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Here's another new game. Someone chooses a specialist subject, people ask them (fair) questions about it. Whoever asks the wuestion that the specialist can't answer gets to choose their own subject and carry on the game.
Okay? Get it?
Okay, so, I'll go first.
My chosen specialist subject is:
The Alien Films, story, universe in general.
Go!

Ok, easy one, name of the dropship pilot in aliens?

Ferro, which means 'To carry' in Latin.

yup, you are a mastermind

1 point to me!
(You can ask more that one question at once to save time.)
Oh, and you are on your honour when answering the questions not to look it up on the web!

ha! like anyone's going to obey that rule...

How many legs do the nasty face things have?

"Nasty face things"? Do you mean the real life face hugger (6), Ripley's extra-special kind (8), or my ex-girlfriend? (2- while in human form anyway). We can't have inspecific questions on Mastermind! (And everyone's just waiting in the shadows with the "African or European" joke) ;)

What's Newts' real name? (no, not the actors name :P)

Triturus vulgaris

Is the latin name for the smooth newt.

Woo! I wanna play! My chosen subject is DJ Tiësto. Fire away guys and girls!

Gary hasn't read the rules.
Newt's real name was Rebecca Jordan (played by Carrie Henn). Facehuggers have 8 legs.

Ah... silly me...

* thinks of a really hard question *

Go on then - I bet I'll be able to answer it =]

Ahem - tomorrow, when I get back to work anyway =]
I expect a whole posting WORLD for me to read through...

what colour undies (knickers if you want!) was sigorny wearing getting out of cryo-freeze-thingy-me-bob?

How do you spell sigourney?

How many films has James Cameron Made?

Who designed the alien for the films?

How many films have Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn (not sure of spelling) made together?

Name them.

Name 15 of the Marines in the film.

That should keep you going.

Plindoe: Blue / Grey
Chris2:
1) Sigourney (You were right)
2) Lots (This has little to do with my original chosen subject)
3) HR Geiger
4) Once again, this is way off topic, but 1.
5) Aliens
6) And it's tricky to name 15, as there are only 11. Anyway, in order of rank:
Gorman
Apone
Hicks
Dietrich
Ferro
Spunkmeir
Weirzbaski
Frost
Hudson
Vasquez
Drake

2: Call yourself a mastermind
4: Two, they also starred in the legendary "Tombstone"
6: Are you sure about 11, what about all those nameless extras that die strange and painfull deaths?

And you forgot Bishop!

I claim victory.

So you are saying I lose because I left Bishop off the marine list?

Is that it?
It was only a little thing.

but you made the rules mate, its only fair!

Ah, not really, you see:
Bishop wasn't a marine =]

Must make the questions clear - maybe you could have asked : Who was on the dropship on the way down?
Then you'd have got Bishop, Ripely and Burke too =]

Explain your way out of the Tombstone question then mr smarty pants

It has nothing to do with the specialist subject, The Alien Films, story, universe in general So nah-nah.
It's a bit like being an expert in Shakespears plays, and getting asked 'What did the actor who played Hamlet in 1990 do in 1999?'.

In case you didn't know, Shakespear was a famous play-writing dude.

Oh yes.

I thought the famous play-writing dude was called Shakespeare.

In 1990, Mel Gibson (Famous actor dude) played Hamlet in the film of the same name.

In 1999, Mel Gibson starred in the films "Forever Hollywood" and "Payback"

It seems to me that this quiz involves you answering simple questions, dodging difficult ones and claiming yourself winner by default.

I CLAIM VICTORY!

P.S. Please feel free to back me up people!

(Spotted the Shakespeare typo - hence the next post).

Avoiding the difficult ones? What has the film Tombstone got to do with the Aliens Universe?
But anyway.
K - go for it - what's your subject?

(Because I'm going to spank you on it...)

>=]

My chosen subject is Joseph Heller's Catch-22
Ask away bitch boy!

1) What year was Heller born?
2) Where was he born?
3) According to Dunbar, how far was Clevinger from death every time he went on a mission?
4) What disease did Heller suffer from which later became the subject of his book "No Laughing Matter"?

1: 1923
2: Brooklyn NY
3: Inches away from death!
4: Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Bring em on Tree rat boy!

What has the play We Bombed in New Haven got in common with Catch 22?

More details required, We bombed in haven is a similar theme to catch 22.

My theme is Joseph Heller's catch 22, not works by Joseph Heller.

P.S. whats your handle in C-Strike?

Hint: If your going to look the answers up on the web, don't link straight back to this site as the statistic tracking logs the last site you were looking at...

Ah, so you are admitting that going off topic is unfair? And so asking about what else the actors in one of the nine alien-related films did is just a little unreasonable also?

And, um, the answer to the last question was "It was by the same guy.".

