DW Daily Answers: 8 June 2020.

[angledge]

Happy Monday, Quizlings! We're going to try to start this week off on the rite/right/wright/write/wight foot.

1. The dinosaur segment of Disney's 'Fantasia' featured music from which opera?

"Oedipus T-Rex" - seekingferret
"Took forever to get the dinos in tutus." - Deza
"'My People Were Fair & Had Sky In Their Hair, But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows' by T. Rex, of course!!" - waitingman

"I had no idea that was an opera, what with there being no words or anything." - digitaldiscipline, speaking also for Deza & germankitty

(Eh, correct questions are for chumps. Just like correct answers. -CV)
(Also, the three of your can share the -1 Geek of the Week Award for knowing too much about opera. -AL)

"Knowing opera trivia is for chumps. Yeah, I'm calling you out, CV." - Kirsten the Non-Slacker

(You know, just for that - and because you keep changing your name on every quiz - you're now known as Kirsten the Chump. FOREVER. -CV)

"The only opera I know is Aida..." - Stephanie la Francofille

(Let me guess, you do a lot of crossword puzzles. -EW)

"Fuck Fantasia. Seriously. That film was boring as shit and I still feel deeply betrayed that I used up one of my video rentals on it as a kid. This was back when you had to go to an actual store to get an actual tape, so renting a film was a Big Deal, and getting home to discover you've wasted your treat on a bunch of cartoon hippos dancing to The Nutcracker or whatever the fuck that film was is enough to instil a lifelong grudge that's only burned brighter with time, and to this day I still consider Fantasia my sworn enemy." - crystalcazzie

"Le Sacre du printemps from Stravinsky. Or whatever you english Heathens call that piece of music." - b_hulsmans

(Excuse us, Mr. Hulsmans, but we are not ENGLISH heathens. We are English-speaking AMERICAN heathens. -CV&AL&EW)

Correct Answer: "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky.


2. What novel, written by Tom Wolfe, was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in the early 80s?

"I bet it was better than Fantasia, whatever it was." - crystalcazzie

(It was awesome. -CV&AL)

"Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" - digitaldiscipline

"Bonfire of Vanity Fair" - seekingferret

"That one with Drew Barrymore... Bonfirestarter of the Vanities" - waitingman

(Fun Fact: when angledge was a little girl, she bore an uncanny resemblance to Drew Barrymore in Firestarter. If we ever get 50 people to play the Quiz in one week, I will dig out photographic evidence & post it. -AL)

"The Bonfire of Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis's Acting Careers." - captainsblog

"The Stuff, ♫ where enough is never enough! ♫" - bending_sickle

Correct Answer: The Right Stuff.


3. Kill Devil Hills' fame is primarily derived from the actions of which siblings?

"Them ol' Duke boys musta been at it again, 'cause ol' Sherriff Roscoe was on the hunt." - digitaldiscipline

(Hang on Flash, we're in HOT PURSUIT! -EW)

"The Evel Knievel brothers?" - Stephanie La Francofille
"Evel Knievel and his brother Steve'll Knievel" - seekingferret

"Jedward" - crystalcazzie

"This suspiciously sounds like the Winchester siblings." - ntlespino, germankitty

(+1, Supernatural. Although this week isn't our "Moose" theme so the answer can't be Sam now. -EW)

"Please... please let it be the Osmonds!!" - waitingman

"I only know this because the Outer Banks of North Carolina are only about an hour from where I live and North Carolina won't let anyone forget they're first in flight." - kittycatness

(It's on your license plates & everything:


-AL)

Correct Answer: The Wright Brothers.

"What your history book didn't tell you is that they stole their plans from the Rong sisters and then took all the credit. Fucking patriarchy." - Kirsten the Chump


4. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the artist:
How do I live? How do I breathe?
When you're not here I'm suffocating
I want to feel love, run through my blood
Tell me is this where I give it all up?

