h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello. Being busy, as I am, I have had little time to do my job of Pub Quiz Guy. However, I shall leave a few questions here for your edification. Answers to be sent to [email protected] for an astounding prize, probably a pat on the back or something.

Round One
1) What is the tallest mountain in the USA?
2) Name the British Prime Minister at the beginning of World War II?
3) "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan." Next line?
4) Charles Gordon, who died at Khartoom in the nineteenth century, fighting the Madi, had a nickname. What was it?
5) What is the connection between Bladerunner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys (other than being films)?
6) When did Dr. Who first debut on British Television? (Year will do, bonus point for date)
7) Name the two teams in the Rugby World Cup final 1999.
8) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. What was Rama?
9) Who was The Onion's Man of the Millenium?
10) Sir Harry Flashman, Victorian hero appears in Tom Brown's Schooldays and a modern series of books written by whom?

Give them a go, why don't you.

Hi Munchkin! This is a great idea - sorry I didn't see it sooner. I'll mention your quiz in the next newsletter

-TVF

Well, being the Pub Quiz Bod I felt a bit guilty about having failed to quiz. I bet everyone gets them dead easily.

I'm pretty bad at this sort of thing. I think I only got 2.

Well, I've taken the test. I'm hoping I've gotten a few right... in fact, I'm SURE I'd gotten a few right, depending on Munch's definition of 'right' is.

My email is winging its way across the oceans. Name which ones?

Nice cheerleaders at the Superbowl. My favourite. The one in blue, 3rd from the left.

Right, as in opposite of left, you can't miss it. Anyway, I am going to see how the entries come in, and will probably publish the answers, and Round 2 about the end of the week sometime, as I am somewhat busy all of a sudden. Never rains but it pours.

Oh, and nobody has them all right yet, which makes me feel so much better.

If you guys can get all the answers right, Lance is going to run out of questions very quickly during the softball game........

And the answers were;

Round One
1) What is the tallest mountain in the USA?
Mt. McKinley, in Alsaka. Don't kow if there is on bigger in Canada or not.
2) Name the British Prime Minister at the beginning of World War II?
Neville Chamberlain
3) "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan." Next line?
A Stately Pleasure Dome decree.
4) Charles Gordon, who died at Khartoom in the nineteenth century, fighting the Madi, had
a nickname. What was it?
Charles "Chinese" Gordon
5) What is the connection between Bladerunner, Unforgiven and Twelve Monkeys (other
than being films)?
All written by David Peoples
6) When did Dr. Who first debut on British Television? (Year will do, bonus point for date)
23rd November 1963, just after the news, dominated by the shooting of President Kennedy.
7) Name the two teams in the Rugby World Cup final 1999.
France and Australia
8) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke. What was Rama?
A chuff off huge spaceship-thing.
9) Who was The Onion's Man of the Millenium?
Death, very popular throughout the last thousand years apparently
10) Sir Harry Flashman, Victorian hero appears in Tom Brown's Schooldays and a
modern series of books written by whom?
George MacDonald Fraser, and very good they are too.

Scores were;
Looney Tunes : 4
Michelle : 1
Hannah : 3
Jimi X : 2.5 (I'll give him his iffy mountain answer)
Both Fenny and TVsFrink claim to have 2, only my battery went flat on my telepathy this week, so I couldn't check.

And now, after much thought, the aptly named Round Two shall be on Books.

1) "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." First line of which book?
2) Apocalypse Now is based on the story Heart of Darkness. On which river is Heart of Darkness set?
3)In which novel do the characters use words such as "droogs", "tolchock" and "ultra-violent"?
4) Which book won the HUGO award (Best Science Fiction Novel) in 1999?
5) Gullivers Travels; Gulliver travelled to a land populated by intelligent horses. What were they called?
6) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had a sequel, what is it's full title?
7) He was a boy in Elizabethan England, fell in love with a Russian Lady during the little Ice Age, was made Ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II, became a woman, joined 18th Century Society and lived into the present day. Who was this character?
8) The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a fictional novel discussed in which real novel?
9) If Iain Banks writes mainstream novels, what does Iain M. Banks write?
10) Lord of the Rings, name the three volumes?

