DW Daily Answers: 31 October 2011

[chaosvizier]

"Gee, that's a familiar well you're going back to..." - scifantasy

Hush, you.

1. What was the nickname of football player Harold Edward Grange?

"Hermione" - 22 of you

"Grange turned Grunge before grunge was even cool man!" - akiyasan

"Home on the Grange" - sskipstress

"Frahnk-en-shteen" - domestik_fucker

"NAMBLA" - many_from_one

"Most High Grand Funkmaster" - freezer818

"Ghostrider in the Sky" - germankitty

"With a name like that, I'm inclined to think that by 'Football' you mean 'Soccer.'" - love2loveher, angelprojekt

"Red" - 4 of you, who are technically correct

Correct Answer: The Galloping Ghost, although "Red" was another nickname he had



2. Fun with lyrics! Name the song and the band:
He's the hairy, hairy gent, who ran amok in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
You better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out Jim

“Dammit, Jim, I'm a Doctor Not a Zoologist!" - yamx
“Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a musician!" - operatic_diva

“I can't guess because the 'hairy, hairy gent' line keeps making me think of my former boss's proclamation that he likes his men burly and hairy. actually, he specifically said: 'If I don't cough up a furball after sex, it wasn't adequate.'--yeah. it was that kind of workplace." - cold_clarity

(What is this I don’t even... - LL)

"Roly-poly fishheads are never seen drinking capachino in Italian restaurants with oriental women. The more you know!" - kenshardik

(+1, Fish Heads. -CV)

"" - i_calql8

“Dear Kid Rock: Warren Zevon and Lynyrd Skynyrd want their songs back." - n5iln

“as long as he only rips out the lungs of guys named Jim, I shouldn't have to cancel my trip to Mayfair." - la_trombonista

“This is the part where I guess that it's probably Werewolves of London, and then I admit that I don't actually know the song or who sang it, but I'm not going to Google it to find out. I have my pride! Kind of." - kamalloy

"Since when do werewolves need tailors?" - elbiesee

(Well, they probably shred their clothes at least once a month, unless they get nekkid in advance. -CV)

"I thought he was the hairy handed gent" - zihuatanejo, thepikey

(Even werewolves need a little self-gratification now and then, if you know what I mean. -CV)

"As a Londoner, I would like to clarify there are no werewolves in London - it's not as if you can ever see the Moon through all the fog anyway." - many_from_one

Correct Answer: "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon



3. What comic strip character, created in 1936, was often known as "The Ghost Who Walks"?

"The Late Johnny Walker" - yamx

"The one who was absent the day Tinkerbell distributed pixie dust to the ghosts" - sskipstress

"The Goddamn Flash" - seferin

"For some reason I eyes skipped over the word comic and just saw 'strip'. Then I saw 'The Ghost Who Walks'. From there I thought about how inconvenient it would be if you had to strip in order to be invisible." - raphsody606

(Go rent the movie "Mystery Men". -CV)

"Dale Earnhardt. He has to walk because his car got wrecked. (Too soon?)" - mandydax

(Over here, it's never too soon. -CV)

"Casper van Diem" - thalen

(Even his career isn't that friendly of a ghost... -CV)

“Dagwood. A year of sex with Blondie and he was almost dead." - drbear

“Ancient comic strip ghost, I'll go with 'Not Me' or 'Ida Know'. (I fucking hate the Family Circus)" - thepikey

“Isn't that the Phantom? I remember, from that hideous movie with annoying Billy Zane and the more recent mini-series with the much hotter and less annoying Ryan Carnes." - b_hulsmans
“I think this is The Phantom. Billy Zane was so hot in those purple tights. Okay, in hindsight, maybe I was a little delirious blind confused in my youth. In my defence I really like superheroes who ride horses." - demon_666

"the Phantom! As opposed to the Spirit, the Shadow, the Sandman, the Mystery, and that dude in the sunglasses and hat, but really most memorable for a movie starring Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta-Jones, pre- Zorro and Mike, wearing leather. Mmmm.... leather. Mmmmm ...CZJ..." - jenna_thorn

“The Phantom, aka Kip Walker. If your name was 'Kip Walker' you'd want to be known as something cool like 'The Ghost Who Walks' or 'The Iguana That Lounges' or something." - kenshardik

(You think you’d come up with a cooler outfit color than dark lavender though... - LL)

"These days hardly anyone ever calls him that, except in narration footnotes explaining why, in his non-costumed identity, he uses the name 'Walker.'" - elsajeni

“Mr. 'I'll just sneak around the jungle in bright purple longjohns.'" - primavera

"Sorry, there's no smoking in The Skull Cave" - ironjeff

Correct Answer: The Phantom



4. Ernst Stavro Blofeld was the leader of which fictional organization?

"Dude, you said BlowField" - love2loveher

“that name is missing so many vowels." - cold_clarity

“Was it SMERSH? I don't really care, I just love to say 'smersh.'" - primavera
“I keep thinking SMURCH is a funny organization from some movie, but damned if I can remember which one." - kenshardik

"The Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem. He made his Persian cat a mask that would let it track mice through walls - hey, it's one way to keep the pests down." - sjl

"the Logistics and Operations Blofeld Corporation, or LO-Blo Co." - angelprojekt

"KAOS, a Delaware Corporation" - mandydax

"S.H.I.E.L.D." - kristinmachina

"Torchwood" - domestik_fucker

"FEMA" - wiredwizard

(No wonder AL was so secretive about those paychecks... -CV)

