SCIENCE FICTION SIDE EVENT
 TOSS-UPS

1.		In The Astronauts by Stanislaw Lem, it was caused by the crash of a reconnaissance vessel from Venus.* Thomas Pynchon in Against the Day, Spider Robinson in Callahan’s Key and Scott Westerfeld in Goliath suggest it was caused accidentally by Nicola Tesla, possibly experimenting with a death ray.  For 10 points, name this June 30, 1908 explosion near the current Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, Russia that knocked down 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles from the airburst of a comet or meteor.
Answer: Tunguska Event
	
2.		FIRST AND LAST NAME REQUIRED. One actor with this name was a silent film leading man with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame who was permanently injured when he was hit by a car as a pedestrian.* Another actor with this name cut his chin in a car accident and it was explained in one movie as having been cut by a whip when he was a teen. For 10 points, what is the common name of both actors, the better known of which starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner and Star Wars: A New Hope?
Answer: Harrison Ford
	
3.		Her first novel was an Ace Double backing The Kar-Chee Reign by Avram Davidson.* Gavir, a boy who escapes his largely comfortable slave existence, is the main character of the Nebula Award-winning novel Powers. For 10 points, name this author of The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea trilogy.
Answer: Ursula K. LeGuin
	
4.		Its first published story was “Freeing the Angels” by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler, and the editor won two Hugos for editing this periodical.* “Goddesses” by Linda Nagata made its first appearance here, becoming the first Nebula award-winning story that was first published on a web site. For 10 points, name this online science fiction magazine that appeared on the Sci Fi Channel’s web site and was edited by Ellen Datlow.
Answer: Sci Fiction

5.		He was the uncredited screenwriter of the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode “The Drill”.* He created the television series Undercovers, Felicity, Fringe, Alias and Lost. For 10 points, name this director of the movies Mission: Impossible III, Super 8 and Star Trek.
Answer: J. J. Abrams
	
6.		It’s what four college students seek in The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg, but two of them must die.* It’s what President Borusa was seeking when he plucked the Doctors and his companions out of time to play the Game of Rassilon in the 30th anniversary episode “The Five Doctors”. For 10 points, what is this characteristic of Dorian Gray, at least while he had a special painting? 
Answer: Agelessness or immortality

7.		William Gibson said, in discussing his novel Idoru, that they, and by extension the denizens of the web, are no longer collectors of objects, but of data.* In Japan, the term bears a stereotype of being out of touch with reality, but in the United States, it just refers to fans of Japanese anime, manga and/or video games. For 10 points, what is this Japanese term for enthusiast, fan or geek that lent its name, in a form, to a convention held in downtown Baltimore every summer that attracts over 20 thousand attendees. 
Answer: Otaku
	
8.		Enoch Wallace, the caretaker for the Way Station, from the novel of the same name by Clifford Simak, is a veteran of this war.* John Carter is also a veteran of this war. For 10 points, what is this conflict, which Annie sees of visions of in her sleep in the novel Lincoln’s Dreams.
Answer: American Civil War
	
9.		In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode “One Against an Army”, she and Gabrielle defend this location against an army of several hundred.* Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is set in this place, narrated by Xeones. For 10 points, what is this pass in Eastern Greece that was the site of a battle where 300 Spartans and about a thousand more other Greeks held off over a hundred thousand Persians such as in the movie 300? 
Answer: Thermopylae
	
10.		Premiering at the 1992 Worldcon in Orlando, its stories won two Nebula Awards; for “A Defense of Social Contracts” by Martha Soukup and “Mars is No Place for Children” by Mary A. Turzillo.*  In addition to fiction and reviews, this periodical also had game reviews and a feature on artwork. For 10 points, name this slick magazine edited by Scott Edelman from 1992-2000.
Answer: Science Fiction Age

11.		He’s one-half of the only Hugo Award-winning married couple that won their Hugos after they divorced.* One of those Hugo winners was involved in one of three ties for Best Novel, when Doomsday Book tied with his A Fire Upon the Deep. For 10 points, name this author of Marooned in Realtime,  A Deepness in the Sky and Rainbows End.
Answer: Vernor Vinge
	
12.		His character Randy is murdered in the movie The Rapture.* Another of his characters was college professor Ira Kane who, in a past life, developed an anthrax vaccine with terrible side effects. For 10 points, name this actor who portrayed Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication.
Answer: David Duchovny

13.		In this novel, the human Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin has an insectoid khepri girfriend named Lin who can create sculptures with her spit.* Perhaps the most terrifying creature in this novel is the slake moth, giant insects who home in on sentient minds, extending their slimy mouths into the orifices of the head, sucking out the brain. For 10 points, name this Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Best Novel by China Miéville. 
Answer: Perdido Street Station
	
14.		It refers to cheap time travel devices of the 2070s that transmit images of the future directly into the brain that were so addictive that they were eventually banned.* Departments include Goofballery, Concept Art, This is Awesome and Hugo Award-winner Charlie Jane Anders frequently writes for them. For 10 points, name this Gawker media blog specializing in science fiction, fantasy and related interests.
Answer: io9
	
15.		James Earl Jones, Jasmine Guy and Gloria Reuben were among the stars of the TV movie based on her novel The Feast of All Saints.* The title character takes LeStat on a tour of history from his point of view in her novel Memnoch the Devil. For 10 points, name this most important vampire novelist in the time period after Bram Stoker and before Stephanie Meyer with her novels Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire LeStat. 
Answer: Anne Rice
	
