{"id":23277,"date":"2019-01-07T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/?p=23277"},"modified":"2019-01-07T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T10:07:44","slug":"gcm-trivia-quiz-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.campaignmastery.com\/blog\/gcm-trivia-quiz-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Campaign Mastery Trivia Quiz Answers!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve thought long and hard about how to display this post. The problem is that on the home page, for a while, you’ll be able to see it – and then scroll down far enough, and you’ll find the questions. I thought about trying a javascript “show hidden text on click” option but wasn’t sure enough of what I was doing or how to do it. That left me with two rudimentary approaches, and I’ve decided to employ both – for a while.<\/p>\n

First of all, if you are sight-impaired and want to attempt the questions BEFORE the answers are revealed, click on this link<\/a> right now.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For everyone else: The questions are below, followed by the answers – in black text on a black background. Left-click at the start or end of one of the boxes and you can highlight the text, revealing the answer. Or, you can click on this<\/em> link: <\/p>\n

                                                                   Answers Page<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

…. and you will be taken to a “hidden” page here at Campaign Mastery with both questions and answers in black on a white<\/em> background – meaning that you can see all the answers at once. The choice is up to you.<\/p>\n

When the two drop off the front page of the blog, about three months from now, I’ll quietly replace the “black” with “white” on the blog-post version and get rid of the hidden page, editing these instructions accordingly.
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What is the word that Eliar reads from the Knife in David and Leigh Eddings\u2019 \u201cThe Redemption Of Anthalus\u201d,<\/em> and what is the novel about (two words hyphenated) in a Fantasy context?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The word is “Lead”,<\/strong> and the novel is about “Time-Travel”<\/strong> in a Fantasy context. “Time war” would also usually be an acceptable answer, but isn’t usually hyphenated.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q2<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The third creature whose name starts with a K in the D&D 3.5 Monster Manual.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A2<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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A Krenshar,<\/em><\/strong> a creature that “seems to conbine the worst features of a wolf and a hiena” – but whose illustration suggests that all the flesh is gone from its face, revealing the muscle and bone beneath, a detail that should probably be mentioned in the description, don’t you think?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cEureka\u201d, \u201cSliders\u201d,<\/em> and \u201cSpace: Above & Beyond\u201d<\/em> \u2013 aside from being TV Sci-Fi series, what do the first episodes of all these shows have in common?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A3<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The Episode Title.<\/strong> Eureka<\/em>‘s first episode is named (unimaginatively) “Pilot”; Slider<\/em>‘s first episode is a “movie length” episode also named “Pilot”; and the two-part first episode of “Space: Above & Beyond”<\/em> are named “Pilot (Part 1)” and “Pilot (Part 2)”, respectively. Only in this last case can the title be justified by any content relating to piloting anything.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In Anne McCaffrey\u2019s \u201cPern\u201d Sci-fi\/Fantasy series, who uses genetic engineering techniques to create the first Dragons?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The character’s name is Kitti Ping.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Steve Jackson Games, through the pages of The Space Gamer and later Pyramid poked fun in mocking tones at the failures and foibles of RPG rules from everyone including themselves. In which game system did the strip suggest that 3 people were transported to the God Plane per day, every day, from a typical city population of 10,000?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Runequest.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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How many shelves of The Essential Reference Library for Pulp have been cataloged so far?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14,<\/strong> there’s just one to go!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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If you were to watch the first season of \u201cI Dream Of Jeannie\u201d today, what one thing would be obviously missing or different?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A7<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The producers didn’t find the iconic theme music or produce the definitive title sequence<\/strong> it accompanies until the second season, which was also the first to be shown in color. The first season is sometimes omitted when the series is repeated, for this reason. The animation was the work of the famous Warner Bros animator, Fritz Freling.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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There\u2019s one anime \u201cseries\u201d that became famous in the late 80s\/early 90s amongst the Australian RPG-playing community as exemplifying the power-gamer attitude. What is the English title by which the series is known outside Japan?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A8<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The Dirty Pair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q9<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Name the novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in which a science fiction author is escorted through Hell by Benito Mussolini.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A9<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Inferno.