I’ve got to play some catch up here because I’ve fallen a month behind on this trivia contest.
So here come September and October monthly trivia contests – all in the same day!
It’s high time that I highlighted a couple of my favorite authors, Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
If you’ve read any number of their works, this could be a lot of fun. If you’re not very familiar with either author’s writing or characters, please don’t go anywhere so fast! This could still be a fun.
While I’ve tried to make these questions a little harder for all those bounders and hackers, the internet still proves to be an endless resource for those who want to dig in.
If I disregard alphabetical order using last names, relying on first names only, that’ll give us Dean Koontz to start things off.
I just learned while doing some research for this entry that he graduated from the same college as I did my undergraduate work at - only he passed through Shippensburg University (then Shippensburg College) a little over 20 years before I did. Very cool concept. I guess that’s because he wasn’t a well known author back then because I don’t recall ever hearing about that while I was attending.
So for September trivia, please see if you can fill in the blanks on the below questions.
First person to email at bigguapote1@verizon.net or PM me with the most (shooting for all) correct answers receives $ 50.00 in free fish.
Let’s keep this open for responses until Wednesday at 12 AM EST (9 PM left coast time). Somehow, I seriously doubt that this will go 100% correctly unanswered through Wednesday night. The MFK community continues to amaze me with the speed and accuracy with which these trivia contests are solved.
#1 Between the pages of a book series, he was created by Victor Frankenstein over 200 years ago. This giant of a man named himself after the son of Prometheus (from Greek mythology). He was constructed using the of flesh criminals buried in a prison graveyard. He has two hearts; one stolen from a church burning mad arsonist, the other from a child molester. Can you say “Abby Normal?!”
#2 Reanimated, alien-possessed crows, squirrels, and raccoons were bad news. But when the corpse of his three years dead and buried wife, Margarite, came knocking at his cabin door, it was all this old man’s heart could take. What was his name (first and last)?
#3 His name is peculiar. He has a ghost dog named Boo. His sleep is frequently interrupted by ghosts. They usually need to show him something important that only they know before they can move on. He’s quite an unforgettable character, but what was the name (first and last please) of his girlfriend?
#4 He’s a nighttime surfing, XP afflicted young man with a dog name Orson - who enjoys a beer or two. But what was the name of the cat, the one who communicated through Roosevelt? This same cat escaped from Wyvern, a secret military base project.
#5 Why o why are clowns so frequently depicted as such awful creatures in horror stories? That's a rhetorical question, not THE question.
So what was the evil clown’s name who Grandpa Josef, lying on his death bed, was warning his son of by making him write down five dates?
#6 These two guys are best friends. Dean Koontz has given them remarkable character and sense of humor. Below is a sample from a partial dialogue between the two. Your mission is to provide the first and last name of each person.
XX XX, my best friend for more than 17 years, has several phone #s. He has given the most private of these to no more than 5 friends, and he answers that line at any hour. I keyed the # and pressed send.
X picked up on the 3rd ring: “This better be important.”
“Were you sleeping?”
“Eating kibby.”
Kibby is Mediterranean cuisine: ground beef, onion, pine nuts, and herbs wrapped in a moist ball of bulgar and quickly deep fried.
“Eating it with what?”
“Cucumbers, tomatoes, some picked turnip.”
“At least I didn’t call when you were having sex.”
“This is worse.”
“You’re way serious about your kibby.”
“So entirely serious.”
“I’ve just been clamshelled,” I said, which is surfer lingo for being enfolded by a large collapsing wave and wiped off your board.
X said, “You at the beach?”
“I’m speaking figuratively.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Sometimes it’s best,” I said, meaning that someone might be tapping his phone.
“I hate this crap.”
“Get used to it, bro.”
“Kibby spoiler.”
“I’m looking for a missing weed.”
A weed is a small person, and the term is usually but not always used as a synonym for grommet, which means a preadolescent surfer.
“Weed?” X asked.
“A totally small weed.”
“You playing Nancy Drew again?”
“In Nancy work up to my neck,” I confirmed.
“Kak,” he said, which along this stretch of coast is not a nice thing for one surfer to call another, though I believe I detected a note of affection in his voice that was almost equal to the disgust.
“I need your help.”
“You can do it yourself. Just stand on a chair, tie a noose around your neck, and jump.”
“Don’t have a chair.”
“Pull the shotgun trigger with your toe.”
“X, if you knew the name of the weed, you’d already be here.”