"Uh..." - Stephanie la Francofille, speaking for everyone really

"::finally gets the theme:: Must be Steven Wright's 'Breakfast Served Anytime So I Ordered French Toast During the Renaissance'" - captainsblog

(+1 for bringing Steven Wright into the Answers, because some of his stuff is really funny. -AL)

"That must be the verse they didn't use for that scene from 'Night at the Roxbury'" - digitaldiscipline

"The Police, but they wrote it in my diary when I was 16 after my high school boyfriend dumped me after cheating on me." - kittycatness

"Sting Writing on the Wall" - Deza

(According to the laws of the Quiz, full credit. -CV&AL)

"Sounds like a sappy love song; so it's either someone like Adele or Sam Smith or Michael Buble" - b_hulsmans

(+1, impressive guessing. -EW)

Correct Answer: "Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith.


5. The kingdom of Wihtwara was located on which land mass?

"Your Mum!!!" - waitingman

(Ah yes, we haven't had one of these in ages. -AL)

"Tpyo Island" - seekingferret

"Ghostland" - Deza

"Pangeaea aka Too-many-vowels-land" - Stephanie la Francofille

(High irony for a francofille to complain about vowels, petite oiseau. -CV)

"Isle of Wight is only a county in Virginia because Virginians are very unoriginal" - kittycatness

"Technically, Euwope" - germankitty

"it's capital was Wihtwarasburgh proving once and for all people suck at inventing town names." - b_hulsmans

Correct Answer: the Isle of Wight.

"Where only the most clever were selected as knights" - Kirsten the Chump


6. What's the greatest thing you've ever written?

"Not this week's answers" - 5 of you, but not b_hulsmans

"Certainly nothing that made any reference whatsoever to a previous.... oops" - captainsblog

"A Star Trek fanfic consisting entirely of technobabble" - seekingferret

(...which is different from a regular Star Trek episode how, precisely? -EW)

"My so far unedited, unproofread, unpublished & probably unlamented comedy rock'n'roll detective novel set in 1990s Sydney. I have to wait another 20 years before I can properly market it as a historical novel..." - waitingman

"I've written some very eloquent responses to people who were wrong on the internet." - Kirsten the Chump

"It's called the 'I'm going home' song, and I used to sing it every time I left the office after a long day. It goes 'I'm going home, I'm going home, I'm going home home home. I'm going home, I'm going home, I'm going home home home. I'm going home to see my kittens, I'm going home to see my man, I'm going home home home goodnight.'" - kittycatness

(Doesn't have quite the same punch during a pandemic where we are all home, all the time. -AL)

"my signature on my marriage certificate." - germankitty

(Awwwwwwww... -AL&EW&CV)

"I once wrote a story about a big burly tooth fairy who beat up children who tried to trap him. It went down very well with the 12 year olds who reviewed it, but then violence usually does." - crystalcazzie

"Spanish Moss, nature's gothic eyeliner" - digitaldiscipline

"I wrote a background piece for the motivations of a serial killer/assassin for my vampire novels (parts 1 and 2 available on Amazon). It horrified me so much I deleted the file. It took me years to recreate that dose of depravity." - Deza

(Link please. Here at the DWDQ, we totally approve of self-marketing. -AL)

Correct Answer: EW's text to CV & AL, suggesting we re-start the Quiz.

The NEXT thing all of you should write is a post on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr or your communications platform of choice, extorting all your friends & frenemies to come play next week's Quiz. We need more Quizlings!

Rock on!

CV&AL&EW.

Comments

Deza's books

[(Anonymous)]

Well, since ypu asked, you can find all of my books, novellas, short stories and self-help books on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Marna-Carney/e/B0834Q2B8L%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Fair warning, most of it is straight up sex. The ones I mentioned in my answer are Lynna and 86. Eventually I'll get the third of that trilogy (Victor) up.

Re: Deza's books

[angledge]

Novels about vampires featuring lots of sex? Well THAT will never sell lolll

**sneaks off to check them out**

[germankitty]

Four.

FOUR!

As in, quadruple quotage.

*shrieks*

WHAT?!?!?!

(Also, my first time ever getting both a -1 and +1 in the same quiz. Um ... woo?)

