DW Daily Answers: 3 August 2020.
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dwdqHoly cow, it's Monday again! Lots going on today - namely, AL is having surgery to repair a blown wrist tendon - so let's get right to it.
1. Mozart's Symphony No. 25 in G Minor is an example of what literary/musical movement from 18th century Germany?
"Heh, you said 'movement.'" - Deza
"Something Loud!" - Stephanie la Francofille
"Beauxbatons" -seekingferret
(+1, Harry Potter. -EW)
(Durmstrang would have been a better guess. -AL)
"I assume that RuPaul has already done a themed event called 'Sturm und Drag'" -digitaldiscipline
"Hurt in a Sturm? We're a Drang Good Law Firm!" -captainsblog
"Sturm und Drang, usually translated as 'Storm and Stress', but more correctly 'Storm and Urge'. Which kinda makes it sound less angsty and more like bad porn" -germankitty
Correct Answer: Sturm und Drang.
2. Stephanie Clifford, infamous for accepting $130,000 in hush money from Donald Trump, is better known by what name?
"Melania" -seekingferret
"I'm surprised she accepted less than that to have sex with him" -b_hulsmans
"Damn, Daniels, Back at it Again With the Green Stacks!" -bending_sickle
"Susan Collins, who earned the money by saying 'Trump's learned his lesson' after the impeachment hearings." -b7cy
"Only $130,000?? She must have come down in the last shower... maybe that's why they call her Stormy" -waitingman
"Wait, you're telling me that Stormy Daniels is not her real name? I don't know why I'm shocked by that but I am..." -crystalcazzie
(DWDQ: It's all about the learnin'. -AL)
"How many people went for the Deep Throat joke?" - Ntlespino
(Alas, only you. -CV)
Correct Answer: Stormy Daniels.
3. What prison liberation took place on July 14, 1789, freeing four forgers, one lunatic, a failed royal assassin, & a "deviant aristocrat" named the Comte de Solages?
"That’s a great DND group right there." -bending_sickle
"They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground." -shirenomad
(If no one else can help and if you can find it, maybe you can get a +1. -CV)
"Sounds like a Jerry Bruckheimer film just begging to be made... with Nicolas Cage as the lunatic, Sean Connery as the deviant aristocrat & Jason Statham as the assassin with bad aim. and I'd go see it!!!" -waitingman
"The Storm at Rikers Island! (Most people don't realize that the prison is that old. And French.)" -b7cy
"Shit, what do you mean all the executions were yesterday?" - Deza
"The Storming of the Bastille, which got upgraded to a level 4 Royal Upheaval." - Ntlespino
(Nowadays it would be a level 117.08 upheaval, due to inflation. -AL)
Correct Answer: The Storming of the Bastille.
"Fun fact, a friend of mine's great great great etc uncle was the one guarding the Bastille." -b_hulsmans
(He might have been a great uncle but it doesn't sound like he was a great guard. -EW)
4. If you're a cyclonic tempest located in the North Atlantic with one-minute sustained winds of greater than 38 mph but less than 74 mph, you're known as a what?
"I still think Caliban and Ariel are a better love story than Twilight." - Deza
(Calibri and Arial would be a better love story than Twilight. -AL)
(You're a font of knowledge. -CV)
(I hate you. -AL)
"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl." -seekingferret
"An excuse to buy beer, milk, and eggs." -digitaldiscipline
"The Little Cyclone That Could." -crystalcazzie
"A Screamin’ Banshee of the Tropics." -bending_sickle
"Tropic Thunder." - Ntlespino
(That's only when the wind is blowing Ben Stiller. Wait, that came out wrong ...! -EW)
Correct Answer: Tropical Storm.
5. While sheltering on the island of Dragonstone, Queen Raella died giving birth to a
daughter, who was later known by what theme-related honorific?
"The Sword of the Jhereg. She later teamed up with a Dragaeran who actually used swords..." -digitaldiscipline
(Imma stop you right there. Wrong series. -AL)
"Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betaz..." -shirenomad
(Imma stop you right there. Wrong series. -EW)
"Stormy Danaeryls!!! The worst mother 3 dragons could have..."
