DW Daily Answers: 12 February 2013

[chaosvizier]

1. What is the name of the truck that Jack Burton drives?

“The Buckaroo Banzai" - akiyasan

“Jack Burton's Ram-a-Lama-Love-Machine" - tweeti

(Ram-a-WHAT?!? – LL)
(This is not a good day to be a llama, methinks. -CV)

“My Little Burro! Oh wait, that's Romancing the Stone. Same decade, I get half credit, right?" - thepikey

(That was Michael Douglas, not Kurt Russell… - LL)

"Your mom. And he drives her in REVERSE" - SEEKINGFERRET

"Why Does It Always Have To Be Snakes?" - etcet

“BJ? The Bear? How the hell am I supposed to know?" - kenshardik

“The truck that Peterbilt." - sskipstress

"Ultra Magnus (because Optimus Prime is too easy)" - freezer

"Duck. Duck the Truck. It's a Truck named Duck. F...ooey." - drbear

“General Lee." - jmthane

“Rubber Duck" - germankitty

Correct Answer: The Porkchop Express



2. Dr. Seuss wrote which book after betting that he could write a book using only 50 words?

"I ask to be or not to be, that is the question I ask of me. This sullied life it makes me shudder, my uncle's boffing dear, sweet Mother." - sskipstress

(Hamlet, in fifty words. I approve. -CV)

“I don't know Dr. Seuss al that well, but I imagine the story would be rather swell. And about an animal of sorts, possibly wearing shorts. Forsooth I say, I hope this rhyming does pay. A credit I surely would like. From ChaosVizier or angledge, oh hell even from Mike." - b_hulsmans

(-1, forgetting me. ::pouts:: - LL)

“Dick and Jane" - seferin

"Hop On Pop" - tinamachina, primavera

(I said 50 words, not 50 shades of gray. -CV)

"'Go the Fuck to Sleep', as read by Samuel L. Jackson. The awesomeness of this audiobook cannot be measured." - i_calql8

“I will not still not eat this crap
Upon your ass I'll bust a cap
Take these foodstuffs from my path
You little fucking sociopath" - freezer

"My parents wouldn't let me read Green Eggs and Ham as a child because ham wasn't kosher. My childhood sucked." - whomajigi

"St. Patrick's Day Breakfast Special" - germankitty

"You'll stop liking green eggs and ham when the diarrhea kicks in" - la_trombonista

"Marcel Marceau's amazing adventure through the world of mime, cunningly illustrated to avoid the need for any typography within the pages of the volume that now rests in your hand, that's right, not even 'The End', thus demonstrating oneupmanship, that's right you owe me fifty dollars now - by Dr. Seuss." - VAYSHTI

(Well done. Full credit. -CV)

Correct Answer: Green Eggs and Ham

"Big deal. I can write a book using only 26 letters" - n5iln

(He did it with 22. -CV)



3. Who was Shari Lewis's non-human partner on television?

“Yarnell. I think." - therealchon

(For inquiring minds… – LL)

“That's the pervy woman who was always fisting a sheep, right? No wonder this country is so messed up." - thepikey

"The Overfiend" - sskipstress

(I think Shari was the one who was Overfiending her partner... -CV)

"Pikachu" - wiredwizard

“She had more than one, you know. Remember Charlie Horse?" - la_trombonista
“I still have nightmares about the hideoousness of Charlie Horse. I mean look at him...

wouldn't that scare the crap out of you too?" - ifeedformula

(Ok, there were others, but clearly we were trying to scrub them from our collective memories. -CV)

"Way down in the fiery lake, Lucifer had a lot at steak,
But he wanted some lamb chops instead, and Shari Lewis wasn't dead" - ionicaq

"" - zihuatanejo

"Shari! Help me! It burns! It burns!" - mandydax

"Shari? What are you doing with that mint jelly?" - IRONJEFF

Correct Answer: Lambchop

"Finally, in 1993 New Hampshire legalized human/puppet unions and Shari and Lambchop were officially wed (but the consummation had happened long before)." - mark_laura



4. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez starred together in which 1987 comedy (and its 1993 sequel that no one wants to talk about)?