16.		Their screenplay for Assassins was totally rewritten by Brian Helgeland and they tried to get their names removed from the film.* In 2007, a member of this pair completed a transgender transition. For 10 points, name these siblings who wrote and directed the Matrix trilogy of films.
Answer: Wachowski Brothers or Wachowshki Siblings or Laurence and Andy Wachowski or Lana and Andy Wachowski

17.		According to one myth, she was jealous of the beauty of the Gorgons, which was Medusa and her sisters, that she cursed them with the hair of snakes.* She caused Myrrha’s incestuous lust for her father, resulting in Adonis whom this goddess gave to Persephone to care for him. For 10 points, name this Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation who offered Helen of Troy to Paris in exchange for his choosing her as the fairest.
Answer: Aphrodite
	
18.		In this novel, the Jesuit priest Emilio Sandiz is induced by the Vatican and the Mafia to return to Rakhat, and Jholaa is married in a ceremony that includes a rape before witnesses.* While Sandiz hoped to help the slave Runa to independence, he finds that they have taken over the planet themselves. For 10 points, what is the novel by Mary Doria Russell, the sequel to The Sparrow?
Answer: Children of God

19.		In one episode of this series, a group of runaway teens form a family group in a junkyard but one of them turns to prostitution and is killed from a beating by one of her customers.* The main character, Monica, has recently been promoted from search and rescue to casework under the supervision of her boss, Tess. For 10 points, name this series starring Roma Downey and Della Reese as divine messengers who help individuals or groups at crossroads in their lives.
Answer: Touched by an Angel
	
20.		Her Vicki Nelson Blood series of novels were adapted for the television series Blood Ties that appeared on the CBC and Lifetime.* Her Quarters series describes a world where bards are capable of magical powers. For 10 points, name this Canadian writer who wrote the Valor Confederation series. 
Answer: Tanya Huff
	
21.		In a future Brazil, one character with this name is a budding artist who gets involved with the title character in The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson.* In Avatar: The Last Airbender, another character with this name is a bounty hunter who rides a shirsu, which is sort of a giant star-nosed mole. For 10 points, what name is shared by these characters as well as the month that includes the summer solstice in the Northern hemisphere?
Answer: June
	
22.		The narrator of the short story “Letter to A Phoenix” by Frederic Brown got it from a combination of a rare endocrine disorder and irradiation during a nuclear war.* A character, in a story from the collection The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami, also has this characteristic which enables her to spend most of her time reading and drinking expensive liquor. For 10 points, what is this trait of the genetically engineered Yagai children from the Nancy Kress novel Beggars in Spain?
Answer: Sleeplessness

23.		She appears in the movie-in-a-movie called Space Patrol that the patrons are watching in the film Midnight Movie Massacre when the theater is attacked by Martians.* That character in Space Patrol, her character in The Naked Monster, her leading lady role in the 1953 War of the Worlds and her character in the 1980s War of the Worlds television series were all named Sylvia Van Buren. For 10 points, name this actress who played Tom Cruise’s mother in the Steven Spielberg 2005 War of the Worlds, whose name is spelled just one-letter differently from the British-born sadistic host of The Weakest Link.
Answer: Ann Robinson
	
24.		In this novel, the shogun has a dream that griffins are real, so he sends Yukiko Kitsune and her father on a quest to capture one, and they actually succeed.* Acquiring the griffin would earn the shogun the sobriquet named in the title of the book, but he’s a megalomaniac opposed by rebel forces. For 10 points, name this Compton Crook Award nominee set in a steampunk Japan based on Wikipedia research by Jay Kristioff.
Answer: Stormdancer

25.		He plays goalkeeper for the English writers football team when they play against other European writers teams.* A couple are briefly caught in an avalanche in the Pyrenees to find the world subtly changed when they emerge in his novel The Silent Land. For 10 points, name this author of Smoking Poppy, The Facts of Life and The Limits of Enchantment.
Answer: Graham Joyce
	
26.		He is married to Bridget Fonda and his nephew is married to Jenna Elfman.* He was the lead singer for the band Oingo Boingo and his best known musical scores have been for movies directed by Tim Burton. For 10 points, name this composer of the TV themes for the animated Beetlejuice series, Tales from the Crypt and The Simpsons.
Answer: Danny Elfman

27.		His novel Demian concerned a young man confused by the world of illusion and the real world.* His main character Harry Haller becomes obsessed with the book Treatise on the Steppenwolf in the novel Steppenwolf. For 10 points, name this German author of Siddhartha. 
Answer: Herman Hesse
	
28.		His company, Space Model Systems, is an authority on the color schemes of the Saturn V and other spacecraft for hobby models.* For his work on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, he won an Emmy as well as two Best Artist Hugos during the 1970s. For 10 points, name this author of the technical manuals for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Answer: Rick Sternbach
	
29.		In the novel Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny, it can be any vehicle that can navigate the special road in the story.* In Back to the Future III, it’s a locomotive while in all three Back to the Future movies it is also a DeLorean car. For 10 points, what is this special type of device that appears in the title of a 2010 film where it is a hot tub?
Answer: Time Machine
	
30.		Josh Costello has adapted it for the stage reducing the cast to three characters.* Marcus Yallow is a student at Cesar Chavez High School who fights the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of rights restrictions after terrorist attacks on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the BART system. For 10 points, name this YA novel by Cory Doctorow.
Answer: Little Brother

31.		In this story, a string of New Orleans Mardi Gras strangulations is traced back to a murderous costume jewelry necklace housing the spirit of a powerful witch.* The witch’s surviving lawyer husband pays for recovery of the necklace and, in exchange, gives enough money to homicide detective Alphonse Fournet so that the policeman can buy a Mardi Crewe Kingdom for one year for himself and his wife. For 10 points, name this World Fantasy Award-winning short story by Albert E. Cowdrey that bears the same name as a radio and television game show where housewives got a boatload of appliances for the best personal sob story.
Answer:”Queen for a Day”
	
