| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Mar 08 11:27PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:lLydnfJYA9wZyCPFnZ2dnUU7- > * The first 3 questions are about Arthur C. Clarke novels. > 1. A peaceful invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords results > in a massive leap in human evolution. Name the 1953 book. Childhood's End > 2. Name the 1968 novel, developed concurrently with the film, > involving the discovery of an alien monolith on the Moon. 2001: A Space Odyssey > 3. A 1973 novel describing the imminent arrival in near-Earth space > of a large asteroid, named for a Hindu god -- which turns out > to actually be an alien spaceship. Rendezvous with Rama > 5. Asimov's most famous series, comprising 7 books, features the > fictional science of psychohistory, developed by Hari Seldon and > used to help create a galaxy-spanning empire. Name the series. The Martian Chronicles > 6. Give the title of the 1950 book of short stories featuring > artificial humans with positronic brains. An unfortunate Will > Smith film sharing the same title was released in 2004. I, Robot > raised by Martians, who returns to Earth. > 8. This Heinlein book was turned into a Paul Verhoeven film in > 1997 about space marines fighting insectoid aliens. Starship Troopers > at an older age. Name the series. > 2. In this 1986 hit, Wil Wheaton plays the character at a young > age; Richard Dreyfuss, as a grown man. Name the movie. Close Encounters of the Third Kind > 6. For her role in this movie, Gloria Stuart became the oldest > person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting. Kate > Winslet played her character at a younger age. Name the movie. Titanic > 7. Leonard Nimoy as Spock comes face to face with his younger self > in "Star Trek" (2009). Who plays the younger version? Quinto > 10. Harrison Ford plays the lead in "Indiana Jones and the Last > Crusade". But what late actor plays Indy at a younger age in > the same movie? Yedlin Pete Gayde |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 08 11:56AM -0600 Mark Brader: >>> 8. Adjective, used for goods made to order, especially clothing. >> Bespoke. 4 for Dan Blum, Don, Peter, Joshua, Calvin, Bruce, Marc, >> and Pete. 3 for Dan Tilque. Dan Tilque: > Protest my only getting 3. See > htpps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bespoke wherein it says: > "variants: or less commonly *bespoken*" Then you get the point, and lose it again for misspelling the URL. :-) Scores, if there are now no errors: GAME 8 ROUNDS-> 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 BEST TOPICS-> Geo Spo Sci Ent His Mis Cha FIVE Don Piven 36 19 40 -- -- 40 24 159 Dan Blum 28 6 35 35 16 40 8 154 Joshua Kreitzer 34 20 19 40 16 24 15 137 Dan Tilque 32 16 32 8 16 36 20 136 Pete Gayde 35 26 28 19 16 24 18 132 "Calvin" 35 23 16 0 14 20 15 109 Bruce Bowler 16 24 40 -- -- 24 0 104 Peter Smyth 20 24 24 -- -- 24 12 104 Erland Sommarskog 36 19 -- 0 8 8 20 91 Marc Dashevsky -- -- 40 -- -- 36 4 80 Jason Kreitzer -- -- -- 28 16 20 4 68 -- Mark Brader A real Canadian science-fiction plot would be Toronto about whether alien visitors were a federal or msb@vex.net a provincial responsibility. --Duncan Thornton My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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