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From: mcsweinberg@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Vehicles Quiz
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:02:52 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

                                                 
				Vechicles Real and Fantasy

1. In Star Trek II what was the name of the ship that Khan takes.

2. In Final Countdown what was the name of the ship.

3. What was the name of the Space Shuttle that landed in White Sands New MExico
in 1982.

4. What type of car was the time machine in Back to the Future made from.

5. What was the name of Micheal Knight's car in Knight Rider.

6. What was the name of the car in Steven Kings movie of the same name.

7. In the prequel to Patriot Games what ship did the main character save.

8. In 10,000 Leagues under the sea what ship did Captain Nemo Travel in.

9. What did Micheal Douglas name the ship he bought with the sale of the stone
in Romancing the Stone.

10.What was Han Solo's ship in the Star Wars Saga called.

11. In the Sci-Fi series staring Lorne Greene and Dirk Benidict what was the
name of the Battleship.

12. About what did Clint Eastwood say "You should never touch a man's
vechicles." from the movie of the same name.

13. Star Trek II - THe Wrath of Khan What ship were Kahn's people marooned with
on Setty Alpha 6.

14. In Lethal Weapon II what was the name of the ship that the "bad guys" were
going to sail to South Africa on.

15. Name the three real or movie made ships that sank.

16. What was the name of the German Blip that burned in the air.

17. What were the names of the Animal like machines that attacked Hoth in
Empire Strikes Back.

18. What was the famous ship of Mutineers. (sp?)

19. In Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade what type of vechicle did they offer
the turks to travel in their territory.  

20. What did Mork arrive from Orc in?

HAVE FUN!

Rai.

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From: paul@moore.com (Paul Maclauchlan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Satchel Paige
Date: 2 Jan 93 22:38:31 GMT
Organization: Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto ON, Canada
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Tron R. (tron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: Does any of you trivia masters know what Satchel 
: Paige's Six Rules of Life are?

From Collier's 1953: How To Stay Young, Satchel Paige:

1. Avoid fried foods which angry up the blood.

2. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

3. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

4. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society.  The social
   ramble ain't restful.

5. Avoid running at all times.

6. Don't look back.   Something might be gaining on you.

-- 
.../Paul Maclauchlan
Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto, Ontario (416) 364-2600
paul@moore.com   -or-  {...!uunet.ca,...!telly}!moore!paul
"Oh save my soul, sweet rock and roll, 'cuz I'm sinking fast"/BS'72
From: renehill@acsu.buffalo.edu (Rene M. Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: A Macgyver Question...
Date: 30 Dec 92 12:35:27 GMT
Organization: UB


I'm sorry if I've posted this before, but I've had trouble with news lately...

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me (by post or mail) what MacGyver's
first name was on the show?  And if possible, how they know (what episode(s)
this might have been mentioned in)?

Thanks alot!  (This has been bugging us lately)

-Rene'

renehill@acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Andrew Weiskopf)
Subject: Re: College Bowl
Reply-To: st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:36:23 GMT

Yeah.... looks like you guys are playing in Hattiesburg...

But we're going to Framingham for the Region 1 Tournament, so once we
are finished stomping Ted Schuerzinger & Dartmouth, we'll see you at the
National Championships...

Andrew "nothing like a little pre-game rhetoric" Weiskopf
ST891425@pip.cc.BRANDEIS.edu
From: gisle@ifi.uio.no (Gisle Hannemyr)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Trivia Challenger (Trivia game for PC-based BBS'es)
Date: 2 Jan 93 14:40:35 GMT
Organization: gisle@ifi.uio.no
Originator: gisle@gyda.ifi.uio.no


                    Trivia Challenger is Available!

Trivia Challenger is a quiz game to be installed as a BBS door,  or for
standalone use.  It features more than  1500 questions in ten different
categories  (Movies,  Rock music,  Science,  The  Arts, etc.).  It  has
consistently  proved  the  MOST  POPULAR  door on the BBSes where it is
installed, with more daily users than such old favorites as Global War,
King of the Board and Operation Overkill II.

