If Only We'd Ever Read a Book

Inconceivable! episode 25, posted June 5, 2019.
Game Show episode 111
==Panelists==
* Host: Dan Moren
* Scorekeeper: Lex Friedman
====Team 1====
*Jean MacDonald (“Coming to us live, all the way from the Delta Quadrant”)
*Scott McNulty (“He’s got a lot of charact–sorry misread that. He’s gotten a lot of characters killed”)
*Liz Myles (“It’s time for our Big Finish”) [Captain]
====Team 2====
*James Thomson (“We’re not going to let this introduction Drag-On”)
*Kathy Campbell (“I was going to make a joke for this intro, but I was worried it was going to be too uni-corny”)
*Tony Sindelar (“He has not yet met the dungeon he could not master”) [Captain]
== Round 1 - A Grave Matter ==
There are many characters in fiction who have met an untimely end. Some of them more than once. Identify the fictional character from the epitaph on their gravestone. For a tradeoff of four points you can get the medium in which the character appears.
Epitaph 	Character 	Contestant	Points awarded
Died September 7th 1885. Shot in the back by Buford Tannen over a matter of 80 dollars and erected in eternal memory by his beloved Clara. 	Dr. Emmet Brown	Jean 	10
Beloved sister, devoted friend, she saved the world, a lot. 	Buffy Summers 	James 	10
In remembrance of our fearless leader. He gave us his wisdom, his love and his life (a couple of times).(Character has appeared in both TV and Movies)	Phil Coulson 	Scott 	0
The path of the righteous man. Ezekiel 25:17. 	Nick Fury 	Kathy 	1
He died doing the right thing.(Appeared in a series of books and a TV Show) 	Harry Dresden 	Liz 	0
She will rise again. 	Jean Grey 	Tony 	10
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 10
* Team 2: 20 Lex deducted one point for Tony firing his team mates.
== Round 2 - Fake Off ==
Given a word from a work of speculative fiction (TV, movies, comics etc.) find the correct answer from the three definitions given.
Team 1 answers
Category: Fictional Planets
Points wagered: 10
Points won: 10
Word: Morbus
Reader	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer	Notes
James 	Morbus in an inhospitable toxic and nuclear waste dump and prison planet from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. 	X 	X 	
Kathy 	It actually appears to be a dusty red mining planet in the Koprulu sector from Star Craft. It’s the home base of the Kel-Morbian combine, a mining company that exports refined minerals and vespene gas and various precious metals. 	 	 	Really called Moria
Tony 	Morbus is totally an Earth-like planet occupying the orbit of Mars in the alternate universe setting of Harry Turtledove’s A World of Difference. It’s similar in size and make-up to Earth but colder temperature because of where it is. The inhabitants are noted for being radially symmetrical - they have six eyes that allow them to see in all directions. The inhabitants use stone tools and feudal governments and in the book basically the unfortunate world of Morbus ends up being a place for the Americans and Sovients to have a proxy war.	 	 	Really called Minerva
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 20
* Team 2: 20
== Round 3 - Compound Interest ==
There are a lot of compound words in the English language, which are words made up of two words. I’m going to move where the break in that word is and give you a definition.
For example if I gave you the clue: “The speed of moving on your hands and knees”. The answer would be “crawls-pace”
Definition 	Word 	Contestant	Points awarded
A male deer’s family 	Bucks-kin 	James 	10
The ocean’s superhero attire 	Seas-cape 	Jean 	10
The sound of a crypt 	Tombs-tone 	Kathy 	10
Our star’s cooking vessel 	Suns-pot 	Scott 	10
Insect parasites found on a violin 	Fiddles-ticks	Tony 	10
Being beaten, scrambled or boiled, we can only imagine	Eggs-hell 	Liz 	3
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 43
* Team 2: 50
== Round 4 - Fake Off: Rise of the Fakewalker ==
Team 2 answers
Category: Schools of Magic
Points wagered: 6
Points won: 6
Word: Catoptramancy
Reader	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer
Jean 	This particular school of divination was popular with fishermen in the early Middle Ages. What we call today “flashlight” fish which is anomalops katoptron they have bioluminescent pouches in their eyes so back in the day, not unlike reading tea leaves, fishermen would net the flashlight fish and study the morse code-like blinking of their eyes for a prediction of where their next catch could be found	 	
Scott 	It is the school of magic that appears in Robert Jackson Bennett’s novel Foundryside whose practitioners inscribe symbols onto objects to make those objects believe that reality operates slightly differently than it actually does. I’ll give you an example, symbols could be inscribed onto a wagon wheel to make it think it is always going down hill so it will always roll. 	 	
Liz 	Once upon a time there was a school called Hogwarts, and in that school you had a teacher of divination who was professor Trelawny who was played by Emma Thompson in some of the Harry Potter movies. She did lots of sorts of divination like she’d look in tea cups and stuff. But one of the sorts that she didn’t do is what we see in a 1930-something movie called Snow White that was based on a Grimm fairytale book published sometime in the 19th century (probably). And that one has my second favorite Disney villain in it, there is the evil queen who’s amazing and very, very scary in the Disney ride. One of the things that she did other than painting poison apples red (which really indicates more poison to me than green anyway) is she looked in a mirror sometimes and she saw things there and her mirror would chat back and tell her stuff. Talking to her mirror and saying “Hi mirror, how’s it going? Tell me secret stuff” that is a form of divination that was not taught at Hogwarts and that is Catoptramancy.
(Provided definition: Divination using a mirror)	X 	X
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 43
* Team 2: 56
== Round 5 - Everyone’s a Winner ==
(Contributed by listener Kat)
I’m going to to give you a word. That word appears in both a movie that won the best picture Oscar and a book that won the best novel Hugo. I’ll give you the years as well in which the respective awards happened.
For example “Bird”, Oscar 2014, Hugo 1977 the answers would be Bird Man and Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang.
Clue 	Answer 	Contestant	Points awarded
SeasonOscar: 1966Hugo: 2016 	Movie: A Man for All SeasonsBook: The Fifth Season 	Jean 	10
AmericanOscar: 1999/1951Hugo: 2002	Movie: American Beauty (1999)/An American in Paris(1951)Book: (American Gods)	James 	5
MoonOscar: 2016Hugo: 1967 	Movie: MoonlightBook: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 	Scott 	10
FireOscar: 1981Hugo: 1993 	Movie: (Chariots of Fire)Book: (A Fire Upon the Deep) 	Kathy 	0
DanceOscar: 1990Hugo: 1995 	Movie: Dances With WolvesBook: Mirror Dance 	Liz 	10
BookOscar: 2018Hugo: 1993 	Movie: Green BookBook: (Doomsday Book) 	Tony 	6†
† Once extra point for suggesting Book of Space and Dragons as the book.
=== Final Standings ===
* Team 1: 73
* Team 2: 67