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Trivia Thursday

  1. Who was originally supposed to do the opening monologue for every Twilight Zone episode?
  2. What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer?
  3. What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell under?
  4. What amusement facility hosted the California Voodoo Game?
  5. The space shuttle’s fuel is oxygen mixed with:
    A) Hydrazine
    B) Carbolic Acid
    C) Liquified Methane
    D) Liquid Hydrogen
    E) Sodium Perchlorate
  6. What was the name of Isaac Asimov’s robopsychologist?
  7. In Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, there is a unique mode of travel that involves a form of teleportation by will power. What is it called?
  8. What writer invented the Amateur Mafia (no Italians allowed)?
  9. Who has three arms, two heads, an existence partly due to an accident involving a time machine and a contraceptive, but is still just this guy, you know?
  10. What classic rocker does Texas SF author Bradley Denton have a fixation on?

(Answers below the fold)

  1. Orson Welles was originally asked to do the monologues, but he wanted too much money. Serling did the pilot and they liked it so much that he did the rest.
  2. Three stigmata.
  3. Phillip Jose Farmer
  4. Dream Park
  5. A) HydrazineD) Liquid Hydrogen (thanks, Ian!)
  6. Dr. Susan Calvin
  7. Jaunting
  8. Ron Goulart
  9. Zaphod Beeblebrox
  10. Buddy Holly

Chip

6 responses to “Trivia Thursday”

  1. Er, the Space Shuttle’s main engines use liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The Orbital Maneuvring System uses Hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide, not liquid oxygen.

  2. >>What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer?<>What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell under?<<

    I've just submitted this for consideration by the Yoda Award committee for outstanding awkwardly-phrased trivia question.

  4. It originally read like this.

    >>What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer?<>What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell under?<<

    I've just submitted this for consideration by the Yoda Award committee for outstanding awkwardly-phrased trivia question.

  5. Ummm….no it didn’t. Same glitch.

    I’ll try again with different markers.

    “What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer?”

    Three. but he couldn’t see them because he suffered from astigmtaism.

    What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer, Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell under?<<

    I've just submitted this for consideration by the Yoda Award committee for most outstanding awkwardly-phrased trivia question.

  6. Finally. I was beginning to think you’d managed to write an auto-editing program that screened for bad puns. You could have sold it for a *lot* of money.