DW Daily Answers: 23 July 2012
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1. What is the term for the point within the Earth where an earthquake rupture starts?
"The really flat part" -
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freezer818(It will be, shortly. -CV)
"Otisburg" -
i_calql8(+1, Superman. -CV)
"Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever." -
therealchon(Whoah whoa whoaaaaah there, who let someone bring classical literature to this party? -CV)
"The point where someone realizes that it really was too much weight to lift alone" -
n5iln"Godzilla's footprint" -
cmzero"My bathroom after I eat fiber bars" -
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After covering the other four directions, the obvious conclusion is this, the ceterpiece, the middle of all things.
<b>1. What is the term for the point within the Earth where an earthquake rupture starts?</b>
"The really flat part" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
(It will be, shortly. -CV)
"Otisburg" - <user name=i_calql8 site=livejournal.com>
(+1, Superman. -CV)
"Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever." - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>
(Whoah whoa whoaaaaah there, who let someone bring classical literature to this party? -CV)
"The point where someone realizes that it really was too much weight to lift alone" - <user name=n5iln site=livejournal.com>
"Godzilla's footprint" - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>
"My bathroom after I eat fiber bars" - <user name=lots42 site=livejournal.com>
(This looks like a job for <a href="http://www.pleasegodno.com/archives/20-1-cup-Kashi-GoLEAN-Crunch-+-12-cup-milk-Endless-stomach-churning-gas..html”>Kashi Go Lean Crunch Cereal!</a> -CV)
"My neighborhood. Seriously, I live 1200 FEET from the San Andreas..." - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
(If the house is a rockin', better get a runnin'. -CV)
"The ZOMGWEREDEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!11!!!1! Zone" - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
"Ground zero" - <user name=darthparadox site=livejournal.com>
"FOCUS" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
(Both technically correct. -CV)
<b>Correct Answer: Hypocenter</b>
"not to be confused with the hipposcenter, which is where horses buy perfume" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"Well, if it were a hyper-center, all it would need is some ritalin" - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>
<b>2. Brendan Fraser starred in a film version of which Jules Verne novel?</b>
"Pffft, Brendan Fraser....I want to see the one with Dwayne Johnson...He even looked sexy in a pink tutu...But then I may just have a thing for men in pink tutus....I wonder if <user name=drbear site=livejournal.com> would wear a pink tutu for me so I could test the theory" - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>
(+1 for every pic of a pink tutued <user name=drbear site=livejournal.com> you post. -CV)
"Jules Verne wrote Encino Man?" - <user name=stgreyhounds site=livejournal.com>
"Jules Verne wrote 'The Mummy'?" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
"I can explain everything" - <user name=n5iln site=livejournal.com>
(Explain it to Jules Verne. He's a very sad corpse right now. -CV)
"Journey to the Center of Your Mom" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>, <user name=angelchicken site=livejournal.com>
"Journey to Find A Better Agent" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
<b>Correct Answer: "Journey to the Center of the Earth"</b>
"Also, where were the sea monster dinosaurs featured in the book? RIPPED OFF! More dinosaurs, less Brendan Fraser idiocy!" - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
(They had a T-Rex. I think that blew up their CGI dinosaur budget. -CV)
<b>3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
<i>Does she walk? Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel
Always pulled me from my seat</i></b>
"Lyrics Questions Are Mooey Mooey Bombad Questions by the Gungan Choir of LJDQ Players" - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(-1, Gunganspeak. Even if you're totally correct. -CV)
"i need more wine for this" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
"Why exactly did he feel the need to repeat 'homeroom' like that? Surely he could've come up with another two-syllable adjective or descriptive phrase that would have served without being redundant. Must be just laziness" - <user name=alfvaen site=livejournal.com>
(Too much reverb. -CV)
"'(My Angel is a) Cylon' - Helo and Vipers" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"if she's a centerfold, she might not have been quite the angel you thought she was" - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
(Fallen angels are still angels. -CV)
"It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that that was a song about rubbing one out to a Playboy" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
"Na na nana na na
Na nana nanana na na" - 8 of you
<b>Correct Answer: J. Geils Band, "Centerfold"</b>
"Not to be confused with 'Centerfield' by John Foggerty, because no one wants to think of John in women's lingerie. Shudder...." - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>
<b>4. The Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities eventually evolved to become which U.S. Federal Agency?</b>
"The NSA. Yeah, no one quite knows how that happened" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"ONDMCA was eventually abbreviated to DMCA. How they got put in charge of internet copyright is beyond me; maybe someone got confused about the meaning of 'virus'." - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>