32.		She appeared in a series of commercials for MCI, on a shoreline and in a desert, jumping rope and clicking her heels, touting the future of digital technology.* One of her characters could put another person in a coma, just by touching them as Rogue in the X-Men movies. For 10 points, name this actress who portrays Sookie Stackhouse on the television series True Blood.
Answer: Anna Paquin

33.		It is the Song of Death in Final Destination, also heard briefly in Final Destination 2, that is played shortly before someone dies, even sung in French by a street performer in Paris at one point.* Some radio stations stopped playing this tune, believing that it referred to drug use, but along with “Where the Columbines Grow”, it became the second state song of Colorado in 2007. For 10 points, name this song written by Mike Taylor and John Denver as Denver’s tribute to the natural beauty of Colorado.
Answer: “Rocky Mountain High”
	
34.		Modern statistical historians discover that the former German town of Oberhochwald, has never been repopulated, unlike other villages struck by plague.* Original 14th century documents reveal that an insectoid alien, known locally as Johannes Stern, crashed and lived there, branding the place as the Devil’s Home. This is the premise of what Michael Flynn novel, for 10 points, expanded from a novella of the same name?
Answer: Eifelheim
	
35.		She struggles with the oars of a rowboat while a sheep prattles on about crabs and feathers.* At another point, she swims through a pool of her own tears but offends a mouse by saying in French, ”Where is my kitten?” For 10 points, name this title character from two novels by Lewis Carroll.
Answer: Alice
	
36.		It’s the primary speculative element of the 1982 television series Voyagers! starring Meeno Peluce and Jon-Erik Hexum.* A writer experiences this at night when he goes out for a walk in the movie Midnight in Paris. For 10 points, what is this basic science fiction concept that is the premise for Doctor Who?
Answer: Time Travel

37.		He wrote about opposing forces called the Spiders and Snakes, engaged in a timewar using soldiers from all periods of history in his Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time.* Witch wives are behind the failure or success of their professor husbands in a small college town in his novel Conjure Wife. For 10 points, name this author who created common medieval-style fantasy tropes with his Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories.
Answer: Fritz Leiber
	
38.		After leaving the X-Men, one member of this group was the Chinese-American mallrat Jubilee who could produce sparkles out of her hands consisting of explosive plasma.* They were mentored at the Massachusetts Academy in the western part of the state under the tutelage of Emma Frost and Banshee. For 10 points, name this superhero spin-off of the X-Men that was meant to play off the cynicism of the real First Worlders born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
Answer: Generation X

39.		In Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick, a series of circumstances results in the deafening of animals, keeping them from migrating, resulting in this event.* In Day of the Hunters, the explanation is overkilling by the more intelligent of their class. For 10 points, what is this event that in a Jim Henson sitcom, resulted from various environmental disasters originating from the multi-national corporation Wesayso? 
Answer: Extinction of the dinosaurs
	
40.		He played Arthur Kipps, a solicitor tasked to sell a manor house that is haunted by the ghost of the title character who induces children to their death in the movie The Woman in Black* His most famous character asks Cho Chang to the Yule Ball, but she turns him down in favor of Cedric Diggory. For 10 points, name this actor best known as Harry Potter in all eight movies.
Answer: Daniel Radcliffe
	
41.		In The Inheritors the reader follows a band of them through the eyes of the character Lok.* Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer is set in an alternate universe where they are the only technological species on Earth. For 10 points, what is this hominid variety that also figures in The Earth’s Children series, including Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel.
Answer: Neanderthal
	
42.		She was nominated to be the first woman to receive the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but in a controversial decision, her then-husband Thomas Reggie requested her nomination be withdrawn due to her advancing Alzheimer’s.* She created the female sword and sorcery character Jirel of Joiry. For 10 points, name this author who frequently collaborated with her husband Henry Kuttner under the name Lewis Padgett and together wrote the classics “Vintage Season” and “Mimsy were the Borogroves”.
Answer: C.L. Moore

43.		He wrote the teleplay for the 21st century series V entitled “Unholy Alliance” and the Amazing Stories episode “Life on Death Row”.* He created the series Cult, SeaQuest 2032 and directed the movie Fear. For 10 points, name this creator, along with Brian Henson, of the television series Farscape.
Answer: Rockne S.O’Bannon
	
44.		Zinzi December is attempting to pay back her debt to her drug dealer by helping find lost objects with her animal familiar sloth.* Set in an alternate universe Johannesburg, criminals can be sentenced to “animalling”, magical attachment to an animal familiar with the death of the animal resulting in the person’s death. For 10 points, name this novel by South African writer Lauren Buekes.
Answer: Zoo City

45.		It was first published in the paper entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.” and is an extension of Galileo’s principle that there is no absolute and well-defined state of rest.* Among the consequences of this concept is the contraction of lengths and the dilation of time at close to light speed and that simultaneity is not absolute. For 10 points, name this physical theory of measurement in an inertial frame of reference, proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein.
Answer: Special theory of relativity
	
46.		He and his crew searched for a lost child on war-torn Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, in the novel Caliban's War.* He is an ice miner who discovers the spaceship Scopuli in Leviathan Wakes. Name this character created by James S.A. Correy, the pen name of  Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, from The Expanse book series whose third volume, Abaddon's Gate, was released in 2013.
Answer: Jim Holden. Accept either word.
	
