DW Daily Quiz: 26 September 2011

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1. Grimm fairy tales 53 and 161 share a very similarly-named character; what is her English name?

"These are not the droids you are looking for" - holmes221b

"Snooki" - fragbert

"Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister" - akiyasan

(Yes, we know who she is. – LL)

"Selina, because you can always find a distressed damSEL IN A fairy tale." - demon_666

(That was quite a stretch, but I'll give you half credit. -CV)

"There are some who call her... Tim" - domestik_fucker

"ThumbeCinderPunzeling Beauty" - mattwolf

(Amazinging, zero out of four. -CV)

"Sue Storm. She divorced Reed and married Ben, because she wanted someone rock solid." - seferin

"Snow White. Not sure who Rose Red was. It's like Snow was George Michael and Rose was...the other dude in Wham!" - kristinmachina

"The Brothers Grimm can suck my big ugly toe. I prefer Disney's versions which are less depressing and have less of the cutting up/burning/eating of bad guys." - ifeedformula

Correct Answer: Snow White

"More popular than Snow Yellow, who didn't get a Disney film of her own. (Just a cameo in the Cuba Gooding Jr flick about sled dogs)" - thepikey

(She had a whole song by Zappa about her… - LL)



2. Shêtân is the titular character in which 1941 book?

"First: haha, titular. Second: oh, no, that's all I've got for this one." - mistyraven

"Such a man, you see ^^ in a name and have to use the word 'Tit.'" - love2loveher

(We put the 'cum' in 'circumflex'. -CV)
(WE DO NOT. -AL&LL)

"To Serve Man" - wiredwizard

(+1, The Twilight Zone. -CV)

"Once upon a Shêtân... twas a bestseller in eastern slovakia" - b_hulsmans

"Could it be... Satan!?!!" - squeegibo

(+1, Saturday Night Live. -CV)

"I find it challenging to envision Satan with nice tits this early in the morning. Get back to me after vodka-thirty." - etcet

"Mr. Díâçrïtïçål" - eyeharvester

"if Shêtân is the titular character, wouldn't the book have to be titled Shêtân?" - david_deacon

(...kinda. -CV)

"Beyonce" - thalen

"Wyld Stallyns!" - zihuatanejo

(Full credit. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Black Stallion



3. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what is the best-selling single of all time?

"Single what? Record single? Single pubic hair? What?" - ifeedformula

(Normally this would have been where one of you said "Your Mom is a best selling single, if you know what I mean." I am disappointed that no one took that route. -CV)

"The Kraft single, of course" - johnwwells, eyeharvester

"The Bible! (You didn't say single WHAT.)" - yamx

(Again, someone would say that Your Mom's blessings are way more popular. -CV)

"Paris Hilton" - alfvaen, thalen

"Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six." - drbear

(If you have more than two breasts, we've found Your Mom. -CV)

"'Back in Black'. 'Nights in White Satin'. 'White Room'. 'White Light, White Heat'! Am I getting warm?" - kristinmachina

(This is more classic, like "That Old Black Magic". Not like "Black Hole Sun" or "White Wedding." -CV)

"I'd guess 'Never Gonna Give You Up' but I think we all know the people who would want to listen to that song would just download it illegally." - mistyraven, la_trombonista, domestik_fucker

"I've probably helped propel Guinness Stout to the top of many a sales list..." - thepikey

(I was at a bar where they were having a charity where, for every pint of Guinness purchased, they would give to something or other. I have never been so charitable in my life, I assure you. -CV)

"Yo Elton, I'm real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Bing Crosby had the best selling single of all time! Of ALL TIME! *shrug*" - secret_weapon

Correct Answer: Bing Crosby singing "White Christmas"

"Since Kim Kardashian got married the position has been empty" - wiredwizard, tweeti



4. The Bosphorus Strait connects the Sea of Marmara to what body of water?

"That's nobody's business but the Turks." - secret_weapon

(+1, TMBG. -CV)

"The Vitamin Sea" - i_calql8

"The Specific Ocean" - eelylove

"The Sea of Parpara" - drbear

"Zan from the Wonder Twins" - thalen

"Mar-mar-mar...mar-mar-Marmara Ann..." - alfvaen

"Marmara sounds like 'marmite', so clearly this is Australian. I'll say Foster's Sea." - thepikey

