DW Daily Answers: 17 September 2012

[chaosvizier]

1. Steven Burns was the original host for which children's television show?

"Smithers' Excellent Adventure" - etcet

"No, sir, they're saying 'boo-urns'" - i_calql8

"Poppyseed Street. It was a failure until they added Muppets and changed the name" - drbear

"Blue's Klewes - where an animated dog and an NFL punter kick the crap out of 'family values' politicians" - ironjeff

"Friendless Schizophrenic who wears the same clothes everyday, and talks to his dog and kitchen condiments." - thalen

"I ashamedly admit that I will sing 'Here's the mail/It never fails/It makes me wanna wag my tail/When it comes/I wanna wail/MAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIL!' whenever I hear the mail truck. Yeah" - princessstarr

"Hey, kids, it's time for another episode of Booze Clues! We've got a big mystery this week - can you help Daddy find where Mommy hid the gin?" - darthparadox

"I preferred the one hosted by Steve Rogers" - zihuatanejo

(...where Bluecky dies tragically at the end of each episode? -CV)

Correct Answer: Blue's Clues



2. Samuel L. Jackson's character dies of animal-related complications in two movies. Jurassic Park is one; what is the other?

"Snakes on a Plane" - 15 of you, all wrong

"The Muppet Movie when Animal stabbed Jackson with a drumstick" - akiyasan

"Animal-related complications? Sounds like Richard Gere to me" - sskipstress

"'Animal-related complications' are when your cat sheds on your shoulder and your wife thinks it's another woman" - drbear

"He did not die in Jurassic Park, the raptor tore his arm off, and then Samuel L. Jackson BEAT THE RAPTOR TO DEATH. /headcanon" - princessstarr

"I only remember the part where Wayne Knight gets eaten by a T-Rex while sitting in the porta-potty" - tinamachina

(Regrettably, your memory is worse than you think: Wayne got killed in the jeep by the spitting Dilophosaurus. -CV)

"I have had it with these motherfucking genetically-modified sharks on this motherfucking aquatic research station. I specifically requested "motherfucking sharks with motherfucking laser beams on their motherfucking heads." Check the motherfucking requisition form, motherfucker" - etcet

(And the djdysfunction Profanity Award this week goes to... motherfucking etcet! -CV)

"the scene where SLJ gets eaten in the middle of his stirring speech is THE ONLY NON-SUCKTASTIC SCENE IN THAT WHOLE DAMNED MOVIE" - ironjeff
"'Men, we will overcome this, and we will kill those motherfucking sharks in this motherfucking deep sea research facility'....*Chomp*" - b_hulsmans
"I can't even joke because it is probably the greatest death in the history of cinema. Holy crap, his death brings me so much joy" - angelchicken

"I think gettin' eaten by giant fuckin' sharks is a bit more than a fuckin' complication!" - mandydax

Correct Answer: Deep Blue Sea



3. What species of creature is known to pine for the fjords and tends to stun easily?

(No credit for anyone who quoted the relevant sketch; that's too easy.)

"A creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full 50 men lie strewn about its lair" - therealchon

"Spam, in its wild form" - jenna_thorn

"Number three, the larch. The larch" - thepikey

"Slartibartfast" - islandofwords, darthparadox

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"The Swedish Chef...If Beaker knew he was easily stunnable, then, man, Beaker would RULE!" - tweeti

"Tim Robbins as Erik the Viking" - mandydax

"The double-breasted John Cleese" - freezer

"Lisbeth Salander. I don't know if she pines for the fjords, but she does stun easily" - david_deacon

(She will easily stun the hell out of you, this is true. -CV)

"The Norwegian Blue Pinto 2-Door hatchback. Have you driven a Fjord lately?" - i_calql8

"I am ashamed to admit that only this past week did it occur to me that Norway wouldn't have a native species of parrot, what with parrots being a tropical bird. And that that was an extra joke. An extra joke that most people probably got the first time they saw the skit, and not 15 years later" - schizospider

(To make you feel better, I believe I'm in the same boat. -CV)

"The Late Parrot (not to be confused with the Latte Poirot. which is something completely different)" - etcet

Correct Answer: The Norwegian Blue Parrot



4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the original artist:
You can burn my house,
Steal my car,
Drink my liquor
From an old fruitjar.

