DW Daily Answers: 13 August 2012

[chaosvizier]

And thus endeth the Olympics. Victory for all, and all for victory! Except for Pod Six, because they're jerks.

1. In which graphic novel do we repeatedly see the declaration, "England Prevails"?

"The Prevailment of England; Or, How England Achieved Prevailure" - alfvaen

"Star Wars: A New Hope" - thalen

(Well, when you consider that all the Imperials had British accents, they certainly prevailed for a while... -CV)

"Children of Men" - jargon

(I think no one prevailed in that movie. -CV)

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it wasn't published by Nazis in the late 1930's or 1940's, whatever it is" - etcet

"Certainly not Olympic Footy 2012" - thepikey
"The fictionalized account of the 2012 Olympics" - n5iln
“London 2012: the official, LOCOG approved graphic novel adaption. (What? Who cares about Scotland and Wales - no-one made a fuss about the absence of NI in 'Team GB', did they?)" - chesneycat

"Captain America. Becuase Peggy totally ruled the movie" - jenna_thorn

"Astonishingly enough, in the classic Batman comic 'The Killing Joke'. Sometimes Alfred gets uppity" - lots42

"" - love2loveher

"I'm a heretic, I know, but I like the movie better. Evie (the character and what she does and all) never made sense in the comic and makes much more sense in the movie, because she's older and actually has a spine" - cjtremlett

Correct Answer: V for Vendetta



2. What cable television channel debuted on New Years Day, 1985?

“Bono-TV: 'All dilettante activism, all the time.'" - fragbert, primavera
“It definitely wasn't MTV, because, as the pretentious twit sang, 'All is quiet on New Year's Day.'" - etcet

“Playboy Channel, cuz boobies." - therealchon

"Remember when the USA channel showed bouncing breasts slasher movies late at night, hosted by Gilbert Gottfried?" - lots42

"The Home Hangover Channel" - drbear, love2loveher, chesneycat

“The other music channel that doesn't do music anymore." - usmu, n5iln, tweeti
"Empty V. Well, it wasn't, then, but it is now" - cjtremlett
"Music television--choo keep choosing dose words. I do not think they mean what choo think they mean" - ifeedformula

"Youtube killed the music video tv station" - thepikey

"VH1: Music First, then Music-Themed Documentaries, Then Shows That Kind Of Use Popular Music, then Horrible Rich Women" - tinamachina

Correct Answer: VH-1



3. Who was the author of the best-selling novel "Flowers in the Attic"?

“Like I paid attention to the author. I was madly flipping pages to find the Twincest!" - fragbert
“I refuse to remember that I read this once. Proof positive that teenage girls have no taste in books, even in pre-Twilight days." - chesneycat

"Algernon" - jargon, etcet, mandydax
"I constantly confuse 'Flowers in the Attic' and 'Flowers for Algernon'. I don't know why. It's not like Michael Crawford starred in a musical version of "Flowers in the Attic". Which, no lie, I would watch" - illogicalvulcan

"Wanda Maximoff. It was based on a true story" - la_trombonista

"Ginny Weasley. The things you can do with magic" - germankitty

(GINNY+RON OMG THEIR LOVE IS SO GINGER. -CV)

“There were times you'd see several copies of it and it's innumerable sequals at any second hand book sale you'd care to attend. Nowadays they seem to have been magically transformed into Jean M. Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear and it's innumeralbe sequals. I almsot miss the sad little buggers." - usmu

“That was the book on growing pot hydroponically right? Cheech & Chong." - wiredwizard

“Y'all know she's still 'ghost'-writing those novels. And I do mean 'ghost', since she's been dead for years." - tweetie, primavera

“Some zombie. Okay, she was alive when the first books came out but she's been dead for ages and the books keep coming. If you've read one, you've read them all. Something terrible happens to kids, incest is involved somehow, kids grow up and terrible things keep happening related to the earlier terrible things and there's some more incest somewhere and there's all kinds of creative child abuse, often involving incest, and did I forget to mention the incest?" - cjtremlett

Correct Answer: V.C.Andrews



4. What tennis star also appeared in the James Bond film "Octopussy" as, coincidentally, a tennis-playing MI6 agent?

"The only sport in a James Bond movie I remember was a hipster henchman playing ultimate frisbee with a bowler hat. Looked awesome though" - usmu

“Federer?" - love2loveher

"Billie Jean King" - thalen, drbear
"Billie Jean King was not Bond's lover. She said he was the one, but the kid was not 007's son" - tinamachina

"Vodka Martini Navratilova--shaken, not stirred" - i_calql8

"Locutus of Bjorg. He kept scoring Deuce of Nine" - etcet

“Alright, one quiz about movies with sports is enough...or was it just that chaosvizier wanted to say, 'Octopussy'?" - tweetie

