{"id":5742,"date":"2011-04-14T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2011-04-12T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:07:24","slug":"trivia-thursday-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Dr. Charles A. Forbin was the chief designer of a secret highly-advanced computer called what?<\/li>\n
  2. The “Ultimate Computer” in the original Star Trek<\/i> episode of that title was:
    \nA) V’Ger
    \nB) Excalibur
    \nC) Noah
    \nD) M5
    \nE) Daystrom 9<\/li>\n
  3. In addition to his famous robots, Isaac Asimov also had a UNIVAC-like computer which showed up in many of his stories, including “Franchise,” “Jokester,” “The Last Question,” and “Point of View.” What was the computer called?<\/li>\n
  4. What computer was designed to provide the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?<\/li>\n
  5. In Iain M. Banks’ “Culture” novels, starships, planets and orbitals have their own self-conscious, hyperintelligent machines which are known as what?<\/li>\n
  6. GWB-666 (an acronym for Great Western Beast 666), is the central computer of what secret society?<\/li>\n
  7. Which of these is NOT<\/b> a computer from one of Roger Zelazny’s stories?
    \nA) Frost
    \nB) Maxine
    \nC) Shalmaneser
    \nD) Ghostwheel
    \nE) Loki 7281<\/li>\n
  8. What cartoon character’s job was being the digital index operator for the computer Referential Universal Digital Indexer (RUDI)?<\/li>\n
  9. In this 1983 film, the computer WOPR almost starts a global thermonuclear war before playing tic-tac-toe against itself convinces it that war is pointless.<\/li>\n
  10. The computer system on the planet Gallifrey which acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords is:
    \nA) The Master
    \nB) Rassilon
    \nC) The Matrix
    \nD) Shayde
    \nE) Pandora<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Colossus<\/li>\n
    2. D) M5<\/li>\n
    3. Multivac<\/li>\n
    4. Deep Thought<\/li>\n
    5. Minds<\/li>\n
    6. The Illuminati<\/li>\n
    7. C) Shalmaneser<\/li>\n
    8. George Jetson<\/li>\n
    9. WarGames<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. C) The Matrix<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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