Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-16 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:27:35 -0700 On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote: From: Warren

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-15 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:25 PM Thursday 7/14/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:00 PM Thursday 7/14/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The Princess of Helium was based on the process of elimination. As in they must be filled with helium, because they don't droop? If you do the right sort of

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread William T Goodall
On 14 Jul 2005, at 4:15 am, Julia Thompson wrote: Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science- Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:59 AM, William T Goodall wrote: 11/11. But the lightsaber answer was mostly a guess. If it wasn't for Thumb Wars, a Steve Oedekerk parody, I'm not sure I'd have known, either. IIRC, the whiny character Loke Groundrunner gets a pink one and is quite torqued about it.

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 13, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour through science-fiction history

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:33:28 -0500 Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:15:59 -0500 Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:00:50 -0700 Gernsback didn't exactly invent the term science fiction; IIRC

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:00 PM Thursday 7/14/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The Princess of Helium was based on the process of elimination. As in they must be filled with helium, because they don't droop? -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:00 PM Thursday 7/14/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The Princess of Helium was based on the process of elimination. As in they must be filled with helium, because they don't droop? If you do the right sort of upper-body exercises and you're not *too* endowed,

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gernsback didn't exactly invent the term science fiction; IIRC the one he came up with originally was scientifiction. Which he later changed to science fiction according to the brief synopsis the

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-14 Thread Gary Denton
I really need to get a life - 11/11. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-13 Thread Travis Edmunds
http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour through science-fiction history and see how you measure up. *** -Twavis You got

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Sloan
Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour through science-fiction history and see how you measure up.

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-13 Thread Doug Pensinger
Steve wrote: I'm embarrassed to say that I got only 10/11 right. I somehow guessed the right answer for the obscure Kirk question, and yet I confused the Bene Gesserit chant with the Mentat chant. Much better than me, I missed two - and I got a couple of wild guesses right. I'm pretty

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour through science-fiction history and see how you measure up.

Re: Are You a Science-Fiction Scholar? (Quiz)

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Land
On Jul 13, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Travis Edmunds wrote: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_168/Are_You_a_Science-Fiction_Scholar.html Everybody knows that Klingons are crabby and that Jedis use the Force. But how much do you really know about science fiction? Take a tour through