Wednesday, January 03, 2007

TQFS X Answers!

Currently listening to: "Wake the Snake" by LORDI

So there was a three-way tie between Doug, mg, and the High Desert Diva, with 24 out of 50 each...Yasamin got 21 out of 50, and Jen got the answers right to all three questions she answered/commented on.

1. What was the last Disney animated feature to use hand-painted cels and analog camera and film work?
A. The Little Mermaid

2. The code title for Disney's "The Incredibles" (to protect the movie's secrecy) was what?
B. Tights
Answer A, "Sand Dogs," was actually the code title for Star Wars: Episode III

3. What fictitious brand of cigarettes make appearances in Quentin Tarantino's movies?
C. Red Apple

4. In the first Predator movie, the Predator's blood was made out of glow sticks and what?
A. KY Jelly

5. What was the body count in the first Predator movie?
C. 64
You should all know by know that, more often than not, "37" will be an incorrect answer...can anyone (I know Doug will get this) tell me what that number refers to?

6. In the German version of Die Hard, the terrorists are not from Germany. How are they referred to?
C. Just plain "Europeans"

7. What is the Hungarian title for Die Hard?
B. Give your life expensive
It actually wasn't hard to come up with the two fake answers...I guess that's due to the Asian in me...the sequels to the Hungarian versions of Die Hard are "Your life is more expensive", and the third part is "The life is always expensive"

8. In the movie Mean Girls, the movie Janice and Damian are watching on Halloween is:
B. Friday the 13th: Part 2

9. How many times does the word fuck (and its variations) appear in the movie Bad Santa?
A. 147

10. What is the estimated total monetary value spent on golf balls by golfers annually?
C. $800 million

11. In poker, what is the chance of drawing a flush?
B. 1 in 500


12. The first soccer World Cup was held in what country in 1930?
B. Uruguay


13. Which of these rock/metal bands covered Heaven 17's "Temptation" this year (2006)?
C. Cradle of Filth (from England)


14. How much does the International Space Station weigh?
A. 500 tons

15. What was the first American satellite in orbit?
A. Explorer I

16. What is a cluster of bananas called?
C. A hand
A hand consist of 10 to 20 bananas, each one referred to as fingers

17. Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually what?
A. Giant herbs
And they are of the same family as lilies, orchids, and palms

18. About how many eggs does a female mackerel lay at one time?
B. 500,000
That's a lotta fuckin kids...

19. How many times a second can a woodpecker peck?
B. 20
And that's a lotta peckin'...

20. What was the first cartoon character to have been made into a balloon for a parade?
B. Felix the Cat

21. About how long can human tapeworms grow up to?
B. 23m

22. On average, about how many chinchillas does it take to make a fur coat?
B. Anywhere between 60 to 100

23. How long does it take to boil an ostrich egg?
B. 40 minutes


24. What the Hell is poshintang?
A. Dog meat soup

25. Macaroni, Gentoo, and Chinstrap are types of what?
B. Penguins

26. What is the medical term for a natural gap between two teeth?
A. Diastema

27. What was the name of Sir Isaac Newton's pet Pomeranian?
B. Diamond

28. What is the real first name of actor Lon Chaney Sr.?
C. Alonzo

29. How many patents are attributed to Thomas Edison?
C. 1,093

30. What is Pat Benatar's maiden name?
B. Andrzejewski
Bryniarski is the last name of the guy who portrays Leatherface in the new Texas Chain Saw movies...Anatevka is from Fiddler on the Roof...

31. What is the first name of the TV character MacGyver (played by Richard Dean Anderson)?
A. Angus
Would've been cooler if he were Bob MacGyver...

32. What is the adjectival form for a mongoose?
C. herpestine
Hystricine = porcupine, equine = horse

33. What are the first and middle name of A.A. Milne?
B. Alan Alexander
To answer Yasamin's question, A.A. Milne created WINNIE THE POOH!

34. What is Princess Leia's adopted last name?
C. Organa

35. In Sue Grafton's alphabetical ongoing series of whodunits, "C is for_____":
C. Corpse

36. Geza is the middle name of which actor?
B. Ben Affleck

37. Bechuanaland is the former name of what nation?
B. Botswana

38. In Pac-Man, the four ghosts are Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and:
C. Clyde

39. What was the Bank of America known as when it was founded in San Francisco in 1904?
A. Bank of Italy

40. What did it say on the sign on the outer fence at the Addams Family residence in the TV sitcom?
A. Beware of The Thing
B. Weird is Relative
C. Abandon All Hope
"Weird is Relative" was the tag line for the first Addams Family movie and "Abandon All Hope" is from Dante's "Inferno"...when Dante passes through the Gate of Hell, the inscription on the gate reads: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

41. What is the technical term for a palm reader?
A. Chiromancer
Zoroastrianism is the religious system founded by Zoroaster and set forth in the Avesta, teaching the worship of Ahura Mazda in the context of a universal struggle between the forces of light and of darkness. Thaumaturge is another word for magician

42. What does "zwitter" mean in German?
A. Hermaphrodite
You people obviously don't know your Rammstein...

43. What is the Australian equivalent to the Academy Award?
C. Lovely
And the Lovely goes to...hehehe...even though the following has nothing to do with the Aussie Oscars, this reminds me of Craig Ferguson's monologue from 11/27/06...so here 'tis...compliments of Doug...the 'significant' part starts around 2:20 in...

44. What is Kevin Spacey's real last name?
A. Fowler
Fowler, Kinsey, and Bunche are all names of buildings at UCLA, by the way

45. What is the raised part of a sundial that casts the shadow?
B. Gnomon
Definition of "glyptic" = of or pertaining to carving or engraving on gems or the like... "Gorelick" is Kenny G's last name

46. What was the original name of pop group New Kids on the Block?
B. Nynuk
Answer A, odium, means 'hatred' in Latin...here's the full English definition of the term: "intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant."

47. The rock group Styx was once known as:
A. TW4

48. What is an amanita phalloides?
C. The world's deadliest mushroom

49. According to a Turkish proverb, coffee should be "black as hell,
strong as death, and _____":
C. as sweet as love

50. What was the name of Olive Oyl's boyfriend before Popeye?
A. Ham Gravy

1 Comments:

Blogger Doug Murata said...

37? In a row?

5:34 PM  

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