{"id":5905,"date":"2011-05-26T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2011-05-25T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:01:14","slug":"trivia-thursday-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. This supernatural spy novel by Tim Powers presents a secret history of the Cold War in which an agent for a secret British spy organization learns the true nature of several beings living on Mount Ararat.<\/li>\n
  2. “DC Universe: Decisions” was a DC comic series which revealed the political leanings of several superheroes. Which one of these is the Democrat?
    \nA) Hawkman
    \nB) Green Arrow
    \nC) Plastic Man
    \nD) Wonder Woman
    \nE) Wildcat<\/li>\n
  3. In the comedy knockoff of B movies Amazon Women on the Moon<\/i>, what legendary magazine editor played the President?<\/li>\n
  4. Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War<\/i> explores themes of soldiers exploited by the military and has been called an account of Haldenman’s experience in the Vietnam War written through a “space opera” filter. What is the name of the aliens that the humans are fighting?<\/li>\n
  5. In this 1984 film, a government-funded project to train psychics to enter other people’s dreams goes awry when the President of the United States is admitted as a patient to the clinic, and sinister agents use the President’s nightmares in an attempt to have him assassinated.<\/li>\n
  6. This collection by Robert A. Heinlein includes the short story “If This Goes On–” which describes a rebellion against an American theocracy and gave Heinlein a vehicle to criticize the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fundamentalism.
    \nA) Revolt in 2100<\/i>
    \nB) The Man Who Sold the Moon<\/i>
    \nC) The Green Hills of Earth<\/i>
    \nD) The Past Through Tomorrow<\/i>
    \nE) Assignment in Eternity<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. The seminal conspiracy-theory novels The Illuminatus! Trilogy<\/i> were written by Robert Anton Wilson and whom?<\/li>\n
  8. In this award-winning novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, an anarchist-feminist colony on a moon in orbit around a planet of caste-divided capitalists. Unfortunately, the anarchist-feminists haven’t solved all the problems of their parent society, and in fact the resource-hungry moon where they live has created a society of poor people whose government controls where they work and live.<\/li>\n
  9. In this classic Star Trek<\/i> episode, the Organian Peace Treaty is imposed upon the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.
    \nA) Errand of Mercy
    \nB) A Taste of Armageddon
    \nC) Balance of Terror
    \nD) A Private Little War
    \nE) Patterns of Force<\/li>\n
  10. In the alternate-history novel 1945<\/i>, Hitler gets injured in a plane crash just before Pearl Harbor. While he’s in a coma, the remaining Nazi leaders manage to avoid war with the U.S. and defeat the Soviet Union, nipping Communism in the bud. This cheese-tastic piece of wish-fulfillment was written by what politician?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. Declare<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. B) Green Arrow<\/li>\n
    3. Forrest J Ackerman<\/li>\n
    4. Taurans<\/li>\n
    5. Dreamscape<\/i><\/li>\n
    6. A) Revolt in 2100<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. Robert Shea<\/li>\n
    8. The Disposessed<\/i><\/li>\n
    9. A) Errand of Mercy<\/li>\n
    10. Newt Gingrich (in “collaboration” with William Forstchen)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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