<\/em><\/strong> There is a sequel, Escape from Hell<\/em> which is relatively unknown.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q10<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Which RPG replaces dead PCs with clones of the original character?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A10<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Paranoia.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In 1120, Henry I of England made peace with Louis VI of France when Henry\u2019s only legitimate son drowned in the sinking of which Ship in the English Channel?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A11<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The White Ship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The third creature whose name starts with a K in the Pathfinder (1st ed) Bestiary.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A12<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The Kyton,<\/em><\/strong> a creature reminiscent of the early work of Wes Craven, the horror movie producer. Sometimes known as a chain devil to those who don’t know better, these residents of Hell are not true devils. Their origins are unknown, but the write-up includes a couple of interesting speculations.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Comedy and Fantasy are not natural bedfellows but there have been numerous attempts at shotgun weddings, of varying success. Name the following three examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Series of short novels by Robert Asprin and later Jodi Lynn-nye which were originally intended to lampoon the most common fantasy tropes, and which were adapted into comics and a board game, both featuring art by Phil Foglio of \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201d fame (for at least part of the run of the comic).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A13<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The “Mythadventures” series,<\/strong> which starts with “Another Fine Myth”.<\/em> (“Mythadventures”<\/em> is the second title in the seires, but the two titles would probably have been swapped had Robert Asprin thought of the second title in time. He missed the absolute, final, too-late-to-change-anything deadline by about half-an-hour).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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This series of stories shows psychologists figuring out how to move from one reality to another, an the first is set amongst the Norse Gods as Ragnerok approaches.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“The Incompleat Enchanter”<\/em><\/strong> by L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A TV series whose premise is “a supernatural being marries a mortal”.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A15<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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“Bewitched”.<\/em><\/strong> While Buffy & Spike do marry in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”,<\/em> you can’t say that was the main premise of the series. The other popular but incorrect answer was “I Dream Of Jeannie”.<\/em> Contrary to popular myth, “I Dream Of Jeannie”<\/em> was never a rip-off of this still-popular-in-repeats TV comedy series – it was based on part of a movie, The Brass Bottle,<\/em> though it was<\/em> an attempt to capitalize on the success of “Bewitched”<\/em> and the producers made no bones about it when asked.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In which Sci-Fi novel was the term \u201cParallel Worlds\u201d first used, and who was the author?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Men Like Gods”<\/em> by H.G. Wells,<\/strong> in 1923, twenty-three years after quantum theory (now inseperably linked to the concept) was first proposed and eighteen years after Einstein expanded on the theory. While Einstein was troubled by certain aspects of Quantum Theory, leading to his famous quote, “God does not play dice with the universe!”, he accepted the theory. Ironically, by expanding “universe” to “multiverse”, i.e. accepting the validity of Parallel Worlds, the aspects which troubled Einstein can be resolved.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The fourth Feat listed in d20 Future.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Charismatic Plus”,<\/strong> which confers two traits chosen from a list of six upon the character, giving them an interpersonal advantage.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Jurassic Park, Flash Gordon, Beverly Hills Cop, Batman<\/em> \u2013 which is the oddest one out, and why?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Beverly Hills Cop”<\/em> has never been transformed into an officially-sanctioned and licensed RPG.<\/strong> The same can’t be said of the others:<\/p>\n

“The Batman Roleplaying Game”<\/em> was published by Mayfair Games in 1989.<\/p>\n

“The Savage World Of Flash Gordon”<\/em> is an adaption for the Savage Worlds<\/em> game system and available from Pinnacle Games.<\/p>\n

“The Lost World: Jurassic Park Roleplaying Game”<\/em> was a single volume with simple rules, 3 adventures, and pregenerated characters from the movies. It’s not considered very successful as an RPG on any level.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In Robert Don Hughes\u2019 \u201cPelmen the Powershaper\u201d series, who is the merchant who is trying to arrange safe passage for him and his \u201ccargo\u201d past the two-headed dragon when Pelmen turns the heads against one another?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The character’s name is Pezi.<\/strong> Not sure if that’s supposed to rhyme with “Pasty” or “Queezy”.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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One of the space aliens who occasionally appear in The Simpsons<\/em> shares his name with a prominent Klingon in the original Star Trek<\/em> series who later reappeared in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> (again played by the same actor many decades apart). What is the name of the other one, Backwards?