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| 486.1 | Fred tries his hand at answers | NUTMEG::BALS | Scribble, scribble, scribble | Wed Jun 10 1987 10:41 | 123 |
| I have no real desire to enter the contest, as the prospect of hunting
through my library for answers is terrifying. I did try my hand at
answering as my questions as I could from memory. The results follow
the <form-feed>. Feel free to use any of my answers for your own entry
if you wish. I don't, however, guarantee that they're right. :-).
Fred
THE HUNT:
1. Name an SF novel by a mystery author. :
"Wine of the Dreamers" by John D. MacDonald
2. Name a book published under two (or more) different titles. :
"STARS MY DESTINATION" a.k.a. "TIGER, TIGER" by Alfred Bester.
3. Name a good science blooper in a science fiction story. :
1st edition of "RINGWORLD." The Earth is rotating in wrong direction. Corrected
in later editions.
6. Name two stories based on "Moby Dick". :
"INVOLUTION OCEAN" by Bruce Sterling. "THE DOORS OF HIS FACE, THE LAMPS
OF HIS MOUTH" (title may be incorrect) by Roger Zelazny. If you wanted to
get cute and bend the rules, add "JAWS" by Peter Benchley :-)
7. Name two "Starship Troopers" clones.:
Partial answer: "THE FOREVER WAR" by Joe Haldeman.
8. Name a story featuring household appliances.
"CAN YOU FEEL ANYTHING WHEN I DO THIS?" by Robert Sheckly
13. Name two books that have been bound in asbestos.
Partial answer: "FIRE STARTER" (limited edition) by Stephen King.
(thanks, jerry :-))
14. Name two novels which only exist within other novels.
"THE KING IN YELLOW" (noted in various books). "MISERY'S RETURN" in MISERY
by Stephen King.
15. Name three stories featuring actors.
1/3 of an answer: "DOUBLE STAR" by Robert Heinlein.
20. Name two stories about carnivals.
Partial answer: "SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES" by Ray Bradbury.
There's also a novel by Tom Reamy which features a carnival, but the name of
the title has faded from my memory. Or, "THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO," author
unremembered.
25. Name a character with two right arms.
Gil Hamilton.
36. Name three stories involving libraries.
Well, I could get cute and name the three books of the "FOUNDATION" series.
THE QUIZ - All answers must be exact. Please include titles and
authors.
I. Identify the following catchphrases by naming the book or story
they are associated with:
1. Tenser, said the tensor.
"THE DEMOLISHED MAN" by Alfred Bester
2. What I tell you three times is true.
"STAND ON ZANZIBAR," by John Brunner.
3. Think of it as evolution in action.
Partial answer. It's the Niven/Pournelle book that takes place in an arcology.
Can't remember the title.
7. We sell bottles, with things in them.
"Shottle Bop" by Ted Sturgeon.
8. As a color shade of purple-gray.
"THE FLYING SORCERERS," by Gerrold and Niven
11. Don't panic.
"THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY," by Douglas Adams
12. TANSTAAFL.
"THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS," Robert Heinlein
13. TANJ.
"RINGWORLD," by Larry Niven. (may not be the right answer. May be one
of the Beowolf Shaeffer books instead).
II. Identify the books or stories with the following first lines:
1. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost
caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
"A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE," Peter S. Beagle
6. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a
dead channel.
"NEUROMANCER," by William Gibson
10. She was a girly girl and they were true men, the lords of
creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.
Partial answer. It's by Cordwainer Smith. "THE BALLARD OF LOST C'MELL"?
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| 486.2 | more answers | JLR::REDFORD | It's turtles all the way down | Wed Jun 10 1987 19:17 | 83 |
| THE HUNT:
1. Name an SF novel by a mystery author.
Well, Asimov and Boucher wrote both, but were primarily sf authors.
2. Name a book published under two (or more) different titles.
Against the Fall of Night/City and the Stars (ok, not quite
the same book)
3. Name a good science blooper in a science fiction story.
In Robert Forward's "Dragon's Egg", the lifeforms on the
neutron star are powered by the glow of the star itself (the surface
is at 50,000 degrees Kelvin). However, this isn't nearly enough
energy to do the feats described in the book, such as climbing
a 1 cm high mountain against a billion G's. Forward dropped
a couple of decimal places in his blackbody radiation calculation.
