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Rats, beat me to it!

<grins> Have a HHGTTG trivia quiz as a consolation.

Cody wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 9:10 pm

<chortles> I've caught myself repeating a question before - now spud's at it!


Nightfall - original short by Isaac Asimov, novelisation by Robert Silverberg.

i have no recollection of those events..... carry on...lol

<hangs head in shame> need to read THHGTTG again( several more times) 12/25 on the quiz..... bugger

<hangs head in shame> need to read THHGTTG again [ ] 12/25 on the quiz..... bugger

And I thought 19/25 was bad!

As is usual of late, my question-fu has gone walkabout - so name the tune, name the novel.

Clue the first: the novel in question is set in America hundreds of years after a plague had destroyed civilisation. Some primitive settlements survived, and an expedition is mounted to search for a mythical town where the knowledge of past generations had been gathered to preserve it.

damn that tune is familiar... let me think a bit.. i got Jethro Tull in my head but not sure....

EDIT:
i knew i knew that song.. it's Eternity Road from "To Our Children's Children's Children. Moody Blues.

so the answer is... Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity_Road_(novel)

Thought you might know that tune, spud - Eternity Road it is! Back to you, sir!

Regarding "Nightfall" by Asimov, great story could almost feel the behavourial suspense between the different
factions of men. Got a bit of the feeling looking at de recent screen shots from the Void taken by Another Commander.

this should be fun....

name 5 types of different hats in scifi tv or movies . not helmets. hats. not fantasy so no lord of the rings, no harry potter....
5 different hats , 5 different shows...

type of hat, character who wore it and show/movie its from....

OK, here we go.

Jayne's Woolly Hat from Firefly


Abbut (a 'vicar' from Babylon 5) - a type of stetson with cutouts.



Troy Tempest wearing his WASP cap (Stingray).


Kirk and Spock (Star Trek TOS) wearing Trilbys


Dr Who (as played by Tom Baker) wearing a 'Poet'.

ok we have a winner..
now you can get out of my head..ok??
Janes hat was one of the first i thought of.. and i did have a doctor.... but it was Matt Smith with a Red Fez....., must have nicked it from Tommy Cooper ( Just like that) lol
didnt William Hartnell also wear a fez sometimes? or was that Pactric?? nope neither.. according to wiki William wore this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakul_(hat) not quite a fez..lol

Servalan had a nice hat:

Servalan was awesome in many ways.
Personally, I take my hat inspiration from the great Carmen Miranda.



Back soon with another fruity question...

A discerning hero/villain just can't be seen without their Nice Hat!

TV Tropes: Nice Hat

Shouldn't be too hard.

Who was the first person to be zapped by a Dalek, and what happened to them?