{"id":5135,"date":"2010-11-25T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5135"},"modified":"2010-11-23T09:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:41:42","slug":"trivia-thursday-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5135","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Voltaire is perhaps most famous for his story Candide<\/i>, but in 1751 he published a short story in which a colossal traveler from a planet orbiting the star Sirius visits Earth with his Saturnian companion. Name it.<\/li>\n
  2. Robert Heinlein wrote a series of stories based around the premise that longetivity is genetic, and that selective breeding could create humans living far beyond a normal life span. What novel tells the story of the longest lived of these children of Methusaleh, Lazarus Long?
    \nA) For Us, the Living<\/i>
    \nB) I Will Fear No Evil<\/i>
    \nC) The Door Into Summer<\/i>
    \nD) Time Enough for Love<\/i>
    \nE) Starship Troopers<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. Who played the monster in the 1974 film Young Frankenstein<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  4. The author L. Sprague DeCamp is closely associated with which of the following characters; Conan, Flash Gordon or Aquaman?<\/li>\n
  5. What was the name of the starship that visited Altair IV in search of a lost colony ship in Forbidden Planet<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  6. In this 50’s movie, the aliens are vanquished by being surrounded by teenagers, who vaporize them (along with their spaceship) by shining the headlights of hotrods on them.<\/li>\n
  7. With which of the following authors did Roger Zelazny NOT
    \ncollaborate?
    \nA) Fred Saberhagen
    \nB) Robert Sheckley
    \nC) Philip K. Dick
    \nD) Frederik Pohl
    \nE) Alfred Bester<\/li>\n
  8. Which crew member taught Commander Data to dance on the holodeck?<\/li>\n
  9. In the final scene of Blade Runner<\/i> what origami animal is made by Detective Gaff?<\/li>\n
  10. Name the Mesklinite trading ship in Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Micromegas<\/li>\n
    2. D) Time Enough for Love<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Peter Boyle<\/li>\n
    4. Conan. DeCamp continued writing the Conan stories after Robert E. Howard’s death.<\/li>\n
    5. Cruiser C-57-D. (The lost ship they were looking for was the Bellerophon.)<\/li>\n
    6. Invasion of the Saucer Men<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. D) Frederik Pohl<\/li>\n
    8. Dr. Crusher<\/li>\n
    9. A unicorn<\/li>\n
    10. The Bree<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Voltaire is perhaps most famous for his story Candide, but in 1751 he published a short story in which a colossal traveler from a planet orbiting the star Sirius visits Earth with his Saturnian companion. Name it. Robert Heinlein wrote a series of stories based around the premise that longetivity is genetic, and that selective […]<\/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\/5135"}],"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=5135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5139,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5135\/revisions\/5139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}