P.S. [COF-HS]Grim...

Bah, rumbled as a mastermind cheat, i concede the chair to anyone who wants it.

The reason i didnt get the right link with the play as it was so obvious that heller wrote them both i thought you were asking for something else.

Hehe - Busted.
Well, in the absense of anyone else I'll jump in the 'hot seat' - at least until someone else wants a go.
So. The Aliens Universe, please - use all the web sites and resources you like, I still reckon I can get the answers =]
Hard ones!

what colour are the aliens? And where did they go on holiday last year?

Drone and warrior aliens are black, although slight colour tints can be gained depending on the host.
Aliens like to holiday everywhere, traveling either as 'captured' eggs on starships or in the chest cavity of some unknowing victim.

Oddly enough, I've been asked the holiday question before.

But you cant answer it!!!

I can:
Nowhere - they don't exist yet...

I think they do - just you haven't found them ;)

Eek - I hope I don't find them! I don't want to be a mummy =]
Anyway, I won't find them. The first human contact with an alien was Russ Jordan, closely followed by his wife Anne.

whats the serial number on the fifth round of ammo Frost fires from his Smart Gun?

Ooh - double trick question.
Ammo doesn't have serial numbers, and Frost doesn't fire a smart gun.
Drake and Vasquez are the smart gun operatives =]

ohhh, you are good, mastermind in da house.

Ok, whats the graffiti say on vasquez's smart gun?

Adios

What is gaffiti?

All ammunition has serial numbers, your dodging the question again. one more and im reporting you to Cal!

Chris 2 what bullshit you speak! Having worked for five years at Britians finest clay pigeon shooting range I can tell you with the authority of a CPSA qualified referee that ammo in no way has a serial number. What, do they punch it into the case of the caseless ammo, or perhaps get a compass and scratch it into the lead?
Mong =]

I'm bored. My specialist subject is either Monty Python or Apple Computer. Amy questions?

Bah! people keep pushing in!

Okay - What - exactly - did the knights that say 'Ni' change their names to?

The Knights who say eee ecky ecky ptang?

Having spent 10 years in the army i obviously know fuck all about ammo either, why dont you look round the rim of the cartridge next time, oh look a batch number.

The Knights who until recently said Ni?

yay, fight fight fight!!, I think ammo usually has a serial no. though checking what the number is would be pretty hard on a fictitious fire fight

pls excuse the typos, a bit tyred

Nah, lets not fight, lets paper scissors stone, ill go first squrrell.

Paper

scissors! hooray I win

Damn, best out of three?

Sorry, I was watching Arsenal win (yay!)

Knights who say Icky Icky Icky Fertang Noo Wom Shoom Pow

followed by

(ni) Shhhhhhhhh!

King Arthur then refers to them as "Oh Knights who until recently said 'Ni'" as Chris rightly points out.

um... don't mind me... i'll ask a question when i catch up on this conversation.
=]

Ammo has a batch number - not a serial number.
However, caseless ammo does not - the number is either on the box or the magazine - and as the mags are all re-usable it would probably be on the box.
Anyway, Frost didn't fire any.
Body count in alien?
Well, the crew consisted of Ash, Dallas, Kane, Parker, Brett, Lambert and Ripely (and Jones the cat). Kane died first when the alien 'birthed'. Ash got flame-throwed to death, Dallas, Parker, Brett and Lambert died when Ripely blew the ship.
But, remember, Ash was a robot, so...

Yeah, hoping you wouldn't remember the fact that it was caseless ammo.

Name all the prisoners in alien 3!

Dillon
Golic
Morse
Rains
Murphy
Boggs
Jude
David
Troy
Gregor
Arthur
Williams

Er, ok no way of checking. ill take your word

Name all the aliens in alien 3

Hmm, there were five of them.
Bob, the Face Hugger who wanted some hot facial action with Newt.
Kenny, the Face Hugger who imprefnated Ripley.
Keith, the Face Hugger who impregnated Spike the Dog.
Bertha, the Warrior alien who wen round killing everyone.
Susie, the Queen Alien who got killed at the end.

I thought it was:

Pinky
Perky
Donner
Blitzen
and Ted

Damn, there was a lot of spelling mistakes in that last post of mine!

i agree with chris, squirrell! you're a liar!

No way, dude!

name all cast/crew members of the aliens series?

you have 2 minutes to do this or you forfeit the chair!

Hahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahaha

Whats your subject Pip?

No way! I was at lunch, and anyway, that doesn't fit in with the subject. So nar nar.

This is gay, im not playing anymore.

Hehe - says the cheat =]
/me is waiting for plindoe's topic...

my topic is useless general knowledge, shouldnt take long for me to get ousted!

line em up!

