DWDQ Daily Answers: 19 October 2020.
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1. What glum group made all their members swear an oath to be unmarried, landless, crownless, & glory-free, "for this night and all the nights to come"?
"Reddit" -crystalcazzie
"The Knights Of Nih... who are now the Knights who say 'Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!'" -waitingman
(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)
"The Monkees got tired of being accused of monkeying around, and decided to bring everybody down." -digitaldiscipline
"These soulless bastards:
" - ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
ntlespino.livejournal.com
"Proud Boys. Then LGBTQs stole their hashtag and Made It Fabulous Again." -captainsblog
"Incels" - ANONYMOUS,shirenomad
"I prefer pTerry's Nightwatch to this gloomy bunch of incels." -b_hulsmans
Correct Answer: The Night's Watch.
2. When writing about how difficult it was to keep his womenfolk under control, the Roman poet Juvenal asked, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" What does this translate to in English?
References to giant blue peen/balls: 5
"What did they rename Juvenal after he grew up? Matural?" -seekingferret
(He had a small bladder and peed so much, they called him Urinal. -CV)
(God, I hate you. -AL)
"That episode of TNG where the primitive Romulan-wannabes mistake Picard for a god." -crystalcazzie
(They're not wrong. -EW)
"Beware of eunuch's tongues" -ntlespino.livejournal.com
"I am a conspiracy theorist that once had a latin class 15 years ago" -b_hulsmans
"Please stab me, womenfolk" -bending_sickle
Correct Answer: "Who will watch the watchmen?" (or "Who will guard the guards themselves?")
"Which in this context kind of sounds like a script for very boring porn." -germankitty
3. What logical fallacy proposes that Creation is so complicated, it necessarily implies the existence of a Creator?
"it's too complicated to be natural, but apparently you can create that complex system in 6 days" -b_hulsmans
"Ten Simple Arguments Richard Dawkins Doesn't Want You To Know!" -shirenomad
"You never hear of creation myths about 'the guy who got up in the middle of the night to pee and stepped on a lego'" -digitaldiscipline
(Because all the creator Gods who had this happen to them destroyed their Creations in fits of rage. -CV)
"Sir Pratchett said it best: '...the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker. You only had to look around to see that there was room for improvement practically everywhere.'" -bending_sickle
"'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'" -seekingferret
(+1, HHGTTG. Truth be told, I've never read any Douglas Adams. -AL)
"I think it's Heisenberg's principle, but I'm not certain." -captainsblog
(I can tell how quickly you're working this out and SHIT YOU JUST DISAPPEARED WHERE'D YOU GO -EW)
"The Watchmaker Analogy. Still doesn't explain the existence of the Platypus, though." -germankitty
(Behold, the second mystery. -AL)
(*pedantically pushes glasses up nose* TECHNICALLY the platypus is the third mystery since the second was how we come up with a new quiz each week, except for the weeks that we don't. -EW)
Correct Answer: The Watchmaker Analogy.
4. What accessory brand, introduced in 1983, was designed to be a cheap mechanical competitor to digital alternatives such as Seiko and Citizen?
"1983. Great year. BDSM was invented then, you know." -crystalcazzie
(My goodness, that was a weird review. -AL)
"SunDial" -seekingferret
(More like 83 BCE... -EW)
"I may be one of the few members of Gen X never to have worn a Swatch (I had a cheap Casio and a wicked case of watch tan)" -digitaldiscipline
"What do you mean you need to wear seven watches at once?" - ANONYMOUS
(Look, the Eighties were weird. -CV)
"I remember the Swatch!! Peak 80s plastic culture... I think I still have mine in a drawer somewhere" -waitingman
"A SWATCH is a piece of cloth, you goons." -cmattg
Correct Answer: Swatch.
5. David Hasselhoff and Dwayne Johnson are the main characters (but not the titular ones) in what TV series and movie adaptation respectively?
(I am required to inform that I was wholly responsible for this question. In case there was any doubt. -CV)
(There was no doubt. -AL&EW)
"Never was 'hee hee, you said 'tits!' more à propos (and because 'Tits and Ass' was not PC enough for Prime Time)." -germankitty
"Don't sell Dwayne Johnson's titulars short" -seekingferret
"Some variation of [Pamela Anderson] + [titular]" -digitaldiscipline, b_hulsmans, cmattg, crystalcazzie, waitingman
(Oddly enough, Spongebob Squarepants received two mentions. -CV)
"Yeah, I know it's Baywatch, but now you have me wanting Dwayne Johnson in a Knight Rider reboot." -shirenomad
"You probably don’t need to see this (honestly, nobody does) but Ye Olde Internet has eternally linked this image with the name David Hasselhoff. Suffer with me.
