"The internet" - lots42

(And up until 4chan, things were going pretty well. -CV)

"The Superhuman Registration Act" - wiredwizard

(I don't think Iron Man understood the whole "peace and friendship" thing. -CV)

"The CIA. Even their mission statement is a cover" - cmzero

"Whatever it was, it certainly didn't encompass 'Abstinence Only', Creationism and 'No Child Left Behind', as neither fits the parameters of bringing knowledge and reason!" - germankitty

"Obviously one slated for cancellation by the GOP! More knowledge, reason, and compassion?! UNAMERICAN!" - ironjeff

"Mitt Romney will repeal it and replace it with the Shove Them All In the Locker After Third Period Act" - tinamachina

"The Fulbright Program...And it worked so well, didn't it???" - tweeti

Correct Answer: The Fulbright Program



6. What's the last thing that's gone right in your life?

"Waking up this morning" - 9 of you

"I'll let you know tomorrow if the lottery numbers come up right or not" - alfvaen

(Today's food and drinks are on alfvaen. -CV)

"getting drunk and watching 21 jump street. too drunk to walk, but laughing so hard i can't stand up? THATS A WIN!" - kira_snugz

"The Supreme Court preserved the health care program without expanding the Commerce Clause, woo! (What? I'm a lawyer. I geek out about these things!)" - cmzero

"I found a guy willing to wait two years for me to come back home!" - raphsody606

(Excellent! Now you just need a few guys to fill in the space inbetween. -CV)

"There was a super sock sale today, and now I have ALL THE SOCKS. Seriously, I'm not going to need to buy another pair until 2017. And I paid $20 for them" - rapunzelita

(fizrep, I found you a new wife. -CV)

"I just had a really nice sandwich" - stgreyhounds

(Mmmm sammich. -CV)

"Paid off the car. BEER MONEY!" - therealchon


And there you have it. Of course the left quiz is followed by the right. Did you really expect anything different? I think not. Last quiz posted on Monday, and then, wheeeee! Or something.

Rock on!

CV&LL