He sighed. “Bro, how am I ever going to be a fully realized, super maximum, jerk off slacker if you keep insisting I have a conscience?”
“You’re doomed to be responsible.”
“That’s what I’m afraid of.”
“The furry dude is missing too.”
“Citizen Kane?”
“I’m scared for him.”
“I’ll be there.”
“Cool.”
“Where’s there?”
“Dead Town,” I told him.
“Oh, man. You never listen.”
“I’m a bad boy. Come in by the river.”
“The river?”
“There’s a Suburban parked there. Belongs to a mondo psycho, so be careful. The fence is cut.”
“Do I have to creep or can I strut?”
“Sneaky doesn’t matter anymore. Just watch your ass.”
“Dead Town,” he said disgustedly. “What am I going to do with you, young man?”
“No TV for a month?”
“Kak,” he called me again.
“Meet me at the movies.”
“Hang loose,” X said.
“I’m just about untied,” I said thinly.
“That’s too loose.”
Good luck everyone!!
Part Two (or the October portion of this contest). Who better to feature for the October monthly trivia than Stephen King?!
Once again, the first person to email at bigguapote1@verizon.net or PM me with the most (shooting for all) correct answers receives $ 50.00 in free fish.
#1 List the first and last names of the Katet of the 19 & 99.
#2 How did the billy-bumbler get it’s name?
#3 What was the first and last name of Roland’s only true love?
#4 The first part of a book by King is titled after a nickname given to the super flu that results in the death of over 99% of the world's population. What is that super flu called?
#5 What’s another name, or first and last name, of the ‘Walking Dude’?
#6 What was the special talent of ‘Trash can man’?
#7 What was the name (first and last) of the person who opens a store in Castle Rock where the customer can purchase (by unknowingly trading his/her soul) anything they (either conscientiously or unconscientiously) desire?
#8 Some rather odd disturbances (lightning shows, temperature drops) were known to occur around this old car (if that’s what you want to call it – it looked like a specific model of car). Troop D held this ‘car’ in Shed B. What model car was it?
#9 What attacked Jake and Roland in the underground railroad while they tried to pump the railroad car through to the other side of the mountain?
#10 What are the first names of the three women that enter the Dixie Pig (where long pork is the other white meat to eat) in the body of one woman?
Good luck!!
So here come September and October monthly trivia contests – all in the same day!
It’s high time that I highlighted a couple of my favorite authors, Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
If you’ve read any number of their works, this could be a lot of fun. If you’re not very familiar with either author’s writing or characters, please don’t go anywhere so fast! This could still be a fun.
While I’ve tried to make these questions a little harder for all those bounders and hackers, the internet still proves to be an endless resource for those who want to dig in.
If I disregard alphabetical order using last names, relying on first names only, that’ll give us Dean Koontz to start things off.
I just learned while doing some research for this entry that he graduated from the same college as I did my undergraduate work at - only he passed through Shippensburg University (then Shippensburg College) a little over 20 years before I did. Very cool concept. I guess that’s because he wasn’t a well known author back then because I don’t recall ever hearing about that while I was attending.
So for September trivia, please see if you can fill in the blanks on the below questions.
First person to email at bigguapote1@verizon.net or PM me with the most (shooting for all) correct answers receives $ 50.00 in free fish.
Let’s keep this open for responses until Wednesday at 12 AM EST (9 PM left coast time). Somehow, I seriously doubt that this will go 100% correctly unanswered through Wednesday night. The MFK community continues to amaze me with the speed and accuracy with which these trivia contests are solved.
#1 Between the pages of a book series, he was created by Victor Frankenstein over 200 years ago. This giant of a man named himself after the son of Prometheus (from Greek mythology). He was constructed using the of flesh criminals buried in a prison graveyard. He has two hearts; one stolen from a church burning mad arsonist, the other from a child molester. Can you say “Abby Normal?!”
#2 Reanimated, alien-possessed crows, squirrels, and raccoons were bad news. But when the corpse of his three years dead and buried wife, Margarite, came knocking at his cabin door, it was all this old man’s heart could take. What was his name (first and last)?
#3 His name is peculiar. He has a ghost dog named Boo. His sleep is frequently interrupted by ghosts. They usually need to show him something important that only they know before they can move on. He’s quite an unforgettable character, but what was the name (first and last please) of his girlfriend?
#4 He’s a nighttime surfing, XP afflicted young man with a dog name Orson - who enjoys a beer or two. But what was the name of the cat, the one who communicated through Roosevelt? This same cat escaped from Wyvern, a secret military base project.