(Imma stop you right there. Wrong question. -CV)
"Dany 'No really, I've been totally mad all along, haven't you noticed?' Stormborn." -cmattg
"If current American politics set the standard, 'Fucking Bitch.'" - Deza
(DSB is no AOC. Her response would likely be less "speech on the floor of the House" & more "incinerate all of Florida with dragonfire". -AL)
Correct Answer: Daenerys Stormborn.
6. What kinds of weather hazards exist in your part of the world?
"Hailstorms! And excessive exclamation marks!!!" - Stephanie la Francofille
"Hailing bullets lately." - Deza
"Apparently, hail the size of motherfucking softballs and the occasional tornado. I like my meteorological disasters slow moving and easy to predict, thanks, this is some immediate-demise bullshit." -digitaldiscipline
"The sun. Great big flamin’ ball of gas all up in here like it’s god’s own oven and he left the door open." -bending_sickle
"I moved from California to Maryland a decade ago and I'm still not used to how my own sweat tries to murder me now. We used to be friends!" -shirenomad
"Trying to avoid the first 100F day in recorded Buffalo history and not doing a good job of it." -captainsblog
"'Wintry mix,' which is meteorologist-speak for, 'You're going to slip and fall on your ass at least once today.'" -b7cy
"Just 20 typhoons between June and November, 1 guaranteed to be a once in century flood/catastrophe" - Ntlespino
"Is the earth cracking and splitting from an earthquake? Should we run for the hills? ...no, because the drought is even worse up in the hill country." -cmattg
Correct Answer: "What don't we get down here?! Cyclones, Tropical storms, Antarctic Blasts, Fires, Floods, Dry lightning, Heatwaves... it's like Mother Nature is trying to tell us something..." -waitingman
Mother Nature is trying to tell us something - She says, "Good work this week, Quizlings! Now go recruit your friends to play next week's Quiz, or I'll blow your house down!"
What can we say? Mama is a fan.
Rock On!
EW&AL&CV.
1. Mozart's Symphony No. 25 in G Minor is an example of what literary/musical movement from 18th century Germany?
"Heh, you said 'movement.'" - Deza
"Something Loud!" - Stephanie la Francofille
"Beauxbatons" -
seekingferret(+1, Harry Potter. -EW)
(Durmstrang would have been a better guess. -AL)
"I assume that RuPaul has already done a themed event called 'Sturm und Drag'" -
digitaldiscipline"Hurt in a Sturm? We're a Drang Good Law Firm!" -
captainsblog"Sturm und Drang, usually translated as 'Storm and Stress', but more correctly 'Storm and Urge'. Which kinda makes it sound less angsty and more like bad porn" -
germankittyCorrect Answer: Sturm und Drang.
2. Stephanie Clifford, infamous for accepting $130,000 in hush money from Donald Trump, is better known by what name?
"Melania" -
seekingferret"I'm surprised she accepted less than that to have sex with him" -
b_hulsmans"Damn, Daniels, Back at it Again With the Green Stacks!" -
bending_sickle"Susan Collins, who earned the money by saying 'Trump's learned his lesson' after the impeachment hearings." -
b7cy"Only $130,000?? She must have come down in the last shower... maybe that's why they call her Stormy" -
waitingman"Wait, you're telling me that Stormy Daniels is not her real name? I don't know why I'm shocked by that but I am..." -
crystalcazzie(DWDQ: It's all about the learnin'. -AL)
"How many people went for the Deep Throat joke?" - Ntlespino
(Alas, only you. -CV)
Correct Answer: Stormy Daniels.
3. What prison liberation took place on July 14, 1789, freeing four forgers, one lunatic, a failed royal assassin, & a "deviant aristocrat" named the Comte de Solages?