"Phosphorus Marsala? Now I'm simultaneously hungry and suffering from chemical burns." - fragbert

(The hot sauce is REALLY fucking hot. -CV)

"Historians like to talk about how Xerxes ordered the Bosphorous whipped. What is rarely mentioned is that the Bosphorous liked it and begged for more." - zihuatanejo

"The first time I saw the Med, I was so happy to see a body of water that I cried. I'll grant you that living in the desert for year may have had something to do with that." - raphsody606

"I'm assuming the Black Sea, but that's kind of boring. I guess if there was a terrible oil spill in it, it would be, like, film noir." - florahart

Correct Answer: The Black Sea

"And the Dardanelles connects it to the Aegean Sea. (And the Aegean Sea is connected to the Mediterranean Sea. And the Mediterranean sea is connected to Kevin Bacon.)" - blumsha



5. Who is the oldest person to ever be a guest host on "Saturday Night Live"?

"It has to be Hugh Hefner because he is older than GOD. And that's pretty damn old." - ifeedformula, la_trombonista

(And hence the expression "the oldest profession". -CV)

"King Tut" - mattwolf

"Phil Rizzuto" - babarienne

"Milton Berle - wait, he had the oldest jokes" - drbear

(Still does, my friend. He still does. -CV)

"Methusela . . . Oh, crap I mixed up SNL with the Bible again" - demon_666

"Yer Mom 'guest hosted' the entire NBC network, does that count?" - thepikey

"John Shaft. Man, that Richard Roundtree is one old mutha..." - i_calql8

(Shut your mouth! -CV)

"I remember that she was famous for her muffin." - tweeti

"I wonder how Shweddy Balls taste served on Dusty Muffins." - zihuatanejo

(We could always ask Colonel Angus. -CV)

"It would kick ass if the answer is actually George Burns, but I'm not sure the show's ever been funny enough for him to have done it." - etcet

"Betty Davis is a terrifying woman. She hits on everything that moves." - raphsody606

"Betty white, she's the only old person worth knowing. Plus she's funny as hell. If hell was an 80year old little lady...." - b_hulsmans

(If you're driving behind one, it certainly is. -CV)

"" - kristinmachina

Correct Answer: Betty White



6. The formula r_s = 2*G*m/c² describes what physical boundary?

"I was told there would be no math." - drbear

(Let’s go shopping! – LL)

"Christina Hendrick's bra." - wiredwizard

"R and S are the last two letters of 'Waters', G is the first letter of Gilmour, and 2*m/c2 is utter nonsense, just like Syd Barrett, so the answer is Pink Floyd: The Wall." - fragbert

(And this week's gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation goes to... fragbert! -CV)

"I dunno. I've never had any sense of boundaries. Maybe that's why all those restraining orders..." - yamx

"The point at which robots acquire souls" - florahart

"The Great Wall of China" - barbarienne

(Where r is the regarry estabrished rength of the warr, G is a gong, m is the number of Mongols involved, and c is how many cats were used for dinner. -CV)

"My restraining order. It's against a mathematician so it needs to be precise" - drunken_hedghog

"The outer limits of the sideburns that Hugh Jackman had as Wolverine" - alfvaen

"When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, we're going to see some serious shit" - secret_weapon

(That will take a lot of jiggawatts. -CV)

"The Schwarzenegger Radius = distance between you and the chopper you much get to. DO IT! DO IT NOW!" - thepikey

"Event Horizon, and what a damn creepy movie that was" - zihuatanejo

(Sam Neill was so nice in Jurassic Park... and then he did that. -CV)

"Not only do I know the answer, I know the answer even though I'd never actually seen the formula before. And I hadn't even figured out the theme yet; I just deduced it from the physics. May I have a Geek of the Week Award, please?" - blumsha

(Given that you didn't actually answer, I'm going to say you're bluffing and call your hand. I've got four kings. -CV)

"The Schwarzchild radius or "event horizon," where c is the speed of light, G is the gravitational constant, and m is the mass of Your Mom." - johnwwells, squeegibo, eyeharvester

Correct Answer: The Schwarzschild Radius



7. What is the largest city in Morocco?

"You're stretching it again by putting foreign words into the theme, right?" - germankitty

(Damn straight. -CV)