" - bending_sickle
Correct Answer: Baywatch.
6. Tell us a story where you got something done in the nick of time.
"To continue the Douglas Adams theme, 'I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'" -seekingferret
(Hmmm, maybe I need to read some of his stuff. -AL)
"Scouts have until their 18th birthday to meet all the requirements for Eagle Scout. They can start working toward it at age 12. I was still five merits badges and a service project short with a month to go, and turned in my last requirement at 9pm the day of." -shirenomad
(Last one earned was the Procrastination badge. -AL)
"Oh, is that what we call boffing in the TARDIS now?" -digitaldiscipline
"Played a Bonnie Raitt song?" -captainsblog
(+1, redhead. -AL)
"Freshman Year, Communication II. In my defense, I was left unsupervised the whole semester (Prof had multiple seminars overseas), so I had to cram notecards, precis, drafts, and final for publication term paper on early female Christian Saints and Deacons in 24 hours." -ntlespino.livejournal.com
(At least you had a list of intercessionaries to pray to for help? -EW)
"I work in IT, anything I do is done in the nick of time" -b_hulsmans
"I don't think I have any stories like that. I'm the kind of person who annoys my friends and family by insisting we arrive at the airport twelve hours early just in case." -crystalcazzie
Correct Answer: "Back in the days when our subway trains had manual doors, kids used to leave them open & hang out the doors while the train was in the tunnel. The one time I did it, I pulled myself back into the carriage just as the train diverted into a narrower tunnel that would have sent me to meet the Intelligent Designer well in advance of my expected expiry date... Never did it again!!" -waitingman
We are glad you survived to adulthood - all of you lovely Quizlings! Thanks for playing this week's Quiz. As a favor to the mods (& a birthday present for AL, who turns 47 tomorrow) please invite your friends to join us! The quiz gets funnier when more people play!
Rock on,
CV&EW&AL.
1. What glum group made all their members swear an oath to be unmarried, landless, crownless, & glory-free, "for this night and all the nights to come"?
"Reddit" -
crystalcazzie"The Knights Of Nih... who are now the Knights who say 'Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!'" -
waitingman(+1, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. -CV)
"The Monkees got tired of being accused of monkeying around, and decided to bring everybody down." -
digitaldiscipline"These soulless bastards:
" - ntlespino.livejournal.com"Proud Boys. Then LGBTQs stole their hashtag and Made It Fabulous Again." -
captainsblog"Incels" - ANONYMOUS,
shirenomad"I prefer pTerry's Nightwatch to this gloomy bunch of incels." -
b_hulsmansCorrect Answer: The Night's Watch.
2. When writing about how difficult it was to keep his womenfolk under control, the Roman poet Juvenal asked, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" What does this translate to in English?
References to giant blue peen/balls: 5
"What did they rename Juvenal after he grew up? Matural?" -
seekingferret(He had a small bladder and peed so much, they called him Urinal. -CV)
(God, I hate you. -AL)
"That episode of TNG where the primitive Romulan-wannabes mistake Picard for a god." -
crystalcazzie(They're not wrong. -EW)
"Beware of eunuch's tongues" -
ntlespino.livejournal.com"I am a conspiracy theorist that once had a latin class 15 years ago" -
b_hulsmans"Please stab me, womenfolk" -
bending_sickleCorrect Answer: "Who will watch the watchmen?" (or "Who will guard the guards themselves?")
"Which in this context kind of sounds like a script for very boring porn." -
germankitty3. What logical fallacy proposes that Creation is so complicated, it necessarily implies the existence of a Creator?
