{"id":3862,"date":"2010-03-11T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:20:29","slug":"trivia-thursday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Which of the following have not<\/B> been adapted from a Heinlein story:
    \nA) Destination Moon<\/I>
    \nB) The Abyss<\/I>
    \nC) The Brain Eaters<\/I>
    \nD) Starship Troopers<\/I><\/li>\n
  2. Firemen no longer put out fires; they start them, for the purpose of burning books. The title refers to the temperature at which paper will catch fire. Name this Ray Bradbury classic.<\/li>\n
  3. What is the name of the villain in the silent movie classic Metropolis<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  4. In this 1950’s movie, the creature is trapped in a Coney Island amusement park near a roller coaster and shot with a radioactive isotope.<\/li>\n
  5. What term, derived from an influential novel by Alvin Toffler, describes the psychological impact of technology on society?<\/li>\n
  6. Guy Williams, who played Professor John Robinson on Lost In Space<\/I>, also played what Disney hero?<\/li>\n
  7. Name the main character in Greg Bear’s Moving Mars<\/I>.<\/li>\n
  8. On the 1978 sitcom Quark<\/I>, what was Adam Quark’s profession?<\/li>\n
  9. What is the southern counterpart to the Aurora Borealis?<\/li>\n
  10. In Samuel R. Delany’s tale of the far future the nonhuman inhabitants of Earth mine the mythologies of the ancient past in search of meanings appropriate to their own existence; the hero must undertake an Orphean quest into the underworld of the collective unconscious, confronting its archetypes. Name it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

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    1. B) The Abyss<\/I>. If you picked C) The Brain Eaters<\/I>, this 1950’s schlock movie was a direct rip-off of Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters<\/I>. Heinlein sued and settled out of court for the removal of his name and certain identifiable material from the movie.<\/li>\n
    2. Fahrenheit 451<\/I> (1953)<\/li>\n
    3. Rotwang (in our opinion, one of the best-ever names for a villain).<\/li>\n
    4. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. Future Shock<\/li>\n
    6. Zorro<\/li>\n
    7. Casseia Majumdar<\/li>\n
    8. Garbage collector<\/li>\n
    9. Aurora Australis<\/li>\n
    10. The Einstein Intersection<\/I><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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