What are you doing tomorrow?

maybe playing golf, ive asked healy boy, no reply yet, fancy it shooter?

mr healy is working, so he is out, what about you then?

you will play good, keep saying it to yourself!

how many dimples are there on a standard golf ball?

How many Woods does Tiger Woods Own?
And how much wood would a woodchuck chuck is a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How do you spell 'Mississippi'?

=]

What about disestablishmentarianism?

retisma: lots

MA: A few
and,
a reasonable amount

coz im shit at english i would say they are both right!

next please!

Serious question:
According to the bible, who was born first, Kane or Able?

Where they not twins?

Whos Able?

If a woodchuck could chuck wood why would a woodchuck chuck wood?

What does obsquatulate mean?

Well, that ruined the trick question - nice one Chris 2...

What does the following say when translated from l33t to English:
|[3@|)\ |V|3 |[0|)\ | @|V| 7|{3 63|\|3|)\@|_ |

To make like a tree and leaf?
Amscray?
Do a runner?

think its spelled wiv an A though

What about abscissa, what is it / does it mean?

What the fuck are you people talking about?

confused - I just had a pint so nothing makes sense

Banana Hammock!

Cheesegrater Express!

Springtime for Hitler!

Chris Mark II.- God isnt it just the best comedy series to come out of America in the last five years?!

The mentor and the janitor ROCK :)

Indeed it is quality entertainment.

i see you are up shooter!

when are we going to the pub?

NOW!

Come to think of it, lets wait till it opens.

Aliens;

1. Only way to be sure?
2. Secreted from what?
3. Chronological order of Deaths.

Catch-22;

When is right?
Why is Hitler?
Who was that mealy-mouthed old man I used to call Father?
Who is Spain?

Yeah, yeah, I know the time is past. Blame those kids who kicked me off the War thread.

Um, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the aliens questions, so I'm going to treat them as short essay titles =]

1. Only way to be sure: This was said first by Ripley and then Hicks, both of whom were talking about taking off from LV-426 and then nukeing the planet while they were in orbit. Burke was not happy about this, but, hey, what the hell can he do?
2. Secreted from what: The secretion that the aliens use to hold human bodies to walls and to keep the temperature up is created by worker aliens. Workers (or drones) featured heavily in Aliens, whilst warrior aliens were the scary beings in Alien, Alien3 and A.Res. The easiest way to tell the difference is their heads - warriors are smooth and the workers have divots.
3. Chronological order of deaths (in the film Aliens). Okay dokey, here we gokey. These are the only deaths mentioned or shown in the film...
Russ Jorden - died giving 'birth'.
Anne Jorden - killed by baby alien worker.
Tim Jorden - killed by baby alien worker.
John J Maritime - killed when surgeons removed the baby alien surgically.
Unknown female - died during alien 'birth' on sub-level three.
Frost - killed when the ammo bag exploded.
Wierzbaski - killed when the ammo bag exploded.
Drake - Covered in alien acid.
Spunkmeir - Killed in when Drop-ship 1, The Anteater, crashed.
Ferro - Killed in drop-ship crash.
Gorman - killed by hand grenade.
Vasquez - killed by hand grenade.
Burke - given a hand grenade by Ripley to kill himself.
Apone, Dietrich, Hudson were killed when the reactor 3 exploded.

Top question! Gave me something to do for five minutes at work =]
Cheers =]

Hmmm... pretty good... Although I thought Burke got killed when he left everyone behind, and Hudson was killed by the alien who comes up through the floor. Didn't Spunkmeyer get killed by an Alien on the DropShip?

I don't actually know for sure. I guess you can then have Hicks and Newt for the lame beginning of Alien 3...

I'm trying to think of some absurdly technical question about Bishop and Hudson and the knife-hand-trick...

I think the dropship was called 'BugStomper' no?

In the book, script and in a deleted scene from the film Ripley finds Burke on her way to rescue Newt, all stuck to the wall and stuff. She hands him a grenade and hurries on.
The aliens didn't kill any of the marines - not deliberatly. Apone, Hudson and Deitrich were taken away from embryo implantation.
As for Spunkmeir, the alien wouldn't have killed him (see above), and as the dropship was in the air and the ramp was closed it wouldn't have been able to get off the ship with him before it crashed either.
Dropship 2 was called Bugstomper, the one that came down to get them at the end.

Catch-22;

When is right?
Why is Hitler?
Who was that mealy-mouthed old man I used to call Father?
Who is Spain?

Yeah, yeah, I know the time is past. Blame those kids who kicked me off the War thread.

How was the trump at Munich?
Ho-ho beriberi?
Balls?
Where are the Snowdens of Yesteryear?
Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?

If we were still playing, my subject would be Neighbours, 1999-2002.

So how did Milo manage to buy eggs for 7 cents in Sicily and sell them for 5 cents?