"it's too complicated to be natural, but apparently you can create that complex system in 6 days" -
b_hulsmans"Ten Simple Arguments Richard Dawkins Doesn't Want You To Know!" -
shirenomad"You never hear of creation myths about 'the guy who got up in the middle of the night to pee and stepped on a lego'" -
digitaldiscipline(Because all the creator Gods who had this happen to them destroyed their Creations in fits of rage. -CV)
"Sir Pratchett said it best: '...the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker. You only had to look around to see that there was room for improvement practically everywhere.'" -
bending_sickle"'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'" -
seekingferret(+1, HHGTTG. Truth be told, I've never read any Douglas Adams. -AL)
"I think it's Heisenberg's principle, but I'm not certain." -
captainsblog(I can tell how quickly you're working this out and SHIT YOU JUST DISAPPEARED WHERE'D YOU GO -EW)
"The Watchmaker Analogy. Still doesn't explain the existence of the Platypus, though." -
germankitty(Behold, the second mystery. -AL)
(*pedantically pushes glasses up nose* TECHNICALLY the platypus is the third mystery since the second was how we come up with a new quiz each week, except for the weeks that we don't. -EW)
Correct Answer: The Watchmaker Analogy.
4. What accessory brand, introduced in 1983, was designed to be a cheap mechanical competitor to digital alternatives such as Seiko and Citizen?
"1983. Great year. BDSM was invented then, you know." -
crystalcazzie(My goodness, that was a weird review. -AL)
"SunDial" -
seekingferret(More like 83 BCE... -EW)
"I may be one of the few members of Gen X never to have worn a Swatch (I had a cheap Casio and a wicked case of watch tan)" -
digitaldiscipline"What do you mean you need to wear seven watches at once?" - ANONYMOUS
(Look, the Eighties were weird. -CV)
"I remember the Swatch!! Peak 80s plastic culture... I think I still have mine in a drawer somewhere" -
waitingman"A SWATCH is a piece of cloth, you goons." -
cmattgCorrect Answer: Swatch.
5. David Hasselhoff and Dwayne Johnson are the main characters (but not the titular ones) in what TV series and movie adaptation respectively?
(I am required to inform that I was wholly responsible for this question. In case there was any doubt. -CV)
(There was no doubt. -AL&EW)
"Never was 'hee hee, you said 'tits!' more à propos (and because 'Tits and Ass' was not PC enough for Prime Time)." -
germankitty"Don't sell Dwayne Johnson's titulars short" -
seekingferret"Some variation of [Pamela Anderson] + [titular]" -
digitaldiscipline, b_hulsmans, cmattg, crystalcazzie, waitingman(Oddly enough, Spongebob Squarepants received two mentions. -CV)
"Yeah, I know it's Baywatch, but now you have me wanting Dwayne Johnson in a Knight Rider reboot." -
shirenomad"You probably don’t need to see this (honestly, nobody does) but Ye Olde Internet has eternally linked this image with the name David Hasselhoff. Suffer with me.
" - bending_sickleCorrect Answer: Baywatch.
6. Tell us a story where you got something done in the nick of time.
"To continue the Douglas Adams theme, 'I like deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.'" -
seekingferret(Hmmm, maybe I need to read some of his stuff. -AL)
"Scouts have until their 18th birthday to meet all the requirements for Eagle Scout. They can start working toward it at age 12. I was still five merits badges and a service project short with a month to go, and turned in my last requirement at 9pm the day of." -
shirenomad(Last one earned was the Procrastination badge. -AL)
"Oh, is that what we call boffing in the TARDIS now?" -
digitaldiscipline"Played a Bonnie Raitt song?" -
captainsblog(+1, redhead. -AL)
"Freshman Year, Communication II. In my defense, I was left unsupervised the whole semester (Prof had multiple seminars overseas), so I had to cram notecards, precis, drafts, and final for publication term paper on early female Christian Saints and Deacons in 24 hours." -
ntlespino.livejournal.com(At least you had a list of intercessionaries to pray to for help? -EW)
"I work in IT, anything I do is done in the nick of time" -
b_hulsmans"I don't think I have any stories like that. I'm the kind of person who annoys my friends and family by insisting we arrive at the airport twelve hours early just in case." -
crystalcazzieCorrect Answer: "Back in the days when our subway trains had manual doors, kids used to leave them open & hang out the doors while the train was in the tunnel. The one time I did it, I pulled myself back into the carriage just as the train diverted into a narrower tunnel that would have sent me to meet the Intelligent Designer well in advance of my expected expiry date... Never did it again!!" -
waitingmanWe are glad you survived to adulthood - all of you lovely Quizlings! Thanks for playing this week's Quiz. As a favor to the mods (& a birthday present for AL, who turns 47 tomorrow) please invite your friends to join us! The quiz gets funnier when more people play!
Rock on,
CV&EW&AL.
