Daily Answers: 20 April 2020

[chaosvizier]

Happy 4/20! To be blunt, we'ed be remiss if weed didn't try to use this date to hash out a dope-ass quiz for all y'all to toke. Cheers!



1. 2002 cinema featured an upside-down kiss between a superhero and which female character?

"Gwyneth Paltrow, in one of her quacktastic 'health' product placements. Kissing upside-down is supposed to expel toxins by increasing energy flow from the yoni or some nonsensical shit like that." - The Atomic Fruitbat

(I don't think she's behind this one, but didn't she jump on board with the fad for butthole sunbathing? I'm pretty sure she did. -AL)

"Lucy 'Diamonds' Holmes, a well-known ginger sidekick always drawn in comics with wildly accurate bodily proportions." - erika

(Like these guys? -EW)


"u****p*dS" - fizrep

(It took me a minute. -AL)

"You can't fool me, I saw Wonder Boys. Spiderman and Iron Man are totally banging." - seekingferret

"Spider pig, spider pig , does what ever a spider pig does." - kiraskyrim

(+1, The Simpsons Movie. -CV)

"I need new glasses and thought that said 'chimera' and I'm not much into super heroes and would rather kiss a chimera." - ohsnapp

"Well, in the mid-sixties, she was called Mary Jane. Nowadays, she'd probably be named Manolo Blahnik." - germankitty

"Mary Jane 'Am I married to Spiderman, do I know who spiderman is, it all depends on who is the writer of the current story is' Watson" - b_hulsmans

"Mary Jane?!? Wait, are you guys baking brownies over there?" - captainsblog

(He's onto us! - CV&AL&EW)

Correct Answer: Mary Jane Watson

Also Correct Answer: "A consenting one, we hope." - digitaldiscipline



2. The octothorpe has, in recent years, become better known as what?

"Spider-Man's greatest enemy." - crystalcazzie

"IT'S THE POUND SIGN YOU UNCULTURED BARBARIANS!" - cmattg

"Magic 8-Ball. AKA 'The Psychic Cephalopod'" - germankitty

"Italic tic-tac-toe. Tell me I'm wrong." - i_calql8
"In my day, we played tic tac toe and we LIKED it!" - fizrep

"A symbol indicating slacktivism" - b7cy

(#resist #blessed #dummythiccc #woke #vote #DWDQ #sheeple #illuminati #deepstate #iamthewalrus -#ALAL)

"The hash brown" - waitingman

(Full credit. You can never go wrong with fried potatoes. -AL)

"My 600 Hashtag Life, where Dr Now N Later tells patients to get off Twitter and get an actual life, but nobody listens because their instagram friends enable them." - ohsnapp

(Is this a real show? I have trouble telling any more. -AL)

"I wanted to make a joke about how it's a squidthorpe because a hashtag hasn't got 8 appendages, but then I remembered that a hashtag has 8 ends :( also apropos of nothing in dutch it's called a railwaysign" - b_hulsmans

Correct Answer: Hashtag



3. The fictional town of Agrestic is the setting for which television series?

"Hehe, you said 'Stick.'" - Deza

"The Great British Bake Off" - crystalcazzie

"Something moody and probably british. Possibly a murder mystery series." - kiraskyrim

"Murder, She Smoked." - captainsblog

"The Agrestic Hillbillies." - Stevo Darkly
"The Hicksville Hillbillies" - germankitty

"Wait, is 'agrestic' when you're not sure of the existence of farming?" - i_calql8

"I have been working hard on detectiving this one out. Agrestic is an anagram of Cigarets, so I guess The X-Files, which had a character called the Cigarette Smoking Man. The truth is out there!" - seekingferret

"'Weebs', a show about obsessive anime fans." - The Atomic Fruitbat

Correct Answer: "Weeds"



4. What book features such famous poems as 'O Captain, My Captain' and 'I Sing the Body Electric'?

"The world is too much with me to answer this question." - ohsnapp

"Wiring Made Easy: How Not to Singe the Body Electrically" - bending_sickle

"A Whitman Sampler." - Stevo Darkly

(+1, chocolate. -AL)
(+10, CHOCOLATE!!! -CV)