( The chart below shows the top three doors at Zirkonium BBS )

        ======================================
        * * * * *  TOP OF THE DOORS  * * * * *
        Chart produced at:  1992-01-19    4:15
        --------------------------------------
        Door  Name of door        Last  Of all
        no #                      week  -time-
        --------------------------------------
     1. 33 : Trivia Challenger      79    1786
     2. 10 : Global War             66    1484
     3. 31 : King of the Board      35    1005
        ======================================

If you want to evaluate this game on your PC / BBS, please send me
mail asking for "Trivia Challenger", and I'll mail you the uuencoded
archive.

Included in  the archive  is a special installation/maintenance program
that  automates most of the SysOps task in installing,  setting up  and
maintaining the door.

Trivia Challenger should work with BBS systems compatible with PCBoard,
Mike's BBS (MBBS),  WILDCAT! systems,  GAP BBS,  SPITFIRE BBS and other
systems  using standard  DOOR.SYS  file along with  RBBS-PC,  QuickBBS,
Remote Access  and  other  systems  using  DORINFOx.DEF  files.  Trivia
Challenger will also utilize a file called GENERIC.SYS.  This file will
allow Trivia Challenger to work on ANY BBS system.

Trivia Challenger's features include interrupt driven I/O, 16550AN UART
support, and FOSSIL support.

Trivia Challenger is shareware (cost US$ 20 or NOK 100).

The  evaluation  archive is a fully functional game,  but have the fol-
lowing limitations compared to the full, registered version:
   * It will not generate bulletins.
   * It only admits up to 10 players each day.
   * The functions to merge new questions and categories into
     the quiz tables are disabled.

If  you  are  a registered user,  you may use your  TRIVREG  program to
transform this evalutaion version to a full registered version.
--
Meta-disclaimer: A society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
 
- gisle hannemyr  (Norsk Regnesentral)
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From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: College Bowl
Date: 20 Dec 92 07:06:09 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay) writes:

> Out of curiousity, is anyone going to the College Bowl Tornament in Ala.?
> E-mail
> 
> Dascoser

Oops. I meant Mississippi.

Dascoser
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: mgrimes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael Grimes)
Subject: Re: Twisted Christmas Trivia (ANSWER)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:10:48 GMT

This reminds me of a vacation to Russia my wife and I made years ago. We were 
in a taxi with our communist driver, Rudolph.
    "Uh-oh,"  Rudolph said, "it's starting to rain!"
    "It looks more like snow,"  my wife snapped.
    To settle the argument, I of course replied,"Rudolph the red knows rain 
dear!"
From: mcbride@ll.mit.edu (Barbara McBride)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: A Macgyver Question...
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:18:45 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
Originator: mcbride@ll.mit.edu (Barbara McBride)


In article <C02oB4.An8@acsu.buffalo.edu>, renehill@acsu.buffalo.edu (Rene M. Hill) writes:
|> 
|> I'm sorry if I've posted this before, but I've had trouble with news lately...
|> 
|> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me (by post or mail) what MacGyver's
|> first name was on the show?  And if possible, how they know (what episode(s)
|> this might have been mentioned in)?
|> 
|> Thanks alot!  (This has been bugging us lately)
|> 
|> -Rene'
|> 
|> renehill@acsu.buffalo.edu

	Macgyver's first name is Angus.  I don't know the name of the episode
	that reveals his name, but it is the one when he hits his head and
	wakes up in King Arthur's Court.

