{"id":4677,"date":"2010-09-09T07:13:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2010-09-07T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:19:27","slug":"trivia-thursday-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4677","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Who wrote A Martian Odyssey<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  2. Who were the Eddorians and Ploorans?<\/li>\n
  3. What is the name of the last human city in The Matrix<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  4. The familiar theme from the movie 2001 is by what classical piece by Richard Strauss?<\/li>\n
  5. Which was not amongst “The Powers of Matthew Star?”
    A) Telepathy
    B) Astral Projection
    C) Levitation
    D) Telekinesis
    E) Clairvoyance<\/li>\n
  6. What was John Carpenter’s first feature film, which began as a student project at USC?<\/li>\n
  7. Who is Reed Richards’ superhero alter ego?<\/li>\n
  8. In Heinlein’s The Number of the Beast<\/I>, what odd requirement was imposed on all male descendants of the Carter Family?<\/li>\n
  9. They lost a war, then their sun went nova: Deathwalker was the last known surviving member of this race.<\/li>\n
  10. Who is Charlie Johns?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Stanley Weinbaum<\/li>\n
    2. Two of the evil races in E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman<\/I> series.<\/li>\n
    3. Zion<\/li>\n
    4. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Half credit if you said Blue Danube)<\/li>\n
    5. C) Levitation<\/li>\n
    6. Dark Star<\/I><\/li>\n
    7. Mr. Fantastic.<\/li>\n
    8. They had to have given names that started with the letter “Z.”<\/li>\n
    9. The Dilgar (Babylon 5<\/I>)<\/li>\n
    10. The main character in Theodore Sturgeon’s Venus Plus X<\/I>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Who wrote A Martian Odyssey? Who were the Eddorians and Ploorans? What is the name of the last human city in The Matrix? The familiar theme from the movie 2001 is by what classical piece by Richard Strauss? Which was not amongst “The Powers of Matthew Star?”A) TelepathyB) Astral ProjectionC) LevitationD) TelekinesisE) Clairvoyance What was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677"}],"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=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}