OOooh wow I got 3
yeah.
now see if I can do better this time.

Michelle = Fenny. I claimed to have two, but I suppose I expected too much of myself.

Aaaa - aahhh I now feel suitably chastened.
Also, after much thought, and as Jimi X got a half point for his dodgy mountian, Fenny can have an extra half point for being correct, Churchill was not the PM, as she said.

Frink = Frink

I didn't ever send in my email, I just figured I knew 2 and had no chance at the rest. However, I have sent in my email for round 2, despite the fact that I failed to answer most of the questions.......

So if I stick this on the front page, will you start another pub quiz? It's a very good idea. I think I'll join in too.

I think that I got 5, assuming the ones I answered were correct!

Phil

This is a great idea!
I'm scoring pretty lowly, but I think I got three in the second one.
Keep up the great work!

Munchkin? Peta's offering some front page pub-licity

Incidentally, I'm going to add a link to this on the bar page - would you want your email address on there too, or just in this forum?

-TVF

Put it there - more emails won't hurt (too much) LOL

I'd serve him right for getting a vanity domain

I'm not vain, you're supposed to spend that much time over your hair in the morning

Anyway, coo to the publicity, any late comers can feel free to join in, I'll bring this one to an end in a couple of rounds, if you don't want to join in now.
And now, round two's answers;
1) "We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold." First line of which book?
{Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas}
2) Apocalypse Now is based on the story Heart of Darkness. On which river is Heart of Darkness set?
{Congo}
3)In which novel do the characters use words such as "droogs", "tolchock" and "ultra-violent"?
{A Clockwork Orange, friends, attack, give a good going over"}
4) Which book won the HUGO award (Best Science Fiction Novel) in 1999?
{To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis}
5) Gullivers Travels; Gulliver travelled to a land populated by intelligent horses. What were they called?
{Houyhnhnms}
6) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had a sequel, what is it's full title?
{Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there}
7) He was a boy in Elizabethan England, fell in love with a Russian Lady during the little Ice Age, was made Ambassador to Constantinople by Charles II, became a woman, joined 18th Century Society and lived into the present day. Who was this character?
{Orlando. Form Orlando by Virginia Woolf}
8) The Grasshopper Lies Heavy is a fictional novel discussed in which real novel?
{The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick)
9) If Iain Banks writes mainstream novels, what does Iain M. Banks write?
(Science Fiction)
10) Lord of the Rings, name the three volumes?
(The Fellowship of the Ring, The Twin Towers, The Return of the King}

I will give phonetic spellings of Houyhnhnm, but will be harsh on the Alice question, full point for full title only. I wouldn't have bothered, but someone got it right.

The scores;
Looney Tunes - 6.5 (Oooo)
Phil - 5
Swiv (Hannah) - 5.5
Frink - 2
Fenny - 1.5 (As she spookily guessed)

Thus total scores now stand at;
Looney Tunes 10.5
Swiz 8.5
Phil 5
Frink 4
Fenny 3.5
The mysteriously absent JimiX 2.5

Finally, on to the cuninngly titled;

Pub Quiz Round Three

Gaah!, I've lost my 1925 copy of the Pears Cyclopedia in my recent move. Bang go loads of questions. Anyway, let's see what I can do for a round entitled;

The Twentieth Century(ish). (Historical questions about the twentieth century, and near by bits.)
1) Gorbachov (sp?) became General Secretary of the Soviet Union in which year?
2) India became independent in which year?
3) In the First World War the third battle of Ypres had a second name, What was it?
4) Oct. 31 1984, in Delhi. Who was assasinated then?
5) What was the first country to introduce votes for women?
6) Berlin's infamous Nazi Olympics were held in which year?
7) Penecillin, top anti-biotic, was discovered by whom?
8) The European Coal and Steel Board has now grown into what?
9) What was the first part of the British Comonwealth to introduce its own citizenship?
10) Allende was overthrown in Chile in which year?

Phew that was a bit long All answers to the usual address, whinging to someone else.