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The Klingon was “Kang”, and his partner-in-space-travel is “Kodos” (who was also a [non-Klingon] villain in the original Star Trek!), so the correct answer is “Sodok”<\/strong> – which, ironically, sounds like a Vulcan name!<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In what way does a scorched-earth policy resemble \u201cI Dream Of Genie?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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When the series was cancelled, the producers burned the set to the ground<\/strong> to avoid storage costs, a common practice at Hollywood Studios at the time. Only a few props survived in the hands of cast and crew, including Jeannie’s hand-painted bottle, which was kept in Barbara Eden’s personal bank vault until she donated it to the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In retrospect, 1674 was a key year for the British Empire. Why?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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On Feb 9, Britain and Holland signed the Treaty Of Westminister, ending the Anglo-Dutch War;<\/strong> Under the terms of the treaty, New York and Delaware were returned to England (so you could also define it as a key date in US history even though there wasn’t a USA yet). The British were then free to expand their trade networks and prosperity while the rest of Western Europe were embroiled in debilitating wars. The net result: The British Empire.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Name the 1-page original RPG by Mike (of Campaign Mastery), written in unlicensed homage to an animated TV series starring Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and Penelope Pitstop (amongst others) and, more broadly, to the spirit of the great Warner Brothers animated cartoons. (Hint: the final two words are \u201cThe RPG\u201d.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Wacky Races The RPG”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Just after Jeremy Clarkson was sacked from Top Gear<\/em> (technically, asked to resign), the BBC released a never-seen-on-TV Top Gear Special hosted by Richard Hammond and James May in which they investigated motoring \u201cif the worst should ever have happened.\u201d Segments included driving to work in the midst of a simulated nuclear winter, how to make racing fun when there are only two racing drivers left alive, and if there was only one barrel of petrol left on the planet, which cars would each choose for their last-ever drives, and why? \u2013 What was the title of this 73-minute special? (Hint: the first two words are \u201cTop Gear\u201d.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Top Gear: Apocalypse”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Which is often said to be the first RPG to employ a dice pools mechanic?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“The Ghostbusters RPG”.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Short Story by Robert A Heinlein in which the owner of a hardware store falls foul of a magic-based protection racket.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Magic, Inc.”<\/em><\/strong> which was also the name of the business side of the protection racket.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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How many episodes of \u201cMy Favorite Martian\u201d<\/em> are there in the first season of the show?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Season one contains 37 episodes,<\/strong> which seems an extremely odd number the more you think about it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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According to the 2014 article at Campaign Mastery, the Envelope is doing what?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ticking.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The fifth skill listed in \u201cStar Trek: The Next Generation RPG\u201d<\/em> from Last Unicorn Games?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Artistic Expression.<\/strong> – the description of which sounds fine until you realize that it’s INT based and not emotive in nature, when the reverse probably makes more sense. Some users of the game system might also be thrown by the fact that it applies to all<\/em> forms of artistic expression equally<\/em> (I was!) until you realize that each time you improve this skill (like others within this game system), you have to define a speciality within it. Then it seems clever.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Daleks are arguably the most iconic villains in Dr Who.<\/em> Why would you be in trouble if you had to spell the word \u201cDaleks\u201d using only the chemical symbols of the elements?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The “K” and “S” are easy – Potassium and Sulphur. There’s no element with the chemical symbol “E” and there’s no “Le” either. Finally, while there are three elements whose symbols start with a “D”, there are none that are “D” on its own, and none of the three is a “Da”. So it can’t be done.<\/strong> The best you could do is equate the first 26 elements with the letters of the alphabet – in which case, the sequence would be Be-H-Mg-B-Na-K, or Beryllium – Hydrogen – Magnesium – Boron – Sodium – Potassium. Ironically, if my memory of chemistry is correct, these are five of the elements that react most energetically (i.e. explosively) with oxygen.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In Lyndon Hardy\u2019s \u201cMaster Of The Five Magics,\u201d<\/em> what is the name of the alchemic ointment that Alodar and Saxton seek to make from the formula found in the Iron Fist?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A “caloric shield”.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Name the famous robot who appeared in the first-ever Columbo<\/em> mystery?