DW Daily Answers: 9 November 2020.

[angledge]

It's been a long journey. Though it's only really been going since March, it feels like forever. Every week there was some new question to wrestle with, some new problem for us to face. Really unforgivable things were said. But all seasons come to an end, and this one has reached its close. Plus we're really, really running out of Q-words for the DWDQ reminder acronyms.

Yes, we're talking about the Quiz going back on hiatus, not the election or COVID or anything silly like that. (Some of y'all's puns WERE unforgivable.) Like the fattest of all Fat Bear Week contestants, the Quiz has had great fun and now lumbers into hibernation. But not before one last round of answers!

1. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
Hangin' round downtown by myself
And I had too much caffeine
And I was thinkin' 'bout myself
And then there she was

"Words that Rhyme with Myself" - seekingferret

""Thinkin' 'bout myself' huh? Well, if that's what you want to call it." - crystalcazzie

"I will never understand how many people doing so many drugs got so influential in the music industry. Like, these are objectively terrible lyrics, and that's without having to hear them sung, badly." - digitaldiscipline

"'Spoilt for choice' by Iama Pedophile" - germankitty

"This the original version of 'A Thousand Miles', isn't it?" ntlespino.livejournal.com

(-1 for making me think of Twilight. -AL)

"When I was a kid, I had a music-box that played 'The Candyman'. Is there anything in the Universe as creepy as a music-box playing a cheery tune and sloooowlyyyyyy wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiindiiiiiiiiiiiiiing doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown?" - cmattg

"Polka Power by Weird Al Yankovic" - Laura G
"Sex and Candy, one of numerous 90s songs I first encountered through Weird Al's polka-ized version (I had a very sheltered childhood, music-wise)." - shirenomad

"'Sex and Candy,' Red Hot Chili Peppers" - Stephanie la Francofille

"Lyin in bed, just like Marcy Playground diddddddd...." - captainsblog

"Sex? Maybe. Candy? Halloween leftovers. Playground? Quarantined. Which leaves us with Marcy, and she definitely should not be downtown." - bending_sickle

Correct Answer: "Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground.

"Does Kate Kate still play the quiz? I can't hear this song without thinking of her. Not because she smelled like sex and candy..."
(SURE RIGHT MMMHMMM -CV&AL)
"...to be clear, just because she listened to it a lot in college." - Kirsten the Chump

(And yes, she has played a few times as dreadkingspike. -AL&CV)


2. What Canadian actor and comedian was also co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts?

"Medea" - seekingferret
"Economy’s so bad, a golden fleece only gets you a Canadian football team." - bending_sickle

"Uncle Buck" - digitaldiscipline

"I feel like 'Candi Kain' or something is the only reasonable answer" - cmattg

(Which reminds me, RIP to opera conservatory student turned single teen mother turned punk rock artist turned adult film star turned women's studies major turned legendary blues singer Candye Kane (also a bisexual icon and a philanthropist cofounding a charity supporting disabled musicians). Kinda makes 'Canadian football team owner' pale slightly by comparison. -EW)

"If the first question set the theme, it's either a pedophile or a really sweet guy. As I sincerely hope even our depraved beloved mods would go for option A, I'm gonna go for Tom Hanks. Oh, wait ..." - germankitty

- Laura G

"Jon Bon Jovi's Canadian? No wonder they wouldn't let him buy the Bills!" - captainsblog
"Justin Bieber is into sports management now?" - ntlespino.livejournal.com

"Okay, Canada, you're very international in other respects, so why did you go with American football instead the version everyone else plays? (And then tweak all the rules apparently just because you could?)" - shirenomad

"Jason Candy, John Candy's lesser-known cousin" - Kirsten the Chump

"Must be John Candy!" - Stephanie la Francofille

Correct Answer: "Based on the theme that has to be the Polka King of the Midwest himself, John Candy." - crystalcazzie


3. In what French novella do we find this exchange?
"Optimism? What is that?"
"Alas! It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (but in French)" - digitaldiscipline

"I dunno, sounds more Russian to me..." - Laura G

(You Democrats, always with the "Russia this" & "Russia that". -AL)

- ntlespino.livejournal.com

"Is 'French novella' redundant? Isn't novella already a French word?" - seekingferret

(In English, "novella" means "short novel", usually somewhere between 17,500 words & a NaNoWriMo. -AL)
(And "novella" came from Italian. -EW)

"Le Candyland" - cmattg

"La vie et le temps d'Albus Dumbledore" - germankitty

"Le Petit Prince Deux: Le Boogaloo Electrique" - bending_sickle

"Volt Air! The new electric hoverboard from Chevrolet!" - captainsblog

"Candide, de Voltaire (finally, that French degree is paying off!!)" - Stephanie la Francofille

"Candide, in which this is the best of all possible quizzes." - shirenomad

Correct Answer: "Candide, not to be confused with candida, a yeast that can cause infections in people if it proliferates unchecked in the wrong body environment, or candidates, who can infect people with toxic ideas if they proliferate in the social media environment unchecked." - Kirsten the Chump

"They make a cream for that now." - crystalcazzie


4. In which game do we find Toffette asking the players for help?

"I don't know, but somehow I ship Toffette/Bowsette." - cmattg

"Now I have the mental NSFW images of a combination of Smurfette and sticky toffee." - ntlespino.livejournal.com

