2006 Quiz
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Round 1: Books
1) One was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the other’s another name for a four-dimensional cube; Name the two Alex Garland novels
2) Which Dickens novel commences with the following opening lines?
“My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.”
3) What is the title of the sequel to “A Game of Thrones” by George R. R. Martin?
4) Who wrote the novel about a tetraplegic forensic scientist named Lincoln Rhyme which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington?
5) Which thriller writer often uses lines from nursery rhymes as inspiration for the titles of his books?
6) “Cruel Lye”, “Heaven Cent” and “Isle of View” are part of which series of fantasy books that are rather heavy on the pun-ishment?
7) What’s the title of the first sequel to “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card?
8) Who wrote “I am Legend”?
9) Name the character who first navigated the Mobius Continuum and fought the terrible Wamphyrii across two different worlds.
10) Who wrote “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, the poem that inspired Stephen King to write the Dark Tower books?
11) In Peter Benchley’s much-filmed novel about a man-eating sea-creature, what was the name of the victimised town?
12) The answer to the last question is a bit of a clue to this one and vice versa. Which haunting book, first published in 1977, was based on an allegedly true story?
13) Which Michael Crichton book is about an alien infection?
14) Who wrote “The Importance of being Earnest” and “Lady Windemere’s Fan”?
15) At what type of institution did Hamlet and Horatio meet?
Round 1: Books – Answers
1) “The Beach” and “The Tesseract”
2) “Great Expectations”
3) “A Clash of Kings”
4) Jeffrey Deaver – A geek point if they felt the need to tell us the title of the book (The Bone Collector).
5) James Patterson (e.g. “Along came a spider” and “Kiss the girls”)
6) Xanth. A geek point if they randomly give us the author – Piers Anthony.
7) “Speaker for the Dead”
8) Richard Matheson
9) Harry Keogh
10) Robert Browning
11) Amity
12) “The Amityville Horror”
13) “The Andromeda Strain”
14) Oscar Wilde
15) At University
Round 2: Film
1) Who played Rhett Butler in the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind”?
2) Starring Joaquim Phoenix in the title role, “Walking the Line” is a biographical film about which singer?
3) Joaquim Phoenix played this character in which film?
4) What popular film franchise does this tune come from?
5) What film links the word “Rosebud” and Orson Wells?
6) In the film “Beastmaster”, what was the protagonist’s name?
7) Which British actor best known for playing a heroic soldier plays a villain in both “Goldeneye” and “The Island”?
8) Name the film.
9) “There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other eleven?” – Name the actor and the film.
10) Who voiced Aslan in the recent film adaptation of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”?
11) What character does Liam Neeson play in Batman Begins?
12) Which known D&D-playing actor voiced the Iron Giant in the animated film of the same name?
13) Which film starring Christian Bale features a memorable scene in which men wielding flamethrowers burn the original “Mona Lisa”?
14) Name the actor.
15) Which main actor from the Matrix trilogy was later cast as “A humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.”
Round 2: Film – Answers
1) Clark Gable
2) Johnny Cash
3) 8MM
4) James Bond (A geek point if they name On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the film)
5) Citizen Kane
6) Dar
7) Sean Bean (Geek point if they mention Sharpe anywhere)
8) “The Dark Crystal” (Geek point for any mention of Skeksis)
9) Nicolas Cage in “Lord of War”
10) Liam Neeson
11) Ra’s Al Ghul OR Henri Ducard (TWO geek points if they give both!)
12) Vin Diesel
13) Equilibrium
14) Max Schreck
15) Hugo Weaving (In V for Vendetta)
Round 3 – Cult TV
1) Between which series of Red Dwarf did Holly have a ‘head sex change’?
2) Name as many of these characters as you can.
3) What was the name of Michael Knight’s boss in the Foundation for Law and Government?
4) Which actor graduated from playing a teenaged doctor in “Doogie Howser M.D.” to hunting bugs in the first “Starship Troopers” film?
5) Which character from “Boy Meets World” is played by an actor who was a sleek black Trans-Am in a former incarnation?
6) “Knightmare” ran for a total of eight series. In all that time, how many Dungeoneers successfully completed their quests? a) 4 b) 8 c) 2 d) 0 e) 13
7) Whilst we’re playing with numbers, how many episodes were there of “The Mysterious Cities of Gold”?
8) Who played Quincy?
9) Name the TV series.
10) What was the name of Sam Beckett’s supercomputer in “Quantum Leap”?
11) Which cult Glen A. Larson TV series is this the theme to?
12) What’s the name of the Griffin Family’s talking pet dog?
13) What colour was the council to which Delenn belonged in Babylon 5?
14) Who played Mal Reynolds in Firefly?
15) The cast of which cult TV series went on to make Brit Rom-Zom-Com “Shaun of the Dead”?
Round 3: Cult TV - Answers
1) Series 2 and 3
2) 1/6 of a point per correct answer.
3) Devon Miles
4) Neil Patrick Harris
5) Spaced
6) George Feeny (Mr. Feeny)
7) b) – 8 in total. Two in Series 2, one each in Series 4-6, two in Series 7, and a final one in Series 8
8) The answer’s 39. Anyone guessing between 34 and 44 can have a point, anyone who gets the answer exactly can have a geek point, too.
9) Jack Klugman
10) “Moonlighting”
11) Ziggy
12) Battlestar Galactica
13) Brian
14) Grey
15) Nathan Fillion
Round 4 – Music
1) Who composed the music used in the computer game “Hitman 2”?
2) “Walking on the Sun” and “All Star” are two songs by which band?
3) Who composed this?
4) What was the Rolling Stones’ first UK album?