"G.R.O.S.S. He seized power after Bond shut down his spy network. I'm not sure he's a good influence on Calvin though, he keeps putting Hobbes in his lap while stroking him." - demon_666

“The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." - alfvaen

"The Anti-Bond-But-Pro-Cat-League" - yamx

“COBRA. (Sorry... COOOOOOOOBRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!)"- freezer818

"Phil Spector" - thalen

“SPECTRE destroyed Constantinople. Curiously, they left Istanbul intact. Geographers everywhere were puzzled." - n5iln

Correct Answer: SPECTRE (The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion)

"Now known as The Republican Party." - ironjeff and 6 others



5. What is the name of the most recent album released by the heavy metal band Psychostick?

“Who invents these names? A demented woodchuck?" - b_hulsmans, domestik_fucker

"Ride This Stick, Lady Gaga" - elbiesee

"I suppose I should thank you. I had earwormed myself with Werewolves of London and now Lady Gaga and her disco stick have dislodged it. No, wait, I'm not thanking you for that." - jenna_thorn

“Mother! Mother!" - majorsamfan

"Psychostick just makes me think of crab sticks, and I now all I want is seafood. Mmmmmm seafood" - operatic_diva

“How the hell should I know? I only listen to Vocaloid songs and Touhou remixes!" - la_trombonista

(My kid wants to be Rin for Hallowe’en... WTF?!?! - LL)

"THIS. IS. MY. PSYCHOSTICK!!!! *boom*" - ifeedformula

"Hit Me With Your Psychostick" - germankitty

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick/I wanna take a ride on your Psychostick!" - kristinmachina, zihuatanejo

(Psychostick rides are $5 the first minute, $2.50 each additional minute. -CV)

"Accoustick" - yamx

“Psychostick In The Middle With You." - many_from_one

"Got Treatment and Now Pretty Stable-stick" - angelprojekt

(I can't wait for Relapsestick and Straitjacketstick. -CV)

Correct Answer: "Space Vampires Vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D"



6. What's your favorite monster of all time? Why?

“Michael Bay. It's scary how much money he spends on all those special effects, but then can't afford a decent screenwriter. Great, I'll have nightmares all week again now." - elbiesee

"Dick Cheney. Don't even need to Photoshop him to make him scary." - mandydax

"" - drbear

"Cookie Monster ever since he's decided that cookies are a sometimes food. That means after he finds them, there's still plenty left for me." - sskipstress
"Cookie Monster. He loves cookies (and who doesn't identify with that?) but he'll eat anything. And I love a man (er, monster) who will eat anything." - angelprojekt

“Godzilla! Because Mechagodzilla is technically a robot." - primavera

"Gamera. He is friend to children!" - freezer818

"James P. Sullivan. Have I already told the story of how I won a big stuffed Sully by typing with my nose?" - alfvaen

(...no. But now I am curious. MIKE WAZOWSKI!!! -CV)

“Mortimer! Bugs Bunny knows since it's always so interesting to meet such interesting monsters!" - akiyasan

“Gort. Because, you know, Klaatu barada nikto." - n5iln

“Cthulhu, because he has a themesong, a long biography, and his own island" - seferin

“Daleks. Daleks are cool..." - wiredwizard

(Must get new reading glasses; I misread this as "dykes" and... uh, fail. -CV)

"The one eyed one horned flying chartreuse champaign drinker. He was very disappointed when his cousin got the recording gig." - sjl

“Weeping Angels. They scare the shit out of me." - domestic_fucker

“The Beast from Beauty and the Beast - because he changed his monstrous ways and would have kicked butt on Dancing with the Stars." - majorsamfan

“I predict 20 'Your Mom' answers." - la_trombonista

(Just 13. CV&AL&LL)

"The boggart! Any monster who impersonates Snape in drag is a winner in my book!" - demon_666

“Freddy Krueger. Because he had a sense of -style-." - lots42

“Tonberries! There is nothing creepier than running through their temple in FF11 and suddenly hearing the freaky high-pitched laughter that lets you know one spotted you." - kamalloy

“Zombies. No sparkle, just single-minded brain eating." - zihuatanejo

"The alcohol demon, it's scary but after a while of drinking it you forget it exists" - b_hulsmans

"Right now I'd have to say it's Rubbersuit Man from 'American Horror Story'. That guy is so freaking creepy. Last night, I dreamed he was chasing me and I couldn't get away so I climbed up a tree and peed on him and he ran away." - ifeedformula

(Little known fact: most monsters are repelled by human urine and will retreat when confronted with the substance. Better known fact: this works on regular people too. -CV)

“The trouser monster. Heh heh heh." - raphsody606

“My least favourite monster is the monster at the end of this quiz! Please, please don't finish reading this answer. I don't want to see that horrible monster.

What? You kept reading! I asked you not to! Look, there's only one paragraph left. Please please please PLEASE don't keep reading, because there is a scary monster at the end of this quiz!

Oh! It's the end of the quiz! And there's no monster, just cuddly old chaosvizier. And you were so scared!" - many_from_one, thepikey



And there you have it. Ghostly apparitions and noncorporeal entities bring today's haunting Halloween holiday home to you all. Hope you have a happy candy-filled spooky day for those who celebrate the day of candy, or maybe you partied appropriately over the weekend. Except for those of you caught in a freak snowstorm. Didn't see that coming, boy howdy.

Anyway, happy Halloween, share and enjoy, have fun, and of course tune in tomorrow for more quizly goodness! Make it better: tell everyone you know! They'll thank you for it later.

Rock On!

CV

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