Science Fiction Trivia

[Disembodied]

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?

[fronclynne]

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.

[Disembodied]

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 ...

[fronclynne]

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.

[Smivs]

Ha, I think we might need another clue, fronclynne

[fronclynne]

"His name wasTalus, made of yron mould,
Immoueable, resistlesse, without end."

[Disembodied]

Spencer's Faerie Queene?

[fronclynne]

Spencer's Faerie Queene?

Yes, my favourite proto-scientifiction.

[Disembodied]

OK, a music question: what's the name of the spaceship swallowed up by the black hole of Cygnus X-1?

[Fatleaf]

Would it be the U.S.S. Cygnus?

[Disembodied]

Would it be the U.S.S. Cygnus?

No, that would be too easy. It's a music question, but there is a literary connection. A 17th-century literary connection ...

[Cody]

Ah... Don Quixote's horse. The ship is the Rocinante.

[Disembodied]

I knew there were going to be some people with prog-rock tendencies around here ... Over to you, EV!

[Cody]

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?

[Selezen]

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")...