How do you know?

Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 April 2024, 02:02:24 PMHow do you know?

Possibly he does what I now do and writes down his answers and then checks them online?

Also ... 10/10 for this one too. Though NEWTs and Eoin Colfer answers were more guesses than knowledge.

Quote10    Lord of the Rings starts with a joint birthday party for Bilbo and Frodo. For half a point each, how old are they?

Each of them are exactly the specified amount of time it takes to have elapsed from their last birthdays to the one they are then celebrating (can I say one year older, did they measure time as we do?), as I've no idea if what I've just written makes sense, even to me?!

Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 April 2024, 03:06:50 PMPossibly he does what I now do and writes down his answers and then checks them online?

That's what I was doing to mark my own scores, too. I'm using Microsoft Edge as my Internet-thingy, so I just highlight and right-click and it searches the answers for me off the Internet.

Quote from: Roy on 04 April 2024, 03:10:57 PMEach of them are exactly the specified amount of time it takes to have elapsed from their last birthdays to the one they are then celebrating (can I say one year older, did they measure time as we do?), as I've no idea if what I've just written makes sense, even to me?!

Their combined age is gross

Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 April 2024, 03:13:01 PMTheir combined age is gross

True.

QuoteTheir combined age is gross

QuoteTrue.

 

Science Fiction and Fantasy

1   The majority of which movie takes place on the USCSS Nostromo?

Alien

2   What does NEWT stand for in the Harry Potter books

No idea, never read any of the books or seen any of the films.  Never Eat Wet Turtles...

3   Who is the Lawman of the Future?

Judge Dredd

4   The Dragonlance series of books created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are based on which game?

D'n'D, I collected all of these until they hit book 30+ and then I gave up.

5   Eoin Coifer, best known for his Artemis Fowl books, wrote "And another thing", the sixth volume in which series of books, following the death of the original author?

Hitchhikers?

6   Sindarin and Quenya are the most famous and the most developed of the languages by which author?

Don't know.

7   Which game has the tag line "In the darkness of the future there is only war."

40K.

8   What 1986 movie has David Bowie as Jareth, king of the goblins?

Labyrinth.

9   The plot of which Star Wars prequel ends just before the start of the original Star Wars movie.

Rogue One.

10   Lord of the Rings starts with a joint birthday party for Bilbo and Frodo. For half a point each, how old are they?

No idea.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

1    The majority of which movie takes place on the USCSS Nostromo?

Alien

2    What does NEWT stand for in the Harry Potter books

Not read them. Seen the film adaptations. Things have a habit of changing from book to film.

3    Who is the Lawman of the Future?

Robocop or Judge Dredd, I can imagine both using this tagline. Robocop. Final answer.

4    The Dragonlance series of books created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman are based on which game?

Guess: Dungeons and Dragons.

5    Eoin Coifer, best known for his Artemis Fowl books, wrote "And another thing", the sixth volume in which series of books, following the death of the original author?

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6    Sindarin and Quenya are the most famous and the most developed of the languages by which author?

J.R.R. Tolkien

7    Which game has the tag line "In the darkness of the future there is only war."

Don't know. Warhammer 40,000 was "In the grim darkness of the future there is only war" when I played it. Do you mean that?

8    What 1986 movie has David Bowie as Jareth, king of the goblins?

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9    The plot of which Star Wars prequel ends just before the start of the original Star Wars movie.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Though what do you mean by "original Star Wars movie"? 1977's Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope?

10    Lord of the Rings starts with a joint birthday party for Bilbo and Frodo. For half a point each, how old are they?

- & -

QuoteThough what do you mean by "original Star Wars movie"? 1977's Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope?

Personal bugbear - it was just "Star Wars". Original movie poster:

Okay, I've learnt something new - Thanks for letting me know, as it is a useful bit of trivia.

I'll rephrase my question: Though what do you mean by "original Star Wars movie"? 1977's Star Wars?

As it was the first...

Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 April 2024, 02:08:05 PMAs it was the first...

1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Righto

In that case, I don't know.

I didn't know there was any prequels set before Phantom Menace, but I've not really kept up to date with all the content put out by Disney belonging the Star Wars franchise. Movies. Television programmes. Live action. Animation. A lot of it is on subscription channels, too, which makes it difficult to keep up to date.

It's the same with Star Trek, or The Walking Dead. Corporations just turn the franchises into cash-cows.

... to be made.

Jeez.

I was going to answer these earlier but life intervened
However it wouldn't have taken long -

1. Alien
6. Tolkien

The rest...? Not a Scoobies mate.