			Babs
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From:  kirby_dave@tandem.com (Decay)
Subject: "A Christmas Carol" quiz (ANSWERS) addendum
Followup-To: rec.games.trivia
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:20:00 GMT

Oops!  Sorry!  I left off the answer to the last question:

14. Names, names names!  Who were the following (first names will do)?
       (a) Scrooge's partner
              Jacob [Marley]
       (b) Scrooge's nephew
              Fred
       (c) Scrooge's sister
              Fan
       (d) Scrooge's fellow apprentice at old Fezziwig's
              Dick [Wilkins]
       (e) Scrooge's fiancee
              Belle
   (f & g)	The children hiding under the Spirit of Christmas Present's robe
              Boy  = Ignorance
              Girl = Want

Pax.

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Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: j.turner@lynx.coe.northeastern.edu (Jeffrey Turner)
Subject: Re: A Macgyver Question...
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:00:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.151845.16290@ll.mit.edu> mcbride@ll.mit.edu (Barbara McBride) writes:

> In article <C02oB4.An8@acsu.buffalo.edu>, renehill@acsu.buffalo.edu (Rene M. Hill) writes:

> |> I was just wondering if anyone could tell me (by post or mail) what MacGyver's
> |> first name was on the show?  And if possible, how they know (what episode(s)
> |> this might have been mentioned in)?

>  Macgyver's first name is Angus.  I don't know the name of the episode
>  that reveals his name, but it is the one when he hits his head and
>  wakes up in King Arthur's Court.

    The fact that he bumped his head and dreamt the whole thing
was the give-away, we'll never know if that is his real name or
just a dream name.

    	    	    	    	    	--Jeff
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
From: O1DOUG@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Doug Miller)
Subject: Who am I IV.
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:15:36 GMT

  Satish Nair got it within hours of my posting it. The answer was the
Green Hornet and his great grand uncle was the Lone Ranger. I guess Ray
Hammel wants them a little tougher so here goes;
 
My name is Arthur Rostron. I was the first one there and could not
believe what had happened. Who am I and were was I at.
 
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia,rec.music.misc
From: kalang@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (kenneth.lang)
Subject: Musical Monikers Quiz (Answers due January 21, 1993)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:42:57 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Given the musician's alias, come up with band name and instrument



Hello! It's time for a new kind of quiz !!! Read on !

One feature that has characterized the modern music world is the proliferation
of unusual stage monikers for musicians. David Jones changed his name to David
Bowie, Malcolm Rebennack became Dr. John, and Richard Starkey became Ringo 
Starr. Musicians have become famous with names like Jelly Roll, Howlin' Wolf,
Jelly Bean. The following 40 monikers were/are used by 40 members of various
ensembles -- your job is to name the band they were/are BEST associated with.
Some of them have gone on to successful solo careers, but I'm looking for the
band they were with. Some of the bands are repeated. The monikers are in 
alphabetical order.

Scoring: 10 points for each correct ensemble name + 5 points if you can state
what instrument they (mainly) play/played (where vocals is lumped into  
instruments). For instance,

    Ringo Starr - Beatles, drummer  would be worth 15 points.
    Bono -        U2, singer        would be worth 15 points

NOTE: Although Ringo did sing, his main function in the Beatles was as drummer.
      Although Bono plays guitar (at least he did live), his main function is
          as lead vocals.

If the musician was best known for playing with a solo act, then that act's name
would be the correct answer. i.e. Van Morrison's band, Madonna's band, etc.

Return the answers to me (Ken Lang) by January 21, 1993 9:00 AM EST at

kalang@cbnewsk.att.com or kalang@cbnewsk.attmail.att.com or just reply to
this message.

DO NOT POST ANSWERS !!!!!!!!