47.		Three young men and a young woman escape Philadelphia in a helicopter and fortify themselves in a Pittsburgh shopping mall against the outside world.* Their little kingdom is breached by a gang of bikers who also let the reanimated dead inside. For 10 points, name this 1978 George Romero zombie movie that was remade in 2004, with the new setting in Milwaukee.
Answer: Dawn of the Dead
	
48.		This publisher originally existed for the sole purpose of reprinting a German-language anthology and their elephant logo came from a sentimental photo essay in the last weekly issue of Life magazine.* They are a general imprint but they have published genre books such as Any Day Now by Terry Bisson and re-issues of the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. For 10 points, what is this company that was named for the mountain near its original location, although some believe they devote themselves to books that have fallen from favor, that shares its name with the hotel in The Shining.
Answer: Overlook
	
49.		In the movie Me Myself I, she played a single career woman bemoaning her loneliness and lost love on her birthday when she is struck by a car driven by her married alter ego.* She survives and both women switch places, soon discovering and appreciating their previous life. For 10 points, name this Australian-born actress who played the sexually addicted Brenda Chenowith in Six Feet Under.
Answer: Rachel Griffiths

50.		In the Community, pain, war and destructive thoughts or emotions are replaced with a feed from the Link network.* Zoe develops telekinetic powers and gets into a sort of love triangle with Max who can disguise his appearance and Adrien who has visions of the future. For 10 points, name this Compton Crook Award nominee by Heather Anastasiu whose title refers to the malfunction when a person suddenly begins having their own thoughts, feelings, and identity.
Answer: Glitch

51.		Charlotte Lu is the main character’s best friend although they have a brief falling out when she takes a job at the instructional video company Collins and Collins.* In this webshow, sister Lydia frequently seeks approval with a high five from either her sister or the camera. For 10 points, name this modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice where the main character records a video blog.
Answer: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
		
52.		The song plays in a Volkswagen Beetle Convertible commercial where a tall man in a ski mask is mistaken for a robber in a convenience store.* The music video is sort of creepy because the singer lip-syncs a tune with no lyrics so his lips hardly move and his makeup makes him look like a ventriloquist dummy. Originally written as a cowboy song, stories were circulated that Soviet authorities of the 1970s suppressed the lyrics but the singer’s son claims the singer merely had an argument with the lyricist.  For 10 points, name this Internet meme where Russian singer Eduard Khil sings a song entitled “I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home”.
Answer: Trololo. Accept “I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home” before it is mentioned.
	
53.		In the webcomic Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, Baby-“this”-Wall-Ball, is a Calvinball-style invented game with random rules.* It’s the body part Nyx sells at the beginning of the novel God’s War by Kameron Hurley. For 10 points, what is this major female hormone-responsive reproductive sex organ removed in a hysterectomy?
Answer: Uterus
	
SCIENCE FICTION SIDE EVENT
 BONUSES

1.		For 10 points each, identify the artist of each work.
A.		Visual 1.A.
Answer: Michael Whelan
B.		Visual 1.B.
Answer: Earle Bergey
C.		Visual 1.C.
Answer: John Picacio

2.		For 10 points each, name these authors who last names’ all begin with the letter “W”.
A.		He made his debut in 1927 with “Back to the Beast” in Weird Tales and wrote fantasy and horror set in the rural and southern parts of the United States.
Answer: Manly Wade Wellman
B.		Her uncharacteristically comic 1988 novel Crazy Time involves a man dispersed by an experimental laser who haunts a psychologist.
Answer: Kate Wilhelm
C.		Her 2004 World Fantasy Award-winning novel Tooth and Claw could be described as a Victorian book with dragons as the main characters.
Answer: Jo Walton

3.		For 10 points each, identify these sub-genres within science fiction, fantasy or horror.
A.		Examples of this genre include Flying Fish by Randall Silvis. The name supposedly refers to stories that straddle both genre and mainstream literary fiction. It may also apply to mainstream literary fiction that doesn’t want the taint of a science fiction, fantasy or horror label. I honestly can’t tell you why magical realism can’t also apply to these stories. 
Answer: Slipstream
B.		In their anthology with this sub-genre as the title, Jeff and Ann VanderMeer described it as "a type of urban, secondary-world fiction that subverts the romanticized ideas about place found in traditional fantasy, largely by choosing realistic, complex real-world models as the jumping off point for creation of settings that may combine elements of both science fiction and fantasy." More succinctly, it is slipstream or magical realism where the fantastic elements tend to horror.
Answer: New Weird
C.		Perjorative and spoonerized term coined by Poul Anderson in 1978 for barbarian-style fantasy such as Conan or Gor.
Answer: Thud and Blunder

4.		Answer these questions about NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell for 10 points each.
A.		What is the home country of the protagonist Winston Smith, one of only three on Earth?
Answer: Oceania
B.		What are the three slogans of the Party?
Answer: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength
C.		What is the symbol of the Junior Anti-Sex League?
Answer: A red sash worn around the waist

5.		Some film directors have a trashy science fiction, fantasy or horror motion picture in their resume. For 10 points each, name the director from these lesser known movies.
A.		The Frighteners.
Answer: Peter Jackson
B.		Van Helsing.
Answer: Stephen Sommers. He also directed The Mummy and The Scorpion King.
C.		The 2010 The Wolfman.
Answer: Joe Johnston. Better known for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Captain America: The First Avenger

