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The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Two
Our Christmas Quiz!
The prize in our quiz this year is this: an entire 'comps' box from DC Comics! (I was sent two of the same box, and would like to share the wealth.) This handsome ordinary cardboard box (actually, two boxes, one inside the... I'll shut up about the box), contains:
122 comics, representing DC's entire publishing spectrum, from Vertigo, Wildstorm, DC itself, the children's titles... it's everything published around the time of (and including) Batman #700. That includes a handful of duplicates.
26 softback collections (including Gaiman's Detective Comics, Moore's Superman, Roberson's Cinderella, Carey's The Unwritten).
5 hardback collections (three of them from Blackest Night).
and 1 Sgt Rock Showcase softback!
All of which I'll post to the winner, anywhere in the world. To try and win this lovely prize, all you have to do is to answer (only via the email address given at the end, answers in the blog comments will be deleted) the following ten insanely tough questions. Some of them are designed to tax your internet search skills, followed by a bit of lateral thinking, once you've found out what the question is about. Asking friends who know about particular areas of knowledge may also help.
1: Name a UK Number One hit single that contains the name of a DC Comics superhero or supervillain in the lyric but not in the title. (I'm thinking of a particular one, but if you find another, that's fine.) Lyrics have to specifically refer to the hero. That is to say, if Kylie once sang 'I'm a black canary', that's not good enough, she'd have to sing 'I'm the Black Canary'.
2: Which episode of The Outer Limits has Suzanne Barbieri probably watched with particular interest?
3: Arthur Conan Doyle has just one, but a very good one. Samuel Beckett took none, though he could have. Will Smith has eight, but may do better next year with the Men in Black. What is it?
4: In what movie, had she shown up earlier, might Castle's favourite detective have been asked 'what have you done today to make me feel proud?' (I know, nasty. Some BBC2 knowledge may help.)
5: What connects a long green t-shirt, a white star on a blue background (but not recently) and, at the end for him, a stylised D or the word 'Detroit'?
6: In what way are 'Wonder Woman', Metallo and Roger Penrose the same person?
7: Do the Conan the Barbarian stories of Robert E. Howard ever mention the word 'shrubbery'?
8: 'Tank', 'Fire' and 'Chances'. What's the musical television SF connection?
9: What have Mona Lisa, The Emerald Forest and The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle got in common? (You may come up with something correct other than what I'm thinking of, but to get you the point, it'll have to be precise and specific.)
10: Going by televised Doctor Who alone, I make it that the Doctor has reputedly had four interactions with Genghis Khan. Can you briefly describe them? (In the manner of 'The Doctor once went to the movies with Genghis Khan'.)
And our tie-breaker, in case several people end up with the same score, is this: tell me which DC Comics superhero or supervillain you'd like to be, and why.
Send your answers to:
paulfanfictionmas@yahoo.com
with the subject line CONTEST ENTRY, before midnight my time on *December 22nd*.
Good luck! And Cheerio!
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WOW your quiz is hard! But the thing I'm most excited out is HARDBACK SGT ROCK!! SERIOUSLY I cannot tell you how much time I wasted in my grandmother's extremely overheated attic with no windows open in the summer reading a big box of those.
Well, it's a big softback, but I share your joy.
I don't think you want to share these books at all.
This is just your way of seeming Generous but not actually having to share.
I once argued passionately with a pub Quizmaster over whether or not Wonder Woman could fly. He said she could. I maintained that, technically, she rode air currents. He refused to budge on the issue and I went home in a huff without the prize of an X2 DVD (which I had already, but by that point it was a matter of principle).
Your quiz now makes me realise that I am in fact deeply lacking as a geek. It makes me question everything I thought I knew about myself. I will go and sit in the shame corner and weep into my pulpy mainstream trades.
Mark: others have said that, but they'd only be sitting there in my lounge. Follow: you go to my sort of pub quizzes, clearly.
Fiendish sire...fienish.
Loving Knight & Squire.
Commiserations on your "only connect" ass kicking.
M THOMAS
Blimey. I think I shall wait and do the King William College Quiz instead, it'll be easier...
Thank you, M! And Marjorie, indeed, the hardness means those who win it will deserve it.