{"id":5162,"date":"2010-12-02T07:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2010-12-01T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:58:23","slug":"trivia-thursday-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
    \n
  1. This planet was home of House Corrino and Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV.<\/li>\n
  2. In the Twilight Zone<\/i> episode “The Howling Man,” who is imprisoned in the monastery?<\/li>\n
  3. For lack of a better word, the builders of the Riverworld were called this.<\/li>\n
  4. What actor played Starman, in the movie by that title?<\/li>\n
  5. You’d better have a glitter gun if you run into these guys.<\/li>\n
  6. Who are famous for being the third-worst poets in the galaxy?<\/li>\n
  7. Who helped R. Daneel Olivaw develop the zeroth Law of Robotics?
    \nA) Lije Baley
    \nB) Hari Seldon
    \nC) R. Giskard
    \nD) Roj Nemennuh Sarton
    \nE) Jander Panell<\/li>\n
  8. Finish this quote (from the original Battlestar Galactica<\/i>): “There are those who believe that life here _____.”<\/li>\n
  9. Towards the end of Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space<\/i>, the Mademoiselle is revealed to be which character who survived an encounter with a Shroud?<\/li>\n
  10. Which author\u2019s Harrison Bergeron<\/i> depicts a world where, as the opening line promises, “everybody was finally equal”?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Kaitan<\/li>\n
    2. Satan<\/li>\n
    3. The Ethicals<\/li>\n
    4. Jeff Bridges<\/li>\n
    5. Cybermen (Dr. Who<\/i>)<\/li>\n
    6. Vogons<\/li>\n
    7. C) R. Giskard<\/li>\n
    8. began out there.<\/li>\n
    9. Carine Lefevre<\/li>\n
    10. Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This planet was home of House Corrino and Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. In the Twilight Zone episode “The Howling Man,” who is imprisoned in the monastery? For lack of a better word, the builders of the Riverworld were called this. What actor played Starman, in the movie by that title? You’d better have a glitter […]<\/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\/5162"}],"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=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}