"Those guys in white suits who came and took E.T. away. I weed my pants because of them when I first saw the movie when I was little." - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
"S.H.I.E.L.D." - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(The Society for Humanitarian Insect Elimination, Liquidation, and Decimation was popular, up until they "fired" Ant Man and the Wasp. -CV)
"CSI: Atlanta" - <user name=germankitty site=livejournal.com>
("Looks like the victim was torn in half by something with four serrated edges and a lot of crushing power." - "Goddammit, this is the sixteenth alligator attack this season!" -CV)
"G.I.Joe" - <user name=lots42 site=livejournal.com>
(What no one knew was that, all those times it looked like they were missing COBRA troops with their laser rifles, they were actually picking off mosquitoes in mid-air with uncanny accuracy. -CV)
"FAZA -- Federal Agency for Zombie Apocalypse" - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>, <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>, <user name=ntlespino site=livejournal.com>
"the center for drunk centers" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(I think only you and I qualify for employment there. -CV)
"I bet y'all forgot 'and Prevention'....Everybody forgets 'and Prevention' .... That's important, ya know..." - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>, <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
<b>Correct Answer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</b>
<b>5. What alliance stood against the Entente Powers around the dawn of the 20th century?</b>
"It was of Elves and Men" - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>, <user name=akiyasan site=livejournal.com>
"The Out Of Tente Powers" - <user name=sskipstress site=livejournal.com>
(Moral of the story: You should always have a tent. And stay in it. -CV)
"That was the humans, the dwarves, the gnomes, and the night elves, right?" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
(WWI reimagined with Warcraft powers sounds... like my next NaNo! -CV)
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>, <user name=alfvaen site=livejournal.com>
"Justice League of America" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
"The Rebel alliance" - <user name=primavera site=livejournal.com>, <user name=darthparadox site=livejournal.com>, <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
(Commander, tear this continent apart until you found those Entente Powers, and bring them to me. I want them alive! -CV)
"The A-Team" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
"S.H.I.E.L.D." - <user name=angelchicken site=livejournal.com>, <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(Soldiers Headquartered in Inner Europe Liberating the Desparate was a noble cause that regrettably failed because they were all, in fact, French. -CV)
"THE CPAC!!! central powers of....allied... canada. WE HAVE BEAVERS, FEAR US" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(+1, beavers. -CV)
"The Arrangement Powers, whose motto was 'At least we don't feel the need to use big French words to sound important, yo.'" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"Die Anfangsgans Allianz" - <user name=germankitty site=livejournal.com>
(Cheeky Germans. -CV)
<b>Correct Answer: The Central Powers</b>
<b>6. Midlife Crisis! What are/were/will be your plans? </b>
"I'm still working on the quarterlife crisis, thanks" - <user name=stgreyhounds site=livejournal.com>
"i'm pretty sure that this is it actually, livejournal and wine" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(...wait a minute, I use livejournal, and I drink wine! Guess I'm halfway done then. -CV)
"Sorry, the terms of my probation prohibit any discussion of that topic." - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
"Mime-slapping. Then chicks" - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>
"Live long enough to get a replacement body. I'm personally hoping for an awesome cyborg body, but I won't complain about something vat-grown" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"Alpaca farming in South America. I was going to run off and join the circus, but I'm afraid of heights and allergic to most animals" - <user name=silk_knickers site=livejournal.com>
(Hopefully not alpacas. That would put a crimp in your plans. -CV)
"I'm not sure I'll be able to tell the difference between a midlife crisis and being bored enough to do semi-drastic things like cutting off my hair, moving across the country, and having plastic surgery" - <user name=sskipstress site=livejournal.com>
(Sure you will. Midlife crisis means you're older when you do those things. -CV)
"Actually making this a MID life crisis, and not a you'll-be-dead-in-ten-years crisis. My family has a tendency to suffer from retirony, I'd rather avoid that" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"My kid will be in his twenties by then and hopefully moved out of the house. If not, I will embarrass him by dressing up like Princess Leia (when she was Jabba's slave) whenever he has friends over" - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
"Invite friends, rent limo, get drunk, repeat" - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>
(Note to self: become <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>'s friend soon. -CV)
"So. Much. Fucking" - <user name=primavera site=livejournal.com>
And there you have it. Finally. Five-part quiz that should have been finished in late June. Sorry about that. Technical delays, vacation, work, Sting, earthquake, flood, bacon, Tom Cruise, pudding, stampede, boobs, gin, take your pick, I'm sure they all contributed somehow. Let's see if I can get myself back on track. Hopefully you're all still out there as well; more players are good players! Everyone should play! Except those jerks in Pod Six.
Rock On!