Seriously, I've rarely felt so unfunny in my life as I did Friday night when I played the quiz, so ... yeah. Color me stunned. But thanks for the early birthday present! ;-)

[angledge]

Well, you split the -1 GotW Award three ways, so you got a -0.333. Then you split a +1 two ways for your Supernatural reference, gaining a +0.500. So by my reckoning, you came out with four quotes, Geek of the Week, & +0.167. WELL DONE, QUIZLING.

[germankitty]

Uh, thanks? (Admit it, you're channelling i_calql8, right?)

[angledge]

Where has that guy been, anyway?

[b_hulsmans]

Same!
woot woot!

[germankitty]

Well ... us veteran quizlings need to show the newbies how it's done, right?

*high-fives you*

(Also, don't you think as fellow Europeans -- from neighboring countries, too -- we deserve a +1 on general principle? I mean, what with having to scale the cultural divide each and every time and whatnot ... just sayin' ...)

[b_hulsmans]

Yes! That's an excellent idea!
We are basically playing with one arm behind our backs! And in a foreign language and all!
I hereby grant us both a +1 for each quiz in the future!

[germankitty]

*bows* Thank you.

And agreed! Now, how do we sell that to the mods?

[b_hulsmans]

bribes? That seems to work for most americans or so I am told by watching american politics

[germankitty]

Hmmm ... I suppose we could both offer them a selection of (our respective) local beers and chocolate; maybe also some quality Genever and/or the schnaps my vintner distils? That should work on chaosvizier at least ...

[angledge]

Just because we're Americans doesn't mean we're crooked, swindling politicians!

[germankitty]

Well, no. You're really very nice people, we know that. :-)

(But you are open to ... let's call it certain "enticements", shall we? ... consisting of alcohol, chocolate, bacon, pudding and the Brazilian Beach Volleyball Team, right?)

[crystalcazzie]

Ooh, can I get in on this too? I mean, okay, I don't have the language barrier issue, but when they ask questions about American Football it does feel like they're making up words just to confuse me!

[germankitty]

Hey, as far as I'm concerned, the more the merrier! Brexit, shmexit, we can make up our very own EU!

But speaking of the language barrier, whenever I run into a Mancunian or proper Yorkshire person (OTOH), I'm asking myself what the hell my teachers taught me -- because THAT surely canot be English?!? (Looking at you, Peter Kay, Keith Lemon et. al.!) Because honestly, I fare better with a Southern US (like Florida or Georgia) accent than anything from further north than Birmingham, say!

[crystalcazzie]

Yay! Here's to the DWDQEU!

And I know what you mean. There are so many dialects and accents in the UK that it can be difficult even for a native speaker to understand them sometimes!

[angledge]

+! for the DWDQEU, LOLing for real over here.

[seekingferret]

I was delighted to learn after posting my answer that Stravinsky wrote an Oedipus Rex opera. So my guess was closer to actually being a Stravinsky opera than The Rite of Spring.

[b_hulsmans]

my apologies to all American heathens for calling you English Heathens! You worked so hard not to be associated with the vile english monarchy!

[crystalcazzie]

Thank you so much for quoting my Fantasia hate. I'm so glad I get to share my deep, deep loathing of that film with a whole new group of people!

[germankitty]

*shuffles feet, ducks head* Erm, I kinda liked it? *hides*

(Possibly I'm still deeply brainwashed traumatized by having had to learn Goethe's poem "Der Zauberlehrling" [The Sorcerer's Apprentice] by heart in 7th grade; it's the origin of the Mickey Mouse segment in Fantasia and why I bought the video ...)

[crystalcazzie]

It's fine, I know I'm in the minority here and most people call it a classic. It's just that I can so vividly remember being in the the video shop, I can still feel my excitement at choosing it, and then the crushing disappointment at what it turned out to be! Maybe if I watched it for the first time now I'd like it. Or if I gave it another chance I probably wouldn't think it was so bad. But I won't. Because I will hold this grudge until the end of time!

[grapefruitzzz]

nothing ☹️
And I've even been to the Isle of sodding Wight.


Twice.

[angledge]

Well why didn't you list that amongst your assets in the first place?