"That’s a great DND group right there." -
bending_sickle"They promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground." -
shirenomad(If no one else can help and if you can find it, maybe you can get a +1. -CV)
"Sounds like a Jerry Bruckheimer film just begging to be made... with Nicolas Cage as the lunatic, Sean Connery as the deviant aristocrat & Jason Statham as the assassin with bad aim. and I'd go see it!!!" -
waitingman"The Storm at Rikers Island! (Most people don't realize that the prison is that old. And French.)" -
b7cy"Shit, what do you mean all the executions were yesterday?" - Deza
"The Storming of the Bastille, which got upgraded to a level 4 Royal Upheaval." - Ntlespino
(Nowadays it would be a level 117.08 upheaval, due to inflation. -AL)
Correct Answer: The Storming of the Bastille.
"Fun fact, a friend of mine's great great great etc uncle was the one guarding the Bastille." -
b_hulsmans(He might have been a great uncle but it doesn't sound like he was a great guard. -EW)
4. If you're a cyclonic tempest located in the North Atlantic with one-minute sustained winds of greater than 38 mph but less than 74 mph, you're known as a what?
"I still think Caliban and Ariel are a better love story than Twilight." - Deza
(Calibri and Arial would be a better love story than Twilight. -AL)
(You're a font of knowledge. -CV)
(I hate you. -AL)
"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl." -
seekingferret"An excuse to buy beer, milk, and eggs." -
digitaldiscipline"The Little Cyclone That Could." -
crystalcazzie"A Screamin’ Banshee of the Tropics." -
bending_sickle"Tropic Thunder." - Ntlespino
(That's only when the wind is blowing Ben Stiller. Wait, that came out wrong ...! -EW)
Correct Answer: Tropical Storm.
5. While sheltering on the island of Dragonstone, Queen Raella died giving birth to a
daughter, who was later known by what theme-related honorific?
"The Sword of the Jhereg. She later teamed up with a Dragaeran who actually used swords..." -
digitaldiscipline(Imma stop you right there. Wrong series. -AL)
"Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betaz..." -
shirenomad(Imma stop you right there. Wrong series. -EW)
"Stormy Danaeryls!!! The worst mother 3 dragons could have..."
(Imma stop you right there. Wrong question. -CV)
"Dany 'No really, I've been totally mad all along, haven't you noticed?' Stormborn." -
cmattg"If current American politics set the standard, 'Fucking Bitch.'" - Deza
(DSB is no AOC. Her response would likely be less "speech on the floor of the House" & more "incinerate all of Florida with dragonfire". -AL)
Correct Answer: Daenerys Stormborn.
6. What kinds of weather hazards exist in your part of the world?
"Hailstorms! And excessive exclamation marks!!!" - Stephanie la Francofille
"Hailing bullets lately." - Deza
"Apparently, hail the size of motherfucking softballs and the occasional tornado. I like my meteorological disasters slow moving and easy to predict, thanks, this is some immediate-demise bullshit." -
digitaldiscipline"The sun. Great big flamin’ ball of gas all up in here like it’s god’s own oven and he left the door open." -
bending_sickle"I moved from California to Maryland a decade ago and I'm still not used to how my own sweat tries to murder me now. We used to be friends!" -
shirenomad"Trying to avoid the first 100F day in recorded Buffalo history and not doing a good job of it." -
captainsblog"'Wintry mix,' which is meteorologist-speak for, 'You're going to slip and fall on your ass at least once today.'" -
b7cy"Just 20 typhoons between June and November, 1 guaranteed to be a once in century flood/catastrophe" - Ntlespino
"Is the earth cracking and splitting from an earthquake? Should we run for the hills? ...no, because the drought is even worse up in the hill country." -
cmattgCorrect Answer: "What don't we get down here?! Cyclones, Tropical storms, Antarctic Blasts, Fires, Floods, Dry lightning, Heatwaves... it's like Mother Nature is trying to tell us something..." -
waitingmanMother Nature is trying to tell us something - She says, "Good work this week, Quizlings! Now go recruit your friends to play next week's Quiz, or I'll blow your house down!"
What can we say? Mama is a fan.
Rock On!
EW&AL&CV.
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