{"id":4935,"date":"2010-10-21T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2010-10-21T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:23:44","slug":"trivia-thursday-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. It was an unpleasant profession, so who did it?<\/li>\n
  2. The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go where?
    A) Terminus
    B) Talos IV
    C) Kaitan
    D) Iscandar
    E) Yavin 4<\/li>\n
  3. This author, known for graphic novels, adult fantasy, and Young Adult fantasy, Won the 2009 Newberry Award for best American children’s book of 2008 for The Graveyard Book<\/i>. Name the author.<\/li>\n
  4. What is the science fiction-inspired term for a hypothetical geologic event that launches material into space?<\/li>\n
  5. This 1961 novel by Philip Jose Farmer, based on a story that he’d published in 1952 in “Startling Stories,” dealt with the illicit affair between a human and a humanoid alien, and turned the genre’s method of dealing with sexual themes upside-down.<\/li>\n
  6. Allen Steele has built several novels around a world colonized by Americans fleeing a brutal theocracy. Depending on your point of view, this planet is named for either a common North American vermin, or the Native American trickster god. What is the planet called?<\/li>\n
  7. Boskone is the name of the annual SF convention in Boston. What is it in SF literature?<\/li>\n
  8. Golan Trevize’s scout ship had this name, the same as Hober Mallow’s earlier ship.<\/li>\n
  9. What is the Toxic Avenger’s weapon of choice?<\/li>\n
  10. What is Gordon R. Dickson’s all-encompassing name for the story told in his novel Dorsai!<\/i> and related books?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Jonathan Hoag<\/li>\n
    2. Talos IV (From the ST episode “The Menagerie,” this is where Captain Pike wound up)<\/li>\n
    3. Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n
    4. It’s called a verneshot, in honor of Jules Verne’s cannon
      \nthat launches the rocket into space in From the Earth to the Moon<\/i>.<\/li>\n
    5. The Lovers<\/i><\/li>\n
    6. Coyote<\/li>\n
    7. The villain headquarters in E. E. “Doc” Smith’s Lensman series.<\/li>\n
    8. Far Star<\/li>\n
    9. A mop<\/li>\n
    10. The Childe Cycle<\/i> (an allusion to the poem, “Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came”).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      It was an unpleasant profession, so who did it? The only way to get a death sentence in the Federation is to go where?A) TerminusB) Talos IVC) KaitanD) IscandarE) Yavin 4 This author, known for graphic novels, adult fantasy, and Young Adult fantasy, Won the 2009 Newberry Award for best American children’s book of 2008 […]<\/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\/4935"}],"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=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}