8. Name a story featuring household appliances.
Disch's "The Brave Little Toaster"
11. Name two stories that feature the author writing the story.
Clarke has a story about being at a conference and talking to
a Chinese scientist who is going to corrupt America by broadcasting
unjammable pornography onto our TVs. Can't remember the
name, though.
12. Name an author who peppers his work with footnotes.
Jack Vance
14. Name two novels which only exist within other novels.
"Lords of the Swastika" by A. Hitler is within Spinrad's "The
Iron Dream".
15. Name three stories featuring actors.
"Darfstellar" (sp?) by Leiber.
16. Name a story in which our present is the result of time travel.
"The Proteus Operation"
17. Name a story that takes place outside of time.
"The End of Eternity" or "The Big Time"
18. Name three weird drugs from three different science fiction
stories.
PK Dick has lots, of course, but the only name I can remember is
Ubik. What was the one that the Martians used to enter their
Barbie setup? A
25. Name a character with two right arms.
Bill, the galactic hero. (BTW, I thought Gil Hamilton got a normal
new right arm.)
27. Name a story title from an A.E. Housman poem.
Now "For a Breath I Tarry",
Nor yet disperse apart
Quick, take my hand and tell me,
What have you in your heart?
33. Name a trilogy of trilogies (no unpublished works, please).
The Undying Land
36. Name three stories involving libraries.
"The Library of Babel" by Borges, "Sundiver" by Brin, and ?
THE QUIZ - All answers must be exact. Please include titles and
authors.
II. Identify the books or stories with the following first lines:
3. There was a wall.
The Clarke story "One-face"?
5. Streaker is limping like a dog on three legs.
"Startide Rising"?
III. Identify the books or stories with the following last lines:
2. Not, however, man.
"The Genocides" by Disch
7. And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee,
mrmee.
"Repent Harlequin, said the Ticktockman"
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| 486.3 | My try | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood | Thu Jun 11 1987 04:06 | 300 |
| What I can answer from memory (I'm too lazy to look things up):
THE HUNT:
1. Name an SF novel by a mystery author.
Let's try a bunch.
THE LOST WORLD and other Prof. Challenger novels by Arthur
Conan Doyle
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. QUIN by Agatha Christie
THE GIRL, THE GOLD WATCH, AND EVERYTHING and WINE/PLANET
OF THE DREAMERS by John D. MacDonald
SS-GB by Len Deighton
THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVE by Frederick Forsyth
ANARCHAOS by Curt Clark (Donald E. Westlake);
FIRE, BURN! and THE DEVIL IN VELVET by John Dickson Carr
A bunch of Dr. Palfrey novels by John Creasey
KING AND JOKER by Peter Dickinson
And there's all of the various authors like Anthony Boucher,
Edward Hoch, Bill Pronzine, August Derleth, Ron Goulart, Sax
Rohmer, etc., who straddle the genres.
2. Name a book published under two (or more) different titles.
So many to choose from. Let's try one that's appeared under
*three* titles: PRELUDE TO SPACE aka MASTER OF SPACE aka
THE SPACE DREAMERS, by Arthur C. Clarke.
3. Name a good science blooper in a science fiction story.
Too easy. The later corrected spinning of the Earth in the
wrong direction in RINGWORLD.
4. Name at least three baseball stories.
I'd have to look these up, but there were a couple of baseball
baseball stories (as well as some covering other sports) by
by Jack Haldeman (Joe's brother) in the late 70's in ASIMOV'S
SF MAGAZINE. There was at least one novel published by Del Rey
in the late 70's/early 80's called (I think) THE NEW ATOM BOMB-
SHELLS author was somebody Browne. And there was some flack
caused due to the fact that this novel was plaigerized from
something else.
5. Name a novel featuring Zoroastrianism.
Seems to me that one of Phil Dick's novels did, but I can't
recall a specific book.