"Tofutti Crush" - seekingferret

"Cootie. Toffette has head lice." - Laura G

"Every game. Little Toffette can’t do shit without help." - bending_sickle

(Yeah, she really whines about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. -AL)

"Project Runway, every time the contestants go into a candy store for the 'unconventional materials' challenge" - germankitty

"For a long TWIX! time, I've suffered from MARSBAR! Toffette Syndrome, which can be MILKERDUDDER embarrassing in public situations." - captainsblog

(What exactly is a Milkerudder? Or perhaps I shouldn't ask? -CV)

"Wait, giving the right answer in DWDQ? That's not how this works! That's not how any of this works!" - shirenomad

"Is this Candyland? That game I thought was made up the first time I saw Americans playing it on a TV show?" - crystalcazzie

"True story: When I was little, I was upset at losing a game of Candyland against my dad. He used this as an opportunity to teach me about randomization and chance. The lesson I learned was not to play Candyland with my dad." - Kirsten the Chump

"I was today years old when I learned (okay, surmised) that there's a plot to Candy Land." - digitaldiscipline

Correct Answer: "Candy Crush?? (I have no idea, I've never played)" - Stephanie la Francofille


5. Anthony Tiran Todd plays a recurring role in two horror franchises. One of them is the Final Destination series; what is the other?

"Penultimate Destination" - seekingferret

"The New York Jets. Wait, that was RICHARD Todd." - captainsblog

"I can't watch horror movies." - Stephanie la Francofille

(You & me both, sister! -AL)

"Well I know he was Worf's brother Kurn in both TNG and DS9. Is Star Trek a horror franchise now? Last year I'd have said obviously not, but since we are clearly living in the darkest timeline when nothing makes sense any more, who knows?" - crystalcazzie

"Half-Life. Ah, the Freeman..." - shirenomad

"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZxG79lpJM) ... you did say 'horror', right?" - germankitty

"Sweeney Todd, just so that someone can say 'titular'" - digitaldiscipline

(How well the Quizlings know CV. -EW)

"Friday on Candymare Massacre Street" - Kirsten the Chump

"As a parent, I count Harry Potter as horror." - Laura G

- ntlespino.livejournal.com

"Candyman, Candyman, Candy- *is shot*" - cmattg

Correct Answer: "We once watched Candyman at a sleepover and were all terrified, as tiny teens are wont to be, until we saw the credits. How could we afraid of a man called Tony Todd? It’s the least threatening name!" - bending_sickle

"Also, fun fact, that scene where he has bees in his mouth? Real bees. Funner fact? He negotiated $1,000 extra for each bee sting. Legend." - bending_sickle


6. What is your favorite sweet?

"Oh, no, I can't choose just one!!!" - Stephanie la Francofille

"My mom's brownies. They're just from a mix, but she makes this amazing fudge frosting that elevates them to art. And they don't even have weed in them (even when she was under cancer treatment and we all told her she should (she's fine now!))." - Laura G

"Still the same as the very first one I ever had forty-mumble years ago - plain M&M's." - digitaldiscipline

("Can't improve upon perfection - that's why they call it perfection." - Harry Dresden)

"The Holst Suites for military band are pretty great... oh, you said sweets." - seekingferret

"Victory" - Kirsten the Chump
"Trump's tears." - shirenomad

"I'm a softie for a good hot chocolate with marshmallows. Mmmmm." - ntlespino.livejournal.com

"Super sour gummies. Give me that mouth-watering, tongue-destroying agony." - bending_sickle

"Carob chips." - cmattg

"Sweet, sweet gin." - crystalcazzie

"I've been married 33 years and my birthday is a week after Halloween, so Imma torn here." - captainsblog

"A toss-up between dark chocolate mousse and the sweetest guy I know -- my husband of nearly 40 years!" - germankitty

Correct Answer: WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY, Y'ALL.

And there you have it. Everyone who played this week was a Big Winner! Please continue to follow this community, both here & on Facebook, so you will know when we fire this thing back up.

Rock on & on & on,

AL&CV&EW.

Comments

[germankitty]

*SNIFFLE*

I'm gonna miss you!

[angledge]

We need more players. It's really hard to make Answers from only 8-10 sets of answers. Help us think of ways to get more players & we'll be back before you know it!

[bending_sickle]

Everyone I know is on Tumblr but that website has no concept of time, so I have no clue how to bring players off there.

DWDQ, you will be missed <3 Hopefully not for long, and we’ll be here again.

[digitaldiscipline]

I am also a tumblr person and this kind of shenanigan would probably fly there, if we can figure out how to crosspost (if this then that, maybe?)

[crystalcazzie]

Agreed. Maybe someone could set up a Tumblr blog for the quiz (I've just checked and DWDQ is currently taken but empty. Was that someone here saving it or do we think Dying With Dignity Queensland want to set up a blog?) They could make posts linking to the quiz and the rest of us could reblog them to reach a wider net of people.

I suppose the only issue is that, like bending_sickle said, that place has no concept of time so a weekly quiz may or may not work, but there's no harm in trying. (Also, the posts would have to be pretty eye-catching. Tumblr is a very visual medium and people often scroll past things that don't immediately grab them.)

[crystalcazzie]

Aww, that's a shame. But thank you for all the quizzy fun and goodness you've given us over the weeks. I hope we can encourage more people to join in and the quiz can return in the not too distant future! (Now is probably a good time for a hiatus though, what with Christmas looming...)

And if this is it, I'm very pleased to get a Correct Answer quote in right there at the end! =D