(Number of people who managed to scan this to the theme song of "Firefly": many. And, you know what, fair enough, it scans pretty well, really. Half credit all around! -CV)

"I...guess...you can do that, but how are you gonna fit a burning house into a fruit jar?" - illogicalvulcan

(I suppose once it's completely burned to ash, the ashes can fit in a large jar. Maybe. -CV)

"Just be sure get the liquor out of the house first. Remember rule 1: pillage, then burn" - darthparadox

"What hospitality! It must be a Canadian band. Maybe Barenaked Ladies" - mandydax, cholma

"Anybody trying to mess with MY booze is going to wind up needing a size 10 1/2 boot surgically removed from their ass, all I gotta say about THAT" - thepikey

"Bubba's lullaby, known to me personally as Why I ran to the nearest large city as soon as I legally could" - jenna_thorn

Correct Answer: Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes"



5. Fun with movies! lovellama uses this quote all the time; where does it come from?
I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!

"Born Free" - therealchon

(I bet the lion said that, but it was never translated from the original Lionese. -CV)

"This seems something like a John Candy quote" - b_hulsmans

(No, but John Candy did star in the movie. -CV)

"Why am I picturing a cartoon character? Like, one of those nonsensical scenes Disney adds to the Hunchback of Notre Dame that was never in the original Hugo" - illogicalvulcan

"My Blue Heaven. That quote probably won't get you out of jury duty. Nor will a nurse's uniform get you out of a traffic ticket. Just so you know" - tinamachina

(I think it depends on the kind of nurse's uniform. You might be able to get more mileage out of the "Naughty Nurse" variety, usually available around October. -CV)

"It's the kind of excuse, if I'd used it to my mother, she'd have given me her patented Glare of Doom™ and said, 'Why did the devil slay his grandmother? Because she couldn't think of an excuse. Now go and do what you're supposed to!'" - germankitty

"George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina" - seferin, david_deacon

"Eddie Izzard ('I was dead at the time! I was on the moon! With Steve!')" - etumukutenyak

"Iron Sky. 'Moon Nazis.' 'I hate Moon Nazis.'" - mandydax

(Dammit, I want to see this movie so badly and it keeps not being available at the right time. Damn you, Moon Nazis. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Blues Brothers



6. What makes you sing the blues?

"I only sing the blues when I run short on Blue Hawaiians" - ironjeff

"Time on my hands, that could be time spend with you, laughing like children, living like lovers, Rolling like thunder under the covers" - thalen, cholma

(+1, Elton John. -CV)

"The impending NHL lockout" - n5iln

"Forgetting to play the LJDQ. Also, unemployment. It sucks" - islandofwords

"My employer disabling internet access on our workstations" - freezer

"For the next seven weeks, I'm restricted to a low-fat, VERY low-carb, pureed/liquid diet (which naturally also excludes alcohol), to prepare for an operation. I feel as if I'm losing all my LJDQ cred by having to forego gin, pudding and bacon. *sniffle*" - germankitty

"I'm out of whiskey. Again" - illogicalvulcan

"That blueberry flavored candy that Willy Wonka gave me that time...Boy, did that ever give me the blues....And the rounds, too" - tweeti



And there you have it, in the blue. This quiz was not sponsored by Blues Traveller, although I did eat a wedge of bleu cheese the other day. Mmmm, stinky cheese.

Tune in tomorrow for another super-sized special spectacular fro the Quiz, since the rest of the month is going to be a bit of a work-related horror on my end. So, super mega ultra quiz, coming soon to an internet near you! Be there! And, of course, thanks for playing, hope you enjoyed, and may the Force be with you all.

Rock On!

CV&LL