{"id":4223,"date":"2010-05-20T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T11:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:34:57","slug":"trivia-thursday-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In this Lois McMaster Bujold novel, Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan were once enemies in an interstellar war. Now a fragile peace has been established and they’re a married couple expecting their first child. Name it!<\/li>\n
  2. Arthur C. Clarke was awarded a Marconi International Fellowship in 1982 for inventing what concept?<\/li>\n
  3. What was the title of Frank Herbert’s first book?<\/li>\n
  4. This gender-bending story by Gwyneth Jones concerns a reporter who is contacted by an apparently female alien. Although they look human, their thought patterns are radically different.<\/li>\n
  5. In this 1980’s sci-fi movie, the monster, which replicates the cell structure of anything it devours, is defeated when a scientist feeds it his own cancerous liver.<\/li>\n
  6. Who are famous for being the third-worst poets in the galaxy?<\/li>\n
  7. Isaac Asimov wrote a novelization of Harry Kleiner’s screenplay which was so well-received by SF fans that many think the screenplay was based on the novel instead of the reverse. Name the film that spawned the book.<\/li>\n
  8. The basis for two SF horror movies, John W. Campbell’s tale of a shape-changing alien attacking an Antarctic research station epitomizes the strengths of American pulp fiction. Name it!<\/li>\n
  9. In Larry Niven’s Ringworld<\/I>, what character has “all the luck in the world?”<\/li>\n
  10. This movie (and later novel by Orson Scott Card) is about a nuclear-missile-armed US submarine crashing at the edge of the Cayman Trough and the crew of an experimental, submersible drilling rig who are asked to help rescue any survivors.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Barrayar<\/I><\/li>\n
    2. Clarke originated the idea of using satellites in geostationary orbit for communications.<\/li>\n
    3. Dragon in the Sea<\/I>; re-released as Under Pressure<\/I><\/li>\n
    4. White Queen<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. Forbidden World<\/I><\/li>\n
    6. Vogons<\/li>\n
    7. Fantastic Voyage<\/I><\/li>\n
    8. Who Goes There?<\/I><\/li>\n
    9. Teela Brown<\/li>\n
    10. The Abyss<\/I><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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