6.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about comics.
A.		What character debuted in More Fun Comics in 1945 when the 10-year-old Kal-El, under the name Clark Kent, rescues a man trapped beneath an automobile, and decides to become a costumed superhero child?
Answer: Superboy
B.		In a mix of Harry Potter and Christopher Robin, the twenty-something son of a disappeared author, who bears the same name as his father’s boy-wizard hero, finds his life changing when he is kidnapped by a man claiming to be the novel series’ primary villain. Name this Vertigo comic series by Mike Carey and Peter Gross.
Answer: The Unwritten
C.		The general title of Jack Kirby’s new distribution and marketing concept for DC where serialized stories would be finite and later collected in an omnibus volume. The original titles were The Forever People, Mister Miracle, The New Gods and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.
Answer: Fourth World

7.		For 10 points each identify these fictional characters.
A.		Harry Potter’s godfather who can transform into a black dog animagus, who is the Prisoner of Azkaban from the title of the third novel.
Answer: Sirius Black
B.		The illegitimate son of Ned Stark, he is the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch and he may be dead or dying at the end of A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin.
Answer: Jon Snow. Accept either name.
C.		Originally from Maryland with the full name Emily Elizabeth Brown, she and her husband run a farm in Kansas and she’s raised chickens for nearly forty years. By what name is she better known?
Answer: Auntie Em

8.		Name these Nebula Award-winning novels for 10 points each.
A.		Also the winner of the Hugo Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Seiun Award and Compton Crook Award, this novel by Paolo Bacigalupi is set in a future Bangkok where the end of fossil fuel leads to dependence on genetically engineered draft animals and mechanical energy stored in springs.
Answer: The Windup Girl
B.		This work by Connie Willis is the only multi-volume combined entry to win a Nebula. 
Answer: Blackout/All Clear
C.		Set in the late 17th century French court, a naturalist and his proto-feminist younger sister study real-life mermaids in this Vonda K. McIntyre novel.
Answer: The Moon and the Sun

9.		For 10 points each, identify these publishers.
A.		This publisher has had nine Hugo Best Novel nominations, but Startide Rising by David Brin is its only winner. I’m not counting any nominations for its Spectra imprint.
Answer: Bantam Books
B.		You can pencil in this British house that originally published the works of several Nobel Prize-winning novelists including Pincher Martin by William Golding in 1956.
Answer: Faber and Faber
C.		Founded in 1986 and named for a fashionable area of central London, they published Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke and the Harry Potter series in Britain.
Answer: Bloomsbury

10.		Name these actors or actresses for 10 points each.
A.		He played psychiatrist Vitus Werdegast in The Black Cat, the first film where he co-starred with Boris Karloff.
Answer: Bela Lugosi
B.		Among her genre roles have been a terrorist and 21st century lover of Connor MacLeod in Highlander II: The Quickening, Princess Irulan in the 1984 Dune and Suzette in Red Riding Hood.
Answer: Virginia Madsen
C.		He was Grandfather Mr. Wing in the Gremlins series, Kato in the 1939-1941 Green Hornet film serial, Number One Son in the Charlie Chan movie series and the blind Master Po in the original Kung Fu television series.
Answer: Keye Luke

11.		For 10 points each, identify these terms you might hear at an anime convention or anime forums.
A.		What is dinner with waifu?
Answer: Picture of food with anime or manga character. Christmas Eve in Japan is analogous to Valentine’s Day as a romantic event. Dinner with waifu gives the appearance of the fan having a romantic dinner with a character. 
B.		Although older fans may call it the masquerade or just plain dressing up in character, this 7-letter portmanteau word coined by Japanese anime producer Nobuyuki Takahashi at the 1984 Worldcon in Los Angeles has recently meant all forms of costuming activities, regardless of the venue.
Answer: Cosplay
C.		Among the most famous depictions is “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” by illustrator Katsushika Hokusai and some suggested they represent surrogate male genitalia, not subject to censorship. What is this form of erotica that involves squids or octupi? 
Answer: Tentacle porn or tentacle rape or tentacle erotica or shokushu goukan

12.		Tell me the authors of these novels with exorcism in it for 10 points each.
A.		Perfect Circle, where the central character, DK “Dead” Kennedy is hired to exorcise the ghost of girl his cousin murdered. 
Answer: Sean Stewart
B.		The Exorcist, the original novel that the 1973 movie was based on.
Answer: William Peter Blatty
C.		Kill the Dead about Parl Dro, the handsome Ghost Slayer, who has to deal with two sisters in a small town, one girl alive, one girl dead.
Answer: Tanith Lee

13.		Identify these TV shows from their theme songs for 10 points each.	
A.		Audio 13A.
Answer: Lilo and Stitch
B.		Audio 13B.
Answer: Community
C.		Audio 13C.		
Answer: Twin Peaks

14.		For 10 points each, name these editors.
A.		Who is the current editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction?
Answer: Sheila Williams
B.		Who is the current editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, replacing Stanley Schmidt in 2012?
Answer: Trevor Quachri
C.		The only editor of all the Full Spectrum volumes, he founded the publishing company Story Plant with Peter Miller in 2008.
Answer: Lou Aronica

15.		All of the answers are works which follow the pattern a blank for blank like A Bell for Adano. Each correct answer is worth 10 points.
A.		Hugo Award-winning fix-up of three previously published short stories by Walter Miller about a post-apocalyptic monastery in the former desert southwest of the United States. 
Answer: A Canticle for Leibowitz
B.		William Faulkner short story where an unpleasant smell from the home of a Southern spinster is revealed to be the obvious when her neighbors enter her attic after her funeral.
Answer: “A Rose for Emily”
C.		Set in a fantasized version of 12th century Provence, this Guy Gavriel Kay novel is partially seen through the eyes of a mercenary from the rival land of Gorhaut. 
Answer: A Song for Arbonne

