{"id":5987,"date":"2011-06-16T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2011-06-16T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:55:31","slug":"trivia-thursday-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5987","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. What Star Trek<\/i> actor\/actress lent a voice to Disney’s movie The Lion King<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  2. Steven Baxter’s sequel to H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine<\/i> is:
    \nA. The Time Machine II<\/i>
    \nB. Time and Again<\/i>
    \nC. The Time Ships<\/i>
    \nD. Timescape<\/i>
    \nE. Somewhere in Time<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. How many arms do most Moties have?<\/li>\n
  4. This author invented the machine that makes Pringles potato chips, and gave us such characters as Severian and Latro. Name him!<\/li>\n
  5. This magician starred in the movie The Man from Beyond<\/i>, in which he plays a man thawed from an icy encasement to discover his reincarnated love of a hundred years past.<\/li>\n
  6. Name the 1984 movie, reknowned at the time for its CGI, in which our hero lives in the Starlight Starbright Trailer Park.<\/li>\n
  7. What is the name of the all-powerful computer network of the future in the Terminator<\/i> movies?<\/li>\n
  8. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar novels are set where?<\/li>\n
  9. Who was the mayor of New York City in James Blish’s A Life for the Stars<\/i>, Earthman Come Home<\/i> and The Triumph of Time<\/i>?<\/li>\n
  10. What is the name of the colony in Aliens<\/i>?
    \nA) Hadley’s Hope
    \nB) New Seattle
    \nC) Acheron
    \nD) Lockhart’s Folly
    \nE) Hades<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    <\/p>\n

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    1. Whoopi Goldberg. (She was one of the hyenas)<\/li>\n
    2. C. The Time Ships<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Three<\/li>\n
    4. Gene Wolfe<\/li>\n
    5. Harry Houdini (the picture is a silent, made in 1922).<\/li>\n
    6. The Last Starfighter<\/i><\/li>\n
    7. SkyNet<\/li>\n
    8. At the center of the Earth<\/li>\n
    9. John Amalfi<\/li>\n
    10. A) Hadley’s Hope<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      What Star Trek actor\/actress lent a voice to Disney’s movie The Lion King? Steven Baxter’s sequel to H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine is: A. The Time Machine II B. Time and Again C. The Time Ships D. Timescape E. Somewhere in Time How many arms do most Moties have? This author invented the machine […]<\/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\/5987"}],"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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}