Silliness Quiz - Page 517

orlok · 05-19-2012, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Then is #5 from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?... he asks ironically.

Stitchawl

Correct, he answered totally unironically. The Vogons are the first aliens encountered in the book, the ones that make Arthur Dent homeless (planetless?).

"They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous," according to the ever so useful book with Don't Panic on the cover.

poohbear_nc · 05-19-2012, 10:57 AM

2. Slaughterhouse 5

orlok · 05-19-2012, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

2. Slaughterhouse 5

Correct.

Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped by these inquisitive and fairly benign aliens, who put him in a zoo. They look like green toilet plungers. "Their suction cups were on the ground, and . . . at the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions".

Daithi · 05-19-2012, 11:45 AM

I've read a few of the classic SF books, but I have to admit that I can't name any of Orlok's aliens. Maybe their names just don't stick in my head.

poohbear_nc · 05-19-2012, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

Correct.

Billy Pilgrim is kidnapped by these inquisitive and fairly benign aliens, who put him in a zoo. They look like green toilet plungers. "Their suction cups were on the ground, and . . . at the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions".

And let us not forget the fetching Miss Montana Wildhack!

poohbear_nc · 05-19-2012, 12:28 PM

10. Something by Heinlein - can't dredge up the title ... yet

orlok · 05-19-2012, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

2. Slaughterhouse 5

I forgot, we need the author too (a really hard one...

)

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

10. Something by Heinlein - can't dredge up the title ... yet

Yes. Think young reader...

poohbear_nc · 05-19-2012, 01:22 PM

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
[no extra points for Ms. Wildhack?]

orlok · 05-19-2012, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
[no extra points for Ms. Wildhack?]

Of course (for both

).

alishajordan · 05-19-2012, 05:32 PM

#4 is from the movie, which could be from a book, so I am going to go out on a limb (hope the name wasn't change) and say "Enemy Mine"

And now I am going to go look it up because this is killing me not knowing!!

orlok · 05-19-2012, 06:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alishajordan

#4 is from the movie, which could be from a book, so I am going to go out on a limb (hope the name wasn't change) and say "Enemy Mine"

And now I am going to go look it up because this is killing me not knowing!!

Close, but not quite correct. It's The Enemy something...

SneakySnake · 05-19-2012, 08:29 PM

I only knew the Vogon one

Quote:

Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me With crinkly bindlewurdles, Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don't.

orlok · 05-20-2012, 04:41 AM

Proving more difficult than I thought. Should have posted it in one of the SF threads, methinks (

).

Here's where we are, with clues for the missing ones:

1. Solunarians (a 17th/18th Century English author and one of the founders of the modern novel, much more famous for a non-SF novel)

2. Tralfamadorians - Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" - poohbear (2 points +1 for Ms Wildhack)

3. Athsheans (She is an American author, and these aliens are from her Hainish science fiction series)

4. Drac (are intelligent reptilian hermaphrodites with a complex religious system and a holy book called the Talman).

5. Vogons - Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". - Stitchawl (2)

6. Byrum (imagined by a prolfifc author from Maine)

7. Overlords - Arthur C. Clarke’s "Childhood’s End" - Hamlet53 (2)

8. Fithp (from a pair of well known authors of mostly hard SF)

9. Ythrians (this author was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and his daughter is married to science fiction author Greg Bear).

10. Hroshii - Robert A. Heinlein’s "** **** *****" - poohbear (1)

Shayne Parkinson · 05-20-2012, 06:13 AM

I feel I ought to know 1., but it's not ringing any bells.

3. Sounds like Ursula Le Guin, but I don't know which book.
6. Stephen King?

orlok · 05-20-2012, 06:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson

I feel I ought to know 1., but it's not ringing any bells.

3. Sounds like Ursula Le Guin, but I don't know which book.
6. Stephen King?

Both correct. Just need the book titles...

05-20-2012, 04:41 AM	#7753
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Proving more difficult than I thought. Should have posted it in one of the SF threads, methinks (). Here's where we are, with clues for the missing ones: 1. Solunarians (a 17th/18th Century English author and one of the founders of the modern novel, much more famous for a non-SF novel) 2. Tralfamadorians - Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" - poohbear (2 points +1 for Ms Wildhack) 3. Athsheans (She is an American author, and these aliens are from her Hainish science fiction series) 4. Drac (are intelligent reptilian hermaphrodites with a complex religious system and a holy book called the Talman). 5. Vogons - Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". - Stitchawl (2) 6. Byrum (imagined by a prolfifc author from Maine) 7. Overlords - Arthur C. Clarke’s "Childhood’s End" - Hamlet53 (2) 8. Fithp (from a pair of well known authors of mostly hard SF) 9. Ythrians (this author was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and his daughter is married to science fiction author Greg Bear). 10. Hroshii - Robert A. Heinlein’s " *" - poohbear** (1)

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05-19-2012, 10:57 AM	#7742
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,637 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	2. Slaughterhouse 5

05-19-2012, 11:45 AM	#7744
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	I've read a few of the classic SF books, but I have to admit that I can't name any of Orlok's aliens. Maybe their names just don't stick in my head.

05-19-2012, 12:28 PM	#7746
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,637 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	10. Something by Heinlein - can't dredge up the title ... yet

05-19-2012, 01:22 PM	#7748
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,637 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 [no extra points for Ms. Wildhack?]

05-19-2012, 05:32 PM	#7750
alishajordan Eclectic Collector Posts: 265 Karma: 808751 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Gainesville, FL Device: Nook Classic, PC, & Kindle Cloud	#4 is from the movie, which could be from a book, so I am going to go out on a limb (hope the name wasn't change) and say "Enemy Mine" And now I am going to go look it up because this is killing me not knowing!!

05-20-2012, 06:13 AM	#7754
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	I feel I ought to know 1., but it's not ringing any bells. 3. Sounds like Ursula Le Guin, but I don't know which book. 6. Stephen King?

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