6. Name two stories based on "Moby Dick".
Definitely Phil Farmer's THE WIND WHALES OF ISHMAEL. I suppose
you could also count Zelazny's "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps
of His Mouth".
7. Name two "Starship Troopers" clones.
THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman is the easy one. Since I haven't
read it, I can't be sure, but the second might be ARMOR by John
Steakley.
8. Name a story featuring household appliances.
"And There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury; "The Brave
Little Toaster" by Tom Disch.
9. Name two stories with scenes on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.
Possibly Fritz Leiber's OUR LADY OF DARKNESS (it's the only one
I can think of off-hand that's set in the San Francisco area).
10. Name one story set on Telegraph Avenue featuring a good-guy
werewolf.
???
11. Name two stories that feature the author writing the story.
Argh! I'm drawing a blank right now.
12. Name an author who peppers his work with footnotes.
Who else? Jack Vance. C.J. Cherryh did, too, at least once
once (HUNTER OF WORLDS).
13. Name two books that have been bound in asbestos.
What could be more appropriate than FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray
Ray Bradbury and FIRESTARTER by Stephen King?
14. Name two novels which only exist within other novels.
LORD OF THE SWASTIKAS by Adolph Hitler (in Norman Spinrad's
THE IRON DREAM).
15. Name three stories featuring actors.
"The Darfstellar" by Walter M. Miller; Fritz Leiber's "Four
Ghosts in Hamlet"; and Robert Heinlein's DOUBLE STAR.
16. Name a story in which our present is the result of time travel.
???
17. Name a story that takes place outside of time.
Asimov's THE END OF ETERNITY or Leiber's THE BIG TIME.
18. Name three weird drugs from three different science fiction
stories.
Can't think of any titles off-hand, but there are a number
number of nagging thoughts at the back of my head. Surely
Phil Dick's books are rife with them, but I'm not expert on
his works.
19. Name a Jack the Ripper story that isn't by Robert Bloch.
"The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" by Harlan
Ellison, written as a sequel to Bloch's "A Toy for Juliette".
20. Name two stories about carnivals.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury and THE CIRCUS
OF DR. LAO by Charles Finney, of course. And BLIND VOICES by
Tom Reamy.
21. Name a character with no vowels in his/her/its name.
22. Name a character with no consonants in its/his/her name.
23. Name a character with no vowels or consonants in her/its/his name.
Well, any character with a number for a name will do for
all three questions, such as THE PRISONER's #6.
24. Name a scene taking place on a roof.
???
25. Name a character with two right arms.
Larry Niven's Gil (the Arm) Hamilton.
26. Give an example of a classic expository lump. ("As you well
know...")
Hunh?
27. Name a story title from an A.E. Housman poem.
Since I'm not acquainted by Housman's works, I'll have to pass.
28. Name a series whose last book was published after the author's
death.
Discounting pastiches, of course, the most obvious is H. Beam
Piper's "Fuzzy" series.
29. Name a piece of art used for more than one book cover.
A Jack Gaughan cover for Murray Leinster's TIME TUNNEL (which
had nothing to do with the tv show, and, in fact, was published
two years *before* the tv show) was used again for Leinster's
THE TIME TUNNEL (which *was* based on the tv show). I suspect
that Pyramid's art department got confused by the similarity
of titles.
30. Name a famous painting used as a book cover.
31. Name a book named for a famous painting.
32. Name a book featuring a famous painting.
(Bonus points if you can name one book which fits all of the above
three.)
???
33. Name a trilogy of trilogies (no unpublished works, please).
God, *is* there one that's actually been finished? The closest
that comes immediately to mind is Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series.
34. Name two stories about vegetables.
"A Pride of Carrots" by Robert Nathan, and DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
(if you take the term "vegetable" in its broadest meaning).
35. Name two stories about Philip K. Dick.
???
36. Name three stories involving libraries.
Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel" is the obvious one.
A couple of novels by Robert Hoskins come to mind, but I don't
remember the titles.
THE QUIZ - All answers must be exact. Please include titles and
authors.
[Note: I always do badly on these types of questions.]
