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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 14, 2004 9:06:46 GMT -5
Goooooood morning, campers. Thought we'd try to get another general trivia thread going, so here goes. As per the title, we're on the honor system here: you're not allowed to look up the answers to any questions, nor to ask any friends/family/random passersby for the answer; unless they happen to randomly bring it up, you outta luck. First person to answer gets to ask the next question; and if it's just way too hard and no one can get it after, say, 3 days, give us the answer and ask a different one.
And remember, the object is to ask a question that's somewhat difficult, but isn't impossible for true masters of useless knowledge like I know we all are. Get it? Got it? Good. Let's begin.
Question 1, for the music buffs: What was the name of Souixsie Souix's band? (Hint- it ain't the Pussycats.)
-D
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Post by Magill on Dec 14, 2004 9:18:06 GMT -5
the Banshees
I'm pretty sure that's right, so:
Question 2: In Greek myth, how was Helen of Troy (nee Sparta) born?
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 14, 2004 9:24:26 GMT -5
Right! Now ask a question.
-D
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Post by loulabelle on Dec 14, 2004 16:46:04 GMT -5
Wasn't it that Zeus took the form of a bull and raped a woman, and Helen was born from that union?
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Post by Magill on Dec 14, 2004 19:06:00 GMT -5
Wrong animal (that was Europa). And the question isn't how she was conceived, it's how she was born.
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Post by DocD83 on Dec 14, 2004 23:23:53 GMT -5
By cesarian?
It's the only thing I can think of, though it's probably wrong since wasn't Julius Caesar the first person delivered like that? And Helen predates Caesar....
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Post by Magill on Dec 15, 2004 8:13:05 GMT -5
Nope.
As for a cesarian--although Julius Caeser is probably the most famous, I imagine countless children were born by a midwife cutting them out of their mother's body. It was probably done as a last resort (i.e. the mother already being dead) because it is major surgery.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 15, 2004 8:25:22 GMT -5
If I'm remembering correctly, Helen's mother was Leda, yet another of that old philanderer Zeus's conquests. To keep his wife Hera from catching on, he turned himself and Leda into swans while they were, ah, "together," and thus Helen -- along with her siblings Castor, Pollux, and the one nobody remembers -- were born out of two eggs.
Am I right?
-D
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Post by Magill on Dec 15, 2004 8:30:26 GMT -5
Bingo! "The one nobody remembers" is Clytemnestra, who killed Agamemnon when he returned from the Trojan War.
Sources are split as to whether Helen and Clytemnestra shared one egg and Castor and Polydeuces the other, or if the 2 semi-divine children (Helen and Polydeuces) were born from one and the mortals (Clytemnestra and Castor) from the other.
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 15, 2004 9:20:40 GMT -5
Okay, let's try a little tougher one than last time. This one's for the literature buffs: prior to the arrival of Dracula in 1898, there had been three mainstream, reasonably well-known stories dealing with vampires published. Of these three, name two. Note that you can give either the names of the stories, the vamps involved, the writers, or any reasonable combination thereof.
"Welcome to my humble abode! Enter freely, and of your own will!"
-D
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 16, 2004 8:30:36 GMT -5
Bueller? Bueller?
Perhaps this one was a bit too tough. Maybe some hints will help? Okay, here goes- one of the vampires is a woman. One starred in a long-running series of penny-dreadfuls. And one was created in the same scary story competition that led Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein.
Anybody? Bueller?
-D
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Post by Magill on Dec 16, 2004 9:13:02 GMT -5
Is one of them She?
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Dec 16, 2004 10:06:21 GMT -5
One of them is not She. Actually, none of them are. Good guess, though!
-D
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Post by loulabelle on Dec 17, 2004 1:06:06 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't really have an answer. I just noticed that you're talking about vampires, and you signed off:
-D
Don't know if that's intentional or not, but a nice literary reference nonetheless.
I'll give you a couple of answers, but they're most likely wrong:
- Vlad the impaler
- Nosferatu
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Post by MarsNeedsTowels on Dec 17, 2004 1:17:42 GMT -5
I know one of the vampire you're talking about, but I don't remember the spelling of the name. I think it was Ruthven or something along those lines.
I'm pretty sure that's the same one that was created along with Frankenstein.
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