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1) Bucket
2) Bones Hillman
3) Daddy Mack
4) Del Strange Fish
5) Dikmik
6) DJ Bonebrake
7) Drumbo
8) Duff
9) Duck Dunn
10) Falk-U. Rogner   [Falk Rogner is his real name, but the U. was added I 
                     assume to spice it up a bit. ]
11) Fish 
12) Fish   (Not the same person as #11)
13) Flava Flav
14) Flea
15) Jaimoe
16) Jello Biafra
17) Jet Black
18) Joe Jack Talcum
19) Johnny Rotten
20) Kenediid
21) Moonweed
22) Motorhead Sherwood
23) Phlorescent Leech
24) Pigpen
25) Polystyrene
26) Prof. S. Sharpstrings, P.A.
27) Roddy Radiation
28) Saxa
29) Sexexecutioner
30) Sid Vicious
31) Slash
32) Speech
32) Sting
34) The Edge
35) The Vicar
36) Tortelvis
37) Twist
38) Wix
39) Zoot Horn Rollo
40) Zak Wylde


-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
**    Ken Lang                                              AT&T          *
*"The dust blows forward and the dust blows back on the toads of the      *
* short forest and every newt in Idaho."- A sampling of Don Van Vliet & FZ*
From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
Subject: Re: College Bowl
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:35:39 GMT

st891425@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Andrew Weiskopf) writes:

> Yeah.... looks like you guys are playing in Hattiesburg...
> 
> But we're going to Framingham for the Region 1 Tournament, so once we
> are finished stomping Ted Schuerzinger & Dartmouth, we'll see you at the
> National Championships...
> 
> Andrew "nothing like a little pre-game rhetoric" Weiskopf
> ST891425@pip.cc.BRANDEIS.edu


That confidant I'm not. :) Of course we in the South east will be very 
close (well one state over) from Marti Gras.

Happy New Year all and good luck
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
From: Gone with the Lemming <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu>
Subject: Re: BTECH: Help with making maps
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	<1993Jan3.024928.18994@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:47:48 GMT

You forgot rubberized battlemats. Chessex makes rubberized mats with a
variety of gridding (hexes, squares, offset squares), scales, colors, and
mat sizes. You can write on them with an overhead transparency pen, and the
ink washes off. They roll up neatly, and last a long time, and cost between
$10 and $20.

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From: jrob@ecst.csuchico.edu (Gillis the Humble)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: Where is th Btech muse?
Date: 28 Dec 92 06:41:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: psycho.ecst.csuchico.edu

Yeah, if it moved, let me in on it!

						jrob@ecst.csuchico.edu
From: strassbm@cnsvax.uwec.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: BTECH: Article of interest in WW #33
Date: 3 Jan 93 00:54:07 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

I would suggest that all you Battletech junkies (like myself...) check out
White Wolf #33 (Nov/Dec).  There's a neat article on integrating BTech
with all those monsters from those cheezy '50s Japanese monster movies.
It's helpful if you want to send your company up against Godzilla or
Mothra...
 
                                   Brian M. Strassman
                                   strassbm@cnsvax.uwec.edu

Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
Subject: Re: FAQ, do we need one?
Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:43:46 GMT

In article <1h65e2INNkkj@golem.wcc.govt.nz> taia_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
> Hmmmm......I don't know about you lot, but I think we may need one now.
>Seems that we have waves or is it cycles of the same old questions going
>around and around.
> I already have a KILL file for the Btech MUSE etc.

 
    ]-[eh heh!  I put /MUSE/:j in my KILL file for r.g.mecha about a
 week after it was created.  (:
 

> What say the rest of you?
 

    |
    |_ike I've said before, I'll support it, but I just don't have
 the time/energy to maintain it.
 
    ]-[mm.  Maybe someone would care to set up a little weekly posting
 that just gives the location of the BTech MUSE and some simple
 instructions?  Heck, if someone would send me a good simple description
 and intro to the BTech MUSE in e-mail I could probably set up a little
 chron process to post it every week, myself.  I'd have to be informed
 in e-mail of any changes to the MUSE, though, as I don't use it myself.

