{"id":4733,"date":"2010-09-16T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2010-09-16T19:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T23:52:03","slug":"trivia-thursday-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Who is Slippery Jim diGriz?<\/li>\n
  2. Who wrote and directed the horrible yet strangely entertaining movie Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  3. Who was Captain America’s arch-rival?<\/li>\n
  4. What do these novels have in common? The Weapon Makers<\/I> (Van Voight<\/del> Vogt), Judgement Night<\/I> (Moore), Dragonrider<\/I> (McCaffery), Cosmic Engineers<\/I> (Simak), Doorways In The Sand<\/I> (Zelazny)<\/li>\n
  5. What does Doctor Who’s TARDIS look like?<\/li>\n
  6. Which company makes the Final Fantasy game series?<\/li>\n
  7. What was the job of the dragonriders of Pern?<\/li>\n
  8. What classic western was the movie Outland<\/I> essentially a remake of?<\/li>\n
  9. From Heinlein, an artificially created superwoman, courier for a secret organization, has to fend for herself when the decline of the West reaches its climax. Name the character\/name the novel.<\/li>\n
  10. What character said, “I honestly think you ought to calm down, take a stress pill and think things over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. The main character is Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat<\/I> series.<\/li>\n
    2. Ed Wood<\/li>\n
    3. Red Skull<\/li>\n
    4. They were all originally magazine serials in Astounding\/Analog.<\/li>\n
    5. The TARDIS looks like a 1950’s-style British police box.<\/li>\n
    6. Squaresoft<\/li>\n
    7. The dragondriders fought Thread.<\/li>\n
    8. High Noon<\/I><\/li>\n
    9. Friday<\/I><\/li>\n
    10. HAL, from 2001<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Who is Slippery Jim diGriz? Who wrote and directed the horrible yet strangely entertaining movie Plan 9 from Outer Space? Who was Captain America’s arch-rival? What do these novels have in common? The Weapon Makers (Van Voight Vogt), Judgement Night (Moore), Dragonrider (McCaffery), Cosmic Engineers (Simak), Doorways In The Sand (Zelazny) What does Doctor Who’s […]<\/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\/4733"}],"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=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}