DW Daily Answers: 8 June 2020.
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dwdqHappy 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: whenangledge 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 notb_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.
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_sickleCorrect 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_hulsmansCorrect 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.