I. Identify the following catchphrases by naming the book or story
they are associated with:
1. Tenser, said the tensor.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN by Alfred Bester.
2. What I tell you three times is true.
???
3. Think of it as evolution in action.
Sounds like Pournelle, but a title doesn't come to mind.
4. Yngvi is a louse.
Argh! I should know this one!
5. Things sure are lousy here since Yngvi arrived.
6. Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
7. We sell bottles, with things in them.
Theodore Sturgeon's "Shottle Bop" (I think).
8. As a color shade of purple-gray.
THE FLYING SORCERORS by Larry Niven and David Gerrold.
9. What's a bullet?
10. Shards and shells.
11. Don't panic.
THE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams.
12. TANSTAAFL.
THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein.
13. TANJ.
RINGWORLD by Larry Niven. And probably some of his other Known
Space stories as well, but Louis Wu definitely used this phrase.
14. Are you a wonder or a marvel?
II. Identify the books or stories with the following first lines:
1. The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost
caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
2. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents.
3. There was a wall.
4. Lay ordinate and abcissa on the century.
5. Streaker is limping like a dog on three legs.
STARTIDE RISING by David Brin.
6. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a
dead channel.
Argh! This sounds damn familiar. It's from something I read
relatively recently, I'm sure.
7. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is was Court Hand and Summulae
Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition
and Astrology.
8. Life is a thing - if you'll excuse a quick dab of philosophy
before you know what kind of picture I'm painting - that reminds me
quite a bit of the beaches around Tokyo Bay.
9. Katy drives like a maniac.
10. She was a girly girl and they were true men, the lords of
creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.
11. It was a pleasure to burn.
12. Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
III. Identify the books or stories with the following last lines:
1. "Well, I'm back," he said.
2. Not, however, man.
3. "Well," the captain muttered, heading hurriedly across the outer
room to the passage, "here we go again!"
4. "Will you tell us about the other worlds out among the stars - the
other kinds of men, the other lives?"
5. A demon wind propelled me east of the sun.
6. Two of our opossums are missing.
7. And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee,
mrmee.
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison.
8. It was going to be fun to play God.
THE POWER by Frank Robinson.
9. He looked a long time.
--- jerry
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| 486.4 | It figures I'd think of this after I posted | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood | Thu Jun 11 1987 04:19 | 11 |
| 30. Name a famous painting used as a book cover.
31. Name a book named for a famous painting.
32. Name a book featuring a famous painting.
(Bonus points if you can name one book which fits all of the above
three.)
VENUS ON THE HALF-SHELL by "Kilgore Trout" (Phil Farmer) fits
at least the first two questions. I haven't read the book, so
I don't know if it fits the third.
--- jerry
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| 486.5 | Cann't remember the title of the book .. | RDGE00::ALFORD | Dragon Riders do it in between .... | Thu Jun 11 1987 05:48 | 10 |
| THE HUNT:
24. Name a scene taking place on a roof.
Does BLADE RUNNER count ?????
Right near the end when the chase ends up on the roof when the
character played in the film by Harrison Ford is saved from
falling (hanging on by a fingernail) by the replicant (?) character
played by Rutger Hauer who then "dies".
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| 486.6 | | NUTMEG::BALS | Scribble, scribble, scribble | Thu Jun 11 1987 09:13 | 15 |
| RE: .2
Gil Hamilton *did* get a new right arm. But he also has his psychic
right arm (remember, creativity counts :-)).
RE: .5
Like that answer, especially upon re-reading the question, where
you'll notice nothing is said about a "story." The title of the
book that BR is based on btw, is "Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep," by Phillip K. Dick. This would also be an answer to the
name a story with two (or more) titles question, come to think of
it.
Fred
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| 486.7 | I thought you weren't going to enter into discussions ... | RDGE00::ALFORD | Dragon Riders do it in between .... | Thu Jun 11 1987 09:49 | 10 |
|
27. Name a story title from an A.E. Houseman poem.
Hows about "IF" - I'm sure he must have used an IF somewhere
in his poems !!!!!
OK I know the story is on celluloid.....