CV&LL
After covering the other four directions, the obvious conclusion is this, the ceterpiece, the middle of all things.
<b>1. What is the term for the point within the Earth where an earthquake rupture starts?</b>
"The really flat part" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
(It will be, shortly. -CV)
"Otisburg" - <user name=i_calql8 site=livejournal.com>
(+1, Superman. -CV)
"Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever." - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>
(Whoah whoa whoaaaaah there, who let someone bring classical literature to this party? -CV)
"The point where someone realizes that it really was too much weight to lift alone" - <user name=n5iln site=livejournal.com>
"Godzilla's footprint" - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>
"My bathroom after I eat fiber bars" - <user name=lots42 site=livejournal.com>
(This looks like a job for <a href="http://www.pleasegodno.com/archives/20-1-cup-Kashi-GoLEAN-Crunch-+-12-cup-milk-Endless-stomach-churning-gas..html”>Kashi Go Lean Crunch Cereal!</a> -CV)
"My neighborhood. Seriously, I live 1200 FEET from the San Andreas..." - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
(If the house is a rockin', better get a runnin'. -CV)
"The ZOMGWEREDEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!11!!!1! Zone" - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
"Ground zero" - <user name=darthparadox site=livejournal.com>
"FOCUS" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
(Both technically correct. -CV)
<b>Correct Answer: Hypocenter</b>
"not to be confused with the hipposcenter, which is where horses buy perfume" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"Well, if it were a hyper-center, all it would need is some ritalin" - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>
<b>2. Brendan Fraser starred in a film version of which Jules Verne novel?</b>
"Pffft, Brendan Fraser....I want to see the one with Dwayne Johnson...He even looked sexy in a pink tutu...But then I may just have a thing for men in pink tutus....I wonder if <user name=drbear site=livejournal.com> would wear a pink tutu for me so I could test the theory" - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>
(+1 for every pic of a pink tutued <user name=drbear site=livejournal.com> you post. -CV)
"Jules Verne wrote Encino Man?" - <user name=stgreyhounds site=livejournal.com>
"Jules Verne wrote 'The Mummy'?" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
"I can explain everything" - <user name=n5iln site=livejournal.com>
(Explain it to Jules Verne. He's a very sad corpse right now. -CV)
"Journey to the Center of Your Mom" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>, <user name=angelchicken site=livejournal.com>
"Journey to Find A Better Agent" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
<b>Correct Answer: "Journey to the Center of the Earth"</b>
"Also, where were the sea monster dinosaurs featured in the book? RIPPED OFF! More dinosaurs, less Brendan Fraser idiocy!" - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
(They had a T-Rex. I think that blew up their CGI dinosaur budget. -CV)
<b>3. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
<i>Does she walk? Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel
Always pulled me from my seat</i></b>
"Lyrics Questions Are Mooey Mooey Bombad Questions by the Gungan Choir of LJDQ Players" - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(-1, Gunganspeak. Even if you're totally correct. -CV)
"i need more wine for this" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
"Why exactly did he feel the need to repeat 'homeroom' like that? Surely he could've come up with another two-syllable adjective or descriptive phrase that would have served without being redundant. Must be just laziness" - <user name=alfvaen site=livejournal.com>
(Too much reverb. -CV)
"'(My Angel is a) Cylon' - Helo and Vipers" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"if she's a centerfold, she might not have been quite the angel you thought she was" - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
(Fallen angels are still angels. -CV)
"It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that that was a song about rubbing one out to a Playboy" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
"Na na nana na na
Na nana nanana na na" - 8 of you
<b>Correct Answer: J. Geils Band, "Centerfold"</b>
"Not to be confused with 'Centerfield' by John Foggerty, because no one wants to think of John in women's lingerie. Shudder...." - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>
<b>4. The Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities eventually evolved to become which U.S. Federal Agency?</b>
"The NSA. Yeah, no one quite knows how that happened" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"ONDMCA was eventually abbreviated to DMCA. How they got put in charge of internet copyright is beyond me; maybe someone got confused about the meaning of 'virus'." - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>
"Those guys in white suits who came and took E.T. away. I weed my pants because of them when I first saw the movie when I was little." - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
"S.H.I.E.L.D." - <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(The Society for Humanitarian Insect Elimination, Liquidation, and Decimation was popular, up until they "fired" Ant Man and the Wasp. -CV)
