{"id":10107,"date":"2011-04-05T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:29:48","slug":"trivia-tuesday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=10107","title":{"rendered":"Trivia Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)<\/p>\n

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  1. In this famous short story by H.P. Lovecraft, a meteorite brings some strange “thing” to Earth which lays waste to a farm and drives the farmer and his family mad. Is it:
    \nA) The Green Meadow
    \nB) The Horror at Red Hook
    \nC) The Colour Out of Space
    \nD) The Doom That Came to Sarnath
    \nE) The Lurking Fear<\/li>\n
  2. The novel Bone Song<\/i> tells the story of Tristopolis, a city where death is worshipped and where dead things provide the energy used to power the city. Who is its author, better known for his “Nulapeiron” series?<\/li>\n
  3. Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October<\/i> tells of a struggle to keep the Great Old Ones from coming through a portal, and is narrated by Snuff, a dog who is the companion to what famous murderer?<\/li>\n
  4. In this alternate-history novel by Kim Newman, Dracula has escaped Van Helsing and married the widowed Queen Victoria. A fictional laundry list of characters, from Dr. Fu Manchu to Allan Quatermain, make an appearance.<\/li>\n
  5. Deacon Brodie, a respectable Edinburgh city councillor by day and burglar by night, inspired what Victorian monster?<\/li>\n
  6. Jim Butcher writes a series of novels about the only wizard in the Chicago phone book. What is the wizard’s name?<\/li>\n
  7. Dr. Frank N. Furter is from the planet Transexual in what galaxy?<\/li>\n
  8. In the Peter F. Hamilton series known as “The Night’s Dawn Trilogy,” a rift has opened and the dead are escaping into our realm. Name any of the books in the trilogy.<\/li>\n
  9. Kang and Kodos, the aliens who appear in the Simpsons’ “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween specials, are based on creatures from which 1950’s B movie?
    \nA) Watch the Skies!<\/i>
    \nB) The Astounding She-Monster<\/i>
    \nC) Escape from Jupiter<\/i>
    \nD) The Robot of Regalio<\/i>
    \nE) The Atomic Submarine<\/i><\/li>\n
  10. In The Exorcist<\/i>, Regan began a relationship though the ouija board with what was thought to be just an imaginary friend. What was the name of this so-called friend?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Answers below the fold)<\/p>\n

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    1. C) The Colour Out of Space<\/li>\n
    2. John Meaney<\/li>\n
    3. Jack the Ripper<\/li>\n
    4. i>Anno Dracula<\/i><\/li>\n
    5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde<\/li>\n
    6. Harry Dresden<\/li>\n
    7. Transylvania<\/li>\n
    8. The Reality Dysfunction<\/i>, The Neutronium Alchemist<\/i>, and The Naked God<\/i><\/li>\n
    9. E) The Atomic Submarine<\/i><\/li>\n
    10. Captain Howdy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) In this famous short story by H.P. Lovecraft, a meteorite brings some strange “thing” to Earth which lays waste to a farm and drives the farmer and his family mad. Is it: A) The Green Meadow B) The Horror at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}