{"id":4857,"date":"2010-10-07T07:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:25:11","slug":"trivia-thursday-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Who was originally supposed to do the opening monologue for every Twilight Zone<\/i> episode? <\/li>\n
  2. What, and how many, afflictions did P.K. Dick’s Palmer Eldritch suffer?<\/li>\n
  3. What writer borrowed the name of Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional SF writer Kilgore Trout to publish the book Venus on the Half Shell<\/i> under?<\/li>\n
  4. What amusement facility hosted the California Voodoo Game?<\/li>\n
  5. The space shuttle’s fuel is oxygen mixed with:
    A) Hydrazine
    B) Carbolic Acid
    C) Liquified Methane
    D) Liquid Hydrogen
    E) Sodium Perchlorate<\/li>\n
  6. What was the name of Isaac Asimov’s robopsychologist?<\/li>\n
  7. In Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination<\/i>, there is a unique mode of travel that involves a form of teleportation by will power. What is it called?<\/li>\n
  8. What writer invented the Amateur Mafia (no Italians allowed)?<\/li>\n
  9. Who has three arms, two heads, an existence partly due to an accident involving a time machine and a contraceptive, but is still just this guy, you know?<\/li>\n
  10. What classic rocker does Texas SF author Bradley Denton have a fixation on?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Orson Welles was originally asked to do the monologues, but he wanted too much money. Serling did the pilot and they liked it so much that he did the rest.<\/li>\n
    2. Three stigmata.<\/li>\n
    3. Phillip Jose Farmer<\/li>\n
    4. Dream Park<\/li>\n
    5. A) Hydrazine<\/del>D) Liquid Hydrogen (thanks, Ian!)<\/li>\n
    6. Dr. Susan Calvin<\/li>\n
    7. Jaunting<\/li>\n
    8. Ron Goulart<\/li>\n
    9. Zaphod Beeblebrox<\/li>\n
    10. Buddy Holly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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