"CSI: Atlanta" - <user name=germankitty site=livejournal.com>
("Looks like the victim was torn in half by something with four serrated edges and a lot of crushing power." - "Goddammit, this is the sixteenth alligator attack this season!" -CV)
"G.I.Joe" - <user name=lots42 site=livejournal.com>
(What no one knew was that, all those times it looked like they were missing COBRA troops with their laser rifles, they were actually picking off mosquitoes in mid-air with uncanny accuracy. -CV)
"FAZA -- Federal Agency for Zombie Apocalypse" - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>, <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>, <user name=ntlespino site=livejournal.com>
"the center for drunk centers" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(I think only you and I qualify for employment there. -CV)
"I bet y'all forgot 'and Prevention'....Everybody forgets 'and Prevention' .... That's important, ya know..." - <user name=tweeti site=livejournal.com>, <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
<b>Correct Answer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</b>
<b>5. What alliance stood against the Entente Powers around the dawn of the 20th century?</b>
"It was of Elves and Men" - <user name=cmzero site=livejournal.com>, <user name=akiyasan site=livejournal.com>
"The Out Of Tente Powers" - <user name=sskipstress site=livejournal.com>
(Moral of the story: You should always have a tent. And stay in it. -CV)
"That was the humans, the dwarves, the gnomes, and the night elves, right?" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
(WWI reimagined with Warcraft powers sounds... like my next NaNo! -CV)
"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>, <user name=alfvaen site=livejournal.com>
"Justice League of America" - <user name=zihuatanejo site=livejournal.com>
"The Rebel alliance" - <user name=primavera site=livejournal.com>, <user name=darthparadox site=livejournal.com>, <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
(Commander, tear this continent apart until you found those Entente Powers, and bring them to me. I want them alive! -CV)
"The A-Team" - <user name=freezer818 site=livejournal.com>
"S.H.I.E.L.D." - <user name=angelchicken site=livejournal.com>, <user name=wiredwizard site=livejournal.com>
(Soldiers Headquartered in Inner Europe Liberating the Desparate was a noble cause that regrettably failed because they were all, in fact, French. -CV)
"THE CPAC!!! central powers of....allied... canada. WE HAVE BEAVERS, FEAR US" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(+1, beavers. -CV)
"The Arrangement Powers, whose motto was 'At least we don't feel the need to use big French words to sound important, yo.'" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"Die Anfangsgans Allianz" - <user name=germankitty site=livejournal.com>
(Cheeky Germans. -CV)
<b>Correct Answer: The Central Powers</b>
<b>6. Midlife Crisis! What are/were/will be your plans? </b>
"I'm still working on the quarterlife crisis, thanks" - <user name=stgreyhounds site=livejournal.com>
"i'm pretty sure that this is it actually, livejournal and wine" - <user name=kira_snugz site=livejournal.com>
(...wait a minute, I use livejournal, and I drink wine! Guess I'm halfway done then. -CV)
"Sorry, the terms of my probation prohibit any discussion of that topic." - <USER NAME=IRONJEFF>
"Mime-slapping. Then chicks" - <user name=therealchon site=livejournal.com>
"Live long enough to get a replacement body. I'm personally hoping for an awesome cyborg body, but I won't complain about something vat-grown" - <user name=mandydax site=livejournal.com>
"Alpaca farming in South America. I was going to run off and join the circus, but I'm afraid of heights and allergic to most animals" - <user name=silk_knickers site=livejournal.com>
(Hopefully not alpacas. That would put a crimp in your plans. -CV)
"I'm not sure I'll be able to tell the difference between a midlife crisis and being bored enough to do semi-drastic things like cutting off my hair, moving across the country, and having plastic surgery" - <user name=sskipstress site=livejournal.com>
(Sure you will. Midlife crisis means you're older when you do those things. -CV)
"Actually making this a MID life crisis, and not a you'll-be-dead-in-ten-years crisis. My family has a tendency to suffer from retirony, I'd rather avoid that" - <user name=rapunzelita site=livejournal.com>
"My kid will be in his twenties by then and hopefully moved out of the house. If not, I will embarrass him by dressing up like Princess Leia (when she was Jabba's slave) whenever he has friends over" - <user name=demon_666 site=livejournal.com>
"Invite friends, rent limo, get drunk, repeat" - <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>
(Note to self: become <user name=tinamachina site=livejournal.com>'s friend soon. -CV)
"So. Much. Fucking" - <user name=primavera site=livejournal.com>
And there you have it. Finally. Five-part quiz that should have been finished in late June. Sorry about that. Technical delays, vacation, work, Sting, earthquake, flood, bacon, Tom Cruise, pudding, stampede, boobs, gin, take your pick, I'm sure they all contributed somehow. Let's see if I can get myself back on track. Hopefully you're all still out there as well; more players are good players! Everyone should play! Except those jerks in Pod Six.
Rock On!
CV&LL
