A brief history of Random Questions of the Day

Per requests from friends who shall remain nameless (and numberless for that matter), I have decided to post responses to my Random Questions of the Day. Featured here are the questions from the first weeks of this time-honored tradition. I intend, by the way, to petition for a National Random Question of the Day Day.

If you have additional responses not featured here, please feel free to leave them among(st) the comments. Also, if you can provide any synonyms for the word "response" besides "answer," that would be most appreciated.

Here we go:

Complete the sentence "If I were a pirate..."
"...I'd have a wench on every island!"
"...I'd have a monkey on my shoulder instead of a parrot. But he would still say things liks "polly want a cracker" to confuse my enemies."
"...I'd totally dress like Jack Sparrow."

If you had to eliminate one letter of the alphabet, which would it be?
W (2)
F (1)
Y (2)

What do you think was the most influential snack food of all time?
Popcorn (3)
The Pretzel
Girl Scout Cookies
Twinkies
Goldfish

What do you consider the single most terrifying word?
AIDS
Herpes (2)
Death

Who is your favorite villain of all time?
Gargamel (2)
The Joker (2)
Iago (both from Aladdin and Othello)
Ursula*
Shredder
Dr. Octopus
Judge Claude Frollo (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame) "because he doesn't need a sidekick; he's evil all by himself."

*While I LOVE Ursula, who got a billing already, I believe my favorite(s) would be a tie between the Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (from Dangerous Liaisons, the protagonist, but debatably a villain) and Spike (from Buffy).

If you had to choose one sound you'd never hear again, what would it be?
My alarm clock (2)
A pin dropping "because you can't actually hear that anyway, so I wouldn't be missing anything"
The sound of a knife on a plate/Nails on a chalkboard
People chewing

Who is your favorite cartoon character of all time?
Among my definite responses were:
Optimus Prime
The Pink Panther
Brain (from Pinky and the Brain) (2)
The Little Mermaid
Rainbow Brite


This has been a Random Question of the Day (tm) production. RQoD initially began in January 2007 with a survey to determine how many people (and an approximate gender breakdown of those who) can actually recite the Contra Code properly. It has since grown exponentially to incorporate questions of a more thought provoking and internationally significant nature, and to appear in digital publications including my away message and this blog.