-- 
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From: dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga)
Subject: Re: Battletech: Re: 'City Archer'
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:08:25 GMT

pad@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Paul A Daniels) writes:

>	
>	I don't think the clans have much of an advantge these days.
>Heck anyone crippled by that silly sense of honor that most perople play them
>with, 

Well, the Clan honor system is not the debilitating thing that it looks
like it is at first. If an enemy 'Mech fires on more than one 'Mech, it
opens things up into a free-for-all. 

Axly
From: thantos@runic.via.mind.org (Paul Williams [SysOp])
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Mekton: Mekton Mecha
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 11:54:59 EST
Organization: Runic Writings / Lawrenceville, GA


Greets all:

   Are  there  any  other  Mekton  mecha  jocks out there who have ,eks to
        post, or are my two the only one's forthcoming?  :)


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 Mecha: It is said that these metal giants were shaped like men, so the
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From: dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (RedSwordTarga)
Subject: Re: Realism vs. Mechs
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:58:58 GMT

maxxon@swob.nullnet.fi (Mikko Kurki-Suonio) writes:

>> You really don't need to target the "vulnerable" areas in the armor.
>> Modern missles can sink a frigate with one or two shots. They 
>> would easily blow through the armor by main force.

>I agree, except that modern frigates don't really carry much armor. I
>recall there was a problem with them when the Falklands incident (call
>it war if you must) was taking place - they seem to contain so much
>aluminium that fires are near impossible to put out.

Well, it's true that modern frigates don't carry a lot of armor. However,
what I meant to get across is that one Harpoon missle will cripple a vehicle
whose weight is in the thousands of tons class. Against a 'Mech, this would
probably vaporize the entire thing. 

Of course, that also points out that AeroTech is the more broken of the two
systems  - No airlaunched cruise missles, having to drop all the bombs on one
hex in a bombing run when they have been doing "stick" bombing since WWII and
the technology to do that isn't hard to build, a bombing payload system that
says a small aircraft with a small engine can lift more bombs than a large one
with a huge engine, etc.


Axly

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*   Axly      *  "Is Axly tough? Yes. Talented? Yes. Brave? Oh, certainly.     *
* Red Sword   *   He is also erratic, irresponsible, accident-prone, and a     *
*   Targa     *   constant threat to public safety. The trick is to keep him   *
*             *   pointed in the right direction. "                            *
*             *         -Niki                                                  *
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From: br866@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Terry L Rooker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: Batteltech: Who's in control 'ere
Date: 21 Dec 1992 11:33:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


An important point to remember about FASA is that they are one of
the companies in gaming, only to make money.  Some may remember
the acient times when FASA did a lot fo Traveller stuff.  Despite
their active participation in that system, and putting out the 
best material for that system, they dropped their line overnight
because it might conflict with some of their own SciFi products.
They did offer suscribers to their magazine credit for other 
products, but it was a chintzy profit-oriented decision.

To answer your question, FASA is in charge of the "official" BT
story line.  Lot's of people don't like it.  Do they care?  Not as
long as you keep buying stuff.
From: kabreuer@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Breuer)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha
Subject: Re: BTECH: high-speed hovertanks
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:02:10 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00e.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

>>"(_ontrol?  Agent E'6 here.  We're definitely looking at a munchkin
>>invasion situation.  Awaiting instructions.  What's that?  Please
>>confirm.  You're sure that's necessary?  Ok, we'll nuke 'em from
>>orbit...."
>>]-[ere's a simple solution:  Just bring in some NAC/40's and target
>>those individual mechs from geosynch.  The targeting is only about as
>Maybe about as difficult as a Tomahawk (TASM) flying a 100 nm and
>hitting a ship through ECM and AA fire.  Maybe about as difficult for
>a SLAM to go 50 nm and hit a window...maybe about as difficult for the
Come on, why trust hi-tech which might just fail on you? _You_ on the 
planet are sitting on the bottom of a gravity well. _I_, sitting in orbit 
can simply chuck (cheap, low-tech) rocks at you. Looots of rocks...

Ciao,
Klaus
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