#5 Why o why are clowns so frequently depicted as such awful creatures in horror stories? That's a rhetorical question, not THE question.
So what was the evil clown’s name who Grandpa Josef, lying on his death bed, was warning his son of by making him write down five dates?
#6 These two guys are best friends. Dean Koontz has given them remarkable character and sense of humor. Below is a sample from a partial dialogue between the two. Your mission is to provide the first and last name of each person.
XX XX, my best friend for more than 17 years, has several phone #s. He has given the most private of these to no more than 5 friends, and he answers that line at any hour. I keyed the # and pressed send.
X picked up on the 3rd ring: “This better be important.”
“Were you sleeping?”
“Eating kibby.”
Kibby is Mediterranean cuisine: ground beef, onion, pine nuts, and herbs wrapped in a moist ball of bulgar and quickly deep fried.
“Eating it with what?”
“Cucumbers, tomatoes, some picked turnip.”
“At least I didn’t call when you were having sex.”
“This is worse.”
“You’re way serious about your kibby.”
“So entirely serious.”
“I’ve just been clamshelled,” I said, which is surfer lingo for being enfolded by a large collapsing wave and wiped off your board.
X said, “You at the beach?”
“I’m speaking figuratively.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Sometimes it’s best,” I said, meaning that someone might be tapping his phone.
“I hate this crap.”
“Get used to it, bro.”
“Kibby spoiler.”
“I’m looking for a missing weed.”
A weed is a small person, and the term is usually but not always used as a synonym for grommet, which means a preadolescent surfer.
“Weed?” X asked.
“A totally small weed.”
“You playing Nancy Drew again?”
“In Nancy work up to my neck,” I confirmed.
“Kak,” he said, which along this stretch of coast is not a nice thing for one surfer to call another, though I believe I detected a note of affection in his voice that was almost equal to the disgust.
“I need your help.”
“You can do it yourself. Just stand on a chair, tie a noose around your neck, and jump.”
“Don’t have a chair.”
“Pull the shotgun trigger with your toe.”
“X, if you knew the name of the weed, you’d already be here.”
He sighed. “Bro, how am I ever going to be a fully realized, super maximum, jerk off slacker if you keep insisting I have a conscience?”
“You’re doomed to be responsible.”
“That’s what I’m afraid of.”
“The furry dude is missing too.”
“Citizen Kane?”
“I’m scared for him.”
“I’ll be there.”
“Cool.”
“Where’s there?”
“Dead Town,” I told him.
“Oh, man. You never listen.”
“I’m a bad boy. Come in by the river.”
“The river?”
“There’s a Suburban parked there. Belongs to a mondo psycho, so be careful. The fence is cut.”
“Do I have to creep or can I strut?”
“Sneaky doesn’t matter anymore. Just watch your ass.”
“Dead Town,” he said disgustedly. “What am I going to do with you, young man?”
“No TV for a month?”
“Kak,” he called me again.
“Meet me at the movies.”
“Hang loose,” X said.
“I’m just about untied,” I said thinly.
“That’s too loose.”
Good luck everyone!!
Part Two (or the October portion of this contest). Who better to feature for the October monthly trivia than Stephen King?!
Once again, the first person to email at bigguapote1@verizon.net or PM me with the most (shooting for all) correct answers receives $ 50.00 in free fish.
#1 List the first and last names of the Katet of the 19 & 99.
#2 How did the billy-bumbler get it’s name?
#3 What was the first and last name of Roland’s only true love?
#4 The first part of a book by King is titled after a nickname given to the super flu that results in the death of over 99% of the world's population. What is that super flu called?
#5 What’s another name, or first and last name, of the ‘Walking Dude’?
#6 What was the special talent of ‘Trash can man’?
#7 What was the name (first and last) of the person who opens a store in Castle Rock where the customer can purchase (by unknowingly trading his/her soul) anything they (either conscientiously or unconscientiously) desire?
#8 Some rather odd disturbances (lightning shows, temperature drops) were known to occur around this old car (if that’s what you want to call it – it looked like a specific model of car). Troop D held this ‘car’ in Shed B. What model car was it?
#9 What attacked Jake and Roland in the underground railroad while they tried to pump the railroad car through to the other side of the mountain?
#10 What are the first names of the three women that enter the Dixie Pig (where long pork is the other white meat to eat) in the body of one woman?
Good luck!!