"The Tide Wasn't The Only Thing That Was High: Captain and Tenille's authorized biography" - digitaldiscipline

“'He loved his fellows and that’s kind of universal, whether it was genital, is another matter, likely it was, as I know, I’ve slept with Neal Cassady who slept with Gavin Arthur who slept with Edward Carpenter who described sleeping with Whitman to Gavin Arthur, so there was, perhaps, some general directness there.' ~ Allen Ginsberg" - seekingferret

"Uncle Walt's tastefully erotic pop-up Audiobook" - jebtex

"Leaves of the Devil's Lettuce" - b7cy

Correct Answer: "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman

"I'm still waiting on the Walter White/Walt Whitman crossover event, in which the down and out poet is forced to pen industry-grade stanzas and sell them on the mean streets. Come on Netflix, Cracking Calamus practically sells itself!!" - fizrep



5. "The Killing Fields" describes the genocide initiated by which dictator?

"Mrs. Fields, notorious cookie despot" - The Atomic Fruitbat

"Mark David Chapman" - erika

(That's Lennocide, slightly different. -CV)

"He Who Shall Not Be Named" - Deza

"What's in a name? That which we call an asshole by any other name would smell as rank." - bending_sickle

"Ah, the khmer Rouge, my favorite kind of rouge." - b_hulsmans

"I need a holiday..." - waitingman

"Top Lop, the infamous Cambodian palindrome." - captainsblog

"Paul Potts, the first winner of 'Cambodia's Got Talent'." - germankitty

"It's also the film that you should definitely not accidentally rent if you're hoping for a cosy night in watching Field of Dreams." - crystalcazzie

Correct Answer: Pol Pot

"and his clone 1/8 his size, Mini Pot." fizrep



6. What are you baking this month?

"With all this weed and pot talk, I will likely be baking my gray matter. Lighters up!" - jebtex, grapefruitzzz

"To honor chaosvizier, I made a tray of Peeps rice crispy treats." - fizrep

(fizrep knows too many of my dark secrets. He must be silenced. -CV)

"I made some basic-ass baked potatoes the other day because I forgot a key ingredient I needed to make the recipe I'd actually intended, and I didn't feel like fighting hoarders. Or putting on pants." - b7cy

"Ah, Passover, the week in which Jews forgo beer to experience what life is like in heaven, because in Heaven there is no Beer." - seekingferret

(Well, I'm definitely not going to Jewish heaven now. -CV)

"Buns, or the anaconda don’t want none." - bending_sickle

(My anaconda is all about some hot buns. -CV SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP -AL)

"Bacon pancaaaakes!!" - waitingman

"If you don't have your own serotonin and dopamine, store-bought is fine." - digitaldiscipline

"Indian flatbread, which I guess makes me a naan-believer." - i_calql8

(Somewhere a Frenchman just winced in pain. -CV)

"I know someone who made carrot cake the other day and I don't understand. Why would you make carrot cake when you can make cake cake?" - crystalcazzie

(+1 because fuck carrot cake. -CV)

"Die Eier von Satan" - Deza

(Eier Von Satan will be my next NaNo villain. -CV)

Correct Answer: "I was trying to earn some extra butch cred and replace our dishwasher, but the old one has a power cord and the new one doesn't? But it's not like an HDMI cable or something where you can unplug it from one device and plug it into another? Anyway in the middle the baby woke up and started screaming and so now we have two dishwashers in the middle of our kitchen" - elliewatkins, who engaged on a half-baked plan of home improvement and instead chose the path of pain



And there you have it. In honour of the fourth second of the twentieth minute of the fourth hour of the twentieth day of the fourth month of the year twenty-twenty, we dedicate this quiz to marijuana. Bake on, true believers!

Also, thanks for playing again, and of course tune in tomorrow for another round of wholesome goodness and green peaness.