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Robbie The Robot,<\/strong> of Forbidden Planet<\/em> fame, who has probably appeared in more movies and TV shows than most people expect, including The Invisible Boy<\/em> (1957) and episodes of The Gale Storm Show, The Thin Man, The Addams Family, Lost In Space, The<\/em> (original) Twilight Zone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Mork & Mindy, Project U.F.O., Space Academy, Gremlins<\/em> (1984), the 1988 direct-to-video movie Phantom Empire,<\/em> and a 2006 TV Commercial for AT&T. However, not all of these are of the original (which was modified for reuse along the way); that was retired and placed in a Museum in 1971. ‘He’ was inducted into the Robot Hall Of Fame<\/a> (yes, there really is such a thing!) in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q33<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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What was the first RPG to represent a product exclusively licensed to the game company?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Some people will think it was Call Of Cthulhu, and expect me to tell the story of Chaosium vs TSR (TSR had obtained some<\/em> licences for use in the AD&D Volume “Deities & Demigods” (and mistakenly assumed that the works of Lovecraft were in the public domain), so they didn’t check up, a costly error. The second printing of the D&D volume was without the Lovecraftian Mythos as a result) – but the correct<\/em> answer is a tie<\/strong> (by year) between “John Carter, Warlord Of Mars RPG”<\/em> and “Star Trek: Adventure Gaming in the Final Frontier,”<\/em><\/strong> both published in 1978. Some sources suggest that the John Carter game beats out Star Trek, others reverse them or stand mute on the subject. This is all particularly surprising because the Estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs are known to be extremely<\/em> protective of his legacy, and RPGs were still very much a new thing at the time. I smell more to this story! But, in the absence of any definitive source, I would accept either of these – and give a bonus half mark for both. (And simply answering “a tie” is only worth 1\/2 a point!)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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True Or False: There is more oxygen in the top few feet of soil than there is in all the atmosphere above it.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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True.<\/strong> Silicon Dioxide contains two atoms of oxygen and is the basic formula of quartz and sand, ubiquitous in soil. Being a solid means that it packs those atoms millions of times more compactly than oxygen in a gaseous form. Add the CO2, NO2, and H2O in the atmosphere (and all the other oxygen-bearing gaseous compounds as well) and it’s still nowhere near<\/em> enough.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q35<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Some sources state that no-one knows where the term \u201cMexican Standoff\u201d originated. Others point to its first use in print in work of fiction from 1871, or to a supposed US Warship that was actually alleged to be a pirate vessel in 1865 \u2013 but there is no actual record of the term being used at the time in describing what became, indeed, a Mexican Standoff in the modern meaning of the term. Some suggest the Spanish-American war as a likely source, but with no evidence, while others claim that it is offensive because the term \u201cMexican\u201d was used at the time as a derogatory term to imply inferior workmanship within the US \u2013 even though a Mexican Standoff, being three-way and completely evenly-balanced, is clearly a superior form of a Standoff. Finally, and here\u2019s the question, some sources \u2013 without explanation or attribution \u2013 claim that the term is slang from another country despite it being quite unlike the usual forms of slang used there. What is the name of that country?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Australia.<\/strong> What I think probably happened was that the concept<\/em> originated during the Spanish-American War, was reinforced by reports of the incident in Melbourne Australia with the suppposedly American warship, and so entered the American zeitgeist, and was then immortalized in print in the novel of 1871 – in other words, that there’s a grain of truth in all<\/em> the theories. Proving it would probably require finding the term in personal correspondence prior to 1871 but not before 1865. That’s a very narrow window, and to the best of my knowledge, no such search has ever been undertaken, and it’s entirely possible that no such usage has survived, anyway. So we may never know for certain.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q36<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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What is the title of the sequel to WarGames?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“WarGames: The Dead Code”<\/em><\/strong> Most people are surprised to learn that there even is<\/em> a sequel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q37<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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In the D&D 3.5 DMG\u2019s example of play, who gets the 6th passage of dialogue?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A37<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Tordek,<\/strong> a Dwarf fighter, reminding the GM of his character’s Darkvision.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q38<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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In Andre Norton\u2019s \u201cThe Beast Master,\u201d<\/em> the protagonist has a psychic bonds with an American Black Eagle, a pair of Meerkats, and a great cat crossbreed. I\u2019ve often referenced the novel in thinking about Familiars for D&D. What is the protagonist\u2019s name?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Hosteen Storm,<\/strong> a Navaho Indian. This novel is very useful for getting a handle on how Familiars and Animal Companions might translate into roleplay.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q39<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Name the Alice Cooper album famous for the extended monologue by Horror legend Vincent Price.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A39<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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“Welcome To My Nightmare”<\/em><\/strong> which includes the iconic title track and the hits “Department Of Youth” and “Only Women Bleed”.