16.		Name the movie from the photos for 10 points each.
A.		Visual 16A.
Answer: Monsters
B.		Visual 16B.
Answer: Up
C.		Visual 16C.
Answer: Minority Report

17.		For 10 points each, identify these video games.
A.		Although the 5th major installment in the series, it bears the Roman numeral III and follows Ratonhnhaké:ton (Ra-doon-ha-gay-doon), also known as Connor in London, Boston, New York, the Atlantic Ocean and other locations from just before to just after the American Revolution.
Answer: Assassin’s Creed III
B.		Published in 2007 and set in 2011, you are a member of an American or British special forces unit in the wake of a civil war in Russia and a coup in a fictional oil-rich Middle Eastern country. What is the subtitle of Call of Duty 4?
Answer: Modern Warfare
C.		In this 2013 release, one or more players can be one of seven characters from time and space to the title location to learn something of themselves in this adventure by Ron Gilbert, the same person who created Maniac Mansion.
Answer: The Cave

18.		Identify these various fairy tale characters from various reboots for 10 points each.
A.		In the novel by Catherynne M. Valente she is the daughter of the Native American woman Gun Who Sings. That mother of hers died in childbirth. She is given her name by her stepmother to mock the girl’s biracial nature.
Answer: Snow White
B.		In the novel by Gale Carson Levine, she has known the prince for several years, but she is cursed with complete obedience. What fairy tale character was re-booted here?
Answer: Cinderella
C.		In Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett, this creature is an animal enchanted into madness by a partially human consciousness. He voluntarily allows himself to be decapitated by the woodcutter.
Answer: Big Bad Wolf

19.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about short fiction.
A.		The Hugo Award-winning short story “Paper Menagerie”by Ken Liu is about origami animals made by the narrator’s mother that come to life. His father got her as a mail-order bride from what country?
Answer: Hong Kong or China
B.		Yet another Hugo Award-winning short story dealing with non-conventional forms of finding a wife, ”Bridesicle” by Wil McIntosh, is set in a future where men pay to have potential wives unfrozen and cured out of suspended animation. What life-threatening situation put the main character Mira into cryogenic suspension?
Answer: Car accident
C.		What familiar supernatural creature features in the original 1940 novelette, later expanded to novel length, both versions under the title “Darker Than You Think” by Jack Williamson?
Answer: Werewolf

20.		For 10 points, identify these writers from their pictures.
A.		Visual 20A.
Answer: Karen Lord
B.		Visual 20B.
Answer: Lois McMaster Bujold
C.		Visual 20C.
Answer: Ian McDonald

21.		Name these movie producers for 10 points each.
A.		He was the producer of the 1952 Jack and the Beanstalk that starred himself and his comedy partner Bud Abbott.
Answer: Lou Costello
B.		Best known as a director and animator, he has producer credit on The PianoTuner of Earthquakes, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Time Bandits.
Answer: Terry Gilliam
C.		A producer for both Death Race 2000 in 1975 and Death Race in 2008, he played a congressman in Apollo 13 and is famous for the low budget movies he made from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Answer: Roger Corman

22.		None of the following websites have been the primary inspiration for an award-winning movie or limit you to 140 characters. Identify them for 10 points each.
A.		Founded by David Karp in 2007, this microblogging site which permits anonymity primarily favors images over text. It is popular among younger users who post pictures of their favorite media celebrities and characters. 
Answer: Tumblr
B.		You can organize your friends into circles or create group video chats in a hangout for this Google social networking site that’s pretty much an afterthought.
Answer: Google+
C.		Although primarily a presentation hosting service that can accommodate PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenOffice files, you can add a live audio or video to what they call Zipcasts.
Answer: Slideshare

23.		Identify the race, nation, species or other organized entity at war in the following novels. Correct answers are worth 10 points each.
A.		In the novel The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett, the primary war in the series is against the corelings who are what?
Answer: Demons
B.		Prince Caspian, from the novel of the same name by C.S. Lewis, is actually from this race of men, but he enlists the help of the Pevensies and the creatures of Narnia to get the throne back from his usurper uncle Miraz
Answer: Telmarines
C.		Among the many races John Carter finds himself at war with in The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs are what White Martians who rule the Valley Dor?
Answer: Holy Therns

24.		For 10 points each, identify the following authors whose last names begin with “Mc” or “Mac” from a list of their novels.
A.		Seeker, Echo and Firebird.
Answer: Jack McDevitt
B.		Pasquale’s Angel, Fairyland and The Quiet War.
Answer: Paul J. McAuley
C.		Chalice, Sunshine and Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast.
Answer: Robin McKinley

25.		Answer these questions about the Adventure Time television series for 10 points each.
A.		The ruler of the Candy Kingdom, she conducts scientific experiments such as creating the Earl of Lemongrab.
Answer: Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum
B.		This conflict is the cause of the post-apocalyptic conditions in the Land of Ooo.
Answer: Mushroom War
C.		Finn and Jake agree to free the village of River Scamps from the Mega Frog with a payment of a bag of what candies?
Answer: Lollipops

26.		For 10 points each, names these science fiction, fantasy or horror magazines.
A.		The longest-running British science fiction magazine, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America no-longer considers it a professional market due to its low circulation and payment rate, but is de facto professional by virtue of the quality of its material. 
Answer: Interzone
B.		As edited by Michael Moorcock during the 1960s, this magazine was the center of the British “New Wave”.
Answer: New Worlds
C.		This online magazine headed by Neil Clarke has won two Hugos for Best Semi-Prozine and debuted dead tree copies at the 2012 World Fantasy Con.
Answer: Clarkesworld

