Conpulsion 2025 Quiz Answers

The winning team got 51 out of 61. (And we had a team of one who got 20.) How did you do?

1: Roleplaying Games

1 Which of the three Dungeons & Dragons 2024 core books came out in 2025? (Monster Manual)

2 Desperation Dice feature in which World Of Darkness game? (Hunter: The Reckoning)

3 Empire In Ruins replaces which adventure in the updated Warhammer Enemy Within campaign? (Empire In Flames)

4 Spione is a Cold War espionage Story Now game set in which city? (Berlin)

5 Which GUMSHOE game is set in space after the war between the Combine and Mohilar? (Ashen Stars)

6 Which of these games is Forged In The Dark? Band Of Blades, Lace & Steel, Swords Of The Serpentine? (Band Of Blades)

7 Which is the newest Trinity Continuum setting: Aberrant, Adventure!, Aegis or Aeon? (Aegis)

8 Name the World War Two RPG about a crack team of vampires sent to drink Hitler’s blood? (Eat The Reich)

9 True or false: Free League’s Blade Runner RPG came out in 2019, the year the film was set? (FALSE, 2023)

10 Coming soon from Handiwork Games, paired new editions of Cold City and which other historical SF/horror game? (Hot War)

2: Other Tabletop Games

1 Which of these Space Marine chapters from the original Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader has never had its own codex supplement? Iron Hands, Silver Skulls, White Scars? (Silver Skulls)

2 Outlaws of Thunder Junction marks how many expansion sets for Magic: The Gathering? (100)

3 Name Reiner Knizia’s 2024 tile-laying game of rebuilding after an apocalypse? (Rebirth)

4 “Earth’s Mightiest Core Set” is one of the base sets for which miniatures game? (Marvel Crisis Protocol)

5 Coral Reef and Savanna are card-drafting game from which series? (Ecosystem)

6 Which is the boardgame and which is the film? 13 Beavers or Hundreds Of Beavers? (13 is the game, Hundreds the film)

7 Which of these is not part of the Azul series? Crystal Mosaic, Diamond Bridge, Queen’s Garden? (Diamond Bridge)

8 Bold Endeavour, Quarantine 37 and Hope Eternal are sourcebooks for which SF miniatures game? (Stargrave)

9 Quest For Planet Nine and Mission Deep Sea are card games in which family? (The Crew)

10 True or false: in the skirmish game Unmatched you can have Geralt from the Witcher and Willow from Buffy team up to fight Shakespeare’s three witches? (TRUE)

3: Film and TV

1 Captain America: Brave New World introduces which fictional metal to the MCU? (Adamantium)

2 Which 2024 Doctor Who episode took its name from a character who took his name from a D&D class? (Rogue)

3 Alyla Browne grows up to be Anya Taylor-Joy who will grow up to be Charlize Theron. Who are they? (Furiosa)

4 The Klingon RPG Bat’leths & BIHnuchs appears in which Star Trek series? (Lower Decks)

5 Name the romcom slasher movie which came out this Valentine’s Day? (Heart Eyes)

6 The Ballad Of The Witches’ Road is a recurring musical motif in which Marvel series? (Agatha All Along)

7 Who plays the Wizard of Oz in Wicked? (Jeff Goldblum)

8 Name the Star Wars animated series about Clone Force 99? (The Bad Batch)

9 Name the animated Lord of the Rings film released this winter? (The War of the Rohirrim)

10 True or false: Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe and Nicholas Hoult have all appeared in vampire movies before Nosferatu? (FALSE: Willem Dafoe starred in Shadow Of The Vampire and Nicholas Hoult in Renfield but Bill Skarsgård played a vampire on TV in Hemlock Grove.)

4: Books and Comics

1 The 2024 Hugo winning novel by Emily Tesh is Some Desperate - what? (Glory)

2 Gar Hanrahan’s Black Iron Legacy begins with which book? (The Gutter Prayer)

3 Who writes 2000 A.D. series Sinister Dexter, Azimuth and The Out? (Dan Abnett)

4 Sunrise On The Reaping is the second prequel to which dystopian series? (The Hunger Games)

5 What is the first word in the titles of Ann Leckie’s novels ending Justice, Sword and Mercy? (Ancillary)

6 The Magpie stalks Victorian London in Jamie McKelvie’s new comic series. What is it called? (One For Sorrow)

7 Grady Hendrix’s 2023 novel promises advice on How To Sell - what? (A Haunted House)

8 Garth Nix accuses which city of having Sinister Booksellers? (Bath)

9 DC and Marvel each have a spinoff from their main superhero universes denoted by an adjective. Which is Absolute and which is Ultimate? (Absolute DC, Ultimate Marvel)

10 The Expanse creator James S. A. Corey is actually how many writers? (Two: Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)

5: The Future Of Gaming

1 Which of these is not a current Virtual Tabletop? Fantasy Grounds, Holotable, Roll20? (Holotable, from Star Wars)

2 Name the free trader calling for help on the cover of Traveller? (Beowulf)

3 Which of these SF series doesn’t have an official RPG? Altered Carbon, The Expanse, or The Locked Tomb? (The Locked Tomb)

4 Bandersnatch is the interactive streaming ‘gamebook’ episode of which SF TV series? (Black Mirror)

5 What kind of year do you have in Buried Without Ceremony’s mapping RPG? (The Quiet Year)

6 This Discord Has Ghosts In It uses video chat for what kind of game? (LARP)

7 Name the forthcoming fantasy RPG from the creators of Critical Role? (Daggerheart)

8 True or false: the term “level up” appears in the lyrics of Wet Leg’s new single? (TRUE, catch these fists)

9 Which of these is not a holodeck episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation? The Big Goodbye, Heroes And Demons, Ship In A Bottle? (Heroes And Demons is a Voyager holodeck episode)

10 The first edition of R Talsorian’s Cyberpunk was set in which then future year? (2013)

Picture Round

2025 - All The Fives

1 Vampire: The Masquerade

2 Call Of Cthulhu

3 Paranoia

4 Shadowrun

5 Pendragon

Bonus: Paranoia 5th is actually 3rd (there have been more since)

Write-In Round

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1 Black Sword (Stormbringer)

2 The Domestic (Rivers Of London)

3 The Grey Knight (King Arthur Pendragon)

4 Griffin Mountain (RuneQuest)

5 Masks Of Nyarlathotep (Call Of Cthulhu)