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q40<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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According to the the series at Campaign Mastery, a good name is what?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A40<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Hard To Find.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q41<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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According to an interview he gave to Atlas Of Adventure, how many copies of original D&D did Gary Gygax expect to sell when he released it in 1974?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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50,000 at best.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q42<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Why is the chemical symbol for Potassium a \u201cK\u201d, anyway?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The “K” stands for “Kalium”, which is the medieval latin word for Potash, from which Potassium was first extracted.<\/strong> I would also have given half marks for “It’s the latin name for Potassium” – not entirely correct but not completely wrong, either. The name Potash represents various salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form; it derives from “pot ash”, which refers to plant ashes soaked in water in a pot, which was the primary means of manufacturing the product before the industrial era.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The original printing of Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d<\/em> had a subtitle that is now often left off in reprints, so famous has the main title become. What was this subtitle?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Or, The Modern Promethius”.<\/strong> Half-a-point if you left out the “or”.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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TV shows are often \u2018tweaked\u2019 after the pilot episode airs. What prominent casting change was made after the pilot episode of My Favorite Martian<\/em> (which was also entitled, \u201cMy Favorite Martian\u201d)?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A44<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Mrs Brown’s teenaged daughter was written out.<\/strong> In the pilot, Mrs Brown teaches her daughter how to manipulate men while protecting her from the advances of wolves like Tim and is rather less ditzy and scatterbrained than she is depicted in the rest of the series.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q45<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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In the section \u201cCross-Fertilizations: Metagenres in SF\u201d in Star Hero<\/em> from Hero Games, what is the Sixth \u201cMetagenre\u201d listed?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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There isn’t one,<\/strong> this is a trick question. “The Return Of Hamlet” is presented in a similar manner to the Metagenres, but is in fact described as a subgenre of the “Tragedy” Metagenre.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q46<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Name of the novel in which computers create a simulation of Ragnerok for the entertainment of the population of Muspell\u2019s Planet, and its author.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Project: Millennium”<\/em><\/strong> by Curtis H. Hoffmann. I’d recommend a copy, it’s a fun blend of sci-fi and fantasy, but they are very hard-to-find these days.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q47<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Stargate: SG-1<\/em> created a parody of itself as the centerpoint of an episode in their 5th season (I thought it was the 100th episode but didn\u2019t seem to be when I went back and counted \u2013 though I may have mis-<\/em>counted). What is the name shared by both the episode and the spoof TV show?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A47<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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“Wormhole X-treme” – ‘because having an “X” in the title always makes something sell better,’ a comics in-joke from the era.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q48<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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When did Polaris become the North Star?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A48<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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“Stellar precession” is the term used to describe the motion of the point in the sky that coincides with Earth’s axis of rotation. In about 500 AD,<\/strong> which is roughly 1518 years ago,<\/strong> this process brought Polaris into line (more or less) with that axis, making it the North Star or Pole Star. In 3,000 BC, a star named Thuban (Alpha Draconis) was the North Star, and in about 13,000 years, it will be Vega (with a couple of others along the way in the meantime). A complete precession cycle is 25,800 years in length – so in 26,300AD, Polaris will once again become the North Star.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Q49<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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The most powerful weapon in AD&D was arguably the Vorpal Sword. Can you name the poem from which the term Vorpal derives?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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A49<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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“Jabberwocky”<\/em> by Lewis Carroll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Name of the novel on which RPGs have become a combination of cosplay, live roleplaying, virtual reality, and special effects, which takes place in a custom-built amusement park?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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“Dream Park”<\/em><\/strong> by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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