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OK, a quick one: what's the name of the material that the Ringworld (from Larry Niven's novel of the same name) is made out of?
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Disembodied wrote:
OK, a quick one: what's the name of the material that the Ringworld (from Larry Niven's novel of the same name) is made out of?
Lord, Engineers was annoying . . .

Oh, "scrith", if I recall correctly.
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fronclynne wrote:
Lord, Engineers was annoying . . .

Oh, "scrith", if I recall correctly.
You do recall correctly! Both about the material and the fact that Engineers was annoying ...
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Alright, then.

Your clue is: a knight and a robot team up to behead a communist giant. Then the knight gets kidnapped by amazons and forced to sew clothes while dressed in drag. His girlfriend has to save him.
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Ha, I think we might need another clue, fronclynne :)
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"His name wasTalus, made of yron mould,
Immoueable, resistlesse, without end."
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Spencer's Faerie Queene?
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Disembodied wrote:
Spencer's Faerie Queene?
:D
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OK, a music question: what's the name of the spaceship swallowed up by the black hole of Cygnus X-1?
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Would it be the U.S.S. Cygnus?
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Fatleaf wrote:
Would it be the U.S.S. Cygnus?
No, that would be too easy. :D It's a music question, but there is a literary connection. A 17th-century literary connection ...
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Ah... Don Quixote's horse. The ship is the Rocinante.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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I knew there were going to be some people with prog-rock tendencies around here ... :D Over to you, EV!
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Another musical question with a literary connection: what links travelling between the stars accompanied by a satanic feline, to a mole’s encounter with an ancient god?
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That's Pink Floyd, that is! Piper at the Gates Of Dawn

I'd have to look it up to be any more precise...

EDIT: (not looked it up yet, but wanted to clarify the link in my head: part of Wind In The Willows has Mole talking to Pan - the aforementioned "Piper")...
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