{"id":5500,"date":"2011-02-10T07:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2011-02-01T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:33:01","slug":"trivia-thursday-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5500","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. What event caused the creation of the two separate cultures aboard the spaceship in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic novel Orphans of the Sky<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  2. In the movie Robocop<\/i>, what is Bixby Snyder (the comedian)’s tradeline?<\/li>\n
  3. What Roger Zelazny end-of-the-world novel was filmed in 1977 by Jack Smight?<\/li>\n
  4. What is the name of the collectible card game based on H.P. Lovecraft’s novels?
    \nA) LEGEND
    \nB) MYTHOS
    \nC) CTHULHU CALLING
    \nD) MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
    \nE) THE CTHULHU<\/li>\n
  5. Who is the hero in Lois McMaster Bujold’s sci-fi novel Barrayar<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  6. Which of these movies features a walking tree terrorizing a South Seas village?
    \nA) From Hell It Came<\/i>
    \nB) Green Dolphin Street<\/i>
    \nC) South of Pago Pago<\/i>
    \nD) The Big Trees<\/i>
    \nE) Day of the Triffids<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. The familiar theme from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/i> is part of what classical piece by Richard Strauss?<\/li>\n
  8. You probably know the name of Dr. Who’s ship. What is it an acronym for?<\/li>\n
  9. This classic novel begins with the line, “Looking back to all that has occured to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.”<\/li>\n
  10. Who played the title role in the 1981 film The Incredible Shrinking Woman<\/i>?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. A failed mutiny.<\/li>\n
    2. “I’d buy that for a dollar!”<\/li>\n
    3. Damnation Alley<\/i><\/li>\n
    4. B) MYTHOS<\/li>\n
    5. Miles Vorkosigan<\/li>\n
    6. A) From Hell It Came<\/i> (Wyndham’s Triffids terrorized America and Europe.)<\/li>\n
    7. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)<\/li>\n
    8. Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space (TARDIS)<\/li>\n
    9. Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. Lily Tomlin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What event caused the creation of the two separate cultures aboard the spaceship in Robert A. Heinlein’s classic novel Orphans of the Sky? In the movie Robocop, what is Bixby Snyder (the comedian)’s tradeline? What Roger Zelazny end-of-the-world novel was filmed in 1977 by Jack Smight? What is the name of the collectible card game […]<\/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\/5500"}],"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=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}