Daily Answers: 4 May 2020.

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1. The 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team is better known by what nickname?

"Them tall fellows over there." - b_hulsmans

"The Miracle on Ice" - Laura G
"The Miracle on Hardwood" - Basketball Jones

"Totally a Bunch of Amateur Players, No Pros, Nothing to See Here" - b7cy

"Nike Bags of Money." - captainsblog

"The Dirty Dozen." crystalcazzie

"Barkley Bark and the Funky Bunch" - Jake

"The Dreamy Team- Tall, dark (except Larry Bird), and handsome. ...Wait, I just looked up photos of them and it turns out these were 2 other white guys on the team?" - Kirsten

(Does this mean that White Men Can't Jump ... LIED TO US??? -EW)

Correct Answer: The Dream Team.

"I've developed a lot of retroactive sympathy for their opponents now that I regularly get crushed in Pay To Win games." - shirenomad


2. What Hollywood film studio was created as a partnership between Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen?

"Voltron Studios" - ANONYMOUS

"Berg2fen" - Basketball Jones

"The Aristocrats!" - bending_sickle

"Every movie studio ever has left my head. Gone completely. So obviously it's Amnesia Studios." - kiraskyrim

(Your logic seemed so foolproof, but no luck. -AL)

"The one with a kid fishing off the moon" - 5 of you
"The one with a kid fishing off the moon and a landshark comes up and eats him!" - captainsblog
"Have you ever tried to convince a 5 year old boy that no, he really CAN'T sit on the edge of a crescent moon to go fishing? Have you? I have. AND IT'S ALL THESE ASSHOLES' FAULT." - Deza

(Maybe you should have just had captainsblog tell him about the landsharks. -CV)

"No idea, but was its main office on Elm Street?" - waitingman

"Dream(ing up a Horrible Movie Called Boss Baby) Works" - b7cy

(That's the film you chose to call out? From the studio that brought you Antz and The Legend of Bagger Vance? -EW)

"I hate dreaming about work. I just spent nine hours fucking around with Excel and Sharepoint, the last thing I need to do is dream about fucking around with Excel and Sharepoint." - digitaldiscipline

Correct Answer: Dreamworks Pictures, aka Dreamworks SKG.


3. An asabikeshiinh, from the Ojibwe word for “spider”, is better known in English as a what?

"Kill It!!" - Basketball Jones, speaking for many of you
"KILL IT WITH FIRE!" - b_hulsmans, amplifying for some of you

"That's the noise you make when you see a bigass spider" - ANONYMOUS

"Show me something to hang over my bed that actually catches spiders, and we're in business!" - germankitty

"Spider? Here in Australia, it's either a funnelweb, or it's not worth worrying about... she'll be right, it's just a little bite... walk it off champ!" - waitingman

"I'll take 'Crap That Girls With Bad Taste Get Tattooed on Themselves' for $800, Alex." - b7cy

(A horrible, horrible category. -AL)

"I don't get why people get dreamcatcher tattoos. Why would you want all the bad dreams it is supposed to protect you from inked onto your body?" - Deza

"Covfefe" - jebtex

(One of the bad dreams it is supposed to protect you from? -EW)

"I want to say it involves Anansi, but I'm pretty sure that's just me being an ignorant white American..." - Laura G

(You are correct in your incorrectness. -CV)

"A Krueger Catcher" - bending_sickle

Correct Answer: Dreamcatcher.

"not to be confused with the Dreampitcher" - Kirsten


4. Which famous civil rights speech ends with: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

"Burger King announces its policy on soda refills..." - waitingman

"The speech I do in my head when I clock out of work" - ANONYMOUS

"Melania Trump's speech at the last Republican convention." - b7c7y

(Oh come on, that could be any speech. -CV)

"Are you sure that's not the end of a Twilight Zone episode? And then the camera zooms out and you see they're actually inside an even larger cage." - seekingferret

"I have a Meme" - Jake
"I Can Haz Dreamburger?" - digitaldiscipline
"'I Have a Steam,' which ends (as it begins) 'Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye....'" - captainsblog

"'I Dreamed a Dream'
- Fantine Pro-V
1830" - jebtex

Correct Answer: I Have A Dream.


5. What British rock band, formed in London in 1966, is widely regarded as the world’s first “supergroup”?

"Orange Julius had much more staying power than his overhyped bro, Tangerine Dream" - digitaldiscipline

"Genesis" - kiraskyrim

(Genesis did have 'Scenes from a Night's Dream' which at least is thematically apropos. -EW)

"When in doubt...The Police?" - bending_sickle

(Sting is always the right answer. -CV)

"Oasis?" - Laura G

(Today ain't gonna be the day that this answer's coming back to you. -CV)

"That Dweam Wiffin A Dweam" - Deza

(+1, The Princess Bride. -AL)

"The Freedom Phalanx" - shirenomad

(+1, City of Heroes, one of my old stomping grounds. -CV)

"Electric Mayhem" - jebtex

"Uh... Dream? The answer can't be that simple, can it??" - Kirsten
(ten seconds later)
"Oh God, there actually *was* a band called Dream and they're everything that was both horrible and addictive about early 2000s pop." - Kirsten

(I'm not gonna click that link, not gonna click it, not gonna.... -AL)
(ten seconds later)
(Dammit, she was RIGHT. -AL)

"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire... Cream" - seekingferret

Correct Answer: Cream


6. Pretend you’re on the couch at your psychoanalyst’s office & tell us about your…

"...second toe, which is longer than my 'big toe', which makes it the bigger toe, which confuses me beyond belief." - Basketball Jones, focusing on the important topics

"ENORMOUS… ego." - Jake

"...inability to pay a psychoanalyst’s hourly rate." - jebtex

(Get out. -EW)

"... crippling fear of hypothetical therapists" - digitaldiscipline

(Oop, sorry for the inadvertent trauma there, friend. -AL)

"Most of my recent dreams are just me at work asking customers to please stay behind the line like I do a hundred times a day. Because this is apparently an incredibly difficult concept to grasp. I miss dreaming about giant helter skelters and multiple Wil Wheaton clones." - crystalcazzie

(Sincere thank you to anyone who has to work with the public during this pandemic. -AL)

"Doc, what does it mean if the people in my dreams are all going about their normal business but they're wearing masks covering half their faces?" - Kirsten

"I suddenly realize I'm the only person wearing clothes and everyone starts pointing and offering me huge amounts of money and then I realize I'm actually in a memory from working as a stripper to pay for grad school." - Deza

"My depression? Sure! I was an overachieving kid, who grew into an adolescent with Gifted Child Syndrome and, I suspect, undiagnosed ADHD. Isolation and FOMO hit me hard, so I'm not doing so great right now, what with everyone I know going on about their sourdough bread, hundreds of homemade masks, Pinterest homeschooling, and Zoom fatigue, while I barely manage to grill chicken and make my kid wear pants, and I have yet to be on Zoom. So I'm a failure and no one cares about me!" - Laura G.

(We care about you!! -AL&CV&EW)

Correct Answer: "Mind if I get serious for this question? Because I for real want to say that finding a therapist was one of the best decisions I ever made. If nothing else, she gave me the confidence in the quality of my work to finally push for a raise last year (and get it!) So it paid for itself!" - shirenomad

Good for you, shirenomad! Good for all of you who played this week! OUR dream is that each of you will browbeat at least one friend into playing next week's quiz, so we can have more funny to share with you all. So get out there & shake your money-makers - apparently, Deza can offer tips if you need 'em.

Rock On!

EW&CV&AL