DW Daily Answers: 29 June 2020

[chaosvizier]

1. What is the common theme behind the Egyptian Period of Reunification and the Chinese term 'Zhong Guo'?

"Probably war and lots of deaths amongst the poor and riches beyond belief for the elite?" - b_hulsmans

(I mean.... you're not wrong. -EW)

"I was about to say, 'They both use letters in their names,' but then I remembered Ancient Egyptians were the grand masters of just using emojis for sentences." - tinknevertalks

"The only Guo I know is Tina, the cellist who composed and performs the DCEUU Wonder Woman theme." - digitaldiscipline

"If it's Egyptian and religious, it's either about the afterlife or the Nile. And China doesn't have a Nile, so, looks like my choices are 'or death.'" - shirenomad

(+1, Eddie Izzard. -AL)

"The Egyptian Period of Reunification is when they flipped the Nile so the Upper Nile was actually above the Lower Nile, and maybe Zhong Guo is when they flipped Inner Mongolia with Outer Mongolia." - seekingferret

"Egyptian Period? What, like when Cleopatra's river runs red? If that's connected to Zhong Gou I'm sticking to General Tso from now on." - opensprit

(-1 because ewwww. -CV)

"Uncle Iroh will explain it over a cup of green tea." - Deza

(+1, The Last Airbender. But -1 because that film sucked. -AL)

Correct Answer: they both refer to The Middle Kingdom.

"If there were a middle kingdom on Middle Earth, what would it be called? Middle Middle Earth Kingdom? True Middle Kingdom? Wait, this is probably answered in The Silmarillion. I can't be bothered to find out though, because ugh. Maybe some true nerd will know the answer for me." - Kirsten the Chump



2. Fun with lyrics! Name the band and the song:
Hey, you know they're all the same.
You know you're doin' better on your own,
So don't buy in.
Live right now, just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough,
For someone else.

"For once I recognize the song, but I have no idea what it's called. It's by The Postal Service. Or that other band started by the same dude, Ben something? Not Ben Folds, same era, different Ben. Argh!" - Kirsten the Chump
(...and a few seconds later...)
"I looked it up after typing that and I was SO wrong." - Kirsten the Chump

"'Turn that crap down!' by Crap My Kids Listen To" - opensprit

"'Be Different Just Like Us', by Thoreau and the Nonconformists" - shirenomad

"Ah, that distinctive early 2000s sound. Was this song in American Pie? I feel like they were all in American Pie." - crystalcazzie

"That song that for 20 years I thought was called 'Take Some Time (Uveerthan, Uveerthan)'" - captainsblog

(Half credit. -EW)

"Middle Sting by Gordon Eats World. This song is on the audio loop at work. Twice a day, every day. Kill me." - Deza

"OMFG I KNOW THIS ONE!!!! Thank you many many hours on Rock Band (or was it Guitar Hero? Doesn't matter because I know this song!)" - tinknevertalks

(To be fair, I only know this one because of Rock Band as well, so you're in good company. -CV)

Correct Answer: "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World

"The real question is, why Jimmy eat world. It can't taste good. It's dirt." - bending_sickle



3. In American football, which position usually receives the defensive play calls from the sidelines and is commonly referred to as the 'Mike'?

"Michael" - Jake

"I feel like I just landed on that stupid orange pie wedge in Trivial Pursuit..." - Kirsten the Chump

"Um, one of the guys in really tight spandex pants who slaps all his teammates on the ass multiple times a day with absolutely no overtones of latent homoeroticism?" - Deza

"Is this the guy who gets his genitals fondled at the start of the game?" - bending_sickle

(No, that's the center, & his genitals get fondled at the start of each play. -AL)

"In real football, it's usually the team's manager (= coach)." - germankitty
"Tbh, I know nothing about American football except that its rugby in armour, and the Super Bowl did Janet Jackson dirty." - tinknevertalks

(Frowns at you in 'Murican. -EW&AL)

"TV and movies have taught me that American Footballers are always either Linebackers or Quarterbacks. So combining that knowledge with this week's theme, I'm going to go with Middleback. Is that a thing? I'm going to be so proud if it's right." - crystalcazzie

(So close. -CV)

"It's short for 'the Mike India Delta Delta Lima Echo Lima India November Echo Bravo Alpha Charlie Kilo Echo Romeo.'" - shirenomad

(Is this a first? The Geek of the Week Award being given for an answer to a sportsball question? -AL)
(I think it is! -CV)
(Congratulations & here's your -1. -EW)

Correct Answer: Middle Linebacker.

