{"id":5568,"date":"2011-03-03T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:32:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T13:32:44","slug":"trivia-thursday-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5568","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. What book begins with the line, “Are we rising again?”<\/li>\n
  2. Who played Mork’s son on Mork and Mindy<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  3. In A Boy and His Dog<\/i>, what was the dog’s name?<\/li>\n
  4. What was the last city on Earth in Arthur Clarke’s The City and the Stars<\/i> (also known as Against the Fall of Night<\/i>)?<\/li>\n
  5. Which was not amongst “The Powers of Matthew Star?”
    \nA) Telepathy
    \nB) Astral Projection
    \nC) Levitation
    \nD) Telekinesis
    \nE) Clairvoyance<\/li>\n
  6. In what 1979 film does H.G. Wells pursue Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco?<\/li>\n
  7. In this alternate-history novel by Kim Newman, Dracula has escaped Van Helsing and married the widowed Queen Victoria. A fictional laundry list of characters, from Dr. Fu Manchu to Allan Quatermain, make an appearance.<\/li>\n
  8. In William Gibson’s Count Zero<\/i>, several AIs take on the identities of Voodoo “loas” or gods. Which of these is NOT a loa?
    \nA) Danbala Wedo
    \nB) Ougou Feray
    \nC) Baron Samedi
    \nD) Oreille Singe
    \nE) Ezili Freda<\/li>\n
  9. Harry Stubbs wrote SF novels under what pseudonym?<\/li>\n
  10. This collaboration by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen features an alternate-time version of Edgar Allan Poe as its hero.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. The Mysterious Island<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. Jonathan Winters<\/li>\n
    3. Blood<\/li>\n
    4. Diaspar<\/li>\n
    5. C) Levitation<\/li>\n
    6. Time After Time<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. Anno Dracula<\/i><\/li>\n
    8. D) Oreille Singe<\/li>\n
    9. Hal Clement<\/li>\n
    10. The Black Throne<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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