CJA
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| 486.8 | This includes some new answers. | PROSE::WAJENBERG | | Thu Jun 11 1987 10:28 | 118 |
| THE HUNT:
11. Name two stories that feature the author writing the story.
All of Arthur C. Clarke's "Tales from the White Hart" fall into this
category. C. S. Lewis makes brief appearances in each volume of his
trilogy, "Out of the Silent Planet," "Perelandra," and "That Hideous
Strength"
16. Name a story in which our present is the result of time travel.
"Bring the Jubliee," author unknown to me, about a citizen of the
Confederated States of America who goes back to the Civil War / War
Between the States and accidentally lets the North win.
17. Name a story that takes place outside of time.
"The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber
18. Name three weird drugs from three different science fiction
stories.
Melange spice from "Dune," Psychedelic-40 from the novel of the
same name, and boosterspice, the rejuvenation drug from Niven's
Known Space series.
24. Name a scene taking place on a roof.
Several occur in Roger Zelazny's "Doorways in the Sand," whose
hero is fond of climbing buildings. The book begins and ends
with such scenes.
25. Name a character with two right arms.
Gil Hamilton by Larry Niven. One arm is a telekinetic phantom limb.
26. Give an example of a classic expository lump. ("As you well
know...")
James White uses these over and over in his Sector General stories.
He has a lump describing the function and personel of Sector General
Hospital, a lump for describing Dr. Prilicla, a lump for describing
the Chief Psychologist, and so forth.
27. Name a story title from an A.E. Housman poem.
"For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny
THE QUIZ - All answers must be exact. Please include titles and
authors.
I. Identify the following catchphrases by naming the book or story
they are associated with:
1. Tenser, said the tensor.
"The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester. The phrase is a mind-screen.
2. What I tell you three times is true.
"The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carrol (Chas. Dodgson)
4. Yngvi is a louse.
"The Incomplete Enchanter," by Pratt & DeCamp
8. As a color shade of purple-gray.
"The Flying Sorcerors" by Niven & Pournel. It's a mechanical
translator's bungled rendering of the name "Asimov" ("As a mauve")
11. Don't panic.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
12. TANSTAAFL.
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. It means
"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."
13. TANJ.
"Ringworld" by Larry Niven. It means "There Ain't No Justice."
II. Identify the books or stories with the following first lines:
7. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays is was Court Hand and Summulae
Logicales, while the rest of the week it was the Organon, Repetition
and Astrology.
"The Sword in the Stone" by T. H. White
8. Life is a thing - if you'll excuse a quick dab of philosophy
before you know what kind of picture I'm painting - that reminds me
quite a bit of the beaches around Tokyo Bay.
"Isle of the Dead" by Roger Zelazny
III. Identify the books or stories with the following last lines:
1. "Well, I'm back," he said.
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkein. The speaker is
Sam Gamgee.
3. "Well," the captain muttered, heading hurriedly across the outer
room to the passage, "here we go again!"
I'm not sure, but I think "The Witches of Karres" by James Schmidt
5. A demon wind propelled me east of the sun.
"Nine Princes in Amber" by Roger Zelazny
Earl Wajenberg
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| 486.9 | It ain't me, babe | NUTMEG::BALS | Scribble, scribble, scribble | Thu Jun 11 1987 12:53 | 11 |
| RE: .7's title (plus the fact that I've already gotten one mail
message from a confused person)
I was afraid this might happen. Please note that I am *not* the
author of .0. I re-posted it from a USENET sf-lovers article. I
am not offering any prizes, nor am associated with the original
poster in any way, shape or form. If you want to actually enter
the contest, then you have to contact him directly with your answers,
not me. His address is shown in .0.
Fred
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| 486.10 | Sorry ... | RDGE00::ALFORD | Dragon Riders do it in between .... | Thu Jun 11 1987 14:54 | 5 |
|
OK, please forgive me, you can discuss with us all you like !!!
CJA ;^}
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| 486.11 | A Small Attempt. | HYMM::WOODALL | I Think ICON, I Think ICON | Thu Jun 11 1987 14:58 | 7 |
|
re: Catch Phrase 10...
