dwdq | DW Daily Answers: 12 September 2011

1. What Eugene O'Neill play takes place in the saloon of Harry Hope?

“The wording suggests a trick question. Or a drunk quiz poster. Either way, good job!" -

primavera

"What? Do you think I have culture or something? Why can't you stick to things everyone knows like reality shows and superhero movies?" -

sskipstress

"Cheers: A Link To The Past" -

freezer818

“Harry Hope's Helluva Half-Day Whore (okay, so that last one starts with a W, but at least it sounds right)" -

frequencyshift

"Harry Hope and the Goblet of Beer" -

alfvaen

"No Beer And No Tv Make Lots42 Something Something" -

lots42

(+1, The Simpsons. -CV)

“Oh fuck Eugene O'Neill. *picks up Tom Stoppard and heads to the bathroom*" -

neumeindil

“You must have that name wrong. If there's one thing I learned at uni, it's that there's never any hope in a Eugene O'Neill play." -

yamx

“Who replaced those drunken sots we're used to having as mods with these highbrow motherfuckers?" -

etcet

(Hans, release the hounds! – LL)

"Madmartigan Cometh, Complete With Silly-Looking Helm and Tassel. (Voluntary -1 for knowing about that movie. But dammit, Joanne Whaley was hawt!)" -

n5iln

(+1 for Willow and -1 for Top Gun. Net gain: zero. -CV)
(Also,

kristinmachina and

ironjeff get -1 for Val Kilmer Top Gun Porn. DO NOT WANT. -CV)

"Best audience comment: 'When this is over, I'm gonna need a drink.'" -

laughingacademy

Correct Answer: "The Iceman Cometh"

“I will note that I'm glad the theme today appears to be 'ice' rather than 'cometh.' Thank you for small favors." -

barbarienne

2. What is the stage name of Robert Matthew Van Winkle?

"Heh heh, you said 'winkle.'" -

mistyraven

"Rip Torn" -

jargon,

alfvaen,

thepikey,

etcet,

barbarienne

"RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS! YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!" -

la_trombonista

“Sleepy. He tried a solo career, but did poorly without his six brothers" -

seferin

“I want a world where Dick Van Dyke and ANYONE named Winkle do a movie together. Sod the plot, the cast list would be amusing enough." -

drunken_hedghog

"Here is a man who keeps the show going even when its interrupted by giant anthropomorphic chelonian ninjas. Now that is a showman." -

laughingacademy

(..."chelonian ninjas"? -CV)

"Sheesh..nothing's too low for youse, is it? That's Vanilla Ice there -- not to be confused with Milli Vanilli, which was two guys who looked alike." -

etumukutenyak

(In the last question, we were accused of being too "highbrow". How quickly we have reached the other extreme... -AL&CV&LL)

"Robert Matthew Van Winkle sounds so much more 'street' than Vanilla Ice" -

wendynat

"Stop! Collaborate and listen!
I'm hittin LJDQ with a bran'new invention!
Chaosvizier grabs ahold of me tightly,
writin' the quizzes both daily and nightly.
Will he ever stop? I don't know.
Turn off the lights and he'll glow.
To the extreme he rocks a quiz like a vandal.
Light up the cig and smoke it up like a candle.
Ice ice baby...word to yo mutha." -

ifeedformula

(...I think I'm traumatized, but you can still have +3 for awesome lyrics. -CV)

"Anyone else think that 'Ice, Ice Baby' should have been on the soundtrack of 'Titanic'?" -

i_calql8

Correct Answer: Vanilla Ice

3. It's Thanksgiving, and Spider Man, Lt. Ripley, and Frodo Baggins try sex and/or drugs and one dies. What movie is this?

"The one that's about to be queued up on Netflix by a whole bunch of folks" -

jenna_thorn

(Dear Netflix, You're welcome. Sincerely, CV.)

“Fear and Loathing in New York" -

seferin

“You forgot Wednesday Addams." -

david_deacon,

laughingacademy

“Movie? That sounds like a Doonsbury arc from the Seventies." -

freezer818

“The Winter Of Sci-Fi Fans' Discontent." -

n5iln

"Sin City. I'm pretty sure there was something like that in the comic version at least" -

cavocorax

“LJDQ, why have you been eavesdropping on my dreams?" -

sskipstress

“That would make a great porno, especially if General Zod showed up." -

wendynat
“The trippiest porno ever" -

la_trombonista

"I don't recall Ian Holm having sex or trying drugs in Alien. Then again, I can't place a Spiderman in that movie, either. But Holm definitely got killed." -

jargon

“I'm just going to say Ice Pirates, because hey, space herpe!" -

mandydax

(Fair enough; full credit. -CV)

"That Awkward Sex Tape I Accidentally Leaked to the Internet Last Winter" -

mistyraven

"The Ice Storm: the movie I watched solely because Bowie had a song on the soundtrack. Both quite good." -

kristinmachina

Correct Answer: "The Ice Storm"

4. Where can one find Snæfell, Geysir, and Surtsey?

"Hello, theme. Are you folks fucking with me again?" -

primavera

(Yes. We totally are. -AL&CV&LL)

"In my pants. Guess which one is the penis?" -

lots42

(Please God let it not be Geysir. -CV)

“In the cold medicine aisle" -

seferin
“Aisle 6 next to the Metamucil." -

ladyiapetus

(All manufactured by mega pharma company, Plaxico Burress! – LL)