“So 'The Mighty Ducks' was really the sequel to 'Slap Shot'?" - tinamachina

(Richard Dryfuss wasn’t in Slap Shot, that was Paul Newman! And neither was Estevez! Wait, what the hell are you talking about? - LL)

"Close Encounters of the Young Gun Kind" - IRONJEFF

“Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." - primavera

“Brokeback Mountain." - therealchon

"Breakin'. I didn't know Dreyfuss could spin on his head like that!" - kenshardik

"Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare: Get this fucking steak out! and the sequel, A Vampire's Nightmare: Un-stake my heart" - germankitty

"Overacting! (and Overacting 2-Bad Acting Boogaloo)" - drbear

Correct Answer: Stakeout (and maybe Stakeout 2)

"They sure made some strange crap in the 80s" - b_hulsmans
"All comedies in 1987 were pretty bad...and, God help us if they had a sequel" - tweeti



5. What actor provided the voice for the titular character in "Balto"?

“Will I ever stop sniggering when y'all write 'titular'?" - sskipstress, lizwinlove

(Nope. The old jokes are still the best ones. -CV)

"Hurr, hurr, tits in a meat quiz. UR MOM." - VAYSHTI

"Heh, heh, talking boobs, heh, heh.
Q: What did one boob say to the other? A: If we don't get some support around here, they'll think we're nuts" - mark_laura

"Tits, balls, and toes? If I knew it was gonna be *that* kinda LJDQ, I'd have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes" - etcet

(This... this means something! -CV)

“Y'all know that ain't them dog's real voices???" - tweeti

"Gilbert Goddfey" - akiyasan

(No, he was the parrot. In another movie. -CV)

“The guy in Perfect Strangers, right?" - zihuatanejo
“Bronson Pinchot." - primavera

“Noboby cares about non-Disney/non-Pixar '90's animated movies about animals. Titular or not." - tinamachina

"Samuel Jackson... because I never saw 'Balto', and in my head all male animated heroes are voiced by him. 'You're gonna get on this motherfuckin' SLED, and we're gonna get that mutherfuckin' SERUM to those mutherfuckin' SICK FOLKS!'" - IRONJEFF

"Let's go with Morgan Freeman, every movie should have a character voiced by Morgan Freeman. as a matter of fact... can't we get him to voice over Ben Stiller?" - b_hulsmans

(And Chris Rock, and Adam Sandler as well. -CV)

“Kenny G, who also invented the Balto sax just for this movie." - i_calql8

Correct Answer: Kevin Bacon

(I really can't believe no one mentioned Cuba Gooding Jr. here. -CV)



6. Who would you like to meet?

“Gillian Anderson, LeeLee Sobieski, Alex Kingston, Felicia Day, Karen Gillan, Amanda Tapping, Jewel Staite, Cassandra 'Elvira' Peterson, Kari Byron, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Alyson Hannigan, Lexa Doig, Bruce Campbell" - wiredwizard

“the LJDQ mods. My liver, however, cowers in fear." - tinamachina, SEEKINGFERRET
"The mods. I'd ply them with bacon/ham, gin and pudding so they can have Tantric sex with the Brazilian beach volleyball team under Sting's direction. Hopefully, that'll be enough of a bribe to get me full quotage each week until the end of the year." - germankitty

(That does sound pretty good... -AL&CV)
(AHEM. -LL)
(You can have Sting? -CV)

"Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me." - akiyasan

(So what you want to meet is your doppelganger? -CV)

"I would like Genghis Khan to meet Conan the Barbarian, at Thunderdome" - mark_laura

“Bacon in a dark alley" - raphsody606

“Yo momma! Because really, she seems like an interesting person." - b_hulsmans

“Loaf." - therealchon

“I believe I would like to meat the inventor of the McRib, cause I'd really like to shake that person's hand, maybe kiss their feet, for coming up with something sooo delightful....then I'd like to meet the person who's idea it is to only put it on the market once or twice a year and then only for a really short time cause I'd really like to smack them upside the head." - tweeti

“Dr. Emmett Brown. Because I'm tired of needing roads." - alfvaen

“I'd like to 'meat' Scarlett Johansson. I'd take my sausage and give her a beef injection, pork her so hard... Jeez. Maybe I have been watching too much porn." - thepikey

“Kevin Bacon. Get that number down to 1. Actually, I'ma steal his identity and get it down to 0. Muahahaha!" - mandydax

“Tough question: It would have to someone I wouldn't A) Take a swing at, B) go embarassingly fanboy over, C) go all "Uhhhh.... YOU PRETTY!" at. So....John Madden?" - freezer

“The Doctor. But not the current one, he's too angsty - I'd rather meet the Ninth Doctor." - jmthane

“Shatner. I'd meet Shatner." - zihuatanejo

“Now that Dave Brubeck's dead, I don't know." - la_trombonista

“The cow from the Restaurant of the End of the Universe. I'd order the tenderloin." - sskipstress



And there you have it, a quiz dedicated entirely to carnivores and their meat-loving ways. I'm sure you vegetarians will get your own quiz sooner or later, but I cannot help but surrender to my tremendomeatatarian ways. OM NOM NOM.

Sorry this new year is still off to a slow start. I'm sure I'll get better soon. Probably. After I have some more meat omf gromf nomf

Rock On!

CV&LL