Isn't "Shards and Shells" from one (or more) of Asprin's 'Myth'
series?
David.
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| 486.12 | | DDMAIL::ANDREWS | Just living a life of illusion | Thu Jun 11 1987 21:06 | 3 |
| Re Catch Phrase 10:
Actually it is from Anne Mcaffrey's(sp) Pern series
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| 486.13 | 2 mills worth | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Fri Jun 12 1987 13:51 | 9 |
|
From the 'scavenger hunt' section:
5. Name a novel featuring Zoroastrianism.
I think this would be any novel by Mack Reynolds. I am glad to have
forgotten the names of all these novels.
JP
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| 486.14 | RAH | IRT::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Fri Jun 12 1987 15:03 | 4 |
| re -.1;
In RAH's _Tunnel_in_the_Sky_ I believe the protagonist's family
is Zoroastrian
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| 486.15 | a couple of strange ones... | LITRBX::EDECK | | Fri Jun 12 1987 16:13 | 16 |
|
A story about baseball:
"The Mighty Casey"--originally a teleplay on the Twlight
Zone, reprinted in a TZ anthology. Written by Charles Beaumont(?)
Two about household appliances: (Bet no one else thinks of THESE!)
"The Twonkey" by ?; (Probably antholigized in "Adventures
in Time and Space") A slightly confused man from the future builds
a TV. (Remember the movie of the same name?)
"The Proud Robot" by Lewis Padget (Henry Knutter) (Well,
he was SUPPOSED to be a can opener.)
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| 486.16 | Another character with 2 right arms | RACHEL::BARABASH | Bill Barabash | Fri Jun 12 1987 16:56 | 4 |
| Another character with two right arms is Tash from C. S. Lewis' Narnia
series.
-- Bill B.
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| 486.17 | not sure of this one | STUBBI::B_REINKE | the fire and the rose are one | Fri Jun 12 1987 17:24 | 4 |
| Don't the moties from Niven's "A Mote In God's Eye" have two
right arms and one left?
Bonnie J
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| 486.18 | 2 right arms (again) | AIAG::LUTZ | | Fri Jun 12 1987 17:45 | 7 |
| re: .16, .17
What about Tars Tarkas, et. al.? After all, just because the being
has to have two right arms, it doesn't mean he can't have two *left*
ones as well.
Scott
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| 486.19 | | INK::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Mon Jun 15 1987 09:27 | 24 |
| re .15:
> A story about baseball:
>
> "The Mighty Casey"--originally a teleplay on the Twlight
> Zone, reprinted in a TZ anthology. Written by Charles Beaumont(?)
There was also "The Fabulous No-Hit Inning," but the author's name
eludes me.
> "The Twonkey" by ?; (Probably antholigized in "Adventures
>in Time and Space") A slightly confused man from the future builds
>a TV. (Remember the movie of the same name?)
It was spelled "Twonky." It was written by Henry Kuttner as Lewis
Padgett. Hans Conried played in the film. In the original story,
the Twonky was a console radio (TV wasn't widespread when it was
written. "Great Snell! I've hit a temporal snag!")
Haw about "A Logic Named Joe," by Fredrick Brown (an early look
at the personal computer. Sort of)?
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 486.20 | Warning - sidetrack ahead. | HARDY::KENAH | and shun the Furious Ballerinas. | Tue Jun 16 1987 14:23 | 8 |
| > Haw about "A Logic Named Joe," by Fredrick Brown (an early look
> at the personal computer. Sort of)?
Tsk! Two speeling :-) errors in one sentence -- shame on you, Steve!
How, not Haw... and it's Fredric (no "k").
(-: andrew :-)
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| 486.21 | One more answer (Scavenger 23) | PIGGY::GEORGE | | Tue Jun 16 1987 18:15 | 7 |
| Scavenger # 23
Name a character whose name has no consonents or vowels-
<> or <|> or <()> etc in C.J. Cherryh's Hunter of Worlds.
She wanted to get across a totally alien consciousness and found
using nested punctuation for various aspects of the alien psychology
worked.
