{"id":3866,"date":"2010-03-18T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:27:57","slug":"trivia-thursday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3866","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This 1979 film marks Mel Gibson’s first widely-distributed appearance on the U.S. silver screen. Mel played Max Rockatansky, a policeman in a post-apocalyptic society bent on revenging the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of a renegade motorcycle gang.<\/li>\n
  2. This 1963 novel by Clifford D. Simak concerns a Civil War veteran who comes home to the family farm only to discover it’s become a stop for interstellar travelers.<\/li>\n
  3. What Federation outpost did V’Ger “zap” at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  4. Which is not<\/B> the title of one of John Varley’s trilogy about a literally alien planet?
    \nA) Titan<\/I>
    \nB) Wizard<\/I>
    \nC) Dragon<\/I>
    \nD) Demon<\/I><\/li>\n
  5. In this 1960’s movie, fire works against the aliens temporarily, but the real key is salt water, which reduces them to a chlorophyllic pulp.<\/li>\n
  6. Hugo nominee The Space Merchants<\/I> originally appeared in a condensed version in Galaxy<\/I> Magazine under what title?<\/li>\n
  7. In Max Headroom<\/I>, what is the name of the person whose mind Max is generated from?<\/li>\n
  8. In what Olaf Stapledon story does a super-dog have a love affair with the woman who helped raise him?<\/li>\n
  9. Which of these comic heroes was not<\/B> sheltered by monks before becoming a costumed adventurer?
    \nA) Amazing-Man
    \nB) Airboy
    \nC) The Flame
    \nD) Plastic Man
    \nE) Black Condor<\/li>\n
  10. In the Stanley-Kubrick-by-way-of-Steven-Spielberg movie A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)<\/I>, what mythical being is David searching for?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Mad Max<\/I>. Trivia within trivia: When this movie was first released in the U.S., it had subtitles for the thick Australian accents.<\/li>\n
    2. Way Station<\/I>. Time passes more slowly inside the disguised farmhouse, so that the stationmaster’s longevity in the outside world (which he enters to pick up his mail!) attracts the attention of hostile neighbors and an implausibly understanding CIA agent.<\/li>\n
    3. The doomed outpost was Epsilon 9.<\/li>\n
    4. C) Varley’s trilogy is comprised of Titan<\/I>, Wizard<\/I>, Demon<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. Day Of The Triffids<\/I><\/li>\n
    6. The Gravy Planet<\/I><\/li>\n
    7. Edison Carter<\/li>\n
    8. Sirius: A Fantasy Of Love And Discord<\/I><\/li>\n
    9. E) Black Condor<\/li>\n
    10. The Blue Fairy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This 1979 film marks Mel Gibson’s first widely-distributed appearance on the U.S. silver screen. Mel played Max Rockatansky, a policeman in a post-apocalyptic society bent on revenging the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of a renegade motorcycle gang. This 1963 novel by Clifford D. Simak concerns a Civil War veteran who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}