"They have cities in Morocco?" - tweeti

"Fez" - ifeedformula, demon_666
"I don't remember the name, but the Fez is familiar." - drbear

"Cous Cous - the town so nice, they named it twice!" - thepikey

"The Casbah" - drunken_hedghog

"Alltheginjoints, Morocco" - seekingferret

"There's a morocco in my shoe!" - mattwolf

"Wouldn't that be the entire island itself?" - akiyasan

(...which island exactly are you referring to? -CV)

"'Ooo, Ingrid Bergman, now she's low maintenance.'
'Low maintenance?'
'There are two kinds of women. High maintenance and low maintenance.'
'And Ingrid Bergman is low maintenance?'
'An LM, definitely.'
'Which one am I?'
'You're the worst kind. You're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.'" - barbarienne

(+1, When Humphrey Met Ingrid Harry Met Sally. -CV)

"Well, I remember that in Casablanca, Rick said that they'd always have Paris. So I'm gonna guess Paris." - johnwwells

"Casablanca. If it's anything like Tangier, expect to be surrounded by dudes trying to sell you lots of cheap crap, and cats. Lots of cats." - kristinmachina

(The dudes are trying to sell you lots of cats? Are they cheap? -CV)

Correct Answer: Casablanca



8. Tony Iommi is the guitarist for which heavy metal band?

"If you don't know this is KISS, then you don't know jack, buster. And Gene Simmons will beat down your door, shove his tongue down your throat and make you gag. YAH! PHEER TEH TONGUE!" - ifeedformula

(I think you're about to do some tungpheering shortly. -CV)

"Disaster Area" - secret_weapon

(+1, HHGTTG. -CV)

"There's more than one? I thought they were just one band, and changed outfits occasionally" - seferin

"Based on my teenager's heavy metal t-shirt collection, I'm going to just point out that 'has to do with black' doesn't narrow the field in any way." - florahart

"Billy and the Boingers" - i_calql8

(Ack! – LL)

"Tony Iommi sounds like Tamiami, which names a road running from Tampa to Miami, through the Everglades, where there are a lot of snakes, so I'm going to say Poison. Though I suppose Whitesnake might fit the theme better..." - squeegibo

(And this week's second gruyere Award for Logic Renunciation goes to... squeegibo! -CV)

"Tony the Tigers Extremely Frosted Flakes" - akiyasan

"The 1910 Fruitgum Co., which saluted him with the song 'Iommi, Iommi, Iommi, I've Got Love in My Tummy.'" - drbear

"The Iommi Bears" - wiredwizard

(Strumming here and there and everywhere! Biting puppies' heads off with such flair!

"They put the song Iron Man in the Marvel film? Really guise?" - thepikey

(Come on. It was destined to happen. -CV)

"My lady bits are melting as I listen to 'N.I.B.'" - mandydax

"Black 'We Kicked Out Ozzy And No One's Heard From Him Since' Sabbath" - fragbert

(Well, Ozzy did get his own reality show. Iommi didn't fare so well. -CV)

"I am wondering how different Black Sabbath would have sounded with Tony Yo Yo Ma as one of their musicians" - etcet

Correct Answer: Black Sabbath



9. Two rivers named Yar can be found on which island?

(Number of Tasha Yar related answers: plethora. -CV)
(Number of Pirate related answers: half-plethora. -CV)

"I'm guessing that the guy that discovered and named them was drunk" - domestik_fucker

(British Island? You think? -CV)

"Over Yon-dar" - mattwolf

(Yon-dar was Thundarr's southern cousin. -CV)

"Redundant Island Island Redundant" - primavera

(Intergalactic Planetary Planetary Intergalactic. -CV)

"What with the limited creativity displayed here, I'm gonna bet that the two rivers Yar are on the island of Yar." - eyeharvester

(Yar'd think so. -CV)

"I don't know, but I've stood on the Yar-Yar Banks." - drbear, i_calql8

(This could be the first time in history that a Jar-Jar joke was funny. Full credit. -CV)

"The Isle of Wight, where can be found the ancient Kingdom of Florin, location of romantic getaways. Sip Iocaine cocktails as you share the views from the Cliffs of Insanity, then go cuddle in the Fire Swamp, and fall in wuv, twoo wuv!" - thepikey

(Wow... the island seemed much bigger in the film. -CV)

