Don't Give Me Any Grife

Inconceivable! episode 23, posted January 16, 2019.
Game Show episode 103
==Panelists==
* Host: Dan Moren
* Scorekeeper: Lex Friedman
====Team 1====
* Quinn Rose (“We would have given her the whole sky, but she only wanted a corner”) 
* Scott McNulty (“Let’s give him a nice big Vulcan Hello”) [Captain]
* Jean MacDonald (“We had to inform her that this is a very serious show with absolutely no cloning around”)
====Team 2====
* Brian Hamilton (“He’s making a fast break to the most important meal”)
* Kelly Guimont (“This show doesn’t look like anything to her”) [Captain]
* Steve Lutz (“Wait until you see him in High Definition”)
== Round 1 - A Good Start ==
Listen 2:20
Identify a famous book from its first line. Five points for the book title and five for the author. If the first line isn’t enough the second line can be traded for some points.
First Line 	Book 	Author 	Contestant	Points awarded
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. (Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.) 	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 	Jules Verne 	Quinn 	7 (Author from the first line, title from the second)
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. (I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.) 	Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus	Mary Shelley 	Brian 	10
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ([Hill House], not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.) 	The Haunting of Hill House 	Shirley Jackson 	Scott 	2
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. (The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.)	The Left Hand of Darkness 	Ursula K. Le Guin	Kelly 	10
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. (I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.) 	Old Man’s War 	John Scalzi 	Jean 	10
It was a dark and stormy night. (In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.) 	A Wrinkle in Time 	Madeleine L’Engle	Steve 	4
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 19
* Team 2: 24
== Round 2 - Fake Off ==
Listen: 18:22
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: Future Slang
Points wagered: 5
Points lost: 5
Word: Grife
Reader	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer	Notes
Brian 	A Grife is slang for an encrypted message sent between members of the police force. 	 	X 	
Kelly 	Grife is future slang that does not refer to a singular thing, it refers to a particular thing that is the residue or the buildup on buildings from the exhaust of spaceships.	 	 	
Steve 	Grife is an exclamation that is popular in the 31st century, it basically means “damn it!” 	X 	 	From DC Comics
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 14
* Team 2: 24
== Round 3 - Monstrous Origins ==
Listen: 23:49
I’m going to give you a monstrous creature. Describe what that creature is and where its name comes from.
Name 	Description 	Origin 	Contestant	Points awarded
Wyvern 	A dragon-like creature with two legs. 	From the Latin word “vipera”, which is also the origin of “viper”. 	Brian 	6
Lich 	A wizard or magician who has extended their life and become undead. 	From old English “lic” meaning “corpse” 	Quinn 	4
Orc 	Corrupted elves. 	From Old English and thought to derive from Orcus the god of the underworld. 	Kelly 	9
Hobgoblin	A small hairy creature that does odd jobs in exchange for food and is fond of practice jokes.	From “hob” meaning “elf” and goblin. 	Scott 	3
Ghoul 	An undead creature that eats flesh. 	From the Arabic “ghūl” for literally “to seize” that has come to mean monstrous person. 	Jean 	5
Kobold 	A Germanic hobgoblin - human-like house spirits. 	(Alternate question, because the origin is unclear) What is a common word derived from Kobold and why?Cobolt, because many Kobolds lived in mines.	Steve 	8
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 29
* Team 2: 44
== Round 4 - Fake Off: Endgame ==
Listen: 45:05
Team 2 answers
Category: Weaponry
Points wagered: 4
Points lost: 4
Word: Espringal
Reader	Definition 	Correct Answer	Chosen Answer
Quinn 	An espringal is a war chariot that was used by soldiers in the Byzantine empire. 	 	
Scott 	An espringal is an ancient military engine used for launching stones and arrows by means of a spring. 	X 	
Jean 	An espringal is a small piece of leather fitted between an archer’s draw hand fingers and the bow string to prevent injury and improve aim.	 	X
=== Standings ===
* Team 1: 29
* Team 2: 40
== Round 5 - Letter Drop ==
Listen: 50:58
Titles change interestingly if you drop a letter. Identify the new title of a movie created by dropping a letter, based on the plot for the movie.
For example: The plot “a shrinking superhero takes on bad guys with the help of his new partner, a venomous snake” would be the movie “Ant-Man and the Asp”
Plot 	Movie 	Contestant	Points awarded
Four children travel into a mystical realm where they must combat an evil rash. 	The Lion, the Itch and the Wardrobe 	Quinn 	10
A spaceship crew embarks on a mission to locate larges reserves of asphalt 	Tar Trek 	Brian 	10
Nine compatriots band together to destroy an off-shore drilling platform 	Fellowship of the Rig 	Scott 	10
Tripod-like aliens invade Earth to have a spirited debate with its inhabitants 	War of the Words 	Kelly 	10
Three astronauts release their ship has been secretly piloted by monkeys. 	Plane of the Apes 	Jean 	5
In 1920s New York, a young wizard-turned-DJ is attempting to find his new sound.	Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them	Steve 	0
=== Final Standings ===
* Team 1: 54
* Team 2: 60