The Conpulsion 2024 Quiz

Five read-out rounds plus picture and write-in. 64 points. Somewhat themed for it being Easter. Answers... maybe tomorrow?

Roleplaying Games

1. Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures In The Multiverse revives which AD&D setting?

2. Which World Of Darkness game came out between the Fifth Editions of Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse?

3. Which is not a Call Of Cthulhu solo adventure? Alone Against The Clock, Alone Against The Flames, Alone Against The Static?

4. Solo Ops is the One-2-One book for which Gumshoe game?

5. Hot War is the sequel to which alternate-history RPG?

6. The Big Five manufacturers including General Massive Systems and HORUS build the mechs in which game?

7. Cubicle 7’s new game Imperium Maledictum is based on which wargame setting?

8. The “They Came From” game about spy movies is They Came From WHAT?

9. Who publishes the Fallout and Homeworld Revelations RPGs?

10. Which word already mentioned in this round is the subtitle of the new Marvel superhero RPG?

Other Tabletop Games

1. The Kingdom of Bretonnia and Tomb Kings of Khemri are the launch armies for which Warhammer game?

2. Doctor Who, Fallout and Lord Of The Rings feature in which Magic: The Gathering variant?

3. Name the cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change co-created by the creator of Pandemic?

4. Osprey’s wargame of Napoleonic soldiers fighting supernatural threats is The WHAT Bayonet?

5. The card game The Crew is subtitled The Quest For Planet WHAT?

6. Cthulhoid betrayal by sea boardgame Unfathomable is a new setting update of which classic licensed game from 2008?

7. Which of these is an expansion for 7 Wonders? Gods, Heroes, Leaders?

8. Shatterpoint is the latest skirmish miniatures wargame for which setting?

9. Name the dragon-centric game based on Wingspan?

10. Which of these settings does not (yet) have a licensed version of Risk? Black Sails, Peaky Blinders, Vikings?

Film and TV

1. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves put Hugh Grant in charge of which Forgotten Realms city?

2. What did Doctor Who get to the Christmas top twenty singles with?

3. The Marvels quantum entangles Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau and who?

4. Subspace Rhapsody is the musical episode of which Star Trek series?

5. In Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, which Easter-related artefact is revealed to be a fake in the prologue?

6. In Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which of the heroes is not voiced by Dee Bradley Baker? Echo, Hunter, Omega, or Wrecker?

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?

8. What did Nadja call her nightclub in season four of What We Do In The Shadows?

9. Painting the set for Barbie caused a global shortage of which colour?

10. Which story adapted in the live-action series of The Sandman isn’t adapted in live-action?

Books and Comics

1. Sir Terry Pratchett’s biography by Rob Wilkins is subtitled A Life With WHAT?

2. Name R. F. Kuang’s .novel subtitled “or the Necessity of Violence”?

3. This year, A Better World tackled a change to policing in which long-running comic strip?

4. The titular thing in Gareth Brown’s novel has the power to make “any door every door”. What is it?

5. The Fifth Season RPG is based on which trilogy by N.K. Jemisin?

6. In Marvel Comics since 2020 we’ve seen the Dawn, Reign, Destiny and now Fall of WHAT?

7. Name Kiersten White’s novel about a deadly game with one rule – don’t be found?

8. Gareth Hanrahan introduces Alf and Spellbreaker in The WHAT Defiant?

9. Which Ghostmaker came first: the DC comics antihero, the horror film, or the Warhammer 40,000 novel?

10. In which city will this year’s WorldCon, the world science fiction convention, be held this August?

Resurrection

1. Who does Jesus raise from the dead in the Book of John?

2. Who tried to bring Eurydice back from the Underworld in Greek myth?

3. The Cailleach returns every year in Gaelic mythology to usher in which season?

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?

5. Name the author of recently filmed Frankenstein riff Poor Things?

6. What is DC hero Mitch Shelley, who comes back from the dead with a different superpower every time, known as?

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?

8. The third edition of which World Of Darkness supernatural character book has the subtitle The Resurrection?

9. Is the starting date for ALIEN RPG source material before or after Alien Resurrection on the setting timeline?

10. In Dungeons & Dragons 5e, a diamond used for the Resurrection spell has to be worth at least how many Gold Pieces?

Picture Round

Bunnies, Bunnies, It Must Be Bunnies!

Name these RPGs about or featuring rabbit player characters

Write In Round

“Somehow, Conpulsion Returned”

Match these characters from film, TV, books and comics to how they were brought back from the dead (or at least mostly dead).

1. BUFFY SUMMERS (the second time)

2. ERIC DRAVEN

3. DR. HENRY JONES, SENIOR

4. JEAN GREY

5. THE MARQUIS DE CARABAS

6. MR. SPOCK

7. RA’S AL GHUL

8. SCOTT PILGRIM

9. SNOW WHITE

10. WESTLEY

1-UP, THE CROW, THE GENESIS PLANET, THE HOLY GRAIL, THE LAZARUS PIT, LIFE KEPT IN A SILVER BOX, A MIRACLE PILL, THE PHOENIX FORCE, TRUE LOVE’S KISS, THE URN OF OSIRIS

... Well?