{"id":4071,"date":"2010-04-22T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T11:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2010-04-12T09:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:35:34","slug":"trivia-thursday-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This Robert L. Forward novel is about a race that evolves on the surface of a neutron star and which lives on a vastly compressed time scale, but nevertheless manages to make contact with human observers. Name it!<\/li>\n
  2. What does the “T” in “James T. Kirk” stand for?<\/li>\n
  3. This first collection of R.A. Lafferty precedes Strange Doings<\/I> (1971), Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add?<\/I> (1974) and Ringing Changes<\/I> (1984). What is it?<\/li>\n
  4. Which of these movies takes place on a planet with a green sky and pink sand as well as two moons?
    A) Dune<\/I>
    B) Outland<\/I>
    C) Dark Star<\/I>
    D) Forbidden Planet<\/I><\/li>\n
  5. A mentally retarded man’s intelligence is enhanced to that of a normal adult and then to supergenius. “Progress reports” in his diary, with successive changes in diction and spelling as well as intellectual content, chronicle his triumphant progress; and then, as the treatment fails, the reports record his collapse back into subnormality. Name this classic by Daniel Keyes!<\/li>\n
  6. Who is the main character in Frederik Pohl’s Gateway\/Heechee<\/I> series?<\/li>\n
  7. What song did HAL sing as Dave deactivated him in 2001<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  8. Some of Heinlein’s work has been animated. True or False?<\/li>\n
  9. In this book Philip Jose Farmer writes of the entire human race being reincarnated along the banks of a huge river. Sir Richard Francis Burton sets off to find out who accomplished this remarkable feat, and why.<\/li>\n
  10. Firestarter and The Tommyknockers<\/I> are science fiction works by what famous horror fiction writter?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Dragon’s Egg<\/I><\/li>\n
    2. Tiberius<\/li>\n
    3. Nine Hundred Grandmothers<\/I> (1970)<\/li>\n
    4. D) Forbidden Planet<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. Flowers For Algernon<\/I> If you answered Charly<\/I> you’re partially right. But that’s the name of the movie.<\/li>\n
    6. The main character is millionaire and cybercorpse Robinette Brodhead.<\/li>\n
    7. The song was “Bicycle Built for Two” (a.k.a. “Daisy, Daisy”). This song was the very first tune played on a computer, at Bell Labs in the 1950’s. The implication was that HAL was “devolving.”<\/li>\n
    8. True! Starship Troopers<\/I>, an Anime version of Heinlein’s novel and Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet<\/I>, a 3-part Saturday morning serialisation. Neither are notable for Heinlein fans.<\/li>\n
    9. To Your Scattered Bodies Go<\/I><\/li>\n
    10. Stephen King<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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