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| 486.22 | Spelling, schmelling | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood | Wed Jun 17 1987 01:59 | 6 |
| re:.20 re:.19
An even grosser mistake on Steve's part is that "A Logic Named
Joe" is by Murray Leinster, not Fredric Brown.
--- jerry
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| 486.23 | Who or What is Joe? | PROSE::WAJENBERG | | Wed Jun 17 1987 09:30 | 5 |
| Okay, I'm curious now. What is "A Logic Named Joe" about? Is the
title character a character at all? Is the story really about a
formal axiom system? Or os "logic" future slang for "robot"?
Earl Wajenberg
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| 486.24 | What is right; who's on first. :-) | ERASER::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Thu Jun 18 1987 10:19 | 14 |
| Re .21
Geez! I guess I'm getting old ... <sigh>... [I haven't read it
in about 20 years, and somehow it _felt_ like a Fred Brown story...]
re .23:
The story takes place in a [future, naturally] time where houses
have relatively small computerlike devices called "Logics" that
are used to answer questions, help run things, etc... The central,
er, character, is a Logic that exceeds its performance specifications
rather spectacularly. It is a humorous story.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 486.25 | If Fantasy Counts... | 35223::WOODALL | I Think ICON, I Think ICON | Thu Jun 18 1987 14:37 | 12 |
|
A series of books where the last book was published after the author's
death was:
The OZ books by L. Frank Baum.
The final book Baum wrote ("Glinda of OZ") was published after he
died.
( I discovered this last night as I was finishing reading the set.)
David.
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| 486.26 | I still miss Doc ... | INK::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Thu Jun 18 1987 14:52 | 12 |
| Re .25:
One might also include the "Subspace" series by Doc Smith, if you
have a two-book "series." The first (_Subspace Explorers_) was
published a year or so before his death; he worked on [and for that
matter, showed me] the manuscript for what was to be the second
of three books [to be called _Subspace Second_ and _Subspace Safari_
respectively]; he died while the manuecript was in about its fuurth
draft. The second and third books were merged into what was finally
published as _Subspace Encounter_, years after his death.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 486.27 | The Yellow Brick Road Goes On and On | PROSE::WAJENBERG | | Fri Jun 19 1987 09:57 | 10 |
| Re .24
By the way, "Glinda of Oz" was Baum's last Oz book, but it was far
from THE last Oz book. Ruth Plumly Thompson took over as "Royal
Historian of Oz" and wrote more than a dozen more. After she quit,
some other people took over, but the spark was gone and the series
petered out around #39 or #40, depending on how you want to define
the Oz canon.
Earl Wajenberg
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| 486.28 | Not too late to join in the fun, I hope | CHEFS::ORFORD | Another Pulitzer Nomination | Fri Jun 26 1987 12:06 | 28 |
|
Here are a few more answers
HUNT
2 - Books published under 2 titles
Samuel R Delaney's "Einstein Intersection" was first published
as "A fabulous formless darkness"
25 - Two right arms
Zaphod Beeblebrox
32 - Famous painting triple answer
"The Gardens of {Earthly} delight" by Ian Watson
QUIZ
II.4 "Lay ordinate and abcissa on the century"
comes from Samuel R Delaney's "Time considered as a helix of
semi-precious stones"
Ken
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| 486.29 | | AKOV76::BOYAJIAN | In the d|i|g|i|t|a|l mood | Tue Jun 30 1987 02:34 | 9 |
| re:.28
Where did you get the alternate title for the Delany book?
No reference book I own lists any kind of alternate title for
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION. At any rate, it certainly wasn't
"originally" called anything else, since its first ever edition
was from Ace Books in 1967 as THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION.
--- jerry
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| 486.30 | tally | STUBBI::B_REINKE | the fire and the rose are one | Tue Jun 30 1987 23:30 | 1 |
| has anyone figured out how many questions are unanswered?
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| 486.31 | Delaney | TOLEDO::LARSEN | Glen Larsen | Tue Jun 30 1987 23:55 | 13 |
| .28 simply got it backwards.
"The Einstein Intersection" has a 1967 copyright, my Bantam
copy gives a first published date of 1968 in Great Britain
by Victor Gollancz Ltd.
