Can You Master This Unique Sci-Fi Trivia Challenge?

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The forum thread features a creative trivia game centered around sci-fi and fantasy themes, where participants pose questions and provide clues that are not easily searchable. The game encourages players to guess answers based on obscure hints related to various media, including movies, books, and television series. Discussions include references to iconic works such as "Doctor Who," "Star Trek," and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Participants share insights about the connections between characters and plot points, often leading to deeper conversations about the themes and implications of the works mentioned. The game also allows for additional clues if initial guesses are unsuccessful, fostering an engaging and collaborative atmosphere. Notably, the thread highlights the importance of creativity in crafting clues that challenge participants while maintaining a focus on well-known sci-fi and fantasy narratives.
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I don't know if this will work, but I thought we might try something a little different. As with other contests, get the answer, ask the next question, but the difficult part is to give a clue or clues that would not be easily searchable. So, only one or a few keys words should be used that in themselves would act as a clue to the well-informed. The clue should be distinct enough to act as a pointer, but should not have any specific reference to the sci-fi series, movie, or book being implicity referenced.

I'll start with one that should be fairly easy.

What happens if you blink?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
The statues can move!
 
MotoH said:
The statues can move!

Correct! The Weeping Angels, Dr. Who. You're up.

Also, as is normally done, in the event that we have no good guesses, we need to allow for additional clues if requested.
 
the Kast was an imposter with no virtues or loyalty.
 
Crud, I have no idea!
 
Googlable.
 
Shall I give another hint?





aruetii, beskar'gam, mando'a
 
I will give it until tonight at 10pm and I will put up a new riddle.
 
  • #10
You've got it!

Your turn!
 
  • #11
I have to go to sleep, so to post something fast - something I have ready for reasons other than SF.

sf01.jpg
 
  • #12
Borek said:
I have to go to sleep, so to post something fast - something I have ready for reasons other than SF.

sf01.jpg

Fantasy Island?
The Island of Doctor Moreau?
 
  • #13
No. Hint:

blue_whale.jpg


This is taken from http://myanimalblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/ . And the first picture on the page - the one with white shark - is related as well.
 
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  • #15
Yes. I knew that reusing an old picture I am risking someone will spot it, but I was too :zzz: to think about something new.
 
  • #16
I see, anyway, let's keep the next one as a visual clue as well.

A screen-shot from a streetview pic in Google Earth

10z7kes.jpg
 
  • #17
What kind of music was played in Hotel Martinet?
 
  • #18
Andre said:
What kind of music was played in Hotel Martinet?



Bobby Millette and his orchestra played dance music.

From the Radio Broadcast of "War of the Worlds".
 
  • #19
Exactly, the Google Earth screen capture is made at position 40°18'47.44"N 74°36'14.60"W in Grovers Mill, NJ where the first Martian landed. The memorial is at the other side of that field.

The original broadcast
 
  • #20
Andre said:
Exactly, the Google Earth screen capture is made at position 40°18'47.44"N 74°36'14.60"W in Grovers Mill, NJ where the first Martian landed.

That's pretty much what I thought after I got the second clue.

Okay, let's try this one:

He was a French hero
 
  • #21
Janus said:
That's pretty much what I thought after I got the second clue.

Okay, let's try this one:

He was a French hero

A long shot, but Georges Méliès??
 
  • #22
Charles Deveaux
 
  • #23
Next clue:

You could say that he was a fortunate sun.
 
  • #24
No new guesses, so here's another clue.

French was the author, but the author wasn't French.
 
  • #25
Lucky Starr

Got it before seeing your last clue. :biggrin:
 
  • #26
These boxers could be found in storage.
 
  • #27
Ivan Seeking said:
Lucky Starr

Got it before seeing your last clue. :biggrin:


Correct! He was the hero of a series of novels written by Isaac Asimov under the pen-name of Paul French. (The last clue, which you apparently didn't need, was a double clue; referring both to the fact that "French" was not a nationality and that it was not the author's real name.

And, as I expected, you knew the answer was the right one once you came up with it, as I see that you've already given your first clue.
 
  • #28
Janus said:
And, as I expected, you knew the answer was the right one once you came up with it, as I see that you've already given your first clue.

Yes, the high confidence motivated me to keep things moving. No egg on the face this time. :biggrin:

Ivan Seeking said:
These boxers could be found in storage.
 
  • #29
If I had meant sliding, I would have said sliders.
 
  • #30
Ivan Seeking said:
These boxers could be found in storage.

I'll hazard a guess.

The Robot prize fighters from The Twilight Zone Episode "Steel".
 
  • #31
At times you could find them at a hotel, but it was no use calling them on the phone. They wouldn't answer.
 
  • #32
Uh oh, if no one gets this one, I think we have a problem. But what can one expect for $6K.

It was a U-Haul storage unit.
 
  • #33
NEW QUESTION: The first person to get this or the previous question goes next. This question includes a non-sci-fi reference.

What is the connection between Mayberry, North Carolina, and the Corbomite Maneuver.
 
