From: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: A Little Diversion...
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com (wooga wooga wooga)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1993Jan20.204722.5991@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
~seawasp@vm2.cis.pitt.edu (Sea Wasp):
~>>			 WIZARDS - OF ALL KINDS...
~>>			===========================
~>>
~>>1.  Who was the Wizard of Todos Santos?
~>
~>	The computer programmer/designer of the arcology... Tony, I think
~>was the name.
~>
~>>2.  Who built the rooms named Memory, Fear, Heartbreak, Dust and Despair;
~>>and used his Attribute of inanimate correspondence in a contest of Irish
~>>stand-down with one known as Kalkin the Binder?
~>
~>	??? Blank on this one.... ???
~
~It was in Zelazny's "Lord of Light".  Kubera?
~
~>>3.  Who was Chief Forensic Sorceror to HRH Richard, Duke of Normandy?
~>
~>	Lord Darcy, I believe.
~>
~>>4.  What was the name and species of the sorceror who helped a deposed
~>>Coronal regain his throne from a usurper?
~>
~>	The Vroonish wizard Deliamber.
~>
~>>5.  Who helped Paul Hoehler break the Peace?
~>
~>	???
~
~It was in Vinge's "The Peace War".  Jill something...
~
~>>6.  Name both of the sorcerous mentors of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser.
~>
~>	Ningauble of the Seven Eyes is one. I pull a blank on the second.
~>

	Sheelba of the Eyeless Face, I believe


~>>7.  Which Heretic earned his soubriquet by declaring against the
~>>battle-religion?
~>
~>		??
~>
~>>8.  To whom did Turjan of Miir turn for instruction when none of his vat
~>>creatures proved to be viable?
~>
~>	???
~>
~>>9.  Who had 91 days, 3 hours and 5 minutes of life left when he decided to
~>>forego the usual professional privilege of being collected by Death
~>>himself, and became Death's servant instead?
~>
~>	I'm going to hate myself for not knowing THIS one.
~
~Me too, but it looks lije something out of Diskworld.
~
~>>10.  Who invited possession by an Egyptian god, thus opening certain Gates?
~>
~>	??
~>
~>>11.  Who enlisted the aid of axolotls to make a portion of the poultice,
~>>12.  Which sorceror/warrior possessed the Ring Of Kings, a potent artifact
~>>13.  Who, using the power of the spellstone Firefrost, held 140 pure
~>>14.  Who created a world supported by the monoliths Thayaphayawoed,
~>>Abharhploonta, Doozvillnavava, and Idaquizzoorhruz?
~>>15.  Who had as his Source the Dwarf Matt Soren?
~
~I'm blanking on everything today! ...the mage in Kay's "Fionavar Tapestry".
~
~>>16.  Which amphibious sorceror, sometime follower and student of the
~>>17.  Who sold the Duke of Ch'in the secret of immortality, among other things?
~>
~>	Completely blank. I'm embarrassed.
~>
~>>18.  What black magician was slain on 12th April 1771, managed to
~>>reincarnate himself via a descendant in the Spring of 1927, and was
~>>permanently destroyed on Friday April 13th 1928 by a spell mentioning the
~>>name Yog-Sothoth?
~>
~>	The ancestor of Charles Dexter Ward...
~>
~>>19.  Who invented 10-point steel?
~>
~>	The slan Jommy Cross.
~>
~>>20.  Who became resident Wizard in Gaea, with the unwanted side-effect of
~>>being forced to control the reproduction of a race of centaurs?
~
~Names are escaping me in droves today...Ciroco (sp?) from Varley's
~Titan trilogy.
~
~Okay...someone else's turn to fill in a few more holes!
~
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   *A* 


Andy Lee
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