27.		Identify these novels with numbers in the title for 10 points each.
A.		Stephen King’s novel about a man trying to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Answer: 11/22/63
B.		Subtitled A Sundial in a Grave, this Mary Gentle alternate history novel has Queen Marie de Medici blackmailing Valentin Raoul Rochefort into arranging the assassination of her husband, King Henry IV of France.
Answer: 1610
C.		The first volume of The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, a female barbarian chieftain suddenly finds herself the heir to the Arameri Empire.
Answer: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
	
28.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about movie producers and studios.
A.		What production company owned by Nicolas Cage produced National Treasure and shares its name with the planet in our solar system with the most prominent rings?
Answer: Saturn Films
B.		He directed all four Scream movies but received producer credit only on Scream 4.
Answer: Wes Craven
C.		Along with William Dozier Production and Greenlawn Productions, this was one of the companies that produced the Batman movie released between the first and second seasons of the 1960s television show. What is this movie studio founded in 1935 from the merger of two companies?
Answer: 20th Century Fox
	
29.		Identify these authors for 10 points each.
A.		Name the writer famed for his dense prose and use of archaic words in such works as Claw of the Conciliator from the series The Book of the New Sun.
Answer: Gene Wolfe
B.		Who wrote the novel Intruder, where Bren is negotiating a trade agreement while the Assassin’s Guild is split into factions?
Answer: C.J. Cherryh
C.		His novel The Sleeper Awakens was published in 1910.
Answer: H.G. Wells

30.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about comics as they relate to movies or television.
A.		In this comic series, the main character’s sister becomes a giant after sleeping with a thricewise demon. What is this comic that continued the storyline of a popular horror television series into a Season 8 and Season 9?
Answer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
B.		What character debuted in 1931 as the man behind organized crime in Dick Tracy’s city, but gradually faded in popularity until his portrayal by Al Pacino in the 1990 movie?
Answer: Alphonse “Big Boy” Caprice
C.		In the first issue of the 2011 DC comic based on this television series, Sam Winchester goes on academic break in the U.K. and meets Emma of the Isles. Name this CW show starring Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki.
Answer: Supernatural

31.		For 10 points each, identify these science fiction, fantasy or horror novels.
A.		What was the Hugo Award-winning David Brin novel where our planet is threatened by a black hole or cosmic string going through it? 
Answer: Earth
B.		What was Joe Haldeman’s novel about two alien beings that hide among humans, each with the ability to change form?
Answer: Camouflage
C.		The fourth novel in The Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, among other things happening, the eight-year-old Tommen now rules King’s Landing.
Answer: A Feast for Crows

32.		Name these characters for 10 points each.
A.		 In Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, who guides Alan Carpentier through hell?
Answer: Benito Mussolini
B.		Who is the leader of Oceania in 1984 by George Orwell?
Answer: Big Brother
C.		The daughter of Charles Boutin, her father uplifted the Obin, aliens who look like a cross between a spider and giraffe. So the Obin worship this character from John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War universe as a demigod.
Answer: Zoe Boutin Perry

33.		Identify these plot elements for 10 points each.
A.		What happens to most planets in Dark Star, the Earth in most versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Alderaan in Star Wars: A New Hope.
Answer: They get destroyed
B.		In the novel Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson, who are the United States fighting?
Answer: Mitteleuropeans or Dutch
C.		In the novel A Goddess from the Sea by T. H. Willoughby Beddoes, an English girl kidnapped by pirates is rescued from a temple in what country?
Answer: China

34.		For 10 points each, name these editors or publishers.
A.		He brought Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and A.E. Van Vogt into his stable and discovered Lester del Rey and Isaac Asimov. Name this editor considered the most influential until the 1960s for helming Unknown and Astounding Science Fiction. 
Answer: John W. Campbell Jr.
B.		This U.S. publisher with the initial HBJ issued the Arthur C. Clarke novels The Fountains of Paradise and Rendezvous with Rama and existed under this name from 1970-1993.
Answer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Be lenient with the pronunciation of Jovanovich.)
C.		Twice the winner of the Best Editor, Short Form Hugo, he has edited The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction since 1997.
Answer: Gordon Van Gelder

35.		You’ll earn 10 points for each correct answer on these visuals.
A.		Who executed this artwork? Visual 35A.
Answer: Bob Eggleton
B.		This is a still from what movie? Visual 35B.
Answer: The Hunger Games
C.		Who is this author? Visual 35C. 
Answer: Robert J. Sawyer

36.		For 10 points each, identify these science fiction, fantasy or horror novels.
A.		In what Greg Bear novel do, geological anomalies suddenly appear as does an alien who tells humans another group will destroy Earth from the inside-out and there’s nothing that can be done about it?
Answer: The Forge of God
B.		What Charles Stross‘s near-future thriller has a title that is based on the idea that if it exists, there is porn of it? 
Answer: Rule 34
C.		Colonel Ivan Prokov, who successfully bridges the gap between socialism and free market capitalism, becomes the Great Judge and world dictator in what 1957 novel by A.E. van Vogt.
Answer: The Mind Cage

37.		Name these actors or actresses for 10 points each.
A.		In the television series 666 Park Avenue, who played Olivia Doran, the wife of the building’s owner?
Answer: Vanessa L. Williams
B.		She played Elise Sellas in The Adjustment Bureau, Sara in Looper and Princess Mary in Gulliver’s Travels.
Answer: Emily Blunt
C.		What voice actor voices Bender from Futurama?
Answer: John DiMaggio

