{"id":4254,"date":"2010-05-27T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2010-05-24T08:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T12:34:51","slug":"trivia-thursday-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This movie was unfortunately released soon after Dr. Strangelove<\/I>, but where Strangelove<\/I> was humorous in a macabre sort of way, this movie was deadly serious, starring Henry Fonda in a believable role as an American President up against the wall.<\/li>\n
  2. What author is responsible for the term “cyberpunk?”<\/li>\n
  3. What does the “R” stand for in “R. Daneel Olivaw?”<\/li>\n
  4. Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 young adult novel involves Meg and Charles Wallace Murray, along with Calvin, Meg’s classmate, who become involved in an attempt to find Dr. Murray, a brilliant scientist who has mysteriously disappeared. Name it.<\/li>\n
  5. What was the “Red Dwarf” on the TV show of the same name?<\/li>\n
  6. What is the name of the all-powerful computer network of the future in the Terminator<\/I> movies?<\/li>\n
  7. Who wrote Sargasso of Space<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  8. The planet Dune orbits around what star?<\/li>\n
  9. Name the movie to which the 1977 hit Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/I> lost the Oscar for Visual Effects.<\/li>\n
  10. In this Larry Niven novel, an exploration team consisting of an exotic mix of humans and aliens investigates a huge artifact occupying a planetary orbit around a sun. A novel of imaginary tourism; its real hero is the artifact. Name this novel!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Fail Safe<\/I><\/li>\n
    2. The word was almost certainly coined by Bruce Bethke in his story “Cyberpunk” (1983)<\/li>\n
    3. Robot<\/li>\n
    4. A Wrinkle In Time<\/I><\/li>\n
    5. The Red Dwarf was a mining ship (spaceship).<\/li>\n
    6. Skynet<\/li>\n
    7. Andre Norton<\/li>\n
    8. Canopus<\/li>\n
    9. Star Wars<\/I><\/li>\n
    10. Ringworld<\/I><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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