{"id":14586,"date":"2012-05-01T06:24:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T11:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14586"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:33:31","slug":"trivia-tuesday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=14586","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. This prolific SF writer gave us such works as More Than Human<\/i> and Venus Plus X<\/i> (not to mention an important literary Law), but also wrote Some of Your Blood<\/i>, a nicely horrific vampire novel.
    \nA) Theodore Sturgeon
    \nB) Robert Silverberg
    \nC) Harry Harrison
    \nD) Hal Clement
    \nE) Larry Niven<\/li>\n
  2. This Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu tells the story of Laura, a girl who is victimized by a female vampire who seems to periodically shapeshift into a cat.<\/li>\n
  3. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>, “William the Bloody” is better known as whom?<\/li>\n
  4. During the same vacation in which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein<\/i>, Byron began a vampire story but never finished it. His physician (who had also been on the retreat) eventually wrote a work entitled “The Vampyre” based on Byron’s story. Name him.
    \nA) Gabriele Rossetti
    \nB) Matthew Lewis
    \nC) George Tighe
    \nD) Leigh Hunt
    \nE) John Polidori<\/li>\n
  5. In the Marvel Comics universe, detective Hannibal King was turned into one of the undead by the same vampire who killed Blade’s mother. What was his name?<\/li>\n
  6. In the Russian short story “Family of the Vourdalak,” a family awaits the return of their patriarch, whose tardiness may mean he has become a vampire. Who wrote this influential story?
    \nA) Nikolai Gogol
    \nB) Aleksey Tolstoy
    \nC) Ivan Turgenev
    \nD) Alexander Pushkin
    \nE) Peter Kropotkin<\/li>\n
  7. The TV series Forever Knight<\/i> followed the adventures of Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a cop in Toronto. It starred Geraint Wyn Davies as Knight, but its pilot was originally shot starring what 80s rocker as the title character?<\/li>\n
  8. In the novel Dracula<\/i> Jonathan Harker travels to the Count’s remote castle, located in which range of mountains?
    \nA) Sahyadri
    \nB) Karawanken
    \nC) Trollheimen
    \nD) Carpathian
    \nE) Rhodope<\/li>\n
  9. Born Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati, Ohio, this silent movie starlet was nicknamed “The Vamp” (short for vampire). Her stage name was an anagram for “Arab Death.”<\/li>\n
  10. This author’s “Dracula sequence” of novels, beginning with The Dracula Tape<\/i>, had the Count interacting with literary characters such as Sherlock Holmes. The series was so successful that he was hired to write the novelization of the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/i>.
    \nA) William Tenn
    \nB) James Blish
    \nC) Fred Saberhagen
    \nD) Leigh Brackett
    \nE) Jack Vance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

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    1. A) Theodore Sturgeon (who also gave us Sturgeon’s Law: Ninety percent of [science fiction] is crap, but then, ninety percent of everything<\/em> is crap)<\/li>\n
    2. Carmilla<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. Spike<\/li>\n
    4. E) John Polidori<\/li>\n
    5. Deacon Frost<\/li>\n
    6. B) Aleksey Tolstoy<\/li>\n
    7. Rick Springfield. The series originated as a 1989 TV movie entitled Nick Knight<\/i>, which was intended to be a series pilot. It was not picked up at the time, but in 1992 CBS decided to launch the series in Canada and re-shot the pilot with an all new cast.<\/li>\n
    8. D) Carpathian<\/li>\n
    9. Theda Bara<\/li>\n
    10. C) Fred Saberhagen<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      (No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.) This prolific SF writer gave us such works as More Than Human and Venus Plus X (not to mention an important literary Law), but also wrote Some of Your Blood, a nicely horrific vampire novel. A) Theodore Sturgeon B) Robert […]<\/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-14586","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\/14586","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=14586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14586\/revisions\/14607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}