"...the 'Mike' is, if I'm not mistaken, in honor of Da Bears' legendary one, Mr. Singletary." - digitaldiscipline



4. What European celebration, coinciding with Saint John's Day, takes place for about a week around the summer solstice?

"St. Patrick's Day" - seekingferret

(Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking Emerald Isle! -CV THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED YOU TWIT! -AL&EW)

"How is it "Saint John" comes out "Sinjin" in RP English?" - captainsblog

"The day we check whether children have learned that if they play with fire, they will, in fact, get burned." - bending_sickle, Deza

"No idea, but you can be sure that this year whatever it was took place in groups smaller than ten people, wearing face masks and observing strict social distancing rules!" - germankitty

(That's how you know it wasn't an American holiday. -CV)

"Mid-we-can't-fucking-spell-Summer-for-some-reason" - digitaldiscipline

(Blame the Danes. -AL)

"I don't know what it's called, but the French do the cooking, the British do the hospitality, the Italians do the music & the Germans organise everything. If it's a bad year, the French do the hospitality, the Germans do the music, the British do the cooking & the Italians organise everything" - waitingman

"Human Sacrifice at a Commune Week, and thank you for bringing back the nightmares about THAT movie." - shirenomad

"Midsummer. Named as such despite the fact that it occurs at the beginning of summer and not at all in the middle. English. Don't you just love it." - crystalcazzie

Correct Answer: Midsummer/Midsommar



5. When the giant Aurgelmir was killed, his bodily parts were used to create what world?

"Aurgelworld is a cheap Disney World knockoff, but you can get a package Flight/Hotel/Park/meals deal really cheap right now." - opensprit

"Chicken Itza, because, as we all know, parts is parts." - captainsblog

"You need some real damned good shrooms to come up with 'Hey, man, what if, like, the sky, right. If the sky were like, a skull. And we're inside it.'" - bending_sickle

"I'm sure a future Thor movie will answer this question... I can wait" - waitingman
"Thor just made that up so he could mess with the other Avengers about which parts ended up where." - shirenomad

"Mithgarth the gods from his eyebrows made and set for the sons of men" - b_hulsmans

Correct Answer: Midgard



6. What are you going to do for your midlife crisis?

"I am 38, my midlife crisis isn't scheduled for another 10 years. AT LEAST" - b_hulsmans

(You're never too young to be middle-aged. -AL)

"Shave my car and buy a sportshead" - seekingferret

"I bought a Mustang. With the V-8, six-speed, big honking stereo, etc. And the first thing I did was crank up the Mad Max: Fury Road soundtrack and slap a bunch of nerdy bumper stickers on it" - digitaldiscipline

"Change careers, break up with my boyfriend of 12 years, and take up paddleboarding? So far, so good!" - Kirsten the Chump

"I already had mine. Married a well-hung guy 6 years younger who cost me everything I had and then left me for his boss. 3 years later she STILL calls me to complain about him and I just microwave another bag of popcorn." - Deza

"I got braces 2 weeks ago, at age 49." - Stephanie La Francofille

(...I expected more. -CV)

"I'm either going to take up painting or go on a 47 state killing spree, depending on how the election shakes out." - opensprit

"ot sure, but as an elder millennial I'm like 100% sure I'm gonna record my whole travesty on Instagram with a bunch of trashy pics and me in the middle just peaceing out." - tinknevertalks

Correct Answer: "*prolonged and slightly hysterical laughter*" - bending_sickle



And here we are, at the end of June, in the middle of the year. And what a year! Here's hoping the rest of the year brings you awesomeness and stuff, but we're not Santa Claus, so who knows, maybe you'll just get a swarm of magpies or something.

Thanks for playing, tell your friends, and as always, Be Excellent To Each Other, and Party On, Dudes.

AL&EW&CV

Comments

[germankitty]

Official DWDQEU weekly quotage stats: 13 (out of 40). And we totally rocked question #3. Well done, people! Soon we'll rule the whole quiz!

(Btw, I move to extend an official DWDQEU membership invitation to tinknevertalks; if we include their answers, we'd have scored a total of 17 quotes.)

Oh, and seekingferret? I'm pretty sure you Murricans still outnumber us Europeans to an extraordinary percentage; even collectively, we're hardly a threat you guys. (Yet. Mwahahaha!)

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"'I got braces 2 weeks ago, at age 49.' - Stephanie La Francofille" Been exactly there, done that, too. I feel your pain. (Incidentally, ten years later I needed bridgework anyway. In retrospect, it was 2 years of hassle, discomfort and a waste of money. I'm sure my dentist was happy, though. Meh!)

"You're never too young to be middle-aged. -AL" Hey, at 64 I'm too young to be middle-aged! Screw the numbers, anyway!

[angledge]

Nonsense! germankitty I fully expect you to live to 128, in fine shape & sharing snark right up to the end. #goals

[germankitty]

Awww! *smooches*

[tinknevertalks]

There's a motion to extend an official invitation to me? Ooooh, now I feel all fancy! XD

[crystalcazzie]

Ah, so close to logic-guessing my way to Middle Linebacker! Next time I'll do better. That's my new goal, I've decided, to get an American Football question correct. It'll probably take a while, cos I still suspect that a lot of it is made up jibberish, but I will prevail!

[seekingferret]

Ha. This reminds me of the friend who complained that she never understood any of the math jokes we made in her presence. A little while later, someone made a simple math pun when she wasn't around and we said "You know, I bet she'd get that joke." We rehearsed the joke four or five times so that the next time she was around we could casually work it into a conversation, so she could finally get a math joke.

[chaosvizier]

Your logic was sound! So close, and with American football, that's pretty impressive because there's no logic to that game whatsoever.

[tinknevertalks]

Holy moly, this is like my best week of the DQ ever. Yaaay! XD