This is Post 6 of 6, the final post of our January 2022 virtual meeting.
12) PLANNING SESSION FOR 2022 MEETING PROGRAMMING
We’ll be talking 2022 e-meeting programming on Zoom here in the final stretch. All are welcome to participate, whether on Zoom or by submitting your ideas via this post’s “Leave a Comment” option. Your input is welcome and valued. Which SF/F subjects are you especially knowledgeable regarding about which your fellow MonSFFen might enjoy learning more? And, let us know what you’d like to see at an e-meeting in the coming months!
More precisely, we are in search of suggestions for presentation and discussion topics, debate moderators, creator/presenters of A/V Web and Zoom dissertations, hosts to prepare and run fun and challenging trivia quizzes and other games, instructors for show-and-tell “fancraft” demonstrations, and other such content.
13) ANSWERS TO NEW YEAR TRIVIA CHALLENGE
Before we sign off, here are the answers to the New Year Trivia Challenge we put up in Post 1 of 6. How many did you correctly answer without resorting to Google?
1) As we all know, Hugo Gernsback was the founding publisher of Amazing Stories, the world’s first magazine entirely devoted to what he termed “Scientifiction,” but who founded the competing Astounding Stories of Super-Science?
ANSWER: William Clayton, who launched his magazine in 1930, a few years after Gernsback’s. The publication soon became foremost of the nascent science fiction pulps of the day and the title was later shortened to Astounding Stories, eventually becoming Astounding Science Fiction, then, finally, Analog Science Fiction & Fact.
2) Who was the first editor of Astounding?
ANSWER: Harry Bates, perhaps best known for his 1940 short story “Farewell to the Master,” upon which was based the 1951 sci-fi film classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.
3) In The Book of Boba Fett, one-time flashdancer Jennifer Beals plays Garsa Fwip, a Twi’lek who manages a cantina in Mos Espa on the familiar planet Tatooine. What is the name of this cantina?
ANSWER: the Sanctuary
4) Boba Fett, the Star Wars franchise’s most famous bounty hunter, is a cloned human. What species is Greedo, whose career ended inauspiciously when he cornered Han Solo in a Mos Eisley cantina?
ANSWER: Rodian
5) Which comic book archer debuted first, Marvel’s Hawkeye or DC’s Green Arrow?
ANSWER: Green Arrow, first appearing in More Fun Comics #73, published November 1941. Hawkeye’s first appearance was as a reluctant criminal in Tales of Suspense #57, published September 1964. After witnessing Iron Man in action, he is inspired to become a costumed hero and is soon accepted as a member of the Avengers in The Avengers #16, published May 1965.
6) What is Clint “Hawkeye” Barton’s middle name?
ANSWER: Francis; his full name is Clinton Francis Barton.
7) Overseen by a giant, motion-sensing, death-dealing robot doll, what was the first of the six games played by the despondent contestants in the hit Netflix series Squid Game?
ANSWER: Red Light, Green Light
8) What is the player number of Squid Game’s lead protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae?
ANSWER: 456
9) Clint Barton mentors young Katherine Elizabeth “Kate” Bishop to succeed him as Hawkeye, but she is, chronologically, the third Marvel character to carry the Hawkeye codename. Who was the second?
ANSWER: In Marvel’s Earth-712 alternate universe, Wyatt McDonald sported the Hawkeye moniker. He was introduced in 1971, Kate Bishop in 2005. A master archer equipped with a number of trick arrows whose civilian guise is that of cab driver, he and romantic interest Linda Lewis—a.k.a. Lady Lark; later, Skylark—fight crime together in the city of New Babylon, eventually drawing the attention of the Squadron Supreme superhero team, who invite them to enlist. McDonald subsequently adopted the moniker Golden Archer but as his relationship with Lewis faltered, he resorted to mind modification to secure her undivided affections. For this he was ultimately expelled from the Squadron, thereafter becoming the Black Archer and joining rival unit the Redeemers, who were dedicated to challenging the Squadron’s well-intentioned but increasingly totalitarian dominance of America. He was killed in the epic battle between the two teams.
10) ConCept ’92 Guest of Honour Roger Zelazny’s …And Call Me Conrad, more commonly published as This Immortal, shares its Hugo for Best Novel with which other book?
ANSWER: Dune, by Frank Herbert
11) Recently adapted as an HBO Max series, Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 book Station Eleven, is the post-apocalyptic tale of a plague-ravaged world in which all is risked to ensure that art and culture survive. Her upcoming Sea of Tranquility is described as a novel of “time travel and metaphysics” but Mandel does not consider herself a science fiction writer, per se. Indeed, her first book, published in 2009, was more mystery than science fiction; what was it called?
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ANSWER: Last Night in Montreal
13) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Bossk?
ANSWER: Trandoshan
14) In what Canadian sitcom was Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu feature before his casting as the MCU’s new martial arts-adept superhero?
ANSWER: Kim’s Convenience, an award-winning comedy about a Korean-Canadian family who own and operate a convenience store in Toronto.
15) Who won the inaugural Nebula Award for best novel?
ANSWER: Frank Herbert for Dune. The first Nebulas were handed out at Tricon, the 24th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Cleveland in 1966. Herbert also shared the Best Novel Hugo with Roger Zelazny, whose …And Call Me Conrad, retitled This Immortal, tied with Dune for the top prize that year.
16) South Korean model and actress HoYeon Jung portrays Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, a North Korean defector desperate to win the prize money so that she can smuggle her parents across the border, rescue her little brother from an orphanage, and reunite her family. What was her player number?
ANSWER: 067
17) What species is Star Wars bounty hunter Aurra Sing?
ANSWER: Palliduvan
18) Which of the squad members in 2021’s The Suicide Squad is now the star of his or her own new HBO Max series?
ANSWER: Christopher Smith, alias Peacemaker, played with gusto by John Cena.
19) Which character in Squid Game created the bizarre and deadly contest in order to entertain bored, mega-rich people such as he?
ANSWER: Revealed in the final episode, the creator of the contest is none other than player number 001, Oh Il-nam, the old man slowly dying of a brain tumor who is befriended by main character Seong Gi-hun in the first episode. Il-nam explains that he prefers playing the game over waiting for death in the outside world. He was portrayed by O Yeong-su.
20) What comic-book superheroine has variously been called, among numerous other sobriquets, “Taskmistress,” “Weapon Woman,” and “The Adorable Archer”?
ANSWER: Clint Barton’s successor as Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, who has also been dubbed, or has considered the names “Lady Hawk,” “Hawkingbird,” “Hawkette,” and “Lady Hawkeye.”
21) Name the leader of the Federation colony the ensemble of which have somehow survived years of exposure to lethal Berthold rays in the original Star Trek episode “This Side of Paradise.”
ANSWER: Elias Sandoval
22) On which planet do Captain Kirk and company find this colony?
ANSWER: Ceti Omicron III
14) THANK YOU!
We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this afternoon, we thank you for dropping in, and we ask all of you to check in regularly here at www.MonSFFA.ca for additional content during this continuing pandemic, and for any updates as to when the club expects a return to regular, face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your interest and attention, and don’t forget to comment on today’s e-meeting!
We’d like to especially thank today’s presenters and moderators, Joe Aspler, Josée Bellemare, Keith Braithwaite, and Cathy Palmer-Lister for their invaluable contributions to our meeting. Without the efforts of our programming people, these online gatherings would not be possible. And, we thank, of course, all of our supporting contributors, as well.
15) SIGN-OFF
And so, until we meet again right here at www.MonSFFA.ca on Saturday, February 12, keep safe, keep healthy, and keep watching the skies!