Sunday 11 April 2021

Conpulsion 2021 Quiz Answers

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Roleplaying Games

1 The latest Dungeons & Dragons adventure book, set in a magical library, is -what- Mysteries?
Candlekeep
2 Which of these clans in Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition does not have Blood Sorcery as a Clan Discipline? Banu Haqim, Hecata, or Tremere?
Hecata
3 Which Trinity Continuum setting comes first in the in-character timeline - Aberrant, Adventure! or Aeon?
Adventure!
4 Bookhounds Of London is an adventure book for which horror RPG?
Trail of Cthulhu
5 Which of these is not a core class in Starfinder? Mystic, Navigator, Soldier?
Navigator
6 Things From The Flood is a stand-alone sequel to which RPG?
Tales From The Loop
7 Which alien empire has its own core rulebook for Star Trek Adventures?
Klingon
8 Handiwork Games publishes an RPG subtitled Age Of Heroes, named after which saga?
BEOWULF


Picture Round

These RPG and wargame books are wholly or partially in-character. Name the game lines they come from?

Volo’s Guide To Monsters
Dungeons & Dragons

The Book Of Nod
Vampire: The Masquerade

Universal Brotherhood
Shadowrun

Dracula Unredacted
Nights Black Agents

The Loathsome Ratmen And All Their Vile Kin
Warhammer Fantasy Battle


Board, Card and War Games

1 The Spellbook gives you “no maximum hand size” in which collectible card game?
Magic: The Gathering
2 The Grimoire is a deck of cards collecting all the spells from the rulebook and sourcebooks including Thaw of the Lich Lord, for which wizard-centric fantasy skirmish game?
Frostgrave
3 What are the players of this deck-building game looking for on the island of Arnak?
Lost Ruins
4 Which Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards game came out first? Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre or Rumble at Castle Tentakill?
Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre
5 Prince Collin, Nez and Tilda are among the heroes in the campaign board game What And Mystics?
Mice
6 The city of Excelsis, founded on the Spear of Mallus, a stone made of pure prophecy, appears in which wargame?
Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar
7 Which of these is not a T.I.M.E Stories expansion? Brotherhood of the Coast, Expedition - Endurance, Tsuro of the Seas?
Tsuro of the Seas
8 Which card-based miniatures fighting game lets King Arthur and Alice in Wonderland take on Medusa, with spinoff games you can combine to let Buffy The Vampire Slayer fight Mr. Hyde?
Unmatched


Film And TV

1 Which Pixar film features the RPG Quests of Yore?
Onward
2 In Doctor Who, which of the Fam didn’t leave in Revolution Of The Daleks?
Yasmin Khan, Yaz
3 Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho previously directed which post-apocalypse graphic novel adaptation?
Snowpiercer
4 The first season of The Terror one is set on two Royal Navy ships. Name one?
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
5 The 2020 film Host uses which videoconference platform?
Zoom
6 True or false: the series Lovecraft Country is set in Rhode Island?
False (mainly Illinois and Massachusetts)
7 Which horror film released last year, starring Elizabeth Moss, was based on a novel by H.G. Wells?
The Invisible Man
8 To quote the song in WandaVision, “who’s been messing up everything?”


Books And Comics

1 Name the first novel in Gareth Hanrahan’s Black Iron Legacy series?
The Gutter Prayer
2 The 2020 Hugo for Best Novella went to Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone for “This Is How You Lose The” - what?
Time War
3 Stephen Fry’s trilogy retelling Greek myths began with Mythos, then Heroes, and finally what?
Troy
4 Marneus Calgar is the first Marvel Comics series for which game setting?
Warhammer 40.000
5 Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel is Gideon The - which number?
Ninth
6 Which Edinburgh author wrote the uncharacteristic technothriller Westwind in 1990, then wanted to keep it out of print due to thinking it was terrible before looking at it again and revising it in 2019?
Ian Rankin
7 Tiamat’s Wrath is the most recent and penultimate novel in which science fiction series?
The Expanse
8 Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell stars a new member of which DC universe organisation?
The Green Lantern Corps


Grimoire

1 Kept in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, in 2020 a German Egyptologist claimed to have started deciphering this book. With no definite title, what is it known as?
The Voynich Manuscript
2 Necronomicon Ex Mortis, or Nocturum De Monto, is the grimoire in which film series?
Evil Dead
3 Name the grimoire from the Marvel Universe, as seen in Agents Of SHIELD and WandaVision?
The Darkhold
4 Which advisor to Elizabeth the First wrote “On the Mystical Rule of the Seven Planets”, a guide to summoning angels? (As Brian notes, later covered by Robbie Williams)
John Dee
5 Who wrote the short story Canon Alberic’s Scrap-book, about finding some - but not enough - rebound pages from a spellbook?
M.R. James
6 In the comics epic The Sandman, who runs Dream’s library containing every book ever imagined, whether it was written or not?
Lucien
7 Prospero promises to break his staff and drown his book at the end of which play?
The Tempest
8 The “twice-four” (7a) most powerful spells in Discworld are usually contained in which book?
The Octavo

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