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Book/Movie Quiz

April 13, 2011 -

It's been nearly three months since I posted anything at all on this site, and in the meantime GregHowley.com has had some php error related downtime, which came as a direct result of laziness on my own part. Web Design takes a backseat when real life intercedes. You'll be pleased to know that I've been having a lot of fun with Linda and Lia.

So given the dearth of new content, I've decided to throw up a quick 5-question quiz. I'd link you to previous quizzes, but my archive is currently broken. Oh, and the formatting for the rss feed is broken too. I guess that's something else to do when I get time. After I've rebuilt my home media server and gone through the boxes of hand-me-downs to find Lia some size 9 shoes. The girl has big feet like her daddy.

This quiz drops names from books and movies. Many (but not all) of the items in this list are books that have had movie adaptations. See how many you know without googling them.

  1. Captain Trips
  2. The Pork Chop Express
  3. Kwisatz Haderach
  4. Orthanc and Barad-Dur
  5. Toledo Salamanca
Comments on Book/Movie Quiz
 
Comment Wed, April 13 - 5:58 PM by Ngewo
1. The Stand (the name of the disease)
3. Is this from Dune?
4. The towers of Isengard and Mordor from Lord of the Rings.
 
Comment Wed, April 13 - 6:30 PM by Kris Johnson
1. Captain Trips was the Ace (superhero) identity of Dr. Mark Meadows in the WILD CARDS series. Meadows used various (allegedly psychotropic) powders to adopt a number of Ace guises, each complete with their own personality and superhuman powers. Among the others: Starchild and The Cosmic Traveler.

Or perhaps you were referring to the super-flu in THE STAND.

2. Dunno.

3. In DUNE, the Bene Gesserit witches used selective breeding and genetic manipulation in order to create a superbeing known as the Kwisatz Haderach. A Bene Gesserit sister named Jessica, courtesan to the Duke Leto Atreides, was supposed to have a daughter who would become the Kwisatz Haderach. Out of love for the Duke, Jessica defied the Bene Gesserit plan and gave birth to a son, Paul Atreides, who became the first male to survive drinking the Water of Life and thus became the Kwisatz Haderach.

4. The titular "Two Towers" in the second book of The Lord of the Rings.

5. Dunno.
 
Comment Thu, April 14 - 10:27 AM by Greg
1- I was actually referring to the Super-flu in The Stand.
2- This was one of the movie-only ones, so that may have made it tougher. The Pork Chop Express was Jack Burton's truck in "Big Trouble in Little China". I love that movie. I've got the poster hanging on the wall in my office.
3- I'd never have been able to casually explain it in such explicit detail as Kris, but yes.
4- Everyone got the Two Towers.
5- Another movie-only reference. This is the one that gave me the idea for this quiz when I re-watched The Highlander. The Toledo Salamanca is an extremely rare, extremely old sword gifted to Sean Connery's character thousands of years ago by a master smith.
 
Comment Fri, April 15 - 2:38 PM by Kris Johnson
I left out two crucial words in my explanation of the Kwisatz Haderach. Jessica was supposed to bear Duke Leto Atreides a daughter who would become *the mother* of the Kwisatz Haderach. Jessica not only went against the wishes of the sisterhood in giving the Duke a son, she essentially brought the Kwisatz Haderach into existence a generation early.

I almost took a wild stab at The Pork Chop Express because I knew it sounded familiar. "Big Trouble in Little China" was nagging at the back of my head, but I couldn't make the connection.

I should have known Toledo Salamanca, too. It's been ages since I saw "The Highlander," so I will fault my failing memory.