It is my impression that Delaney prefers to call it "A Fabulous
Formless Darkness". In "The Complete Nebula Award Winning Fiction"
Delaney never refers to this novel as "The Einstein Intersection"
(noticed this in the forward to the afterword of this book, typical
Delaney ramblings & notes during the period around Babel-17).
gl.
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| 486.32 | ????? | OPG::CHRIS | Capacity Planner Who Almost Got it Right! | Tue Aug 16 1988 04:26 | 8 |
|
Hello,
Could someone answer the following question:
1. What other career is Isaac Asimov famous?
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| 486.33 | Gotcha, I think..... | SCOMAN::BOURGAULT | I have a story to tell..... | Tue Aug 16 1988 08:39 | 28 |
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Hmmmm.... you mean FOR what other career... don't you?
Asimov was a professor of Biochemistry at Boston University
until (as he told me) writing became more profitable than
teaching. When I wrote (1969) and asked, he was still on
Boston U.'s list as a professor, but (quoth he) "I keep the
job as a sinecure." I had to look it up... it means
"a well-paying job, involving little or no work".
If I remember correctly, he wrote a tongue-in-cheek
"article" on Presublimated Thiotimoline shortly before
taking his orals for his Doctorate. (This amazing
substance would go into solution a second or two
BEFORE being placed in the liquid... but only IF
you actually would go through with the action....
sort of a miniature time-machine...)
At the tail end of his (grueling) orals, one of
the examiners said "What can you tell us about
Presublimated Thiotimoline, Doctor Asimov?"
The shock that this person had read the "article"
was reportedly almost as great as realizing that he
had been addressed as DOCTOR.... and they wouldn't
do THAT unless.... HE'D MADE IT!!
How's that for a trivia-killer?
- Ed -
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| 486.34 | | TFH::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Tue Aug 16 1988 10:19 | 8 |
| I think it was "Resublimated Thiotimoline" (not Presublimated)
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| 486.35 | >C< | MARKER::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason | Tue Aug 16 1988 10:59 | 6 |
| Re .34:
It was, but since thiotimoline has the ability to dissolve before
a solute hits it, the confusion is certainly legitimate.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 486.36 | Look this up in Chem Abstracts :-) | SMURF::REEVES | Jon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler group | Tue Aug 16 1988 22:46 | 3 |
| And if you want to look it up, the "paper" is "On the Endochronic
Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline." Sorry, but I don't remember
which collection I've read it in.
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| 486.37 | try the Journal of Irreproducible Results :-) | TFH::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Wed Aug 17 1988 10:38 | 12 |
| re .36:
> Look this up in Chem Abstracts :-)
Asimov relates that after the paper was published, libraries all
over the country were swamped with requests for the phoney references
he had sprinkled throughout the paper.
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| 486.38 | more trivial trivia | ASIC::EDECK | Happy 85th, Harley D. | Wed Aug 17 1988 11:20 | 4 |
|
-< try the Journal of Ireproducible Results >-
I remember the JIR when it was _The Worm Runners' Digest_
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| 486.39 | | QUASER::JOHNSTON | LegitimateSportingPurpose?E.S.A.D.! | Thu Nov 08 1990 17:11 | 17 |
| Not sure if this is a Trivia question, or what?
I think there's probably a shocking gap in my education.
Anyway:
In several different SF novels, I've run across reference to
Liberty Hall. A couple of the books said something to the effect
of `where you can spit on the floor and call the cat a bastard' (or
words similar). Other novels have merely referenced `Liberty Hall'.
I have also run across this reference in books which are NOT Science
Fiction, leading me to believe I've missed some bit of common knowledge
somewhere along the way.
Any help out there?
Mike JN
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| 486.40 | The Celts write again | AYOV27::ANDERSONM | Duty above all else :: 823-3470 | Mon Nov 12 1990 10:08 | 12 |
| First reference I can find is in
"She stoops to conquer"
Oliver Goldsmith - 18th. Century Irish Writer
but I'm always open to be corrected.
<If only I could use my reference books in Trivia contests!>
Murray
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