“There was tennis? I don't remember tennis. I remember lots of women, and skimpy outfits, and loud grunting...oh, wait, that IS tennis, isn't it?" - n5iln

"Man, Vijay Armitraj got hosed in that movie. First, Bond gives him about 5000 rupees in cash, THEN takes it back to save his ass. Then Bond sends Vijay to sit on a dirty shoreline pretending to fish while Bond gets busy -- on an island full of women circus performers! Finally, Vijay ends up on the wrong end of the Yo-Yo Of Doom and is forgotten moments later" - fragbert

Correct Answer: Vijay Amritraj

"Trufax -- I saw him play live on Court No.1 in Wimbledon, July 1973" - germankitty

(Trufax: I was barely forming sentences at the time. -CV)



5. 7 May 1945 and 15 August 1945 are sometimes referred to by what names?

"Kiss someone in public day" - jenna_thorn

(Only if you're a sailor. - CV)

“We kicked your ass and you know it day" - usmu

“VD Day happened when Allied forces broke through the latex and 'hit the beaches' as it were.” – thepikey, with 9 other VD guessers

“Between questions 4 and 5, I bet there are a ton of 'vajayjay' comments. I really hate that euphemism." - cjtremlett
“Not to be confused with Va-jay-jay Day, which is somewhat bloody but really very very personal." - etumukutenyak
“Vajayjay Days (check the birth spike statistics for 1946 if you don't believe me)" - etcet, tinamachina
"Soon to be renamed 'Hoohah Days'. Won't you think of the children?!?" - germankitty

“Day 43 and Day 135 of the baseball season." - drbear

"My viriginity losing days. Yes, twice" - lots42

(Front and back, I wager? -CV)

"The arrivals of Jane Badler and Morena Baccarin. Maybe we should remember them as 'V.B. days', collectively" - n5iln

(You know, it took me a minute to get this one. +1, V. +1, the other V. -CV)

“" - i_calql8

(You know what else beats paper? Tiger Hand. -CV)

Correct Answer: V-E Day and V-J Day



6. Victory is yours! What have you beaten? How? What is your reward?

(Number of quizlings who have beaten eggs: 12. -CV)

"All of your base are belong to me" - thalen

"I came up from nothing and worked my way into a state of extreme poverty" - drbear

“I have beaten the combined demons of work and responsibility, accomplished nothing all day save turning a gallon of coffee into a gallon of piss, and I reward myself with the same thing tomorrow! I'll catch up on Friday, no problem. (Friday appears, and I can only mutter 'Oh, crap. I'm well and truly fucked.')" - fragbert

“I've conquered my crappy part-time course at my crappy school by writing my final paper in about a week, whilst working full time, eating crap on the go and drinking nothing but coffee, getting an average of 5 hours of sleep a night. My reward: turning into a zombie with a bachelor degree." - usmu

“Today I beat the desire to sleep until noon. I'm not sure it was worth it, though." - cjtremlett

“Take a croissant and slice it in half. Through the magic of milk and egg, turn it into French toast. Add some cinnamon and cardamom to jazz it up. Fry that bad boy up and put some ham, turkey and swiss on it. This is one bomb-ass Monte Cristo, unf. Finally, you add BACON. Now you have a Pikey Cristo, a prize worthy of any exemplary deed. You are not allowed to eat this unless you did something AWESOME." - thepikey

“I defeated my enemies, I drove them before me...oh, skip it, you all know the rest." - n5iln, mandydax

”This is probably a new definition of pathetic, but whenever I defeat the computer imps and get my code to run, I quote Josh Lyman: 'Victory is mine! Bring me the finest bagels and muffins in all the land!' I may need better goals." - illogicalvulcan

"I have beaten back the Jabberwock with my vorpal blade and I demand the blood of a thousand viriginal boys in which to wash. Hahahahahaha!" - ifeedformula

(See your nearest College of Engineering to acquire 1000 male virgins. That or the nearest gaming convention. -CV)

"I beat the sheriff but not the deputy" - akiyasan

"The McKetrick supplicants. Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!" - therealchon

(+1, Ghostbusters. -CV)



And there you have it. Our three-quiz-long Olympic/Sports series is done, and we can rest easy knowing that it will be at least two years before this sort of thing happens again. Damn dirty sports, making us feel all soft and flabby except when women's volleyporn is on.

Happy Middle of August to everyone, and happy Ramadan to everyone who's almost done Ramadanning (one more week! You can do it!), and see you all tomorrow for more quizly goodness. Thanks for playing!

Rock On!

CV&LL