Tuesday 2 April 2024

The Conpulsion 2024 Quiz answers

And here... we... go.


Roleplaying Games
1. Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures In The Multiverse revives which AD&D setting? (Planescape)
2. Which World Of Darkness game came out between the Fifth Editions of Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse? (Hunter: The Reckoning)
3. Which is not a Call Of Cthulhu solo adventure? Alone Against The Clock, Alone Against The Flames, Alone Against The Static? (Alone Against The Clock)
4. Solo Ops is the One-2-One book for which Gumshoe game? (Night’s Black Agents)
5. Hot War is the sequel to which alternate-history RPG? (Cold City)
6. The Big Five manufacturers including General Massive Systems and HORUS build the mechs in which game? (Lancer)
7. Cubicle 7’s new game Imperium Maledictum is based on which wargame setting? (Warhammer 40,000)
8. The “They Came From” game about spy movies is They Came From WHAT? (Classified)
9. Who publishes the Fallout and Homeworld Revelations RPGs? (Modiphius)
10. Which word already mentioned in this round is the subtitle of the new Marvel superhero RPG? (Multiverse)


Other Tabletop Games
1. The Kingdom of Bretonnia and Tomb Kings of Khemri are the launch armies for which Warhammer game? (The Old World)
2. Doctor Who, Fallout and Lord Of The Rings feature in which Magic: The Gathering variant? (Commander) (Universes Beyond)
3. Name the cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change co-created by the creator of Pandemic? (Daybreak)
4. Osprey’s wargame of Napoleonic soldiers fighting supernatural threats is The WHAT Bayonet? (Silver)
5. The card game The Crew is subtitled The Quest For Planet WHAT? (Nine)
6. Cthulhoid betrayal by sea boardgame Unfathomable is a new setting update of which classic licensed game from 2008? (Battlestar Galacrica)
7. Which of these is an expansion for 7 Wonders? Gods, Heroes, Leaders? (Leaders)
8. Shatterpoint is the latest skirmish miniatures wargame for which setting? (Star Wars)
9. Name the dragon-centric game based on Wingspan? (Wyrmspan)
10. Which of these settings does not (yet) have a licensed version of Risk? Black Sails, Peaky Blinders, Vikings? (Black Sails)


Film and TV
1. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves put Hugh Grant in charge of which Forgotten Realms city? (Neverwinter)
2. What did Doctor Who get to the Christmas top twenty singles with? (The Goblin Song)
3. The Marvels quantum entangles Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau and who? (Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel)
4. Subspace Rhapsody is the musical episode of which Star Trek series? (Strange New Worlds)
5. In Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, which Easter-related artefact is revealed to be a fake in the prologue? (The Lance of Longinus / Holy Lance / Spear of Destiny)
6. In Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which of the heroes is not voiced by Dee Bradley Baker? Echo, Hunter, Omega, or Wrecker? (Omega, voiced by Michelle Ang)
7. In 2022’s The Batman, which of these characters is played by the same actor who previously voiced them in The Lego Batman Movie? A: Alfred, B: Batman, C: Catwoman, R: The Riddler? (C: Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman)
8. What did Nadja call her nightclub in season four of What We Do In The Shadows? (Nadja’s)
9. Painting the set for Barbie caused a global shortage of which colour? (Pink)
10. Which story adapted in the live-action series of The Sandman isn’t adapted in live-action? (Dream Of A Thousand Cats, which is animated)

Books and Comics
1. Sir Terry Pratchett’s biography by Rob Wilkins is subtitled A Life With WHAT? (Footnotes)
2. Name R. F. Kuang’s novel subtitled “or the Necessity of Violence”? (Babel)
3. This year, A Better World tackled a change to policing in which long-running UK comic strip? (Judge Dredd)
4. The titular thing in Gareth Brown’s novel has the power to make “any door every door”. What is it? (The Book Of Doors)
5. The Fifth Season RPG is based on which trilogy by N.K. Jemisin? (The Broken Earth)
6. In Marvel Comics since 2020 we’ve seen the Dawn, Reign, Destiny and now Fall of WHAT? (X)
7. Name Kiersten White’s novel about a deadly game with one rule – don’t be found? (Hide)
8. Gareth Hanrahan introduces Alf and Spellbreaker in The WHAT Defiant? (Sword)
9. Which Ghostmaker came first: the DC comics antihero, the horror film, or the Warhammer 40,000 novel? (the novel, released in 2000)
10. In which city will this year’s WorldCon, the world science fiction convention, be held this August? (Glasgow- August 8th-12th at the SEC to be precise)


Resurrection
1. Who does Jesus raise from the dead in the Book of John? (Lazarus)
2. Who tried to bring Eurydice back from the Underworld in Greek myth? (Orpheus)
3. The Cailleach returns every year in Gaelic mythology to usher in which season? (Winter)
4. The Drawing Of The Dark by Tim Powers is based on which legendary hero returning in our time of greatest need - more than once? (King Arthur)
5. Name the author of recently filmed Frankenstein riff Poor Things? (Alasdair Gray)
6. What is DC hero Mitch Shelley, who comes back from the dead with a different superpower every time, known as? (Resurrection Man)
7. In Only Murders In The Building, who plays actor and dirtbag Ben Glenroy, who is fatally poisoned at the end of season two, then in season three successfully resuscitated and then killed again by pushing him down an elevator shaft in which series? (Paul Rudd)
8. The third edition of which World Of Darkness supernatural character book has the subtitle The Resurrection? (Mummy)
9. Is the starting date for ALIEN RPG source material before or after Alien Resurrection on the setting timeline? (Before)
10. In Dungeons & Dragons (5e) a diamond used for the Resurrection spell has to be worth at least how many Gold Pieces? (1000)


Picture Round
Bunnies, Bunnies, It Must Be Bunnies!
Name these RPGs about or featuring rabbit player characters





1. Bunnies & Burrows
2. TOON
3. Usagi Yojimbo
4. The Warren


Write In Round
“Somehow, Conpulsion Returned”
1. BUFFY SUMMERS (the second time) : The Urn Of Osiris
2. ERIC DRAVEN: The Crow
3. DR. HENRY JONES, SENIOR: The Holy Grail
4. JEAN GREY: The Phoenix Force
5. THE MARQUIS DE CARABAS: Life kept in a silver box
6. MR. SPOCK: The Genesis Planet
7. RA’S AL GHUL: The Lazarus Pit
8. SCOTT PILGRIM: 1-up
9. SNOW WHITE: True Love’s Kiss
10. WESTLEY: A Miracle Pill


The winning team got 52 out of 64, with several teams in the 40s. The answer requiring checking was the Magic format answer. And the writer of Alone Against The Flames was there, and has considered pitching Alone Against The Clock before!

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