Correct Answer: The Isle of Wight



10. According to Rush, who must "forge their creativity closer to the heart"?

"Cardiac Surgeons" - drbear, seferin
"Robert Jarvik" - i_calql8

"Jack Black" - germankitty

"They're Canadian, so I'll say 'hockey players and poutine makers'. Eww." - thepikey

"Couldn't tell you. I make it a principle not to listen to anything Limbaugh says." - yamx

"Was that the extraterrestrials on the starship?" - zihuatanejo

(No, that was the other four-letter band. -CV)

"Tom Sawyer" - squeegibo

"That's what my art teacher used to say. I'd have liked her a lot more if I'd known she was quoting Rush." - drunken_hedghog

"Of all the Rush songs to pick, you had to pick that simplistic and overplayed crock of tripe?" - fragbert

(Eeeexcellent. I can feel the hate swelling within you. -CV)

"Sauron forged things right? Out of fire? Like rings and shit? Well, maybe not shit. I don't think Tolkien was very specific on how Sauron went about relieving his bowels. Did he even have bowels? Maybe all that fire was really just explosive diarrhea... Somehow I don't think I'm on the right track here." - mistyraven

"The blacksmith and the artist. Who are united by their ability to...forge? Apparently Neil Peart didn't think much of the originality of artists. Must have bought one of those fake Vermeer paintings." - alfvaen

(Hey, it still takes a good artist to forge another artist's schtick. -CV)

"There is no 'must' for the blacksmith and artist in the song. It's 'they forge their creativity'. The 'must' is on the men who hold high places." - barbarienne

(I think the "must" is silent. But +1 for the proper correction. -CV)

Correct Answer: "The blacksmith and the artist"



11. What are you extreme about?

"Nothing.Extreme is way toomuch work!" - germankitty

"Yarn. Well..fiber of any kind really. I picked up knitting a few years ago and turned into some sort of weird rabid fiber fan. OOOH Alpaca? Where? Gimme!" - ifeedformula
"Extreme knitting. It sounds lame, but seriously. Knitting ontop a tightrope with no harness is fucking terrifying yo." - eelylove

"Moderation" - drbear, mistyraven, johnwwells, squeegibo, alfvaen, zihuatanejo, majorsamfan

"I'm pretty extreme about normality. I like to live in an X-TREME boring beige house in an X-TREME suburban community, and I then commute in my X-TREME Volvo station wagon to my X-TREME white collar office job, where I enter data into X-TREME spreadsheets. It's pretty hardcore, I know; a lot of people don't understand." - eyeharvester

"I was not aware that extreme cakes was a thing. My life is now complete." - secret_weapon

"Plagiarism. This may not sound funny, but you should see students I catch at it after I'm through with them..." - yamx

"EXTREMEINATE EXTREMEINATE" - akiyasan

(Dalek Spell Checker requires maintenance, badly. -CV)

"LJDQ. I'm answering the quiz while hanging upside down from the tail of a space ship." - seekingferret

"Loafing. It takes a lot of control, and preferably a broken hip to loaf this hard." - drunken_hedghog

"Traveling. This year I hope to knock off at least three new countries on the 'Travel the World' bit." - raphsody606

"True story: Back in the mid-90's, I had long black hair, and a very good photograph was taken of me (by my mom) as I was getting ready to go to a friend's wedding. I sent a copy of the print (you remember those - glossy, came from the drug store?) to the girl I was then kind-of-seeing, who kept it on her desk at work. As she told me later, he boss happened by and remarked, 'Is that the picture that came with the frame, or do you have a thing for Nuno Battencourt?'" - etcet

(That's called Extreme Irony. -CV)

"BEAR-BLASTING AND HUMP-CATTING!" - mandydax

(YOU'LL EVEN WIN AT IRONY! -CV)




And there you have it, in black and white. No middle ground. No hazy gray areas. Just pure black and white extremeness! Cue Frank Gorshin here. Geek of the week points for anyone who got that.

September is finally done, and with it all the EXTREEEEEME work I've been doing. Be nice to settle back down and relax. But for the rest of you there is no change; there is only quiz! But that's tomorrow. Today you can enjoy the delicious and nutricious quiz of the day.

Hope you enjoyed, tell all your friends, and we will see you again tomorrow for more goodness!

Rock On!

CV