{"id":4302,"date":"2010-06-10T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2010-06-09T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:01:07","slug":"trivia-thursday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This Donald Kingsbury novel involves a colony on an arid world in cultural extremis because of its lack of resources, and the central characters becoming involved with a challenge to its established order.<\/li>\n
  2. Which author coined the term “cyberspace?”<\/li>\n
  3. What was the name of the ship’s computer in Alien<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  4. Who was the main character in James Blish’s classic novel Doctor Mirabilis<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  5. What was Diaspar?<\/li>\n
  6. What is written in large, friendly letters on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?<\/li>\n
  7. In what year were the first Hugo Awards presented?<\/li>\n
  8. The Robinsons were Lost in Space<\/I> in their trusty spaceship. What was its name?<\/li>\n
  9. Which Federation star ship in manned completely by Vulcans?<\/li>\n
  10. Robert Silverberg wrote about the imprisonment of criminals in the late Cambrian age of Earth’s history in what 1968 novel?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Courtship Rite<\/I> (1982) U.K. title: Geta<\/I><\/li>\n
    2. William Gibson coined this useful term in his 1984 novel Neuromancer<\/I>.<\/li>\n
    3. Mother.<\/li>\n
    4. Roger Bacon.<\/li>\n
    5. Diaspar was the last city on Earth in Arthur Clarke’s The City and the Stars<\/I> (also known as Against the Fall of Night<\/I>).<\/li>\n
    6. DON’T PANIC<\/li>\n
    7. 1953.<\/li>\n
    8. The Jupiter II<\/li>\n
    9. The U.S.S. Intrepid<\/li>\n
    10. Silverberg wrote about his “prehistoric” criminals in Hawksbill Station<\/I>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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