  • #34
Ivan Seeking said:
NEW QUESTION: The first person to get this or the previous question goes next. This question includes a non-sci-fi reference.

What is the connection between Mayberry, North Carolina, and the Corbomite Maneuver.

The last one, I remember! He passed the impossible test this way, I think... James Tiberius Kirk.
 
  • #35
nope :biggrin:
 
  • #36
I am truly stumped. I ran through the whole cast and support for that Ep. and couldn't find anything!

Ivan you dirty dancer.
 
  • #37
MotoH said:
I am truly stumped. I ran through the whole cast and support for that Ep. and couldn't find anything!.

I'm disappointed. :frown:

Do you know what happens in Mayberry?
 
  • #38
Ivan Seeking said:
I'm disappointed. :frown:

Do you know what happens in Mayberry?

I do... Andy Griffith, and Mayberry is the "town" in NC... but... the maneuver? Stumped!
 
  • #39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsX2lFbI1o

The commercial included is incidental and not a clue.
 
  • #40
Ivan Seeking said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsX2lFbI1o

The commercial included is incidental and not a clue.

Oh, I love those old commercials! I still listen to OTR (Old Time Radio), and one of my favourite, "Buy Blue Coal! It's the finest anthracite you can have for the home!" and of course, "Petri Wine, because 'Petri took time, to bring you good wine.'"

That said, unless Ron Howard is the link, I'm TOTALLY stumped.
 
  • #41
Ivan Seeking said:
NEW QUESTION: The first person to get this or the previous question goes next. This question includes a non-sci-fi reference.

What is the connection between Mayberry, North Carolina, and the Corbomite Maneuver.

Clint Howard. He was Leon in Mayberry, and Balok, captian of the Fesarius.
 
  • #42
Frame might of beaten me to it. But the link is that Clint Howard plays the child progity that is the one behind Balok in the STOS eps "The Corbomite Maneuver". Clint is the brother of Ron Howard.
 
  • #43
Oh, I was going for the Ron-Clint connection, but Janus gave a valid answer first. Clint Howard did appear on the Andy Griffith show. I had forgotten about that!

The answers to the first question were Abe and Aaron, who would time travel to the past by entering a rather crude looking box [boxers, like sliders] kept secretly in a U-Haul storage unit, for a certain period of time. At first, while in the past, they hid in a hotel and avoided answering their cell phones in order to avoid changing the past in ways not intended. This comes from what I consider to be the best hard sci-fi time travel movie ever made, made on a budget of about $6000 no less, the award winning, Primer.
 
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  • #44
Janus said:
Clint Howard. He was Leon in Mayberry, and Balok, captian of the Fesarius.

HOLY explative deleted! I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years, and I love star trek(s)! Hell, I have a funny story about a car ride with the fellow who played Gowron (Robert O'Rielly)... he apparently visited Marlon Brando's house, and the conversation played out thusly...

Rob talking to those of us in the car, and this is obviously paraphrased from memory told us this story: He [Rob] met Marlon Brando, later in his Brando's life. He invited him into his home, and chatted, but I no longer remember that portion of his story sadly. Brando's daughter walked by, said hello, and left on her way. So, again, according to O'Rielly, Brando looks at him and asks, "So... do you like my daughter?"

Needless to say, Rob didn't have a ready answer for this, but almost IMMIDIATELY after asking that question, Marlon Brando asks, "...Do you like Hagen Daasz?" Then heads off to snag a pint from the freezer. I cannot describe how odd it was (I was quite young) seeing the man who played a character I loved from STNG, talk about this surreal experience.

That was it. That, was the sum total of the meaningful conversation Brando offered... and Rob, who from the little I know of him (met him a few times after that) is not shy or overly reserved, but by his own admission he was absolutely flabbergasted! I mean, this is a hero to him, and in the same breath he asks for an opinion on his daughter, and then ice cream!

:rolleyes:

Truly... the world is strange. I've worked around a few actors when I was younger (purely incidentally), and they're damned normal for the most part, but apparently not Marlon Brando. :

Anyway... that's my tangent.
 
  • #45
Hari's legacy.
 
  • #46
Janus said:
Hari's legacy.

Would this be Psychohistory; combing history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make exact predictions of the collective actions of very large groups of people. Delvopled by Hari Seldon the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.
 
  • #47
Frame Dragger said:
HOLY explative deleted! I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years, and I love star trek(s)!

Howard's man-child and his alter-ego were two of the more memorable characters from the original series, imo. I remember being really creeped out when the episode first aired.

http://www.doggerel.com/donnah/bighead.jpg

[URL]http://www.henrytapia.com/images/content/clint-howard3.jpg[/URL]

Next clue:
Janus said:
Hari's legacy.
 
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  • #48
Argentum Vulpes said:
Would this be Psychohistory; combing history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make exact predictions of the collective actions of very large groups of people. Delvopled by Hari Seldon the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.

Bingo!. Your turn.
 
  • #49
Quote:

"Lets moon them."
 
  • #50
Argentum Vulpes said:
Quote:

"Lets moon them."

Firefly.
 

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