{"id":4775,"date":"2010-09-23T07:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:20:44","slug":"trivia-thursday-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4775","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The aliens in Clarke’s Childhood’s End<\/I> look like:
    A) Slugs
    B) Devils
    C) People
    D) Fish
    E) Little Green Men<\/li>\n
  2. What was Soylent Green?<\/li>\n
  3. What is the sequel to The Peace War<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  4. What were Mortimer Dart, Weston, Vaughan, Mark Lebbreau and Hellstrom?<\/li>\n
  5. Which of these movies features a walking tree terrorizing a South Seas village?
    A) From Hell It Came<\/I>
    B) Green Dolphin Street<\/I>
    C) South Of Pago Pago<\/I>
    D) The Big Trees<\/I>
    E) Day Of The Triffids<\/I><\/li>\n
  6. Who are the Fenachrone?<\/li>\n
  7. This movie is based on speculations that the moon landings were faked. Although the film deals with a faked Mars landing, the echoes of the fake lunar rumors reverberate through out the film, giving it added resonance. Name it!<\/li>\n
  8. Who wrote the auto-erotic novel Crash<\/I>?<\/li>\n
  9. What nickname did the Minbari give John Sheridan during the Earth-Minbari war?<\/li>\n
  10. Who is Chad Mulligan?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. B) Devils<\/li>\n
    2. People! Soylent Green was people!!!<\/li>\n
    3. Marooned in Realtime<\/I> (Vernor Vinge)<\/li>\n
    4. They were all mad scientists.<\/li>\n
    5. A) From Hell It Came<\/I> (Wyndham’s Triffids terrorized America and Europe.)<\/li>\n
    6. An evil race in E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Skylark<\/I> series.<\/li>\n
    7. Capricorn One<\/I><\/li>\n
    8. J.G. Ballard. It was adapted into a much-maligned film by Canadian director David Cronenberg.<\/li>\n
    9. Star Killer<\/li>\n
    10. One of the main characters in John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar<\/I>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The aliens in Clarke’s Childhood’s End look like:A) SlugsB) DevilsC) PeopleD) FishE) Little Green Men What was Soylent Green? What is the sequel to The Peace War? What were Mortimer Dart, Weston, Vaughan, Mark Lebbreau and Hellstrom? Which of these movies features a walking tree terrorizing a South Seas village?A) From Hell It CameB) Green […]<\/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\/4775"}],"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=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}