38.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about ancillary subjects related to fandom and geekery.
A.		In March 2013, the world’s largest radio telescope became fully operational in this desert in northern Chile, known as the driest place in the world.
Answer: Atacama Desert
B.		Related to biopunk, this punk sub-genre where machines smaller than 10-9 meters affect art and bodies. An example is Tech Heaven by Linda Nagata.
Answer: Nanopunk
C.		Launching in 2010, this image-intensive site simulates a bulletin board or cork board where people posts their interests, hobbies or things they are considering to purchase. More than half the users are women.
Answer: Pinterest

39.		Identify these authors for 10 points each.
A.		Claire is a birthmother who stalks her child Gabe in her novel Son. Name this author of the Newberry Award-winning novels Number the Stars and The Giver.
Answer: Lois Lowry
B.		His novel Om, the Secret of Abhor Valley, takes place in Tibet. Name this English author of adventures with mystical Indian overtones such as the Jimgrim series.
Answer: Talbot Mundy
C.		She wrote The Bards of Bone Plain, Ombria in Shadow and The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.
Answer: Patricia A. McKillip
	
40.		For 10 points, name these people who have been involved in some part of movie making.
A.		He was commissioned to finish the screenplay of Leigh Brackett for The Empire Strikes Back. And also wrote the screenplays for Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Answer: Lawrence Kasdan
B.		Who directed the 1976 version of Carrie?
Answer: Brian De Palma.
C.		What actor portrayed Neville Flynn, Mace Windu and Nick Fury?
Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

41.		For 10 points each, answer these question about written genre fiction.
A.		Name the company that published The Sky Road by Ken MacLeod that shares its name with the path an object traces in space around a much larger body.
Answer: Orbit
B.		The Hugo Award-winning novelette “The Erdman Nexus” by Nancy Kress was first published in what magazine, all of whose editors have won Hugos for editing, except for one-year interim editor Kathleen Moloney?
Answer: Asimov’s Science Fiction
C.		What 3-digit number completes the title of the Michael Reaves short story about the EMT who finds himself in the hospital hit by a drunk driver: “Code ___”?
Answer: 666

42.		Answer these questions about movies or television shows for 10 points each.
A.		In one episode of this show, the ghost of a jockey who died after falling and being trampled by the other horses, returns to apparently take revenge on the other riders, but it turns out he’s had his legs replaced by his favorite horse’s legs. Name this TV show starring Lee Pace as Ned, a pie-maker with a limited ability to bring living things back to life.
Answer: Pushing Daisies
B.		This film released in 1936 has three major portions set in 1940, 1970 and 2036. Name this movie based on an H.G. Wells novel that had the additional words “The Shape of”.
Answer: Things to Come
C.		In the Silly Symphony cartoon short “Hell’s Bells”, it’s the music that plays as Satan watches some of his minions dance before him. Name this piece by Charles Gounod that was the theme for the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Answer: “Funeral March of a Marionette”

43.		For 10 points each, identify these characters from written fiction that might be directed at younger readers.
A.		She placed a false memory charm on her parents, making them think they are Wendell and Monica Wilkins, whose lifetime ambition is to move to Australia. Name this principal female character from the Harry Potter series who marries Ron Weasley.
Answer: Hermione Granger
B.		Because she took part in the silent dark morris dance, the Wintersmith believed she was the human personification of the Winter Queen. Name this young witch character created by Terry Pratchett that first appeared in The Wee Free Men.
Answer: Tiffany Aching
C.		In Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll, actor/screenwriter Walker Easterling finds himself to be the magically created son of this character. That character is sterile, but keeps creating sons that he eventually kills when they fall in love because they mock his sterility. Walker learns the character’s name from a model city his sculptress girlfriend Maris York is building.
Answer: Rumpelstiltskin

44.		Each of the following questions are about media that are not movies or television. Correct answers are worth 10 points.
A.		Name the Atari video game introduced in 1979 where your arrow-shaped spaceship shoots alien UFOs and rocks representing the minor bodies of the solar system, found most abundantly between Mars and Jupiter.
Answer: Asteroids
B.		What is the two-syllable gerund which refers to the fandom based on the romantic pairing of two specific characters, who may not even be from the same universe, and has nothing to do with Fed Ex, UPS or the Postal Service?
Answer: Shipping. The most extreme example may have been the people who shipped the Mars rovers.
C.		You play a criminal in Liberty City, Vice City or San Andreas who gets points for stealing cars, selling cars and killing people in this 1997 first installment of what franchise created by DMA Design, now Rockstar North?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto

45.		For 10 points each, answer these questions about written genre fiction.
A.		In the city of Ambergris, the title character is a traditional hard-boiled detective caught between the fungal grey caps and the human underground rebelling against them. What is this Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated  novel by Jeff VanderMeer? 
Answer: Finch
B.		Her vampire thief, Raylene Pendle AKA Cheshire Red, from the novels Bloodshot and Hellbent has obsessive compulsive disorder. Name this author of the Hugo-nominated Boneshaker from the Clockwork Century Universe.
Answer: Cherie Priest
C.		She is the author of the Morgan Kingsley series including The Devil Inside and The Devil You Know.
Answer: Jenna Black or Jennifer Barlow

46.		These questions have no particular relation to each other, but they’re still worth 10 point each.
A.		Ephraim Scott is a 16-year-old who comes home from school to find his mother dead from a suicidal overdose of pills and uses the magical quarter to wish her back to life. Name this novel by E.C. Myers.
Answer: Fair Coin
B.		Name the author of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms series whose first novel, and his first novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award.
Answer: Saladin Ahmed
C.		This is the theme music to what television show? Audio 46C.		
Answer: Dollhouse