"Ikea" -

ifeedformula,

kristinmachina

"On the back cover of a black metal album" -

revhhkitty

"They're the bouncers at Thor's favorite bar" -

jenna_thorn

"Surtsey was the witch that turned Oditzius and his sailors into Picts." -

alfvaen

(+1, mythological mangling. -CV)

"Behind the couch, along with Jimmy Hoffa and practical cold fusion" -

etcet

“Did you know that Iceland has the world's highest number of libraries per head of the population! Awesome! I'm so moving there! ...if I stop quizzing, it's because they also have the world's highest suicide rate." -

yamx

(No they don’t, they’re 38, right above us. – LL)

“In the cheese case at Whole Foods. Fuckin' yuppies." -

thepikey

"They are minor characters in The Silmarillion" -

david_deacon

"I actually visited Geysir last year; it's very disappointing (hasn't exploded in decades). Strokkur, on the other hand, is one badass hole of boiling jets right next to Geysir." -

mark_laura

(Well, you've gotta strokkur if you want to see a geysir. -CV)

Correct Answer: Iceland

"Impressive use of alt code 0230. *tips hat to you*" -

drunken_hedghog

5. What 1960's novel has the USS Dolphin sent on a rescue mission in the Arctic Sea?

"You're just baiting people to play the age card, what with both the 60's AND those 'book' things" -

etcet

“GI Joe: The Lost Episodes" -

freezer818

“I happened to learn of a navy ship named Tortuga which is Spanish for turtle. What, they couldn't name it USS KRAKEN? Fuck, America, get with the program." -

lots42

“The Hunt for Red October" -

sticky9fingers

(w00t! +1 – LL)
(To be fair, 1960's Sean Connery was pretty badass. -CV)

"Lassie rescues Timmy from the well yet again" -

akiyasan

(This needs a sci-fi spin. Let's see that collie pull Timmy out of a GRAVITY well. Then I'll be impressed. -CV)

"Flipper II: First Blood" -

mandydax
"Flipper 2: Electric Boogaloo" -

spotsofcolour
"Flipper: Operation Tuna Net" -

mistyraven
"Flipper gets the Ick" -

thalen

"So Long, and Thanks For All the Frozen Fish" -

i_calql8

"Gilligan's Island: The Novel: A Three-Hour Rescue Mission" -

rachelkachel

“I was going to say Icebound. Is it Icebound? No, it can't be because no-one in America reads Dean Koontz's books because they're all too busy fawning over Stephen King. Recently, both of them have become a lot crazier with the god and the aliens and the nut job conspiracy theories showing up in their books." -

demon_666

(I read Dean Koontz back when he was Dean R. Koontz. Then he got all crazy with the god and the aliens… - Hipster LL)

"Who the hell names an Arctic station after an African animal?!? I admit, Ice Station Polar Bear or Ice Station Orca doesn't have quite the same ring, but surely Ice Station Penguin would do?" -

germankitty

“007 Below Zero in Coldfinger. Or was it The Santa Who Loved Me? Igloo Royale? Am I getting warm?" -

kristinmachina

"Ice Station Sub-Zero wins. Flawless drivel!" -

n5iln

Correct Answer: "Ice Station Zebra"

6. What is your favorite part of winter?

“Wearing fur. Bite me, Ingrid Newkirk!" -

laughingacademy

“That it's not summer (F*ck you, heat!)" -

freezer818

“If things work out the way I hope, it will soon be snuggling in front of my girlfriend's open fire. And no, that's not a euphemism, although I might make it one." -

drunken_hedghog

“While I may not get days off, the bosses all seem to disappear. You know what that means... *breaks out the eggnog in the work coffee cup*" -

frequencyshift

“There isn't any of that nasty sunlight shining on you when you drive to work in the morning or home at night. Also, let's face it, you can always add more layers of clothing to keep warm, but there's a limit to how many you can remove, especially at work." -

alfvaen

"All of it! The snow, the breath visible in the frigid air, the huddling inside smugly thinking of the unfortunate medieval people without central heating" -

rachelkachel

"Watching idiots slide all over the road because in the space of less than a year they forgot how to drive in snow. I don't want to be driving anywhere near them, but they're fun to watch from a safe distance, while they spin their wheels as if that will magically give them traction. People need to study physics more." -

barbarienne,

sskipstress

“My birthday" -

holmes221b

"Creating thousands of miniature snowmen so that I can stomp them all down, Godzilla style" -

cavocorax

“The best part of winter is not having to shave legs so often because there's a lot more pants wearing and a lot less leg baring." -

demon_666

“SantaCon! Dress up in a Santa suit and wander the streets getting ripped with 2000 of your best friends in an unstoppable Red Tide." -

thepikey

“Frat boys getting frostbite on their unmentionables." -

wendynat

“The part where I drink alcoholic hot cocoa in a jacuzzi while surrounded by buxom, nubile women as a meteorite strikes a New England Patriots / Dallas Cowboys game." -

etcet

“The end of it." -

wiredwizard,

n5iln,

primavera,

mandydax

Ice! It's what it's all about. Even if it's not really very seasonable right at this moment, unless you happen to live in Antarctica or Siberia or Canadia, it's still good. Icy good. No, wait, that doesn't make any sense. It's Icy Hot. No wait, that's trademarked. Oh well. Might as well just sing like you've all been singing already: ICE ICE BABY! Doo doo doo-de-doo doo-de-doo doo!

Ok, enough of that. Thanks for playing, as always, and we hope to see you all here again tomorrow as we begin our September Spectacular Super Sized Special Session! Don't miss it! It's fanfriggingtastic!

Rock On!

CV