5) Name the group and the song (half a point for each)
6) Which band had hits with “One Week” and “If I had $1,000,000”?
7) Which of Beethoven’s symphonies is this extract from?
8) In Common (4/4) time, how many beats are there in a semibreve?
9) From which well-known musical is this the Overture?
10) Name the group and the song (half a point for each)
11) Which real-world singer is the voice of Gorillaz star 2D?
12) Who sang the Bond themes “Goldfinger”, “Diamonds are Forever” and “Moonraker”?
13) Name the composer of “The Four Seasons”
14) Name the lead singer of the band which had a hit with this song.
15) Name the band which sang “Innuendo”, “The Prophet’s Song” and “Las palabras de amour”
Round 4: Music – Answers
1) Jesper Kyd
2) Smash Mouth
3) Danny Elfman (Geek Point for pointing out that it’s based on Batman)
4) “The Rolling Stones”
5) “Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
6) Barenaked Ladies
7) No. 5
8) 4
9) “The Phantom of the Opera”
10) Chumbawamba and “Tubthumping”
11) Damon Albarn. A geek point for any extra comments about Blur.
12) Shirley Bassey
13) Antonio Vivaldi (We’ll let them have Vivaldi. In fact, a geek point if they get Antonio)
14) Bono (Paul Hewson is his real name, 2 geek points if they know this)
15) Queen
Round 6: Gamer’s Advantage
1) Which company originally published the “Call of Cthulhu” RPG?
2) According to “Mage: The Awakening”, how many Watchtowers are there?
3) Name the quirky gaming system which made the transition from fiction to reality thanks to KenzerCo.
4) Name the two co-creators of D&D.
5) Speaking of D&D, can you name the 1982 film that starred Tom Hanks and showed that D&D Is Bad For You?
6) What type of dice does “In Nomine” use, and how many of them?
7) In the wargame “Flintloque”, what race represents the British forces?
8) What does GURPS stand for?
9) Which GURPS setting book contains information on such characters as the Death of Rats and Nanny Ogg?
10) Which type of dice does “Nobilis” use, and how many of them?
11) How many numbers are printed on each face of a standard D4?
12) Which D&D book had a distinctly Arabian feel?
13) What was the tagline for White Wolf’s “Orpheus”?
14) What cataclysmic event in the Shadowrun canon separates the third and fourth editions of the game?
15) Which shiny RPG was released in 2005?
Round 6: Gamer’s Advantage – Answers
1) Chaosium Inc.
2) Five.
3) Hackmaster
4) Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (1/2 a point each)
5) Mazes and Monsters
6) 3D6
7) Orcs
8) Generic Universal Roleplaying System
9) GURPS Discworld
10) It doesn’t use dice
11) 3
12) Al-Qadim
13) “Don’t Look Back”
14) The Great Crash 2.0
15) “Serenity”
Round 8: Comics
1) In the Sandman stories, what is unusual about The Corinthian’s eyes?
2) Who writes the “Astrocity” comics?
3) Who painted the covers for Garth Ennis’s “Preacher”?
4) Which X-Man’s real name is Scott Summers?
5) In “The Authority”, what was the date and time of Jenny Sparks’s death?
6) Who wrote and illustrated “The Tale of One Bad Rat”?
7) What’s the name of Peter Parker’s boss, the editor of the Daily Bugle?
8) What’s the name of DareDevil’s alter ego?
9) Name 2000AD’s “Russian Rogue”, the Hero of Rudinshtein.
10) In the “Ranma ½” manga, what does Ranma’s father turn into when he is doused in cold water?
11) Which British comic featured strips such as Dan Dare and Doomlord?
12) Which comic is older, “The Dandy” or “Beano”?
13) What’s the superhero name of Bart Allen in the Teen Titans?
14) Which writer/artist created Hellboy?
15) In which Marvel comic would you have found the characters “Shockwave”, “Grimlock”, “Ravage” and “Bumblebee”?
Round 8: Comics – Answers
1) They have teeth/they are mouths
2) Kurt Busiek
3) Glenn Fabry
4) Cyclops
5) Midnight, December 31st/January 1st, 1999/2000
6) Brian Talbot
7) J(or John). Jonah Jameson
8) Matt Murdock
9) Nikolai Dante
10) A panda
11) Eagle
12) “The Dandy”, by almost a year. Give ‘em a geek point if they give the years, 1937 and 1938
13) Kid Flash or Impulse
14) Mike Mignola
15) Transformers
Round 9: Random!
1) What’s the average annual rainfall (in millimetres) per year in the Sahara desert?
2) State Pythagoras’s theorem in plain English.
3) Do you think your quizmasters today are doing a good job?
4) What type of plant does vanilla come from?
5) What is ophidiophobia the fear of?
6) Which artist is well known for his huge, messy canvases filled with splotches and dashes and splashes of many colours of paint?
7) Name the Surrealist who painted “Persistence of Memory”
8) What’s the American equivalent of “Where’s Wally”?
9) What nuts are contained in a Waldorf Salad?
10) Which Warner Brothers character tries to take over the world every night, with the help of his stupid sidekick?
11) What is Triskaidekaphobia the fear of?
12) What is a Berliner?
13) What is Octarine?
14) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
15) How many points do you think you’ve got so far, not including the answer to this question?
Round 9: Random! – Answers
1) 0-25mm
2) The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides
3) As long as the answer is complimentary, they get the point.
4) An orchid
5) Snakes
6) Jackson Pollock
7) Salvador Dali
8) “Where’s Waldo”
9) Walnuts
10) The Brain
11) The number 13
12) A type of doughnut
13) The Colour of Magic
14) A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
15) Give them the point if they are within 5 points of the right answer.
